Easter Monday

Jesus is risen!
Truly, He is risen!

Ad Multos Annos!!

Auguri, Benedetto!  Happy 87th Birthday, Papa Bene!

Lenten fare - Roasted Vegetable Tarts

I hope everyone is having a fruitful Lenten season.  Tonight's Lenten fare is from an old Food & Wine magazine recipe.  I just make it from memory, so I do not know from what issue it was originally published.

Roasted Vegetable Tarts

1 pkg. refrigerator pie crusts
2 8-oz. cream cheese (I used Neufchatel), at room temp.
1 container crumbled Gorgonzola
2 eggs
a variety of assorted vegetables, like onions, peppers, mushrooms, garlic, celery, carrots, summer squash, whatever you like, cut into small pieces
olive oil
salt & pepper

Toss veggies with olive oil, salt & pepper.  Spread on baking sheets and roast at 375F for about 30 minutes.

Mix cream cheese, Gorgonzola and eggs until smooth.

Spray 2 baking sheets with nonstick spray.  Roll out one crust at a time.  Spread 1/2 of cream cheese mixture on crust, leaving about 2 inches from the edge.  Top with half the roasted vegetables.  Bring up and pinch-pleat edges of pie crust all around.  It will stand up a bit.  Repeat with other crust.

Bake for another 30 minutes or so, until crust has browned.

 

Bon appetit!

 

Bless us, O Lord,

and these Thy gifts,

which we are about to receive

through Thy bounty,

through Christ our Lord. 

Amen.

 

Blessed feast of Mary, Mother of God!

Salutation to the Blessed Virgin Mary

by St. Francis of Assisi

Hail Lady, Holy Queen, Holy Mary Theotokos,

who art the Virgin made church

and the One elect by the Most Holy Father of Heaven,

whom He consecrated with His Most Holy beloved Son

and with the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete;

Thou in whom was and is all fullness of grace and every good.

Hail His Palace;

Hail His Tabernacle;

Hail His Home.

Hail His Vestment;

Hail His Handmaid;

Hail His Mother

And hail all you holy virtues,

which through the grace and illumination of the Holy Spirit

are infused into the hearts of the faithful,

so that from those unfaithful

you make them faithful to God.

Amen.

 

 

Merry Christmas!

For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Thy almighty Word leapt down from heaven from Thy royal throne. (Wisdom 18:14-15)

Happy Thanksgiving!

All Souls Day 2013

Our Latin Mass community had our very first Solemn Requiem Mass for All Souls Day last Saturday.  I hope we sprang a lot of souls from Purgatory!

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine

et lux perpetua luceat eis.

More pictures here: Solemn Requiem Mass 11/2/13