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Monthly Archives: October 2023
Synodality (“Walking Togetherity”) and “tesserae”
Looking at the Synod (“Walking Together: “W-T”) from as far as I can manage while being in Rome and as close as I need to be because I simply have to, the image that comes to mind is tied sack … Read More
German Bishop at Synod (“Walking Together”) says we must stop “clinging to habits and traditionalisms” including APOSTOLIC TRADITION
I am forced to wonder if… forced to hope that… what a thing to think… that this bishop doesn’t know what Apostolic Tradition is. What did I just write?!? OCT 21 #Synod briefing: German Bishop Overbeck says: “We put Jesus … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 21st Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 29th) 2023
Share the good stuff. It’s the 20th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 28th Sunday of the Novus Ordo. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Tell … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 21: “Tastes like chicken”, a Solemn Mass vestment project, some video and audio
On this Feast of St. John Paul II, the sun rose at 07:28 and it will un-rise at 18:21. The days are squeezing down. The Ave Maria bell is in the 18:30 cycle as it chases the sun in fits … Read More
UPDATED: Commentary on “synodality” (“walking togetherity”) from Ratzinger in 1975 and a lot more.
UPDATE: At the end, I’ve updated this with some interesting info I was just sent. I had missed it before and it is relevant to my rants. At the always useful The Catholic Thing there is a piece well-worth reading by Eduardo … Read More
WDTPRS – 29th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): It’s about the children.
At the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” (aka “W-T-F” – explained HERE) and in papal interviews there is increasing talk about blessing same-sex couples, which would effectively a betrayal of God who made man male and female. God made us … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 20: Emotional roller coaster day
Today when the sun rose at 07:26 … well… more on that later. It will set at 18:24. The Ave Maria bell won’t ring, though it should now at 18:30. New cycle. In the Vetus it is the Feast of … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 19: Mass, nap, write, sandwich, write more
Here in the Eternal City the Ave Maria bell should ring at 18:45 while the sun really ought to set at 18:25, though I wouldn’t mind if it would hang out longer. Sunrise was sometime while I was in church … Read More
When they say it is NOT about redistribution of power, it’s about redistribution of power.
LifeSite today looked at what the participants of “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” are discussing and it fits with what I have written before. The true content of the “W-T” is the process itself. The aim is to make “W-T” a … Read More
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