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Announcements
- I have a form
set up so you can send me feedback anonymously. Please let me know what
you think about FishEaters; it lets me know what to focus on next (and
if it's good feedback, it keeps me inspired to keep going! I don't get
a lot of feedback, links, support, etc., so I sometimes feel as if I'm
yelling down a well!): Send Anonymous
Feedback Here.
- Catholic Clergy Conference with Keynote
Speakers Cardinal Gerhard M�ller, Cardinal Robert Sarah, and Cardinal
Raymond Burke:
When:
January 13-17, 2025
Where:
Casa Tra Noi Hotel, Rome, Italy
Information
here: https://ccc-2025.com/
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Newest site
additions:
- A page on the Feast of the Most Precious Blood has
been added.
- A page on the Feast of St. Columba (Colmcille, Columcille)
has been added, along with the appropriate Litany and Novena
- A page on the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena,
along with an accompanying
litany, has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- The Supplica (a petition to Our Lady of
Pompeii to be prayed on May 8 and the first Sunday of October) has been
added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary
(Our Lady of Victory), along with the Litany of Our Lady of
Victory and the Novena
to Our Lady of Victory. This page also includes information about
Our Lady of Pompeii (Pompei).
- A page on the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila has been
added, along with a relevant Litany
- A number of
books have been added to the Catholic
Library
- A page on the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, with
accompanying Litany of St. Thomas Aquinas,
has been added
- A page on the Feast of St. Benedict has been posted,
along with appropriate litany
- A page on the Feast of St. Mary of Egypt, along with an
appropriate novena, have been added
- A page on the Feast of St. Isidore the Farmer (or
Laborer, if you prefer) has been added along with a Novena and Litany
to St. Isidore
- The Litany of Irish Saints has been
added off the Feast of St. Patrick
page (and the Litanies page). It's been
made also into a downloadable pdf file.
- Two more novenas
have been added to the Novenas page
- I added the Litany of Intercession for
England off the Feast of Our
Lady of Walsingham page (and off the Litanies
page). It can be downloaded in pdf format as well.
- I added the very
long and intense "Golden Litany," off
the page for the Feast of
Christ the King. This litany can also be accessed off the Litanies page
- The Litany in Honor of St. George
has been added to the Feast of St.
George page (and off the Litanies
page), and has been made downloadable as a pdf file
- The Litany of the Sick -- one I found in
an old book published in 1787 -- has been added to the Sick Calls page (and off the Litanies page)
- Another set of
prayers has been added to the Prayers for Every Day of the
Week page. Like the others, it's been made downloadable in pdf
format.
- The Litany of Humilty has been added off
the Lent Overview page (and linked to from the litanies page). It's
also, like all the other litanies on this site, been made available as
a pdf download.
- The Litany of
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel has been added off the Feast
of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel page (and added off the Litanies page)
- A page on the Feast of Mother Cabrini has been added
off the Seasonal Customs page
- A good number of
tweaks have been made, and a few books added to the library
- I added a temporary page about the total solar eclipse
that Americans will be able to enjoy on April 8 of this year (2024)
[This page was removed after the eclipse]
- A page on the Feast of St. Sebastian (along with
the Litany to St. Sebastian,
which has been made also into a downloadable pdf) has been added off
the Seasonal Customs page
- Novenas to SS.
Catherine of Siena and Sebastian have been added to the Novenas page. The Novena to St. Sebastian,
because of its length, has also been made into a downloadable pdf.
- A page on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
(along with the appropriate
litany) has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Feast of the Maternity of Blessed Virgin
Mary has
been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- The Novena to
the Most Holy Name of Mary has been added to the Novenas
page
- A page on the Feast of St. Dominic has been added off the
Seasonal Customs page. An accompanying
litany has been added as well.
- A short page on
the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle
has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Feast
of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been added to
the Seasonal Customs page
- The Litany of the Most Holy Name of
Mary has been added off the Feast
of the Most Holy Name of Mary page (and the Litanies
page)
- A page on the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen has
been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- The 8th century
Irish Litany of the Virgin
has been added off the Queenship of Mary
page
- The 8th century
Irish Litany
of Confession has been added off the Nightly Examination of Conscience
page. I've also listed -- and linked to -- all the litanies scattered
throughout the site on the Litanies page,
which once just had the six litanies approved for public use. I wanted
them all accessible from one place and thought others might find it
helpful as well.
