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I’ve been presenting the opportunity to help the traditional Benedictine’s of La Barroux by selling the wine they provide from the ancient vineyards of the Avignon Pope’s and elsewhere. You get wine (it’s good) and they get much needed income. Win. Win.
I had a note from the Abbess of Gower Abbey in Missouri that the nuns have tossed their wimples into the ring (metaphorically, of course). They now have a label for wine from California, a Merlot, called “Mother’s Reserve“.
The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles are fantastic. You will know them from their chant and hymn discs as well as the news about their foundress, Sr. Wilhelmina, being incorrupt. They are founding daughter houses and are going from strength to strength. They are an enormous blessing to the Church and living proof of the efficient power of tradition in the revitalization of the Church’s life. Communities like theirs, like the monk of Le Barroux and of Norcia and other places where tradition is lived are like Aaron and Hur holding up the arms of Moses.
Please do me the favor of at least going to look at their page: HERE
This is interesting.
Archbishop Weisenburger promoted Father Buersmeyer after he suggested the Church could support homosexual ‘marriage’ and defended a priest excommunicated for his role in the ‘ordination’ of a woman.https://t.co/K7J196Jve4 pic.twitter.com/mnXH3ZFWIb
— LifeSiteNews (@LifeSite) August 12, 2025
This is interesting in a better way.
Bishop of Syracuse becomes parish priest for three churches amid priest shortage
Instead of just letting some priest burn out while twisting in the wind, he takes up the yoke himself. Now I hope he will turn to some effective means as well.
He will need prayers.
Every time I go to a ball game I think, “Maybe this will be a perfect game! Maybe there will be an inside the park grand slam! Maybe there will be a triple play!”
ANGELS TURN THE TRIPLE PLAY TO END THE INNING AND SHOHEI CAN’T BELIEVE IT pic.twitter.com/vSCo1FWNBe
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) August 13, 2025
I think the rarest play of all is an unassisted triple play. Don’t quote me.
I was just there.
Milwaukee is reeling from historic floods.
Over the weekend, southeast Wisconsin was hit with up to 11 inches of rain in some areas, flooding an estimated 1,200 homes.
Team Rubicon’s Quick Reaction Force (QRF) is on the ground with Milwaukee County—conducting FEMA-standard… pic.twitter.com/8Of3Z6Y3Vm
— Team Rubicon (@TeamRubicon) August 13, 2025
Team Rubicon is terrific. I contributed for years.
I know who I side with ?? pic.twitter.com/AChoff7OJt
— Louise Allain (@louiseallain) August 12, 2025
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A shepherd who smells of his flock. Bless him!
Thanks for all this Fr. Z–I’ve turned away from a lot of news sources for different reasons and so it is helpful to get updates on things that are actually important. Abp. Lefebvre’s family is a wonderful example of how the family forms and shapes vocations; also that patriotism and faith are not antithetical. Re. Bp. Lucia: he is from my home diocese and is so I hear a good canon lawyer. He is also friendly to tradition and has worked well with the SSPX. Also just brought in the ICKSP to staff a shrine in his diocese. On the other hand, he was reported to have been too uncritical of a rainbow flag event in Syracuse. But all in all he seems to be one of the better bishops around today (a low bar, sadly). My wife and I bought some of the Le Barroux wine and it is excellent; however, the main source to get that wine here in the US was unpleasant to deal with when there was an issue over a replacement bottle when they were short one of the monk’s wine. Lesson learned.
Black to move and mate in 3.
If I didn’t miss something…
1 … Qxf2+
If 2 Kh1 Qf1 mate. So white must take the Queen.
2 Kxf2 Bg3+
3 Kf1 (or Kg1) Re1 mate
R E1+ – R F1
Q F2+ – K H1
QxR or RxR++
Actually, this was a 6-3 triple play. The unassisted triple play is indeed among the rarest of baseball plays, but it’s also among the easiest; the (usually) middle fielder simply has to be standing in the right spot.
All of two unassisted triple plays have ended ball games. The second one is also the last, Eric Bruntlett of the Phillies ending the game in a truly Metsian fashion.
https://youtu.be/DviV7CYrc-E?si=-oQPHTev3rQk_cKi
The bit about bishop Lefebvre’s father, saved the distances, reminded me of that clip from the meeting of some children with the Holy Father a few weeks ago. He was asked he went to Mass as a kid, and he told them about how his mother would take him and his brothers to Mass every morning before school, and how that shaped his relationship with Jesus from such an early age. In both cases it made me think about how important the environment of a Christian home and the child rearing by Christian parents is for priestly and religious vocations. The pastoral attention and care of families (the *proper* spiritual care and encouragement and guidance) seems to be so often sorely neglected in general and with regard to vocations specifically.
Also, kudos to the bishop of Syracuse! certainly a sweet counterpoint to the rather bitter aftertaste of the article about VII and the distance created between bishops and their priests.
According to Wikipedia there have only been 15 major league triple plays