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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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- Elizium23 on Feast of St. Expeditus… belated: “When I learned of St. Expeditus, I thought it was fascinating that the faithful could pray to “get something fast”…”
- Venerator Sti Lot on Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z: “Wow! Save those letters – and, perhaps, send scans to someone reliable (maybe Holly Ordway, among others)!* Happily (as the…”
- Clare on ROME 26/4– Days 27 & 28: Pope SAINT Leo IX lead an army: “The audiobook price on that book is good, so I snapped it up. Thanks for the recommendation.”
- jhogan on Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z: “I encountered Tolkien in high school; I had been reading sci-fi and fantasy novels for a while, but I saw…”
- PatS on Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z: “Jesuit Mordor…. Isn’t that pleonastic in these modern times?”
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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
- 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.
- ASK FATHER: Grounding for the “harrowing of Hell”
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-03-28 – A bold statement for foot washing
- ROME 26/3– Day 12-13-14: whew (lots of photos)
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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Daily Archives: 22 November 2008
Help WDTPRS in the 2008 Weblog Awards
The Weblog Awards are again underway. Will you be so good as to help WDTPRS make a good showing? Please nominate us! You will need: address: https://zuhlsdorf.computer/rss: https://zuhlsdorf.computer/?feed=rss2 We must make sure our Catholic blogs do well! Thanks for all … Read More
A good example of how anti-Catholic bigotry has been revived
Didn’t I, just the other day, tell you readers that faithful Catholics would be accused of hate speech if we stick faithfully to what the Church teaches? Get this. You can’t make things up fast enough. S. Carolina councilwoman apologizes … Read More
A Scots version of Carpe Diem!
Speaking of the Sabine Farm, this is is from the excellent Laudator Temporis Acti whom I check daily. I would love to hear a Scot read this properly! I would probably do a PODCAzT with an audio mp3, were someone … Read More
Sabine news and views
I don’t have much culinary news to report. Things have been very simple at the Sabine Farm of late. My busy days have been characterized mostly by a some oatmeal in the morning, ramen in the day or a sandwich, … Read More
Christmas gifts from convents and monasteries
I just received from a friend a fruitcake made by Trappists at Assumption Abbey in Missouri. This year I think I will use mugs from the Say The Black Do The Red cafepress site as well as things from monasteries … Read More
UK ALERT: TLM Mass changes in Northhampton
Please see the following announcement from the Fraternity of St. Peter in England and Wales:- Dear Friends, The FSSP-served Sunday Mass in the Northampton diocese will move from Bedford 4pm to Flitwick 5pm as of 1st Advent Sunday 2008. The … Read More
An evil letter in the New York Times about primacy of conscience
This is a letter to the New York Times from the head of the dissident, pro-abortion group Catholics for Choice. My emphases and comments. November 22, 2008LetterThe Catholic Conscience [More and more we will see this word "conscience" misused … Read More
Romans: TLM alerts
News flash from our friend John Sonnen of Orbis CatholicusMonday, Dec. 8Feast of the Immaculate Conception10 a.m. Solemn Pontifical Massat Ss. Trinita’ dei Pellegrini in Romewill be celebrated by George Card. Pell of Sydney Australia. Sunday, Nov. 30First Sunday of … Read More
Moving the sign of peace in the Novus Ordo
The intrepid Andrea Tornielli has this on his blog (my translation and emphases): Benedict XVI want "a different placement of the sign of peace during Mass". The Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship, Francis Card. Arinze, announced this in … Read More





















