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Tag Archives: Detroit
My View For Awhile: Urban Devastation Edition
I’m heading home after a truly enjoyable stay at the great Assumption Grotto parish. Still, every time we left the parish, what I saw was alarming. Block after block of houses, abandoned, boarded up, burned, falling to ruin, businesses and … Read More
Some cool stuff, old and new, in Rome and Detroit
First, I am glad to report that Gammarelli is ready to ship our new processional canopy, and we will have it in time for Corpus Christi. It will match our white Pontifical Mass set. Here are some shots of the … Read More
Detroit’s crafty new tax on churches
From the Detroit News: A balanced budget in Detroit might be something only prayed for, but few could imagine Motor City managers raiding church offering plates for revenue. Yet new drainage fees from the city’s Water and Sewerage Department may … Read More
My View For Awhile Again
Farewell Detroit. Having given talks at the DIA for Call To Holiness, and having raised up the Sacrifice in a Missa Cantata for Septuagesima, this is my view for now after yet another flight delay on this multicity trip I … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Motor City Edition
I am in Detroit! I just finished giving talks on sacred art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a great museum. Now that I can visit a gallery, I noticed a splendid Christological Goldfinch! Here is a painting by Benozzo … Read More
My view for awhile
Back on the road after the great Legatus meeting and a few short days with my mother. Now I am heading North, but not immediately to the Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue. No . I get to go to Detroit! … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Of Storks and Self-absorbed Promethean Neopelagians
Do you remember the fable by Aesop about the Fox and the Stork? Sometimes it is the Fox and the Crane. The fox invited the stork to supper. Fox serves a bowl of soup. Fox can lap from the bowl, … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Christological Goldfinch Sighting!
I am at the Detroit Institute of Art for the day. After the court decision, some of the art here will surely be sold off. Ah the fruit of the decades long efforts of liberal democrats! In any event… This … Read More
DETROIT: “If I had a city….”
Detroit has joined the ranks of the bankrupt. When I have been driven around in Detroit I had a sense, in some neighborhoods, of what the Russians did to Berlin: looked like a war zone. What caused the phenomenon “Detroit”, … Read More
Call To Holiness Conference is underway
The 14th Call To Holiness conference has begun in Detroit. Originally this conference was convoked as a remedy, response, corrective to the pernicious and dissenting Call To Action thingy. The conference is being held at a large Byzantine Catholic parish, … Read More
DETROIT 13 October: Call To Holiness Conference
Those of you anywhere near Detroit will be glad to know that the 14th Call To Holiness Conference will be held on Saturday, 13 October. Lot’s of information about the conference HERE. Today is the last day (until midnight EST) … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Scruffy and Christological Goldfinch Edition
I haven’t posted much about the birds at the feeder. This, and a recent trip to the Detroit Institute of Art, gives me a chance to use a feature the blog’s software offers and which I have never used. Here … Read More
Sr. Fiedler’s summation of the American Catholic Council. Fr. Z agrees.
Fishwrap has a wrap-up, in their own paper, if you get my drift, of the American catholic “Council” held in Detroit over the weekend. The Fishwrap wrap-up is by nun-other than Sr. Maureen Fiedler. We seen her insights here and … Read More
Pentecost Sermon, reposted.
As some people are telling me, apparently that second audio file I posted, along with some excerpts of the Pentecost Mass at Assumption Grotto in Detroit, didn’t show up on the iTunes feed. I repost it here. Sorry about that.
Life imitates art! The American Catholic Council’s “Litany of Lament”
From the American Catholic Council’s program. On the opening day they had a moving and meaningful paraliturgy which included the Litany of Lament. Here it is from their program. I add some comments: (When the female lector reads, FROM THE … Read More
DETROIT: 11 June – CALL TO HOLINESS CONFERENCE!
On Saturday, 11 June the annual Call To Holiness conference will he held in Livonia, MI near Detroit. Speakers include: Jeff Cavins Fr. Clement Machado, SOLT Paul Rondeau Raymond de Souza Johnnette Benkovic Fr. Edmund McCaffrey, OblSD Al Kresta Archbp. … Read More
Archbp. Vigneron warns about dissenters ball in Detroit
It is hard to know just how much effect this will have, but the Archbishop of Detroit had no choice but to issue a public statement about an upcoming conference of dissent to held in the Archdiocese entrusted to his … Read More
More images from Detroit
Some other images from Detroit. There is a reason why the parish where I am staying is called Assumption Grotto. The parish is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, but behind the parish church there is a fine … Read More
Hats
In downtown Detroit check out Henry the Hatter on Broadway. Great hat store! Gents need hats. And you might have an adventure! We did! I came with another priest. We met all sorts of really interesting people too! But we … Read More
Detroit – 10 Oct: 12th Call to Holiness Conference
I received an update from the webmaster for Call to Holiness. Can you make an update with the following note added. We are at the final stretch. US Postal Registrations are CLOSED; PAYPAL will be open until 11:59 on OCTOBER … Read More