Category Archives: Wherein Fr. Z Rants

QUAERITUR: Getting married on a Friday. Must I abstain from meat? Fr. Z includes a brief rant.

Posted on 16 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
im getting married on friday may 31st the day after Corpus Christi.
can i eat meat at the reception or do i need a dispensation?
All Fridays, except for liturgical Solemnities, are days of penance even if one is doing … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Eucharistic fast… AFTER Communion? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 30 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
I heard recently that there is a rule that after receiving Holy Communion, a person should not eat for fifteen minutes (I think because that’s how long the Body of Christ is in us after Communion).
Most of the … Continue reading →

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What does Fr. Z really say? A response to critics on the left and the right.

Posted on 9 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Back on 2 April – which in blog years is like a decade ago – I offered a brief manifesto about how I think we ought to approach Pope Francis.
In fact, there are any number of entries I have posted … Continue reading →

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Dear Traditionalists,…

Posted on 19 March 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I had this from a reader. He said he was not advocating these things. However, liberals will advocate them.
I’ve got some other suggestions.  But first the wacky liberal stuff:
I have an idea for a blog topic – how about brainstorming … Continue reading →

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Why don’t priests follow rubrics? Fr. Z cheerfully rants.

Posted on 9 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My friend Fr. Ray Blake, distinguished p.p. of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, has a post sure to prick the consciences of some not yet liberally heart-hardened priests and bishops.
He starts off with a comment about the lack of liturgical … Continue reading →

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Of sympathy and pageant, of aging and refreshing

Posted on 10 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The other day a priest friend brought up a line from Hilaire Belloc’s The Path To Rome, which I have not read for many a year.
This is the story of the wine of Brule, and it shows that what men … Continue reading →

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Blue Vestments? An annual rant.

Posted on 8 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Our priest borrowed glorious old blue vestments in the Roman style for today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. He announced that it’s the first time for him, and that it is per a 400-some-year-old indult for Marian … Continue reading →

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The Most Tragikal Hostess Debacle. Act II. Enter: Looters, Zombies, Unions.

Posted on 17 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I heard about this when I was running errands yesterday.
It seems that the Hostess – producers of iconic products – has now gone completely bust because, in negotiations with the company the baker’s union demanded too much.
I grew up in … Continue reading →

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Reflection on the election.

Posted on 8 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Roman historian Livy wrote about the terminal decline of the Roman Republic that “Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus… We can bear neither our vices nor the remedies.”
Alas, I fear that our vices have called forth precisely the … Continue reading →

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Unless you recover the words, you can’t recover the concepts.

Posted on 26 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

When you change the words, you change the concepts.
The liberal progressivist liturgical terrorist reformers were successful in changing our way of speaking about our sacred liturgical worship.
For example, they made us – and no one asked them to do this, … Continue reading →

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