Monthly Archives: June 2008

I got this notice via e-mail: Dear Father Z, We will be having a Solemn High Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on June 29th – the Feasts of SS. Peter and Paul – … Read More →

I got this note via e-mail:  Una Voce Quad Cities takes great pleasure in making the following announcement: Beginning August 3, 2008, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered in the extraordinary form (Missa Cantata) every Sunday at … Read More →

Do you want an example of how a reporter can spin a story?  Take a look, with me, at this piece from the East Valley Tribune, for Phoenix, Arizona. My emphases and comments. Valley Catholics react to call for Latin … Read More →

The Mass for the closing of the Internation Eucharistic Congress in Quebec has just begun. The Holy Father will speak the homily via a live teleconference from Rome. Cardinal Tomko is the celebrant for Holy Mass. The Holy Father is … Read More →

I received an alarming note with a translation of a story in French from the site DICI about how His Excellency Most Reverend André Rivest, Bishop of Chicoutimi in Canada has a very different view of Summorum Pontificum than some … Read More →

We’re back and running. Here is what has happened so far. We upgraded from a 1GB server to a 2GB server, which gives the database more swap. We are now also behind a "virtual IP address" which lives on a … Read More →

I am happy to announce that we have added Croatian to the Internet Prayer page. Thanks to Tomislav for the help!

The traffic has grown to the point where the MySQL database is falling over.  Therefore, we must expand the server infrastructure. It’s time to grow again, folks!  What will probably happen is, over the weekend, we will spread everything out … Read More →

This is in from the RISU Patriarch of Constantinople Proposes Eastern Catholicism’s Return to Orthodoxy 19.06.2008, [12:10] // Inter-Christian relations // Munich—In a recent interview with the German ecumenical journal Cyril and Methodius, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in … Read More →

Irritation. I read today that the second half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica will not begin until January 2009.  2009, d’ya hear? Grrr. Though I have also heard there may be a "prequel" series pilot in the works.  … Read More →

I received an audio of the Internet Prayer in Brasilian Portugese! Thanks!

I often check in at Engrish, which site digs up some fun "translations" into a sort of English perhaps more appreciated by the authors of the lame-duck ICEL prayers. Here is a sample that amused me: Wonderfurry fravorfur sandrich, no … Read More →

Orthometer strikes again. Some bishops are fighting the Holy See’s norms for liturgical translation and the most recent draft prepared by the reconstructed ICEL.  They essentially think that the language is too hard, which implies that they think people are … Read More →

The site of Newsweek has an article by George Weigel about Pope Benedict’s "revival" of the "Latin Mass". As you begin, keep in mind what WDTPRS has been saying since Summorum Pontificum was released.  This incredibly important document, perhaps the … Read More →

After the Big Mass at Westminster, I got on the horn and called across the pond to His Hermeneuticalness to get his take on what happened.  Fr. Finigan was one of the deacons of honor for Card. Castrillon Hoyos’ Pontifical … Read More →

You might remember that recently His Eminence Dario Card. Castrillon Hoyos celebrated a Pontifical Mass in Westminster Cathedral, London, in the Extraordinary Form, or Gregorian Rite, as some call it. There was a small press conference with His Eminence, and … Read More →