I don’t know what this means, but it is interesting.
As you may know, the Archbishop Emeritus of Rio de Janeiro, Eugenio Card. Sales died. His funeral was celebrated in Rio.
During his funeral, a white dove decided to hand around on or near the casket of the late Cardinal.
For an hour.
[wp_youtube]amYFqxnWwdU[/wp_youtube]
Another link HERE with different angles.
From a reader:
I have been informed by an Anglican group that my Bishop gave the green light to let an Anglican (not an ordinariate group, but a schismatic Anglican group) use one of our school’s sanctuary and altar to celebrate their services. Is this permitted? If not, what should I do?
I get the sense that you, dear reader, want to act on this. Be careful not to read something negative into every ecumenical gesture. Not all of them are illicit.
This situation is addressed in the 25 March 1993 Decree on the Principles and Norms on Ecumenism, from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This is a dicasterial, not a papal document. It was not signed “in forma specifica“. It nevertheless has binding force as an act of executive power.
The document contains these pertinent paragraphs:
137. Catholic churches are consecrated or blessed buildings which have an important theological and liturgical significance for the Catholic community. They are therefore generally reserved for Catholic worship. However, if priests, ministers or communities not in full communion with the Catholic Church do not have a place or the liturgical objects necessary for celebrating worthily their religious ceremonies, the diocesan Bishop may allow them the use of a church or a Catholic building and also lend them what may be necessary for their services. Under similar circumstances, permission may be given to them for interment or for the celebration of services at Catholic cemeteries.
138. Because of developments in society, the rapid growth of population and urbanization, and for financial motives, where there is a good ecumenical relationship and understanding between the communities, the shared ownership or use of church premises over an extended period of time may become a matter of practical interest.
139. When authorization for such ownership or use is given by the diocesan Bishop, according to any norms which may be established by the Episcopal Conference or the Holy See, judicious consideration should be given to the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, so that this question is resolved on the basis of a sound sacramental theology with the respect that is due, while also taking account of the sensitivities of those who will use the building, e.g., by constructing a separate room or chapel.
140. Before making plans for a shared building, the authorities of the communities concerned should first reach agreement as to how their various disciplines will be observed, particularly in regard to the sacraments. Furthermore, a written agreement should be made which will clearly and adequately take care of all questions which may arise concerning financial matters and the obligations arising from church and civil law.
Therefore, the bishop is within his authority to permit what you described.
Hopefully, the bishop has a well-worded contract laying out the situations and circumstances of the use of the church.
Think of it this way. Since this is a schismatic Anglican group, it may be part of the bishop’s plan gradually to pull them into the Catholic fold!
As for what YOU might do concretely, dear questioner, here are a few suggestions.
BTW… Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity.
From CNA:
Vatican lauds ordination of China’s missing bishop
Vatican City, Jul 10, 2012 / 04:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican has praised the approved ordination of a Chinese bishop, who is now missing after announcing his split from the state-run Catholic Church during his ordination.
“The ordination of the Reverend Thaddeus Ma Daqin as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Shanghai on Saturday 7 July 2012 is encouraging and is to be welcomed,” said a July 10 Vatican communique.
During the ordination ceremony, Bishop Ma revealed that he was quitting his posts within the government-controlled Catholic Patriotic Association which refuses to acknowledge the authority of the Pope. [This will be a real blow to Doctrix of the Church Nancy Pelosi and the First Gay President in their attempt to set up the American Patriot Catholic Association.]
[…]
Bishop Ma, however, has not been seen in public since. Various media outlets suggest he was whisked away by state-officials following the ceremony.
UCANews reports that priests and nuns in Shanghai have since received a text message from Bishop Ma’s cellphone claiming to be sent by him.
[…]
The mystery surrounding Bishop Ma comes on the day the Vatican formally announced the excommunication of 48-year-old Fr. Joseph Yue Fusheng following his illicit ordination as bishop of Harbin in north-east China on July 6.
