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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Here is the entry in the Roman Martyrology for today’s feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Translation follows: Festum Nativitatis beatae Mariae Virginis, ex semine Abrahae, de tribu Iuda ortae, ex progenie regis David, e qua Filius … Read More
Il saturno
The recent photos of His Holiness wearing his cappello romano has gotten a few people excited and curious. Some have even opined that now more clerics will obtain their own hat, of the appropriate color, of course. Well, I have … Read More
Caption this
Another great chance for your own captions. Read More
3 September: St. Rose
On 3 September was one of the great events of the year in all of Italy, the feast of St. Rose of Viterbo and the carrying of the macchina of Santa Rosa through the narrow streets of the medieval city. … Read More
Clement Alex on Moses, Christ and thorns
Today is the feast of St. Moses, of the Old Testament. We are looking at some Patristic bits about Moses. Clement of Alexandria writes about the burning bush and the crown of thorns (Christ the Educator 2.8.75): When the Almighty … Read More
The Virgin Mother of the Divine Shepherd
In the 1962 Missale Romanum there are texts available for the feast "B. Mariae Virginis Divini Pastoris Matris" in the section toward the back of Masses for certain places. Here is the nice… COLLECT:Domine Iesu Christe, Pastor bone,qui pro ovibus … Read More
Holy Moses: prophet of the Old Testament
Today is the feast of St. Moses, of the Old Testament. The Roman Martyrology has an entry for him, which I am reproducing here with a translation: 1. Commemoratio sancti Moysis, prophetae, quem Deus elegit, ut populum in AEgypto oppressum … Read More
St. Bartholomew, revisited
I finally found my good photo of the church in Rome where the body of the Apostle St. Bartholomew is buried. This is S. Bartolomeo on the island in the Tiber. Read More
The Mass of Saint Gregory by Ysenbrandt
The Mass of Saint Gregory by Ysenbrandt
St. Phoebe, the deaconess in Romans 16
There is a lot of chatter in the bloggosphere about (sacramentally) ordaining women. Today in the Roman Martyrology we find an entry for St. Phoebe, spoken of in Romans 16:1. She is often pointed to by the confused as a … Read More
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