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Tag Archives: coronavirus
Don Camillo’s stands fast as the flood rises.
From the movie made from Giovannino Guareschi’s “Return of Don Camillo“. Don (the title of a diocesan priest in Italy) Camillo is the pastor of a village by a river, which is in flood stage. The people have fled to … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Be The Maquis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, The Coming Storm
Tagged coronavirus, don Camillo
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Russian Orthodox react to Coronovirus: “the Bloodless Sacrifice can in no way be canceled”
The Russian Orthodox Church is making changes to how their people receive Communion. HERE NB: They are not cancelling their Divine Liturgy. They are not cancelling Communion. My emphases. Instructions to Rectors and their Parishes, and to Abbots and Abbesses of … Read More
Posted in Both Lungs, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged coronavirus, Russian Orthodox Church
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SPIRITUAL WEAPONRY ALERT! PDF of traditional Prayer In Time of Epidemics – UPDATED
UPDATE: 17 March 2020 The PDF has been updated, improved, and slightly corrected. Feel free to download, print, and give it your your priests. ___ Originally Published on: Mar 16, 2020 I saw that the FSSP put out a PDF with … Read More
Remember to “pay it backwards”. Remember our seasoned brethren.
I am not sure where I heard this, in the ongoing scrum of COVID-19 news coverage and discussion. I often multitask when the news is on. I don’t even remember if this was the exact phrase that was used, but … Read More
PODCAzT 181: The Latin of “A Prayer In Times of Epidemics” from the Rituale Romanum – PRAYERCAzT
In this PODCAzT I read for you the Latin version of the extract from the traditional Rituale Romanum of A Prayer In Times of Epidemics (RR Tit. IX. Ch. X). It really should be done in Latin. These devotions and … Read More
ASK FATHER: Diocese cancelled all Masses. Would it be wrong to go to the SSPX?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: As our diocese has cancelled all Masses until further notice which includes our TLM parish would it be disobedient and/or sinful to attend the local SSPX Mass which goes against both our local ordinary and our … Read More
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ITALY: Police shoo away people outside a church hearing Mass through the open doors
The shape of things to come? I was texting with The Great Roman™ today. He’s fine and so is his family, but he’s frustrated, as you can imagine. Everyone is in lockdown. You can’t go anywhere except a nearby church … Read More
ASK FATHER: If the diocese cancelled Mass, but Father says Mass anyway, can we attend? Can government forbid it?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our Gov. In NC has banned gatherings of 100, church and schools alike (but not restaurants, malls, etc). One is subject to Misdemeanor II charges. Our holy priest told a parishioner that he will say mass … Read More
Francis Bergoglio’s Day Off? Seriously… Francis walks in empty Rome to venerate the famous Plague Crucifix of 1522
These are serious days, but I hope a little humor can be applied. Francis Bergoglio’s Day Off! A day well spent. It would have been better to have a procession, but… hey! I’ll take it! BTW… this is the Ides … Read More
Stuck because of COVID-19? How to make a Spiritual Communion.
Where I am, in the Cupboard Under The Stairs, the local county has decreed that gatherings of 250 or more, including religious events, are banned. You can still go to nearly every other sort of place, but not church if … Read More
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