[…]
I read with interest about the appointment of the new Bishop of Portsmouth, His Excellency Most Rev. Bp.-Elect Philip Egan, vicar general of the Diocese of Shrewsbury, Vicar General of the Diocese of Shrewsbury.
I noted with additional interest that my friend the great P.P. of Blackfen, His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Tim Fingan liked the appointment, which says a great deal. Fr. Finigan wrote, inter alia,
“Mgr Egan and I were in the same year at the English College back in the day. He is a thoroughly sound chap and I am delighted that he has been given this responsibility by the Holy Father.”
I noted with even more interest that The Bitter Pill (aka The Tablet) that they seem nervous about this new bishop:
Mgr Egan has written a book “Philosophy and Catholic Theology: A Primer” and has publicly defended Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae, the document that banned artificial contraception, describing it as infallible teaching.
Ooooo! Imagine such a thing as upholding the Church’s teaching! A bishop! Perhaps we should go back to calling that weekly RU-486?
By contrast, the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, had this from the pen of William Oddie:
The choice of Mgr Philip Egan to succeed Bishop Crispian Hollis at Portsmouth is [The Nuncio] Archbishop Mennini’s first real appointment (it is generally thought that the appointment of Mgr Peter Brignall as the new Bishop of Wrexham was probably already in the pipeline), and it is a cracker. If you want an idea of Mgr Egan’s theology, you might like to look HERE at a talk he gave in 2009, on the authority of Humanae Vitae (in which he argued that its teaching was proclaimed infallibly from the ordinary Magisterium).
From his appointment, we can deduce a number of things. First, that Archbishop Mennini has considerable respect for Bishop Davies, who he clearly sees as the kind of bishop we need more of in this country: he almost certainly found out about Mgr Egan, who has so far maintained a fairly low profile, from Bishop Davies: the fact that he has followed his advice shows what kind of bishop he is now looking to appoint.
He goes on to say:
The Congregation for Bishops (which in Cardinal Marc Ouellet now has a firmly Ratzingerian prefect, who may well with this appointment be confirming that England’s problems have at last been noticed in Rome) will soon be making a good number of other episcopal appointments in England, and they will be relying on Archbishop Mennini’s advice. East Anglia is vacant; Plymouth, Brentwood and quite a few other dioceses will soon likewise be sede vacante; a good third of the dioceses of England will over the next year or so have new bishops.
And it looks as if Bp. Davies in Shrewsbury has played a role. Also, since the Nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, is still pretty young he is not likely to “go native”. He surely doesn’t want this to be his last job. Moreover, Card. Ouellet is still the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and men such as Card. Burke. Card. Murphy-O’Connor, however, turns 80 on 24 August and will no longer have a voice in the Congregation as a member.
What this appointment suggests to me is that the tide has shifted over there. A the pieces are in place for a revolution of the English Church along the lines Pope Benedict invoked when he made his state visit and beatified John Henry Newman.
From a reader:
Quaeritur: If a priest approaches the sanctuary in the nude in preparation for Holy Mass, need he put on an amice? Since there would be no “ordinary clothing” to be covered, it would seem that he need not do so. Am I wrong? Inquiring minds want to know.
Hmmm… this is a serious question!
Let’s get some bare facts.
An amice, from Latin amictus, “a garment put on over other clothing”, in turn from the verb amicio “to throw round, to wrap about, to cloth”, is a rectangular linen cloth which has strings at two corners on one long side. It is placed, first on the head, and then over the shoulders and around the neck. The strings are then crossed over the chest, passed around the back and around to the front where they are tied, so as to keep the amice in place.
The naked truth is that an amice, by etymological definition, is something you put on over other clothing. If the priest has no other clothing, you don’t put it on, right? C’mon! Think it through!
If that weren’t enough in itself, the General Instruction of the Roman Missal says, in part,
336. “… Before the alb is put on, should this not completely cover the ordinary clothing at the neck, an amice should be used.”
If I am reading this correctly, Father is not be obliged to put on the amice before putting on any alb… in this scenario.
