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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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- Vir Qui Timet Dominum on 13 May: Statement by Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith about the 1 July SSPX consecration of bishops. Fr. Z makes a plea.: “Ego sum rigidus”
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- Benedict Joseph on Dealing with some misleading … not quite fake… news: “Those wheels just keep on turning. Where is the awareness?”
- PostCatholic on Dealing with some misleading … not quite fake… news: “I seem to remember something called the Order of the Golden Rose, too, but that in modern times it’s not…”
- Quodscripsi61 on 13 May: Statement by Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith about the 1 July SSPX consecration of bishops. Fr. Z makes a plea.: “First it was the downgrading of Mary’s traditional and theologically defensible titles; now it is a slap at the SSPX…”
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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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- “The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
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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
- 13 May: Statement by Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith about the 1 July SSPX consecration of bishops. Fr. Z makes a plea.
- ROME 13 May 609 – Exorcism, screaming demons, terrified people fainting
- Dealing with some misleading … not quite fake… news
- ROME 26/5– Day 48: Good news
- Vestment Instruction from The World’s Best Sacristan™
- ROME 26/5– Day 46 & 47: Shall I tell you a story?
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- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (V.O.): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: A point about papal pronouncements and the truth
- WHEREIN FR. Z offers a new project: rescue, restore a spectacular set of vestments – UPDATED
- ROME 26/5– Day 46: Details and a Bell
- ROME 26/5– Day 45: Fr. Z gives you the bird
- 8 May – Happy Feast of Mary… under which title?
- 8 May – Indulgence for the Supplication to Our Lady of Pompeii (twice a year)
- ROME 26/5– Day 44: I didn’t expect roses.
- REVIEW: New biography of the late and truly great Michael Davies
- ROME 26/5– Day 43: Res clamat Domino
- If “full communion” with Rome requires full acceptance of ALL of Vatican II, then, by that standard, many Catholics are lacking “full communion”
- “The law speaks of brotherhood and fatherhood. Many priests experience managerialism and abandonment.”
- Be sure to take in Diana Montagna’s “Substack” today
- ROME 26/5– Day 42: Keeping up my end
- ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy
- St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!
- Three Precious “Moments of Sharing” in Fr. Z’s Neighborhood
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- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 5th Sunday OF Easter)
- ROME 26/5– Day 39 & 40: A True Scoundrel
- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo): The prayer’s very word order reveals God’s love – UPDATED/CORRECTED
- WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): “The smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God”
- ROME 26/5– Day 39: Evviva San Giuseppe!
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
Grrrr
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
UPDATE: Internet Prayer – audio Brasilian Portugese
I received an audio of the Internet Prayer in Brasilian Portugese! Thanks!
Engrish
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
Another motivation parody
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
QUAERITUR: Distinction of Masses, TLM and NO
This question came in via e-mail: Father, a brief question. In the TLM, there is a clear distinction between the Low Mass, the High Mass, the Pontifical Mass, etc. Is there such a distinction in the Novus Ordo? I mean, … Read More
QUAERITUR: Gregorian Masses and Gregorian Masses and Gregorian Masses
What’s up with the term "Gregorian Mass"? Or "Gregorian Rite"? The other day in London Dario Castrillon Hoyos spoke of the Gregorian Rite saying "this is the just [correct] name for the Extraordinary Form,". I think we can call the … Read More
PREVIEW: a GREAT new publication from Angelus Press!
Every once in a while the nice folks at Angelus Press send me something to review. For example, we have looked at their daily hand missal (which I see is on sale right now) and a spiffy little inexpensive … Read More
George Weigel on the return of the TLM
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
Pope Benedict annoyed at studied prelatial indifference?
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
The Tablet reacts to Card. Castrillon’s Mass and remarks in London
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





















