Category Archives: De Novissimis: Four Last Things

REVIEW: Manual of Minor Exorcisms – For the use of Priests (Catholic Truth Society)

Posted on 25 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I recently received from the UK-based Catholic Truth Society, a copy of their Manual of Minor Exorcisms – For the use of Priests.
And excellent.. excellent… gift for a priest or a transitional deacon about to be ordained (less so for … Continue reading →

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Priest, predictably, criticized for telling people not to receive Communion if they are not in the state of grace. Fishwrap exalts.

Posted on 3 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have good news and bad news.
The good news is that a priest in loony Austria told a parish congregation that if they were not in the state of grace, they should not receive Communion… and they didn’t!
The bad news … Continue reading →

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Out with the bad air, in with the good. Another point about the LCWR and their future.

Posted on 19 April 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

There is an Italian proverb that when a door closes a window opens elsewhere in the house.
NCR’s McElewee is really burning up his keyboard as he posts notes on the Fishwrap‘s site. The latest picks up on what we … Continue reading →

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Artist Daniel Mitsui’s VERY COOL new art, including a “Four Last Things”. (Fr. Z rants a little.)

Posted on 31 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The artist Daniel Mitsui, in his newsletter, indicates that he has new art, including a representation of the Glorious Mysteries (a nice gift to a priest after Easter) and – this really caught my eye – the Four Last Things!

I … Continue reading →

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AUDIO: Stations of the Cross – NEW VERSION – Bl. John Henry Newman

Posted on 30 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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I have had two versions of the Via Crucis, or Stations of the Cross available in audio files, one by St. Alphonsus Liguori and the other by Pope Benedict in 2005.  For these click HERE.
I … Continue reading →

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CDF: Declaration on break away Greek “Catholic” group, excommunications

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From VIS and Vatican Radio (Bolletino in Italian):
CDF issues declaration on canonical status of “so-called Greek-Catholic bishops of Pidhirci”
Given below is the text of a declaration issued today by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concerning the canonical status … Continue reading →

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ACTION ITEM: Entrusting the SSPX to Mary and imploring God’s will

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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From the SSPX comes a Communiqué asking for prayers.
Communiqué from the General House of the Society of Saint Pius X
Since the meeting on March 16, 2012, with Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS Thursday 5th Week Lent (Prayer over the People): of spewing, pointless running, and the virtue of religion

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Today’s “Prayer over the people”, at the end of Mass in the Ordinary Form, was originally in a truncated form in various manuscripts of the Gelasian Sacramentary. However, I eventually found it also in a longer … Continue reading →

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Reader Feedback about going to confession

Posted on 27 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Dear Fr Z
Until today, I had not been to confession (and therefore not taken Communion) this calendar year. My spiritual life was decaying and I was “lapsing”, having lost trust and hope in the saving grace of the … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS Tuesday 5th Week of Lent: bittersweet

Posted on 27 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In the Tridentinum and in the 1962 Roman Missal this prayer is listed for Tuesday after Passion Sunday as the Oratio super populum.  It also has roots in the Gelasian.
COLLECT
Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine,
perseverantem in tua voluntate famulatum,
ut in diebus nostris
et merito et numero populus tibi serviens … Continue reading →

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