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Monthly Archives: January 2018
31 Jan – Blue Moon Eclipse
This is from SpaceWeather: BLUE MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE: On Wednesday, Jan. 31st, the second full Moon of January will pass through Earth’s shadow, producing a rare “Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse.” The Moon won’t look blue, however. Researchers are predicting a … Continue reading
The Canon libs hate the most?
During the March for Life I saw this sign: Interesting question. The question might push the envelope a little, but there may be not nothing to it. Canon 915… that canon which is so feared and hated by libs, such … Continue reading
Posted in Canon Law, Liberals, Linking Back
Tagged can. 915, Ed Peters, New catholic Red Guards
11 Comments
ASK FATHER: Priest breaks the host during the consecration. FAIL!
From a reader… A kindly retired priest offers morning Mass, ordinary form, at our parish occasionally. At the Consecration of the bread, father literally breaks the host in two when he prays the words ” . . . He took … Continue reading
Take Inspiration: 12-year-old builds a tiny house in his backyard
I have mused about finding a patch of land and setting up a couple of “tiny houses”, optimally self-sufficient. Here is a great story forwarded by a priest friend from MNN: Iowa boy builds tiny house in his backyard Last … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, The future and our choices
Tagged tiny houses
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Your Good News
Do you have good news for the elevation and edification of the readership? Let us know.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Hitchens: We were told not to worry.
At First Things, Dan Hitchens nailed it. Look at this. When communion for the remarried was reintroduced into Catholic discussion a few years ago, we were informed that it was a “pastoral” and “merciful” initiative. Those of us who pointed … Continue reading
Posted in One Man & One Woman, The Drill
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Dan Hitchens, divorced and remarried, Kasperites
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Card. Burke speaks up
Anger and frustration, fear and ignorance (and being a lib), can lead people to say stupid things. The ignorant or sub-optimally bright would suggest that Card. Burke might “lead a schism”. CWR has an interview with Raymond Card. Burke. There … Continue reading
#OafForADay – Deacon in vestments and a dog mask
I’ve seen this from different sources, including lots of email. However Dcn. Greg Kandra has the most prominent post. An idiot deacon – listed among the Permanent Deacons of St. Rose of Lima Church in Eddystone in the Archdiocese of … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged culpability, deacons, Herodotus, Oaf For A Day!, permanent deacons, sacrilege, sports
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We Are Our Rites! Wherein Fr. Z rants after reading Peter Kwasniewski
At NLM, PK has a good offering. (“Ho hum!”, you are saying, because I have to write that so often.) Starting with Nietzsche and his famous “God is dead”, he spins up a good argument about “modern” liturgy, liturgists, etc., … Continue reading
Rutler writes about “men with chests”. The “impossible dream”?
Fr. Rutler has a terrific piece at the invaluable Crisis. Read the whole thing, but here is some with my usual treatment. Where Are the Churchmen With Chests? [“Chests”… a great image. It was famously used (as Rutler mentions, below, … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, The Drill
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Courageous, Fr. George Rutler, Man of La Mancha, Richard Kiley, Theodore Roosevelt
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