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Monthly Archives: February 2006
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion
EXCERPT:
Captain Pearson, seeing the flag fall, called out to Captain Jones, “Have you struck your Colors, Sir?†Resoundingly, John Paul Jones exclaimed, “Struck Sir? I have not yet begun to fight!” Emboldened, the dying Bonhomme Richard delivered decisive blows from all sides and aloft: Jones had sent 40 marines into the rigging with grenades and muskets. Her crew decimated, Serapis struck her own Colors at 2300h. Sadly, the badly holed Bonhomme Richard went to her watery rest at 1100h on 24 September 1779. Jones commandeered Serapis and repaired to The Texel in Holland for repairs. Read More
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)
EXCERPT:
We can do all sorts of wonderful things and not be in the state of grace. But if, as Paul says in 1 Cor 13, we lack charity, the sacrificial love of God that makes our works pleasing to Him, what we do is as nothing. There is no interior reference in the ICEL version. Read More
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super oblata (2)
EXCERPT:
Our Blessed Lord during His earthly life instituted the seven sacraments we enjoy today. Knowing that we are human creatures and not angelic creatures, he gave us outward signs with these sacraments so that we could understand when the invisible and interior reality was being conferred. He thus took simple, but vastly important created things from our ordinary lives and raised them to a new sacramental reality. Even the need to tell our troubles to a friend, so common but so important for our well-being, he raised to a sacrament. The longing of a man and woman to be together, instituted as a holy union from the beginning of our race, was elevated making of the very bodies of the spouse something new and holy. The struggle at the end of life or when we are in mortal peril was taken by Christ and given back to us as a sacrament and the daily and common yet life-supporting substance oil was his vehicle for giving us grace. Read More
Fireworks for Lateran Pacts
There are times when it is of gereat advantage to have a very lofty place to perch. Here is a shot of some fireworks being set off from the gardens on the Janiculum Hill at the Propaganda for the observance … Read More
First Olympic Impressions
What I saw in the opening ceremonies spoke closely to the who European situation. First, it was rather incoherent, in search of a theme (now that their true theme is abandoned). Second, it was politically left wing. Perpend. In the … Read More
10 Feb: St. Scholastica
EXCERPT:
Benedict asked her what she had done and she replied, “I asked you and you would not listen; so I asked my God and he did listen. So now go off, if you can, leave me and return to your monastery.” Read More
“Their cartoons”
In the Italian daily newspaper LIBERO on 9 February 2006 on the front page, under a banner title "LE LORO VIGNETTE", "THEIR CARTOONS", readers were treated to distorted images of Pope Benedict XVI. The images were taken from an Islamo-fascist … Read More
9 Feb: St. Apollonia, virgin and martyr
EXCERPT:
“These men seized her also and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death.” Read More
A Marine’s Prayer
EXCERPT:
If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again. Read More
6 Feb: St. Paul Miki and companions
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Miki and the those imprisoned with him were then marched 600 miles to their death. Along the way they were terribly abused. As they marched they they sang the Te Deum. Read More
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