3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (204+ words) It's Ash Wednesday. I hate Ash Wednesday for the obvious reasons." Today I hate it more than I have ever hated it. It started in the afternoon with a text from Msgr Tommy: "LOL. Get ready!" INCOMING!" "I had no…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (504+ words) From the 1st Reading for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo. Return to Me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God." " Joel 2 When we "rend…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (445+ words) Back in 2013, with a remnant of a cold, I read T. S. Eliot's'Ash Wednesday. It's interesting to go back to that post and see the comments.' For example,'Supertradmum is no longer with us.' Say a prayer for the repose " Read More…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (326+ words) A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Remarks about the Roman Stations, the manner of imposition of ashes, and thoughts of Fr. Troadec, which I don't believe I've read on an Ash Wednesday. He's terrific. " Read…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (68+ words) Peter Kwasniewski invites a mind experiment. Would anyone in his right mind say that this is'still'the Byzantine Divine Liturgy in any meaningful sense of the term? Sure, it might be "valid," but it would be a'different'rite, a different liturgy. We…...