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Monthly Archives: April 2011
QUAERITUR: Holy Thursday foot washing follies
From a reader: Well this year is a return of mass foot washings. As our bulletin states, “This year everyone will participate in this action. Please wear socks and shoes that are easy to remove. Towels will be provided.” Should … Read More
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Card. Burke pontificating
I was pleased to see on John Sonnen’s page that Card. Burke celebrated pontifically in the Extraordinary Form at the Station Church San Nicola in Carcere. I have a special connection with that church which I explain in today’s LENTCAzT. … Read More
Conference in Napa Valley with Pontifical TLM… does it get better than that?
From CNA: Napa Institute conference to fortify Catholics for the ‘Next America’ Irvine, Calif., Apr 7, 2011 / 01:53 am (CNA).- Mother Assumpta Long, O.P., has invited Catholics to register for the inaugural Napa Institute conference to help participants respond … Read More
QUAERITUR: Female and male duet for the Exultet
From a reader: Several years ago, our new husband & wife (talented but very Haugen/Haas loyal) music directors introduced/replaced the familiar English version of the Exultet at the Vigil with a modern(Haugen?) version sung as a duet by male (Deacon) … Read More
How it all goes wrong. So very wrong. So sad.
What happens when you go wrong: From the pen of Roy Bourgeois, M.M. Rev. Edward Dougherty, M.M., Superior General Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers P.O. Box 303 Maryknoll, NY 10545 April 8, 2011 Dear Father Dougherty and General Council, Maryknoll has … Read More
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Defending the defenseless
An interesting catch from Rush’s show made by the Motley Monk: At the beginning of “Open Line Friday,” Rush Limbaugh took President Obama to task for his priorities in the current budget debate and potential shutdown of the federal government. … Read More
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Food for… thought
From rougeclassicism: The incipit of a piece at the CBC on the war in Afghanistan: When a Canadian soldier dies in Afghanistan (as more than 150 have so far), it makes front-page news. In Ontario, a stretch of the 401 … Read More
WDTPRS Friday in the 4th Week of Lent
COLLECT Deus, qui fragilitati nostrae congrua subsidia praeparasti, concede, quaesumus, ut suae reparationis effectum et cum exsultatione suscipiat, et pia conversatione recenseat. This prayer today was not in the pre-Concilar Missale Romanum. It also has me scratching my head. Once … Read More
NCFishwrap, Sr. Fiedler, Fr. Bourgeois… what could go wrong?
The National Catholic Fishwrap continues in it open dissent against the Church’s formally and irrevocably defined doctrine concerning ordinary of males only, as in only men, exclusively men, no women, not even wymyn. We have seen Sr. Maureen Fiedler before. … Read More
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Everything a priest suffers should send him to my Heart.
It is Friday and it is Lent. Fr. Mark Kirby, OSB, had this on his blog Vultus Christi: This painting depicts Our Lord as he appeared in the Sacred Host exposed in the monstrance at the Institute of Loreto in … Read More
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