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Cubans end year by honoring their patroness, Mary
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 31, 2011 at 2:06 pm
In advance of tomorrow’s solemnity, and the start of a brand new year, Cuba paused to hail Mary:
Thousands of Cuban Catholics flocked to Havana Bay for an open-air mass marking...
Christmas in Hong Kong
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 31, 2011 at 2:00 pm Tomorrow is the Octave day of the Christmas octave, and so I wish to wrap up our series of Christmas Masses posts with this Christmas Mass from Hong Kong. We have been very...
Dead Theologians Society
Making Things Visible - Dec 31, 2011 at 1:52 pm DTS is an amazing alternative to the Christian rock band, high octane, low content format typically embraced in youth ministry. Eddie Kotter is a an amazing man. I had an...
The Feeder Feed: Theban Sphinx Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 31, 2011 at 1:30 pm You know the story of Oedipus.
Here is a terracotta bell-krater from Paestum in S Italy. It is attributed to Python in the last quarter of the 4th c. BC.
Closer.
Closer.
In S...
Is a retreat one of your resolutions?
OSV Daily Take - Dec 31, 2011 at 1:28 pm By Mary DeTurris PoustWhat's on your list of things to do or accomplish in 2012? If "go on retreat" isn't on there, you really should think about adding it to the bottom of the...
Another way to get Father’s attention!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 31, 2011 at 1:00 pm A reader alerted me to this amusing bit at the blog Acts of Apostasy. Apparently a parishonert at Divine Tambourine parish was fed up with the liturgical abuses inflicted by the...
UN Agency for Women Mired by Lack of Funds
LifeSiteNews - Dec 31, 2011 at 12:53 pm by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. NEW YORK, December 30 (C-FAM) - UN Women, a high-level agency that began its work a year ago, may have to rethink its goals and role because of lack of...
What is the “Name” of God?: The Readings for the Octave of Christmas
The Sacred Page - Dec 31, 2011 at 12:40 pm Years ago, while I was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, some very nice Jehovah’s Witnesses paid a visit to my home and tried to persuade me that I was missing out on God’s best...
Evangelicals Want A Good Catholic
Creative Minority Report - Dec 31, 2011 at 12:30 pm Fifty years ago, there were real questions about whether a Catholic could win the presidency, anti-Catholic sentiment being as pervasive as it was. I think, more than anything...
Abortionists Brigham, Riley Charged with Murder, Jailed
LifeSiteNews - Dec 31, 2011 at 12:23 pm by Operation Rescue staff ELKTON, Maryland, November 28, 2011 (OperationRescue.org) – Operation Rescue has learned that abortionists Steven Chase Brigham and Nicola Irene Riley...
Pope: God responded to 2011’s sufferings with Jesus’ birth
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 31, 2011 at 12:05 pm Vatican City, Dec 31, 2011 / 01:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI said that the questions raised by 2011’s tragedies were answered when Jesus was born at Christmas to...
Fortune Cookie Report: Franciscan Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 31, 2011 at 12:00 pm I am still puzzling over what happened in that fortune cookie factory.
And the wontons in chile oil were great!
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Christmas with the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 31, 2011 at 11:55 amSimply amazing: world’s largest model railroad
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 31, 2011 at 11:35 am It’s in Hamburg, Germany. But I’m sure everyone has something like this under their tree every Christmas, right?
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QUAERITUR: Hand-missal for new, corrected translation. Reader needs help!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 31, 2011 at 10:00 am From a reader:
Dear Father:
I want to purchase a daily Missal for the first time in my 53 years. I
want to buy the “best” version. However, I do not know what that is. I searched...
A New Year’s Day message: what some preachers are planning to say
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 31, 2011 at 9:53 am
Stuck for a homily idea? Check out this interesting overview, from a variety of faiths in Indiana, here:
Pastors will have similar new Yyear themes in their Sunday sermons. A...
Our Dayspring
Communio - Dec 31, 2011 at 9:10 am Our Savior, the Dayspring from the east,has visited us from on high, and
we who were in darkness and shadow have
found the truth, for
the Lord is born of the Virgin! Let
us, the...
Wayzata edges out Cretin-Derham Hall in Catholic Spirit tourney final
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 31, 2011 at 8:03 am Results — Friday, Dec. 30
CHAMPIONSHIP
Wayzata 75
Cretin-Derham Hall 71
Junior guard Drake Mjaanes, right, of Wayzata High School in Plymouth gets his shot blocked by senior...
Daily Quote from C. S. Lewis
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 31, 2011 at 6:30 am “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat....
If you install it, they will kneel.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 31, 2011 at 6:27 am From a deacon:
We just finished a refurbishing of the inside of our church shortly
before Christmas which included bringing out of the basement the old
altar rail and re-...
