Christopher Columbus was an amazing, admirable man. It is a serious injustice that some so malign him.
On this day I am reminded of when I was at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay and went to the place where Columbus landed on one of his voyages.
I didn’t have a real appreciation of Columbus until I met The Great Roman™ who had already forgotten more about Christopher Columbus than I, the American, had ever known.
No… he had NOT forgotten, because The Great Roman™ doesn’t forget.
UPDATE 12 Oct:
From CRUX comes this.
A journalist, not sure which but I have an idea, asked Card. Tobin of Newark:
Tobin was asked about Catholics who feel that their concerns were not reflected in the synod’s preparatory working document, called the Instrumentum laboris, which was drafted based on each of the seven continental assembly documents, specifically those who attend the Traditional Latin Mass and who feel “banished” by restrictions Pope Francis imposed in 2021.
In response, Tobin said “the experience of feeling banished is something that is sadly part of the signs of the times, not only for people who very much love the traditional Mass,” but for other communities too.
TRANSLATION: Lot’s of people feel abandoned. Suck it up.
Then he gave an anecdote about how he had to close parish churches which upset people, but one guy wrote later that, while at the time it was hard, it was the right thing to do.
As if THAT is an answer to the TLM question.
Going on…
“Now, that’s probably, I can see it’s not satisfactory to you,” he said, referring to the journalist who asked the question, but said that for those who prefer to attend the Traditional Latin Mass, “under the conditions of the two motu proprio as well as the decisions of [the Dicastery for] Divine Worship, there are still opportunities for it, but perhaps not what they’ve been accustomed to.” [?!?!? Except where, ya know, there AREN’T.]
“I know that it’s caused a lot of grief among people who have particularly identified with that Mass, but I don’t think they’ve been banished from the Catholic Church,” he said.
In this moment there’s someone I’d like to banish from the Catholic Church. However, I will bring him to my prayers and offer his inadequate and patronizing brush off to my Savior, Christ the High Priest, as a penitential offering, requesting mercy for him and graces.
Those who desire the Traditional Latin Mass are the single most marginalized group in the Church today, pushed to the periphery of Church where they live on the edge, gleaning the grains that are left.
Today is the Feast of John XXIII in the new, Novus Ordo, calendar. He died in 1963 during the Second Vatican Council. His greatest achievement was being a military chaplain.
Today is the anniversary of the opening of Vatican II when John XXIII read his famous speech Gaudet Mater Ecclesia.
Today in the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” Francis’ liturgical sicarius Arthur Carnifex … darn that auto-correct… Cardinal Roche delivered a speech in which he quoted at length from Gaudet Mater Ecclesia. HERE
A little on the nose, really, for those who think that the “W-T” is sort of Vatican III in a permanent revolution sort of way.
He read, with a straight face, this passage from Gaudet with the famous passage about the “medicine of mercy”.
Two points… there is something in what he read that we should underscore and then there is something that he did NOT read which was the most important and most IGNORED thing in Gaudet. My emphases.
At the outset of the Second Vatican Council, it is evident, as always, that the truth of the Lord will remain forever. We see, in fact, as one age succeeds another, that the opinions of men follow one another and exclude each other. And often errors vanish as quickly as they arise, like fog before the sun. The Church has always opposed these errors. Frequently she has condemned them with the greatest severity. Nowadays however, the Spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity. She consider that she meets the needs of the present day by demonstrating the validity of her teaching rather than by condemnations. Not, certainly, that there is a lack of fallacious teaching, opinions, and dangerous concepts to be guarded against an dissipated. But these are so obviously in contrast with the right norm of honesty, and have produced such lethal fruits that by now it would seem that men of themselves are inclined to condemn them, particularly those ways of life which despise God and His law or place excessive confidence in technical progress and a well-being based exclusively on the comforts of life. They are ever more deeply convinced of the paramount dignity of the human person and of his perfection as well as of the duties which that implies. Even more important, experience has taught men that violence inflicted on others, the might of arms, and political domination, are of no help at all in finding a happy solution to the grave problems which afflict them.
Tell that last part to Catholics in China.
Anyway, certain things are such “lethal fruits” that people in general are rejecting them? Today people are rejecting false teachings with lethal consequences? They are?
It seems to me that one of the most lethal has been brought into the “W-T” itself, that is, the homosexualist agenda.
What Carn. Roche did not quote from Gaudet is the most important part.
