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Monthly Archives: July 2011
25 July 2011
QUAERITUR: New translation of Confiteor omitted from Mass today.
From a reader:
Dear Fr Z, I’ve just been to Mass, using the new translation for the first time. [hmmm] I was looking forward to the Confiteor, but our priest left it out. Was that because it was a weekday? I … Continue reading
We mustn’t take a vacation from prayer and God
From ZENIT:
Benedict XVI Offers Tips for Summer Holidays
Father Lombardi Summarizes Pontiff’s Suggestions
VATICAN CITY, JULY 24, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is offering some tips on how to live one’s summer holiday, says a Vatican spokesman.
On the most recent edition of Vatican … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
5 Comments
QUAERITUR: Wore a black chapel veil and women scoffed
From a reader:
I wore my black mantilla (it blends in with my dark brown hair better) to an OF Mass this evening for the second time (no issues the first time), but after I arrived, a group of chatty and … Continue reading
Posted in Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged chapel veils, Granny Gang, mantilla, Monty Python, Proverbs 25:22
67 Comments
Papal Nuncio to Ireland recalled to Rome for consultation about Cloyne report
From RTÉ News comes this:
Papal Nuncio recalled to Rome for Cloyne talks
Updated: 14:27, Monday, 25 July 2011
The Vatican Press Office has confirmed the Holy See has recalled its ambassador to Ireland.
The Vatican has confirmed that Papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza … Continue reading
Do you believe in the Enemy of the soul and in the eternal punishment of Hell?
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald comes this with my emphases and comments:
The Globe’s flat Doctor Faustus shows belief in the Devil is fading
Marlowe’s mighty drama about salvation is reduced to the level of a television gameshow
By … Continue reading
Do you have good news?
Let’s start the work week with some of your good news.
For my part, I had a supportive message from a bishop. Meant a lot. I managed to make some repairs to a spar and other components of an old wooden … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
39 Comments
24 July 2011
Non-Catholic abortionist working at Catholic hospital: “When a woman says a fetus is a person, I think it is one.”
From Lifesite comes a story that left me perplexed about how to express my anger.
Doc at Catholic hospital: ‘I perform abortions because I’m a Christian’
by Patrick B. Craine
DURANGO, Colorado, July 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a Catholic hospital in Colorado … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Getting permission for Extraordinary Form in a parish
From a reader (edited):
I have a friend whose priest performs the extraordinary form of the mass, but was only able to get it on Wednesday mornings. He does the ordinary form in a very traditional manner.
He said that it was … Continue reading
Posted in SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
35 Comments
The Feeder Feed
Things are slow at the feeders these days. There seems to be a new flock… or should it be flutter… of Chickadees. I have noticed also young Nuthatches, both the usual sort and the Red-breasted. Here is a young Red-Breasted … Continue reading
Posted in The Feeder Feed
4 Comments
WDTPRS 6th Sunday after Pentecost – What is “religion”?
Please flip open your own trusty copy of the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae Ordinis Anni Circuli edited by Leo Cunibert Mohlberg, OSB (in other words the Gelasian Sacramentary and yes, it is “Aeclesiae”.).
You will find Sunday’s ancient Collect in the … Continue reading
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, WDTPRS
Tagged piety, religion, virtue
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The depression and hopeless of many Irish priests, and proposals. Fr. Z rants.
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, P.P. of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, has a interesting, sad, provocative post on his blog today.
Emphases, comments, comments and the insertion of images mine.
Fr. Blake writes…
If I was going to be martyred I think … Continue reading
23 July 2011
Apostolic Nuncio to USA Archbp. Sambi gravely ill
The Apostolic Nuncio to the USA is gravely ill. I suggest prayer for him and his family.
From the CNS blog:
Vatican ambassador to U.S. on ‘assisted ventilation’
Posted on July 22, 2011 by Jim Lackey
UPDATED 7/23
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, … Continue reading
Shine, Perishing Republic
Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers (+1962)
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire,
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,
I sadly … Continue reading
WDTPRS 17th Sunday Ordinary Time: Sin-Teflon, Demon-Kevlar
Historically the prayer has roots in the ancient “Leonine”, or better the Veronese Sacramentary used during the month of July in which we find: sic bonis praetereuntibus nunc utimur, ut iam possimus inherere perpetuis.
The 1962MR places today’s Collect at the … Continue reading
