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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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- shiny on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Thank you to all those who have prayed for my intentions in the past! This might be a small thing,…”
- on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Fr Z — this is an excellent piece. Great teaching. Thanks for this.”
- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “Another thought: sometimes the only one who can successfully use the scalpel on us is ourself. Because ultimately, it is…”
- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “Fr. Z, I appreciate the honesty about yourself. It is a good prayer. May God reward you!”
- on ROME 26/10-11 – Day 37: For awhile…: “Safe travels, Happy Thanksgiving. Now that you are back in the USA, maybe we can get more updates from the…”
- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “I’m finally reading the Divine Comedy. I’m through the Inferno and halfway in the Purgatorio. I often wonder if someone…”
- on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “The complete prayer. I apologize it was missing a few lines. Thank you. PRAYER FOR HELP WITH PREGNANCY through the…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
QUAERITUR: Can diocesan priests use the Extraordinary Form Carmelite or Dominican or Cistercian Rite?
From a reader: I recently read an article about a Carmelite priest who had to jump through all these hoops to get permission to celebrate the Carmelite rite Mass, but then the article pointed out later that, under Universae Ecclesiae … Read More
GUEST RANT: Many languages for Mass and fake “unity”
From a priest: In my diocese we are often asked (read, expected, pressured) to participate in or to celebrate Masses in more than one language in the name of multi-culturalism. I am not talking Latin here. The result is that … Read More
QUAERITUR: Communion by intinction but with un-consecrated hosts.
From a reader: 1. We have Sunday mass at our village chapel which does not have a Tabernacle, so the priest has to Consecrate all the host for communion. However, there are times we run out and he takes unconsecrated … Read More
20 July 1969: “The Eagle has landed.”
I remember watching this as if it were yesterday. Pres. Obama has destroyed our space program and sold our collective imagination. November 2012. From Bill Bennett’s American Patriot’s Daily Almanac: “The Eagle has landed.” On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged 20 July, Apollo 11, Bill Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Pres. Obama, Tommy Dorsey
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21 Comments
Fit to be “Untied”
Now people in the USA can all the more easily read about Homer Simpson:
Pack-Rat Psychology
I am sorting, cleaning, throwing stuff away. It is hard to throw some things. I, and I bet you, start thinking, “This might be useful.” An article on the site of the Beeb was, therefore, of great interest. It may … Read More
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Tagged clutter, Endowment Effect, pack-rat, psychology of ownership
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16 Comments
You can’t “unring a bell”, but you can set the record straight about EVIL FALSE ACCUSATIONS!
From The Catholic League with my emphases. Fellow Catholic bloggers might pick this up too. False accusations are deeply evil and they ruin lives. BIGOTRY EXPLAINS FALSE ACCUSATIONS July 18, 2012 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: False … Read More
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Tagged anti-catholicism, Archd. Philadelphia, Catholic League, false accusations
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11 Comments
RECENT POSTS and THANKS
As some posts scroll along. Please keep up your prayers going for my intentions. Also, when you visit the blog, please always check the YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS entry, which I will refresh every couple weeks or so. If those entries get … Read More
CAUTION! HARD WORD SIGHTING! CAUTION!
I don’t want to upset any of you with this, but I am going to inflict a word on you poor ignorant readers which many consider to be tooo haaard for Mary and Joe Catholic. Yes, I mean the dread ineffable! … Read More
Your Good News
What is you good news? Do you have some good thing you can share with the readers? It is encouraging to hear about the good things happening to people who participate here. For my part, apart from all the other … Read More
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