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Pope Pius XII Closing the Jubilee of 1950 - Jubilee years traditionally begin with the Pope opening the Holy Door of St Peter’s basilica on Christmas eve, and end with him closing it exactly one year...
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Vigil of Christmas – (2005) Roman Martyrology – Fascinating entry - In the 2005 Roman Martyrology for Vigil of Christmas has a fascinating entry. Here is the first entry of Christmas Eve day: 1. Commemoratio omnium sanctor...2 hours ago
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The 2025 Catholic Advent Calendar - [image: Advent Calendar] 1. Pope Francis may have moved on, but he is still remembered by drones floating above St Peter's. What other legacies await us? ...
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The Worst of Religious Leaders: Errors, Lies, and Leading the Flock Astray - Cherry Vann has spoken and the BBC have reported her words. She articulates one of the most common yet erroneaous assumptions of our age: That authentic...
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Irish Christmas Blessings and Carols - From *Ireland Calling*: Carols are also important in an Irish Christmas. Ireland has its fair share of original carols such as The Wexford Carol and While ...16 hours ago
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Food For Thought - Numerous suicides later, the individual threshold for the farm tax will rise from one million pounds to £2.5 million, so that couples with estates of up to...1 day ago
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Pope Leo XIV’s first Christmas Address to the Roman Curia: What Unity in the Church means - The Christmas Address to the Curia is often used by popes to express important opinions on the Church. This is the new pope’s first.Your Eminences,Venerab...2 days ago
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Return of the missing links - My Christmas gift to you, dear readers – a revival of the blog’s “links of interest” posts, by popular demand. Let’s get to it: J.P. Andrew interviews R...
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The Traditional Ambrosian Rite - *Rotate Cæli* has a handsomely illustrated article about the celebration last Sunday of the first High Mass in the traditional Form of the Ambrosian Rite ...4 days ago
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Charity Carol Concert and fourth Sunday of Advent - Concert today - Saturday 20th December *Sunday 21st December* *Fourth Sunday of Advent. Year A.* *8.30am Mass * *10.30am Mass * *Refreshments after...
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Preview: "Christ in the Eucharist" on the Son Rise Morning Show - UPDATE: Postponed to January 5, 2026. We'll turn into an Advent/Christmas series and continue discussing other chapters through the month! On Monday, Dec...
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Should We Bother to Pray Near Abortion Centres? - You might well wonder what is the point of attending a prayer vigil outside an abortion centre, especially since the buffer zone law came in a year ago. ...
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Jubilee of Prisoners - The Jubilee of Prisoners is being marked in the days 12th-14th December 2025, with events taking place in Rome. In his Bull of Indiction for the Jubilee ...1 week ago
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Space Bus - The basic body is a medicine bottle with a triangular cross section, hence the triangle motif. Other bits include shirt buttons, french-fry forks, dispos...
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Traditional Latin Mass in Russia 100 years ago. Deo Gratias. - Francis McCullagh (1874-1956) - War Correspondent 'extraordinaire' ‘The...
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Augustinian Virtue Ethics and Pascal’s Wager - In the celebrated ‘To be or not to be’ speech Hamlet fears death because he does not know what is beyond it. Now he does not fear it because he realises th...4 weeks ago
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Holy Mary, Co-Redemptrix & Mediatrix of All Graces - *Fr. John Fullerton, the Society of Saint Pius X’s U.S. District Superior, is inviting all to participate in a Crusade of Reparation.* On November 4, 20...
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For those who have gone before - Today being the feast of All Souls, or The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, as my missal has it, it's once again time to revisit my annual post ...1 month ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!5 months ago
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Importing people to sustain demand - I got involved in a discussion with a Youtuber called “Philosophy all along”. This was in connection with criticism of Trump’s policy of deporting illega...9 months ago
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Pro-Life Mass – SEPTEMBER 2025 - The next monthly Pro-Life Mass is on Wednesday, 17th September at 7.30 pm at Holy Cross, 113 Dixon Avenue, G42 8EL. Holy Hour 6.15pmRosary 7pmMass at 7.30p...9 months ago
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Easter Triduum services in London - 2024 - *St Bede's Clapham Park* *Palm Sunday (24th March)* 11 am Latin Sung Mass (no 12.30 pm Mass) *Wednesday (27th March)* 7pm Tenebrae *Maundy Thursday (...1 year ago
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Pre-1910 Calendar for Week Beginning 24 December - *Announcement of the Indulgence, the Holyday and the Feast of Devotion* +24 *Sunday* Fourth Sunday of Advent, second class. Vigil of the Nativity. Mass o...
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Spanish Q&A Session – Oct. 24 - Join the CMAA… …for a question and answer session completely in Spanish on October 24. This is open to all with free admission – not members only, so pleas...2 years ago
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CORONATION PRAYER - In celebration of the Coronation of King Charles III, copies of these leaflets were recently distributed in our churches. As well as a message from Card...
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Saint Gabriel - The angels call for our veneration and awe as part of God’s creation. Part of the destructive modernism of the 1970s included advice to Catholic school t...
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AND FOR MORE ON THE CATHOLIC YOUNG WRITER AWARD... - ....read here. It's a project initiated by The Keys, the Catholic Writers' Guild of England and Wales, under the Guild's then Master, Antony Tyler CB...4 years ago
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Last Post - *Sorry for my long absence, I am writing to say that this will be my last post. Google have forced my hand. They have been asking for my date of birth...
