"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios"
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Fr. John Hunwicke
"Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric"
- Anonymous
"Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who has never shied from picking fights with priests, bishops or cardinals when liturgical abuses are concerned."
- Kractivism
"Father John Zuhlsdorf is a crank"
"Father Zuhlsdorf drives me crazy"
"the hate-filled Father John Zuhlsford" [sic]
"Father John Zuhlsdorf, the right wing priest who has a penchant for referring to NCR as the 'fishwrap'"
"Zuhlsdorf is an eccentric with no real consequences" -
HERE
- Michael Sean Winters
"Fr Z is a true phenomenon of the information age: a power blogger and a priest."
- Anna Arco
“Given that Rorate Coeli and Shea are mad at Fr. Z, I think it proves Fr. Z knows what he is doing and he is right.”
- Comment
"Let me be clear. Fr. Z is a shock jock, mostly. His readership is vast and touchy. They like to be provoked and react with speed and fury."
- Sam Rocha
"Father Z’s Blog is a bright star on a cloudy night."
- Comment
"A cross between Kung Fu Panda and Wolverine."
- Anonymous
Fr. Z is officially a hybrid of Gandalf and Obi-Wan XD
- Comment
Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
- America Magazine
RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
-Austen Ivereigh on
Twitter
[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
“For me the saddest thing about Father Z’s blog is how cruel it is.... It’s astonishing to me that a priest could traffic in such cruelty and hatred.”
- Jesuit homosexualist James Martin to BuzzFeed
"Fr. Z's is one of the more cheerful blogs out there and he is careful about keeping the crazies out of his commboxes"
- Paul in comment at
1 Peter 5
"I am a Roman Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
I am a TLM-going Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
And I am in a state of grace today, in no small part, because of your blog."
- Tom in
comment
"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
Reader comment.
"Fr. Z disgraces his priesthood as a grifter, a liar, and a bully. -
- Mark Shea
a good blog it is! I hope he keeps it going.
I particularly feel that pertinent blog posts could help those praying the Breviary like me without translation or strong Latin.
Interestingly enough, the local Lutheran parish prays compline out of it during Holy Week.
I’m not praying the 62 Breviary but I am praying daily the “Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, 1961 Editio Typica from Baronius Press. These are wonderful prayers in honor of Our Lady.
Wikipedia has pretty good collection of pre-Vatican II Roman Breviaries, and even some pre-Tridentine ones too for your devotion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breviary
Baronius Press are in the process of preparing the Breviary for re-publishing. From their website:
“English-Latin Breviary
The Breviary project is now in the typesetting stage and will soon be ready for proofreading! In order to assist daily prayer life, we have decided to add some beautiful images similar to those adorning older Breviaries.
After the typesetting has been finished, the next major tasks will be the rigorous proofreading process. As we have been getting many offer of help with the proofreading, we hope that this task can be completed this year, although given our very limited resources (and hence staff) please join us in praying for its completion.”
Gratias tibi, Pater!
Grazie a te, Padre!
Dare we tell him, though, that he spelled “Breviarium” wrong in his blog title, blog address, and e-mail to you (though you did not notice this or ignored it as your title to this post has it spelled correctly)?
BARONIUS PRESS HAS BEEN TELLING US THAT THE BREVIARY WILL BE OUT IN ANOTHER 6MONTHS SINCE 2004!!!! I AM DEPRESSED ABOUT THIS.
I have turned to the “Monastic Diurnal” of St Michaels Abbey press. Great Latin/English translation of the Benedictan Office (less Matins).
LET’S GO BARONIUS! THE WORLD IS WAITING!!!!
FOr thoese who want the Roman Breviary in English…. check this out… http://www.anglicanbreviary.net/index.html
I purchased a copy because the Monastic Diurnale does not have Matins. I am impressed with it.
It’s not BCP garbage…
Angelus Press publishes a 1962 Roman Diurnal. You have to call their customer service and order it. It is not available on their Web site.
it’s only in latin…. I need Latin english
There is a nice online breviary at Divinum Officium in three versions (Pius V, Pius X and John XXIII) and three languages (Latin, English and Magyar).
This seems to be a labor of love by a single (presumably Hungarian) programmer, and carries this disclaimer:
If you are a Perl programmer interested in the breviary, you might consider giving him a hand.
How different is this Breviary from the one at http://www.breviary.net/ ?
Louis, the one I mentioned is not nearly as pretty, but it also lacks snide remarks such as
Its main advantage is that it tries to include all the proper psalms, prayers and readings for every hour. Bear in mind that this is in three languages and with three slightly different Kalendars and rubrics. This explains his wish for a team to continue the project.
Yes, the breviary has certainly had a lot of changes over the past 100 years. Just think 100 years ago for today there would have been eighteen psalms at mattins, nine lessons, eight psalms at lauds commemoration of St. Anacletus and the Suffrages of BVM, St. Joseph, SS. Peter & Paul, the Patron and for Peace. Prime would have the Athanasian Creed and Dominical preces; Vespers of tomorrows feast would have been sung and four psalms at Compline.
In the 1962 breviary only six psalms split with Ps. 9 being split into four to give nine, only three lessons,no suffrages, no Athanasian Creed and no preces etc – quite an impoverishment really. One must applaud Dr. Hemming for his perception in realising that the reforms of 1911-13 were highly damaging to the traditional Roman Office.