- The 8th century
Irish Litany of Creation
has been added off the Ember Days page
(and, of course, also made into a downloadable pdf format file)
- The section of
St. Alphonsus Liguori's "The Glories of Mary" that focuses on Mary's
sorrows has been added as a reading to the Feast of the Seven Sorrows page
(the September feast). (That took a while to compile! Whew!)
- The Litany of the Immaculate
Conception written in 1476 by Pope Sixtus IV has been added off the
Feast of the
Immaculate Conception page
- A page on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom has been
added off the Seasonal Customs area of the site, and the relevant
novena has been added to the Novenas page.
- A page about Our Lady of Walsingham has been
added off the Seasonal Customs page
- The Novena to Our Lady of the Snows has been
added to the Novenas page
- The Litany to Our Lady of Seven
Sorrows has been added off the Feast of the Seven Sorrows
page. It's also been made available in pdf format, as are all litanies
on this site.
- A page on the Feast of King St. Stephen I of Hungary
has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Consecration to St. Joseph has
been added off the Being Catholic page
- A page on the Feast of Saints Isaac Jogues, John de
Brebeuf, and Companions (the North American Martyrs) has been added
to the Seasonal Customs page (associated novenas have been added to the
Novenas page).
- A page on the Feast of St. Dymphna (along with a
Litany to St. Dymphna) has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
(along with the Litany to St. Elizabeth of Hungary, including the
litany in pdf format) has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows
has been added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the Chair of Unity Octave has been
added off the Seasonal Customs page
- A page on the 1000 Hail Mary Advent devotion,
made in imitation of St. Catherine of Bologna, has been added off the
Seasonal Customs page
- A page on St. Germaine Cousin (Ste. Germaine de
Pibrac) has been added, along with a litany to her written by
Marie-Julie Jahenny
- A page on the Feast of St. Joachim (which is the
same day as the Feast of San Rocco
(St. Roch)
- A new page on
the Feast of St. Anne has been added
off the Seasonal Customs page, along with the Litany of St. Anne
- A new page on
the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel has
been added off the Seasonal Customs page.
- A new page on
the Feast of the Holy Helpers has
been added off the Seasonal Customs page,
along with the Litany of
the Fourteen Holy Helpers, the Novena to All the Fourteen Holy Helpers
by St. Alphonsus Liguori, and other accompanying pages
- Many novenas --
all for the remaining Fourteen Holy Helpers -- have been added to the
Novenas page
- A couple of
novenas have been added to the Novenas page,
two prayers from the Raccolta have been added to the Eucharistic Adoration page, and a
few books have been added to the Catholic
Library
- A page on the
Feast of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, and an accompanying page on the Litany of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary have been added (the latter has, as usual, been made
downloadable in pdf format)
- The Litany of the Dolorous Virgin Mary
(written by Pope Pius VII) has been added to the Feast of the Seven Sorrows page (and
made downloadable in pdf format as well)
- A few books have
been added to the Catholic Library
(and numerous tweaks have been made throughout the site as usual --
e.g., the addition of prayers, poetry, and those little things I'm
constantly adding to the site -- things like a footnote picture of the
sort of
flower that adorned St. Rosalia's dress)
- The Blessing of
Fire for St. John's Eve
has been made into a downloadable pdf
- The medieval
story of Phyllis and Aristotle
has been added off the Becoming
Virtuous: Temperance page
- Novenas to SS.
Rosalia and Gemma Galgani have been added to the Novenas
page
- The Litany of
St. Joan has been added off the Feast of
St. Joan page
- The Litany of
St. Rita de Cascia has been added off the Feast of St. Rita of Cascia
page, and the Litany of the Seraphic Father Saint Francis has been
added off the Feast of St.
Francis page.
- The Litany of
St. Roch has been
added off the Feast of San Rocco
page; the Litany of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, "The Little Flower"
has been added off the Feast
of St. Therese page; the Litany of St. Gerard has been added off
the Feast of St. Gerard Majella
page; the litany of St. Brigid has been added off the Feast of St. Brigid page;
the Litany of Saint Louis of France has been added to the Feast of St.
