Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Open Season...

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I had high hopes that the Monsignori were getting tired of me rescuing their prey and throwing it out of the bedroom window (before you p...
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Saturday, 29 September 2012

Stuff...

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I realise that no sooner did I get my blogging mojo back up and running than it ran out on me again. Hopefully, internet connection proble...
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Saturday, 15 September 2012

Time For A Reality Check...?

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After Professor Tina Beattie signed a letter in The Times which was at variance with Catholic teaching, her invitation to speak at Clifton ...
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Friday, 14 September 2012

Exaltation Of The Holy Cross...

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The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was marked in fitting style at Blackfen. The Sodality of the Five Holy Wounds had arranged to...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Sodality Mass

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The Sodality of the Five Holy Wounds is having a Missa Cantata  at Our Lady of the Rosary church, Blackfen for the Feast of the Exaltati...
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A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words...

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So, 'nuff said!  Twitch of the mantilla to the wonderful Sisters of the Gospel of Life .
Sunday, 9 September 2012

Happy Birthday To Our Blessed Mother...!

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Yesterday was the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady. To celebrate, one of our parishioners and her sister made a new cape for the statue of ...
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Saturday, 8 September 2012

"Jog On, Kitties..."

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Having observed Monsignor Miaowrini successfully manoeuvre a large, live pigeon from my kitchen to my sitting room without the benefit o...

A Spiritual Work Of Mercy...

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I was rather scandalised by reports that the Archdiocese of Liverpool has commissioned Lay Funeral Ministers. It seems a little hard to bel...
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Thursday, 6 September 2012

Time To Put Our House In Order...

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Before the Catholic blogosphere took off, the only sources of information for ordinary Catholics were papers such as The Pill . Unfortunat...
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Bored...!

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I don't know when the USA hold their presidential elections. Not soon enough... I'm bored with it already. (Actually I got bored wit...
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Saturday, 1 September 2012

The Fruits Of Ecumenism...?

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Lunch, after today's first Saturday  Missa Cantata , was a very jolly affair. Leutgeb , presented His Hermeneuticalness with a home-...
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Friday, 31 August 2012

The "Gay Marriage" Thing...

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Let's be absolutely clear about one thing. It's nothing to do with equal rights for homosexuals. There is already full equality ...
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Thursday, 30 August 2012

A Favourite Feast Day!

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Today was the feast of one of my patron saints - St. Anne Line. I wrote a chapter about her which was published in English Catholic Heroin...
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

And So It Starts Again...

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The first question most teachers get asked as soon as the summer holiday starts is "So, when do you start school again?" I have ...
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Monday, 27 August 2012

Cat Stuff...

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My cri de coeur  as to whether I should keep putting up news of the Monsignori  drew a pretty large response from my readers, confirming my ...
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How Not To Do A Picture Restoration...

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This lunchtime, after Mass, His Hermeneuticalness was showing some young parishioners images of the restored fresco which hit the news ...
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Sunday, 26 August 2012

The Mantilla Quotient...

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Annie Elizabeth and I have gleefully noted that the number of women wearing mantillas at Mass is going up. Of course, under "mantill...
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Saturday, 25 August 2012

Happy Feast Day...

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Tomorrow sees the feast of St. Zephyrinus, Pope & Martyr. I would encourage you to celebrate the feast with a visit to his namesake'...
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Friday, 24 August 2012

Birthday Celebrations...

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Here at Blackfen, we like to celebrate events the way the Holy Father does - with champagne and chocolate cake. The promulgation of Summorum...
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