Hello Folks, just letting you know this blog will be on Hiatus from now until Christmas. I wish you all a blessed and properly spent Advent. I will pray for all who visit here, as I hope you will be kind enough to pray for me. Just to give you an update on the health [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Blog-Fast
Posted in Opinion on November 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Blessed Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster
Posted in Pictures on November 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Ildefonso Schuster was born on January 18, 1880 in Rome, Italy. Schuster was created cardinal-priest by Pope Pius XI on July 15, 1929, receiving the title of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti on July 18, 1929. He was consecrated on July 21, 1929 in the Sistine Chapel by Pius XI personally. Schuster died on [...]
De Jure/De Facto
Posted in Humor, Pictures on November 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
De Jure:
It is, therefore, permissible to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass following the typical edition of the Roman Missal promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962 and never abrogated. Catholic priests may use the Roman Missal published by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1962….For such celebrations, the priest has no need for permission from [...]
Just interesting things
Posted in Pictures on November 27, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Just an interesting Holy Card of Pius XII showing him leading the sheep away from dangers (check out the wolves in sheeps clothing).
Also: notice the Throne:
The Last Time….and the Closest Since
Posted in Humor, Pictures on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last time on the Sedia Gestatoria…
And the closest since….They pushed JPII around on a platform during his visit to Mexico…
Fostering Vocations
Posted in Pictures on November 26, 2007 | 42 Comments »
What Next? The Camelaucum?
Posted in Pictures on November 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Could he? Would he? If not the Tiara, why not it’s predecessor? Why not? He did bring back the older style Pallium. The Camelaucum: The pontifical mitre is of Roman origin: it is derived from a non-liturgical head-covering distinctive of the pope, the camelaucum, to which also the tiara is to be traced. The camelaucum was worn [...]
What a difference a few months make!
Posted in Pictures on November 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Don’t let them get away with it!
Posted in Pictures on November 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Don’t let them get away with it! What? “Liberals” claiming Bl. John the XXIII as “their” Pope. Nonsense! They never had a Pope, even the worst. Past posts on John XXIII: (1) (2) (3)
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted in Humor, Pictures on November 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Train? of Peter
Posted in Pictures on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For Carolina Cannonball
Posted in Paintings, Pictures on November 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Breathes of the Redemption
Posted in Paintings, Pictures on November 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The communion in Christ has nothing of the self-assertion found in natural communities. It breathes of the Redemption. It liberates men from all self-centeredness. Yet such a communion emphatically does not depersonalize the individual; far from dissolving the person into the cosmic, pantheistic swoon so often commended to us these days, it actualizes the person’s [...]
Thank you
Posted in Pictures on November 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Hello Folks, just like to say Thank you to all who have visited this blog, as I have just passed 100,000 views on the WordPress blog (Since March). This makes about 217,000 in the last year between the old Blog-city version, and the new one. Not bad for a blog that deals mostly in pictures, [...]
Pius XI: Catholic Missions
Posted in Pictures on November 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Since Jesus Christ has proclaimed that the special sign of discipleship with Him is that we “have love one for another” (John xiii, 35; xv, 12) can we give a mark of greater love for our neighbors than to assist them in putting behind themselves the darkness of error by instructing them in the true [...]
Did you know?
Posted in Pictures, tagged Papal Coronation, Papal Tiara, Tiara of John Paul II, Triregnum on November 16, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Did you know? That JPII was given a Papal Tiara by the Hungarians in 1981? Kind of a mix between the older ones, and Paul VI’s. Too bad he didn’t wear it! (Big hat tip to Trad Cath83). Also: More did you know?
The “Before Time”
Posted in Pictures on November 14, 2007 | 11 Comments »
(3 above are Episcopal Consecration of Msgr. Montini (Paul VI))
(2 above I believe are the opening of Vat2)
The next Canonized Pope
Posted in Pictures on November 13, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Petition to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for the Beatification of Pope Pius XII (Go sign it!)
Original Sin
Posted in Pictures on November 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Hence, likewise, they refuse to believe that in infants original sin is remitted through baptism, for they contend that no such original sin exists at all in people by their birth. But if the apostle had wished to assert that sin entered into the world, not by natural descent, but by imitation, he would have [...]
7 Times a day
Posted in Pictures on November 10, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil. I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law. Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling [...]
To Ascend By Steps
Posted in Pictures on November 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, In the vale of tears, in the place which be hath set. (Psalm 82)
(The Scala Sancta, St. John Lateran)
Benedetto!
Posted in Pictures on November 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
V. Let us pray for our most blessed Pope Benedict XVI.
R. The Lord preserve him and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth ; and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies.
(Past Post on the Holy Father’s choice of vestments)
Moving the altar cross to the side to give an [...]
We are all Spiritually Semites: Pius XII
Posted in Pictures on November 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Pius XII invited the author to finish his story. He listened intently then said: “You have done well to come to me and tell me this. I have heard about it before. Come back tomorrow with a written report and give it to the Secretary of State who is dealing with the question. But now [...]
Confused
Posted in Humor, Pictures on November 6, 2007 | 7 Comments »
And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. (Matt 12: 25)
Communist HQ in Italy
1946 Consistory
Posted in Pictures on November 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »
1946 Consistory: Video: 1946 Consistory (video courtesy of Trad Catholicism)
Feast of Holy Relics
Posted in Paintings, Pictures on November 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Few points of faith can be more satisfactorily traced back to the earliest ages of Christianity than the veneration of relics. The classical instance is to be found in the letter written by the inhabitants of Smyrna, about 156, describing the death of St. Polycarp. After he had been burnt at the stake, we are [...]
Staten Island Latin Mass
Posted in Pictures on November 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Hello All, there will be a TLM offered this Sunday, Nov 4 2007 at 3:15 PM at Sacred Heart on Staten Island. Fr Miara will be celebrant at this High Mass. If you are in the NYC area, please come by and show some support. Maybe if enough people show up, they will get the message [...]
Lux Aeterna Luceat Eis, Domine
Posted in Paintings, Pictures on November 1, 2007 | 7 Comments »
May everlasting light shine upon them, O Lord, with thy saints in eternity, for thou art merciful. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may everlasting light shine upon them.
And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well [...]