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Tag Archives: Christmas
WDTPRS – 2nd Mass of Christmas (1962MR): bathed in new light
Originally, the second Mass of Christmas went together with Lauds. The antiphons of Lauds form a kind of call and response, or question and answer cant about the experience of the shepherds coming to find the Christ Child. Sometimes the … Read More
Posted in Christmas and Epiphany, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Christmas, lux fulgebit
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3 Comments
The “Kalenda”, the solemn Christmas Proclamation – AUDIO
One of the many gifts we receive for Christmas is the singing of the Martyrology which has the special Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, the “Kalenda“. I am getting ready to sing it tonight. It has been a while. … Read More
The nonsense is coming to an end.
A story to warm the cockles of my beady-black heart. From BuzzPo: Passenger Offended by the Words Merry Christmas – Gets Himself Thrown Off an American Airlines Flight Merry Christmas! Those are the two words that offended one American Airlines … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged anti-Christian, Christmas, dumb
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36 Comments
“The sobs of that appalling infancy cleanse me, those tears wash away my sins.”
From my old Patristic Rosary Project: We continue our Patristic Rosary Project today with the: 3rd Joyful Mystery: The Nativity Christ came into the world in “the fullness of time” (Gal 4:4). His First Coming was foreseen from all eternity … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Patristiblogging
Tagged Christmas, Fathers of the Church, Nativity
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Fanon of Christmas Past
Exactly two years ago, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the First Holy Mass of Christmas and he wore the fanon, hated by liberals and the ungodly HERE. I turned on the Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica for a little … Read More
Teacher trashes 1st graders Christmas gifts: “Jesus is not allowed in school”
More liberal tolerance. From The Blaze: TEACHER REPORTEDLY SEIZES FIRST-GRADER’S CHRISTMAS GIFT AND TRASHES AFFIXED RELIGIOUS STORY A first-grade teacher in California told a student that “Jesus is not allowed in school” before removing a religious story the child affixed … Read More
“The Gift of the Magi”
There is a lovely little story by the American writer O. Henry called The Gift of the Magi. A young couple, poor, want to give each other Christmas gifts. Their choices, their sacrifices, teach each other about love. At the … Read More
US ARMY “equal opportunity officer”: You can’t say “Christmas”
From Human Events: […] Maybe it was about time to get the Army involved in the War On Christmas – a long march through every corner of American life by the anti-religious, collectivist Left, designed to scour this prime patch … Read More
“If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the window”… a song about shopping. VIDEO
I liked this: I have the same thought, year round, when I see those awful “No CCW” signs. GRRRRR!
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Lighter fare, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Christmas
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WDTPRS: Candlemas
Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged Candlemas, Christmas, Presentation of the Lord
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18 Comments
anthtan on Daily Rome Shot 1379 – Relief… and beer: “Relief? Sort of… I would feel better if he took action on Rupnik.”
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