Per Christum

Check out this video by Tiber Jumper, listed on a new Catholic media site, Love to Be Catholic.

By the way, Happy Halloween to everyone!

These two pint-size Dominicans, Sr. Mary Mini & Br. Half Pint, would like to remind you to not act like a pagan.

They would also like to remind you that if you see any similarly dressed revelers, they are the ones who deserve the good candy. Got it?

Please know the speaker is a Baptist minister…

I certainly look forward to the day when Catholic priests can be counted on for more sermons including the teachings of the venerable Saint Augustine.

“Blessed Fr. Oleksa Zaryts’kyi was born in 1912 in the village of Biche, in the Lviv Region. In 1931, he entered the seminary in Lviv. He received his ordination to the priesthood from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts’kyi in 1936. In 1948, he was imprisoned for ten years and deported to Karaganda. After his early release in 1957, he was named Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan and Siberia, but was shortly thereafter imprisoned again for a three-year term. He died as a martyr for the faith on 30 October 1963 in the Dolynka concentration camp near Karaganda.”

Source: http://newsaints.faithweb.com/biographies/Ukraine.htm

Father Larry Richards
http://www.thereasonforourhope.org/

FREE CDs ($1 shipping donation requested) available at: http://www.catholicity.com/cds/confession.html Given the sampling offered here, it would be a dollar well spent. Get 2 - we all have a friend or neighbor that could use a copy themselves.

Do stop by Stony Creek Digest from time to time. Written by a father of 5 (one yet to be hatched) in rural California. I spent just enough time in San Diego one summer interning for Catholic Answers that I was re-affirmed in my midwesterness.

Spending a little time at his blog, makes me wonder if I couldn’t find a way to make it in California after all. Great pictures, interesting perspectives and above all, well written and well thought out posts. It is just quality. Make it a point to stop around and say hello to the venerable Stony Creek Digestor from time to time.

Dublin, Oct. 15, 2007 (CWNews.com) -
The wife of an Irish Anglican bishop has entered the Roman Catholic Church, withher husband’s public support.Anita Henderson was received into the Catholic Church by Bishop John Fleming of Killala. Her husband, Bishop Richard Henderson of the Church of Ireland, attended the ceremony.The two bishops, Catholic and
Anglican, issued a joint statement after the ceremony, indicating that Anita Henderson’s religious affiliation was a matter of private conscience that “deserves the respect of us all.”"This is a time of unprecedented hospitality, friendship, and collaboration between our local churches,” the joint statement continued. The bishop said that ecumenical advances have helped make believers “increasingly aware of how much we have in common, and yet how distinctive the different traditions remain; how much in their variety they are especially suited to some, but not to others.”

I seem to recall in England there was an Anglican priest and his wife (also a minister) that went through this sort of situation the other way - he became Catholic and was ordained a priest… She remained a CofE minister…

Keep them in your prayers… Perhaps Bp. Henderson is on the same road himself.

H/T: Byzantine, TX

I just love this guy. I think I could listen to him preach for as long as he could talk… take a nap and come back for another day of it.

Mission Helpers of the Holy Savior, Inc.
P.O. Box 62087
Houston, TX 77205
(281) 751-8781
(281) 751-8017 FAX
http://www.smcenter.org/frpablo.htm
info@missionhhs.org

People wanting to learn more about the Order or offer help for the constuction of the seminary-motherhouse and the convent-motherhouse can contact Father Pablo’s office in the U.S. “

If you find vintage doo-dad, knick-knack, or gizmo that you end up selling on eBay, consider sending these guys a portion of your windfall. I have no doubt it would be put to very good use.

Remember the old Saturday Night Live sketch where Bill Murray and Steve Martin stare at the camera for like two minutes just saying “What the hell is that thing?” Genius.

Well I have to ask, what the hell is that thing?

Take your best guesses, than go here for an explanation.

If you love icons, stained glass, and statues as much as I do, you will probably be just as sad as I am when you find out what the hell that thing is…

Maybe I will just love it, in the same way I love tacky mid-century mod… Maybe not.

Dateline: June 21, 1894 from the New York Times.

Converted to the Catholic Faith.

ST. JOHN, NB., June 21.-Consderable excitment has been occasioned in this city and throught the province by the announcement of the conversion to the Roman Catholic faith of Prof. Stockley of the Univiversity of New-Brunswick, at Fredericton. Prof. Stockley occupies the Chair of English Literature, is a frequent contributor to the press, and is an ardent home ruler. He was formerly a Roman Catholic, but renounced that faith some years ago.

Your simple sinner is no expert on the politics or social scene of New Brunswick home-rulers at the end of the 1800s. But it is curious that the return of a Catholic professor in Canada to the Church of his upbrining was newsworthy enough for the New York Times… One wonders if the excitement occasioned was one of curiousity or fear…

“On October 18, 2007 the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter celebrated the 19th anniversary of its canonical erection as a society of apostolic life of pontifical right by His Holiness of happy memory, Pope John Paul II. We began humbly with 11 priests and 1 deacon.

“Who would have thought that this small group of traditional, Latin rite priests would so quickly grow to over 300 members working and studying on 5 continents in the 17 different countries serving over 85 dioceses … and then become THE main force for the implementation of a papal decree expressly promoting the return of the traditional Latin Mass, now known as the “extraordinary form” of the Roman missal, as well as all the sacraments and devotions that go along with it?” (from: http://www.fssp.com/main/News071019.htm)

19 is old enough for a beer in Canada. If you are in Canada and see the FSSP wandering about, buy FSSP a beer and wish FSSP a happy birthday!

If you happen to find some old penny loafers with holes in the bottom, before throwing them out, take out the coins and consider sending them to these fellas. They have certainly proven to offer an excellent return on investment in the past 19 years.

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
North American Headquarters
Griffin Rd, PO Box 196
Elmhurst, PA 18416

ZENIT News service just conducted an interview with author and blogger, Dave Hartline, whose book The Tide is Turning Toward Catholicism is taking off in Catholic bookstores. Continuing the message contained in his book (and website, The Catholic Report), Dave explains in this interview the good news about the Catholic Church. Basically, Dave explains why orthodoxy is making a comeback in the Catholic Church, despite the fact that so many of us are regularly confronted with heterodoxy at all levels of the American Church.

Also, let me point our readers to an audio interview Dave Hartline we conducted last year (.mp3 format, 17.4 mb). Jason, Jonathan, Chad, and I participated. Oh…yes we have a podcast, and no we haven’t done much with it lately.