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www.sspx.org/regional_sspx_news/australia_new-zealand/auckland_new_zealand_1-11-2013.htm Assist us, O Lord our God, and defend us evermore by the might of Thy holy Cross, in whose honour Thou makest us to rejoice. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

(Tobit and Hobbit (auto-evil-corrupt managed to make Tobit into ‘to it’ at least five times, but I soldiered on) suite101.com/a/jrr-tolkien-are-hobbits-catholic In 1904, Mabel Tolkien died leaving 12 year old Ronald and Hilary orphans but she had made arrangements for the boys before her death.   As she wanted them to continue in the Catholic faith rather than leave them with their Protestant grandparents, Mabel appointed Father Morgan as their legal guardian and he placed them in Read more [...]

Question…how many readers say and do this in Mass?: “I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, And, striking their breast, they say: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; Then they continue: therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. The Read more [...]

A Priest in a Cassock – saving souls! Father Michel-Marie There is a rather edfifying story of a priest in Marseilles on Chiesa There is a peace upon him, a joy that is astonishing. But who are you?, you would like to ask him immediately.In front of a frugal meal, the highlights of an entire life. Two splendid parents. The mother, baptized but only formally Catholic, allows her son to go to church. The faith is imparted to him “by an elderly priest, a Salesian in a black cassock, a man Read more [...]

Father Zuhlsdorf Connected to confession of sins, which I am constantly pounding away at here (now Card. Dolan has also stressed at the Synod of Bishops and the need reviving the Sacrament of Penance) is reparation for sins.Together with recognition of our sins, and confession of our sins, is also reparation for our sins.  They are inseparable.We confess our own sins (not someone else’s) but we can – in charity – do reparation for the sins of others along with our own.As a matter of fact, Read more [...]