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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
VIDEO: This is crazy fun
This is crazy fun. If you really want a ride, listen to it at 1.25X like I did. One of the things this reveals is the inherent power of Catholic sacred liturgical worship. Another thing it reveals is an inherent … Read More
From devastation to renewed life.
There is a piece at Rorate from a couple days ago which addresses a massive problems in Italy with paltry vocations, unstaffed churches, and declined church attendance. They are hitting the pot of strong coffee that we in these USA … Read More
“Heresy thrives on a combination of amnesia, anarchy and novelty.” ACTION ITEM! VIDEO!
I was given a manuscript of a new book by Bp. Schneider to look over. It is about heresies. Just as he put out a book about the truths of the Faith that are to be believe, now he has … Read More
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
Pentecost Friday: tearing things apart
Pentecost Friday At NLM there is a great explanation of the Pentecost Roman Stations. I find these historical details interesting because we find traces of ancient things in the traditional rites even today. In any event, if I am to … Read More
Pentecost Thursday: No joy in “dustville”
Pentecost Thursday. The Roman Station is St. Lawrence outside the walls, which is where it was in the Easter Octave on Wednesday. In the Gospel from Luke 9, Jesus sends the Apostles out with authority to heal and cast out … Read More
“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
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, The future and our choices
Tagged Anthony Esolen, We Are Our Rites
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Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job
Three things in particular caught my eye this morning. Two of them are connected with each other and they ring of good common sense and faith. The other clanks of delusional blather. First, at LifeSite we read finally the news made … Read More
Posted in Deaconettes, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged converts, deaconettes, diaconate, Holy Orders
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ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Finally I got my first Latin Mass and it was wonderful. I want more more more and I can’t understand why the Pope doesn’t want us to have it. I know he doesn’t like things he … Read More