By the way, GIRM 336 goes on to say “…the alb may not be exchanged for a surplice…”, which is a very good thing … in this scenario.
On a related issue, however, when you see a priest’s “Roman” collar sticking up out of his vestments, that is a liturgical abuse. His collar must be covered because his collar is “street clothes” as opposed to sacred vestments.
It can happen that the alb or amice will slip away to reveal his street clothes. That is not an abuse. That is an accident. What is an abuse is purposely vesting in such a way that the collar is revealed.
I wonder… when priests do this are they trying to distinguish themselves from all the laypeople in the sanctuary to whom they have abdicated their own priestly role? Hmmm… But I digress.
In the older, venerable, traditional form of Holy Mass, in the Extraordinary Form, the amice is always used, regardless of the shape of the alb. The priest first washes his hands, saying a particular prayer, and when the priest puts on the amice, he lets it rest on the top of his head briefly and he says the prayer:
Impóne, Dómine, cápiti meo gáleam salútis, ad expugnándos diabólicos incúrsus … Upon my head, O Lord, place the helmet of salvation, so that I may defeat the assaults of the devil. (cf Isaiah 59:17; Ephesians 6:17, 6:11)
I think seminarians and priests should memorize and use the vesting prayers, as of old, even before Mass in the Ordinary Form.
Because of the entry I wrote about Extraordinary Form Nuptial Masses for mixed-faith couples, I was prompted to re-read an exhortation which was often used (and still can be) at the time of the sermon by priests in the USA to exhort and instruct the couple during the marriage rite.
Exhortation Before Marriage
Beloved of Christ. You are about to enter upon a union which is most sacred and most serious. It is most sacred, because established by God Himself. By it, He gave to man a share in the greatest work of creation, the work of the continuation of the human race. And in this way He sanctified human love and enabled man and woman to help each other live as children of God, by sharing a common life under His fatherly care.
Because God Himself is thus its author, marriage is of its very nature a holy institution, requiring of those who enter into it a complete and unreserved giving of self. But Christ our Lord added to the holiness of marriage an even deeper meaning and a higher beauty. He referred to the love of marriage to describe His own love for His Church, that is, for the people of God whom He redeemed by His own blood. And so He gave to Christians a new vision of what married life ought to be, a life of self-sacrificing love like His own. It is for this reason that His apostle, St. Paul, clearly states that marriage is now and for all time to be considered a great mystery, intimately bound up with the supernatural union of Christ and the Church, which union is also to be its pattern. This union, then, is most serious, because it will bind you together for life in a relationship so close and so intimate, that it will profoundly influence your whole future. That future, with its hopes and disappointments, its successes and its failures, its pleasures and its pains, its joys and its sorrows, is hidden from your eyes. You know that these elements are mingled in every life, and are to be expected in your own. And so not knowing what is before you, you take each other for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death.
Truly, then, these words are most serious. It is a beautiful tribute to your undoubted faith in each other, that recognizing their full import, you are, nevertheless, so willing and ready to pronounce them. And because these words involve such solemn obligations, it is most fitting that you rest the security of your wedded life upon the great principle of self-sacrifice. And so you begin your married life by the voluntary and complete surrender of your individual lives in the interest of that deeper and wider life which you are to have in common. Henceforth you will belong entirely to each other; you will be one in mind, one in heart, and one in affections. And whatever sacrifices you may hereafter be required to make to preserve this mutual life, always make them generously. Sacrifice is usually difficult and irksome. Only love can make it easy, and perfect love can make it a joy. We are willing to give in proportion as we love. And when love is perfect, the sacrifice is complete. God so loved the world that he gave His only-begotten Son, and the Son so loved us that He gave Himself for our salvation. “Greater love than this no man has, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
No greater blessing can come to your married life than pure conjugal love, loyal and true to the end. May, then, this love with which you join your hands and hearts today never fail, but grow deeper and stronger as the years go on. And if true love and the unselfish spirit of perfect sacrifice guide your every action, you can expect the greatest measure of earthly happiness that may be allotted to man in this vale of tears. The rest is in the hands of God. Nor will God be wanting to your needs; He will pledge you the life-long support of His graces in the holy sacrament which you are now going to receive.
