To decompress, I’ve been reading more 18th c. nautical fiction and some feudal Japanese murder mysteries.
However, since the passing of Mother Angelica there is this.
USA HERE – UK HERE – ITALY HERE
USA – CLICK!
Fr. Z’s really old O Antiphon Page
Fr. Z’s Podcasts RSS Feed
About this blog…
“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- on Daily Rome Shot 1206 –: “Our Lady of Victory is October 7th. I do not know what it all means, nor am I going to…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday of Advent: “TLM, better attended than last week (attendance then was noticeably lower than usual). Father based his homily on the verses…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1206 –: “White tricky mates in 2. How long did it take you? [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next…”
- on WDTPRS 21 Dec. – O Oriens – The Winter Solstice and thoughts on time: “So, St Peter’s and the Sphinx have something celestial in common!”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1204 – What … is THAT?: “The problem with the previous solutions is that they allow Black’s Bishop to move (“any move”, they say). But if…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1205 – completed: “Burch’s nomination is sending all the best people into a spittle-flecked nutty. You just know our President-elect has made a…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1205 – completed: “thank you Fr. Z for the Titan video. that had escaped my notice until now. it does one good to…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1204 – What … is THAT?: “I think I saw that robot thingy priest in either THX138 or Logan’s Run…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1204 – What … is THAT?: “I feel bad for them. An emotional maturity issue I suspect. We need strong men, they need strong men. A…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1203 – RANJITH!: “I’ve wished Ranjith were Pope ever since 2012, when he said (and I’m paraphrasing), “I wish this SSPX regularization would…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1204 – What … is THAT?: “You may find a lack of cards from Canada this year. Our postal service is on strike. Haven’t had mail…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1203 – RANJITH!: “amenamen, I think you have the right moves, but they’re in the wrong order. Play 1. Qg3+ first. After f4xQ,…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1205 – completed: “Amazing news about Brian Burch! And, to be honest, I’d much rather read a book by H. E. Cupich about…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1205 – completed: “How long before His Eminence Cupich has to deal with crowds like that before Pilate in “Life of Brian”? Hanging…”
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
Federated Computer… your safe and private alternative to big biz corporations that hate us while taking our money and mining our data. Have an online presence large or small? Catholic DIOCESE? Cottage industry? See what Federated has to offer. Save money and gain peace of mind.
I am an affiliate. Click and join or at least explore! If you join, I’ll get credit.
Polls
Loading ...Donate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
NEW OPPORTUNITY – 10% off with code: FATHERZ10
Fr. Z’s VOICEMAIL
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
Good coffee and tea. Help monks.
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT comPLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Great WINE USE COUPON CODE: fatherz10
Use my code for a discount
Loading ...
I’m sure that this book is a hot seller right now. I am planning on a buying a copy myself. Since I’m assuming that this is Fr. Z’s Amazon link, I may just buy it through here.
On a related note, has anyone been able to find the November 1997 recordings of Mother Angelica Live, where she attacks the document “Gather Faithfully Together”, starting the feud between herself and Cardinal Mahony?
I have not found any recordings on this yet. Oddly, a friend and I were discussing this yesterday as I only had vague memories of detail. I would like to revisit what occurred to refresh my memory. I was dealing with the death of my 45 year old sister at the time so all my faculties were not engaged. Cardinal Mahoney was my friend’s bishop at the time. Hope someone can locate recordings and post a link.
Excellent book! It’s a great read!
This book is great. It’s both entertaining and edifying. The parts where she butts heads with certain bishops and gets persecuted gave me some good perspective. It is fascinating to compare where we are now, with our struggles in the Church, with where we were 20+ years ago when Bernardin, Weakland and Mahoney were in their prime.
I listened to it on Audible; Raymond Arroyo does an excellent job of narrating it. http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Mother-Angelica-Audiobook/B004AYGGZU/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1459274481&sr=1-1
The Audible version is indeed very enjoyable – Arroyo’s imitation of Mother’s voice is uncanny. He did a great job with the other characters as well. It’s like listening to a great radio play.
I agree, Mr. Arroyo does an excellent job in the audio book.
Agree with those above. Excellent read.
Reading this book was like going on a retreat.
MSM
I enjoyed reading the book at the time. Because it doesn’t attempt to be a hagiography, and brings out very strongly the humanity of Mother Angelica.
