All Saints Day Altar.

It's an impressive, over the top tradition that I keep. Every year, before first vespers of All Saints' Day, I put up all my holy cards for veneration. I had a (small?) collection of about 80, but I lost many in the fire last month. I only have about 50 left. I'll get up a photo later.
This is what I got:

Three of St. Joseph
Various images of Our lady
Ss.Peter and Paul
Another of St.Paul
St.Raymond Nonnatus
St.Jude
St.Serapion
St.Pio of Pieltrecina
St.Laurence
St.Anne
The Martyrs of Aureisville
Two of St.Michael
St. Veronica
Two of St.Therese of Lisieux
St.Teresa of Avila
St.Rita of Cascia
Our Lady of All Saints
St. Peter Nolasco
Blessed Mary-Ann of Jesus
St. Anthony of Padua
Blessed John XXIII
St. Bernadette Soubirous

That's all I know off the top of my head.

We Phinally Win!

WOOOOOOOH! Phils take the World Series 4-3! The Penn curse really is broken! People are already shooting off fireworks and guns. I've been keeping up with the Phils this season. I don;t think words can express how excited everyone in the city is about this.

Tonight.

I went to say vespers and have dinner with the Mercedarian friars. Afterwards, e said compline. It was all great fun.

LOL@NOOBS.

I've talked about how much I love making fun of noobs. This is too much. This is suppossed to be English, BTW. ere for every existing person's ridicule:

"I em not relle shur abowt dis hole votin' fing. I fink dey boff hav der pros an' cons, but I em too yung to vote ennewais, so w/e. I fink if I cud hav mi choice, Id hav Aeros run tha cuntry, 'cos he's real smart an' alwais knows wot he's doin' most of tha thyme, but I don't fink he can, 'cos he's not old 'nuff, an' he was born in Spain. :U McCain, tho."

LO

GO HERE.

NAOW.

Dammned feminazi clericalism, it is.

*Dies* D;

Sorry. I still see minor orders in ministerial institutions. Everyone who knows of them knows that they are still a step to the priestood. Opening them up to women will only fuel false hope of women's ordination heretics proponents. It's true, forty years after the council, we're still arguing over what it meant. We're still recovering from it's effects, and as much as I truly beleive it was going to be necessary, and that many good tings came out of it, I can;t help but wish sometimes that some of the things that came after it had not happened. The suppression of minor orders being one.

Why is'nt this person on my bloglist!? D<

She's like me. Except a girl. And dutch. LINKIE.
Other things:
I served the mass today. except for a couple mistakes, things went well. Fr.James, our pastor is growing his facial hari again. He went for the classic Roman clean shaven priest look for a wile. I guess it does'nt sut him as he's growing it back. This was him last year. This was him this year.
One of my friends is moving back to his home state of South Carolina after eight months of living here.I'll miss him. We have a lot in common, Except that I'm more of a nerd than he is. But the, he spent eight months in Philly and didn't try a cheese steak until yesterday.Oops, I gave him my booklet on the mass by Bishop Challoner and never asked for it back. Ah well, I can get another.
My oldest bro. has a kendo sword now. We both wanted to take kendo when we were little , because everyone in the neighborhood was, but mom said no because we might still get hurt. (It's frickin' Kendo, how do you get hurt?!)
I got invited to the rectory at my parish to spend prayers and diner with the Mercedarians on Tuesday. They eat too early. I don't eat dinner till 8:00 PM.
I picked my second poem for my English project. I picked Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky". I hope it does'nt get rejected for being too random. I also found an awesome motet to sing at funerals! It's a setting of Alexander Pope's poem "The Dying Christian to his Soul."
Actually, it's not a motet yet, because I didn't wright it yet. But I have inspiration! :D

Finally; are you aware that 95% of Americans do not expect the Spanish Inquisition? It's a fact.
*EDIT* The "U" and the "H" are broken off of my keyboard. The "z" and the "w" don't work easily either

Holy Souls novena.

Begins today. I'm about to start mine. I used to have a prayer-book with a novena to and for the holy souls, but it disappeared the day I got it, and it's hard to come by.