Louis IX page; the Litany of St. Padrig of Eire has been added to
the Feast of St. Patrick page; and the
Litany of St. Anthony of Padua has
been added off the Feast
of St. Anthony page. All of the litanies are also available in pdf
format for easy downloading.
- I made a pdf of
the majorly hardcore Bona Mors prayer:
See the page on The Four Last Things to
find it.
- The Litany for the Dying has been added to
the "Catholic Way of Dying" page, as has, at
that same page, a downloadable pdf of the
prayers commending the soul and prayer after death
- The Litany of St. John the
Baptist has been added off the page about the Feast of St. John the Baptist
- The Spanish,
Mexican, and generally Latin American Advent Las Posadas custom
deserved
its own page, and now it has one, off the Seasonal Customs page: Las Posadas
- A page about U
Fistinu -- the Sicilian July celebrations of St. Rosalia, whose actual feast day is on
September 4
- A page called Prayers for Every Day of the
Week, consisting of three sets of prayers -- for Sunday through
Saturday -- from the 1910 Raccolta, a fourth set of prayers, and a set
of meditations has been added to the "Being
Catholic" section. The pages on Retreats,
on Last Things, and others have been
heavily tweaked, more music has been added, a number of pdfs have been
added -- take a look around.
- Litanies for the Dead have been
added off the Praying for the Dead
page
- The Chaplet of
the Precious Blood has been added to the Chaplets
page
- Information
about the Devotion to Our Lady,
Untier of Knots (aka
"Undoer of Knots") has been added to the "Being Catholic" section
- The beautiful
custom of the Novena of Aguinaldos has
been added off the Advent Overview
page (and the Novenas page)
- A few more
novenas have been added, music has been added to various pages, a
litany to St. Mary Magdalen (for private use) has been added -- many,
many such tweaks and small additions. I still await a new forum! I have
not given up on that, but the whens and hows are out of my hands, alas.
(On a personal note, I got a second indoor kitty, I couldn't resist
him! You can see a picture of Bugsy on the
Contact page.)
- A couple more novenas have been added, as have a few more
books to the Catholic Library
- A page on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
has been added to the Seasonal Customs area of the site. This might be
the last page for a while; I'm experiencing medical issues.
- A page on family
dinners has been added to the Being Catholic area of the site: The Family Dinner Table
- A Google
Maps-based virtual Via Dolorosa
has
been added off the Stations of the Cross
page.
- A few more Novenas and the Litany of St. Raphael have
been added (the latter off the new Feast
of St. Raphael page)
- A page on the Feast of St. Cecilia has been added to the
Seasonal Customs area of the site.
- A page on the
Feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel has
been added, along with the Litany of
St. Gabriel the Archangel
- A page on the Feast of the Guardian Angels has been
added, along with the Litany of
our Holy Angel-Guardian
- A page of the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux,
celebrated on October 3 in the traditional calendar, and on October 1
in the Novus Ordo calendar
- A page on the Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel
has just been added to the Seasonal Customs area of the site
- Just added:
information about how to properly keep St.
Michael's Lent from the Feast of the Assumption to Michaelmas in
order to make an Act of Consecration to St. Michael
- A page on the Feast of St. George has been added to
the Seasonal Customs area
- A page on Pregnancy, Birth, and Miscarriage has been
added to the "Being Catholic" section of the site.
- A page on the Feast of St. Roch (San Rocco) has
been added to the seasonal customs area.
- To the Seasonal
Customs area, a page on the Feast of
the Most Holy Name of Mary has been added, and side-note page
containing an 8th c. Old English poem "Dream
of the Rood" has been added to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
page as well.
- A side-note sort
of page added off the page about the Feast of St. Michael --
this one about the alleged "ley line" sort of phenomenon that connects
sites sacred to St. Michael: St.
Michael's Sword.
- A page on the
year's second Feast of the Seven
Sorrows (September's feast) has been added to the Seasonal Customs
area.
- A page on the Feast of St. Joan of Arc has
been added to the Seasonal Customs section. (I also made a little page that arranges the Novenas I have
by date so you can more easily mark your calendar. You'll find it
off the Novenas page).
