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- BeatifyStickler on ROME 24/4– Day 36 (-5): Sacristy secrets, music from nuns, and Fr. Z’s Kitchen (real “all’amatriciana”): “Dinner looks exceptional. Newfoundland has great history, you should go. Will be listening to the Sisters.”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I’ve heard it said there are as many galaxies as grains of sand. Here is interesting facts about our Milky…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 36 (-5): Sacristy secrets, music from nuns, and Fr. Z’s Kitchen (real “all’amatriciana”): “Thanks for the all’amatriciana”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
ICEL Plenary Meeting in Mumbai
This just in from CNA: Liturgy Commission expects 2008 completion of Roman Missal draft Mumbai, Jan 24, 2008 / 07:15 am (CNA).- The International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) met in Mumbai last week, planning to complete the … Read More
TLM at Universities: the saga continues…. with Boston College
I got this note from a student at the Jesuit operated Boston College (me emphases): Fr. Z, I’m a sophomore at the Jesuit-run Boston College and a Catholic who longs for liturgy and worship that is spiritually fulfilling, having … Read More
Up to date in Kansas City: a WDTPRS blognic on Saturday 26 January?
WHAT: Some of you know I will be in Kansas City, MO, this weekend. A few of you from the area expressed interest in a blognic. My kind host for my time in KC told arranged a good meeting place … Read More
PRAYERCAzT 17: The Last Gospel – 1962 Missale Romanum
Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? In this project we will study the Last Gospel, the beginning of the Gospel of John, used at the end of Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum. With … Read More
Wednesday Audience: Benedict XVI speaks of “turning toward the Lord”
UPDATED 23 Jan 07 – 22:05 GMT: In his Wednesday audience address, focused mostly on Christian unity, the Holy Father subtly reinforced what he has been doing about reorienting the focus of liturgy, both the positioning of the Crucifix in … Read More
Caption call
"Yes, for the hundreth time… they found the ring, already!
Help a reader with a TLM question
I got a question by e-mail from a retired priest military chaplain (edited): Can you tell me why the number of the signs of the cross over the sacred species after the consecration [in the TLM]? After all, we are … Read More
More about the TLM at AVe Maria University
As you know, not many Catholic universities have rushed to implement Summorum Pontificum when students make requests for the older form of Mass. However, we did hear that Ave Maria University finally made a move to see to the legitimate … Read More
25 years ago today….
This is in from VIS: CODE OF CANON LAW PROMULGATED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO VATICAN CITY, 22 JAN 2008 (VIS) – In the Holy See Press Office at midday today, a press conference was held to present a forthcoming congress on … Read More
Now THIS is what a bishop looks like!!
Remember my entry about Archbishop Prendergast in Ottawa going to celebrate the older form of Mass? Check this out! I really like the gloves with the little suns on the back. Biretta tip o{]:¬) to St. Clement’s in Ottawa.
Let me provoke you today with some Ovid
Today I step out of my patristicist shoes and take off my theologian’s cap, to become for a moment what I started out as lo those many years ago: a classicist. TV representations of ancient Rome often give you the … Read More
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT article follow-up
Some time ago, the now liberal American weekly U.S. News and World Report had a cover story about a return to traditional religion. I wrote about it here. The cover photo was of a celebration of Mass in the older … Read More
OAKLAND: Bp. Vigneron to preach at a TLM on 23 January
On 23 January, His Excellency Allen Vigneron, Bishop of Oakland, California, will preach at a Solemn High Mass in the extraordinary form at St. Margaret Mary Church, Oakland The Mas is part of a novena in preparation for the feast … Read More
A new WDTPRS “Say the Black – Do the Red” store
Well… I finally went ahead and did it. (And I updated the image.) People have been telling me to open one of these stores for coffee mugs and hats, and so forth. I think I figured out how to do … Read More
Some things about St. Agnes
Today is the feast of St. Agnes, to whom I am particularly indebted for reasons many of you can guess. Many saints have their feast day on their dies natalis, their "birthday into heaven". The day St. Agnes was martyred … Read More
Vatican Radio interviews Msgr. Guido Marini, who explains many interesting things
Vatican Radti interviewed the present papal Master of Ceremonies, Msgr. Guido Marini. He discussed ad orientem worship, Summorum Pontificum, the use of old vestments, continuity, active participation, etc. Here is part of it. You can hear the whole 20 minute … Read More
COBH, Ireland: Bp. Magee to celebrate TLM in St. Colman’s Cathedral
A friend send an e-mail and asked me to post this: Dear Fr, Could you please mount the following piece of information on your blog: "St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Most Reverend John … Read More
WDTPRS: Septuagesima
The following is my article for the weekly newspaper The Wanderer. Some of you who are more recent readers of this blog may not know that for years I have written a column in The Wanderer about liturgical translations. I … Read More
Papa Day in Rome: 200,000 for the Angelus
Some 200,000 people came to St. Peter’s Square to show prayerful support for the Roman Pontiff in the wake of the debacle at La Sapienza University. The crowds, from all over Italy, extended about half way down the Via della … Read More
Abortion hurts women
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BeatifyStickler on ROME 24/4– Day 36 (-5): Sacristy secrets, music from nuns, and Fr. Z’s Kitchen (real “all’amatriciana”): “Dinner looks exceptional. Newfoundland has great history, you should go. Will be listening to the Sisters.”
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