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Holy Souls Prayer Register: It has been a number of years since I made a posting such as this. In the interest of brevity, I want to renew...

On Recent Funerals and Suspending My "No More Funerals" Stance of Recent Years: I attended another funeral yesterday eleven day...

Please pray for the eternal repose of the souls of Thomas and Mark Girard and if you can help out their family in any way, please do what y...

There have been a number of deaths in the family and among friends in this millennium. But out of all of them, there is one which stands out...

Today would have been the 68th birthday of my father Richard Dunn McElhinney. As I have noted before, days like this are ones of more intens...

Holy Souls Masses Registration: The following is this years scroll of the dearly departed -individuals of note and also family groupings wil...

I will be sketching out my thoughts on various news stories of the past few days over the weekend but at the moment I am getting through the...

On Mike Mentzer's Passing and His Influence: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum ) As yesterday was the seventh annivers...

Remembering Chris: As I noted late last week, I planned to touch on this subject on the anniversary of Chris' birthday but it seemed in...

I did not figure on posting anything additional today but this thread is in the spirit of what I posted earlier this week with regards to my...

My maternal great aunt Ann Ripplinger passed on two days ago at the age of 91. She was the younger sister of my maternal grandmother Mary Ka...

As this is a primary day, those who have tuned in expecting our usual unique perspective on these matters are in for a disappointment becaus...

We at Rerum Novarum hope that readers will offer prayers (in the next day or so) for the eternal repose of the soul of one of the greatest ...

Prayers by readers of this weblog for Chris Blosser's ailing grandfather Eugene would be most appreciated.

Holy Souls Masses Registration: This years scroll of the dearly departed -individuals of note and also family groupings by last name: Richar...

On Blogging in General, My Approaches To It, Remembering Two Musical Legends and Three Major Influences, Etc: (Musings of your humble serva...

Notification of Four to Seven Upcoming Posts and a Prayer Request: Yesterday came and went with no start to the oft-mentioned (in recent wee...

My father passed on six years ago and my mother still has difficulties on days such as this one which would have been their forty-first anni...

Miscellaneous Musings: There are four points briefly that I want to touch on so here goes... --I plan to write in the coming week on the abs...

I have shelved what I planned to blog at this time after getting a call from my mother about another family member passing on today. If I co...