- A day late and a
dollar short for this year, but a page on The Decollation of St. John the Baptist
has been added to the Seasonal Customs area
of the site.
- Novenas in honor
of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin, and to St. Joan have been
added to the Novenas page.
- A couple of St.
Anthony of Padua-centered devotions have been added
(St. Anthony Chaplet, and The Thirteen Tuesdays of St. Anthony), both
accessible from the Feast
of St. Anthony page
- A page on the Feast of St.
Wenceslaus has been added to the Seasonal
Customs area
- Many
tweaks all over the place (I'm constantly
tweaking FishEaters -- adding little things all the time to existing
pages -- but don't announce it all here). Some of the new tweaks
include a few books added to the library.
But my favorite tweak -- one that I just have to announce -- is
the addition of a medieval song in honor of
King St. Louis on the
page about his feast.
- Pages
centered on St. Rita of Cascia have been added. The first is a page on her feast day, off the
Seasonal Customs page; the second and third are offshoots of that page
and contain
instructions on the the Triduum
in Honor of St. Rita and the devotion The
Fifteen Thursdays of St. Rita
- A
new page on abortion has been added to the Being Catholic area: Being Catholic > Abortion
- A new page has
been added to the Rebuilding: What We Need to Do pages: Rebuilding: Restoring
"The Little Things" of Catholic Culture
- A new FishEaters
Discord Server has been set up. Try it out here: FishEaters Discord (it's new,
so be easy on it and
give it a minute!)
- A new page on
the Feast of St. Gerard Majella has been added: Being Catholic >
Seasonal Customs > Feast of St.
Gerard Majella
- I made a
downloadable pdf file of Montfort's method of Total Consecration to
Jesus Through Mary (tricky getting that page numbering right!). Find it
here: Being Catholic > Total
Consecration > St. Louis de Montfort's Way: Total Consecration > Total
Consecration.pdf
- Betrothal: Getting Engaged
has been added to the Being Catholic area
- A page on growing old has
been added to the Being Catholic area.
- More books added
to the
Catholic Library.
- Page about the
Four Last Things added to the Being Catholic
area: Being Catholic
> Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven,
and Hell
- Ludwig Ott's
"Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma" added to the Being Catholic
>
Catholic Library.
- New page added
to the new sub-section mentioned just below: Being Catholic
> Rebuilding: What We Need to Do >
Rebuilding: Forming
Traditional Catholic Communities
- I'm adding a new
sub-section to the "Being Catholic" area of
the site. It will be focused on what we need to know and do to get on
with the restoration of Christendom. As I've gotten older, writing's
been coming to me a lot more slowly, so be patient. For now, there's
only one page in this sub-section. It's an open letter to young people,
and it can be found here: Being Catholic
> Rebuilding: What We Need to Do >
Rebuilding:
An
Open Letter to Young People
- Novenas to SS.
John the Baptist, Gabriel, and Raphael, along
with the 9-Hour Novena, have been added to the Novenas
page
- Dr. Jordan
Peterson's Biblical Series, a study of Scripture
(for now, just parts of the Old Testament) from a secular,
psychological point of view, has been added to the library here (in mp3
format)
- Not a Catholic
addition, but one just for fun: "The Cinnamon
Bear" Advent radio series has been added off the Advent Calendars page:
Being Catholic
> Seasonal Customs > Advent Calendars > The Cinnamon Bear
- A great
ommission has been dealt with: the Feast of
St. Agatha has been added to the
Seasonal Customs area
- All 8 volumes of
Cornelius � Lapide's Great
Commentary on the Gospels, John's Epistles, I and II Corinthians, and
Galatians added to the Catholic Library
- A page about "Toxic Traddism" off the Being Catholic
sub-section.
- A page on the
Rorate Masses of Advent. You'll find it here:
FishEaters > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Rorate Masses
- Wrote up
"The
Life of St. Martin" by Sulpicius Severus in pdf format, linked to from the Martinmas page, and
stored in this site's Catholic Library.
- In
response to a question on Twitter about how to become a Catholic, I
made a page that answers that question: How
to Become a Catholic, off the Being Catholic section of the site.
- I spent a lot of
time writing a book for Catholic children.
