O Clavis David
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Today’s O Antiphon O clavis Davidet sceptrum domus Israel;qui aperis, et
nemo claudit;claudis, et nemo aperit;veni et educ vinctum de domo
carceris,sedente...
Embertide - Winter Ember Days
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From the Diocese of Lansing (USA)
*On December 18, 2024, Catholics begin their observance of the Winter Ember
Days. *
*What exactly are Ember Days,...
Let’s go to the lake!
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2nd Sunday of Advent December 8, 2024Bar 5:1-9; Ps126: Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Lk
3:1-6 “Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic
emotional me...
With the Holy Father in Rome
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Hello, and welcome back! I hope all of you have been well since my last
blog post in October, and I’m very happy to be back with you. Of course,
this is my...
our hope is not in this world
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out of gloom and darkness,the eyes of the blind shall see. The lowly will
ever find joy in the LORD, and the poor rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
For th...
Concert season is here!
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It’s Advent, so I am in Boston with the choir, getting our 2024 Christmas
Concert lineup lined up in my head. This year we are adding a new bit of
techn...
Looking Back on 2023
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I wrote my first end-of-year retrospective 10 years ago, reflecting on what
2013 was like. Wow, have things changed in my life over that decade and
going...
The Bonding (TNG) – The Secrets of Star Trek
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Tragedy, loss, and alien trickery. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss
this TNG story of loss and grief and what makes us human in dealing with
the death...
St. Frances de Sales and his Early Tracts
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I just finished “The Catholic Controversy” by St. Francis de Sales. This is
a collection of the tracts he wrote in a time period not long after he was
orda...
Bernd Wallet – Archbishop of Utrecht
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After delays because of Covid, Bernd Wallet was finally ordained bishop and
installed as Archbishop of Utrecht in the Old Catholic Church.
The Pontificate of Abuse
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I have in the past had some experience of abusive relationships. They are
profoundly painful even when you love the person involved. It can take a
long ...
The constant drumbeat of scandal is exhausting
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So...story time? Around 11 years ago, I left my American Baptist church to
become Catholic. I was dating a Catholic woman seriously at the time, and
we en...
Pachamama and the Pieta
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Those who are following the Amazonian Synod in Rome will have heard about
the furore over the feminine image first used in a tree planting ritual
when the ...
Catholic Fire Returns to Blogger
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Three years after Jean Heimann moved the Catholic Fire blog to her new
author website on WordPress, *Catholic Fire* returns to the Google Blogger
platform....
Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow
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Members and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association joined together
this afternoon for a Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow, and a Traditional
Latin ...
Anathema Sit?
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Hat tip to Fr. Z. A reading from the 13th session of the Council of Trent:
“CANON XI.- If any one saith, that faith alone is a sufficient preparation
for r...
It's National Poetry Month!
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Here's my latest at Aleteia, in which I recommend reading poetry aloud as a
way to come to enjoy reading verse.
Additionally, here's a video of me reading ...
2016 Predictions
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Another year past, and another batch of predictions from last year have
proven eerily accurate. I thought Taco Bell’s taco flavored tacos were a
brilliant ...
A Tale of Two Linguists
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The Second Vatican Council declared the Latin language to be one of the
treasures of the Western Church, and decreed that it would remain the
official lang...
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*Editorial du 9 novembre 2014*
*www.fsspquebec.org*
Chers amis,
La chrétienté est à rebâtir, mais nous vous l’avons déjà dit, ce ne doit
pas être notre...
Returning from illness
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Prayers are a wonderful, beautiful lifeline and we should never be told
otherwise. In a world where we face the argument that religion is a source
of abso...
Christmas: the Eternal embraces the Finite
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*The following is a Christmas-season meditation by Susan Anne, who will be
joining me on this blog as a co-author.*
Beginnings and endings, finite measur...
A Brief Update
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*Warde Hall at Mount Mercy University*
Readers of *Principium Unitatis* have surely noticed that I haven't been
writing here as much. One reason for that...
The Doctor as Patient
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I recently had a procedure done, which gave me the opportunity to put
myself into the role of patient rather than physician. I tried really hard
to not l...
The Most Fully and Rightly Ordered though Time...
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...is the Catholic Church. According to me, among all of the man developed
religious institutions. (this is only a very high aerial view statement)
To sa...
Finding Happiness
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In my Philosophy class we are just starting a new reading section on St.
Augustine's Confessions. As told by my Professor, Father Thomas Regan SJ,
it is ...
3 Down, 23 and Counting to Go
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I finished a couple of my UFOs. Two charity baby quilts only needed
binding. The projects that have been *almost* finished and that hang around
needing onl...
Fundraiser for WPA
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The school I work at has moved to a location with more space! With that
move, as with any, comes expenses; some in setting up infrastructure
(routers, ser...
On Growth.
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I started this blog back in 07' and it contained some of my free time
musings, especially those concerning religion. Every word I printed and all
of ...
Quite the Quarry
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Archeologists may have found the site of a sixth-century miracle recorded
by Procopius in his account of The Buildings of Justinian. The story broke
in Haa...
The Liturgical Busy Season
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Well, summer is officially over, which also means so is the vacation from
Church. I’m not advocating such a position, of course, just noting that
ecclesial...
He Walks in Beauty
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Now Athos will see beauty all around him, and join his tenor voice and his
violin to the music of the stars and the communion of saints in everlasting
prai...
everlastweldersca
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5 types of the *tig welders* are power I TIG -200, power TIG 200 DX, power
TIG 250 EX, power TIG EX, power TIG 225 LX, and power TIG 315 DX. The
minimum vo...
My Sister's New Blog
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My sister started a new blog called "Season the Day" with gluten-free
recipes and other snack ideas that you might be interested in. I hope
you'll stop by ...
FYI
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It seemed as if I was spending most of my time complaining and griping
about stuff, and it got wearying. Therefore I have begun a new blogging
adventure a...
The Canon Question
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“I would not have believed the gospel, unless the authority of the Church
had induced me.” (St. Augustine, Contra Ep. Fund., V, 6.)
I. THE CANON QUESTIO...
Aaarrrrrggggghhhh!!!!!
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To the mean old lady at the supermarket today,
I'm sorry you had to move out of the middle of the aisle at Kroger today so
that Piper and I could walk past...
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Click here to learn more about what our government is trying to force us to
pay for!
It is time that all good citizens of this country, especially Christia...
It is good to be back
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This is a repost from my other blog, Calling Rome Home. I hope it will help
to explain the inactivity of the Catholic Converts blog over the past few
mon...
Top Jimmy
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I'm sure each one of us has encountered the question "Are you saved?" at
some point in our lives. It's a question that is often thrown about in the
more f...
You Are Cephas is Shutting Its Doors...
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Folks. Brethren. I've made the hard decision to abandon blogging at this
stage in my life. I have a lot on my plate and there simply isn't enough
time t...
I've been extremely busy lately. Let's see - work has taken me out of town for 3 of the last 4 weekends, the baby is growing at a tremendous rate, we just celebrated the 100th anniversary of our parish with the Bishop presiding over the mass! Shew....I need to get back on track in studying the book of Hebrews here. I really didn't forget about it.