What They Are Owed
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*Frances Ryan writes:*
“Will Santa find me?” a subject line in my inbox asked last week. I
wondered briefly if my niece had moved to email with her questio...
O Emmanuel 2024
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O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio gentium, et Salvator earum:
veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our king and
lawgiver, l...
Christian Themes in Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
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From Magis Center:
The Cratchit family are the only characters to get the best eating scene.
While it is very humble in portions, their feast contains...
Belloc on Wolsey and Cranmer
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Os Justi Press is carrying two books by Hilaire Belloc: *Wolsey *and
*Cranmer*. They have been brought back into print by Mysterium Press in the
U.K. The...
'Introduction - Necessary to be Read'.
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*Tuesday, 12 November 2024*
*Introduction - Necessary to be Read*
Note to readers: This article was the first in a series of posts dealing
with the v...
Friends in high places
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I was pleasantly surprised yesterday afternoon to see in the list of new
life peerage creations on the recommendation of the Leader of the
Conservative pa...
The celebration of Christmas revives our hope
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In 2007, Gracewing published a collection of monastic conferences and
homilies by the then Dom Hugh Gilbert, who at the time was the Abbot of Pluscarden...
Fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas
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*Fourth Sunday of Advent*
*Saturday Vigil Mass at 5pm St Catherine's*
* Sunday Mass at 8.30am St Mary's*
*Sunday Mass at 10.30* St Mary's
*MASSES...
Gilson on philosophy and its history
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You might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s *The Unity of
Philosophical Experience* that it is a book about philosophy in general.
And ultimate...
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Live Adoration from Tyburn Convent, London
Fourth Week of Advent - Octave of Christmas
*And the Word was Made Flesh, and Dwelt Among Us*
Happy Christmas!
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No kneeling in Church!
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Top Cardinal Blase Cupich (well he has twice won the World Cup of Bad
Cardinals) has spoken:
*A message from our champion:*
*Certainly reverence can and...
Holland 1944
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Just this week I found these two photos of a diorama from 1977 or so. I
didn't expect it would survive the trip to Ecuador, so I gave it away.
Battery trains fool’s gold
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A piece by the railway news video Green Signals recently reported the fast
charging trials for battery operated electric trains on the West Ealing to
Green...
40 Days to Give So Others Might Live This Lent
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We are called Pray, Fast and Give Alms in Lent. This year, the money you
save in Lent could help us to offer women the help they need to keep their
babie...
Pre-1910 Calendar for Week Beginning 24 December
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*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...
Spanish Q&A Session – Oct. 24
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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...
CORONATION PRAYER
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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...
Saint Gabriel
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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...
Last Post
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*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...
Praying with chant
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Beautifully and practically, Stephanie Mann writes on praying with
Gregorian chant.
The post Praying with chant appeared first on Chant Café.
Septuagesima
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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...
The Pontificate of Abuse
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I have in the past had some experience of abusive relationships. They are
profoundly painful even when you love the person involved. It can take a
long ...
Pachamama and the Pieta
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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 ...
Young Catholic Adults' Weekend, 25-27 Oct 2019
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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...
Prayer and Reality
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[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...
Our Lady Who Turns Her Face to the Wall
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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 ...
Patron Saints for Struggling Souls
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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...
Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow
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Members and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association joined together
this afternoon for a Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow, and a Traditional
Latin ...
Rosary On The Coast At Margate...
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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...
Three years
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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...
Sophronius of Jerusalem: A Baptism of Salvation
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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 ...
Sarah Says Turn and Face Your God
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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...
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...
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 ...
The Miracle of the Sacred Thorn
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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...
Palm Sunday
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Here are recordings of some of the chants you may be singing on Sunday:
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> Hosanna filio David
> http://gregorian-chant-hymns.com/hymns-2/hosanna-filio.ht...
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...
Holy Week/Triduum 2015 Debrief
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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...
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...
The Dominican Way 2015 - book your place now!
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*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...
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
...
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...
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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