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Quote of the day, Bulwer-Lytton edition
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jmcgee
“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.” — Molly Ringle, Seattle, WA, winner of the 2010…
On homilies: “How can you plant seeds?”
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jmcgee
A bit fat h/t to Mike “Googling God” Hayes, who is pointing readers to this very good chin-scratcher about what makes for good preaching in the Catholic Church. From the Pray Tell blog: In the midst of all the bustle around the introduction of the new translations of the Mass texts, and how they might…
Worth a thousand words: a priest’s first mass
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jmcgee
Fr. Alonzo Cox, Sunday June 27, 2010, at Queen of All Saints Church, in Brooklyn.
The OTHER first permanent deacon in America
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jmcgee
Last week, I posted about the passing of Paul McArdle, hailed as the first permanent deacon in the United States. A day or so later, Deacon Bill Ditewig (Deacon Dr. Ditewig, or Triple D) dropped me a note to set the record straight. Seems there was one other one before Deacon Paul: On 1 June…
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