On the seventh day of Christmas,
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
12 Days of Christmas from Loome Sacred Gifts: Day 5
On the fifth day of Christmas
Loome Gifts gave to me
Five Alderman originals
(Courtesy of artist Matthew Alderman)
Four Trappist caramels
Three baptismal gowns
Two Marian statues
And an icon in a bare tree

Five Alderman originals
Four Trappist caramels
Three baptismal gowns
Two Marian statues
And an icon in a bare tree
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
12 Days of Christmas from Loome Sacred Gifts: Day 2
Friday, December 25, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Christmas Gifts from North Central Publishing
Prior to its closure in the 1980s, North Central Publishing printed a limited run of Christmas books each year as gifts for its best customers. The books varied on theme from the Gospel of Mark to seasonal short stories set in Minnesota.
We've come across a few curious volumes that have a connection to James P. Shannon, former auxiliary bishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis. Shannon resigned as auxiliary bishop in 1968, because he objected to the encyclical Humanae Vitae. He left the priesthood and wrote the book Reluctant Dissenter. Before he was bishop, he was president of the University of St. Thomas.
Another of the Christmas books, All Men Seek God, contains the text of one of Shannon's Christmas sermons. It bears a note from Shannon in the front:
This little book contains my sermon at the Midnight Mass at St. Helena's on Christmas 1966. I am sending it to a few of my friends in the hope that it might be of some interest to them.
Finally, one of the books published outside the Christmas season presents a collection of Shannon's writings as a college president. The book is titled Shannon: A College President Speaks His Mind.
We feel as though we are being haunted by the ghosts of bishops past.
Friday, December 18, 2009
In the News: Loome Sacred Gifts
From The Catholic Spirit, Official Newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis:

New gift shop focuses on quality, local and monastery-made goods
by Maria Wiering

New gift shop focuses on quality, local and monastery-made goods
by Maria Wiering
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
From the Dowry of Mary to the Stripping of the Altars

Our discussion concentrated on the numerous prayers, rubrics, rituals, and charms used by everyone in their daily lives. Duffy portrays this as an all encompassing practice of a faith that permeated every facet of the everyday life of the people. Then, we asked ourselves with a faith so deeply held, so all pervading, how was it all lost in a matter of two generations? How was England transformed from a vibrant Catholic nation into a Protestant country in such a short period of time? Hopefully, we will find the answers to those questions when next we read Part II of The Stripping of the Altars.
Finishing Eamon Duffy's masterful work will be a wonderful way to end our year of reading and give us a good start for a new year of reading the great literary works of our faith. I look forward to sharing this next year of reading with you. We are truly blessed.
May all of you have a blessed Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year,
Misfit Buzz
Misfit Buzz
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Happy 40th Birthday, Diocese of Phoenix
Lordy, lordy, look who's forty! A timely bibliosite fell out of one of our books recently. This newspaper clipping, circa 1969, announces the creation of the Diocese of Phoenix, which celebrates its 40th birthday today.
(Click on the article to enlarge.)

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for the Diocese of Phoenix.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for the Diocese of Phoenix.
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