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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
27 September – Sts Cosmas and Damian – a visit to their tomb in Venice
Today is the Feast of Sts. Cosmas and Damian… in the traditional calendar of the Roman Church. I have a special affection for these saints as they are both my confirmation names. We get to say their names in the … Read More →
Posted in On the road, Saints: Stories & Symbols
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Tagged Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Venice
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St. Jerome named Patron Saint of the “Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center” @DLIFLC
This is for your Just Too Cool file. I’ve been informed that the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center has made St. Jerome their patron. HERE During a humble ceremony at the Presidio of Monterey Chapel Sept. 11, St. Jerome, … Read More →
Speaking Truth To Power
We celebrate liturgically the births of Our Lord (25 December), His Blessed Mother (8 September) and the prophet who was more than a prophet, the greatest man ever born of a woman (Matthew 11:9-11; Luke 7:28), St John the Baptist … Read More →
Daily Sayings of St. Philip Neri available…. daily!
I can’t post everything people send me. However, I really like St. Philip Neri. From a reader… A few months ago, I began publishing the Daily Sayings of St. Philip Neri through an email list (and also via Facebook and Twitter). … Read More →
22 July: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
Today is the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene. I hope you have some madeleines today, even though they don’t have much to do with her. Last year, in the Ordinary Form calendar of the Roman Rite, St Mary Magdalene’s annual … Read More →
Posted in Saints: Stories & Symbols
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Tagged Kindle, St Robert Southwell, St. Mary Magdalen
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Brief explanation of “heroic virtue” v. “ordinary virtue” in light of the new path to beatification.
Pope Francis, yesterday, issued a document by which he established a third iter or path for a process of beatification. Hitherto, in processes for beatification, unless one is determined to have been a martyr, it has been necessary for a “Servant … Read More →
Pope establishes a new “path” to beatification with new criteria: Offering of Life
UPDATE 12 July 2017: I will not allow this post to be an occasion to bash Pope Francis or to call into question in the combox the processes of the Congregation. ___ Originally Published on: Jul 11, 2017 @ 09:33 The Pope … Read More →
Posted in Modern Martyrs, Saints: Stories & Symbols, The Drill
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Tagged beatification, canonization, iter, Maiorem hac dilectionem, oblatio vitae, offering of life
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24 Comments
Great VIDEO @ActonInstitute – @DrSamuelGregg on threats faced by religious believers around the world
Here is a sample of the content of Acton University. Description: Samuel Gregg, Director of Research at the Acton Institute, delivers the opening plenary lecture of Acton University 2017 at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gregg’s lecture focuses … Read More →
His Hermeneuticalness on St John Fisher
With delight I report that my good friend, His Hermeueticalness, Fr. Tim Finigan has taken up his electronic pen more regularly than before his heart problems knocked him down… slacker. Here’s a bit of his great offering about St. John Fisher, … Read More →
Posted in Mail from priests, Saints: Stories & Symbols
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Tagged Fr. Tim Finigan, St. John Fisher
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11 Comments
3 June – St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs, victims of homosexual depravity
While today is, in the traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, the Vigil of Pentecost, in the Ordinary Form calendar today is the feast of St. Charles Lwanga and companions, murder victims and martyrs of homosexual depravity. Today we might … Read More →
TonyB on Daily Rome Shot 1646: We have to move on.: “I was very angry when my sister began getting rid of Mom’s clothes, but it had to be done. I…”
