There are things called "memes" which I have not figured out yet. However, I think memes involve my creating a list and then provoking others to respond with their own lists. Here is a meme. If I get this wrong, … Read More →
With a biretta tip to Rorate and commentors on this blog. o{]:¬) Card. Bertone confirmed in an interview with Le Figaro, to be published in the Sunday magazine insert, that there is a Motu Proprio which will give every priest … Read More →
You all know about the minor victory for Truth obtained by the correction of an error in the official English version of Sacramentum caritatis. An error occurring in the English translation at the time of the public release of the … Read More →
I have written many times in the print version of WDTPRS, that you WDTPRSers make a difference. The readers of the print version, made an impact on the preparation of the new translation of the Missal by writing the proper … Read More →
This is a very cool story: Boy Spots 3-Year-Old Wristwatch From North Pole COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after … Read More →
This is from an AP story. It is an excerpt: HUE, Vietnam (AP) — A high-profile dissident Catholic priest denounced Vietnam’s Communist Party in a startling display of defiance as he went on trial Friday on charges of disseminating materials … Read More →
Fulgentius of Ruspe is our guest for this PODCAzT. In the second reading for the Office of Readings today we have an excerpt Fulgentius’ work anti-Arian work De fide ad Petrum. Before the reading itself I give a crash course … Read More →
At the estimable Assumption Grotto parish in Detroit, for Easter and for Low Sunday you will be able to enjoy a Solemn Mass with music by Paul Paray. Paray’s Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of … Read More →
Today’s PODCAzT features a reading from St. Augustine of Hippo’s commentary on Ps. 85 (en. ps. 85.1), the second reading from the Office of Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Lent in the Liturgy of the Hours. This … Read More →
Everyone… there is a matter of CRITICAL importance to discuss. In another entry, participant Henry raised the question: Do you think just a celebratory sip of fine champagne is ok while reciting a joyful Te Deum? "JUST A SIP"??? This … Read More →
I am forcing the debate over the Luminous Mysteries over here. Two rules: Be nice Be reasonable. Be focused. Okay… that’s Three rules. You get my idea. Violate them, I will turn off comments.
Biretta tip to the Cafeteria for a story in the German daily Die Welt. Biretta tip o{]:¬) Here is the important part of the article in the translation from the Cafeteria: An accompanying letter to all bishops has already been prepared. … Read More →
UPDATE: I AM REPOSTING THIS (originally posted 23 March) Folks, for reasons I would rather not explain at this time, I could use some help with something. I am addressing this especially to those of you with some Latin skills. … Read More →
Today’s PODCAzT presents a selection from St. Leo the Great’s sermon on the Passion, no. 8, also known as s. 59, preached on Palm Sunday in 444. It is a about the marvelous power of the Cross. I also talk … Read More →
I love this. Our own frequent participant Henry Edwards posted this relative to my entry and informal poll on whether or not images and statues are veiled after 1st Passion Sunday (5th Sunday of Lent): I told a local pastor … Read More →
Another snapshot from a few minutes ago: (Lot’s of readings in Pennsylvania and New York this time.) Shanghai [YAY!!!!!! SHANGHAI!] Sacramento, California Indianapolis, Indiana Powell, Ohio Louisville, Kentucky Claremont, Slough Winston Salem, North Ca… Saint Louis, Missouri Rome, Lazio … Read More →
A couple days ago I asked someone to send me the text of a piece in The Catholic Herald and, just I hoped, one of you responded! Thanks. I found this bit from a piece by Stuart Reid, the Deputy … Read More →
A kind reader sent me a piece from The Catholic Times of 25 March. It seems to be an editorial or a letter of a columnist named Peter Griffiths against ultra-conservative "Tridentine Rite spin doctors". I think he means me, … Read More →
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grateful on ROME 24/3– Day 6: Quiet Day: “It looks like that is loaded with healthy food… hope there are no potholes in Rome.”
teomatteo on ROME 24/3– Day 7: Oooops!: ““…Full moon over Campo De’Fiori” and in a half of moon cycle it will be the New moon over Richmond,…”
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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