Traditional Catholic Problems

On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call "a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture"; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology. On the other, there is the "hermeneutic of reform", of renewal in the continuity of the one subject-Church which the Lord has given to us. She is a subject which increases in time and develops, yet always remaining the same, the one subject of the journeying People of God. -Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, 22 Dec 2005 -=:†:=- 2 Singaporean Catholics, one in Dublin, one in Sydney, loyal son and daughter of Holy Mother Church. Laudetur Iesus Christus et Maria Immaculata!

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Holy Mass in Opfenbach

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Saint Scholastica Circle of Ignaz Günther (Germany, Bavaria, 1725-1775)

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Deo gratias for Latin.

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Chasubles in the sacristy of the Church of Saint Teresa, Cospicua, Malta

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Plus postponing our Latin test and getting extensions on our History and Philosophy assignments. Deo gratias for an understanding college! The pilgrimage was totally worth it. Even though I had to read and scribble notes on Cicero and Aristotle (for History) while cramped in the college bus for 12 hours.

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Pietro Perugino, The Annunciation, c. 1489

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So tell me... who exactly were Saint Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Saint Peter Chanel, Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, Saint Euphrasia Pelletier, Saint Francesca Xavier Cabrini, Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, Blessed Pauline Jaricot and Saint Damien of Molokai all praying to? (They all had a devotion to this little girl saint.)

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The Annunciation

Painting by Pierre Auguste Pichon

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Extra penance.

This annual Australian pilgrimage is awesome. Last year we had pilgrims from all inhabited continents -- and even a Muslim and a Hindu! By the 3rd day, the Muslim guy sighed, "I don't want to be a Catholic anymore. My feet are too tired." 90 kilometres -- but less, if you're in the schola and have to leave halfway each morning to rehearse for Holy Mass.

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Should I pick the white lacy one with the Immaculate Heart... or the one with Our Lady of Lourdes... or the one with the Sacred Heart... or the one with Padre Pio... or the blue one (perfect colour for Marian Masses)... or the Carmelite-brown one to match my dress... or...

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Italian, Milanese - Female Members of a Confraternity

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Not to mention wax from Easter Vigil/Candlemas!

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The Glorious Martyrdom of the First Twenty-Three Franciscan Martyrs of Japan, in Cronicas de la apostolica 

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3 Jesuits died with them too!

St Paul Miki & co., ora pro nobis.