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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Question from a reader: commentaries on the beatitudes
Let’s get everyone in on this. Here is a question from a reader: Do you know of any particular good commentaries on the beatitudes, especially what is means to be poor in spirit? I imagine that in your lenten reading, … Read More
QUAERITUR: Wine in the chalice but no water – invalid?
A United States Marine writes with a query: Father – at a recent Mass I noticed that the priest forgot to mix a small amount of water with the wine just before consecration, as is usual. Did this invalidate the … Read More
Kenya: Card. Arinze on inculturation
Our friend Fr. Blake has a good piece about Card. Arinze, Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni (oh yah… and also Prefect of the CDWDS) about inculturation. Be sure to check out Fr. Blake’s page. Emphases and comments mine. Cardinal Francis Arinze, … Read More
UPDATE on the Pope’s new pastoral staff
A reader posted a comment about the new pastoral staff, which we discussed in the entry on the Holy Father’s Palm Sunday Mass. He pointed out that the staff used by Pope John Paul II, and also by Pope Benedict, … Read More
Card. Zen’s meditations for the Good Friday Stations available in Italian
The meditations of Card. Zen for the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday are available, only in Italian, on www.vatican.va. The artwork for the Stations is in a Chinese style. For example, here is Jesus before the Sanhedrin:
Upheaval in Tibet, and a Chinese Cardinal wrote the Good Friday Stations this year
The Holy Father sent a letter to Catholics in China last year. There is now civil strife in Tibet, spreading to neighboring provinces. Joseph Card. Zen Ze-kiun, Bishop of Hong Kong, is the author of this years Stations of the … Read More
Oldie PODCAzT 15: Augustine – Christ is Vine and Life (in today’s Office of Readings)
Here is a an oldie PODCAzT from last year. Yes… I am into recycling. This PODCAzT was dated 14 April 2007, and I was in Rome. It was Wednesday of Holy Week, as today is, so we can use it … Read More
Weekly Novus Ordo Sunday Masses in Glasgow, Scotland
The future Archbishop of Westminster, His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Tim Finigan tipped me off about a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin every week in Glasgow, Scotland. I am very happy to promote this on WDTPRS! Here is the post from The … Read More
Gluten free Hosts and mustum for wine – dust up in Spain
Here is an interesting story about the use of low-gluten Hosts for people who are intolerant of gluten. By extension it reminds us of the use of mustum, a wine whose fermentation process is halted by freezing. Almost gluten-free Communion … Read More
Miss Manners: A Priest Walks Into a Bank …
A reader sent my this article. I resonate with what follows. Very often I notice though I am very obviously dressed in my black suit with Roman collar, people in, for instance, banks et alibi, address me by my first … Read More
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