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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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- excalibur on ROME 26/3– Day 21: More on the Six Hour Clock app: “So you thickened it and got your fiber at the same time.”
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- waalaw on ROME 26/3– Day 20: WOW! JUST TOO COOL!: “1. . . . . . . . R-f3+ 2. K-b2 . . Q×b4+ If 2. K-a1 . . R-f1#…”
- PatS on ROME 26/3– Day 21: More on the Six Hour Clock app: “As you are speaking of sunrise – for the next two weeks – look to the east (maybe slightly south)…”
- waalaw on ROME 26/3– Day 19: Claming up: “I see that my “solution,” embarrassingly — but transparently — inverted the lettering for the board’s columns.”
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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 21: More on the Six Hour Clock app
- ROME 26/3– Day 20: WOW! JUST TOO COOL!
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Quasimodo Sunday (and “Low” and “Thomas” and “Divine Mercy”)
- ASK FATHER: We can eat meat on Easter Friday, but do we have to do some other penance?
- ROME 26/3– Day 19: Claming up
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- St. Augustine on military service and prayer in time of war
- ROME 26/3– Day 18: Flowers!
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!)
- ROME 26/3– Day 17: Itadakimasu
- ROME 26/3– Day 16: chores
- 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
- ROME 26/3– Day 12-13-14: whew (lots of photos)
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Easter Sunday
- PASCHALCAzT 2026 – 47: Easter Sunday – Joy
- “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity – UPDATED
- ROME 26/3– Day 11: Good Friday
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-01 – A scare
- 3 April: Feast of St. Richard of Chichester. A comment about science.
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 45: Good Friday – Christ and our moral suffering
- ROME 26/3– Day 10: Thursday in Holy Week
- ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 44: Holy Thursday – Why we eat the victim
- ROME 26/3– Day 09: Wednesday in Holy Week
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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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Fr. Welzbacher’s Pastor’s Page on the Univ. of St. Thomas (MN)
Usually when I post on the "pastor’s page" of a parish bulletin, the results aren’t very pretty. Unless, that is, when I post the observations of the gentlemanly and erudite Fr. George Welzbacher of St. John’s in St. Paul. Here … Read More
8 Dec: TLM in West Orange NJ
I received this notice from a kind reader about an upcoming celebration of the older form of Mass for 8 December. It looks like it is simply from a bulletin. So, if you want to go and you don’t have … Read More
Zadok brings up some good points about the consistory
My friend Zadok has posted a good item. Some of it bears quoting here. My emphases and comm[]ents: Thankfully, [Zadok] did get inside the basilica and it certainly is wonderful when St Peter’s is used for these solemn liturgies. There’s … Read More
The Roman Titles of the new Cardinals
The cardinalatial titles: Pubblichiamo di seguito l’elenco del Titolo o della Diaconia assegnati dal Santo Padre Benedetto XVI a ciascuno dei nuovi Cardinali nel momento della creazione: 1. Card. EMMANUEL III DELLY 2. Card. LEONARDO SANDRI, Diaconia dei Santi Biagio … Read More
TLM news for Montreal, Quebec
Solemn Mass of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Saturday December 8th at 6:00pm Notre Dame de la Defense Parish 6800, avenue Henri-Julien Montreal, Quebecmétro Jean Talon Confessions to begin at 5:00pm Latin Rosary in thanksgiving for Summorum Pontificum at … Read More
TLM news for Montreal, Quebec
Solemn Mass of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Saturday December 8th at 6:00pm Notre Dame de la Defense Parish 6800, avenue Henri-Julien Montreal, Quebecmétro Jean Talon Confessions to begin at 5:00pm Latin Rosary in thanksgiving for Summorum Pontificum at … Read More
Washington Post: good article on the TLM
There is an article of interest in The Washington Post. My emphases and comments. Latin Makes a ComebackYoung Catholics Are Leading a Resurgence of the Traditional Mass By Jacqueline L. SalmonWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, November 24, 2007; B09 Parts … Read More
The correction of Milan
On Sacri Palazzi of Andrea Tornielli, we find an interesting piece about the vast and important diocese of Milan and the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Here is my translation, emphases and comments. Milan and the Motu Proprio, blame the press … Read More
ZENIT Interview with Cardinal DiNardo: ties Patristics, Liturgy, Summorum Pontificum
I am looking with pleasure at an ZENIT interview with the new Cardinal, Daniel DiNardo. There some great things in this piece, you must pay attention to. His Eminence touchs on Patristics, Liturgy and Summorum Pontificum. I think it is … Read More
Thrones
The throne used by His Holines for the consistory has been used before!





















