Benedictum nomen Mariae, Virginis et Matris!

Hello hello!!!!

It has been ages since I have been here I know... I had been without a computer for so long but I have written many posts... I will just have to post them all at some point.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. What a great feast!!! (http://morelacemoregrace.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-off.html)

For the moment, I simply want to catch people up on my life (for those who care).

I have moved seminaries and am no longer in Latrbobe, PA at Saint Vincent's Archabbey. I am in my second year of Theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH and I love it!

Lector Installation

Out of the goodness of your hearts, I beseech your prayers as I will be installed a Lector of the Roman Catholic Church tomorrow on the Feast of the Annunciation by my beloved Bishop, the Most Rev. Roger J. Foys. Though no longer treated as a minor order :'(, only men en route to the Orders can be installed a Lector and will serve as another significant stage as I progress, with the Grace of God Almighty, to Holy Orders.

Pope in Mexico

First...I can not express how AWESOME this is...

Let us keep our beloved pope in our prayers and he visits such a violence-torn country and may his presence amongst the people of God in México prove to be an inspiration to re-energize their faith and grow in holiness.

Our Lady of the Sunbathers has returned...

As the weather has now been beautiful and the temps reaching that oh so special mark of 80, its time to commemorate Our Lady of the Sunbathers!!!

http://morelacemoregrace.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-lady-of-sunbathers.html

St. Joseph, the model of masculine piety

Happy Feast of St. Joseph!!!!!





On this the Feast of the Blessed Spouse of the Holy Virgin and Foster Child of the Incarnate Word, I wish to focus briefly on one of his titles; St. Joseph, the Terror of Demons!

The first time I heard of this was running around Montreal with Fr. Roy on a Saint Andre pilgrimage to the Oratory of St. Joseph in Montreal. Now not much has really been written on (that I know of) so bear with me...

Don't Mess with Texas

Today is also the independence day of the greatest republic in the union...TEXAS!!!

Now I need to note that it is also an Ember Day so what to do...penance and fast or celebration and feast????!?!?!?!?!?!?

Yet, the infamous cholo gerardi alerted me to the longstanding Texas Independence Indult?! It's a First Class feast for all Texans! no fasts of any sort!!! As he notes, Bl. Pius IX, in his Motu Proprio entitled Texas Badassico stated, "I'd better let those people eat meat on Friday, because I don't want any trouble."

On Intellectual formation

Salvete and Happy Ember Friday

One of the things I have been contemplating recently is the question of intellectual formation in a program for priestly formation. To set the stage, however, it is important to look at how seminary formation came about and the reasons for it.