Dear Diary,
Today I’m off to do a wedding for a friend’s daughter. She’s marrying a nice Jewish boy, and I’ll officiate along with the rabbi.
I love these ecumenical events!
He told me to stay after for some nosh. I think that’s Hebrew for fried chicken.
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In Chess news…. yesterday the Pro Chess League results: The Gotham Knight obliterated the Tigers of Shanghai on Thursday and MGD1 beat the Unicorns (as is appropriate). The Arch Bishops crushed the Berlin Bears in which a St Louis 4th board 14 year old FM Alice Lee defeated the enemy board 1 in an upset.
I don’t have any new entries from the private diary. Perhaps the mole has been caught. I don’t know. I have some oldies somewhere.
However, I can now share a copy of the bishop’s coat of arms. I should have done this earlier. It’s on their diocesan website but it wasn’t a good image and that site is… not the easiest to navigate.
The coat-of-arms of His Excellency, Most Reverend Francis Atticus McButterpants, Bishop of Libville.
A couple funny things.
This is “funny” and… not. It is, however, exemplary.
From my email…
And there are these from Babylon Bee…
In other news, Chicago’s soon to be former Mayor blamed her defeat on “murderphobia”.
I guess people got tired of the Dem platform.
And also,… from my mail
In support of the above, there’s this…. and this is NOT FICTION!
The Precious Moments Chapel (Gollum would not approve).
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The Gotham Knights dominated the Shanghai Tigers and the Bulldogs bit the Blitz in tiebreaks! Week three concludes starting at 10:00 EST with The California Unicorns (BOO!) v. Team MGD1 of India and the Berlin Bears against the Saint Louis Arch Bishops in the second round of nail biting drama.
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White to move towards mate.
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March 2nd 2023
Dear Diary,
Got a nasty note from the ACLU down the hall. (Annoying Canon Law Undesirables as Fr. Bruce called them.) Apparently I’m not supposed to allow a collection to be taken up at the Encountering the Encounter thing.
Why the bleep not? It’s church! These people. I’ll get the vice-chancellor on it, aka The Chancellor of Vice (he does the priest cases), since he can ALWAYS find a workaround. He scares the beans out of people. Snarls like Chester but doesn’t drool as much.
Of the three times I’ve set foot in the tribunal in the last ten years, I can tell you that I don’t know and don’t care what they do. It smells like old pizza boxes, dust, and b.o. — with an undercurrent of dead mouse as you go toward one of their back rooms. The place is filled with overstuffed file cabinets and squashed legal boxes on top of them, and more boxes all around them, and more books than anyone could ever read. The carpet’s older than I am, that’s for sure. There are stacks and stacks of folders, and piles and piles of envelopes. Reminds me of all the hoarding shows I binge-watched with Fr. Tommy at the beginning of the pandemic during lockdown. I’ve got happy memories of that time — I got to stay in my bathrobe all day, got whatever food I wanted delivered, and watched some great tv.
I’m told we saved lots of lives by closing down the Masses. Not bad.
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Meanwhile,…
White to move.
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Meanwhile, in Pro Chess League action yesterday, there was a back and forth between young Yip of the Passers and mighty Magnus of the Chessbrahs. During the commentary by Tanya and Danya… no, really! … there was a great image from Tal and also an infamous arithmetical point of contention.
Here’s a snip.
“You must take your opponent into a deep, dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
– Mikhail Tal.
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Today the Gotham Knights struggle against the Shanghai Tigers and the Blitz is lined up with the Croatia Buldogs.
The Catholic Thing is sponsoring a new online course that began on 1 March. It’s not too late. They have in the past tackled the Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Confessions and City of God by St. Augustine. This new course is on St. Thomas More’s Utopia. It will be a four-week course. Utopia shows an additional side of More: his Christian humanism in a very rich work that contains elements of both idealism and satire over human follies. The very title of his book captures that ambiguity. It describes what many would like to think would be perfection — a “utopia” here on earth. But in Greek, as the learned More well knew, “utopia” means literally “no place.” As any real Christian knows, there’s no heaven on this earth, and attempts to create one often lead to hells. Click HERE and follow the simple instructions to register.
Also coming up courses by Edmund Mazza, whom I believe was hoisted out of his professorship for believing in God. He wrote saying:
I myself am offering new courses starting on the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas:
The Real Jesus vs the Fake Jesus
timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and with the release of Jesus Revolution in theaters now.
Starting March 8th, I’m also offering Pope History 102 from St. Leo the Great to Alexander VI Borgia.
Here’s the link to enroll: HERE
BTW… while I am in Rome, I’ll be billeted about 5 seconds away from the last resting place of Alexander VI, whose tomb is in a truly beautiful church.
Why I do what I do.
From a priest:
Dear Father,
I wanted to drop a note of gratitude. I have been following your blog for over a decade now and, after 2 and a half years of ordination, I have finally begun offering the Usus Antiquior. My offering of it is still…well…rough let’s say. However, I joyfully offered my first Ember Wednesday today. The state of affairs requires these to be a private Masses…
All this being said, I wanted to thank you and the other vanguards of Tradition. While I do not denigrate the Novus Ordo at all (we all know the areas of improvements let’s call them), but I do find myself yearning to be a better priest due to the prayer of offering the host to the Most Holy Trinity…my own inadequacies as a priest, my sinfulness, my negligence…all are recognized and offered with the host to the Father through His Son.
I simply wanted to drop a note of gratitude and encouragement. My deepest thanks are due to you. My request is that you pray for this poor sinner who wants to lead the flock entrusted to his loving but clumsy care to the experience of Theosis and Divinization by way of the Sacred Heart.
In the Father’s Merciful Heart, …
*sniff*
I will do that. I ask a prayer for myself.
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A Daily Prayer for Priests
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