tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.comments2024-02-02T19:30:12.868-06:00Fear Not Little Flockpriest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd http://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comBlogger5405125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-80609616642200155892021-01-22T16:40:46.432-06:002021-01-22T16:40:46.432-06:00yes- I'll be reading this again this upcoming ...yes- I'll be reading this again this upcoming great Lent... priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-58594487031171909672021-01-22T15:34:25.057-06:002021-01-22T15:34:25.057-06:00Hi there! 'Happy' 2021- :) Social media ki...Hi there! 'Happy' 2021- :) Social media killed blogging in some ways... and I am tired of some social media... trying to blog more- if even just for myself ... I'll look over to yourspriest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-62844663638590616592021-01-13T12:23:08.762-06:002021-01-13T12:23:08.762-06:00Oops I meant in 2021 :D Gotta get used to writing ...Oops I meant in 2021 :D Gotta get used to writing that!!Kayleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08589019233035937673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-8044670497504541292021-01-13T12:22:42.144-06:002021-01-13T12:22:42.144-06:00Hello! Glad you updated! It was a really hard year...Hello! Glad you updated! It was a really hard year for us, too, but also had many blessings. I am hoping to blog again in 2020. I am working on writing the birth story of our 6th baby now. I feel the pull back to blogging, which makes it possible to write thoughtfully and share photos without all the instant-ness of Instagram and the politics of Facebook. Good to "see you" again! :)Kayleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08589019233035937673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-20172446137439979842021-01-12T07:36:21.188-06:002021-01-12T07:36:21.188-06:00Thinking of you, dadThinking of you, dadpriest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-37202184737526032672021-01-11T20:25:41.072-06:002021-01-11T20:25:41.072-06:00Wow ! Haven't been to Fear Not Little Flock in...Wow ! Haven't been to Fear Not Little Flock in quite a while. I love the Tamiians ! God bless you allDavid Wendellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169449473988304461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-87345773805944449552021-01-04T10:14:15.109-06:002021-01-04T10:14:15.109-06:00anytime- we can't wait to see you! not sure wh...anytime- we can't wait to see you! not sure when CA will happen for us though... priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-73147796093113798242021-01-02T21:06:15.712-06:002021-01-02T21:06:15.712-06:00I might have cried looking at those pictures.
Yo...I might have cried looking at those pictures. <br /><br />You didn’t get a proper going away. You had to steal away quietly as if in the night. <br /><br />When visiting is safe again we’ll be out there for sure. fiddledebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03696738203601785972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-790348132509234232021-01-02T08:52:57.749-06:002021-01-02T08:52:57.749-06:00Happy new year, Mom & Dad! :)Happy new year, Mom & Dad! :) priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-25913722795014393862021-01-01T22:52:26.723-06:002021-01-01T22:52:26.723-06:00Thanks !!! We love you !!!Thanks !!! We love you !!!David Wendellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169449473988304461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-34902071655796614992020-03-03T15:26:30.582-06:002020-03-03T15:26:30.582-06:00Thank you so much for your comment :)
and just wi...Thank you so much for your comment :)<br /><br />and just wish that all celibate (mostly Latin rite) priests would bend towards a mote monastic ideal - living in community (consolidate rectories- not parishes, if needed), living out celibacy in a chaste, positive way, living a simple life- even if secular priests haven't taken a specific vow of poverty, etc priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-11233628835585964842020-03-01T12:07:43.192-06:002020-03-01T12:07:43.192-06:00"Please "Ukraine' not "the Ukra..."Please "Ukraine' not "the Ukraine"!!!!!!! Why is it so difficult to understand???????"<br /><br />It has to do with how Ukraine was traditionally referred to in English.<br /><br />Ukraine was traditionally given the article "the" in the fashion that regions of the globe were, such as "the veldt" or "the Arctic" or "the prairie" or "the Congo" or "the Ruhr". This is likely because it is not only a country and a nation, but a region. No offense was meant by it, and indeed it added a certain mystique to the term.