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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Warm lunch on rainy windy day
It’s raining and blowing in blustery Manhattan. On such a day I am glad that the rectory is so close to one of the best Chinese restaurants on the island. Thus as I wait for the main I am enjoying … Read More
In the wake of the recent physical attack on the Pope…
… I wonder if the issue of the sedia gestatoria should be revisited. In years past when the Holy Father was carried on the sedia gestatoria, there were adequate lines of men flanking the chair bearers so that no one … Read More
Lunch at Katz’s Deli on Christmas Day
On Christmas Day I friends and went to Katz’s Deli on Houston. This is a BUSY place. The owner, schmoozing. This is one of many reasons why the business is good. Since I couldn’t decide easily what to order, one … Read More
How was Christmas?
What did you wind up doing for Christmas? Let us know about the good content of sermons you heard. Get anything special? Give anything special?
Some fellow asserts the Lord was actually born into wealth. Ha!
You have probably read or heard about the 1st c. house unearthed in Nazareth. Pretty humble place. From CNN: Passions over ‘prosperity gospel’: Was Jesus wealthy?By John Blake, CNNDecember 25, 2009 — Updated 0912 GMT (1712 HKT) (CNN) — Each … Read More
What shall we do about terrorists on airplanes?
About that terrorist attack on the NW/Delta plane from Amsterdam to Detroit. I have been on that route many times. And on that aircraft, the Airbus 330, I always sit in that area of the craft when I am not … Read More
Grand Central
On Christmas Day Grand Central Terminal is not as frenetic as on a work day but people are still bustling through. Terminals are odd places. People only come in order to leave. I will leave when I have met my … Read More
Pope Benedict’s Urbi et Orbi Message for Christmas 2009
Urbi et Orbi Message for Christmas 2009: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Rome and throughout the world, and all men and women, whom the Lord loves! "Lux fulgebit hodie super nos, quia natus est nobis Dominus. A light will shine … Read More
Woman Who Lunged at Pope Tried Same Thing Last Year
About that attack on the Pope last night… this comes from Hell’s Bible (aka New York Times): Woman Who Lunged at Pope Tried Same Thing Last Year By RACHEL DONADIOPublished: December 25, 2009 ROME — The woman who leapt at … Read More
A little audio from midnight Mass in Manhattan
I haven’t had time to clean up the audio, but here is the Preface and Sanctus from the Mass tonight. I am told that this is the first Solemn Mass for Christmas Midnight in some 40 years.
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