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Legisperitus on The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.: “The Vetus Ordo will endure until the last bishop who sought to destroy it finally receives his exequial High Mass.…”
anthtan on The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.: “Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Pretty standard, but it’s gotta be up there.”
summorumpontificum777 on The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.: ““The Holy Father wills this.” That’s the party line on the abolition of the TLM. It’s heart-breaking that the Roman…”
Zach on The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.: “O Magnum Mysterium shows that tradition is not rejection or all things modern but the preservation of the past combined…”
tradcath1953 on The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.: “I think a friend of mine in a social network I belong to summed up the difference between the New…”
Greg Hlatky on The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.: “Here’s one as beautiful. Os justi, by Anton Bruckner. https://youtu.be/I7MjBNDuNd0”
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APX on ASK FATHER: For a wake, Sister did a “prayer service”.: “I thought a wake was more of an informal gathering of people at someone’s house where the deceased is and…”
jwcraig11 on ASK FATHER: For a wake, Sister did a “prayer service”.: “I have been a priest 28 years and have done hundreds of wakes but I have NEVER inscribed a cross…”
khouri on Powerful people think that they can suppress the Traditional Latin Mass. They will not succeed. This is one reason why. VIDEO: “Fortunately, for a few communities this is already happening. Priests are offering the Old Rite in house chapels of the…”
Danteewoo on ASK FATHER: For a wake, Sister did a “prayer service”.: “Wakes in my hometown of Chicago many decades ago were for two evenings, in a room which resembled a very…”
acardnal on Daily Rome Shot 536, etc.: “I miss the cooking posts, too! Always a pleasant interlude.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”- Fulton Sheen
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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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- Daily Rome Shot 537, etc.
- The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.
- ASK FATHER: For a wake, Sister did a “prayer service”.
- Daily Rome Shot 536, etc.
- Daily Rome Shot 535, etc.
- Powerful people think that they can suppress the Traditional Latin Mass. They will not succeed. This is one reason why. VIDEO
- Daily Rome Shot 534, etc.
- The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: The 4th Glorious Mystery
- Daily Rome Shot 533, etc.
- ASK FATHER: What hobbies are permitted on Sundays?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 10th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O. 20th Sunday)
- 14 August – St. Maximilian Kolbe : priest, martyr, #HamRadio operator. The path of “Oblatio Vitae” for Beatification. #CQ
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- ASK FATHER: “If I go to Saturday night mass and receive Communion, and then go also to Sunday mass, may I receive Communion again?”
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- Daily Rome Shot 532, etc.
- Coincidences? I think not.
- Liturgical Question: Which of these is NOT like the other?
- Daily Rome Shot 531, etc. – packed!
- ASK FATHER: A priest asks, “Is it okay to learn how to say the Traditional Latin Mass?” Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- You thick-headed restorationists, you backwardist, dogma-refrigerating Neopelagians… there is only one unique expression of the Roman Rite! VIDEO
- Daily Rome Shot 530, etc.
- 10 August: Wonderful Collect for St. Lawrence
- Daily Rome Shot 529, etc.
- “The sky is crying…” – The Vigil and Tears of St. Lawrence
- Daily Rome Shot 528, etc.
- Wherein Fr. Z rants and recommends a must read entry at NLM
- Meanwhile, the Novus Ordo is the only expression of the Roman Rite… not.
- ASK FATHER: The faithful put blood, sweat, and tears into the building, revival of churches, parishes. Given how bishops treat them, is there recourse in Canon Law?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O. 19th Sunday)
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: 13 March 2008
WDTPRS: blog or … dating service?
My phone rang sometime before 6 am. I was wanted on a radio program to talk about some "Catholic issues" in the media right now. So, I got on the phone with the producer of Bill Bennett’s morning radio show, … Read More
There my be a technical problem with the blog
Expect some problems with the blog for some hours. For those WDTPRS vets around here, remember my problems with my old hosting service over a year ago? Apparently they didn’t do all that they were supposed to do to keep … Read More
Pope Benedict hears confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica at Penance service
UPDATE: I added my rapid translation of the Holy Father’s sermon at the penance service, below. CTV had a live broadcast from the Basilica of St. Peter during a penance service for young people. It was pretty much a … Read More
The Novara (Italy) TLM battle continues
Remember the dust up on the Diocese of Novara, Italy, over the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and how some priests are celebrating the older form of Mass in conflict with the wishes of the local bishop? WDTPRS posted here and … Read More
Pope’s 3rd encyclical: Caritas in veritate
The intrepid Marco Tosatti writes in the Italian daily La Stampa that the Pope’s third encyclical (his first "social" encyclical") will be entitled "Caritas in veritate… Charity in truth". Here are the bullet points of Tosatti’s piece The last social … Read More
No. You can’t ‘go to confession’ online. Period. Can’t. No.
I found this on CNN, having been warned about it by the American Papist. First, a few comments. Before anything else let this be said…. I changed my mind about that entry head line. Of course you can confess online! … Read More
Get yourselves ready: WICKED STUPIDITY ALERT
I think we had better gear up for series of truly stupid, as a matter of factly, wickedly stupid, news stories and TV spots about the Catholic Church in the next few weeks, ’till after Easter.
Statement on recent Vatican meeting about the Letter to Catholics in China
The Holy See Press Office issued a statement about the Commission Pope Benedict set up to examine reactions to the Letter to Catholics in China. Communique of the Holy See Press Office regarding the meetingof the Commission for … Read More
Kidnapped Chaldean archbishop of Mosul is dead
I regret to report some bad news. From Asia News. The archbishop of Mosul is dead Bishop of Arbil: "A heavy Cross for our Church, ahead of Easter". Mosul (AsiaNews) – The Chaldean archbishop of Mosul is dead. Archbishop Faraj … Read More
Card. Castrillon Hoyos to pontificate at Westminster Cathedral
I got this via e-mail: Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos to Celebrate Pontifical High Mass in the Traditional Latin Rite in Westminster Cathedral, Saturday 14 June 2008 The Latin Mass Society is proud to announce that Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, President … Read More
Changes to the structure of the Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” – what this means
Excellent news: On VIS we see some changes in the Roman Curia: The Holy Father Benedict XVI named as Vice President of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", Msgr. Camille Perl, until now Secretary of the same Pontifical Commission. At the … Read More