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Praying with chant - Beautifully and practically, Stephanie Mann writes on praying with Gregorian chant. The post Praying with chant appeared first on Chant Café.5 years ago
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Mass readings in Scots: First Sunday of Lent (Year A) - *First reading* *Genesis 2: 7-9, 3: 1-7* An the Laird God made man frae the stour o the yird, braithin intae him the braith o life: an man come tae be ...
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Septuagesima - I was explaining to a Protestant friend the other day why the concept of the 'January blues' didn't exist while England was Catholic. Having fasted and abs...
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Pachamama and the Pieta - Those who are following the Amazonian Synod in Rome will have heard about the furore over the feminine image first used in a tree planting ritual when the ...6 years ago
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Vatican's and Catholic bishops’ promotion of dangerous teaching on sex education will add fuel to the raging fire of child abuse - We must pray for the Pope, and for Catholic bishops in Britain and elsewhere. Catholic pastors in Britain and in many parts of the world, including in Ro...
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Young Catholic Adults' Weekend, 25-27 Oct 2019 - I am happy to pass on this message from Young Catholic Adults: *Young Catholic Adult Weekend @ Douai Abbey 25th - 27th Oct 2019 (18-40 yrs)* Are you 18-4...6 years ago
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Prayer and Reality - [image: Image result for kneeling "low Mass"] "It is not the healthy who need a physician but the sick" Jesus is supposed to be our Saviour but most of us...6 years ago
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Our Lady Who Turns Her Face to the Wall - Some years ago, my late mother gave me a small statue of Our Lady of Torreciudad. She sits on top of the chest of drawers by my bed, in the corner of the ...
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Patron Saints for Struggling Souls - If you doubt the work of God in your life, seek a Patron Saint whose life’s struggles resonate with your own. Look for perseverance over piety, and then st...7 years ago
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Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow - Members and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association joined together this afternoon for a Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow, and a Traditional Latin ...
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The Remnant - The Remnant from Laurence England on Vimeo. This was fun to make but its low on humorous content. For four minutes and and thirty four seconds I got to ...7 years ago
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Rosary On The Coast At Margate... - Following the witness shown in Poland and Ireland recently, a group of lay people in the UK decided to try and organise a similar day of pilgrimage and p...
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Three years - I made a ten-day retreat at Our Lady of Clear Creak Abbey in Oklahoma in Advent. My first visit there was for a week retreat last Lent. In many senses I...
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Sophronius of Jerusalem: A Baptism of Salvation - Today the grace of the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, came upon the waters. Today the unwaning sun has dawned, and the world is lit up with the light ...8 years ago
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Sarah Says Turn and Face Your God - I am reading Zola’s work on Lourdes. It focuses on that most extreme contradiction between our Faith and modernism, when the doctors have given up on certa...9 years ago
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Ad Orientem... Please? - 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...9 years ago
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Reconciliation rumours - 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 ...9 years ago
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Three thoughts - 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 ...9 years ago
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The Miracle of the Sacred Thorn - I have not heard of this before but it is very interesting. The other connection of Good Friday and the Annunciation is the martyrdom of St. Margaret Clith...9 years ago
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Palm Sunday - Here are recordings of some of the chants you may be singing on Sunday: > > Hosanna filio David > http://gregorian-chant-hymns.com/hymns-2/hosanna-filio.ht...9 years ago
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Saying goodbye ... - 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...9 years ago
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On Father Ripperger and The Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother - Fr. Ripperger holds Master’s degrees in Philosophy and Theology and completed his Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He a...10 years ago
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US Supreme Court - Same Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom - V Continuing my analysis of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges I am going to look at how the decison and the dissenting judg...
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Holy Week/Triduum 2015 Debrief - So this year between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday we sang: 4 hymns in Latin 5 hymns in English 11 pieces of chant in English 16 motets (one in 8 parts) 27...10 years ago
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That Letter - Update - 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...10 years ago
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In support of our priests, our families and our Church - You may have seen the recent letter from more than 450 priests in support of the Church’s teaching on marriage. We would like to invite you to sign the let...10 years ago
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The Dominican Way 2015 - book your place now! - *To find out more or book your place:* *www.facebook.com/TheDominicanWay* *thedominicanway@english.op.org* *To read about last year's pilgrimage, click here...
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REQUIEM MASS FOR RICHARD COLLINS - 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 ...
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El Camino con Padre Joe y Señor McSorley - 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 ...11 years ago
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Words of Wisdom for Lent - 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...11 years ago
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At last William Oddie has given expression to what many of us feel now about Benedict XVI - See his post at the Catholic Herald site, if you have not yet had the courage to say it.. Thank you Dr Oddie for your honesty. At least I now feel I am not...12 years ago
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Weekend Roundup - 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...12 years ago
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Summer Fun - I love this time of year! We have had luscious sunshine all spring, and although a bit cooler now I'm sure there's still summer to come!
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Happy Easter - SURREXIT DOMINUS VERE! ALLELUIA! We wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. May God be with you.15 years ago
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Dom Prosper Gueranger on Our Lady's Expectation: - 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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