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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
General Chapter of the SSPX is underway. PRAY!
The General Chapter of the SSPX is underway in Ecône, Switzerland. I warmly request everyone to PRAY for the men as they meet, asking the Holy Spirit to bend what is rigid and warm what is cold. Also, I noted … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point from the Sunday Sermon you heard? Let us know!
NEW SONG! 5th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum
The WDTPRS Parodohymnodist, inspired by the reposting of his offering 5th years ago, has come to our service again. COMPOSER’S NOTE: To the Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” – unfortunately, to fit the tune, you have to put the emphasis on … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Parody Songs, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Parody Songs, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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07/07/07 – 5 Years since the release of the text of Summorum Pontificum
I posted this last year, but it is good enough to repeat! On 7 July 2007 the text of Summorum Pontificum was released. The Motu Proprio went into force on the subsequent 14 September, but the release of the text … Read More
6 July: anniversary of an exceptional death
From the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum: 9. Londinii in Anglia, passio sancti Thomae More, qui vigesima secunda iunii una cum sancto Ioanne Fisher commemoratur.
NOTE TO PRIESTS – (with update)
UPDATE 5 July: It’s not too late. We will close registration on 12 July. We have worked out the pricing. I’ll send emails to those of you who wrote to me. If you don’t hear anything, contact me again. I … Read More
RECENT POSTS and THANKS
As the posts scroll along… First, thank to all of you who helped me get over the 10k follower mark on Twitter! Also, for PRIESTS: NOTE TO PRIESTS – (with update) Archbishop Chaput’s sermon for the closing of the Fortnight for … Read More
Archbishop Chaput’s sermon for the closing of the Fortnight for Freedom
On 4 July, Most Rev. Charles Chaput delivered the sermon for a Mass to close the Fortnight For Freedom.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged 1st Amendment, anti-catholicism, Archbp. Chaput, Fortnight for Freedom, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
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Gibbons’ 1876 revision of Archbp. Caroll’s “Prayer for Government”
Sent by a reader: In 1876, the centenary of the Declaration of Independence was commemorated with a months-long Exposition in the text’s birthplace. Though he was still to be named to the Premier See in the footsteps of John Carroll– … Read More
TheCavalierHatherly on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “The obelisk outside the building was originally built by Thutmose III, and contains dedications from subsequent pharoahs. If you follow…”
