This looks like a very promising blog for Lent.
Imagine, Jesuits doing what Jesuits are supposed to do!
Check it out here: Lenten Reflections
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Lent with the Jesuits
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
St Scholastica
10 February is the memorial of St Scholastica. The breviary says about her:
The sister of St Benedict, born at Norcia in Umbria about the year 480. Together with her brother she consecrated herself to God, and she followed Benedict to Monte Casino, where she died about the year 547.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Archbishop of York and Anglicanorum Coetibus
Dr John Sentamu has some dodgy ideas about Anglicanorum coetibus. See Damian Thompson's story by clicking here.
++ York has some dodgy tastes in vestments too!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Patronal feast day
Today is one of the two patronal feast days of our parish church, Our Lady of the Annunciation and the Martyrs of Japan.
St Paul Miki and his 25 companions were martyred, by crucifixion, in Nagasaki on 5 February 1597. Of the 26, six were European Franciscan missionaries, three (including St Paul Miki) were Japanese Jesuits and the remaining 17 were Japanese laymen. Three were children, or at least young boys.
The Japanese Martyrs were added to the General Calendar in 1969.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Fingerprints at Mass
From Reuters comes an unusual story.
Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday. The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation, the paper said.
The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it.
"This is comfortable. We don't have to stand in a line to get the priest's signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks," said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina.
Poland is perhaps the most devoutly Roman Catholic country in Europe today and churches are regularly packed on Sundays.
Not very inclusive is it?
We couldn't possibly do something like this in England. That's why our churches are full and Polish churches empty.
Oh, wait ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Catholic politicians and scandal
What is it with politicians who like to describe themselves as Catholics?
Is there even one who is prepared to be anything other than the cause of scandal?
Catholic Culture brings us the news that Stephen Hughes, a freeloading waster at the European parliament, has "offered public criticism" of the Holy Father's comments about Harriet Harman's immoral Equality Bill.
Do you think there is any chance that Mr Hughes' bishop, + Seamus Cunningham, of Hexham and Newcastle, might return from the ad limina visit with enough orthodoxy to enquire of Mr Hughes why he sees fit to cause such grave scandal to the Church?
Monday, February 1, 2010
New English translation?
That the bones you have crushed may thrill blog has a lovely piece on the Heretics Catholics for a Changing Church new (dreamland) translation of the Mass.
It's a must read but here is a brief taster:
Controversial aspects of the new translation include the replacement of the phrase 'God our Father' with 'Daddy', 'Lord' with 'O Lordy, Lordy' and 'we ask this through Christ our Lord' with 'for Chrissakes'.Have a look, it's a hoot!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
