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- adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
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Category Archives: Patristiblogging
The Annunciation – The 1st Joyful Mystery
Because the vagaries of your planet’s progress around your yellow sun, and because of the whirling of it’s largest satellite, this year the Feast of the Annunciation fell on Palm Sunday. Hence, our celebration of this great mystery has been … Read More
Posted in Our Solitary Boast, Patristiblogging, Patristic Rosary Project
Tagged Annunciation, BVM
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Bp. Schneider of Kazakhstan on Archbp. Lefebvre of the SSPX
The best English language vaticanista today is Edward Pentin. He has an interview with Bp. Athanasius Schneider today at the National Catholic Register (that’s the good one that begins with “National”). HERE The whole thing is worth reading. However, I … Read More
WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: Liturgy should be “epiphany”, wherein we encounter transforming mystery.
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that they reasoned that more people would celebrate the important … Read More
Posted in Christmas and Epiphany, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged Epiphany, glory, heaven, liturgy, manifestation, mystery
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ASK FATHER: Does Pope Francis really want to change the Lord’s Prayer?
First, if liturgical translations frustrate you, just use Latin. It is, after all, the official language of worship of the Roman Catholic Church. I have had a couple dozen panicked or confused emails, and a few more that are simply curious, … Read More
What is the best translation of St. Augustine’s “Confessions”?
On this glorious feast of St. Augustine, allow me to repost an answer to a question I get fairly often and answer off the blog: QUAERITUR: What is the best translation of St. Augustine’s Confessions? It depends a little on who … Read More
The spellbinding Romanos the Melodist on the Holy Spirit
A Patristic moment on the Holy Spirit. The spellbinding Romanos the Melodist (+6th c.) has this about our praise of the Spirit. Amazing imagery: […] Now those who before were fishermen have become skilled speakers. Now those who once stood … Read More
Posted in Patristiblogging, Patristic Rosary Project
Tagged Patristiblogging, Romanos the Melodist
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Benedict XVI SPEAKS: “With Cardinal Sarah, a master of silence and of interior prayer, the liturgy is in good hands.
In the spirit of GMTA… Great Minds Think Alike… I offer you the following. Benedict XVI has written a brief essay as an afterword for a future re-printing of Robert Card. Sarah’s great book The Power of Silence: Against the … Read More
Symbolon Quicumque
I penned this for the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly. The mighty foe of Arians, St Athanasius of Alexandria (d 373), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, is celebrated on 2 May in both the newer and the … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Patristiblogging
Tagged Athanasian Creed, Symbolon Quicumque
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Hail, thou holy Throne of God
From the 3rd Nocturn of Matins: V. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May the Gospel’s holy lection be our safety and protection. Amen. Reading 7 From the Holy Gospel according to Luke Luke 1:26-28 In that time, the angel Gabriel … Read More
PODCAzT 152: Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the Five Dubia of the Four Cardinals
You know about the Five Dubia of the Four Cardinals submitted, first privately, now publicly to His Holiness Pope Francis about Chapter 8 of Amoris laetitia. I have another PODCAzT about Bp. Schneider on Amoris laetitia. HERE The Four Cardinal and their … Read More
“No one may share in the Eucharist except those who believe in the truth of our teachings…”
A reading from the first apology of Justin Martyr in defense of the Christians, c. 100-165 No one may share in the Eucharist except those who believe in the truth of our teachings and have been washed in the bath … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging
Tagged Benedict XVI, Communion, divorced and remarried, Familiaris consortio, Five Cardinals Book, John Paul II, marriage, matrimony, Remaining In The Truth of Christ, Sacramentum caritatis, St. Justin Martyr
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Assumption – The 4th Glorious Mystery
As today, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we are to begin the 54 Day Novena it is appropriate to share again something I put together back in 2006 for my “Patristic Rosary Project”. I drill into … Read More
Do not speak to me, He says, of the difficulties you will face, for “I am with you!”
[B]ecause he had enjoined on them great things, to raise their courage He reassures them that He will be with then always, “even to the end of the world.” Now do you see the relation of His glory to His … Read More
Posted in Patristiblogging, Patristic Rosary Project
Tagged Ascension Thursday, St. John Chrysostom
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Patristic Annunciation
This year the Sacred Triduum fell across the 25 March Feast of the Annunciation. Therefore, our celebration of the Annunciation was translated to the next available day, the day after the close of the Octave of Easter. Once upon a … Read More
Posted in Our Solitary Boast, Patristiblogging, Patristic Rosary Project
Tagged Annunciation, St. Ambrose of Milan
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3 Comments
Did the young Christ apologize for being “lost” in Jerusalem?
I’ve been so busy in the last days that I haven’t paid much attention to some news stories floating around out there… and I have been the happier for it. One story, however, could use some drilling, because it is … Read More
3rd Joyful Mystery: The Nativity
From my Patristic Rosary Project page: 3rd Joyful Mystery: The Nativity Christ came into the world in “the fullness of time” (Gal 4:4). His First Coming was foreseen from all eternity and His Nativity was prepared from the beginning of … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Patristic Rosary Project
Tagged Nativity, Patristic Rosary Project
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Strike your breasts in sorrow and hope
Imagine for a moment the sound made in church of hundreds of people simultaneously and with force striking their breasts with closed fists. St. Augustine, in his Enarrationes in psalmos 117, speaks of the thunder-like sound, strepitus, made in church by … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Patristiblogging
Tagged breast beating, confession, strepitus
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4 Comments
2nd Glorious Mystery: The Ascension
Some years ago I posted a “Patristic Rosary Project”. Here is the post for the… 2nd Glorious Mystery: The Ascension Everything about the life of the Lord is a blessing for us. After His resurrection the Lord blessed the Apostles … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Patristic Rosary Project
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From a Father of the Church to everyone who texts and tweets
A note from a Father of the Church to everyone who texts and tweets. Tip o’ the biretta to the Laudator. Basil, letter XII (to Olympius; tr. Roy J. Deferrari): You used to write us little enough, but now you … Read More
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