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The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 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)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
A 1st TLM experience
From a reader: I know you must be very busy, but I thought you may like to share my experience on your blog. I attended my first Tridentine Mass, which was a High Mass, celebrated at the Oratory of St. … Read More
Phoenix, AZ: secularist pogrom focused on church bells
The late Msgr. Richard Schuler loved church bells. The lofty bell tower of St. Agnes Church in St. Paul with its four bells, would ring the hours and half hours 24/7, as well as the Angelus at noon and 6 … Read More
The Harvest Moon in anticipation
The Harvest Moon It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanesAnd roofs of villages, on woodland crestsAnd their aerial neighborhoods of nestsDeserted, on the curtained window-panesOf rooms where children sleep, on country lanesAnd harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!Gone are the … Read More
True active participation
The great Fr. Ray Blake of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton has a highly amusing piece on his blog: I had a telephone call from Fr Mark Elvins this evening, before becoming a Capuchin friar he was a curate here. … Read More
PODCAzT 90: St. Leo on the beatitudes; the sacred, sacrilege and reparation
On this beautiful Saturday of the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time, Labor Day Weekend, I have spend inside laboring on another PODCAzT just for you listeners. Today we hear from St. Pope Leo I, “the Great” (+461) in his Sermon … Read More
QUAERITUR: New Zealand – a Maori chant instead of consecration bells
From a reader: I was reading in the local Archdiocesan paper about a new development in the liturgy here in New Zealand. Instead of the use of bells at the time of consecration in some parishes (I know two) a … Read More
Rockford, IL: The Labor Day assault on Saint Mary’s Oratory
You have probably heard examples of encroachment on private property by state and city governments through aggressive use of "eminent domain". A reader alerted me to this Very Alarming Development in the Diocese of Rockford, IL. This is from the … Read More
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Buy Some Soap – Help Some Nuns – UPDATE
In another entry I asked you to consider buying soap from the Contemplative Domincan Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary Monastery in New Jersey. Buy Some Soap – Help Some Nuns Since I posted that entreaty my e-mail is … Read More
UPDATED: list of US bishops who have spoken about health care reform
The young Papist has been doing us a service. He is listing the American Bishops who have made strong statements about "Obamacare" and what would – from a Catholic perspective – need to be considered in any debate about health … Read More
Six years of Saturn… and I don’t mean the car!
JUST.TOO.COOL! From APOD:
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