Philology!

Today, I met some people who know what that is. For real. It was at the blognic.
I was dropped of by my parents, (I didn't expect it.Dad got off earlier today than usual and gave me a ride.) And when, walked in with Fr.Z . Then I lost him. Then I met a priest who works at the Hispanic ministry at the cathedral, and we both found him. I met a nice couple who I've seen at Lourdes before. Apparently,they drop by every now and again, and I expect to see them Sunday. We talked about a lot of different subjects; seminaries, the new missal, Bp.Trautman and philology, a stab at politics and some history about the Civil War, Hispanic ministry, etc. All in All, it was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I went. I skipped vespers, but said compline.
I'm actually a little antsy about this coming Sunday, as I thought that Fr. Joseph would be saying mass, but it's another priest who does things a bit differently. (eg, he does'nt tap the missal stand at the end of the epistle, only pausing, and does'nt wait for the response at the orate fratres.)
We'll see how it goes. The cat that used to be ours, but went AWOL and now prefers to live on the porch was waiting for a meal when I got back. I fed him and spent some time with him.

Don't fprget what mass is about.

Fr.Z in Philly

Fr.Z, who runs the nearly famous blog "What Does the Prayer Really Say?" Is going to be in Philly for a few days. There are plans for a blognic. I hope it's close to home, so that I could come. There's really no other way, as I have no license, and no car to drive anyway. Unless that is, some person would be willing to swing by Overbrook and give me a ride.
Also, I have a clarification: the first EF mass I ill serve is the 26th, the Feast of Christ the King in the EF calendar. I hold that as an important occasion, so my personal surplice, which I have yet to wear will be laundered and worn.
Also, I have just discovered Widor's "Marche Pontificale". Wow. I mean.....just..Wow. It's amazing. I have to learn that one. Here's Arthur Wills playing it at the organ at Ely Cathedral for extra wow factor.

Tuesday.

Well, I learned how to serve the Extraordinary Form now. Br.David, the brother in charge of the altar servers at my parish and I went over it Tuesday evening. I serve my first mass on October 25th. If there are any other young men in the neighborhood who could serve it, just ask Br.David or call the parish.Also, I've been reading St Louis Marie De Montfort's "True Devotion" . It's wonderful. I don't see how I kept myself from reading it. My home altar is set up again, but now with less holy cards. I put the crucifix back up, and pulled out those hand carved reliefs of the Sacred Heart and Our lady that I bought for a dollar at a garage sale.
After school, since organ practice is suspended for now, I went to borders to read manga. They still do not have Eyesheild 21 Vol. 21, Reborn! Vol.9, or O-Parts Hunter Vols. 1 or 12. I also read the Kingdom Hearts II manga. Great game, ever greater manga. Lots of humour in volume one,especially with Hayner.I read Shaman King Vol.2. I loved it rowing up, and read all the way up to Vol.12, but then I just kind of got out of it. Still no sign of Shonen Jump.*Sigh*
Anyway, it's nearly midnight here, and slacker that I am, I'm only just finishing homework. Bye!

Tomorrow is an important Anniversary!

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Tomorrow is the 109th anniversary of the dedication of the church of Our Lady of Lourdes, my home parish, pictured above.
"In 1898, the Spanish-American War erupted while Overbrook continued to grow. In November, the one-ton church bell was hung in the steeple. As the century faded, the parish was blossoming. In the final weeks of the century, the interior of the main church was completed, and the solemn dedication ceremonies were presided over by Archbishop Ryan on October 15, 1899."

I know em all.

No, I don't know all my Pokemon, though I used to back hen everyone at school was addicted to Pokemon. Now I have trouble just remembering all the evolutionary stages of some types. (what comes first- Ivysaur or Bulbasaur?)
I know all three tones for the readings: The prophecy tone, the epistle tone, and the gospel tone. So now, I could feasibly chant the first readings at mass, or both readings at sung matins. After ordination, I could chant the gospel in solemn masses. These are things any young man considering a vocation should know.

OMGOMGOMG *Dies*

That's all one word. One.Word. Cedrus. And it goes on for like, 50 notes. D: