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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
USCCB site for The Year of the Priest
The USCCB has put up a nice webpage for the upcoming Year of the Priest, declared by Pope Benedict and which will begin on 19 June. Check it out! Click below!
L’Osservatore, ho hum, throws a little handful of dirt
I am rather disgusted with L’Osservatore Romano at the moment. Over 80 American bishops demonstrated that they would do the ecclesiastical equivalent of walk on broken glass when they protested how this Catholic university wanted to bestow an honor, a … Read More
QUAERITUR: Martyrology and the Liturgy of the Hours
From a reader: Can you talk a bit about how to integrate the Martyrology into Lauds in the Ordinary Form? As I understand it, it can be inserted after the Collect and before the dismissal. Connected to this, why does … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Liturgy of the Hours, Office, Roman Martyrology
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7 Comments
Forty Hours at St. Mary Major
One of my favorite traditional practices is Forty Hours Devotion, in Italian Quarantore. As younger priests come up in the ranks and take over parishes, I think we may see a revival of Forty Hours in many places. In Rome, … Read More
A Trinity Sunday question
Here is a little Trinity Sunday question for you. In your Sunday sermons today, did you hear the preacher make an analogy for the Trinity? Did he says something like… The Trinity is like water, which can be steam, ice … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged analogy, homily, sermon, Trinity, Trinity Sunday
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200 Comments
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WDTPRS was down for over 12 hours, alas. It appears to have been a WordPress problem of some sort.
Request for prayers
In your charity will you pray for the swift recovery of a friend who had surgery for acute apendicitis? I ask a prayer for myself.
New Pro-Patron for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The intrepid Andrea Tornielli of Il Giornale on his Italian language blog posted this interesting bit about the appointment of a new Pro-Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, H.E. Archbp. Paolo Sardi. Sarà annunciata a mezzogiorno di oggi … Read More
Remembering D-Day
Operation Overlord… 65 years ago today. "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. … Read More
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