Those of you who know and share some of my reading habits will recognize the significance of the following. I was in one of the general displays in the British Museum and recognized a friend… twice!
We hit the 4,000,000 mark for visits today! That’s 4 mil since I started using Sitemeter. Who was it? UPDATE: It’s done!Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein Visitor’s Time Sep 28 2008 10:49:04 pmVisit Number 4,000,000
From a priest reader: I hope priests continue to write in. I would like their contributions to be a regular feature here. Fr. Z., I am a pastor who recently began offering Mass in the Extraordinary Form. In fact, today … Read More →
I am always fascinated to see how many different places around the world whence people are when they visit WDTPRS. Here is a snapshot of the last few minutes. (These places are sometimes approximations.) Bloomington, Illinois Salt Lake City, Utah … Read More →
A new edition of The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described edited by Alcuin Reid is being produced. A kind soul sent me the text of the introduction to the edition by the President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, … Read More →
I found this great comment on the blog of Damian Thompson Holy Smoke about the London Blognic (here and here). A few nights ago I joined a group of Catholic bloggers in a pub in Victoria. They included the world-famous … Read More →
When I see that someone has linked back to WDTPRS, I will sometimes go find out what is going on. I often find gems. For example, on the blog Power, Love, Self-Discipline a pastor of a United Church of Christ … Read More →
A reader asks: I have a friend who is undergoing foot surgery soon. Although it is minor surgery, she will be under general anesthesia for over two hours. Her sister ended up in a coma for two weeks following a … Read More →
This sketchy news comes from San Diego. I am guessing by "tommorow" he means "Sunday" Folks… if you send news, send complete information. I wanted to tell you that tomorrow, our Bishop, His Excellency Robert Brom, will be celebrating mass … Read More →
Apparently other Christian groups are envious of the Vatican’s infamously strange "ten commandments for driving" and they have begun to put out their own lists. Here is a story from The Telegraph in the UK: Bloggers given new Ten Commandments … Read More →
What a wonderful time I have had in England. Many thanks to the fine people I met along the way. My special gratitude goes out to those who came to the blognic and to the folks at. St. Bede’s in … Read More →
Some TLM news: Bishop Dewane Gives First Church in Florida for Exclusive Use of the Latin Mass His Excellency Bishop Frank Dewane announced today that the Diocese of Venice in Florida has purchased a church for the exclusive use of the … Read More →
A last bite to eat, again in Chinatown, before heading home to pack! Tomorrow I depart this “sceptered isle” for the “land of the free and the home of the brave”.
I had to wait at the DLR for nearly 30 minutes for a train running every 3 because a DOG was in the tunnel and had to be removed. I suspect this means I will miss the last entrance to … Read More →
My visit to see time was great! I have been interested in clocks and the history of the Royal Navy for years. This it was avrral pleasure to visit the Nrlson displays in the Maritime Museum and then go to … Read More →
The recent number of The Catholic Times, (21 Sept, p. 9) an English weekly, has one of the dumbest articles about Pope Benedict’s Summorum Pontificum I have read to date. It was written by one Msgr. Basil Loftus, whom I … Read More →
I just concluded a visit to Buckingham Palace. Very few people. Fascinating. Some of the most beautiful rooms have seen. Well worth the effort if you are here at the right time if year.
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An Old Historian on WDTPRS – Spy Wednesday: The final prayers: “Father: Every Paragraph, Sentence, and Word is Majestic, Meaningful, Uplifting, Promising, Humbling, and it all provides a full measure of…”
Sportsfan on ROME 24/3– Day 7: Oooops!: “From the video it looked like Rapport smelled blood in the water but deliberately slowed down to either twist the…”
Sid Cundiff in NC on ROME 24/3– Day 7: Oooops!: ““Last night ossobuco at humble but reliably good place which hasn’t ever disappointed” Where? Name?”
grateful on ROME 24/3– Day 6: Quiet Day: “It looks like that is loaded with healthy food… hope there are no potholes in Rome.”
teomatteo on ROME 24/3– Day 7: Oooops!: ““…Full moon over Campo De’Fiori” and in a half of moon cycle it will be the New moon over Richmond,…”
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
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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As for Latin…
"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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