I make here the observation that it is not especially easy to find an English translation of Gaudet Mater Ecclesia online. HERE The Vatican website has only Spanish, Italian, Latin and Portuguese. No English, French, German….
The most important thing John said in Gaudet, however, was (my emphases):
The manner in which sacred doctrine is spread, this having been established, it becomes clear how much is expected from the Council in regard to doctrine. That is, the Twenty-first Ecumenical Council, which will draw upon the effective and important wealth of juridical, liturgical, apostolic, and administrative experiences, wishes to transmit the doctrine, pure and integral, without any attenuation or distortion, which throughout twenty centuries, notwithstanding difficulties and contrasts, has become the common patrimony of men. It is a patrimony not well received by all, but always a rich treasure available to men of good will.
Our duty is not only to guard this precious treasure, as if we were concerned only with antiquity, but to dedicate ourselves with an earnest will and without fear to that work which our era demands of us, pursuing thus the path which the Church has followed for twenty centuries. […]
… But from the renewed, serene, and tranquil adherence to all the teaching of the Church in its entirety and preciseness, as it still shines forth in the Acts of the Council of Trent and First Vatican Council, the Christian, Catholic, and apostolic spirit of the whole world expects a step forward toward a doctrinal penetration and a formation of consciousness in faithful and perfect conformity to the authentic doctrine, which, however, should be studied and expounded through the methods of research and through the literary forms of modern thought. The substance of the ancient doctrine of the deposit of faith is one thing, and the way in which it is presented is another. And it is the latter that must be taken into great consideration with patience if necessary, everything being measured in the forms and proportions of a magisterium which is predominantly pastoral in character.
There may be new ways of presenting Catholic doctrine but its meaning must not be compromised in finding new expressions.
John goes on to speak about how in dealing with errors in the past, the Church had often issued severe condemnations. Now, however, “the Spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity.” That’s where Carn. Roche picked up. He didn’t read the most important part.
Meanwhile… some W-T members have tested positive for COVID.
It will be interesting to see how many don the virtue signaling face diaper.
Oh look! A certain Jesuit leads the way!
.@JamesMartinSJ & Cynthia Bailey Manns (from controversial St Joan of Arc Community) have been assigned by @Synod_va to same small group (Table 28) in week 2 of the #Synod. Table 28 will discuss the Instrumentum Laboris B 1.2 Worksheet on “LGBTQ+” issues.?Photo: @EdwardPentin. pic.twitter.com/dF4q1FGemr
— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) October 11, 2023
UPDATE: I just noticed in Diane’s tweet that the inexplicable rep from the lunatic parish in my native place Minneapolis, St. Joan of Arc – how it irritates me that her name is so dishonored – is there with Jasmine working things out for their pet agenda item.
I am ready to read anything by Anthony Esolen, a writer who is both lyrical and whose head is firmly screwed on in the right direction. For those of you who are Dante virgins or noobs, his e translation of the Divine Comedy is a good place to start. His book Nostalgia explains a lot about tradition. If there is a priest out there who does not yet own a copy of his superb breakdown and reflection on the Prologue of the Gospel in John (the Last Gospel of the TLM)… then… what is the world coming to?
To today’s offering.
Over the years I’ve posted on Esolen’s comments about the war on men and how liturgy has become effete, etc. How to kill vocations? Feminize them. HERE Observations on boys and men and what women cannot give them HERE. Prelates of Sodom HERE. 50 Years of Effete and Infertile Liturgical Culture Is Enough HERE
Now we have.
No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men
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Esolen often grabs you from the first sentence or so. In Nostalgia, for example, he starts with Odysseus. In this new offering he begins with a dialogue from Milton between Adam and the Archangel Raphael.
From the Introduction:
I should not have to write these words. I do so because it is a crime against manhood and the truth that young men should never in their lives hear such a thing. I do not want to encourage pride, the sin. But a just self-esteem is not pride. And it is high time that men be reminded not only that they have powers as men, but also that those powers were given them to be used for the common good—for everyone, men and women and children all.
I suggest a thought reading and then get this book out and around.
Something must be done to reverse the trends in the Church.
I was thinking about this as I saw pictures from inside the hideous Paul VI audience hall where the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” is taking place. Some 35 large round tables where everyone can “spit in the bucket”. The slosh is then examined for its merits and the insights are passed along to the other buckets. Anyway, the point is that they are all facing each other. In other meetings, the bishops – it WAS a Synod of BISHOPS and it is no longer – sat side by side.