It's "Nonna's Book of Moral Virtues," and it's meant to be read by
parents to and with their children. It contains lessons on the Four
Cardinal Virtues and each of their associated virtues. Each virtue
(except one) is illustrated by fairy tales, stories from the Bible,
Aesop's fables, etc., and the book includes games, activities,
questions for parents and their children to discuss, and more. You'll
find it for free, in pdf format, here.
- Beefed
up The Book of Nature page,
adding a bit
about the findings of quantum physics and what they mean, and added
even more books to the library (a
ton more).
- More
books added to the Catholic Library
- Added a page,
off the "Being Catholic" section, about the Christian concept of "the
Book of Nature": The Book of Nature
- Added mp3 files
of what I think are all of the Art Bell-Malachi Martin and Bernard
Janzen-Malachi Martin interviews. You'll find these in the Catholic Library area,
along with more added books.
- Lots of
tweaking, mostly to beef up sections on Septuagesima and Lent; more
books added to the Catholic Library;
a new page on the Feast of St. Peter's
Chains (Lammas); and, just for fun, a page, off the Catholic Moral Theology page, with a
mnemonic device to remember the Seven Deadly Sins: Gilligan's Island and the Seven Deadlies
- I'd taken down
this "What's New?" page, but have gotten a request
to re-add it. Since the time I've taken it down, I've added lots of
things, but likely won't be able to remember them all. Among the new
things I can remember are these pages: The
Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano; The
Feast of St. Andrew; Spiritual
Bouquets; The Three Hail Marys
Devotion; The Widow's Mite; Retreats; Processions;
Station Churches;
Doctors of the
Church; Using and Buying a Missal; La Mano Poderosa; Our
Lady of Guadalupe and the Tilma of St. Juan Diego; The
Logos, the Transcendentals, and Sanity; Chaplets (can you believe I never had a page
on chaplets until recently?); The
Spanish Inquisition; Mystery, Miracle, and
Morality Plays, Catholic
Social Teaching; Mass Intentions;
Spreading the Gift
Around: Evangelizing; and more. Many, many books and texts have been
added to the Catholic Library
(including Aquinas's Catena Aurea
-- all of it!), much has been added to the Jewish-Catholic
Relations sub-section, etc. In addition, I am constantly tweaking, changing art,
adding art, adding little bits -- or big chunks -- of information to
already existing pages, doing things like making sure MP3 files have
replaced midi files for all the hymns and Christmas carols, etc. A
Twitter feed has been added to the bottom of the Discussion Forum
pages to try to stimulate conversation there. I will try to keep this
"What's New?" page up, but, then again,
I might forget about it...
- A
page on the Spanish Inquisition can be found here: For Protestants Section > The Spanish Inquisition
- I
added a section to the end of the Lectio Divina
page. Index
> Being Catholic > Lectio Divina
- There's
a new sub-section of the "Being Catholic" section, an area that
focuses on the preternatural world, spiritual warfare, angels, demons,
ghosts, etc.: Index
> Being Catholic > The
Preternatural World
- I've
added a bunch of Catholic desktop wallpapers and backgrounds. You'll
find them here: Index
> Being Catholic > Wallpapers and
Backgrounds
- I
added a page on what to do if you're trad -- but your family isn't:
Index >
For Catholics > I'm Trad, but My
Family Isn't! Help!
- I've
added a page called "Conversion of the Heart" -- likely the most
important page on this website now. It's located here: : Index
> Being Catholic > Conversion
of the Heart
- I've
added a little Catholic Library -- a collection of
writings of the Doctors and Saints, plus other writings Catholics might
enjoy. Find it here: Index > Being Catholic > Catholic Library
- I've
added "The Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous" written by
Redemptorist priests. It's off the "Sacrament of Penance" page
here: Index > Being Catholic > Sacrament
of Penance > The Ten Commandments for
the Scrupulous
- I
added a page on how to get the traditional Latin Mass -- the
"Extraordinary Form" of the Mass -- offered at your parish. See that
here: Index >
For Catholics > How to Establish the
Traditional Latin Mass in Your Parish
- A free book for
your Kindle -- "The Fisheaters
Wham-Bam Thank You, Ma'am Conversion Book." Found here: Index
Page
> Free Book for your Kindle
- Page on the
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi and also
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi: > Being
Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
>
Little
Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
- Article
from Life Magazine, January 9, 1950, with pictures of Pope Pius XII
celebrating Jubilee. Link at the bottom of the page on Holy Years of
Jubilee: Being Catholic > Holy Years of
Jubilee
- A
pdf file of the 22 June 1969 AP article, via the Los Angeles Times,
concerning Bugnini on the issue of women and veiling has been put in a
footnote on the Index Page > Being Catholic > Veiling page
- Index
Page > For Catholics > On
Traditional Catholics, a
great, poetic essay written by forum member "WhollyRoamin'Catholic"
- Index
Page > For Catholics > The
Decree Lifting the Excommunications of the Four S.S.P.X. Bishops,
document on the Bishops of the S.S.P.X.
