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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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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
A really bad day
I got up this morning, thinking that the tiny glimpse of blue I saw in the otherwise uninterrupted gray sky might herald a decent day for a change. I turned on the computers and then went about my usual routine. … Read More
Battle Hymn of the Tridentine Mass
THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE TEXT OF THE HYMN HERE. A friend sent me this and it just wouldn’t be fair not to share, with my translation: Hymnus proelii pro Missa Tridentina 1. Resurrecta ex ruina Versus tabernaculum Spiret … Read More
Augustine on authority of the Church and Scripture
I don’t recall where, but someone asked me for the citation of St. Augustine of Hippo (+430) who said that he would not accept the Scriptures were it not for the backing of the Catholic Church. Here it is: ego … Read More
Latin lesson
I picked up form Orthometer this YouTube of one of the funniest things WDTPRS has ever seen on the silver screen.
Housekeeping: POSTING COMMENTS
Lot’s of people are posting comments. This brings me to urge… nay rather… insist that commenters adhere to a couple simple guideliness. First, when you are responding to someone else, make sure his or her name or "handle" is the … Read More
New Ordo for the Basilica of St. Peter
I have obtained my new copy of the Ordo for the Basilica of St. Peter for the use of canons and clergy. FWIW… today is a ferial day in the Basilica. The clergy are free to choose their Mass.
Others are noticing defective ICEL prayers
The master of the Valle Adurni blog has commented on the defective, lame-duck ICEL verison still in use of the Collect for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. WDTPRS has over the years looked at that one twice. Here is … Read More
Poll on receiving Communion…
Here is an informal poll about how you receive Holy Communion. Read More
AFQB: Jewish Tradition & Receiving on the Tongue
Occasionally I will post here some Q&A from the ASK FATHER Question Box, which I moderate. Here is an interesting question which I have handled in the past and have actually used as a support. But that’s not the end … Read More
Thanks renewed
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The hermeneutic of faux-ICEL
The blogmeister of Hermeneutic of Continuity has provided what the old incarnaton of ICEL might have done with a Latin inscription in marble at the Lateran University (one of me alme matres) for the dedication of the new library. Too … Read More
The meaning of ministry
One of the WDTPRS articles I posted today has a paragraph on the issue of ministry. This paragraph aroused a comment from an attentive reader. It is worth our time to tease out that exchange and give it some focus: … Read More
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)
EXCERPT:
Without this bidirectional love of charity, our “prayer after communion” is just a still life rather than a living landscape. It is like a painting of a glorious bowl of fruit beginning to rot, rather than a vista in which life thrives. The Italian term for a still life is “natura morta”, a “dead nature”. It is a beautiful, but dead. All our prayers can have a lovely ring to them, but without charity and the proper sense of order the ring is that of the struck brass of St. Paul’s gong in 1 Cor 13: “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” Charity calls us to act outwardly as we ought according to our interior disposition and vocation. Read More
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: COLLECT (2)
EXCERPT:
There is a great difference between the peace the world can offer and the peace that God offers. This world of temporal goods (and ills) is passing and fragile, always susceptible to loss. The goods of heaven are lasting, enduring, solid and dependable. We must never fall into the sin of putting any created thing or person in the place which only eternal God may properly have. No infinite and passing thing can provide lasting joy or eternal peace. Any created thing can be lost through theft, wear and time. The vicissitudes of this passing world roar over us like an inexorable wave and can sweep away any material thing to which we have clung, perhaps even in idolatry. Our wealth, our family, our health, our appearance and our reputation can be taken in the blink of an eye. God alone endures. Read More
In San Jose: “Tridentine” oratory
Attitudes are shifting.Tridentine Mass returns to San Jose Diocese From the Free Republic site: Not just a Tridentine indult Mass, but a full-fledged oratory authorized to administer all the sacraments according to the traditional Latin Rite has been established in … Read More
Happy 75th Birthday Card. Zen!
生日快樂 ! Happy birthday to this great lion for Christ and His Church.
13 Jan: St. Hilary of Poitiers, bishop and doctor
Today is the feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers, Doctor of the Church. Here is his entry in the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum: Sancti Hilarii, episcopi et Ecclesiae doctoris, qui, ad sedem Pictaviensem in Aquitania evectus, sub Constantio imperatore arianae haeresi … Read More
Fr. Whinder sighting
There has been a sighting of the increasingly photographed Fr. Whinder together with Fr. Schofield, master of Roman Miscellany Hey… what’r those guys doing to my computer??
The press release with Bp. Trautman’s comments
The blog Mere Comments of Touchstone fisks Bishop Trautman’s remarks to the recent meeting of the "Catholic Academy of Liturgy", which met recently in Toronto. However, since to my knowledge no one yet has the full text of His Excellency’s … Read More
Tonic for writer’s block
I need to throw a question to the crowd. [UPDATE: POLL ADDED] If you look at a reference work such as A Manual for Writers, you will find that the plurals of prepositional-phrase compounds follow the rule governing the first … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
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