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For the Roving Medievalist, (a wonderful blog)  who is, according to his own lights, "not doing well."

…and you hit a Mass in which you get not one, not two, but three homilies. (At the "greeting," (3 minutes), at homily time (20 minutes) and at the end of Mass (7 minutes or so. Which includes introduction of guest speaker, guest speaker, and then comment on guest speaker.) It’s great.

From the Primate of all Ireland Archbishop Sean Brady: In memory of our most revered Father in the Lord Jesus, Patrick, Apostle to the Irish People, I hope that these words of mine may somehow touch the hearts of all who hear or read or hear about them. The impending celebration of the principal Patron…

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Vox Clara urges rapid completion of that translation. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and a committee of congregation advisers have urged the quick completion of the new English translation of the Mass. The Vox Clara Committee, a group of English-speaking bishops who advise the Vatican on English translations, met March 12-15 at…

From Rachel Balducci, blogger at Testosterhome: Would you be willing to ask your readers about this: when Paul lived in Mexico (before we were married) he sent home a silver Our Lady of Guadalupe medal. On the back is inscribed: Nonfecit Taliter Omninationi. I have never been able to figure out what it says.

John Thavis at CNS looks at the two new JPII books: As Pope John Paul II’s sainthood cause rolled forward, two people close to him have offered quite different insider accounts of his life and times. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, the late pope’s personal secretary for 39 years, has produced a conversational memoir called…

James Matthew Wilson, a Sorin Research Fellow at Notre Dame, writes in the college newspaper: Ignorance of the Church’s faith, however, is just a symptom of an even more grave condition. It is one thing not to know the doctrinal expressions of particular sacred truths; it is another thing – and a more serious thing…

I received a very nice note from the sister who is the co-founder of Vietnam Dream for Success, one of the charities we mentioned in our "Almsgiving" post last month. One of you sent a donation and mentioned that you’d seen the group mentioned here. From the note: Since we are a new non-profit organization,…

In thinking about the Exhortation and matters liturgical this week, considering all of that along with the hopes many have for a forthcoming Motu Proprio and the dynamic of how all of this works out on the ground, I formulated an opinion on what, I think, is missing from Rome on this. Yeah, I did…
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