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- 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.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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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
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- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (V.O.): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: A point about papal pronouncements and the truth
- WHEREIN FR. Z offers a new project: rescue, restore a spectacular set of vestments – UPDATED
- ROME 26/5– Day 46: Details and a Bell
- ROME 26/5– Day 45: Fr. Z gives you the bird
- 8 May – Happy Feast of Mary… under which title?
- 8 May – Indulgence for the Supplication to Our Lady of Pompeii (twice a year)
- ROME 26/5– Day 44: I didn’t expect roses.
- REVIEW: New biography of the late and truly great Michael Davies
- ROME 26/5– Day 43: Res clamat Domino
- If “full communion” with Rome requires full acceptance of ALL of Vatican II, then, by that standard, many Catholics are lacking “full communion”
- “The law speaks of brotherhood and fatherhood. Many priests experience managerialism and abandonment.”
- Be sure to take in Diana Montagna’s “Substack” today
- ROME 26/5– Day 42: Keeping up my end
- ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy
- St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!
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- ROME 26/5– Day 39 & 40: A True Scoundrel
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- WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): “The smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God”
- ROME 26/5– Day 39: Evviva San Giuseppe!
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- Bishop wants to ordained married men because “pastoral emergency”. Could you repeat that?
- Report from the ground: Charlotte
- “I am the good shepherd”
- ROME 26/4– Day 37: trading places
- Fr. McTeigue asks for a novena of reparation for the Anglican … thing… in Rome
Let us pray…
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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Daily Archives: 17 August 2007
Diocese of Gaylord: Clarification about obligation to use English
A few days ago I posted an official statement about the decision of the Bishop of Gaylord that all parish Masses must be in English unless specific permission was granted to use another language. This stirred some strong reactions. I … Read More
EWTN: Live “Tridentine” Mass on 14 September
I am lead to wonder if the new Bishop of Birmingham is making his upcoming presence known. Surely this will cause some folks to completely freak out. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY EWTN to Televise Live Tridentine Mass Celebrated by … Read More
Archd. of St. Louis: Two rural parishes planning to begin weekly Latin Mass in fall
And now for something completely different…. Folks, I do not enjoy parsing and "fisking" those cold reactions to the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. As a matter of fact, this WDTPRS thing isn’t primarily about the older form of Mass. However, … Read More
Book Alert: A Guide to the Celebration of Low Mass
I got a little blurb from Alcuin Reid who says he wrote a forward to a new book on celebrating the older Mass in its "Low Mass" version. If I can get a review copy, I will write on it. … Read More
A Press Release: SanctaMissa.org
I received this Press Release and want to give it some visibility: Online Multimedia Tutorial of the 1962 Catholic Latin Tridentine Mass 2007-08-17 By Rev. Scott Haynes, S.J.C. A new web site has been released SanctaMissa.org For_Immediate_Release: CHICAGO, IL – … Read More
Archbishop of Seattle’s elegantly harsh stand on the Motu Proprio
The Archbishop of Seattle, Most Reverend Alex J Brunett, made a statement about the implementation of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. The letter was addressed to priests. What follows starts as a very smart, very theological approach to the Motu … Read More
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