Father as much as I love Mother Angelica and am saddened by her death, I couldn’t help but notice that you were decompressing by reading 18th century nautical fiction. I stand ready to adhere to your advice on all things theological, but nautically I know from where I speak. Stop reading nautical fiction, especially of that era. The real thing is so much better, number one is the life of Captain Cook, the greatest voyager of all time.
I think I better stop, maybe I am bordering on the side of disrespect, believe me it was not my intention.
I read it not long after it came out, and I really enjoyed it. Raymond Arroyo did a super job writing this, and it is a fascinating story. You get a real sense of how difficult some Bishops made it for her, and how intimidating it must be to have a conflict with them. They clearly underestimated her, and it’s not always pretty, but Mother was a force. Her faith in Jesus shines through at all times, and He must have been guiding the entire endeavor.
What a woman.
And to think she actually was a cloistered nun! It’s almost easy to look back and see all the things God did through her but at the time it was sort of “who is this nun?” She was very “counter-cultural” in the Church in the US at the time. Unless you were part of a group of Catholics who went to the Tridentine Mass no one heard of young people doing Adoration, going on pilgrimages, wearing veils, wanting Latin, devotions, scapulars, Angelic Warfare, etc. and now all that is almost “mainstream”.
One does get the idea that she was more than happy to let go and go back into the hidden life.
I was at a Catholic bookstore on Saturday. I noticed this book sitting on the shelf labeled “Saints”
I joked about this to the customer standing next to me.
I had no idea the misplaced book was hours away from (we pray) becoming prophetic.
Fr. Z. posted a link for her response on the day she died. Scroll back on his blog postings, and you’ll find it.
Oops. That was a different response! Lo siento.
It was Mother’s scuffle with Diocese of Birmingham Alabama’s Bishop Foley (now retired) that turned me toward Tradition. She had a vision of “Divino Nino” while in South America which sent her back to proper dress and as close to Traditional prayer as possible. Bishop Foley (known as the ‘Smiling Bishop’) noticed that Mother’s televised Mass showed the priest facing the altar of God rather than the people and forced her to stop. Funny thing though, after he retired in 2005 shortly after receiving me into the Church, he began to he began to pray the TLM as mentioned on this blog (https://wdtprs.com/2008/05/n-alabama-tlms-available/).
I read the book when it came out and would like you to know when you get to that chapter that Bishop Emeritus Foley has seen the error and has been trying to make amends.
I won this book in a giveaway a while back, and will definitely be picking it up now
@catholictrad, I attended the TLM in Birmingham, AL regularly until I moved. Bishop Foley has now celebrated High Mass many times for the community in a most beautiful and reverent fashion!
I read this book not long after visiting EWTN with a female friend in 2006, when both of us went to the EWTN 25th anniversary celebration together. That was an unforgettable weekend.
In 2001, I had a job where I traveled frequently, and I happened to come across EWTN in a hotel room, where I would sometimes watch a couple shows like Franciscan University Today, Builders of Hope (which was about young adults, and in 2001 I was a Young Adult), and sometimes the Mass. There are times I will watch the Mass on Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m. and then I will go to Mass later that morning or in the afternoon, and the Mass from EWTN helps me prepare for Mass, with a perspective from the homily and a reflection of the readings. Traveling was really my first exposure to EWTN. I will have to find the 60 Minutes broadcast where Morley Safer interviewed Mother Angelica circa 1984 – I wish I had heard of her then.
Anyhow, like others have posted, I had no idea of the opposition Mother Angelica faced from certain members of the hierarchy until I read this book. One incident was an interview with an Archbishop, and Mother definitely wanted to keep one of his auxilaries (a progressive) from appearing on EWTN, as well as many other bishops and priests who were touting the liberal agenda (I don’t think Fr. Z wants me to name names, so I will refrain from doing so). EWTN prevailed, and the cable channel the then-USCCB was trying to get going fizzled.
The incident at World Youth Day 1993 where a woman played Jesus was also highlighted in the book. The book also discusses the direction of women’s religious orders in the 1970s, including change in the habit and constitutional revisions. Mother Angelica also was a master of improvisitation, since her show Mother Angelica Live did not have a prepared script. There were many times she would be eating dinner with her religious sisters and ask, “what should I talk about tonight?”
Mother Angelica catechized a generation (possibly two or three) that didn’t receive much catechesis growing up. Mother Angelica was a wonderful witness, and made more of an impact on Holy Mother Church than quite a few members of the Catholic hierarchy, either living or dead.