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Monthly Archives: May 2011
29 May 2011
Support Bishop Finn: proposal for prayers, penance against the attacks of Hell.
Again, in regard to the dust up in the Diocese of Kansas City -St. Joseph, over at SERVIAM there is a very good proposal, couched in the no-nonsense language we like around here at WDTPRS.
In Support of Bishop Finn
by RJS … Continue reading
Teas in the afternoon
It was a tea day, with an equivocation.
First, I shifted a Fukien Tea I picked up for a song at, of all places Sam’s Club, into a bonsai tray sent by a reader here some time ago, chosen from my … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged bonsai, Chinese elm, fukien tea tree, Japanese Maple, PENJING REPORT, Penzai, tea
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QUAERITUR: The collection basket when you are poor.
From a reader:
I experienced something today at Mass I’ve never experienced before.
When the collection basket got passed around and I put nothing in, the lady sitting next to me “tsk’d” me.
I’m a student with no money, and I just finally … Continue reading
FOLLOW UP: The storm building in the D. of Kansas City-St. Joseph
I wonder if we have gotten to a point in the wealthy West where the erosion of culture and mores is so advanced that the notion of fatherhood is simply an option. In vast swathes of society fathers … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children
Tagged Bp. Finn, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, fatherhood, fathers
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Shakespeare: Catholic
When I was seven, I discovered Shakespeare. Ever since his works have never been far from my reach. In my seventh year I was given sets of LP records with some of the greatest actors in the world reading the … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Rowan Williams, Clare Asquith, Joseph Pearce, Shakespeare, Simon Russell Beale
16 Comments
Fr. Z rants for liturgical meat, not goop: – WDTPRS 5th Sunday after Easter (1962MR)
This will be a little long, so I make a series of provocative statements to get some of your attention. Then I will drag you through a sustained rant about liturgy, punctuated by Latin vocabulary and Neo-Platonism.
First, to be grown … Continue reading
Card. Pell: “Young people don’t see the Catholic Church as being inevitably in decline”
Remember the Tumult in Toowoomba? Bp. Morris, removed from governance of the diocese after years … strange stuff?
From CNA:
Cardinal Pell says Bishop Morris sacking ‘a tragedy’ but also ‘a useful clarification’
By David Kerr
Sydney, Australia, May 28, 2011 / 04:58 pm … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Morris, Card. Pell, D. Toowoomba
24 Comments
28 May 2011
Lunch: Follow up to 20th Anniv. supper
I made chicken the other night. I am eating left-overs.
Sandwich from toasted bread with chopped garlic, watercress, goat cheese, chicken.
I found a sweet tooth today. Chocolate chip cookies in a pale imitation of my mother’s masterpieces.
Espresso.
Technorati Tags: chicken, cookies, espresso
WDTPRS: 6th Sunday of Easter (2002MR) – memory and busy love
With the newer, post-Conciliar calendar tomorrow is the 6th Sunday of Easter.
COLLECT: (2002MR):
Fac nos, omnipotens Deus, hos laetitiae dies,
quos in honorem Domini resurgentis exsequimur,
affectu sedulo celebrare,
ut quod recordatione percurrimus
semper in opere teneamus.
Let’s do an autopsy. [You can skip past … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: What do I call a friend about to be ordained a priest?
From a reader:
My friend was just ordained to the Diaconate, and will be ordained to the Priesthood next year. This leaves me with a question regarding etiquette when addressing him now, and then later when he’s a priest.
Being that we’ve … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged honorifics, titles
57 Comments
27 May 2011
The storm building in the D. of Kansas City-St. Joseph
You have probably seen news about the case of a priest in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph who had photos from different sources, some he took, of children.
Bp. Robert Finn is taking some heat about Fr. Ratigan, a bloke … Continue reading
REVIEW: 1962 Roman Breviary iPhone app
The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate created an app for the 1962 Breviarium Romanum. It is now available, FREE, for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
This may be a way for some of you to get more familiar with the … Continue reading
20th Anniversary Supper: chicken
I have been trying to recapture some verve for cooking. The kitchen hasn’t been very interesting lately.
But yesterday, with the help of a couple donations which came in for my 20th anniversary of ordination, I picked up some groceries and … Continue reading
The Feeder Feed: Z-CAM edition
Here are a few screenshots from the live Z-CAM which I have running again. I still have some technical problems, but it is running. I have chaplets of the Rosary in Latin, prayers for the Pope, and other prayers.
And I … Continue reading
Benedict XVI entrusts Italy to the Blessed Virgin. Fr. Z rants
You may have seen this yesterday.
POPE ENTRUSTS ITALY TO VIRGIN’S PROTECTION
VATICAN CITY, 27 MAY 2011 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Benedict XVI presided over the praying of the Rosary together with the bishops of … Continue reading