<br /><br />More recently the "the" has been dropped, but for people accustomed to using it, it's been hard to do that. <br /><br />By way of an odd analogy, where I'm from its the custom to omit the article "the" in regard to certain geographic features, which no doubt makes us sound odd to outsiders but which is a very long standing custom. There's a certain river, for example, and basin, that share the same name and locals do not use the "the" in regard to them. They never have and its simply part of our regional way of speaking.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-49002223833478377032020-03-01T12:01:37.756-06:002020-03-01T12:01:37.756-06:00I'm posting well after this original article w...I'm posting well after this original article was posted, but I'll note that, as a conservative and fairly traditional Latin Catholic I'm continually amazed, confused and embarrassed by the level to which some Catholic clergy and conservative Catholic commentators are so vested in the issue of Priests not being married and don't seem to grasp that this rule is limited to the Latin Rite. I truly don't get it.<br /><br />I've blogged on it myself in the past and I have a draft one that's super lengthy that deals with it, in part, but, speaking as a pretty traditional Catholic conservative, the level of devotion to maintaining a celebrate clergy by some Latin Catholics is misguided in my view. It isn't even really fully traditional in the long history of the Church. <br /><br />Priests did not have to be celibate originally and we know that St. Peter, the first Pope, was a married man at least at some point in his life, although we don't know if he was at the time that his discipleship commenced. There are arguments either way. The Roman Martyrology interesting mentioned Saint Petronilla as the daughter of St. Peter, for example, while others note that there's only a reference to his mother in law, but not his wife, in the Gospels. But then, as far as I know, the reference to his mother in law is from a single event.<br /><br />And the rule itself became the law of the Latin Church in order to prevent the Priesthood from becoming heredity and the hereditary in noble families at that. It took a long time to impose as the custom was so ingrained against it. That danger, which was real, has passed however, and today the Church is faced with other crises some of which stem, in my view, from the fact that men who enter the Catholic clergy now tend to be so separated from other men including regular Catholic men in the pews. Without going into it, the change in economic conditions that came into play following World War Two made it a lot harder for average men to hear The Call over other calls and this narrowed the number of candidates entering the Priesthood. That's a situation that needs to be addressed in today's world.<br /><br />Indeed, I know a fairly devout Latin Catholic who seriously entertained switching Rites mid life in order to pursue the Priesthood, although he chose against that in the end.<br /><br />The Latin Rite seems dead set, for the most part, against changing the Rule on celibacy with the conservatives, who would seemingly potentially benefit from it the most, being the most opposed. It's too bad, in my view. I've sometimes wished that the custom of bi ritual Priest would be increased with it running the opposite of the direction we normally hear of, with Eastern Rite priests being present in shorthanded Latin Rite parishes as long as they could also do an Eastern Mass. But I'm sure my thinking in that direction is probably limited to me alone.<br /><br />Anyhow, on behalf of Latin Rite Catholics who do have some inkling of Eastern Rite traditions, I extend an apology.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-52733188346145532842020-03-01T11:32:09.188-06:002020-03-01T11:32:09.188-06:00Indeed. But another aspect of it is that people...Indeed. But another aspect of it is that people's hearts seem to cry out for a purpose for their actions, while at the same time their secular minds reject the meaning. It must be a product of the Fall, but it leads to rigorous self imposition of practices that are meaningless as they lack a true spiritual base. A diet (and indeed, an unnatural one) that is imposed only because a person feels that it might slightly extend their mortality is pretty pointless, after all.<br /><br />By the same token I read today of a practice in which people now attend a class, more or less, to arrange for their own false funeral so they can reassess their life. We don't have to, as we have Lent.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-29606267891754397722020-02-27T12:03:28.881-06:002020-02-27T12:03:28.881-06:00so true! Heaven help us when we think we are humbl...so true! Heaven help us when we think we are humble... because thinking we are humble shows that we are not! :) Life is a ladder- not an elevator :)priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-69741336333591019782020-02-27T12:02:13.581-06:002020-02-27T12:02:13.581-06:00Is it so true about secular people imposing restri...Is it so true about secular people imposing restrictions on themselves- I use this to my 'advantage'- if a 'pagan' can be vegan all the time- can't I forgo animal products occasionally for the love of God? :)priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-34984849880856261532020-02-26T13:24:22.346-06:002020-02-26T13:24:22.346-06:00St. Francis de Sales, the Patron Saint of Writers....St. Francis de Sales, the Patron Saint of Writers. <br /><br />I can't help but note that he, a devout man, claimed not to be devout. I've often thought that one of the aspects of being truly saintly would be to realize how we each individually fall short.