Men when they talk about important things or just spend time together tend to sit side by side. Women like to face each other. I am mindful that Card. Heenan when he saw the Novus Ordo celebrated versus populum remarked that men would not want to attend it. Of course some man or other will pipe up saying, “Hey! I like facing other men when we talk!” Sure you do pal. This isn’t a hard and fast rule. But I think it stands the test of common experience.
My point is that the very process of the “walking together” has been feminized. And since the whole point of the exercise now underway is the PROCESS… the process IS the content… the content will be effete.
The sun rose over Rome at 07:14 and set at 18:39. The Ave Maria bell is still in its 19:00 cycle.
No new registrants for a couple of days. Odd. Maybe people are so focused on “walking together” that they don’t have enough time for other things.
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Friends arrived in the Eternal City. They will celebrate their wedding anniversary and have a good look around. They are old Roman pros, so they don’t need a lot of hand holding.
Afternoon as at the market quiets down in the Campo.
Pippo the Florist has two of these. They are there everyday.
And speaking long and brown, true friends who come to see me in Rome bring humidified cases of cigars.
I’m just sayin’.
On the way to supper.
One of several savory things that materialized on our table. Wonderful caponata.
Meanwhile, this made me freeze up for a bit until I grasped the problem. Biretta tip to Anish Giri.
White to play. It needs not just a move, but an explanation of the possibilities. Good puzzle.
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Because I entertain moments of self-hatred which I evolve into moments of reparation for for “walking together”, I tuned into a YouTube video of the very thing… “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity”. It is a morning session from yesterday. If you want to see and hear what this is about.
I can’t imagine sitting through this mind-numbing ***** day after day.
Some low-lights.
At about 0:7:30 Hollerich delivers a rather long ramble about being inclusive and “walking together”. His wheedling weasle-tone should be enough to drive every male out of the hall. Somehow they perdure.
At about 0:23:00 the infamously pro-homosexual Timothy Radcliffe, OP talks (in English) about being formed for communion that overflows into mission.
There are others who spoke. I didn’t listen to any of them.
Keep in mind that anything that this “W-T” will produce in terms of a document or recommendations for papal document, etc., is NOT THE POINT.
The real point of “W-T” is the PROCESS. Statements, documents, etc. Meh. The real CONTENT is the fact that it is a process. This all-important process is the real message, the real thing that needs to continue.
The purpose of the process is the continuation of the process so that it becomes the norm, rather than the exception.
This soft permanent revolution.
UPDATE 10 Oct 2023
Here is more news about the demon idol.
We’ve been able to confirm that the demon idol Cindy McCain gave to Pope Francis is most likely the ogre-woman called Soyoko Mana, not the priest killer. Soyoko Mana carries a knife and a crook to catch children, whom she eats. The basket of food on her back is what she collects… pic.twitter.com/3g7jDqhQEt
— Lepanto Institute (@LepantoInst) October 9, 2023
So, it seems that this is not the demon connected with killing priests. It’s the demon that only eats children.
Originally posted. Oct 7, 2023
Today, 7 October, is the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary. It is also the anniversary of the placement of a demonic Pachamama cult bowl on the main altar of St. Peter’s during the Synod (“Walking Together”) on the Amazon. That “W-T” began with an idol veneration ceremony in the Vatican gardens on Oct 4. I have asked you to do penance during this “anniversary” period.
There’s a new wrinkle.
I guess it can’t be a “W-T” without the presence of some demonic idol.
Mind you, I am not suggesting that people inside the Vatican arranged this, but the coincidence has a sniff of “organization”.
What’s up?
Cindy McCain is now deeply into one-world UN stuff, it seems. On 6 October 2023 she was in Rome as Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme and she met with Francis. HERE Biretta tip to A: o{]:¬)
NB: This audience doesn’t have anything to do with the “W-T”. However, it did happen now and not at some other time.
It is customary in audiences of certain levels to have an exchange of gifts. I imagine the warehouse of stuff that has been brought to Popes over the decades as looking like that at the end of Indiana Jones. Thousands of unpredictable gifts which might cause insult or diplomatic problems if disposed of or sold.
