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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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- 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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- ROME 26/3– Day 17: Itadakimasu
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- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-03 – Aftermath of foot washing
- ROME 26/3– Day 15: foods and views and shoes
- ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: Grounding for the “harrowing of Hell”
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-03-28 – A bold statement for foot washing
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- 3 April: Feast of St. Richard of Chichester. A comment about science.
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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: 11 September 2007
USA: Priest Training Latin Mass Workshops Announced
Okay guys, "continuing education" should cover this. Priest Training Latin Mass Workshops Announced Bellevue, WA, Sept. 11, 2007 – The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, in collaboration with Una Voce America, in response to overwhelming popular demand is happy the … Read More
Card. Castrillón Hoyos: Holy Mass with the 1962 Missal and Te Deum on 14 September 2007 at Loreto
Una Voce Venezia in Italy is reporting that His Eminence DarÃo Card. Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei will celebrated Holy Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum followed by a solemn Te Deum on 14 September 2007 … Read More
Oh how quiet it is after the black night
Oh how quiet it is after the black night When flames out of the clouds burned down your cariated teeth, And when those lightnings, Lancing the black boils of Harlem and the Bronx, Spilled the remaining prisoners, (The tens and … Read More
Bishop of Springfield issues a statement about the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum
The Bishop of Springfield, IL, Most Reverend George Lucas, has issued a statement about the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. There is an audio file too! My emphases and comments. Two forms of Mass meant to enrich each other Written by … Read More
Bishop Swain of Sioux Falls issues norms for Extraordinary Use
The Bishop of Sioux Falls, SD, His Excellency Most Reverend Pal J. Swain, has issued norms for the diocese entrusted to his care. They are preceeded by a somewhat theological preface. My emphases and comments. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOTU PROPRIO … Read More
Catholic World Report editorial on the older form of Mass.
The magazine Catholic World Report has an editorial by George Neumayr its editor on the older form of Mass. My emphases and comments. Summorum Pontificum It marks a new era of liturgical seriousness. The forces in the Church most responsible … Read More
Tridentinsk mässa: Bp. of Stockholm on Summorum Pontificum
The Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, Most Reverend Anders Arborelius O.C.D., is weighing in about the provisions of Summorum Pontificum. The statement is very brief. My emphases. Translation The Tridentine Mass Following Summorum pontificum, the “motu proprio” that Pope Benedict XVI … Read More
Newpaper of the D. of Youngstown corrects Fr. Daly’s dreadful letter
You remember the dust up over the simply dreadful letter of Fr. Peter J. Daly about the older form of Mass at first circulated by Catholic News Service and printed in many diocesan newspapers. The paper of the Diocese of … Read More





















