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  • Masses of Christmas, at night, in private chapels; to wear a skull-cap or a wig either while celebrating Mass or in the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament; to blind and partially blind priests to celebrate the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin; to celebrate Mass aboard ship; to consecrate a bishop on a day other than those established by the Pontifical, or to confer Holy orders extra tempora, that is, on other days than those appointed by law; finally, to dispense the faithful -- even members of religious orders -- from the Eucharistic fast in cases of necessity.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • 849 27313. 334T4-HX5 altemis i. 5*25 f 768 9 1010 1 alterms tempora eoBli divi - dere i.

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

  • O tempora, o mores , as E. V. Rieu might have put it.

    What's So Super About Super Injunctions? Sam Leith 2011

  • The Tumbrel Diaries: O tempora, O mores skip to main | skip to sidebar

    O tempora, O mores 2009

  • The DYDA DISPATCHES: O tempora o mores! skip to main | skip to sidebar

    O tempora o mores! 2009

  • O tempora o sores - worse for wear after some good times

    On foreign ludicity DC 2010

  • As Cicero would doubtless have said if confronted with the news that US pet lovers can now get a memento of the happy occasion when they had their dog's testicles cut off: O tempora, o mores!

    Tara Newley's gritty new film 2010

  • Ms. SARAH POST: I just had the tempura - the tempora with the curry.

    Campaign Aims To Make Meatless Mondays Hip 2010

  • Ms. SARAH POST: I just had the tempura - the tempora with the curry.

    Campaign Aims To Make Meatless Mondays Hip 2010

  • With email, you get large capitals in a "fun" font O tempora o mores.

    Ecclesiastical flooring and green biro 2009

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