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Defamation Suit Dismissed Under Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine
The Religion Clause - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm In Allen v. Holmes, (FL Cir. Ct., Nov. 22, 2011), a Florida trial court, invoking the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, dismissed claims of defamation and intentional infliction...
First Sunday of Advent, English Propers
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm Here is the moment for which we've waited 40 years. The new translation makes its first appearance in live use in the United States. Here is one suggested way to sing the propers...
Campaign to Save Pugin's Church: St. Augustine, Ramsgate
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Campaign launched to save Pugin's personal church of St Augustine’s, Ramsgate
The campaign to save Augustus Welby Pugin's personal church of St Augustine's Ramsgate, was launched...
A Carved Gospel Book Cover By Andrew Gould and Jonathan Pageau
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm Here is a gospel book cover. The relief carving in the central portion is by Jonathan Pageau a Canadian based in Quebec and the striking veneer frame is made by Andrew Gould who...
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm "A reading from the First Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians." Corinthians?...
The Church has preserved for us so many homilies of the Latin Fathers of the...
Traditional Mass in Belarus
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm After having been home to a local funeral director for some time, the Dominican church in Mahilow (Moguilev in Russian) is currently undergoing a restoration scheduled for...
Advent: time of faithfulness. Faithfulness: proof of love
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm In order not to run the risk of being illusory, love must be transformed into works and generously command all the activity of the soul.
Recalling the words of Jesus: If you love...
First Vespers of the First Sunday in Advent
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm The very first canonical hour of the new liturgical year is a wonderful moment ... to begin praying the Office, the Roman Breviary (or the traditional Breviaries of different...
Do you have what it takes to rule over one million Catholics?
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm Vatican Information Service, on Nov. 25, 2011:
VATICAN CITY, 25 NOV 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba Villota S.J., auxiliary of Bucaramanga...
Desacralization - I. Saint Catherine's church, Brussels
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm St. Catherine's - Said to be the largest church in the center of Brussels(Photo source)
The article is from the latest newsletter of DICI:
Belgium: A church soon to be turned into...
Desacralization - II. The Augustinian church in Würzburg, Germany
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm The Augustinerkirche before World War II:
Post- WWII reconstruction with further changes after 1970:
2011:
The Augustinian church of Würzburg after a 15-month renovation which...
Good Queen Isabella
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm Isabella Catholica
Castellae Regina
Serva Dei
† 26 Nov. MDIV
From her Last Will and Testament, Codicil, Chapter XII:
When the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, discovered or...
The Missal for the new liturgical year
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN MISSALALWAYS ANCIENT, ALWAYS NEW
Praise for the new, corrected translation coming in.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm I am getting some good feedback on the new translation. Here’s one item:
It was such an improvement that I might (just might) go to Novus Ordo Mass in English there once in a...
Wherein is found Fr. Z’s annual singing rant on Advent vestments. WDTPRS POLL!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm Some veteran readers here know about my annual rant about BLUE vestments during Advent. Lest all other Advent considerations be overshadowed by the implementation of the new,...
Readers: PARISH MERGER consultation!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm In the past – quite a long time ago now, actually – I wrote some short stories about a fictional place with the parishes, in this deanery at least, of St. Ipsidipsy (in Tall Tree...
RECENT POSTS and THANKS
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Christmas Blend 2011
Many thanks go out to all who have been so helpful and generous with donations and items from the wish lists. Each time something arrives it is a shot in...
PODCAzT 124: Advent Vespers hymn in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms compared
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm In this rapid PODCAzT I return to a hymn I dissected a few years ago in another of these audio projects, the hymn for Vespers during Advent, Conditor or Creator alme siderum, in...
1st Vespers 1 Sunday of Advent (BrevRom)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm For my weary brethren especially, …
… here is a fast recording of 1st Vespers for the 1st Sunday of Advent with the pre-conciliar Breviarium Romanum. I sing the hymn, but recite...
Benedict XVI to US bishops (Region I-II-III) during their ad limina visit
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm The Holy Father delivered the following address to the bishops of the USA (regions I-II-III) during their ad limina visit.
Let’s have a glance with my emphases and comments.
Dear...
