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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Daily Rome Shot 1026
Once in the thousands, there are still some 500 “maddonelle” in the City. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – UK HERE WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of … Read More
Pentecost Monday – several reasons to weep
Let’s have a look at the Collect for today’s Mass of Pentecost Monday. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, qui Apostolis tuis Sanctum dedisti Spiritum: concede plebi tuae piae petitionis effectum; ut, quibus dedisti fidem, largiaris et pacem. I found this prayer in … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1025: Symmetry and thanks
This image, friends, warms my beady black heart. These are the vestments which some of YOU readers commissioned for Ss. Trinità in Rome. All set up and ready for the priests in the mornings of the Octave of Pentecost. Thank … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Pentecost Sunday 2024
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for Pentecost Sunday. Tell about attendance … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1025: 20% off
Photo from The World’s Best Sacristan™. Welcome registrant: CharityBeginsAtHome Meanwhile, in Casablanca where we wait… and wait… and wait… there were results from Round 1. This is an interesting “variant” tournament wherein players start from positions in historic games. In … Read More
CHARTRES, FRANCE – PENTECOST PILGRIMAGE – Live and on demand VIDEO
The largest ever Chartres Pilgrimage for Pentecost departed central Paris today, from Saint Sulpice, for Chartres Cathedral. There is a YouTube channel for it for live events and which can be watched on demand.
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Yes, at The Parish™ preparations are being made for the Feast of St. Philip Neri (which is also my anniversary). How I wish I could be there. And now I, too, am a member of the Archconfraternity, the first … Read More
Census Fidelium…. Sensus Fidelium… A book
At The Catholic Thing there is a piece about Catholic demographics. The writer uses new information from the Pew Research Center. As he says, the results are shocking but not surprising. You can imagine the highlights. Self-identifying “Catholic”, down. Mass … Read More
Some not Vatican news notes
Today things keep rolling along and I, uncharacteristically, am paying some attention. In regard to the terrific speech that Harrison Butker made for commencement at Benedictine College, as the lib world has a spittle-flecked nutty, I was sent these two … Read More
Some Vatican news notes
For big Masses with Popes the Vatican’s Office for Liturgical Celebrations issues a booklet. We find in the booklet for Pentecost (19 May 2024) that, in the text for the consecration of the chalice, there has been a reversion: Thus, … Read More
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