Beautiful.
Let us not forget that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Uphold and defend the holiness, dignity and meaning of marriage.
As you know, I think concelebration should be safe, legal and rare. I also think that priests should stick to the words in the books and do what the rubrics say. I, moreover, think that priests who continue to commit liturgical abuses should be brought back to their senses through censures.
At CNA there is an article about Cardinal Burke opines about these very things!
My cuts and emphases and comments
Cardinal Burke cautions against over-use of concelebration
By David KerrCork, Ireland, Jul 10, 2012 / 01:42 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke believes that the “excessive” use of concelebration – the practice of priests saying Mass collectively – can result in their unique role in the sacred liturgy being obscured.
“I don’t think there should be an excessive encouragement of concelebration because the norm is for the individual priest to offer the holy sacrifice of the Mass,” the head of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura told CNA July 9.
“If it is repeated too frequently, it can develop within him a sense of being another one of the participants instead of actually being the priest who is offering the Mass.” [Do I hear an “Amen!”?]
[…]
The former Archbishop of St. Louis worried that, whereas the priest’s action is distinct, he “can seem to be participating in the Mass in the same manner as the congregation” if he concelebrates too often. “That’s the danger I see in excessive concelebration,” he said.
The cardinal’s words of caution echo comments made recently by the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares. He told a gathering at Rome’s University of the Holy Cross on March 5 that that the “widening of the faculty to concelebrate needs to be moderated, as we can see when we read the (Second Vatican) Council texts.”
Cardinal Cañizares explained that concelebration “is an extraordinary, solemn and public rite, normally presided over by the bishop or his delegate,” surrounded by his priests and the entire community. But “the daily concelebrations of priests only, which are practiced ‘privately’…do not form part of the Latin liturgical tradition,” he said. [Do I hear another “Amen!”?]
In a wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Burke also outlined the reasons why a priest should not ad-lib his own words or prayers during Mass, since he “is the servant of the rite” and “not the protagonist – Christ is.”
“So it is absolutely wrong for the priest to think, ‘how can I make this more interesting?’ or ‘how can I make this better?’” he said.
CLICK TO BUY
He also noted with approval how the 1917 Code of Canon Law – since superseded by a new code promulgated in 1983 – explicitly stated that a priest should “accurately and devoutly observe the rubrics of his liturgical books to beware lest he add other ceremonies or prayers according to his own judgment.” [SAY THE BLACK – DO THE RED?]
“What kind of thinking is it on our part for me to think that I can improve on the liturgy that has been handed on in the Church down the centuries? This is absurd,” Cardinal Burke stated.
Similarly, the cardinal commended the 1917 Code for its clear stipulation that a priest in the state of mortal sin should refrain from celebrating Mass “without first availing himself of sacramental confession” or as soon as possible “in the absence of a confessor,” when the Mass is “a case of necessity” and he has “made an act of perfect contrition.”
“Well, simply that canon that was in the 1917 code was eliminated and I think it should be reintroduced, because the idea of worthiness pertains in a preeminent way to the priest who is offering the sacrifice,” he said.
The 64-year-old from Wisconsin now resides in Rome, where he is a close collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI. Like the present pontiff, Cardinal Burke also believes that any reform of the sacred liturgy “has to be rooted in the teaching of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council” and “properly connected to the tradition” of the Church.
That means avoiding or removing various innovations, including the regular use of “communion services” led by a layperson or religious whenever a parish is without a priest to offer Sunday Mass. [Would that include receiving Communion in the hand, while standing? I think so.]
“It is not good for people to participate repeatedly in these kinds of services on a Sunday because they lose the sense that the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Communion comes from the sacrifice,” he explained.
