Weekend Stuff
This weekend is the long awaited St. Michael’s 83rd Annual Church Picnic. Next to Holy Week this is the hardest week being priest here. There are so many ...
Author: Fr. Peter
Liturgical Language
A few posts back I wrote about liurgical langauge. I came across two articles that I thought could be helpful. Liturgical Ebonics – Fr. Steven C. Salaris ...
Orthodox Say Unity Must Be Priority
Respond to Document on Nature of Church VIENNA, Austria, JULY 11, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The breach of Eucharistic communion between East and West is a common trage...
11 July ~ St. Drostan
A Scottish abbot who flourished about A.D. 600. All that is known of him is found in the “Breviarium Aberdonense” and in the “Book of DeirR...
Books I am Reading
Recently I stumbled across the blog of an 8th grade teacher from Missouri who has a blog called Speaking of History. He uses his blog as part of his classroom t...
7 July ~ St. Palladius
First bishop sent by Pope Celestine to Ireland (431). The chronicle of the contemporary St. Prosper of Aquitaine present two import entries relating to Palladiu...
1 July ~ St. Serf
Saint Serf (Servanus) (ca. 500—d. 583 AD) was probably a Brythonic saint, certainly of Scotland. The only thing that can be safely asserted of Serf is that he p...
Liturgical Abuse
Some of you may have followed the news of the release of a statement from Rome at loosens up the use of the former pre–Vatican II liturgy in the Church of...
Jericho
Tonight at 9pm eastern time the CBS drama Jericho makes a return with past episodes. The show had been canceled by CBS but an uproar of fans, including your hos...
Chicopee bids farewell to another hometown soldier
By Claire L. Cummings, Globe Correspondent July 6, 2007 CHICOPEE — The fallen soldier’s little boy smiled as Governor Deval L. Patrick gave him a co...