In the Via dei Pettinari alongside The Parish™. From The World’s Best Sacristan™.
He wrote: “We had put the white (candle) up this summer but it would go out with the wind, so it remained there all these months blown out, but a few days ago we found it lit and strangely, even if the wind is blowing, it doesn’t go out.”
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The wonderful Dominican sisters of Summit, the “Soap Sisters” will keep their shop open for a few more days before they close for the end of Advent. They have great gift options. I get candles for my chapel from them and things for my mother. Fr. Z’s Mother Approved.
We all saw the consistory list. I couldn’t watch it. However, I’m told that, through Radcliff showed up in the habit he slept in, he did get a hair cut.
Andrea Gagliarducci has a piece on the College. HERE
Catholic Unscripted reacted to the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris. Regarding the music and the furnishing, let’s just say GMTA. They echoed what I wrote. Interesting discussion HERE
In chessy news… OH MY! HERE
Also, white to move and mate in three.
UPDATE:
Which do you think is more likely?
1. Uno
2. Freemasonry
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— Matt Gaspers (@MattGaspers) December 9, 2024
Okay… that pushes it a bit. I was also reminded the the Google thing and the Microsoft logo.
However. What I find most alarming is the dash to infantalize the Catholic people through use of what you do to get the attention of babies: primary colors and critters with big eyes, like that dreadful “mascot” for the Jubilee. I’ve ranted for years, decades, about “dumbing down” worship. The result has been “dumbing down” the devotion of the rank and file. If you change how we worship, over time you change what we believe. The massive contrast between the space, Notre Dame, and the new accoutrement is a massive chaotic clash. It’s the liturgical (and therefore doctrinal) slithering of the “smoke” of the Enemy that poison’s the clarity and quality of the Faith-air.
