Category Archives: Linking Back

23 June – Vigil of St. John – solstices and snails, bonfires and witch burnings

It is nice to have as your Patron the great Baptist, for I get two feasts a year, his Nativity and his Beheading. For the Vigil of St. John (today, as I write even thought it is the 5th Sunday … Read More →

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Corpus Christi: I affirm my subjugation to Christ vanquisher of hell and my sins.

In the traditional Roman calendar for the 1962 Missale Romanum yesterday, Thursday, was the Feast of Corpus Domini, or Corpus Christi.  In the post-Conciliar Missal’s calendar today is also Corpus Christi. In the Novus Ordo –  Vetus too, with “external celebration” … Read More →

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30 May – St. Joan of Arc, Virgin: Martyrology, Marvelous reading, Movies

It is not only the Feast of Corpus Christi (the real feast, although I don’t object to its transfer or observance to Sunday), it is the Feast of St. Joan of Arc. St. Joan is a great model for young … Read More →

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“They must make the noise they can, because if they cease for a moment, we hear the calls of sanity and sweetness again…”.

A while back I wrote a review of Anthony Esolen’s fine book Nostalgia.  HERE In it, I wrote: How often is the charge of “nostalgia” flung as a cliché into the teeth of those who desire, with their legitimate aspirations, the … Read More →

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13 May 609 – Exorcism, screaming demons, people fainting from fear – Dedication of Santa Maria ad martyres (the Pantheon)

Dear readers, this is the sort of thing that Popes do!  They fight against the forces of Hell and they work for the salvation of souls. For example, when the ancient obelisk that was in the Circus of Caligula off … Read More →

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So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!

A while back in 2023, Voyager 1, which set out in 1977 to fly by the outer planets and then head off into the void, stopped sending usable data.   I did a News Of The Church podcast about that.  HERE  … Read More →

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15 April 2019 – Notre-Dame de Paris

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4 April – St. Isidore of Seville, the Internet Prayer and You

I often forget to pray before using the internet. I sometimes fail in charity when using the internet. This tool of social communication and research and entertainment has amazing upsides, but it also has spiritually deadly perils. We all should be … Read More →

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Good Friday 3 April AD 33? – Eclipses as Christ died on the Cross

This is definitely worth reposting. The fellow who made the video about the Star of Bethlehem (a compelling argument, I might add), also did some research about what happened in the heavens on Good Friday. Let’s break it down. Passover … Read More →

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19 March – Feast of ST. JOSEPH! – Hope of the sick,  Patron of the dying,  Terror of demons,  Protector of Holy Church! 

Glorious St. Joseph. Hope of the sick, Patron of the dying, Terror of demons, Protector of Holy Church,  In Rome today you eat Bigne di San Giuseppe. Back in 2009 I made a PODCAzT – FIFTEEN YEARS AGO?!? – about the … Read More →

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