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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter (N.O.: 3rd of) 2023
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It was the 2nd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 3rd Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo. Was … Continue reading
ROME 23/04 – Day 23: Salons and Solutions
Sun rise over Rome was at 6:16 and Sunset will be at 20:02. The Ave Maria should be rung at 20:15 right now. It is the Feast of St. George, whose relics are at San Giorgio in Velabro. Welcome registrants: … Continue reading
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ROME 23/04 – Day 21: Happy Birthday, Rome!
Today: Sunrise 0619 – Sunset 1959 – Ave Maria 2015 Today is the 2776the Birthday of Rome Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius. Q. Horatius Flaccus Carmen … Continue reading
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From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 23-04-20 – Future financial trouble
April 20th, 2023 Dear Diary, Someone from some subcommittee or other of the USCCB came and gave a presentation. It was supposed to be for me, the priest council, and the clergy who are on my finance council. One of … Continue reading
Anglicans given the altar of St John Lateran for their thingie. Hijinxs ensues.
The other day a wretchedly scandalous thing took place in the Lateran Basilica. A group of English Anglicans had their liturgy, like a Mass but of course invalid because they don’t have valid orders, at an altar in the apse … Continue reading
ROME 23/04 – Day 20: Mysteria and wysteria
In Roma in this 110th day of the year, the sunset will be at 1958, having risen at 0621. The Ave Maria ought to chime, but in the place most worthy of its sounding it won’t, at 2015. Welcome new … Continue reading
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ROME 23/04 – Day 19: Gotta hand it to ya
This got me thinking. In Rome you see lots of stylized and highly expressive hands. For example… And here St. Thomas Villanova is giving heresy something to chew over. There’s talking with your hands, and there’s not talking at all… … Continue reading
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ROME 23/04 – Day 18: Viewed from afar
The sun rose at 0624 and set at 1956. The Ave Maria is at 2015. Weather in Rome has been… unpleasant. Very cool, breezy and off and on rainy. So, you can’t plan easily. Tomorrow should be nicer. I hope … Continue reading
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ROME 23/04 – Day 17: Babies, Beauty and Beer
Roma sun-up 0625 Roma sun-down 1955 Ave Maria 2015 You have to enjoy the many images of Our Lady in Rome, every couple of streets, each little neighborhood had theirs. And you often see votive offerings, silver hearts, have been … Continue reading
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Low Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday, Thomas Sunday, Sunday “in albis deponendis”
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 Low Sunday, 2nd of Easter? Tell … Continue reading
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