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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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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- BeatifyStickler on LENTCAzT 2025 – 22: Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent – Don’t be a jerk. – FIXED: “Rejoice in the good! That was great advice. Learning to be free and others are free and living freely. Not…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1279: “My 97 year old aunt was buried yesterday. My husband commented to me about all the things she saw during…”
- on LENTCAzT 2025 – 22: Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent – Don’t be a jerk. – FIXED: “Ooopsie! Fr. your audio clip cut off abruptly.”
- on Questioning the “success” of frequent Communion: “Dear ProfessorCover, but some people don’t have a two-hour drive to Mass, but work in a city office or factory…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1279: “White to move and mate in 4. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on 24 March – Feast of St. Gabriel, Archangel – images – EXPANDED: “I love Daniel Mitsui’s work and I have to thank Father for acquainting me to it.”
- on ASK FATHER: Is speeding a sin?: “Reverend Fr Andrew, very helpful answer, thank you. I would of course argue that who can do more can do…”
- on Questioning the “success” of frequent Communion: “Unfortunately, you can even get used to going to early mass every day and having had your last meal the…”
- on Questioning the “success” of frequent Communion: “I don’t know anyone who does not think the Eucharistic fast of one hour is a joke. As one friend…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1278 – The Parish™: “Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre fell asleep in the Lord on March 25, 1991. Merci, Monsigneur! Réquiem ætérnam dona ei Domine et…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1278 – The Parish™: “Is the first day of the new year (h/t AB). Is fitting the domination of Sauron was thus ended irrevocably…”
- on Questioning the “success” of frequent Communion: “Reading Dr K’s latest offering – He mentions that many of the FSSP and ICK apostolates currently follow the Pre-55…”
- on Questioning the “success” of frequent Communion: “Also note the emphasis within Novus Ordo parishes that the point of Mass is to receive communion. From a practical…”
- on 24 March – Feast of St. Gabriel, Archangel – images – EXPANDED: “Here is something Daniel Mitsui is working on currently. The Hebrew are quotes from Genesis 2:9 and Isaiah 7:14 https://x.com/danielmitsuiart/status/1904356574308503615”
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
QUAERITUR: Acolyte as subdeacon for NO 1st Mass
I got this urgent question by e-mail: Fr. Z – I am a transitional Deacon preparing for Ordination and First Mass on June 28 and 29 respectively. I would like my friend, who is an installed acolyte and fellow seminarian … Read More
QUAERITUR: More than one Sunday TLM in a parish?
I received this by e-mail from a priest: Fr. Z, Long time reader, first time questioner. I’ve been celebrating the TLM since Winter ’06. In my parish, I celebrate the TLM on Tuesdays and Sundays for the faithful. My question … Read More
Pure joy: Enjoying the fruits of Benedict’s Marshall Plan!
I received word from a close friend, the great Roman, Fabrizio Azzola, who also helps staff the COL Forum, that his latest child, wisely named “John”, has been baptized, the first child to be so brought into the firm embrace … Read More
We are in German today
I got this by e-mail. If you have some German, check out this blog! Dear Fr. Zuhlsdorf, just wanted to tell you, I liked your "Pope Benedict is changing the conversation" so much, I translated and republished [here]. Keep on … Read More
KC: Glorious new altars for the TLM parish – eye candy
Everything is up to date in Kansas City. They’ve gone just about as far as they can…. with building their beautiful new altars for Old St. Patrick’s Church in downtown KC. This is the church which H.E. Most Reverend Robert … Read More
Vatican: end of Marian month at San Pietro
The conclusion of the month dedicated to Mary was broadcast, live, this evening from the Piazza of San Pietro. The Holy Father came at the end and gave a splendid brief reflection.
N. Alabama: TLMs available
I got this by e-mail: Two Masses this Weekend I’m happy to announce that the Extraordinary Form will be available both in Birmingham and in Huntsville this Sunday, June 1. Bishop David Foley will offer Low Mass in Birmingham at … Read More
Thanks to readers and Sabine update – amazing new bird!
First things first. I am very grateful to a couple readers who have enriched my life with new books and … a good thermos! PP of CA was very kind and found a thermos on my amazon wish list. This … Read More
A waspish challenge
The Liturgical Bee has received a challenge from a waspish, a-liturgical wasp. This is from KK of KC. I am reminded of an entry a while back where someone said of another person that s\he was being "waspish". There … Read More
QUAERITUR: During confession what was the priest saying?
From a reader: Today, during Holy Mass, I went to confession. The priest told me to say my Act of contrition, then he would absolve me. So, as I started to say it, he began to whisper something in Latin. … Read More
QUAERITUR: Female altar servers
I received a question from a reader…. a very long, convoluted question (please keep them short or I just can’t wade through them), and so I edited it: Dear Fr. Z, In my home parish we are trying to get … Read More
Prayer for Priests
Prayer for Priests Lord Jesus, present in the Most Blessed Sacrament,and living perpetually among us through Your Priests,grant that the words of Your Priests may be only Your words,that their gestures be only Your gestures,and that their lives be a … Read More
Vatican Cong. for the Clergy: World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests
Vatican Congregation for the Clergy Theme for World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests May 30, 2008 by Cardinal Claudio Hummes Reverend and dear Brothers in the Priesthood, On the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus let us fix … Read More
DECREE ON CELEBRATION OF THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL
DECREE ON CELEBRATION OF THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL VATICAN CITY, 30 MAY 2008 (VIS) – The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments today published a decree authorising the celebration, on 25 January 2009, of Mass … Read More
Card. Castrillon Hoyos ordains priests for the FSSP in Lincoln, NE – Extraordinary Rite
[uc] I’ll begin putting up some images. Comments to follow. Let it be said that I am grateful grateful grateful that they simply broadcast the live feed, without commentary over it! Thank you EWTN. Thank you! First, I don’t think … Read More
Get out your bells, books, and candles! Canada: another attempted ordination
Holy Church doesn’t promulgate laws about censures simply for the heck of it. There is long experience behind censures. Laws have theological grounding. The tougher censures are applied when the matter concerns something closer to the heart of who and … Read More
CDF: Decree of Excommunication of those involved with attempted ordination of women
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith General DecreeOn the delict of attempted sacred ordination of a woman The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in virtue of the special faculty granted to it by the Supreme Authority of … Read More
A bee has her say
Taking a hint from a recent entry, this is in from our WDTPRS photoshoper Vincenzo:
Morning Sabine Report
Spring at the Sabine Farm seems at last to be in full swing, though the nights are still very chilly indeed. The Red Bellied Woodpecker is getting some high nutrition snacks from the suet cage. Yum. This is not the … Read More
Wonder what “schism” is? There is a good example in St. Louis.
People often use the word "schism" to describe the irregular situation of the bishops and priests of the SSPX. They have reason to. In his 1988 Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei adflicta, Pope John Paul II used the word "schism". Today, … Read More
BeatifyStickler on LENTCAzT 2025 – 22: Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent – Don’t be a jerk. – FIXED: “Rejoice in the good! That was great advice. Learning to be free and others are free and living freely. Not…”
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