Una Voce

On Saturday, Una Voce Scotland held their Annual General Meeting in our Hall. The meeting was preceded by a High Mass in the Extraordinary Form celebrated by Monsignor Hugh N. Boyle. The meeting included a talk entitled Summorum Pontificum – One Year On given by Dr Alcuin Reid, the co-editor of the journal-in-preparation Usus [...]

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Novena Sermons

Frank has created a new site for the talks Father Augustine and I gave during the Our Lady of Sorrows Novena. He has uploaded this year’s talks to the site and hopes to add those from 2007 and 2006 (see the sidebar for their present location). You can listen or download here.

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Pope Benedict’s Address

Pope Benedict was his usual humble, profound self as he addressed an audience of about seven hundred of France’s brightest sparks this afternoon.
Rocco has the full text in English here; the French text (and a video and audio of the speech) can be found on KTO.
The theme of the Pope’s lecture was [...]

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The Collège des Bernardins

Tomorrow afternoon, Pope Benedict will give a lecture in Paris to representatives of the world of culture (philosophy, science, art…) and of political and public life (the European Union, Unesco…). The lecture will be given at the Collège des Bernardins, a medieval building which was the Cistercians’ student house at the [...]

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Saint Gemma Blog

Glen Dallaire has recently set up a blog called simply St Gemma Galgani. He says: This blog is devoted to St Gemma Galgani. I will post her writings and examples of her heroic life in hopes that it will inspire in others a greater love and devotion for Jesus and Mary. The author endeavors [...]

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Pope Benedict’s Prayer at Ground Zero

O God of love, compassion, and healing,
look on us, people of many different faiths
and traditions,
who gather today at this site,
the scene of incredible violence and pain.
We ask you in your goodness
to give eternal light and peace
to all who died here—
the heroic first-responders:
our fire fighters, police officers,
emergency service workers, and
Port Authority personnel,
along with all the innocent [...]

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Our Lady of Sorrows Novena

Our Lady of Sorrows Altar at Saint Mungo’s
Today we began our annual Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows. Father Augustine preached on the first of the Seven sorrows of Mary. You can find the novena prayers here. Frank Trias recorded the sermon which should be available here in a day or two.

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