- Index
Page > For Catholics > The Motu
Proprio: Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI's document on the
traditional Mass
- Index
Page > For Catholics > The
Money Masters, video about our money system and the
Federal Reserve (Vox: I messed up earlier and had the video in two
parts -- but Parts I and II were the same. These videos have been
replaced with a single video. I beg pardon!)
- Index
Page > For Catholics > The
Century of the Self, a four-part video miniseries about propaganda,
advertising, and other forms of media manipulation and their effects on
consumerism, social attitudes, and politics. I also added a few fun
videos to the "Fun Stuff" page, just for
laffs (with a few gems thrown in)...
- I've
made a page about Catholics and beasties and have put it in the
"Being Catholic" section. It includes a sub-section consisting of St.
Basil the Great's expository on the Creation, "On the Hexaemeron." I
have a feeling this little page will grow as I find more stories of the
Saints and animals and such: Index > Being Catholic > Catholics and the Animal World > On the Hexaemeron
- I
added a page about the Four Temperaments to introduce the Four
Temperaments personality test that has been at the site for a long
time: Index > Being Catholic > The
Four Temperaments (the test is no longer accessible through the Fun
Stuff page)
- Via
youtube comes this series of what I consider hilarious and
well-edited (given obviously sparse equipment) videos about one really
neurotic, messed-up woman's (ahem) search for religious truth: Index
> Being Catholic > Fun Stuff > Betty
Butterfield's Quest for God
- I've
added a section containing Christ's parables. It's, sad to say,
skimpy art-wise (I am looking around, trying to find medieval
art to use), but the parables are all there -- grouped as thirty-three
-- with commentary from the Fathers (or the Catholic Encyclopedia) when
available: Index > Being Catholic > The
Parables of Lord Christ
- The
longer I am acquainted with the religious, the more I know
this story is necessary: The Story of the Two
Monks
- A
page about the fascinating Sibyls and their role in Christianity,
Christian art, etc., has been added here: Index > Being Catholic
> The Sibyls
- I
added the book "The Garbage Generation," by Daniel Amneus, once
available at the website Upstream (mugu.com). This book is a must-read
for those who deny the importance of patriarchy -- but I will have a
few things to say about it in an article I plan to write: Index >
For Catholics > The Garbage
Generation
- I
am restricting the discussion forum to non-sedevacantist Catholics
(and, as always, to any guest who respects such Catholics'
sensibilities, speaks of the Holy Father with respect, and obeys the
rules of the forum). I'd wanted the forum to be "pan-trad" but am
finding that initial premises are too far-reaching in discussions among
sedes and non-sedes, and that non-sedes tend to be put on the defense
too often, leading to too many conversations about those premises, and
too few conversations about actually living the Faith. I was
also discouraged by some slurs and little snide remarks against the
Holy Father. Though these were kept, in accordance to the rules, in the
forum made for "sede vs. non-sede" debate, I simply don't want to
provide a place, on my dime, for comments such as these that would flow
naturally from sedevacantist premises. Respectful critism of papal
actions is sometimes not only warranted, but necessary;
disrespect, never giving the benefit of the doubt, and an apparent desire
to find problems aren't -- but those who don't believe Benedict XVI is
the Pope at all have no motivation to afford him that much.
Another change: the Zionism forum is now
"Read Only" due to problems in keeping troublemakers away.