It could be that before these audiences some Monsignor says, “What are you bringing?”, so as to avoid the more embarrassing gifts. If this gift was checked off on ahead if time, someone didn’t do any homework. In a way understandable, but any priest ought to know a little about this. Priests don’t have to be experts on every indigenous cult, but they ought to have extended antennae telling them that “Something about this ain’t right.” Tell me if I am wrong.
Cindy McCain brought Francis a Hopi Kachina figure.
A Hopi Kachina is a statuette of a demon.
As Ps 96: 5: St. Paul states, “all the gods of the peoples are idols”, meaning demons. St. Paul in numerous places warns against involvement with idolatry. Exorcists relate that demons receive their names by the invocation of false gods. In short, a Hopi Kachina doll is a pagan idol of a demon.
What demon idol did McCain bring?
There are very many versions of Kachinas. HERE is a page about the different types of Kachina and ceremonies involving them.
Note the bloody knife. Charming. There’s more to this bloody knife.
This is a capture from a video from Twitter/X
Pope Francis meets with Ms. Cindy H. McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and widow of the late US Senator John McCain. pic.twitter.com/3VYhK84hSv
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) October 5, 2023
There is a PDF that describes in detail what Kachinas are about. HERE An excerpt with my emphases:
4. Children occupy an important place in the cult. Even if they are uninitiated, children receive gifts at the ceremonies and are educated in Kachina lore. Since a child’s mind is clean and pure with no inherent evil, children can carry prayers to the spirits. The children learn to respect and obey the Kachinas. In keeping with their role to help discipline children, the Kachinas frequently give them presents of bows and arrows, with feathers with which to send prayers to the spirits. In particular, the ogres (Figure 4 and Figure 5) are disciplinary Kachinas. The Black Ogre, Nata-aska, and the White Ogre, Wiharu, carry a saw or a knife. Children are told the ogres can swallow them whole, unless they are good little children. Finally the ogres are driven from the village. Whites would call them the “boogeymen.”
I don’t think that means John Wick. It means that Kachinas represent demons.
There’s more.
There is type of the Ogre Kachinas called Chayevo, who also carries a blade. In ceremonies it is depicted as “trotting thorough the plaza looking for victims”. HERE In short, this is a not so nice disciplinary Kachina.
Hopi Oral history includes the story where Chaveyo headed the Hopi warriors in the Pueblo Rebellion at the Hopi village of Oraibi in killing the Franciscan priest and destroying the church and mission.
The knife is gory with the blood of a Franciscan priest.
The Pueblo Revolt was in part sparked against the attempt of the Spanish to suppress the demonic religions and the use of Kachina idols. HERE
The other day I posted about how from 4 October to 7 October we should do penance for the demon idol worship in the Vatican gardens with the Amazon Synod started and when the demonic idol bowl was placed on the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Today is 7 October, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Spread it around.
Get all your friends today to say a chaplet of the Rosary in reparation for demonic cult – willed or not – in the precincts of the Vatican.
Fiery Helios drew his chariot above the Roman horizon at 07:13 and it will soon set at 18:41. The Ave Maria bell should ring at 19:00.
It is the Feast of St. John Leonardi. Invoke him the next time they try to jab you with who knows what.
It is also the Feast of St Abraham, Old Testament Patriarch.
This Rome Shot, below, needs a preface and explanation with an additional photo.
This is Piazza Navona, probably the most beautiful piazza in the world, a place of death for Christian martyrs and long centuries of Roman life. You walk into it and it never disappoints. One of Rome’s 13 Egyptian obelisks is here and the lovely church with the head of beautiful St. Agnes.
You marvel at the Bernini fountain and the Borromini facade of Sant’Agnese.
You probably don’t pay a lot of attention to the walls.
This is the famous Restaurant Tre Scalini. Many of you have been there.
But there’s more.
Here is the wall above Tre Scalini a little closer. See anything interesting?
“But Father! But Father!”, some of those eagerly “walking together” might squeak. “There’s a head up there! It is the work of the Spirit telling us never to lose our heads in affirming the imminent dangerous of climate change and the urgent need to bless sodomy… er um… sod… um… unions of ssss… ssssssame-gendered unions of couples or … or more. YOU HATE VATICAN II!”
I take you to the days o’ good ol’ Pope Sixtus V (+1590), who will be the last of that name unless we get someone with a real sense of humor). This guy was hard core. He was a Franciscan who, before election, hobbled around with two canes. Elected, *clatter* go the canes and he strides across Rome like a giant, even going incognito to places to find out what was going on. He stripped cardinals of benefices and even executed a couple, if memory serves. Shall we see his like again.
