We added a 54 day rosary novena to the "poll" quite late in the day.

This will begin 11 February (the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes) and go until 5 April (Palm Sunday).

Please join us.

The Holy Father has begged us for our prayers that he might face the wolves attacking the flock.

Father George bloggingLOURDES

immaculataconceptio.wordpress.com

We added a 54 day rosary novena to the "poll" quite late in the day.

This will begin 11 February (the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes) and go until 5 April (Palm Sunday).

Please join us.

The Holy Father has begged us for our prayers that he might face the wolves attacking the flock.

Father George bloggingLOURDES

immaculataconceptio.wordpress.com

If I'm not mistaken, that music is lifted from Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, an awesome film helping us to understanding the Sacrifice of Holy Mass. I'm sure that Mel would be a big fan of the pilgrimage that the Christus Rex Pilgrimage makes every year on the traditional feast of Christ the King.

Prayers and blessings
Father George

Sorry about the bit of static at the end. I don't know how that happened. Just stop it there. For the orginal, 100% better version, go to the Christus Rex Pilgrimage website at crex.org.

Father George

So, the answer has just come in from the blog. I quote our blog reader:

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"As far as I am aware there is no insult in the word ‘grunge.’ I had only come across it with reference to fashion a few years back when ‘grunge’ was all the rage meaning youngsters were wearing shredded jeans, and holey jumpers - in other words dressing down.

"We [English people] tend to use the word ‘grotty’ if we want to describe somthing or somewhere which is below standard, tatty or dirty. I … [More]

Over on my blog about Lourdes (immaculataconceptio.wordpress.com), an English reader asked if I was aware that there was another meaning to "grunge".

I'm American, and as far as I know, grunge refers to filth, dirt, horror of all kinds. As kids, if something was like that, we would call it “grungy” with no secondary meanings.

“Grunge” for us also describes a certain kind of music belonging to some members of a generation slightly younger than mine. That’s all I know about grunge.

I hope I … [More]