Oct

31

In festo omnium Sanctorum

October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I can’t attend Mass, but I sure can make these little posts. In honour of our Saints, wonderful examples of how we can imitate the Lord in a sinful world. I like that we too can aspire to the same degree of holiness.
Excellent homily for this solemnity at the Roman Miscellany.
Holy Saints, pray for us.

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Oct

31

The Plain Man’s Guide

October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I downloaded a copy of the Plain Man’s Guide to the Traditional Roman Rite. I’ve attended Mass all my life and I can recite most of the Rite from memory. But I’m still confused with terminology for the various parts, like preface, canon and so on.
This is where that changes.
Here’s an interesting paragraph from that [...]

Oct

31

Didache 1

October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I consider the Didache to be absolutely authentic. Because it has the teaching of the Lord, and the structure is very similar to the Gospels. I’m going to put it up here in sixteen bits.
1. There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two [...]

Oct

29

Baptism

October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Today is the anniversary of my baptism. On this event, I post the Catechism entry on this most essential sacrament:
252. This sacrament is primarily called Baptism because of the central rite with which it is celebrated. To baptize means to “immerse” in water. The one who is baptized is immersed into the death [...]

Oct

29

More anti-Christian nonsense

October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Today I found that nasty book on the Turin Shroud by the authors of the ‘Templar Revelation’ book. I’m not even going to Amazon-link those trash books. It’s sufficient to say that those nuts will attribute anything they cannot understand to a medieval scientist-artist called Leonardo from a town called Vinci.
This time, they got [...]

Oct

29

Discover WikiMapia

October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Discover WikiMapia. Below is a shot of Vatican City. My connection is bad, so it doesn’t download all the squares the first time. It’s like an online Google Earth, but people can mark locations up themselves; the boxes visible in the screenshot are public mark-ups. The resolution goes down to individual houses, even in places [...]

Oct

28

Get Firefox 2.0

October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Browser world is alive with the new offerings from MS and Mozilla. Now, IE7 looks very flashy, but Firefox has everything it does and more. Besides, IE7 is properly integrated into the Windows system, and the last thing I require is for my system to crash more than it already does. And at 14MB, the [...]

Oct

28

Roman breviary

October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Online is a complete breviary in both English and Latin at this link, from the Confraternity of the Sts. Peter and Paul. The picture is from the title-page of the same web-site.

Oct

27

Neopets

October 27, 2006 | 2 Comments

A request from my eleven year old sister, who wants to build a webpage. She’s discovered this website she likes, called ‘neopets’, and wants more people to know about it. All you’ll have to do is click the little red haired monster below, I think:

There you are, Kate.

Oct

26

Here’s a nice blog: the School of Mary.

October 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Here’s a nice blog: the School of Mary. This nice poem caught my attention:
The Robe of Christ
by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
 
At the foot of the Cross on Calvary
Three soldiers sat and diced,
And one of them was the Devil
And he won the Robe of Christ.
—
O Mother of Good Counsel, lend
Intelligence to me!
Encompass me with wisdom,
Thou Tower of [...]

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