Anyway, there was a osteria here in that day, in the photo, where there was much drinking and some food and much drinking. Did I mention the drinking. Sixtus was around once and heard the proprietor running him down. The next day, some soldiers showed up across the way and started building a scaffold for an execution, which happened in those times, the penalties not being soft. The proprietor of the inn was ecstatic because executions were popular and there was money to be made from the crowd. He was less happy when the soldiers came into his place and took him out to the scaffold.
In honor of the event some who knew him, or maybe relatives, put the little head up on the wall, where it has been every since. So the story goes.
I should specify that in Rome executions were pretty solemn affairs with the population often in penitential clothes praying for the one who was about to die.
Today I was out with a priest friend whom you would all instantly recognize from TV appearances in this time and others. A good friend and faithful guy. We went to a Roman and Sicilian place which I favor where we had a terrific lunch. I stuck with a couple of “appetizers” rather than the full raft, but they were awesome.
Fried anchovies.
A kind of soup of shell fish. Some bread, no pasta. Frankly, this is one of the best things I’ve had in Rome in a while.
My buddy had spaghetti alla norma and a wonderful orata.
With all the great people in town, in the last week I’ve eaten out more than the times I was out last time I was in Rome… for two months.
Tonight, left overs. I did buy some taleggio. Yum.
White to move and win.
It’s a pawn race. Black’s king is in the way.
What about h7 with Kg6? Does that line do it? If not, what to do?
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Today is the Feast of St. John Leonardi whose remains are at not too distant S.M. in Campitelli.
St. John is the patron of pharmacists. He was one and had a shop before priesthood if memory does not fail.
He was also a member of St. Philip’s Archconfraternity.
Hence, this morning we celebrated the Feast of St. John Leonardi. However, there was also a commemoration of Sts.St. Dionysius and companions, early martyrs. Something in the prayers caught my eye, as it often turns up in the prayers of the Vetus Ordo, but I think not so much in the Novus Ordo.
Deus, qui hodiérna die beátum Dionýsium, Mártyrem tuum atque Pontíficem, virtúte constantiæ in passióne roborásti, quique illi, ad prædicándum géntibus glóriam tuam, Rústicum et Eleuthérium sociáre dignátus es: tríbue nobis, qu?sumus; eórum imitatióne, pro amóre tuo próspera mundi despícere, et nulla eius advérsa formidáre.
O God, who on this day strengthened blessed Dionysius, Your Martyr and Bishop, with the power of steadfastness in his suffering, and who also were pleased to join with him Rusticus and Eleutherius to preach Your glory to the pagans, grant us, we beseech You, out of love for You, in their imitation to despise the favors of this world and to fear not its enmities.
Let’s recap a couple of things. “To preach your glory” in the context of martyrdom harks to St. John saying that they saw the “glory” of the Lord, which means His Passion and death on the Cross. In regard to preaching, martyrdom is a kind of preaching, a “bearing witness”.
What pulls my eye is something that seems to be directly in contrast with “walking together about walking togetherity”.
Note that phrase “prospera mundi despicere… to look down on the advantageous things of this world”.
You find this often in the Vetus Ordo. For example, “doceas nos terrena despicere,
et amare caelestia…. teach us to disregard earthly things, and to love heavenly things.”
Despicio is “to look down upon; despise; to look away, not to regard.”
It is a commonplace in prayers of the Roman Church, from earliest times, to warn about the things of this world.
The good things God created are not despicable. They become so when their allure makes us closed or we allow them to defile us. We must disregard them when they become stumbling blocks. Paradox: in our material life we stumble when we disregard stumbling blocks, while in the spiritual life we stumble by lending them undue attention.
We must be on guard regarding the good things of this world. Great Fathers as Tertullian, Sts. Ambrose and Augustine wrote on this theme. Tracing despicere in the prayers in the Roman Rite, it seems to have been added more and more as time went on to the 20th century when, I guess, we stopped worrying about such things. Let the air in, right?
Ambrose and Augustine both use military imagery in expressing the idea behind despicere mundum. In De bono mortis, we must be good soldiers, looking down on the inferior and striving after the celestial and eternal.
