Good to start planning 2015 tours early.
http://oc-travel.com/
Monday, April 21, 2014
Visit the Holy Land with Us
Good to start planning 2015 tours early.
http://oc-travel.com/
Sunday, April 20, 2014
April 21 Birthday of Rome: ANNVS BIMILESSIMVS SEPTINGENTESIMVS SEXAGESIMVS SEPTIMVS AB VRBE CONDITA
And happy 88th birthday to Elizabeth Alexandra II Dei Gratia Regina.
Thanks, Rodolfo!
DOMINICA RESVRRECTIONIS: Pray for the Popes
Be in the habit of praying for the Roman Pontiffs. Living and deceased. They need prayers more than anyone. And always pray for the grace to forgive them. We must always support Peter.
Happy 91st Birthday to Mother Angelica
Our American saint.
Today, Easter Sunday, is her birthday.
Христос Воскрес!
A Blessed Easter to All
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Христóсъ воскрéсе! Surrexit Christus!
Merci to the greatest schola in Paris: http://www.schola-sainte-cecile.com/.
Catholic Easter Egg Hunt
"Frohe Ostern!" in German.
The traditional Easter dress with bonnet is from our dear nurse friend in Toronto who often visits Rome, Estela. We pray in gratitude for her life and vocation, and for her wonderful Swiss husband. Thank you, Estela!
Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Choir Neck Ruff
You can order here for your servers:
http://www.almy.com/Product/49200/category/ChoirAccessories/parent/ChoirRobes
Good Friday Tenebrae
Holy Week for me will always be the good old days at Saint Agnes, located in the city named for the Apostle to the Gentiles.
Praying inside a glorious North American temple, amid the Classic Vitruvian canon of Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders. A church that was constructed in 1912 on a Baroque scale monumentally hithero unknown in the regions of the upper banks of the mighty Mississippi River. With all the entablature and traditional motifs such as regular marble stripes and rectangular pattering with rising volutes and even a dome in the horizontal axis.
Lots of fine memories there from my youth. It was a great way to grow up, attending Tenebrae in choir to learn the chants of the Church. And H.H.H., our deacon, always timed our Tenebrae each year, and it was almost always to the minute the same.
There were many colorful personalities. The great Fr. Z would arrive from Rome. I miss the old holy cards he often had printed every Triduum. They added a lot to the solemnity of the week. The cards always made nice book markers in a Liber Usualis. Was always kind of fun to look for cards from previous years kept away in the pages of old Libers on the sacristy shelf. I always looked for the old Liber of Mons. Bandas to carry and hold and pray from during Tenebrae. Mons. Bandas was one of the tallest trees in the forest before, during, and after the 1960s. He evinced eminent priestly qualities one rarely encountered during the turbulent conciliar period and its immediate aftermath. A prophet, really.
Fortunate is the youth who gets to grow up being involved in a parish that is fortissimo (very loud) in the Faith.
Prayers for all readers and followers of this blog.
One word best describes the Passion of Our Blessed Lord: "mercy."
This word best describes God. And what we are going to need when we pass from this world.
Remember to speak often of the mercy of God.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Catholic Culture: Easter Bonnet
The Perfect Souvenir from Italy: Terra Cotta
You can buy this stuff in Assisi, Florence, Piazza Navona in Rome, etc.
Great gifts.
Indoor or outdoor use.
They last forever.
Help to Restore the Room Where St. Francis of Assisi Stayed in Rome
In Trastevere, you can see his cell.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Your Catholic Pilgrimage Company
Priests, be in touch with us to lead pilgrimages.
Be a part of this ministry of bringing pilgrimage to people.
Christian Martyrs
You can find news & blog coverage about his ministry and death at: http://bit.ly/1hzYgTc
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Happy 87th Birthday to Benedict the Great!
Thanks, Francisco!
Monday, April 14, 2014
Prayer Request
In your charity kindly pray for the soul of a dear friend, Imelda Edwards.
Born in 1950s South Africa, Imelda was a 5-time cancer survivor.
She had a sweet countenance.
Reverend and dear Fathers, kindly remember the repose of her soul at Holy Mass.
Imelda passed away yesterday, on Palm Sunday.
From the antiphon of the Palm Sunday liturgy:
Hosanna filio David: benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Rex Israel. Hosanna in excelsis.
Requiem!
Have a Devotion to St. Joseph
Aka the forgotten saint.
Be sure to foster in your kids a devotion to this powerful saint.
From the youngest age, teach them to go to Joseph.
Ite ad Ioseph!
From the youngest age, teach them to go to Joseph.
Ite ad Ioseph!
Filipino Catholics
Catholic Culture: Easter Lamb
Always nice to have spring lamb for Easter Sunday.
This is done in Orthodox countries.
Yours truly will always remember the time I was in Athens on Easter Sunday and the whole city emanated the beautiful scent of roast lamb on charcoal.
This is done in Orthodox countries.
Yours truly will always remember the time I was in Athens on Easter Sunday and the whole city emanated the beautiful scent of roast lamb on charcoal.
In the Roman Ritual there is a blessing for lamb (benedictio agni).
Catholic Culture: Veiling of Statues
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Please Donate to the Widow and Family of Nathan Trapuzzano
This wonderful young man, a traditional Catholic, recently lost his life.
We pray for his sweet widow. Please be generous...
http://www.gofundme.com/7zj4fo
I wish I could have met him. I'm sure he was the greatest.
He is being called the patron saint of "traddies."
We pray for his sweet widow. Please be generous...
http://www.gofundme.com/7zj4fo
I wish I could have met him. I'm sure he was the greatest.
He is being called the patron saint of "traddies."
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Excommunication of Pro-Abortion Politicians?
Maronite journalist Faith Goldy has some interesting things to say...
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3450762031001
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3450762031001
Get Yourself a St. Christopher Medal
Many of them carry St. Christopher medals. Get yourself one and have it blessed.
Cultivate a devotion to this saint. Yours truly will always remember standing in awe of the intercession of this great saint inside the historic Cathedral of Cologne, in Germany.
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