Four meetings to paint
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Perhaps the greatest trauma of my school-days were the art classes. They
would sit us down with some rather stiff paint brushes and a few pots of
paints, a...
Heart of Gold
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Queen Anne with her patron saintsOf Anne of Brittany. From *The Telegraph*:
After Anne’s death in 1514, she was buried, as custom dictated, alongside
othe...
Henry VIII's Great Bible
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In a list of ten important dates during the Tudor Era for *History Extra*,
the BBC *History Magazine *blog, historian Lauren Mackay includes this date
and...
Trial Date Watch: Day Four
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More than a week after I had again been due to stand trial, I now no longer
have a trial date, even though it is rightly a criminal offence to fail to
atte...
An Abbot’s Prayer
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*Saint Anselm’s Prayer by a Bishop or Abbot to the Patron Saint of his
Church *
St N, Holy N, Blessed N,
one of the glorious apostles of God,
one of the ...
Best T-shirt ever
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Just back from a very enjoyable visit to Southern Evangelical Seminary,
where I gave a lecture last night on classical theism. Many thanks to the
very k...
Misal Romano - Spanish Resources & Recordings
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The Domenico Zipoli Institute has prepared resources and recordings in
light of the forthcoming Tercera Edición of the Misal Romano, for use in
the United ...
English bishops to be replaced by jelly-babies
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Following a report describing the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England
and Wales as a "spineless bunch of jellies", Pope Francis has decided to
dismiss ...
Church History Podcast
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I’ve started a twenty part podcast series on the history of the Catholic
Church. You can follow it over at my main blog-website Standing on My Head.
Go her...
German Intercommunion
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Yesterday it emerged that the Vatican had rejected the German Bishops’
Proposal for intercommunion for Protestant spouses (a.k.a. heresy).
Sources confi...
Know your enemy
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Who is my enemy? I've been thinking about this a lot. We are commanded to
love our enemies. Surely to love our enemies means to know who are enemies
are....
Learning Something New Every Day...
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Until three years ago I lived in London. I had read about fog (particularly
the old pea-soupers) but had never really experienced it as described in
Benson...
Mass readings in Scots: Fourth Sunday of Easter
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*First reading*
*Acts 4: 8-12*
Than Petir was fillit with the Haligaast, and said to thame, "Ye princis of
the pepile, and ye eldermen, here ye. Gif we t...
The Francis Song
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A reader asked me for my response to 'Gaudate et Insultate', I've read some
excellent analyses of the document and I don't think I can add much to it,
so...
Top Quotes from Gaudete et Exsultate
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On Monday Pope Francis published a new apostolic exhortation on holiness
called Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad). This is a much-needed
documen...
The death of civilised debate
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*The Guardian* has been steadily reducing the number of articles on which
comments are allowed. On the newspaper’s web site, which used to appear
under the...
Ill-liberalism
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Tomorrow, Ealing Council will be deciding (whether) to impose a Public
Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) in Mattock Lane, so as to prevent Good
Counsel Networ...
Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Bansha, Co. Tipperary
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Traditional Latin Mass in the Church of the Annunciation, Bansha, Co.
Tipperary, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, 21st April, 2018. Followed by prayers at
the gra...
More Bugnini
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I'm occasionally asked why I bang on about the pre-1911 order of things in
the Church. It's because the liturgical archaeologism which guided
liturgica...
The Cross is a Choice for Heaven or Hell
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The Cross is about the vulnerability of God, it is about God placing
himself into our hands.
In the Crucifixion God is scourged, spat upon, crowned with th...
The deep Catholic faith of Arnaud Beltrame
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Death of Arnaud Beltrame: the tribute of the priest who supported him at
the hour of his death
Arnaud Beltrame died giving his life for that of a woman.
...
Holy Week Services At St Catherine's
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*Palm Sunday*
Mass at 8.30am (OF)
Sung Mass at 10am (OF)
Low Mass at 11.30am (EF)
*Maundy Thursday*
Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7.30pm (OF)
Watching at t...
Allusions, etc.
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Long ago I first saw the movie "Aguirre, Wrath of God," about a Spanish
conquistador going nuts amid a disastrous Peruvian expedition. Here's a
memorabl...
Loveless is About Abortion, and More
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Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film Loveless is talking to the world-wide
pro-life movement. In fact, it is screaming: support for life must be
broader than curr...
The Chaste Fatherhood of the Priest
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I happened to be in small talk with a parishioner after Mass on Sunday. The
question of hearing confessions in a school that was not only in another
paris...
Register Now for the Colloquium!
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EARLY REGISTRATION IS IN EFFECT! Make your plans to join us as we return to
Chicago for the 2018 Colloquium – at Loyola University, June 25-30, 2018.
