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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Daily Rome Shot 1073
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, etc.. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am grateful. Geese haven’t changed all that … Read More
Recent report of the “gift of tears” during Mass that was being live streamed
UPDATE: The priest in question issued (unnecessarily IMO) a statement that is now (unnecessarily IMO) on the archdiocesan website. HERE So much fuss about this could have been avoided if Mass were ad orientem and if more priests (and therefore … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1072 – Procession
From The World’s Best Sacristan™ from the Procession for Exaltation of the Cross, with a relic of the True Cross of Our Lord. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay … Read More
WDTPRS- Exaltation of the Cross
Today’s feast commemorates the discovery in AD 325 in Jerusalem by the Emperor Constantine’s mother St Helena of the Holy Cross, as tradition has it, under sweet basil herb bushes. It is also the anniversary of the Dedication of the … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1071 – 343 years ago today
Happy Feast of the Holy Name of Mary! 343 years ago today the Winged Hussars Arrived The Battle of Vienna. To save Christendom from the Ottoman horde, led by the King of Poland The largest cavalry charge in human history … Read More
11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…
Today for my live Mass, I said: Today, on this anniversary, we offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for those who died in the attacks of 11 September 2001: those in the towers, at the Pentagon, aboard the aircraft, … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1700
Rome’s Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentino. BONUS SHOT Rome’s “statue parlanti… talking statues” were ancient sculptures used from the 16th c. century as anonymous public noticeboards. Romans attached satirical verses, complaints, and political attacks to them, allowing the statues … Read More
One Year Ago: In one of Charlie Kirk’s last videos he honored the Blessed Virgin Mary and invited Protestants, Evangelicals to honor her more
One of Charlie Kirk’s last videos was to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary and to tell Protestants and Evangelicals to honour her more He called her the solution to ‘toxic feminism’ pic.twitter.com/gjuiHLEPiw — Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) September 10, 2025
Daily Rome Shot 1699
Welcome registrant Erickhhv This year’s Summorum Pontificum Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem, will have a Pontifical Mass celebrated in the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where both St. Pius V and Pope Francis are buried. A true blessing! pic.twitter.com/u0o7VHAjo2 — … Read More
Remember, it’s not just that they don’t like the rites, they don’t like the people who like the rites.
Sources told me that it was the Secretariat of State who announced the pilgrimage Latin Mass in the Vatican would be cancelled. Read on @CatholicHerald for full details & contextual background https://t.co/cvy1pFhrzF pic.twitter.com/AfEjwHBrvV — Michael Haynes ?? (@MLJHaynes) September 9, … Read More
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