Daily Archives: May 20, 2012

I wanted to update everyone on AQ (from my original post from 2010) who were praying for or have offered prayers for my wife and I and our family. I was recently notified that my appeal of my wife’s annulment has been denied by the Roman Rota and she now has her official Canon 1108 annulment in her hands. After 23 years and 10 children, I have become irrelevant… Be assured That I will continue to live my marriage vows, to pray for my family’s reconciliation, and more importantly, to continue Read more [...]

Please pray this week for the 2 boys and 4 girls who will be confirmed and make their first holy communion next Sunday, the Feast of Pentecost. Our bishop is coming to confirm them using the traditional rite of Holy Mother Church. Our chaplain will celebrate the TLM, and His Excellency shall administer first HC to the children. Prayers also for me, the head server, and my altar boys. Thank you.

Martyrology-May 22nd Roman Martyrology-May 22nd- on this date in various years- At Rome, the holy martyrs Faustinus, Timothy, and Venustus. In Africa, the holy martyrs Castus and Aemilius, who met their martyrdom by fire, St. Cyprian says that there were overcome by the first trial, but that in the second God made them victorious, so that those who had first weakened in the face of the fire were made mightier than the flames. At Comana in Pontus, under Emperor Maximian and the governor Read more [...]

The Angry, Lazy Bigotry of Maureen Dowd The New York Times columnist has passed caricature and is heading for complete farce Carl E. Olson May 02, 2012 www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/1313/the_angry_lazy_bigotry_of_maureen_dowd.aspx Maureen Dowd, as most readers know, writes a regular op-ed column for the New York Times. Her dislike for certain people and institutions is quite obvious, mostly because she fixates on them in nearly every column: men, the Catholic Church (specifically, Read more [...]

Vestments: White INTROIT Psalms 138: 18, 5, 6 Ye men of Galilee, why wonder you, looking up to heaven? alleluia. He shall so come as you have seen Him going up into heaven, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. — (Ps. 44. 2). O clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God, with the voice of exultation. V.: Glory to the Father . . . — Ye men of Galilee, why wonder you . COLLECT – Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God: that we, who believe Thine only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have ascended Read more [...]

Here Comes . . . Maureen Dowd By Michael Potemra May 20, 2012 www.nationalreview.com/corner/300523/here-comes-maureen-dowd-michael-potemra# Maureen Dowd’s column today [ www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/dowd-here-comes-nobody.html?hp ] expresses the by now well-known disappointment of Catholic liberals at the conservatizing trend within official Catholicism. It contains all of today’s Top 40 hits of how the libs think the right-wingers are wrong: Sebelius is getting Read more [...]

SOURCE ARTICLE 18th May 2012 Crisis Magazine Steve Skojec The statement rings out like a shot in the quiet, muggy, non-descript church. Oscillating fans buzz from various strategic locations. Incense wafts up from the thurible tucked away to the right of the altar. The congregants sit quietly, attentive. The women’s heads are covered, and everyone is dressed modestly. Nobody throws holy water at the rather oddly-garbed priest standing at the pulpit. Nobody gets up and indignantly walks Read more [...]

Vatican denounces leaks of papal correspondence, documents as ‘criminal,’ promises justice By Associated Press, Published: May 19, 2012 VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Saturday denounced as “criminal” a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Holy See and the thinking of its embattled top banker, and warned that it would take legal action against those responsible. Pope Benedict XVI has already appointed a commission of cardinals to investigate Read more [...]