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Opening Day
2008-04-08 14:38:00 Today is a near-holiday in Massachusetts, at least for the 38,000 or so folks who have tickets for today's Red Sox home opener. So far, the season has been mediocre at best. An opening two-game split in Japan with the A's, followed by a sweep of two games with the A's in Oakland, and being swept in three in Toronto. The starting pitching has been shaky, and the bullpen worse. But now, with More About: Opening
Holy Trinity Update
2008-04-07 15:13:00 I saw this item on Friday, but this is the first opportunity I have had to share it: Archdiocesan Reorganization News On March 14, 2008 Most Rev. Robert Hennessey, bishop of the Central Region of the Archdiocese, formally presented to the Presbyteral Council his recommendation that Holy Trinity Parish be closed. Fr. Connolly was present at that meeting and has reported that there were no More About: Update
Requiescat In Pace
2008-04-07 14:52:00 Charlton Heston died Saturday, at the age of 84, evidently from complications arising from the Alzheimer's Disease that had silenced this great American these last few years. Playing Moses, Judah Ben Hur, Michaelangelo, St. Thomas More, Cardinal Richelieu, and Taylor in The Planet of the Apes might have been enough for one lifetime, but following that up by marching for civil rights, and becoming More About: Pace
Our Blessed Lady's Saturday
2008-04-05 15:10:00 ACT OF REPARATION To be recited on the First Saturday s, but one may do so at any time. Most Holy Virgin and our beloved Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of thy Immaculate Heart, / surrounded with the thorns / which ungrateful men place therein / at every moment / by their blasphemies and ingratitude. / Moved by the ardent desire / of loving thee as our Mother / and More About: Blessed
Friday At the Foot Of the Cross
2008-04-04 15:09:00 Act of Contrition to the Sacred Heart O most Sacred and adorable Heart of Jesus, behold me humbly prostrate before Thee with a heart contrite and penetrated with lively sorrow for having loved Thee so little and for having offered Thee so many insults by my wandering from Thee, by my ingratitude, my perfidy and my other acts of infidelity, by which I have rendered myself unworthy of Thy More About: Cross , The Cross , Friday , Foot
Where They Belong
2008-04-03 15:35:00 Yesterday's victory over the Oakland A's in Oakland, sweeping the two-game series, put the Red Sox atop the American League Eastern Division, at 3-1. Lester looked good, as did Dice-K in the series opener. The problem with both has been consistency, so let us see if they can keep it up.
Just Because It Is April
2008-04-03 15:03:00 And spring is in the air, and that old familiar itch is there again. A few YouTube snippets from Waterloo, Zulu, The Patriot, Sharpe, Horatio Hornblower, and reenactment videos, with some reenactment stills and some 18th century song lyrics. Barbara Allen In Scarlet town where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin' Made every youth cry Well-a-day, Her name was Barb'ra Allen. All in More About: April
Feast of Saint Joseph
2008-04-01 14:48:00 Today is the feast of Saint Joseph for those following the 1962 (and previous) Ordo. The Novus Ordo celebrated his feast on March 15th, under a new rule which moves his feast forward, rather than back, for those following that liturgical calendar. Seems completely unnecessary to me, since the old rule of making Lady Day the Monday after Low Sunday when it falls in Easter Week, and St. Joseph's More About: Feast
April
2008-04-01 13:12:00 Important feasts observed during the month of April include: 1st St. Joseph (transferred from March 19th) 3rd St. Richard of Chichester 4th St. Isidore of Seville 5th St. Vincent Ferrer 7th St. Jean Baptist de la Salle 9th St. Mary of Cleopas 13th St. Pope Martin I (martyr) and Bl. John Lockwood (martyr) 15th Bl. Damien deVeuster (Father Damien of Molokai) 16th Martyrs of Saragossa
Hock Monday
2008-03-31 15:01:00 Normally the return to regular life after the Easter hiatus from work. Learn more about Hocktide here. This year, Hocktide is especially joyous because today is also the transferred Lady Day, and tomorrow is also the transferred St. Joseph's feast (the new ordo celebrated him on March 15th, instead of following the tradition of transferring him ahead to the Tuesday after Low Sunday, so this More About: Monday
New Traditional Masses In Massachusetts and Connecticut
2008-03-31 14:48:00 The Traditional Mass is now offered every Sunday at Noon (I believe, check to be sure about that time) in Enfield, Connecticut , at St. Martha's Parish by Father J. Daniel McElheron. Father, who is the new administrator, and soon to be named pastor of the parish, began saying the Mass there on Easter Sunday. He has said the TLM in New Britain at Saint Mary's, and at Sacred Heart in New Haven. More About: Massachusetts
Lady Day (Feast of the Annunciation)
2008-03-31 14:36:00 Last year, I did this with the Angelus, but that was during Lent. This year, Lady Day is transferred to what would otherwise be Hock Monday, or the Monday after Low Sunday, so we are in Easter time, when the Angelus is replaced by the Regina Caeli. Regina, caeli, laetare, Alleluia: Quia quem meruisti portare, Alleluia, Resurrexit sicut dixit, Alleluia. Ora pro nobis Deum, Alleluia. V. More About: Feast
Low Sunday/Divine Mercy Sunday
2008-03-30 20:28:00 From The Liturgical Year, by Abbot Prosper Gueranger, OSB: Our neophytes closed the Octave of the Resurrection yesterday. They were before us in receiving the admirable mystery; their solemnity would finish earlier than ours. This, then, is the eighth day for us who kept the Pasch on the Sunday , and did not anticipate it on the vigil. It reminds us of all the glory and joy of that feast of More About: Mercy , Divine
Traditional Vocations Blog
