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Category Archives: Year of Faith
QUAERITUR: I found a Host at my mother’s house. Wherein Fr. Z rants a little.
From a reader:
While visiting my parents’ home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom’s prayer table.
I forget what it was … but out of the corner of my eye, … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, O'Brian Tags, Our Catholic Identity, Preserved Killick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Year of Faith
Tagged can. 1367, Communion in the hand, graviora delicta, host, latae sententiae excommunication, sacrarium
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2 June: Pope Francis and world-wide, coordinated Eucharistic Adoration
I just received the newsletter of the USCCB’s Committee for Divine Worship. There is an item of interest for our observance of the Year of Faith:
The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ and the Year of Faith
Archbishop Salvatore … Continue reading
ACTION ITEM! Video about the revival of a inner city parish by using actual Catholicism.
I want about 15 minutes of your time.
If you are a bishop or a priest or a seminarian, please give your special attention.
Below is an excerpt from a documentary to be shown soon on EWTN (30 April 6:30 EDT) about … Continue reading
Pope Francis sermon for Palm Sunday – REVISED
I had originally worked with the official text that was released. The Pope changed his sermon and here is the revised text. That‘ll teach me! This is going to be a big challenge for people following his sermons. He departs … Continue reading
JUST TOO COOL: Billboards for CONFESSION! Promoted by which bishop?
I think the world of Bp. Slattery of the Diocese of Tulsa. He initiated a liturgical renewal in the diocese, he has been supportive of the Clear Creek Monastery, he sponsored workshops for exorcists. A few more bishops like this … Continue reading
The Way of the Cross – Joseph Ratzinger (Good Friday – 2005)
Here is my reading of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, composed by Joseph Card. Ratzinger, once Pope, now His Holiness Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at the Colosseum in Rome.
I love the St. Alphonsus … Continue reading
Stations of the Cross - Joseph Ratzinger (Good Friday 2005) [ 1:05:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35010)Don’t believe in mortal sin? Card. Arinze explains the situation to you.
First, GO TO CONFESSION! Why? Because of mortal sin and the results of mortal sin.
Don’t believe people can commit mortal sin? That it is really hard to commit an actual mortal sin?
Over at the blog of my friend the great … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Year of Faith
Tagged Card. Arinze, fundamental option, mortal sin
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Bp. Vasa (D. Santa Rosa) under fire for requiring Catholic school teachers to live according to the Faith
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat has an interseting story about an initiative in the local Diocese of Santa Rosa where Most Rev. Robert Vasa is bishop.
It occurred to me as I read this that people who make a push for … Continue reading
“If heretics no longer horrify us today”… it’s NOT because we are more charitable
I picked this up from Let Nothing You Dismay:
“If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity in our hearts? Or would it not too … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged Henri de Lubac, heresy
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Bp. Morlino (D. Madison) – super sermon to converts about “moralistic therapeutic deism”
His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, gave a super sermon to converts who will enter the Church at Easter. It was for the Rite of Election on the First Sunday of Lent.
Here is a phrase that … Continue reading
13-2-17 Bp. Morlino sermon on moralistic therapeutic deism [ 22:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2631)Benedict XVI on Vatican II: Council of the Fathers v. Council of the Media
Today during his annual meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, of which Benedict is still the Bishop, the Holy Father spoke about the Second Vatican Council. Not my translation, but my emphases and comments:
[T]here was the Council … Continue reading
MADISON: 22-23 Feb – Men’s Retreat (with overnight accommodations)
There is going to be a men’s retreat at the pastoral center (“chancery” on my planet) of the Diocese of Madison. Click HERE.
Some details from the site…
Fortes in Fide
Annual Diocesan
Men’s Lenten Retreat
February 22-23, 2013
Bishop O’Connor Pastoral Center, Madison Wisconsin
Featuring Fr. … Continue reading
Posted in The Campus Telephone Pole, Year of Faith
Tagged D. Madison, fortes in fide, men's retreat
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A great spiritual war is rising.
Have you ever heard of “Santa Muerte”?
This is a perversion of things Christian which is on the rise in certain sub-cultures, especially criminal.
There is an article at the site of the FBI “Santa Muerte: Inspired and Ritualistic Killings (Part 1 … Continue reading
Archbp. Müller, Prefect of the CDF, anti-Catholicism in USA, time running out for SSPX
From Vatican Insider comes this.
The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mgr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller, has launched a biting attack of [on?] the mood toward the Catholic Church in the U.S. and Europe, comparing it to … Continue reading
