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Meanwhile, black to move.
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This is from Day 5 of the American Cup. Look at this low time rush to the end. Whew.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The practice of Forty Hours Devotion should be revived.
Forty Hours originally evolved to ask God’s protection from external threats, such as invasion or disease. Now, it should be undertaken because of internal menaces to the Faith.
Here is a fine, brief video of Forty Hours at one of my favorite places, the Brompton Oratory in London.
The “mole” has been stuck at home with a bad cold and so there have not been any entries for a few days. We hope for a swift recovery. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie.
September 20th
2023[2022]Dear Diary,
Shocked yesterday. The Chancellor of Vice told me he was looking at Dcn Butch’s Instagram. He’s always cruising clergy accounts looking for trouble. Hard to say what he thought he’d find on Butch’s account, since he’s dead and all, last month. I guess he’s being thorough. Vice found a strange entry. Butch’s grandson went off to one of these seminaries run by schismatics or something. He entered with at least THIRTY guys in his class.
I’m scratching my head. Why not go to our regional seminary? He’s lived here his whole life. Close-knit family. Why’s he going all the way across the country for this? I had no idea he was interested in being a priest. I saw him among the servers at Mass whenever I’d go up to Spud Corners, but I’m really surprised. Fr. Tommy didn’t seem to be at all surprised. I think he even approved! These young priests. I should ask Fr Bill not to put anything in the bulletin about this. I really don’t want folks to the idea that this is okay. Some other young guys might go for it. Latin and all those books instead of CPE and ecumenecal days. I mean “stop the spread”! Right?
I had an exchange this morning via texting with a friend who was wondering about the validity of an absolution.
I suspect that priests who screw around with the words of absolution aren’t purposely trying to be cruel… but that’s the result. It is cruel to fool around with the form of sacraments because you cause real doubt in the minds of the people who want to receive them.
There are those priests who are either a) lazy and they’ve simply drifted away from the proper form or b) they are stupid and they never truly committed it to memory and don’t have a card as a reminder, or c) they think penitents are stupid so they tweak the form with their own touches to make it more meaningful (sometimes making it quite UNmeaningful) or d) a combination of all of the above.
Fathers! Don’t be lazy, stupid or condescending! USE THE PROPER FORM! It is nothing short of CRUEL to ad lib.
Lay People! Don’t let priests get away with this. Ask them to use the proper form. If they don’t or won’t report them to the pastor or the bishop. Keep in mind that priests of other Catholic Churches may have variants. Also, make sure you know what the form is.
Recently, the translation of the form of absolution in these USA was slightly altered to be more in keeping with the Latin (post-Conciliar) form. More about that HERE
Finally…
GO TO CONFESSION!
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Meanwhile,… I had a request to make the puzzle image larger. Do you also want the variety of board and pieces or does that not make any difference? This look reminds me of my childhood, yearning for the newspaper each day during Fisher v. Spassky.
White to move, of course, as indicated by the notation.
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In chess news yesterday in the American Cup going on in St. Louis, Wesley So (yay!) duked it out with the always deadly Fabiano Caruana. Wesley (yay! – he’s a solid Christian gent and lives in my native place) sent Fabi down to the lower bracket when he will face Aronian. Wesley must now go up against Hikaru Nakamura. This will be tough, to say the least. Hikaru has been very strong in the classical format lately.
In my chess news, yesterday I played a couple OTB against the group’s strongest (probably). Both time black. I played as if I had never heard of “middle game”. Strong out of my opening, when I was clearly up, I completely went to the zoo in the late middle game. A couple of bad words offered themselves to me, but only in Russian, so I kept them to myself. It’s my pattern: obtain a strong position and then snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. There was no handy bridge to hurl myself off of, so I resolved to do better today. What I need is a coach. I renew my call for a Catholic Grand Master to give me a hand. Anyone? Know someone? Know someone who knows someone?
In the North, which is where most of you readers are, it is the first day of Spring, the Vernal Equinox, today. We are interested in this day in particular because we date Easter as the 1) first Sunday 2) after the first full Moon 3) on or after the Vernal Equinox.
An equinox (twice a year, in the Spring or in the Fall) is the exact moment when the plane of your planet’s equator passes through the geometric center of your yellow star’s disk. The Sun’s “equator” is lined up with the Earth’s equator.
Aequinoctium in from aequus (equal) and nox (night). At an equinox, daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal length.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the March equinox is called the vernal or spring equinox while the September equinox is called the autumnal or fall equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere, the reverse is true. The dates slightly vary due to leap years and other factors.
In the Roman Curia calendar says that the Equinox occurred at 2124 UTC.
And the Roman “Ave Maria” changed to 18:45! I’ll soon be reporting those again…thanks to you readers… from Rome!
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White to move. I found this to be pretty hard.
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The Caruana and So matchup at the American Cup in St. Louis should be great. The games can be found on the live events platform: Open | Women
Glorious St. Joseph.
Hope of the sick,
Patron of the dying,
Terror of demons,
Protector of Holy Church,
Back in 2009 I made a PODCAzT – FOURTEEN YEARS AGO?!? – about the hymn sung in the Liturgy of Hours in honor of St. Joseph.
And from the Great Roman a couple years ago.
Bigné di San Giuseppe
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I drilled into a beautiful Gregorian chant hymn to St. Joseph in the Liturgia Horarum, the Liturgy of the Hours.
The hymn is Te, Ioseph celebrent and it is in the Liber Hymnarius for 1st and 2nd Vespers for the Feast of St. Joseph.
Also of note, Fr. Hunwicke has comments about his hymn at his fine blog, HERE.
Also we listened to an indulgenced prayer written by Pope Leo XIII, Ad Te Ioseph.
Finally, we hear St. Bernardine of Siena (+1444) preach on our Patron of the Universal Church who is Patron of the dying.
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To business…
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
It was the 3rd Sunday of Lent in the Novus Ordo and in the Vetus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have some thoughts about the Sunday reading HERE.
This is from 1 March but I just found it today. The SSPX is building an amazing church in Kansas. The altar was installed.
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Dantesque on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@jhogan I’m praying for that! Just one comment on the Francis 2.0 thing: Francis seemed to like the SSPX much…”
on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “Hey Father, Any expansion on the brief thoughts you provided would be great. Faithful Catholic here that wants to go…”
on My View For Awhile: Philly on the 4th: “@nancyWmichael I pullout my rosary. Not only does the meditation calm me, but it also keeps “friendlies” from bothering me.…”
on My View For Awhile: Philly on the 4th: “Safe travels, Father! And a big congrats to all on this 4th of July. Happy Independence Day! And prayers for…” on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “As for the conditions for reconcilliation, it’s interesting to see that – despite the wording being a bit vague at…” on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “Venerator Sti Lot, I think your reasoning misses that excommunication doesn’t make one a non-Catholic in terms of the obligations…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1654: facade: “@The Bruised Optimist Part of what I teach my kids through their catechism is how so much of God’s salvific…”
on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “@Lurker Forgive me, but these arguments strike me as akin to “sovereign citizen” arguments against civil law. The lawful authorities…”
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