Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

This is too good not to share, particularly the final question about a shared hometown baseball team posed (via “Max”) by yours truly.

I hope you’re all subscribed to Father. His content is top-notch. And his producer ain’t so bad either.

Pray for priests. The devil wants their souls more than he wants yours or mine.

https://gloria.tv/post/F7d9PVYkHGsx2LG93a12fK9Vc

Sage words in the collect.

“Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that the course of the world may be directed according to Thy rule in peace and that Thy Church may have the joy of serving Ther undisturbed. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.”

I spend a good deal of time on this page exhorting people to turn to St. Rita with their impossible requests.

Today, thanks to an article sent by a reader, I am asking people to pray FOR a parish named in that great saint’s honor.

Take a look:

https://catholicreview.org/hope-rises-from-ashes-for-st-rita-parishioners/

In your charity, please offer your prayerful support.

We may have been founded by anti-Catholic Freemasons but I’m a sucker for…

A Sousa march!

Fred Astair lighting firecrackers off his tap shoes while smoking a Camel!

A small town Independence Day parade with fife and drum corps!

William Daniels as John Adams!

I truly mean this…

On this day when we celebrate the 249th anniversary of New Jersey declaring independence from Great Britain…

God bless America, for better or worse, my home sweet home.

A few takeaways…

Recognizing the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity as a true and Personal Friend to Whom we owe all love and worship is vitally important so, points to him for saying it.

As a young boy and throughout adolescence I also attended 6:30 mass in my parish church every day with my father. This was in fact the greatest gift I ever received from my father and I pray more men find the time and the will to bequeath devotion to daily mass to their children, especially their sons.  I still go every day. 

The Latin/English bit… he’s missing the point here. If only it were an issue of translations. The chasm that exists between the actual prayers of the Mass of the Ages and the Novus Ordo is wide and deep. If it were only a linguistic question…

Something about the content of his address reminds me very much of what St. Paul said about becoming a man and putting aside childish things. I could be completely wrong in my read of this; but he seems to be speaking of the holy sacrifice in absolute infantile terms.

That’s all I got.

Holy Mary, Queen of Heaven and earth, pray for us!

Nope, just a vital part of the Christmas message…

Happy Feast of the Visitation!