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- Leo XIV to priests on the Feast of the Sacred Heart
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 4: Southbound and, yup, we did it again
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 3: Amatriciana
- A few things I found today that I think are interesting
- Wherein Fr. Z rants. Benediction using the humeral veil BUT… blessings at Communion time? Fathers! THINK!
- ASK FATHER: For Benediction why the humeral veil?
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 2: CHINESE
- ASK FATHER: After Benediction why were the “Divine Praises” not in Latin?
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 1: catching up
- ROME 26/6 – Day 76: Brooklyn Bound
- ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Corpus Christi (transferred)
- ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 72: hot (Novena Day 3)
- ROME 26/6 – Day 71: Real Corpus Christi (Novena Day 2)
- “…the young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”
- I am not making this up. Could it explain about clerics from a certain country?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 69-70: Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – DAY 1
- ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid
- ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Trinity Sunday
- ROME 26/5– Day 65 & 66: better late than the other thing
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- WDTPRS – Trinity Sunday: Are you beautiful at Mass?
- REPOST ASK FATHER: How to make a “Trinitini” Martini for Trinity Sunday and avoid committing heresy?
- ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.
- OLDIE PODCAzT 59: St Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s Pentecost sermon
- Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville
- How did we get HERE?
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- 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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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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ITALY – TUSCANY: use of the older Mass grows
The Italian daily La Repubblica is reporting that since summorum Pontificum there has been growth in requests for the TLM. Apparently Masses are springing up everywhere, despite the fact that last April the bishops of Tuscany had sent a protest, … Read More
Some confusion in Brownsville
I got this from a kind reader. Edited and with my emphases and comments: Greetings from South Texas Father Z., I’ve read your website quite a bit and like what you’re all about. Thanks. I recently wrote the diocese about … Read More
Wonderful news from Harrisburrg: Bp. Rhoades treats people like adults
I have been catching up on e-mail: it pours in. I wish I had seen this one earlier! A kind reader sent this. Enjoy! Edited (the letter was from a scan and had to be cleaned up) with my emphases … Read More
Raptim transit… a gunslinger Pope
This is marvelous. Biretta tip to FA o{]:¬) The blog on L’espresso by Sandro Magister has a great item, which I offer in my translation: In the curriculum of Pius XI there is a certificate for being a first-rate shot … Read More
If you are in the St. Louis area… or not…
From the Catholic League. For the anti-Catholic hatespeech on video on FOX 2 St. Louis, look here. PUNDIT FOR FOX 2 ST. LOUIS GOES BERSERK November 19, 2007 On November 15, Fox 2 pundit J.C. Corcoran slammed St. Louis Archbishop … Read More
Archbp. Ranjith interview in L’Osservatore Romano on liturgy – UPDATES
His Excellency Most Reverend Malcolm Ranjith, the intrepid Secretary of the CDWDS is in the news a great deal these days. So much so, with so many interviews and comments that I am thinking he has been purposely set cat-like … Read More
PRAYERCAzT 09: The Prayers at the Foot of the Altar – 1962 Missale Romanum
Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? This installment begins an additional approach to what our prayers really sound like. It is time to start learning to pronounce and memorize the set prayers, or Ordinary, … Read More
Bp. Serratelli’s letter to priests: humbly follow the rubrics out of charity for your people
His Excellency Arthur Serratelli, Bishop of Patterson (NJ) and chairman of the newly revised USCCB liturgy committee, has issued a new pastoral letter to his priests. Though it is public, on the website of the diocese, it is addressed to … Read More
Archbp. Broglio named USA Military Archbishop
Broglio named USA Military Archbishop Archbishop Timothy Paul Broglio was named Archbishop of United States of America, Military. The Archdiocese had been vacant since Archbishop Edwin Frederick O’Brien was named Archbishop of Baltimore in July 2007. Archbishop Broglio had been … Read More





