[…]
The Church’s chief justice also believes that there is a direct correlation between “the hesitation” in applying canonical penalties in recent decades and “the abuses and the violation of Church law” that have occurred in liturgical areas. [Yet another “Amen!” brothers and sister!]
Such penalties, he explained, are “firstly medicinal,” aimed at “getting a person’s attention to the gravity of what he is doing and to call him back.”“The penalties are needed,” he said.
“If in 20 centuries of the life of the Church there was always the need for sanctions, why in our century should we suddenly think they are not necessary? This is also absurd.”
WDTPRS kudos to Card. Burke.
And if the liberals don’t like the idea of penalties, let’s call them taxes!
SNEAK PEEK at the “Three Days of Darkness”!
From a reader:
I see you’ve posted about CMEs again [HERE] (I *think* I remember you addressing CMEs as a TEOTWAWKI situation before…). [If a really big one hits us head on, yes, I think it could be.] This all sounds very apocalyptic to me. Are you, by chance, one of the people that believe in the Three Days of Darkness or some similar apocalyptic prophesy?
I ask because I thought these things were just folksy traditions that the Church frowned upon (or, at least, refused to endorse). Seeing you fret like this makes me wonder if my understanding of these apocalyptic prophecies and their official status was incorrect.
BOTTOM LINE: Should I take apocalyptic prophecies like the TDoD seriously, or should I continue to regard them as old wives’ tales?
First, I haven’t given the “Three Days of Darkness” notion much thought at all. When I use the term I usually am talking about the annual Los Angeles progressivist catholic education conference.
That said, some people may not know about this.
In mostly sedevacantist circles, I believe, it is alleged that some saints and others have, because of private revelations, held that, when the end times come (and they will), there will be, you guessed it, three days of darkness. It will be very cold, the earth will be beset by demons, cities will be destroyed, people will drop dead if they go outside. Everyone is supposed to stock up on Holy Water blessed beeswax candles, which will be the only things that can produce light. Somewhere in the mix Sts. Peter and Paul will return and designate a true Pope (because they Popes we have had have been false popes).
It may be that I got some points wrong, but that is the gist of the thing.
When I talk about The End OF The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) I mean something that happens because of demonstrably explicable causes, such as a massive EMP or the collapse of the global economy or a pandemic or … fill in the blank. Moreover, there can be smaller TEOTWAWKI events for individuals, families, towns. Think of the poor people whose homes were destroyed in Colorado because of the wild fire, the people of Joplin, MO, the Japanese in the tsunami and near the nuclear power plant. A car accident can be TEOTWAWKI.
I am not deep enough or given the graces necessary to discern all the spiritual underpinnings of God’s work in these events, though I know that they must somehow be coherent with His divine providence. He permits many things and He offers us graces to work through them. And, in the last analysis, our worldly life is short compared to our life in heaven.
What I think people should take seriously is some basic preparation so that, when and if something happens, you are better situated to take care of yourself and loved ones. Having a plan and some food and clothing, etc. in case need it fast is a good idea. If having blessed candles and Holy Water is part of the plan, great! I am sure that priests will bless them for you. If you believe the whole Three Days of Darkness thing – hey! – knock yourself out!
Here my apocalyptic prophecy that you should take seriously: You are going to die.
What you should take seriously is the fact that you are going to meet the Lord on His terms, either because He returns or because you die. One of the two is going to happen. If you don’t plan for that day, you are a fool.
Therefore, examine your conscience well, make frequent confessions of all mortal sins, make good Communions, use the sacraments and sacramentals well, perform works of mercy, pray and place your trust in God without putting any created thing upon your heart’s throne.
If you do those things, and persevere, the Three Days of Darkness won’t be much of a problem.
In the meantime, why not stock up on some of my Z-Swag and, of course, lots of …
[CUE MUSIC]
When the Three Days of Darkness come, will you have your stockpile of Mystic Monk Coffee and Tea?
Not only is Mystic Monk Coffee really swell, but…
Wait… wait… I am receiving a vision…. yes… yes… of course… of course.
