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“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
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Daily Rome Shot 1073
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, etc.. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am grateful. Geese haven’t changed all that … Read More
Recent report of the “gift of tears” during Mass that was being live streamed
UPDATE: The priest in question issued (unnecessarily IMO) a statement that is now (unnecessarily IMO) on the archdiocesan website. HERE So much fuss about this could have been avoided if Mass were ad orientem and if more priests (and therefore … Read More
What’s the solution?
We need to Vatican II harder! If only we had even more catechesis about Vatican II! And MORE synodality and, now, “pastorality”! The advocates claim Vatican II hasn't had its springtime effect yet because it hasn't been properly implemented just … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why is “Salome” at the foot of the Cross in the Introit for the Feast of the Sorrows of Mary?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hello Father, I was making a typo correction to this Mass when I noticed that the Introit (John 19, 25) has Salome at the foot of the Cross. Seemed unlikely to me, so I looked at … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1072 – Procession
From The World’s Best Sacristan™ from the Procession for Exaltation of the Cross, with a relic of the True Cross of Our Lord. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay … Read More
15 September: Seven Sorrows of Mary – The “Our Lady of Sorrows Project”
Today, the day after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, is the Feast of Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is an analogous commemoration on Friday after 1st Passion Sunday. Some time ago, I wrote a … Read More
WDTPRS- Exaltation of the Cross
Today’s feast commemorates the discovery in AD 325 in Jerusalem by the Emperor Constantine’s mother St Helena of the Holy Cross, as tradition has it, under sweet basil herb bushes. It is also the anniversary of the Dedication of the … Read More
Sunday Sermon Notes… ON STEROIDS. Wherein Fr. Z posts a must listen sermon from his old friend Fr. A
In the swampy Hell Hole that was St. Paul Seminary in the 1980s Fr. Z and Fr. Robert Altier were classified as the Alpha and Omega. He endured persecution … to his present point, not a little from cowardly bishops. … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 16th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 24th Ordinary)
My Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a … Read More
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