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Posco is eight years old today! We celebrated with spinach lasagna and birthday cake. I cannot believe how fast time flies.

The Social Security Administration has a web site where you can look up the popularity of baby names by year, by state, and by the name itself. For 2002, the top ten names for boys (from one to ten) were Jason, Michael, Joshua, Matthew, Ethan, Joseph, Andrew, Christopher, Daniel, and Nicholas. For girls: Emily, Madison,… Continue reading More on Baby Names

Yesterday’s High Mass went very well. It was just lovely. I often wish I could devote more attention to my missal, but it is very hard with small children. My father was very nervous, but he did very well. It was so neat to see him in Traditional vestments and even a biretta. Father announced… Continue reading The High Mass

I just may drop the Post a note about this one: Pope Cites ‘New and Serious Difficulties’ With Anglicans (WaPo, marketing questions) The article is worth looking at for the Holy Father’s words to the Archbishop of Canterbury, of course. But the line that rubbed me the wrong way was this one (emphasis added): The… Continue reading The WaPo: Ableist, ageist rag

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A Man With a Black Hat blogged about the High Mass that will be held at my Church this Sunday. My father will be assisiting as the role of deacon in the Mass. It should be very lovely.

Today is the feast of the Guardian Angels. It is also the anniversary of the beginning of the sniper spree in the Washington, DC suburbs. There had been a single earlier shooting, but it was on that Tuesday morning that the snipers drove up and down Connecticut and Georgia Avenues, shooting one person after another,… Continue reading The Feast of the Guardian Angels

I tried repeatedly on Friday to blog about one of my favourite saints, San Gennaro, or St. Januarius, but kept getting booted off the Internet. Grrr. San Gennaro is the patron saint of Naples, which is where my grandmother’s family hails from. I suppose this is why most of the men in that side of… Continue reading San Gennaro