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- Imrahil: 1. Interestin g observatio n, dear JohnPatric k. I can sing the Salve Regina in the ferial tone. I also can recite it in Latin, but with more effort. I have trouble reciting it in German....
- Tina in Ashburn: This is all about the Sin of Onan. Splitting hairs is silly when the crimes are this monstrous. This Sin of Onan consists of perverting the pleasure of the sex act into only...
- hwriggles4: Fr Z, I have heard from various sources that due to the storms, more than one airline is waiving change fees, so if you get diverted, its not a huge inconvenie nce. In the meantime, I...
- JonPatrick: When I was in high school we had to memorize chunks of Shakespear e. I still remember Macbeth 217;s “Tom orrow and tomorrow 8221; soliloquy. PortiaR 17;s “Qua lity...
- Grant M: Many years ago, I was reading a novel by Michener, in which a college student is required to memorize a long poem, and chooses to recite from memory Gray’ ;s Elegy in a Country...
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- The Masked Chicken: Dear Jerome Charles, You wrote: “Mrs Anchor, Your analogies suggest, then, that there should be no male teachers, administra tors, or coaches in a female Catholic high...
- Semper Gumby: bigtex: The wording of your comment is unclear. However, La Civilta Cattolica is a problem now- see several posts here from July 2017- and given your link to that article it was a...
- LeeGilbert: Father, you write: “But first, there must be a great stopping, a turning, and a returning. ” This suggests that far from a thing to be despised, servile fear is itself a...
- Suburbanbanshee: Different sins are “pop ular” ; in different times and places, because different eras have different strengths and weaknesses . And if you think the Church of England...
- adriennep: Amen to memorizati on. And it is much easier when you write it all down on paper with a pen. That really imprints the brain fast. Consider the one-room schoolhous e students with only a...
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- RKR: My elementary school years were spent at a Lutheran day school where memorizati on was a separate grade on your report card (one Bible verse a week or something) . So I guess I developed the...
- bibi1003: I always thought that the homosexual ity/pedoph ilia/peder asty problem in the priesthood was a 20th/21st century problem. I’ve been so ignorant. It’s hard to learn that it...
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- Hugh: Sorry, “Jou rney of the Magi” ; is Eliot, of course. Imagine Donne writing in that style! Crucifixio n!
- Hugh: I’ve memorized a few poems in my life. All have been rewarding. I’ve merely dipped my toe. “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock 8221; by T.S. Eliot was one. I had to study...
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.This blog has to earn its keep!
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Daily Archives: 9 June 2017
Reader Feedback: PODCAzT resulted in new musical composition
This is very cool feedback. From a reader… Dear Father, I would like to thank you for your post “Digging into Vox Clara” [One of my old PODCAzTs – 077 08-12-16 – An Advent hymn dissected “Vox clara”, with digressions] from … Continue reading
BOOKS RECEIVED: New and Repeaters
Publishers send me books. I can’t read all of them, but I can give them a good scan. Here are a few of the more recently received. You will have already seen the book on Luther, which I wrote about … Continue reading
Jesuit James Martin: Back to the Reformation!
Jesuit James Martin – now best known, pretty much only know now, as a homosexual advocate – has become more strident. Martin accuses the Church (therefore you, me, Christ) of homophobia. HERE He has even suggested that the text of the Catechism of the … Continue reading
Catholic Herald: Is there really an Old Mass revival?
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly the Catholic Herald, print edition (subscribe HERE). My emphases and comments. Is there really an Old Mass revival? Ten years ago Benedict XVI lifted restrictions on the Old Rite. So what had changed in Britain, … Continue reading
Friday in the Octave of Pentecost: walking away from the pain
The Gospel in today’s Mass in the Extraordinary Form, by which we celebrate the Octave of Pentecost, relates how the Lord healed the paralytic in Luke 5: 17-26: At that time, it came to pass on one of the days, … Continue reading
Fr. Z’s Voice Mail
I haven’t had many voicemails recently. Perhaps everyone is busy with summer barbecues. Wanna leave me voice mail? You have three options: WDTPRS 020 8133 4535 651-447-6265 Since I pay a fee for the two phone numbers, USA and UK, I … Continue reading