The fact that any little town with a big box store and a high school has employed six planning & building code inspectors and a human resource department at town hall with eighteen employees, but not a single salaried court composer says all I need to know about the modern world.

Pilgrimage 1979 at Máméan West of Ireland… from my old negatives #35mmfilm #photograghy #kodak #documentary #Ireland

Ad occidentem at #ohope beach

Requiescat in pace

Requiescat in pace

Unusual sights to the east of Whakatane and Ohope about 0545 this morning. ?

Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) 1730 today at St Gerard Majella Church, Onslow Street, Kawerau. 📷 Early morning somewhere on the Camino Portuguese in 🇪🇸

Finance minister urges education and health to 'recycle' redundant properties. "That’s why they can look to organisations like the Catholic Church, with longer experience and longer horizons, for a model of how to manage and recycle its assets better." newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/fin…

21 October - Feast of Blessed Karl! His wedding day. Loving husband, father of 8, deeply devout Catholic, Emperor for barely two years, he fought for peace in a terrible war when everybody else wouldn't. Let's ask him for peace in Ukraine.

Pope St. JP2 and his successors

Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) 1730 today at St Gerard Majella Church, Onslow Street, Kawerau. 📷 Pontifical Requiem Mass for Michael Joseph Savage, NZ Prime Minister, who died in office. Scared Heart Basilica, Wellington, 30 April A.D. 1940.

Ad orientem above Ohope Beach this morning

The noon-bell rings. A silence. Frodo speaks. ‘I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.’ Elrond answers, ‘If you do not find a way, no one will. This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.’

Meanwhile, it's a full house at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo, VIC, 🐨🦘🇦🇺, for the conclusion of the Christus Rex Pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, at Head Office 🇻🇦

The look and sound of #Synodality. 🎥 Sacred Heart Cathedral Bendigo VIC 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃

Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) 1730 today at St Gerard Majella Church, Onslow Street, Kawerau. 📷 Assisi 🇮🇹

The Triduum of Hallowtide

howard shore's masterpiece of a score makes 9 dudes and a pony walking by some rocks one of the most epic scenes in all cinema