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Monthly Archives: December 2023
ASK FATHER: “Pray without ceasing”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I took your advice and I’m starting to look at the upcoming readings for Sunday a few days ahead and reviewing them after. I’m stuck on the second reading for this coming Sunday. [3rd Sunday of … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 878
As you think about shopping for Christmas… please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE These links take you to a generic “catholic” search in Amazon, but, once in and browsing or searching, Amazon remembers that … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Advent 2023
It’s the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Share the good stuff. Quite a few people are forced to sit through really bad preaching. Even … Read More
News of the Church 04
It’s 10 December 2023 and it is the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer eeks out a living going … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 877 – Wherein Fr. Z blew it.
Photo by The Great Roman™… nearly in real time! Look at that lovely evening light. Meanwhile, as I write I’m watching Day one of the Champions Chess Tour Finals in Toronto, my guy Wesley So took down Hikaru Nakamura 1.5 … Read More
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: “We escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”
Our Novus Ordo Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 876 – twofer
Welcome new registrant: hb391015 Meanwhile… BLACK to move and mate in 4. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Some have asked me to post about what I’ve been cooking. … Read More
8 December: Happy Birthday BLOG!
My first post on 8 December 2005. Happier days. HERE Many ups and downs. Many blessings. You, dear readers, are blessings. Thank you. Non mihi, Domine.
RECITED in Latin: 1st Vespers of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception – Traditional Roman Breviary
Just for nice. Thank you, Queen of Priests. Help all priests, especially those of us who are cancelled, alone, in need, ill, or close to death.
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