Say “Hello” to the Villain Who Lied About You
Fulton J. Sheen told a story about a man who bumped into Abraham Lincoln yelling: “Get out of my way, you big ugly lummox!”
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

Fulton J. Sheen told a story about a man who bumped into Abraham Lincoln yelling: “Get out of my way, you big ugly lummox!”
Dr. Luca Ricossa has made a YouTube recording of this Sequence!
If there’s a more beautiful setting of this text, I don’t know what it could be.

Fulton J. Sheen reminded us: “Many a pontiff goes through life without making a single infallible decision … not one.”

A USCCB statement: singing psalms at Mass “may create problems” … ?
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The Fulton J. Sheen Missal (1961) does something rather puzzling…
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“Once there were lost islands, but most of them have been found…”
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In the early XIXth century the Duke of Wellington, speaking of infantry battles, is said to have exclaimed, “All soldiers run away. The good ones come back.”
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Sheen has sometimes been criticized for avoiding mention of the sacred liturgy during his talks, but I cannot agree with such a view. • Includes about the Holy Eucharist, including a quote by Father Leslie Rumble and a quote from Pope Pius X+
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The beautiful “Way of the Cross” by Sheen made our local bishop weep as he was leading them.
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We choirmasters are frequently called upon to speak in public.
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