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- Rob83 on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As the demographic collapse accelerates, priests may find it prudent to live together in a central location with their deanery.…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
A pessimistic article about SSPX and talks with Rome
In Vatican Insider of La Stampa comes this. My emphases and comments. Beware: Weird translation. You might have better success in Italian. Or else the original French, more more nuanced, here. Before a key meeting in Rome, the leader of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Fellay, Card. Bertone, Card. Levada, CDF, Pres. Obama, Robert Mugabe, SSPX
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DEVELOPMENT: D. Great Falls-Billings document about Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum
As you may be aware, some time ago the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings posted on their diocesan website a document about the implementation of Pope Benedict XVI’s provisions in Summorum Pontificum that left some people shocked. That document, over the … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Warfel, D. Great Falls-Billings, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
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RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST
Here are links to some posts that are scrolling along. UK: MP pushes to force Church to have contrary-to-nature “marriages” or no marriages at all Nativity of Mary QUAERITUR: Priests crossing their stoles… not QUAERITUR: Is liturgical dance legitimate? Wm. … Read More
Wm. Oddie on reception of the new translation
In the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, the indomiable William Oddie has comments about the first Sunday Mass with the new, corrected translation. I like this bit: Well, the new translation of the Mass is now up and … Read More
Listen to the new, corrected translation in use last Sunday in the wilds of England on BBC 4
On the site of BBC 4 you can listen, for this week, to a recording of a broadcast of Holy Mass from a parish in England, Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, from this last Sunday. That means Mass … Read More
Really bad article about the new, corrected translation
From UCA NEWS: New translation muddies waters Revised version of Missal in English has more than its share of linguistic oddities Mike MacLachlan, London United Kingdom September 6, 2011 Thousands across Asia attend an English-language Mass, particularly in the Philippines … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, Throwing a Nutty
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What is your good news?
Does anyone have good news to share? And with your good news how about some great point from the sermon you heard on Sunday? What did you make for your Sunday supper? News?
Remember Those Lead Codices?
From rogueclassicism comes this, with a great video. [wp_youtube]HGw0orL78I4[/wp_youtube]
The Feeder Feed: late summer edition
I have not posted about the feeders in a long time. Here are a few shots. This finch is doing his best Veloci-Chicken imitation as he looks out for danger. I caught sight of a Killdeer a while back. I … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Feeder Feed
Tagged American Goldfich, Eastern Phoebe, House Finch, Killdeer, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
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RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST and THANKS!
Here are a few links to posts that are scrolling along. A new twist on attacking the new, corrected translation. WDTPRS 23rd Ordinary Sunday – imperfectly perfect sons and daughters of God Making sacred art with “theologically appropriate” techniques Proper … Read More
Rob83 on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As the demographic collapse accelerates, priests may find it prudent to live together in a central location with their deanery.…”