Visit...
Love is in the air
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It might have made for a great headline and photo opportunity, but parish
priests across social media were raising their eyes heavenwards at the
story of t...
The Battle for the Shire
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A devout and good young man is keen to join the Society of St Pius X. I can
understand that. I have always wanted to be simply a priest as Catholic
priest...
Sr Canisius, Sister of St Joseph of Annecy
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The following notice was published in the South Wales Argus on 11th
December 2017.
*"Sisters of St Joseph Sister M Canisius Walsh Peacefully on 6th Decemb...
Pantasaph Franciscan Retreat Centre is to Close
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Fr Simon Henry has reported on his blog, Offerimus Tibi Domine, the sad
news that the Franciscan Retreat Centre in Pantasaph, North Wales, is to
close on ...
Confraternity of Catholic Clergy Colloquium 2017
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I am happy to pass on the following information concerning the forthcoming
Colloquium of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy. Unfortunately I will
not be...
The Order of the Elephant
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Royal Central has a post today about the highest Danish order of Chivalry
which I am reproducing, with minor corrections and apologies for it being
off-ce...
International declaration on sacred music
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Here at The New Liturgical Movement
The list of over 200 signatories, of which I am one, Here
Still singing.
Today
Asperges
Mass XVII, Credo I
Marian ant...
Ad Orientem... Please?
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Last night we went to Mass in the Extraordinary Form at St Charles in Hull.
I am very grateful to Bishop Drainey for allowing this once monthly Mass to
con...
High winds and holiness in a field in Norfolk
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The bank holiday weekend at the end of May signals the start of our family
pilgrimage to Walsingham. Together with around 60 other Catholic families
we spe...
Reconciliation rumours
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I haven't posted for almost a year, but there has been some speculation
that the Society of Such Pious Gents will reconcile with Rome. I therefore
thought ...
Three thoughts
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First thought: whatever this Friday brings, don't lose your peace of soul.
Personally, I suspect we can expect the worst. But so what if that happens?
The ...
Music List for 3rd Sunday in Lent
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INTROIT : Oculi Mei (P.252 Gregorian Missal) MASS XVII GRADUAL : Exsurge
Domine (P. 254 Gregorian Missal) – Female voices Tract – I have lifted up
my eye...
The New CantemusDomino.net
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Welcome to the new CantemusDomino.net. Those who are veterans to the
Catholic blogging world may remember the 2002 iteration of this website,
“Confession...
Saying goodbye ...
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Immediately after Easter I will be leaving the Potteries after 23 years.
[image: CarolService2015]
We all moved here in the Summer of 1992 when I became...
Archives and Forum
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At this point, I have not set up an archives link, as this blog will remain
"up". The link to the forum will be on the new blog under "forum" at the
top me...
Goodbye and God Bless
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I began this Blog back in 2008 when Religious Discrimination laws were just
being introduced in Britain and I have enjoyed using it to explore the
developm...
Montini on Art 1931
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Eliseo Fumagalli 1887 - 1943
Design for T*he Annunciation* for The Church at Maccio
1931 - 1932
Acquarelle on canvas
77 cm x 56 cm
Museo Valtellinese di S...
That Letter - Update
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We now have hundreds of signatures on the letter in support of our priests,
thanks to the many bloggers who carried the letter (see here for a list),
and m...
What I did in the summer… Hospital Chaplaincy
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The bread and butter issues in life are what really matter, not so much the
added extras. At least, that is what I took from my student placement this
su...
Happy 59th QBunny
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Love and miss you. Did the plenary indulgence for you this week. I pray
you don't "need it!" But are already looking down on me from heaven.
REQUIEM MASS FOR RICHARD COLLINS
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A Requiem Mass for Richard Collins will be held on Tuesday 21st October at
12 noon at St David's and St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Dew Street, 9
F...
El Camino con Padre Joe y Señor McSorley
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My dear friend Fr Joseph Lappin and a colleague of his, Mr McSorley a
teacher at St Thomas Aquinas High School in Jordanhill, are walking the 500
miles of ...
Words of Wisdom for Lent
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This is from my FSSP Latin Church Bulletin, and is so incredibly
insightful, I'm sharing it here. It is written by the pastor, an FSSP
priest whose line u...
Changing The World: One Diaper At A Time.
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*The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor
of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something
m...
Weekend Roundup
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Sunday, 31st of March. 2013.
At the Birmingham Oratory (EF 1100) the* Mass in E* of Leonce de
Saint-Martin. At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1100) Vierne's *Mess...
Dom Prosper Gueranger on Our Lady's Expectation:
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This feast, which is now kept not only throughout the whole of Spain but in
many other parts of the Catholic world, owes its origin to the bishops of
the t...
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