(14th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
The Blood of the new and eternal covenant especially deserves this worship of latria when it is elevated during the sacrifice of the Mass. But such worship achieves its normal fulfilment in sacramental communion with the same Blood, indissolubly united with Christ’s eucharistic Body. [...]
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Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures on June 29, 2008 | 11 Comments »
(13th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
What are you waiting for?! Get on the boat. Cross the Tiber.
At least one Church of England bishop will defect to Rome soon after the Lambeth Conference, I gather from Anglo-Catholic sources. And there could be more to follow.
I can’t tell you much more [...]
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Posted in Opinion, Pictures on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration: Fulfill ye my joy, that you may be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. (Phil 2:1)
St. Paul, pray for us, and the end [...]
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In an interview published in the Wednesday edition of L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict’s new Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, Monsignor Guido Marini, says he believes that people receiving Communion kneeling and on the tongue will become common practice at the Vatican.
Msgr. Marini’s comments were made during an interview with Gianluca Biccini on some [...]
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Members of St. Barnabas Parish in Mazomanie say they are stunned to learn that the priests leading their Catholic community will no longer allow their daughters to be servers at Mass. From now on, only boys will be able to assist priests in the ancient religious rite.
The new policy was announced at a meeting with [...]
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Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures on June 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
(12 Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
Conference call:
“Hey, you guys work it out down there, you hear?”
B16: “I’m trying Lord, I’m trying”
Fellay:
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Seriously though, when are the SSPX ever going to get a deal like this again? The only real condition asked of them is that they do not publicly disrespect [...]
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(11th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
That which seems to Us not only the greatest evil but the root of all evil is this: often the lie is substituted for the truth, and is then used as an instrument of dispute. On the part of not a few religion is [...]
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(10th Installation of Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
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(9th Installation of Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
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This apostolic chair it was that gathered and held together the crumbling remains of the old order of things; this was the kindly light by whose help the culture of Christian times shone far and wide; this was an anchor or safety in the fierce storms by which the human race has been convulsed; this [...]
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(8th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun? By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment. And he ordered the seasons, and [...]
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Posted in Pictures on June 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(7th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. (Matt 7:7)
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(6th Installation of Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
“Having set our minds to remove everything that may in some way offend the Divine Majesty, We resolve to punish, above all and without indulgence, those things which, by the authority of the Sacred Scriptures or by most grievous examples, are most repugnant to God [...]
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(5th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
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Warning: Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation [...]
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THE Shroud of Turin, revered as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth, will go on display in Turin in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said today.
“Another solemn exhibition of the shroud” will take place in spring 2010, the pope said during an audience with pilgrims from [...]
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(3rd Installation of Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. (Matt 10:32)
Trinitarians, Naples 1968
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(The Second Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
Where did this go?: The red “bunting” around the congregation in St. Peters. Ordination circa 1966:
Also, a pretty interesting Italian film about Pope Paul VI’s last years. It shows Archbishop Lefevbre when he started the seminary in Econe, and some interesting footage of Paul [...]
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Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures, Rant on June 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hello All, Over the next week or so, I will be re-posting the pictures of the Canonization of Pope St. Pius X. You might be asking: Why Ken, we have seen them all already, what are you getting lazy with this blogging thing? Woah,…slow down there Punky Brewster! The reason is actually quite simple, and [...]
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Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling. Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. (Psalm 2)
Watch video, then ask the below question…
(Hat tip to CathCaveman for vid)
Could you imagine any of the fellas below doing anything like [...]
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus shares in a most intimate way in the life of the Incarnate Word, and has been thus assumed as a kind of instrument of the Divinity. It is therefore beyond all doubt that, in the carrying out of works of grace and divine omnipotence, His Heart, no less [...]
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And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God. (Rom 12:2)
Priests walking past spoiled college brats posturing as Communists in Milan 1968
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But we glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience trial; and trial hope; And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us. (Romans 5:3)
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……1933, America…..
(Rt. Rev John Timothy McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati to the right)
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In 1933, Archbishop John McNicholas composed a membership pledge for the Legion. Between nine and eleven million Catholics signed the following pledge:
I wish to join the Legion of Decency, which condemns vile and unwholesome moving pictures. I unite with all who protest against [...]
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Posted in Paintings on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Typically, on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, tells Father McAuliffe, Pope Pius celebrated “his jubilee Mass not as Pope, but as a simple priest. Clad in snow-white vestments, without pontifical regalia, he walked to the altar simply, humbly and devoutly, just as he had done fifty years previously in the little village [...]
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During the Tre Ore sermon which he preached on Good Friday some years ago, Fulton J. Sheen asked his audience: “If Jesus Christ thirsted for souls, must not a Christian also thirst? If He came to cast fire on the earth, must not a Christian be enkindled? Has he not called us to be His [...]
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Our Lady of Sheshan, sustain all those in China, who, amid their daily trails, continue to believe, to hope, to love. May they never be afraid to speak of Jesus to the world, and of the world to Jesus. In the statue overlooking the Shrine you lift your Son on high, offering him to [...]
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Psalm 24 as it was chanted in the Temple of Jerusalem. (according to the research of the woman mentioned in the clip).
Click here you like to hear more on Youtube from this group
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Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures on June 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
You really should go over the the new Far Sight. A newly reinvigorated Leo has been posting some gems. The below pic is mine, but he shows more watered silk in one post than I have in 2 months of posting.
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Posted in Opinion, Paintings, Pictures, tagged Add new tag, Bl. Pius IX, Papal Encyclical, Papal States, Pio Nono, Pope Pius IX, Rights of the Church, Secularism on June 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A recent conversation precipitated this post. It was about the Papal States, on why the Popes at the time fought so hard to keep temporal power (as if it was only about power). From their point of view at the time, to relinquish temporal control would have put the ministry of the Church itself in [...]
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