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Prayers For Our Beloved Dead
O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer. Exsultet All Souls Day is a good time to start a post where we can pray for our dead: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, […]
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Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed John Bodey
Indeede, I have been sufficiently censured, for I have been condemned twice; if you may make the hearing of a Blessed Mass treason, or the saying of an Ave Maria treason, you may make what you please treason… I acknowledge her as my Lawful Queen in all temporal causes, and none…
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Remembering Mother Teresa
She lived a life totally for Christ, while unable to feel the presence of God throughout most of her adult life. It was a privilege to live while she lived.
- Traditional Catholic Ecumenicalism
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Open Thread: Senate Elections 2026
The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing. It is the consensus in the polling industry that the Republicans are going to take a memorable shellacking on Tuesday. Perhaps. That would be par for the course in midterms. Here is what I…
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President Trump’s All Saints Day Message
On All Saints’ Day, I join Christians across our Nation in honoring the men and women through the centuries whose extraordinary lives of faithfulness reveal the great goodness and love to which human beings can aspire. Every generation of Americans has understood the profound…
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Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Paul Navarro
For many years I have prayed for this great grace from God but always with some fear, that I would not be heard because of my many sins. The Father of mercies now gives me this long-desired grace. May he be blessed forever. Blessed Paul Navarro Final letter to a fellow Jesuit…
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Torches
He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them he knew that he had always known them and realized what part each one of them had played at many an hour in his life when he had supposed himself…
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Things That Go Steal in the Night
Gas lighting for the fraud.
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Honors
Ah, Mary pierced with sorrow,Remember, reach and saveThe soul that comes to-morrowBefore the God that gave!Since each was born of woman,For each at utter need—True comrade and true foeman—Madonna, intercede! Rudyard Kipling, A Hymn Before Action
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Time to Fall Back
We’ve gone back to God’s time thank Him. The silliest thing I know of is daylight saving time. Why don’t they get up with me? Harry Truman, October 2, 1947, letter to Bess Truman As you “gain” an hour of sleep tomorrow, please recall the history of this bad idea. Daylight…
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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Wolfgang
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.” Saint Wolfgang
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Early Morning Rain
Something for the weekend. Early Morning Rain (1964) Written and sung by Gordon Lightfoot.
- A Halloween Favorite
- Thought for the Day
- Prayerful Posse
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Coup in Poland
The European Union talks constantly about democracy in principal, but seems to be opposed in practice to it. Ostensibly this is a fight between Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Polish President Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki over the courts, but it is actually a struggle between…
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Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Jeremiah of Valachia
Yes, Jesus, come! Thank you! Last words of Blessed Jeremiah of Valachia.
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October 30, 1938: War of the Worlds
How little it took to panic the country 87 years ago! The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938 by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater demonstrated the power of radio and how edgy the country was. Or did it? Recent studies have contended that the panic was not…
- Art For The Day