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- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
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- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Indulgence for World Day of the Sick
There is an indulgence granted for 11 February, World Day of the Sick. D E C R E T U M Speciales conceduntur Indulgentiae christifidelibus occasione «XV Mundialis Infirmorum Diei» Cum in originale peccatum incidisset homo, et ob hanc ipsam … Read More
“Tridentine” spiritual bouquet
1) In another entry I reported an opinion of a fellow journalist who suggested that 22 February would be a good date for the "Tridentine" Motu Proprio (frankly, I think any day would be a good day). A participant here … Read More
Omnibus omnia
The last time these Catholic Blog Awards were on, I was too new to the blogosphere to know much about the whole thing. So many people, I included, benefit from the hard work of creators of these pages. Get involved! … Read More
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (2)
EXCERPT:
This is also what it means to belong to a family: there is both a profound interconnection between the members but also an inequality – children are no less members of the family than parents, but they are dependent they are not the equals of their parents. Our prayer gives us an image that runs very much contrary to the prevailing values of the last few decades, a period in which the military has been denigrated and the family as a coherent recognizable unit has been systematically broken down. The Latin prayers often reflect the Church’s profound awareness of our lack of equality with God. The prayers are radically hierarchical, just as God’s design reveals hierarchy and order. Compare this with prevailing societal norms. Nowadays individual soldiers might be praised but the military is still being looked at by the intelligentsia with suspicion. Rights of individual people are validated, but the family as a unit is under severe attack. Read More
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)
EXCERPT:
However one may compute it, the bulk of the traditional orations simply disappeared under the revisers’ busy blue pencils. In terms of numbers and statistics alone, therefore, the contents of Paul VI’s Missal represent a radical break with the Church’s liturgical tradition. Read More
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Revisiting and revising the “Tridentine” Battle Hymn
I have been receiving various missives from the author of the "Tridentine" Battle Hymn I posted about in another entry. Each of these missives has been offering revisions of the Hymn. Each of them has been promising that they were … Read More
Venus and Rome
Here is a shot of the bright Venus. This is is my view. Am I fortunate?
“Tridetine” Motu Proprio Random Date Generator.
I tip the tricorno o{]:¬) to Curt Jester who saw the latest rumor. He posted in response a hilarious script for a "Tridetine" Motu Proprio Random Date Generator. This is really funny.
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"Not now, Kato, you fewl! Warm up za Silver Hornet!"
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