Monthly Archives: August 2024

Daily Rome Shot 1101 – more than just Ventoux and a mini rant

Hint: Something in there inspired an elegy. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  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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Recommended reading from Crisis about CS Lewis and a saint

I warmly recommend today a pleasant and edifying reading of a piece at Crisis by Fr. George Rutler about how C.S. Lewis, through letters, became a friend of an Italian priest and, later, canonized saint, Fr Giovanni Calabria. HERE  

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19 August – St. John Eudes wrote that BAD PRIESTS are “a most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world”

Today is the Feast of St. John Eudes, a great saint of the 17th c.  A great missionary. He was a promoter of devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and spiritual writer. Canonized in 1920’s, he has a gigantic … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1100

Many thanks to CJM for moving from Continue To Give over to Zelle! Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of … Read More

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REMINDER: USA – Tour with a magnificent relic, the arm of the Apostle St. Jude

Just a reminder that, right now, there is a tour around these USA with a magnificent relic, the arm of the Apostle St. Jude, widely known as the patron of impossible causes. There is a web site with a description … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 13th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th) 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 this 13th Sunday after Pentecost, … Read More

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WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”

Today’s Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1099

Photo by The Great Roman™ I note that this new book is back in stock! On The Demonic by Archbp. Fulton J. Sheen. US HERE – UK HERE (not yet) The forward explains that, toward the end of his life, Sheen was ever more … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1098

Photo by The Great Roman™ Welcome registrant: Ter Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At … Read More

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Just so that you know…

I wonder what sort of people are in charge of this? This is on the Vatican site today for the Feast of the Assumption. I don’t like the semi-defiling of my site by his “art”, but I thought you should … Read More

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