Well I suppose, as one correspondent reminded me, it's good to know that The Irish Catholic is reading my blog.  I'd forgotten that I'd referred to the IC as containing "old tosh".  Obviously the editor likes to keep his bitter little memories.  At least when he reads my blog he might learn something about the Catholic faith - more than he ever learned with the Jesuits clearly.

But I better watch out that my posts don't end up in the paper, you know the way the deputy editor has a fondness for...
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I took a break from blogging for the days of the Easter Triduum, partly because I was busy, partly for spiritual reasons.  But now I'm back.  How were your Easter ceremonies?

It's dreadful, really, that so much depends on the whim of individual priests when you think that the rubrics are fairly clear for almost all aspects of the ceremonies.  Our Mass on Holy Thursday was mostly good, but of course, you don't notice the 95% of your body that isn't itching, it's the bit you're scratching you th...
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