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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Archbp. Carroll’s “Prayer for Government”
The following prayer was composed by John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, in 1791. He was the first bishop appointed for the United States in 1789 by Pope Pius VI. He was made the first archbishop when his see of Baltimore … Read More
VP Biden and the Sisters share cookies and ice-cream. No, I am not making this up.
You can’t make up this sort of thing. This is also in secular papers (because they are organs of the Obama campaign) but I found this on Life News. Biden brings cookies and ice cream to LCWR president’s motherhouse BY … Read More
“shot with a rain of arrows and finally set on fire”
I have made it a habit each day to look at the Martyrologium Romanum. Among the many interesting and edifying entries today, three in particular caught my eye. 13. Apud Hurones in territori Canadensi, sancti Antonii Daniel, presbyteri e … Read More
Pie Iesu Domine
Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem. … sempiternam.
QUAERITUR: Theologi si fuerint cervisiae… (If theologians were beers…)
Over at Ascent of Carmel we find (and you will have to go there to find the explanations…): If Theologians Were Beers… A Selection “In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.” -G.K Chesterton Yesterday, my … Read More
Your Urgent Prayer Requests
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Continued from HERE. I get so many requests by email asking for prayers for personal petitions or for other people. Some times these requests are heart-achingly grave and urgent. We are not in this … Read More
New Prefect at CDF: Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Bishop of Regensburg
As most of us expected, the resignation (because of the age limit) of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, William Card. Levada, has been accepted and the Holy Father has appointed Gerhard Ludwig Müller, 64, previously the … Read More
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Tagged Archbp. Müller, Card. Levada, CDF, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Regensburg, SSPX
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NCReg Interview with the new VP of “Ecclesia Dei”, Archbp. DiNoia
At the National Catholic Register there is a long interview with the new Vice President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, His Excellency Most Reverend, J. Augustine DiNoia, OP. He said that, since he hasn’t actually begun his work at … Read More
Your Good Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a great point from the Sunday sermon you heard? What was it?
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: “moon1234: We have to understand something about the Lord’s parables. The parable, or Hebrew mashal is an allegorical lesson of…”
