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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Maybe some of our guys should try this!?
The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, smiles after having his head shaved as part of his Sunday service at York Minster cathedral in York, northern England August 13, 2006.
Wait… this is a Reuters photo. Do you think they photoshoped his head and pitched the tent in the background?? Read More
19th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Some feedback is coming in about the possibility of having a Roman WDTPRS pilgrimage of which I spoke last week. HE of … Read More
19th Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Those who have been resisting the norms laid down in Liturgiam authenticam appeal to a theory of translation that would peg our … Read More
Venetian pork roast with spiders, rosemary, apricots and opera: the Sabine Farm on a Saturday evening
The joys of The Sabine Farm are manifold. It is my great pleasure to receive guests. For a few all too short days I have been blessed with a visit from a dear friend who I got to know from … Read More
Bl. Innocent XI
Today at the Vatican Basilica the feast of Bl. Innocent XI is observed. Here is his Collect according to the Proprium Missarum ad usum Sacrosanctae Patriarchalis Basilicae Vaticanae … Proper of Masses for use at the Most Holy Patriarchal Vatican … Read More
Augustine on today’s Gospel: Christ the Physician
The Gospel reading for today’s Mass (with the Novus Ordo) is from Matthew 17:14-20. Let us have a taste of St. Augustine’s comment on this passage. The bishop uses the image of Christus Medicus, Christ the Physician quite often. This … Read More
Augustine on waiting for webpages to download
Augustine reflects on waiting for web pages to download… well… sort of. He does reflect at length on the concept of time in the Confessions XI. Have you ever felt like a page takes forever to download?? Here is Augustine, … Read More
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Augustine on Lawrence… or maybe not…
St. Augustine of Hippo preached various sermons on St. Lawrence. Here is one the bishop preached in about the year 401. It might not be quite what you expected, however! It sure wasn’t what Augustine himself expected, you can bet … Read More
Ambrose on Lawrence
In his work De officiis ministrorum, echoing Cicero, St. Ambrose of Milan (+397) spoke about martyrs. He lingers a bit over the conversation between St. Pope Sixtus II (whose feast we had the other day) and his great deacon, the … Read More
9 August: St. Romanus
Someone made a request for the today’s entry for St. Romanus from the Martyrologium Romanum. 2. Romae in coemeterio sancti Laurentii via Tiburtina sancti Romani, martyris. Apparently not much is know about this saint that can be easily verified. … Read More
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