Augustine, combatting the Manicheans who claimed that things of this world are evil, nevertheless upholds the superiority of the things that are above. The Devil is the prince of this world, or rather the Prince of those who give into the things of this world. We conquer the world by conquering, with grace, attachment to this world.
The heart and mind of the Church in these prayers is not to put in total conflict that which is here below (where we are) with that which is where we desire to be. That would be unwise and unreasonable, given that we live here and now in the world. What we pick up over time with the various uses of these phrase about “mundum despicere” is a complementarity in which that which is above (“sursum!”) is superior and can inform our use of the mundum, the prospera. What is above must also have priority for us to use well the things of this world.
From the heights we look down on the things of this world and see them for what they are. Here in the world among them, we can be blinded by them and not even lift our eyes heavenward.
In the Novus Ordo this concept is effectively removed. It lasts in the Collect for St. Dionysius I think… not that anyone outside a place dedicated to him – so many – would ever hear it. In the Collect for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, which I mention above, it is expunged in the Novus Ordo.
Vetus: doceas nos terrena despicere et amare caelestia. … teach us to look down on earthly things and love heavenly things.
Novus: doceas nos terrena sapienter perpendere, et caelistibus inhaerere… teach us to weigh wisely earthly things and cling to heavenly things.
It isn’t a bad prayer. However, there is subtle point. The prayers of the Novus Ordo tend to emphasize eschatological joy without telling us how to obtain it. It is as it is our now. It is and it isn’t. Christ is victorious true. We still have to get there. The Vetus Ordo does not ignore eschatological joy, but it does help us get it, through reminders of penance, propitiation, etc. In the endings of the prayers, above, the Novus Ordo versions seems to suggest that we have what we want, “heavenly things” and the Vetus expresses a longing for them. I don’t have a quarrel with “sapienter perpendere“, but together with the second part, I sense a diminishing of the path to attaining the heavenly and the affirmation of the “already” over the “not yet”.
I bring this up in the context of “Walking Together” because, as it seems to me, the topics and the PROCESS (which is the true content and message of this thing a soft “permanent revolution”) is entirely rooted in the terrena. There is not a speck of terrena despicere that I can see. They are determined to enhance worldly things (in the name of the Spirit) and keeping those involved, mired here below.
Those who hate and fear the people who desire the Traditional Roman Rite claim speciously that it is against the Council. Of course that’s a chimeric Council of their fevered imaginings. Only they, who have Gnostic level powers of discernment know what the Spirit wants from the Council and now from the “W-T”. In fact, the older form of Mass of the Roman Church also expresses well the eschatological hope which Christians should have. However, it has the advantage also of helping us to attain that joy while avoiding being presumptuous about it.
The people who want to suppress the traditional forms despise the content of the Tradition because it reminds them that they are off target, they are mired in the worldly. They look down on those who want the Traditional Latin Mass and see them as despicable. It is a rich irony which we have to acknowledge and live with cheerfully. (Have you notice that none of them have a sense of humor?)
After all, we are right and, as my old pastor used to say, “When you are right, you can’t be wrong.”
So, when you read something of how they despise you, call you schismatics, against the Council blah blah… shrug it off and stay on target, living well in the midst of the worldly things that can allure and longing with love and joyful anticipation of what has been promised.
In Rome the sunrise was at 07:12 and the sunset was at 18:43. The Ave Maris should be at 19:00.
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I had a walk over the place where a a bunch of regulars play chess. They use a set of vocabulary that I don’t usually use.
Chicken last night. Spatchcocked.
When I pulled the chicken from the oven I added peas and mushrooms.
Black to move. Find the best way forward.
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A glimpse of vespers.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
KerryH on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Adoramus te Christi, et benedicimus tibi, quia per Sanctam Crucem tuam, redemisti mundum.”
on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “You could even call it Spinal Tap Synodality: “I don’t think the end can be assessed, as of itself, as…”
on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “He PROTESTS too much. We don’t like this… we don’t like that… Just go and officially join the Calvinists already!”
on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Surely it has been said before, but how can such clerics of any rank articulate such views which eradicate the…”
on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “I’ll go along to our geographic parish if they have synodling meetings and put my tuppence worth in for the…”
on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “I was in the Czech Republic a couple weeks ago. So the TLM doesn’t meet today’s needs? Well then neither…”
on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Taken to its logical conclusion, I have a few questions for this bishop: 1. Is there any point to having…”
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A Daily Prayer for Priests
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