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More on the two Lectionaries 23 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
A commenter on the previous post said, "'New' lectionary. Most living Catholics have only known this lectionary. Do you see no merits in the OF lectionary?" Of course Summorum Pontificum means that t...
A New Image of God 22 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
In last Sundays readings Jesus says to his disciples: "Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division". It is the type of reading that the compilers of the Lectionary normal...
Irrational Islam 21 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
The religious internet has been alive with pictures of burning churches, of nuns being paraded through the streets as prisoners of war, with abduction and murder of bishops and priests, the abduction ...
Poorer Church, a non-Pelagian Church, a re-Orientated Church 14 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
The Pope talks about a poorer Church, so did his predecessor. It is very simplistic and I am of that generation that would see a poorer Church in terms of "The Shoes of the Fisherman" but that is a bi...
Dublin diocese is an unhappy place 13 Aug 2013 | 01:37 pm
Without trying to re-hash controversy about it again, apart from the riding rough shod over the rubrics regarding the gender of the owners of the feet the Pope washed last Holy Thursday. I was disappo...
The Trouble with the Poor 10 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
The trouble with the poor is that they are messy. There is a secluded area between the church and our hall, a passage, occasionally we find someone has got a few cardboard boxes together and has slep...
Bits of Beauty 10 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
I was a little amused at Mass this evening we had two seminarians, one a member of the Society of St Peter, ascetic looking, prayerful before, during and after Mass, assisted in choro, someone said it...
Thoughts between Sixtus and Laurence 9 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
I am not sure why Archbishop Pozzo went back to Ecclesia Dei but I think it is significant that his successor as Almoner to the Holy Father Msgr. Konrad Krajewski has a reputation for going around Vat...
From Grandma's knee to the Specialist 7 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
Just continuing cogitating on the nature of Catholicism... I remember preparing some children for first Holy Communion when I was first ordained, the eldest was twelve the youngest barely seven, they...
The Morphing Church 2 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
Watch this RR video entitled, "Wide Range of Music played during WYD in Brazil", well it might be a wide range but none of it strikes me as being 'Catholic', if we understand 'Catholic' music in the t...
