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Post by hibernicus on Dec 19, 2011 23:21:49 GMT
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Post by humphrey on Dec 20, 2011 10:57:48 GMT
Please pray for Hilary White a pro-life blogger who has been diagnosed with cancer. Her blog in recent months has been a diary of her illness anglocath.blogspot.com/
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 23, 2011 14:58:08 GMT
I did not originally ask for prayers for the late vaclav HAvel on this thread because I don't want it cluttered up with world leaders. (For the same reason I dodn't ask for prayers for Kim Jong-il, though that is something we should bear in mind). However, when I looked in on RORATE CAELI last night, I discovered that after they posted on Havel's death they had to close down and withdraw the comments because of the number of Radtrads who denounced them for marking Havel's death and proclaimed that he must certainly be damned. THis I must say reflects a very bad trend in some traditionalist circles (not only traditionalists but this board is primarily for traditionalists0 to talk as if trads have a monopoly of virtue, no non-trad can possibly have done any good, their sins must all be proclaimed and held against them while we present ourselves as sinless, and we can tall in advance who is going to Hell. We are all sinners and quite a few of us, terrible as it is to say it, may end up in Hell. One of the surest steps there is to give up all concern for our fellow-sinners and like the Pharisee in the parable,to hug ourselves in our own virtue, thanking God that we are not as Inda Kinny, Eamonn Gilmore, the ACPI, Garry O'Sullivan, the Dalai lama - whoever. It is one thing to criticise these people when they do wrong. It is another thing to present oneself as without sin. James Hogg's THE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER should be more widely read than it is. This Christmas, pray for the soul of Vaclav Havel, who stood up for truth and freedom against a cynical dictatorship at great personal risk. May the Holy Blood cleanse him of all stains and may he rejoice forever where Lazarus is poor no longer. rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/12/note.htmlrorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/12/20th-century-is-fading-away.htmlEXTRACT The 20th Century is fading away... ... In his words in our last meeting, "I am not well, but we know that He IS." ... Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine. In his memory, the bells of all churches and chapels in the country are to be tolled at 1800 today. In Prague, on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 18, 2011 + Dominik Duka O.P. Archbishop of Prague [Source: Czech Episcopal Conference] Note: the comments in this post are not available anymore - it is disastrous to have to hide them thanks to the unbridled hatred of some people regarding a deceased Catholic in a post in which all that was mentioned was the need to pray for his soul (and the very interesting revival of a venerable Catholic practice of tolling the bells of all churches in a moment of national relevance). This repulsive, unforgiving, judgmental and self-righteous post mortem pseudo-zeal is anything but Traditional. If your heart is filled with this kind of hatred, you are not welcome here. END
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 28, 2011 20:10:18 GMT
Say a prayer for the pro-life cause today, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents - that hearts may be enlightened, lives may be spared, and we may all work to make this a better world to bring children into.
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 31, 2011 18:00:58 GMT
Your prayers are requested for our troubled world in this coming 2,012th year since the Saviour's birth. Remember, amidst all our troubles, that Victory is already won and he has gone before to prepare a place for us. Thank you for all your contributions to the discussion in 2011. See you in 2012 - may it be a Happy New Year!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2012 9:46:55 GMT
Amen to that and happy new year everyone - I've always believed the year ended with Halloween since I was child for some reason, odd little thing that I was. Nevertheless, I know that it's a new start for us all. I think it would be nice if perhaps we included the Pope's monthly intentions here regularly. Any objections?
We seem to have a host of birthdays according to the stats - if it is really your birthday fellow posters, many happy returns and I hope ye all come post more often. :-)
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 2, 2012 14:53:47 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Dom Mark Tierney of Glenstal Abbey, who has died. I knew of him (I met him once) as a historian, best known for his biography of Archbishop Croke, but the article in the IRISH TIMES on his death says he was also a liturgist and published a book called THE COUNCIL AND THE MASS in 1965. IS anyone on the board familiar with it? Pray for him.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 3, 2012 19:29:54 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 5, 2012 23:03:54 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 10, 2012 21:53:22 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of the journalist Mary Raftery, who has died.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 16, 2012 18:44:20 GMT
Your prayers are requested for Fr Brady CSSp, long-time EF celebrant in Co. Wexford, who is seriously ill - see Michael G's post in the Ferns thread.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 17, 2012 19:29:02 GMT
Fr John Brady died this afternoon. Please pray for the repose of his soul
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 24, 2012 23:20:04 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Florence Noonan, who has died; for her husband Michael, our Finance Minister, and the other members of her family in their time of grief.
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 4, 2012 15:48:54 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Fr Desmond Flanagan, O. Carm., who died today. Attenders at St Kevin's Harrington Street will remember him, as I do, as a regular celebrant of the EF Mass and as a gentle and perceptive father confessor.
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 12, 2012 22:26:46 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Emmet Larkin, historian of the modern Irish church, who died recently in his hometown, Chicago. Although I believe he was not a practising Catholic, he was a fair-minded historian who believed the Church had done much good for Irish society and resisted the sort of crude caricatures we get in certain quarters. I met him once and he certainly had a very impressive mind. Pray for him.
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