Monthly Archives: February 2006

  In the 1962 typical edition of the Roman Missal there is a votive Mass for the Unity of the Church.  In light of the meetings involving the emanations of penumbras of the SSPX movement, I will share with you … Read More →

EXCERPT:
O God most powerful and most kind, Who didst create all the different things in the world by the Word alone, and Whose will it was that this Word by Which all things were made should become incarnate for the remaking of mankind; Thou Who art great and limitless, worthy of reverence and praise, the worker of wonders; for Whose sake the glorious Martyr and Bishop, St. Blaise, joyfully gained the palm of martyrdom, never shrinking from any kind of torture in confessing his faith in Thee; Thou Who didst give to him, amongst other gifts, the prerogative of curing by Thy power every ailment of men’s throats; Read More →

EXCERPT:
Some years ago there was much chat about having St. Isidore of Seville (+636) proposed as the patron saint of the internet. I was asked to write a prayer peple could recite before using the internet. It seemed to me that that was a good idea. I wrote the prayer in Latin and submitted it, with a translation into English, to a bishop who gave it his approval. Read More →

EXCERPT:
Almyghtye and everlastyng God,
we humbly beseche thy Majestie,
that as thy onelye begotten sonne
was this day presented in the Temple
in the substaunce of our fleshe;
so graunte that we maie bee presented unto thee with pure and cleare myndes; Read More →