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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Catholic Herald: All seminaries must teach the old Latin Mass, says Vatican
The charming Anna Arco of the Catholic Herald has a piece in the same paper about the training of seminarians for the entirety of the Roman Rite! We had a story about this here. My emphases and comments. All seminaries … Read More
Thanks are due: tea, books and donations
Upon my return home from Ol’ Blighty I found a wondrous pile of little boxes all heaped up Santa-like… waiting for my prying fingers! First, there was an envelope from the UK. Family Piublications fired off to me a copy … Read More
REVIEW: Angelus Press hand missal
I think it is of upmost importance to participate at Holy Mass also using a sound “hand missal”. A good hand missal, whether of the TLM of the Novus Ordo, can enrich your interior receptivity. A while back I reviewed … Read More
The “Ecological Stations” in Durham, NC: Christ as Earth Mother, praise of the serpent
Once in a while I get something via e-mail and I am not quite sure if someone isn’t having me on. A parishioner of at Immaculate Conception Church in downtown Durham, NC, a Franciscan run parish known for its emphasis … Read More
PODCAzT 50: St. Leo the Great on Peter; Fr. Lang on the Cathedra of Peter
In this first PODCAzT since I returned from my recent trip to England and, briefly, to Italy, we hear on this Feast of the Cathedra of St. Peter, a sermon by Pope Leo the Great (+461) and my translation of … Read More
22 Feb: Collect
Anybody want to give this a shot? COLLECT: Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut nullis nos permittas perturbationibus concuti, quos in apostolicae confessionis petra solidasti. There is nothing especially difficult about the grammar and vocabulary of this prayer, though it is … Read More
D. of Cloyne: Bp John Magee to celebrate TLM in Cobh
I got this via e-mail: St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to annoiunce that by letter dated 21 February 2008, Bishop John Magee of Cloyne, has CONFIRMED that he will celebrate the Holy Mass in the extraordinary form … Read More
Anniversary of one of my best photos
I shot this from my window in Rome a couple years ago, today:
St. Leo the Great on Peter
Some of you lay folks out there probably recite the Liturgy of the Hours. Maybe you also use the Office of Readings. If you don’t read Latin, you might not know how glorious the sermons of St. Leo the Great … Read More
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