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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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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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- Ben on ROME 26/4– Days 30: R.I.P.: “Discern yourself to be a Cardinal. Not necessarily mutually exclusive to discernment as a Monsignor. In for a penny, in…”
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- 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
"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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Recent Posts
- ROME 26/4– Days 30: R.I.P.
- “Masses scheduled at impossible times”… Where have I heard that before?
- ROME 26/4– Days 29: Happy Birthday Rome!
- Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z
- ROME 26/4– Days 27 & 28: Pope SAINT Leo IX lead an army
- Feast of St. Expeditus… belated
- ASK FATHER: Was the feeding of the 5000 just a moment of “sharing” or was it a true miracle?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 3rd Sunday OF Easter)
- ROME 26/4– Day 26:
- Wherein Fr Z is “shocked, shocked!”
- ROME 26/4– Day 25: steak and a peek
- ROME 26/4– Day 24: two beautiful saints
- ROME 26/3– Day 23: Pure hate
- Of computing time, a comma, and the invalidity of Benedict XVI’s abdication
- ROME 26/3– Day 22: thanks
- Nope. People know how doctors dress.
- ROME 26/3– Day 21: More on the Six Hour Clock app
- ROME 26/3– Day 20: WOW! JUST TOO COOL!
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Quasimodo Sunday (and “Low” and “Thomas” and “Divine Mercy”)
- ASK FATHER: We can eat meat on Easter Friday, but do we have to do some other penance?
- ROME 26/3– Day 19: Claming up
- Nuns of Gower Abbey have a NEW music disc/download!
- St. Augustine on military service and prayer in time of war
- ROME 26/3– Day 18: Flowers!
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!)
- ROME 26/3– Day 17: Itadakimasu
- ROME 26/3– Day 16: chores
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-03 – Aftermath of foot washing
- ROME 26/3– Day 15: foods and views and shoes
- ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
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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Monthly Archives: June 2008
PRAY! PRAY NOW! – 3
In a few minutes, at the bottom of this hour, I will say Mass, again for the intention of the closer unity of the SSPX with the Roman Pontiff. Join your intentions to this Mass. Remember, as Augustine says, where … Read More
Musings of excomm’d SSPX Bp. Williamson
On a blog called Dinoscopus there are entries which perhaps are posted by the excommunicated SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson. I haven’t been able to verify for sure that this is Bp. Williamson’s blog, but it seems reasonable that it is. … Read More
Congratulations Archbp. Burke!
I was sadly happy to read this morning that Archbp. Burke has been, as I suspected he would be, named by His Holiness as Prefect of the Signatura. Sadly happy, I say, because the loss of Archbishop Burke as an … Read More
Sleepless at the moment – PRAY!
I can’t sleep. It is 0130 right now and I am hoping I can get back to the land o’ nod. In the meantime, I will ask your continuing prayers for the sake of the greater unity of the Church. … Read More
PODCAzT 62: Interviews with and by Fr. Z; What has Bp. Fellay really said?
Today we have some interviews! First, I interview a young Nigerian priest, Fr. Paschal, about how he introduced Latin into the worship of his parish. Great stuff! This fellow has his head screwed on in the right direction and many … Read More
Kerfuffle! Wisconsin parish nixes altar girls – predictable outrage ensues before sanity prevails
This story from the Capital Times of Madison, WI came to my attention through the intermediary of a kind reader. My emphases and comments: Mazomanie church nixes altar girls Pat Schneider — 6/25/2008 5:07 pm Members of St. Barnabas Parish … Read More
New Haven, KY: weekly TLM established
I got this by e-mail: Just wanted to let everyone know that Fr. Leger at St. Catherine’s in New Haven, Ky will be offering his first Traditional Latin Mass this Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 1PM EST. I hope everyone … Read More
An argument for lengthening Communion fast to 3 hours again
Over at In the Light of the Law, canonist Edward Peters has a proposal. Be sure to go over there and spike his stats. Here is his piece, with my emphases. Proposal: Extend the Communion fast I have just published … Read More
Reuters: “Bp. Fellay says No” story is NOT the end of the story!
I just saw this. The writer has based himself on something B. Fellay said last week. But the time frame set by the Holy See isn’t over yet. Catholic rebel snubs pope call to rejoin Rome [I don’t think this … Read More
PRAY! PRAY NOW! – 2
Can we really even for a moment delude ourselves that Old Scratch is not going to try to sabotage closer ties between the Bishop of Rome and the SSPX? Spiritual warfare is being waged constantly for our souls. The enemy, … Read More





