I just learned through private revelation that demons hate Mystic Monk Coffee.
So, if I were you….
For your Brick By Brick file.
There is a new CD or (digital download – no waiting and one less thing to dust or pack when moving!) of Gregorian chant and polyphony (Palestrina) sung by the seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) in their chapel at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary. Check it out!
Sales will obviously help the seminary.
Track Listing
1. Deus in adiutórium
Advent
2. Roráte cæli
3. Ave María
Christmas
4. Dóminus dixit ad me
5. Puer natus est
6. Tribus miráculis
Lent
7. Média vita
8. Parce Dómine
9. Christus factus est
10. Crux fidélis
Eastertide
11. Regína cæli
12. Víctimæ Pascháli
13. Hæc dies
14. Ascéndit Deus
15. O Rex glóriæ
16. Spíritus Dómini
17. Allelúia: Veni Sancte Spíritus
18. Te lucis ante términum
Throughout the Year
19. Allelúia: Assúmpta est
20. Refúlsit sol
21. Orémus pro Pontífice
22. Salve Regína
Polyphony
23. Alma Redemptóris Mater (Palestrina)
24. Iesu Rex Admirábilis (Palestrina)
25. Adorámus Te (Palestrina)
26. Ave María (Arcadelt)
27. Laudáte nomen Dómini (Tye)
Total Disc Time: 62:23
I have posted about this fellow, Matt Harding, before. His videos always provoke me to smile.
[wp_youtube]Pwe-pA6TaZk[/wp_youtube]
Here is a snapshot of some of the places where you readers have logged in from (more or less geographically accurate and with the “unknown” removed) over the last few minutes.
| Zagreb, Grad Zagreb Bristol, Bristol, City of Hindley, Wigan Los Angeles, California Mansfield, Ohio Gloucester, Gloucesters… Lodi, New Jersey Singapore Paxico, Kansas Madison, Wisconsin Birmingham Salt Lake City, Utah East Weymouth, Massachu… Cary, North Carolina Gallatin, Tennessee Wichita Falls, Texas Phoenix, Arizona Anniston, Alabama Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Leerdam, Zuid-Holland Brooklyn, New York Oxford, Oxfordshire Sacramento, California Burnley, Lancashire Bratislava Richardson, Texas Morgan City, Louisiana Ottawa, Ontario Rapid City, South Dakota Leatherhead, Surrey Brockport, New York Denver, Colorado Severna Park, Maryland Detroit, Michigan Longview, Texas Taylor, North Dakota New York Manchester Lynn, Massachusetts Calgary, Alberta Pensacola, Florida Sweden Little Rock, Arkansas Fort Gratiot, Michigan Colmar, Alsace Villa Corona, Jalisco Austin, Texas Bombay, Maharashtra Mokena, Illinois Toronto, Ontario Dayton, Ohio Englewood, Colorado Oak Lawn, Illinois Studley, Warwickshire Madrid Silver Spring, Maryland Washington, District of… Saint John, New Brunswick New Delhi, Delhi Paxico, Kansas North Babylon, New York Chicago, Illinois Guildford, Surrey Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Waco, Texas Chicago, Illinois South Africa Hernando, Mississippi Sunnyvale, California Pasadena, Maryland Warsaw, Warszawa Lincoln, Nebraska London, London, City of Las Vegas, Nevada Worcester, Massachusetts Anniston, Alabama Davenport, Washington Luling, Louisiana Leasburg, Missouri Wallingford, Connecticut Peterborough Richmond, British Colum… Dublin Bielefeld, Nordrhein-We… Garner, North Carolina Trezevant, Tennessee Los Angeles, California Hays, Kansas Woodstock, Ontario Byrnedale, Pennsylvania San Antonio, Texas Essex, Ontario Cupertino, California Maia, Porto Commack, New York Baton Rouge, Louisiana Lyman, South Carolina Sydney, New South Wales Saint Louis, Missouri Vermilion, Ohio Coventry, Rhode