2008-03-29 22:06:00 An excellent clearinghouse of links to traditional orders that support the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, as well as traditional Catholic religious life. Do the Transalpine Redemptorists and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart need to be added? I think that there are reasons for them not being included, beyond plain oversight. Until the Transalpine Redemptorists, who have accepted the Holy More About: Blog , Traditional
Our Blessed Lady's Saturday
2008-03-29 18:55:00 Mary, Mother of grace, Mother of mercy, Shield me from the enemy And receive me at the hour of my death. This prayer carried a partial indulgence, and may still carry one if you do not believe that the Church has retracted the gracious indulgences formerly granted for many prayers. More About: Saturday , Blessed
Friday At the Foot Of the Cross
2008-03-28 14:23:00 Prayer of Expiation To the Sacred Heart Dearest Jesus, Whose love poured forth upon mankind is so ungratefully repaid with forgetfulness, coldness and disdain, behold us prostrate before Thine Altar. We strive to pay Thee special honour and thus make amends for the wrong done on every side to Thy loving Heart. Nevertheless remembering that even we have not always been free from that guilt and More About: Cross , The Cross , Friday , Foot
Training To Serve the Traditional Mass
2008-03-27 14:54:00 Father Higgins is training as many boys as possible to serve at Traditional Mass es. And he is training some priests, as well. That is what the Boston area needs most, more priests, particularly younger priests, able and willing to say the Traditional Mass. More About: Training , Serve
After Easter
2008-03-27 14:18:00 Of course, just about everyone is back to the normal work routine now, even if they used whatever it took to get Good Friday and Easter Monday off. We are still in the Octave of Easter, but that doesn't have a lot of consequence in everyday life. The intense experience of sacrifice, penance, and worship of Lent, Passiontide, Holy Week, and Easter are now passed. As always, I wore myself out
Sox Lose Game 2
2008-03-26 14:10:00 Another early morning start (well, early morning by Boston standards) for the Red Sox, this time with a different result. They lost 5-1 to the As. So much for the Japan trip. Back to Spring Training. More About: Game , Game 2
Is It Really Spring?
2008-03-26 13:53:00 According to the calendar, Maundy Thursday was the first day of Spring . But the weather here has given little hint that we are indeed in that pleasant season. No warm breezes blow. No pleasant sunny days on which one can linger outside comfortably. Just rain, cold, raw, dampish weather. Even when it is sunny, it feels like you are living inside a refrigerator. According to my records, we
Today Would Normally Be Lady Day
2008-03-25 14:29:00 March 25th is normally Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation. But when it falls in Easter Week, it is transferred to the Monday after Low Sunday. St. Joseph, whose feast fell during Holy Week, is transferred to the Tuesday after Low Sunday. So next Week will be a joyous one, with Divine Mercy Sunday followed by Lady Day and St. Joseph's feast. Poor St. Patrick does not get transferred at More About: Today
Easter Meat-Fest
2008-03-25 14:19:00 The long meatless drought of Lent was over Sunday. Bacon was devoured for breakfast, while ham, Swedish Meat balls, St. George's Chicken Parcels, Roast Beef Salad (Rare Italian Roast Beef rolled up and marinated in Creamy Vidalia Onion Dressing with Mancini Roasted Sweet Red Peppers), and pepperoni rolled up in cresent rolls all graced dinner. Other things I gave up for the duration of Lent More About: Easter , Fest
Opening Day, Sort Of
2008-03-25 13:41:00 The games have more the feel of exhibition season, and in fact, Spring Training was interrupted to play this series with the Oakland As in Japan. I doubt the wisdom of disturbing the team's preparation in Florida with this long-arsed trip to the back side of the world, cutting short the vital preparation for a repeat championship. A good case can be made that the fortunes and best interests of More About: Opening , Sort
Easter Sunday
2008-03-23 11:53:00 Happy Easter ! He is truly risen! Alleluia! All the pain and sacrifice of Lent is over. Good Friday is behind us, as is the wait of Holy Saturday. May Easter joy be with you and your families! Haec dies, quam fecit Dominus: Exsultemus, et laetemur in ea. Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus: Quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. Image found at Holy Cards For Your Inspiration, I think. But More About: Sunday
Indulgences For Praying For the Dead In November
2007-11-01 14:57:00 The Church is very free and liberal with plenary indulgences on behalf of the poor souls in Purgatory during the month of November . Here is a guide to gaining these poor souls indulgences. More About: Dead , Pray , Indulgence
All Hallows
2007-11-01 14:15:00 For All the Saints For all the saints, who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed. Alleluia, Alleluia! Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress and their Might; Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well fought fight; Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light. Alleluia, Alleluia! For the Apostles’ glorious company, Who bearing More About: Hallows , Allo
November
2007-11-01 13:45:00 Woodcock Shooting, by Aiden Lassell Ripley, American sporting artist, born Boston, MA 1896, grew up in Wakefield, MA, died, Lexington, MA 1969. Important feasts celebrated in November include: 1st All Hallows 2nd All Souls 3rd St. Malachy O'More 4th St. Charles Borromeo 5th St. Elizabeth 7th Bl. John Duns Scotus 10th St. Pope Leo the Great 11th Martinmas, St. Martin of Tours 15th St.
Happy Halloween!
2007-10-31 16:18:00 Enjoy a light-hearted day of the dead. Tomorrow ushers in November, and the month dedicated to the Poor Souls in Purgatory. Don't let the goblins, ghosts, witches, monsters, or the banshee get you! More About: Happy , Halloween , Allo
Evora Portugal's Bone Chapel
More articles from this author:2007-10-31 15:59:00 Via Mike at In Illo Tempore More About: Chapel , Bone , Apel 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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