Monthly Archives: January 2024

ROME SHOT 904

Please remember me when  shopping online. US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am grateful. Card. Burke celebrated Epiphany … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Holy Family (N.O. Transferred Epiphany) 2023

It’s Sunday and in the Vetus Ordo the Feast of the Holy Family.  In the Novus it’s – in most placed – transferred Epiphany.  Tomorrow is the last day of the Novus Ordo Christmas cycle, Baptism of the Lord.  In the Vetus … Read More

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WDTPRS – The Collect for Epiphany: Let Mass make us Magi

In the Novus Ordo calendar the observance of Epiphany (12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is in some places moved to the Sunday, this year tomorrow.  Some say that moving it to Sunday allows … Read More

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ROME SHOT 903

Please remember me when  shopping online. US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am grateful. Photo by The World’s … Read More

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“Let y’all know!” The “Noveritis” Epiphany chant announcement of 2024’s movable dates and feasts

At Epiphany we Latins have – traditionally – chanted a solemn proclamation of the key liturgical dates or movable feasts for the new year of salvation, just begun. This underscores how these dates and seasons are all interconnected. The liturgical … Read More

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ROME SHOT 902 – Wherein Fr. Z rants

One more day until EPIPHANY.  In some places the big gift giving day, for obvious reasons.  Please remember me when  shopping online. US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, … Read More

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5 January: St. Pope Telesphorus and an old friend

In the Novus Ordo calendar it is the Feast of St. John Neumann (+1860) and also of St. Edward the Confessor (+1066).  It’s also a 1st Friday!   (GO TO CONFESSION!) However, it is also the Vigil of Epiphany and feast … Read More

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ROME SHOT 901

In some places EPIPHANY is the big gift giving day, for obvious reasons.  Please remember me when  shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no … Read More

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In First Things there is a worthy piece by George Weigel.

In First Things there is a worthy piece by George Weigel.  I don’t agree with him about everything but this is a refreshing take down of Christopher Lamb (once of The Bitter Pill and now of the increasingly irrelevant CNN).   HERE There’s … Read More

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ROME SHOT 900

In some places EPIPHANY is the big gift giving day, for obvious reasons.  Please remember me when  shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, … Read More

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