We have a special treat this week: Listen to Fr. McKenna talk about his path to the priesthood. ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ These warm days of early October have a distinctly Autumnal air about them. The still strong sun burns the morning fog away, but when it sets gives way to the evening cool. […]
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✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ We are still feeling the aftershocks of that awful interview given by Bergoglio. Thank God “in depth” Catholic commentators are not wanting to us. Be sure to take time to listen to Bishop Sanborn and Fr. Cekada on Restoration Radio. They spoke last Monday evening for 90 minutes, making sense […]
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✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ What a rocky ride we’ve had this past week to arrive at today’s Autumn Equinox, the start of Fall, heralded calmly by our Ember purple and penance and prayer. Last weekend’s twin feasts of the Holy Cross and the Seven Sorrows brought clear dry days, sunny under a blue heaven. […]
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✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Mary’s Birthday was a beautiful day in every way, wasn’t it? Our deacon preached his first sermon for Our Lady, and sang her praises clearly and well. Many came to honor her venerated cradle, and the choir gave their first fruits of song, sweet and strong, for her Nativity Mass, […]
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✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Blessed birthday of the Blessed Virgin! It is a blessing to have her birthday fall on a Sunday so that all may honor the happy dawn of our salvation. Draw near to her cradle in a childlike spirit. It is pleasing to her that we honor thus her infancy and […]
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Blessing of First Fruits on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ This week’s Bishop’s Corner comes to you as an “in-flight edition.” I am on my way back on Thursday morning from Tampa, having assisted at †Kathleen Sanborn’s funeral on Wednesday. Fr. Cekada served as MC, I gave the […]
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The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet _________________ Blessing of First Fruits on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ I write this on a rainy feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Milwaukee, remembering the beautiful feast of the Assumption in West Chester just one week ago. Heaven did indeed […]
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Blessing of First Fruits on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Have you noticed the addition to our handsome new church sign on Rialto Road? It is a cross (Hail, O Cross, our only hope!) but not any cross. It is the cross that originally topped the steeple of […]
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Thanks to everyone who helped out with our boys and girls camps this year. _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Friday, feast of the Curé of Ars, patron saint of parish priests, saw much clergy coming and going, as Fridays often do. Fr. Lehtoranta departed for Milwaukee, and another “in absentia” funeral on Saturday. Father […]
St. Gertrude the Great Summer, 2013 Newsletter is now available. Why the Latin Mass? Read Fr. Cekada’s book, “Work of Human Hands”.
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Thanks to everyone who helped out with our boys and girls camps this year. _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Our Summer has been decidedly cool and wet, which must cast the global warmers into confusion. Last Sunday morning was the most perfect of several days in a row, which filled us with wonder and […]
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Thanks to everyone who helped out with our boys and girls camps this year. _________________ CANONIZE John Paul II??! His Excellency Bishop Donald Sanborn and Fr. Anthony Cekada join hosts Nicholas Wansbutter and Stephen Heiner to discuss the announced “canonizations” of John Paul II. In this episode they discuss: What is a saint? The infallibility […]
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We have an excellent, additional sermon this week from Fr. McKenna: “Have Confidence: The Truth is On Your Side.” _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ On the spur of the moment the other Sunday, Fr. Cekada decided to ask for a memorial donation for the cloister fountain. Three people immediately volunteered after Mass, enough to […]
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Pentecost VIII Download MP3