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Monthly Archives: April 2011
20 April 2011
THE list again: Fr. Z’s 20 Tips For Making A Good Confession (and Fr. Z rants)
You and I are going to die someday. We don’t know when.
When we die we will be judged.
Scripture teaches, and Christ’s own words and actions make clear, that there are some sins bad enough to kill the life of grace … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Linking Back, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged confession, confessional, Four Last Things, mortal sins, number and kind, reconciliation, sacrament of penance, sins
34 Comments
Mercilessly grilled under the lights
Okay… grilled is a little melodramatic.
I was at the Newscorp Building where Fox News Channel is ensconced to tape some Q&A for some upcoming projects my good friend Greg Burke, FNC’s Rome correspondent, is preparing.
Some people will probably look at … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, WDTPRS KUDOS, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged FNC, Fox News Channel, Greg Burke, Newscorp
13 Comments
How is your Lent so far? II
A couple weeks ago I asked how your Lent was going… if you were sticking to your plan… if you had a plan, that is.
It is time to ask again.
So?
How’s it going?
Select an answer and add a comment in the … Continue reading
Chinese Family Planning Official Kills Man Over Forced Sterilization
A few days old, but this comes from Life News:
Chinese Family Planning Official Kills Man Over Forced Sterilization
by Steven Ertelt | Beijing, China | LifeNews.com | 4/7/11 1:53 PM
Seeking to enforce the one-child policy that involves forced abortions and sterilizations … Continue reading
REVIEW: L’Osservatore Romano’s new website and online editions
UPDATE: 20 April
The new L’Osservatore Romano site is working better today, though it is still clunky and a bit hard to navigate.
I was able to bring up the PDF of today’s daily.
One curiosity: They fuzzed out the Vatican stemma … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, REVIEWS, WDTPRS KUDOS
Tagged L'Osservatore Romano, online edition, website
19 Comments
If Easter is coming, it time to bash the Catholic Church.
Remember… if Easter is near, its the season to bash the Catholic Church.
Before Easter and before the beatification of Pope John Paul we are seeing the uptick in anti-Catholic gestures saved up by the MSM precisely for this period.
For example, … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 43: Spy Wednesday of Holy Week
These 5 minute daily podcasts for Lent are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.
Today is Wednesday in Holy Week. The Roman Station … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, PODCAzT, PRAYERCAzT: What Does The (Latin) Prayer Really Sound L
Tagged Judas, LENT, LENTCAzT, Spy Wednesday
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California church destroyed by arsonist
I think we are going to see a lot more of this.
From CNA:
Calif. parish pledges to rebuild after arsonist destroys church
By Kevin J. Jones
Los Angeles, Calif., Apr 20, 2011 / 06:02 am (CNA).- Parishioners at St. John Vianney are determined … Continue reading
Posted in The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged anti-catholicism, arson, California, Los Angeles, vandalism
21 Comments
Pope Benedict on keeping vigil this Triduum
Excerpts from the Holy Father’s Wednesday Audience via the site of Vatican Radio:
Today there is “a certain callousness of the soul towards the power of evil, an insensitivity to all the evil in the world: we do not want to … Continue reading
Posted in Pope of Christian Unity
Tagged evil, liturgy, Pope Benedict XVI, Triduum, Vatican Radio, vigilance, Wednesday Audience
3 Comments
WDTPRS Spy Wednesday in Holy Week
The term “Spy” Wednesday is probably an allusion to Christ’s betrayal by Judas.
COLLECT
Deus, qui pro nobis Filium tuum
crucis patibulum subire voluisti,
ut inimici a nobis expelleres potestatem,
concede nobis famulis tuis,
ut resurrectionis gratiam consequamur.
This prayer was the Collect for this same day … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, WDTPRS
Tagged Cross, gibbet, Holy Week, Judas, Romans, Spy Wednesday, yoke
3 Comments
AP Story on the Roman Station Churches
Speaking of my LENTCAzTs, which always spend a moment looking at the Roman Station church for the day….
Once upon a time I would be the celebrant for Lenten Station Masses in Rome for a confraternity dedicated to the Roman Martyrs, … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, LENT, LENTCAzT, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged NAC, Nicole Winfield, North American College, Roman Stations
6 Comments
19 April 2011
QUAERUNTUR: Of several issues, personal and other, with a few rants
I have far too many emails in my box about several points. I hope with this I can put them to rest.
The resignation of Amb. Kmiec. What do I think?
I think what I wrote before about the poor Ambassador:
Qui cum … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged abortion, beatification, CDF, Doug Kmiec, John Allen, LENTCAzT, podcasts, Spain
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QUAERITUR: Using the new, corrected translation before Advent in private concelebration.
From a priest:
Dear Fr. Z, I’d be interested in your thoughts on this: The new translation of the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal (Ordinary Form) becomes the official text for Mass in the United States on the first Sunday … Continue reading
The Feeder Feed: unhappy edition (with a REQUEST… and some useful Latin)
This is not my shot. I found it on the Twitter feed of Glacier National Park via Disputations.
Behold, Sialia pissedofftica, aka the Bluebird of Unhappiness.
It is the winter that will not end.
With that… if you use Twitter and you don’t … Continue reading
WDTPRS Tuesday in Holy Week: strengthening our grasp on Christ, His grasp on us
[A special note for priests alone at the end. Nobody else look! o{];¬) ]
COLLECT (2002MR):
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus,
da nobis ita dominicae passionis sacramenta peragere,
ut indulgentiam percipere mereamur.
This prayer was in the 1962MR on Tuesday of Holy Week. It was in the … Continue reading
