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Monthly Archives: June 2012
My idea of concelebration
Here’s my idea of “concelebration”. The other kind should be safe, legal and rare.
Prayer request
Will you please say a prayer or two that I get over this annoying and rather bad head cold I have picked up? I haven’t had a cold from all last fall and through the winter, only to get one … Read More
You are not special.
A reader sent me a link to an interesting High School Commencement address… which sounds like a contradiction in terms. It occurred at a school in Massachusetts. Have a quick read without worrying about the local references. The point will … Read More
Strawberry Moon
Yesterday (and early today) was the super rare Transit of Venus, but a while back there was a spiffing eclipse of the Moon. Here is a great photo from Astronomy Pic of the Day, of said eclipse over Cody, WY, … Read More
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Fishwrap’s Litany of Sisters
There will be no end of sentimentality upon which the Fishwrap will play in support of the LCWR and the Magisterium of Nuns. Someone sent this to my email and I had to post it. Here is the – I … Read More
QUAERITUR: Confessions during Mass – revisited
From a reader: This past Saturday, I experienced several of the issues you have written about regarding going to confession. Seeing it was getting late in the afternoon, I attempted to go to confession at the parish nearest where I … Read More
Liberals and feminists desperately crave Rome’s approval
Do you know the term delectatio morosa? Sometimes the German term Schadenfreude is used. It effectively means taking pleasure at the discomfort of another. It isn’t a good thing to feel or to foster and we should fight the tendencies … Read More
A few London sights
I haven’t posted much in the line of photos from the London trip so far. Here are a few. From Brompton Oratory. Rabbit at Racine after Mass, where I meet a nice family I met with Fr. Trigilio in the … Read More
A bishop nixes iPads, apps, for liturgy
I have written about this here and here. From CathNews New Zealand: NZ Bishops: No liturgical use of Roman Missal iPad Apps The Roman Missal apps for iPad may not be used in the liturgy. The New Zealand Bishops have … Read More
Gopher tuna. Bring more tuna.
In the 1930’s composer Carl Orff set some mediocre but amusing medieval Latin (mostly) poems, such as drinking and student songs, to music and called the collection Cármina Burána (yes, those are the correct syllables to accentuate, yes, it’s Cármina and … Read More
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