And it came to pass that a humble man....

....did search in vain for the Seven Blogs on the tenth day of the second month and he found few to satisfy his thirst.
"Verily" he did say: "This is a week that passeth all  understanding" And then he did take himself to the blogs of one Ttony of the north of the country and to one Paulinus, who liveth only the good Lord knows where; and he found these two blogs were, indeed as much as the seven he had been seeking and he sought no longer.

The week's two impressively great blogs are................

In Hoc Signo Vinces

and

The Muniment Room (a post in three parts)


Thank you both. And apologies to Paulinus.

The cream of the week's blogs

Top of the Blogs - and
the best use for cream -
on an Irish Coffee!

1.If your heart could do with a little warming and if your faith in the reform of the reform is wavering.....read Mary O'Regan's post on The Path Less Taken

2. Why I love the Latin Mass - I love this post on Ignitum because the author is:
a) young
b) not what one might describe as a traditional traditional Catholic
c)  enjoys much the same sort of macho things (?) that I like doing (apart from the martial arts)..... and the medical bit
and................
d) because he plays a very interesting and demanding role in the military

3. Jane Mossendew (post of January 8) gives a briefing on the consistory with such clarity that, even I can comprehend it. Still more prayers needed for the Cardinals (no, the Vatican Cardinals!)

4. Father Shelton gives sound advice to those a shade nervous about the EF - What's to be scared of? It's your Mass!

5. And another priest, the redoubtable Fr Bede Rowe. Fr Rowe works in France, with young people, correction, with very providentially fortunate young people. He is not afraid to be corrected and those in his charge, having got hold of a dangerous book, do so!

6. Is it snobby to follow the traditional teachings of the faith? And to enjoy the trappings of liturgical worship that link us back to when Christ walked the Earth?
Well the Rev Alan Griffiths (not Rev Alun ap Gruffydd surely?) thinks that what he calls uber traditionalists (uber has such a lovely fascist type ring about it!) are snobs and the poor old working class Catholics wot lives in a council 'ouse, wears clogs and lives on a diet of stewed tea and ferret sandwiches, does not know wot's wot when there's a bit of the old Latin being gabbled in church.

 Ben Trovato links it back to Fr Ray but thanks to Ben's blog,
 Countercultural Father for picking it up in such a good manner.

A group of uber traditional Catholics (left)
being observed by some urban working class
non Latin speaking Catholics

7. Rick Santorum.......keep the faith people, the rosaries are still being hammered out on his behalf. I find American politics slightly more baffling than trying to comprehend the rules for Baseball in Mandarin.
But, Paul Zummo at The American Catholic has a good take on him and his dastardly Communist tendencies!

8. Philothea on Phire asks what happened to the 95%  - you know, the 95%!
That is those bishops, those 4,750 out of the total of 5,000 who have NOT celebrated the Tridentine Latin Mass!
It is scandalous! What a shower!

Eight days? Who's counting?

This week's best blogs

For a truly horrifying experience..................The Little Way

Ever wondered why Christ was circumcised? Taylor Marshall has the answers

What list would be complete without a piece on the Bishops. This is about one who was a father to his flock - really! (This is not meant to be sensationalist but to show that we definitely have a problem). Read Rorate Caeli

IHS? This is what it stands for - thanks to Fr Ryan Erlenbush at
The New Theological Movement


Catholic art, still beautiful, still alive today - New Liturgical Movement's Shawn Tribe has it covered

The good Bishop - another Bishop has stood up to be counted. The inspirational Fr Simon Henry on Offerimus Domine

Utopia does not exist. Or does it? La Crosse sounds pretty much like it according to The Badger Catholic

And Catholic and Welsh Gareth Hurley on the drift towards assisted murder of the old and infirm in our society