There is a great post over at The Shrine. Here is a sample. You watchers of Doctor Who will appreciate, along with the reference to Father Qui near the end. Your Daily Dose of HWTN Excerpted from transcript of Holy … Read More →
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I got this by e-mail: Father, I need your help! I am a re-vert to the faith, and my catholic upbringing had little structure as far as family prayer or teaching. Sunday mass and meal prayers and bed time prayers … Read More →
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Anyone interested in the "SSPX Question", might want to take a look at an entry on the blog The Sensible Bond by a frequent commenter here, Dr. Brian Sudlow. Confessions of a Nobody or why I quit the SSPX milieu … Read More →
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Here is the third part of the Angelus interview with three of the four excommunicated bishops of the SSPX. Part one (Fellay) was here and part one (Tissier de Mallerais) here. Today we look at what SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson … Read More →
One year ago today I posted this "oldie" PODCAzT which dealt with a question under discussion still today: the translation of the words "pro multis" in the consecration of the Most Precious Blood during Holy Mass. It seemed right for … Read More →
Do you remember the dust up at the Univ. of Minnesota when the Theatre Department staged Dario Fo’s severely anti-Catholic The Pope and the Witch? I think we are seeing a pattern. I have so far refrained from writing about … Read More →
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About a gazillion people have written me e-mails with the story that the USCCB put out a news story about progress on the new translation of the Roman Missal. I have received scores of e-mails with links to various sites … Read More →
Our guest today is the fictional don Camillo Tarocci, (+ A.D. … ?) parish priest of "The Little World" created by Giovanni Guareschi. I begin a new project, namely, to read stories from The Little World of Don Camillo. These … Read More →
For this I sadly tip my biretta to Ten Reasons o{]:¬( I want you to read this in light of certain entries on this blog about the whole ghastly wymynpriest thing (except for what "that blonde" had to say, of … Read More →
A cool story. Biretta tip to rogueclassicism o{]:¬) From the Turkish Press: Excavations in Truva (Troy) Ancient City (the archaeological site at Hisarlik in Turkey was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998) have been continued … Read More →
Today I present This editorial was in La Stampa, an Italian daily based on Torino (Turin). The translation is provided by WDTPRS’s good friend Fabrizio Azzola. It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry reading this. My emphases … Read More →
I am pleased to read this. Biretta tip to CMR o{]:¬) My emphases and comments. Liturgical Institute, Mundelein, Adds Course on the Extraordinary Form One year after the release of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, The Liturgical Institute at … Read More →
I am thinking about making a PODCAzT. If you want to leave voice mail, soon would be good if you want your message to be considered. BTW… the last few messgaes have been mostly asking for a call back. Don’t … Read More →
This just in. I have a slight problem with this petition, though the idea and motive is certainly good! Remember that under the provisions of Summorum Pontificum, parish priests don’t need permission or help from the local bishops to establish … Read More →
Here is an interesting story I have been sitting on for various reasons. The news is hard to confirm, and you never know until the actual change takes place… but… It looks like the high profile, highly efficient, very capable, … Read More →
I picked this up from Orbis, which you should look at often. Congratulations are due! An old college buddy of mine, Andrew Poole, just purchased Loome Thelogical Booksellers, located in the state of Minnesota, USA. Link to Loome Books here: … Read More →
I understand a new journal is to be launched: Usus Antiquior. Here is the blurb: Usus Antiquior A journal dedicated to the Sacred Liturgy edited by Laurence Paul Hemming & Alcuin Reid under the auspices of the Society of St. … Read More →
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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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“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.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
“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
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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