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- 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
- ASKING FOR A FRIEND: Faithful Catholic Medical Doctors in South and East Ontario, CANADA
- 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?
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- ROME 26/5– Day 62 & 63: NEWS
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
- 26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 59 & 60: A lovely view
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Novus Ordo: Weaving the warp and the weft
- ROME 26/5– Day 57 & 58: doubled up
- ASK FATHER: “Ghost” or “Spirit”, which is it? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.
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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
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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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Monthly Archives: May 2008
SCOOP: Milwaukee – Archbp. Dolan sets up a house for the ICK
I received this news. Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee today issued a decree erecting a house of the Institute of Christ the King in Milwaukee at St. Stanislaus Parish. The Institute will control the parish with one of their men as … Read More
PETRUS: Amazing interview with Card. Noè: Paul VI’s “smoke of Satan” remark concerned liturgy
On the site Petrus there is an interview by Bruno Volpe with His Eminence Virgilio Card. Noè, [pronounced "No-eh"] "former papal MC, the predecessor of Archbp. Piero Marini. These are very interesting comments. He speaks of the phrase of Paul … Read More
L’OssRom: Personal parish for the Extraordinary Form set up – Card Castrillon comments
In L’Osservatore Romano for 16 May, there is an article on the establishment of the fully Extraordinary Rite parish in central Rome, staffed by the FSSP at the fabulous church Ss. Trinita dei Pelegrini. My translation: Erected in application of … Read More
Ventura, CA: Misión San Buenaventura, Dominican Rite
Apparently at the Misión San Buenaventura in Ventura, CA, the visitor can enjoy Holy Mass celebrated in the Dominican Rite.
QUAERITUR: disposing of Sacred Chrism
I received the following: What is/are the proper way/s to dispose of Sacred Chrism. Is it only to be burned or, like many other things, can it be buried and thus "returned" to the earth? The very best way would … Read More
Toronto Catholic Register: op-ed attack on Archbp. Ranjith and Benedict XVI
A reader alerted me to this article in the Catholic paper of the Archdiocese of Toronto. The author is the former edition of this paper. I am told he was also an associate of retired Bp. Remi do Roo, who … Read More
PODCAzT 59: Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s sermon for Pentecost Sunday
Today is Thursday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus Ordo as it is in the older, Traditional Roman Calendar. This is the fourth PODCAzT for the Pentecost Octave. Thanks to … Read More
The “Positio” for the cause of beatification of John Paul II is ready
Andrea Tornielli has reported that the positio for Servant of God John Paul II is ready. Here is my translation: The cause for beatification and canonization of John Paul II is proceeding smoothly. The work on the Positio, the redaction … Read More
Let this be a warning to you all
Those of you who are regular reades know that I am not much for the via media approach to things unless it is in reference to the principle in medio stat virtus. Nevertheless, I also hold fast to the old … Read More
PODCAzT 58: Ember Days; Chrysostom on St. Matthias; Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Today is Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus Ordo as it is in the older, Traditional Roman Calendar. This is the third PODCAzT for the Pentecost Octave. Thanks to … Read More





















