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Monthly Archives: May 2024
Daily Rome Shot 1025: Symmetry and thanks
This image, friends, warms my beady black heart. These are the vestments which some of YOU readers commissioned for Ss. Trinità in Rome. All set up and ready for the priests in the mornings of the Octave of Pentecost. Thank … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Pentecost Sunday 2024
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for Pentecost Sunday. Tell about attendance … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1025: 20% off
Photo from The World’s Best Sacristan™. Welcome registrant: CharityBeginsAtHome Meanwhile, in Casablanca where we wait… and wait… and wait… there were results from Round 1. This is an interesting “variant” tournament wherein players start from positions in historic games. In … Read More
CHARTRES, FRANCE – PENTECOST PILGRIMAGE – Live and on demand VIDEO
The largest ever Chartres Pilgrimage for Pentecost departed central Paris today, from Saint Sulpice, for Chartres Cathedral. There is a YouTube channel for it for live events and which can be watched on demand.
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Yes, at The Parish™ preparations are being made for the Feast of St. Philip Neri (which is also my anniversary). How I wish I could be there. And now I, too, am a member of the Archconfraternity, the first … Read More
Census Fidelium…. Sensus Fidelium… A book
At The Catholic Thing there is a piece about Catholic demographics. The writer uses new information from the Pew Research Center. As he says, the results are shocking but not surprising. You can imagine the highlights. Self-identifying “Catholic”, down. Mass … Read More
“They must make the noise they can, because if they cease for a moment, we hear the calls of sanity and sweetness again…”.
A while back I wrote a review of Anthony Esolen’s fine book Nostalgia. HERE In it, I wrote: How often is the charge of “nostalgia” flung as a cliché into the teeth of those who desire, with their legitimate aspirations, the … Read More
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WDTPRS – Pentecost: “We can’t read/savor/grasp them without knowing these things.”
Pentecost Sunday’s Collect is the same as we recite after chanting the Veni, Sancte Spiritus. COLLECT – (1962MR): Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de eius semper consolatione gaudere. I am … Read More
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Some not Vatican news notes
Today things keep rolling along and I, uncharacteristically, am paying some attention. In regard to the terrific speech that Harrison Butker made for commencement at Benedictine College, as the lib world has a spittle-flecked nutty, I was sent these two … Read More
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