Changed it back so everyone can post; we'll see how long it lasts.
- Thanks
to youtube.com, I am able to present a video of the traditional
Mass: Index Page > Being Catholic > Video
of the Mass
- As
I did with the pages on Ember Days, I amended the pages on Rogation
Days, adding lots of background information and readings: Index Page
> Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Rogation Days
- Father Apollo Teaches a Lesson about Judging
Others
- I
totally beefed up the pages on Ember Days, adding bits to tie things in
more clearly with the natural seasons. There is some repetition, as I
want each page on each of the Embertides to stand alone, but -- well,
you will see: Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs >
Ember Days
- The
most obvious thing that's new is the brilliant art on the index
page, created by artist Daniel Mitsui. I love it! Apparently many do,
considering what's been said about it at the forum. Mr. Mitsui, I thank
God for your talents!
- Listen
to Ezra Pound read his poem about usury: Index Page > For
Catholics > Jewish-Catholic Relations > "With
Usura"
- Encyclicals
on slavery added to the following location, just to have
them all in one place for when the Church gets blamed for slavery, too:
Index Page > For Catholics > Sicut
Dudum, Sublimus Dei, In Supremo Apostolatus, In Plurimus, and Catholicae Ecclesiae
- Index
Page > Being Catholic > Roadside
Shrines (not a lot of information, but mostly pictures)
- Index Page >
Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Walpurgisnacht
- Index Page >
Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Queenship of Mary
- Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Feast of St. Lawrence
- A
few days late and a dollar short, but here it is nonetheless: Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Septuagesima Sunday and its Vigil
- Index
Page > For Catholics > G. K. Chesterton's "On American Morals"
- Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Index Page >
Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Feast of the Visitation
(there is some repetition here from the Mary page in the "Defense of
Catholicism" area)
- I
have fallen hopelessly in love with St. Ephraem. To the page on the
Sacrament of Penance (and also off the Feast of Mary Magdalen
page), I've added his Homily on
the Sinful Woman. Off the page on Precious
Stones in Sacred Scripture, I've added his "The
Pearl." You can find excerpts from his other works throughout the
site; use the search engine to locate some if you fall in love with
him, too.
- In
the Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > area,
the following excerpts from Dom Gueranger's "The Liturgical Year" have
been added: Mystery of Advent, Mystery of Christmastide, Mystery of Septuagesima, Mystery of Lent, Mystery of Passiontide, Mystery of Paschal Time, and Mystery of the Time after
Pentecost -- each on the appropriate overview page for those
seasons.
- Index Page >
For Catholics > Traditional
Catholicism 101: A
Brief Primer
- Index
Page > For Catholics > Pius XII's Mystici Corporis and Vatican I's Pastor Aeternus
- Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Twelfthnight: added St. Ephraem's Hymn XV
on the Epiphany, which can be read as a Twelfthnight play
- Advent
Sunday, 2005: The site has changed its name and moved to its own
domain! Yay! Please bookmark the new URL: www.fisheaters.com I hope I
have got it all done properly; if anything is "buggy," let me know at
the discussion forum...
- Index
Page > For Catholics > Leo XIII's Libertas
(On Liberty) and Inimica Vis (on
Freemasonry)
- Index
Page > For Catholics > Leo XIII's Rerum
Novarum (On Capital and Labor) and
Pope Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno
(On the Social Order)
- Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > How to make Palm Crosses for Palm Sunday
- Index Page >
Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Feast of St. Brigid > How
to Make a St. Brigid's Cross
- So,
I've been playing with the front page, as you can see. It looks
radically different, but not much has changed, really. Summary of the
changes so far:
-
All the
apologetics links for Protestants, and the real audio conversion
stories, are now on the For Non-Catholic
Christians page.
-
All the Catholic
links that had been in the two columns on either side of the red boxes
on the index page are now on the Offsite Links
page.
-
The "Letters,
Conversations, Questions, and Comments" page has been re-named "Readers Write."
- Index
Page > Being Catholic > Pilgrimage
> added a small section on the Sacred Heart Auto League/"plastic
Jesus" phenomenom at the bottom of this page
- The "About this
Site," "Help Wanted," "Link to this Site" pages have been removed, and
some of their information incorporated into the "Questions/Comments"
page.
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