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-36792567055441282002020-02-26T13:20:21.735-06:002020-02-26T13:20:21.735-06:00Thank you for this post. As a Latin Catholic, I...Thank you for this post. As a Latin Catholic, I've always been really confused about the Eastern fasting requirements, and this clears it up.<br /><br />Also, fwiw, as a Latin Catholic I find the Eastern practice inspirational. In recent years, during Lent, I've tried to make what little fasting that is acquired of us Latins a bit more rigorous, which oddly enough seems to make it a bit easier. At the same time, I've come to be amazed by all of the self imposed odd dietary restrictions that are self imposed by very secular people upon themselves, which I have a theory about, but which I'll expound on some other time elsewhere.<br /><br />Anyhow, this was very instructive and I was wondering about it.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-62836429881122360342019-11-27T13:57:16.935-06:002019-11-27T13:57:16.935-06:00Well, I may have calculated that incorrectly, and ...Well, I may have calculated that incorrectly, and it began on November 15. Same analysis, however.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-83651250206017742162019-11-27T13:55:36.189-06:002019-11-27T13:55:36.189-06:00In looking it up (I'm Latin Rite and of course...In looking it up (I'm Latin Rite and of course we don't have a Nativity Fast), I see that the Nativity Fast begins this year on November 28, Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving Day has its origins, very generally, as a Christian feast, but it's become one of the gigantic American holidays and is food focused in so many ways. One more example, I'm guessing, of how those of you in the Eastern Rite make the rest of us look like comparative slackers.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-30515942755199158572019-11-13T20:13:38.908-06:002019-11-13T20:13:38.908-06:00Priest's Wife!
Thank you for the replies! My...Priest's Wife!<br /><br />Thank you for the replies! My wife loves her insta-pot,too! Easy to clean, also.<br /><br />Well, I have identified three places for kneeling/metanies that are not Latinizations:<br /><br />The Gospel<br />The Great Entrance<br />The Epiclesis<br /><br />Kneeling through the anaphora is definitely a Latinization as it mimics the Roman custom of kneeling for the Canon.<br /><br />Always remembering you all in my prayers!James Ignatius McAuleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16170178446627560622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-26848083689908636292019-11-08T07:48:37.922-06:002019-11-08T07:48:37.922-06:00oh, what a great surprise when I clicked on your p...oh, what a great surprise when I clicked on your page! <br />the mixed up files is on our list to read. We also enjoyed Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library and The Mysterious Benedict Society as read alouds<br />Blessings!<br />KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116744968777228314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-18546471539340206122019-11-03T07:22:38.634-06:002019-11-03T07:22:38.634-06:00Does anyone know how to contact Father Robert More...Does anyone know how to contact Father Robert Moreno? I'm a Catholic and he has saved me more times than I can count. I really need his counseling at this moment as I have questions regarding cremation and handling of ashes afterwards,as I recently lost both my parents. Please feel free to email me at mssinclair716@gmail.com if you have information. Last time I called the St.Basils number it's out of order. God Bless us ALL!!!Ms SINclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05898054668520989592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-20540942993523189702019-11-02T09:15:07.563-05:002019-11-02T09:15:07.563-05:00I love my instant pot! Our fall was beautiful here...I love my instant pot! Our fall was beautiful here until a few days ago. Now it's almost wintery.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107363068999317151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-58801446358081438212019-11-01T18:29:31.954-05:002019-11-01T18:29:31.954-05:00Please read through the old comments here- perhaps...Please read through the old comments here- perhaps you will see where I am coming from... priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.com