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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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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Moonset with a couple of cupolas
I was up before sunrise this morning and caught the setting of the moon. Tomorrow the moon with be full and in Rome there will be a total eclipse of the moon at 23:21 UTC. Alas, the moon will be … Read More
Save The Liturgy, Save The World – a new spin
Gerald, over at The Cafeteria, always has fine photography work for view. He put his many skills together with a bit of … borrowing… and came up with a fresh spin on what I posted a while back about the … Read More
Envoy: interesting Motu Proprio stuff
Envoy Magazine, in a piece authored by Brian Mershon, provides insights into the forthcoming "old Mass" Motu Proprio. The source is Msgr. Michael Schmitz of the Institute of Christ the King during a 19 February talk held by Tradition, Family, … Read More
Saturday in the 1st Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA:Haec quae nos reparent, quaesumus, Domine, beata mysteriasuo nos munere dignos efficiant.This was not in any edition of the Missale Romanum before the post-Conciliar reforms. It … Read More
PRAYER OVER A NEW COMPUTER
A kind soul sent me the following (edited and my emphases): I was just reading Bishop Robert Finn’s pastoral letter on pornography and noticed that at the end of the letter there is the following blessing to be said over … Read More
Article in The Tablet does nothing but pick a fight
England’s lefty fly-paper The Tablet has in their recent number an article by Andrew Cameron-Mowat, SJ. Cameron-Mowat, whom I must henceforth reduce to CM, attacks people who want translations according to the norms of Liturgiam authenticam as well as those … Read More
Friday in the 1st Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s well.. We already looked at the Super Oblata on Friday after Ash Wednesday. So, let’s look instead at the ORATIO SUPER POPULUM:De magnalibus tuis, Deus misericors,gratias iugiter … Read More
What is really going on in China with the Catholic Church?
The latest missive of the gentlemanly Sandro Magister is a very good analysis of Church in China. First, there a bit of history of the Holy See’s support for a clandestine Church in Church. Then there is a "state of … Read More
Sometimes you get a second chance to rethink your decisions
I got an e-mail from a dear friend in Minnesota which, among other things, deals with Dario Fo’s execrable play The Pope and the Witch which the University of Minnesota (a landgrant school) Theatre Department has been producing. Here is … Read More
This is not 29 February
Today is not 29 February. Therefore it is not the feast day of: 1. St. Hilary, pope (+468).2. St. Oswald, bishop in Anglia.3. Blessed Anthonia of Florence, widow.4. St. Auguste Chapdelaine, priest and missionary in China, martyr. On the other … Read More
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