Island Saint Paul, Minnesota Overland Park, Kansas Milwaukee, Wisconsin Fargo, North Dakota Pacifica, California Minneapolis, Minnesota Potsdam, New York Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Indianapolis, Indiana Tulsa, Oklahoma Leawood, Kansas Los Angeles, California Rome, Lazio Yuma, Arizona Calgary, Alberta Leasburg, Missouri Hayward, California London, London, City of Guelph, Ontario Staten Island, New York Brooklyn, New York Ann Arbor, Michigan Chantilly, Virginia Winchmore Hill, Essex Lanark, South Lanarkshire Riga Holy See (Vatican City State) Chesapeake, Virginia Northbrook, Illinois Berkeley, California Hareid, More og Romsdal |
Rochester, New York Heerde, Gelderland Penang, Pulau Pinang Doha, Ad Dawhah Del Valle, Texas Albuquerque, New Mexico Fairfax, Virginia Gardiner, New York Cork Whittier, California Charlottetown, Prince E… Middletown, Ohio Naperville, Illinois West Lafayette, Indiana Sunnyvale, California Richmond, Virginia San Diego, California Colchester, Essex Charlotte, North Carolina Harvey, Illinois Charleston, Illinois Moundridge, Kansas Nashville, Tennessee Bakersfield, California Glasgow, Glasgow City Xewkija Harwich, Massachusetts Flower Mound, Texas Iowa City, Iowa Philadelphia, Pennsylva… Espoo, Southern Finland Denton, Texas Birmingham, Alabama Farnborough, Hampshire Fairfax, Virginia Front Royal, Virginia Lake Mary, Florida Minneapolis, Minnesota Palos Hills, Illinois Kent, Gloucestershire Spokane, Washington Ambridge, Pennsylvania Hickory, North Carolina Mankato, Minnesota Vienna, Virginia Topeka, Kansas Gouderak, Zuid-Holland Houlton, Maine Brighton, Colorado Baraboo, Wisconsin Bridgeport, Connecticut Collegeville, Minnesota Houston, Texas Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Medina, Ohio San Jose, California Belle, Missouri Calgary, Alberta Nashua, New Hampshire San Antonio, Texas Sunbury, Greater London Toronto, Ontario Rome, Lazio Lyndhurst, New Jersey Houston, Texas Baltimore, Maryland Croton On Hudson, New Y… Dallas, Texas Hermitage, Tennessee Lufkin, Texas Venice, California Charlotte, North Carolina Ellicott City, Maryland Levittown, Pennsylvania Englewood, Colorado Rzeszw, Podkarpackie Henrietta, New York Chesterfield, Missouri Washington, District of… Kansas City, Kansas Tulsa, Oklahoma Muscat, Masqat Verl, Nordrhein-Westfalen Atlanta, Georgia Lexington, Virginia Wicklow Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Abernant, Alabama Yokohama, Kanagawa Lawrence, Kansas Hamburg, New York Onondaga, Michigan Metropolis, Illinois Grapevine, Texas Cranston, Rhode Island Waxahachie, Texas Fredericksburg, Virginia Bend, Oregon Munster, Indiana Zagreb, Grad Zagreb Milwaukee, Wisconsin Budapest Nassau, New Providence Runcorn, Cheshire Monroe, Louisiana Melbourne, Victoria Slough Norfolk, Virginia Nagoya, Aichi Wallisellen, Zurich Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Ch Satellite Provider Columbia, South Carolina Tacoma, Washington Omemee, Ontario Kansas City, Missouri Cincinnati, Ohio State College, Pennsylv… Philadelphia, Pennsylva… Sankt Ingbert, Saarland Lublin, Lubelskie Jackson, Mississippi Mississauga, Ontario Arlington, Virginia Laval, Quebec Vicksburg, Mississippi Richardson, Texas Stafford, Virginia Xenia, Ohio Trenton, New Jersey Sarnia, Ontario South Bend, Indiana |
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
A Daily Prayer for Priests
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
