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- Elizium23 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.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Motu Proprio is “really really close”
With a serene biretta tip to Nihil Obstat o{]:¬) we have this (my translation): The Motu Proprio is "really really close" In the course of a conference held at Montauban (France) last Saturday, Rev. Fr. La Rocque, of the Priestly … Read More
PODCAzT 10: Passion Sunday and Annunciation
Another PODCAzT is available for the 5th Sunday of Lent, 1st Passion Sunday, and also the Annunciation. I read from Pope Leo the Great’s all important Letter 28 to Flavian. This letter, an excerpt of which is used for the … Read More
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New English translation nearing completion?
The whole reason the WDTPRS project came into being in the first place was to act as a foil to the foul old lame-duck ICEL translations of the Mass. Along the way, what was a humble occasional project in the … Read More
Things are looking up
Things are looking up.
A brief “Whe’ you at?”
I was highly amused by three locations of visitors in a long list of places whence you hail. Waidmannslust, Berlin Val D’Or, Pulau PinangBagshot, Bracknell Forest How I wish that were "Bagshot Row".
More server news and tweaking the blog
I am told by the nice folks at Joyent that you folks have already pushed this blog to half the server’s capacity!! All I can say is KUDOS!!! Bring it on! You are fantastic. Joyent tells me they are moving … Read More
Hand Missal discussion and suggestions
In another entry about timing of an audience given by His Holiness to two cardinals in light of the forthcoming Motu Proprio, people in their understandable enthusaism started posting comments and recommendations about hand missals for use at the older, … Read More
News about upcoming movies
Today on Bill Bennett’s weekday radio show Morning in America I heard from Micheal Flaherty President of Walden Media said that in production now are Prince Caspian of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and also The Screwtape Letters. I frequently … Read More
Could this be it? Look at the audiences
Something is up. From the Bolletino: Yesterday evening the Pope received in audience: His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze, Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments; His Eminence Darío Card. Castrillón Hoyos, President … Read More
Confessing sins to the Pope or to Fr. Joe Sixpack?
In another entry I wrote that the Pope will hear the confessions of young people on 29 March at the Basilica of St. Peter. Commenting on that news item, someone said: I wouldn’t like to go to confession with the … Read More
Card. Zen on the Pope’s letter to Chinese Catholics
WDTPRS’s second favorite Cardinal is in the news in the South China Morning Post. We always love reading about Joseph Card. Zen, Bishop of Hong Kong. Munster had its Lion. Hong Kong has its 麒麟 (QÃlÃn). Card. Zen gives us … Read More
Remember the “griccia” thing?
The other day I was giving a little tour to a group of Americans beginning with the magnificent Saint Maria Maggiore. You saw my photo of the mosaics a couple days back. In the confession before the altar, where the … Read More
PODCAzT 09: Leo on the Passion; Sobrino; confessions on Good Friday
A podcazt is ready. There is a reading of one of Leo the Great’s sermons on the Passion (s. 66 3-4) preached on 10 April 453, Good Friday. I also talk about the Notification from the CDF about Jon Sobrino, … Read More
Benedict XVI, pope and “confessor” on 29 March
On Thursday 29 March Pope Benedict XVI will hear confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica. There will be a penance liturgy for young people of the Diocese of Rome with individual confessions heard by priests. The Pope will use one of … Read More
The effects of clouds
The skyline of Rome has fascinating particulars. None is more intriguing than the lantern of the Church of St. Ivo, designed by Borromini.
Rain rain going away
The view of the rain moving through the City.
It’s SPRING!
At 13:07 in Rome, according to the Vatican’s calendar, it is officially SPRING!!
More about Sean Hannity on Mormons as Christians
I had heard that Sean Hannity of Fox News, whom over the years I have listened to and liked, had said that Mormons are Christians. I wasn’t sure about the veracity of the report. I requested from you readers some … Read More
Pope Benedict won’t let Card. Zen retire
The report is in that Pope Benedict has rejected Joseph Card. Zen’s resignation as Bishop of Hong Kong. Card. Zen was offered to be the point man for all things China. I am sure we will hear more about this … Read More
Elizium23 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.…”
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