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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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- ASK FATHER: If God love us infinitely why does He not speak to us directly?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026
- Daily Rome Shot 1651: MAMBO!
- WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love
- Daily Rome Shot 1650: shocked but not surprised
- I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.
- Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates
- “Perdonamose!” St. John’s Birthday Feast and Midsummer Snails
- 23 June – Vigil of St. John – solstices and snails, bonfires and witch burnings
- 22 June in the VETUS AND NOVUS Ordo: St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More
- Daily Rome Shot 1648: contradictions
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary)
- Daily Rome Shot 1648: Mass today is for my benefactors.
- Bad news and good news. The Bishop of Camden crushes the TLM. The FSSP will start up in the Diocese of Arlington
- Bishop of Owensboro crushes people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass, but it’s not his fault! It’s someone else’s fault!
- WDTPRS – The Collect for the 12th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): His Name and Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
- Daily Rome Shot 1647: New sermons by Augustine!
- Daily Rome Shot 1646: We have to move on.
- Detroit’s Archbishop attends mosque opening, says: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness”
- Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations
- Daily Rome Shot 1646: Restoration and BOGO SALE
- ASK FATHER: Priest says the consecration of the chalice over the host
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-15 – Ordination?
- What sets Federated Core apart is its privacy model.
- Daily Rome Shot 1645: Homework
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 11th Ordinary)
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- “…the young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”
- Leo XIV to priests on the Feast of the Sacred Heart
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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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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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: 1 December 2008
WDTPRS: Monday 1st Week of Advent – SUPER OBLATA (2002MR)
We continue to look at our prayers for Mass during Advent. SUPER OBLATA (2002MR)Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, muneraquae de tuis offerimus collata beneficiis,et, quod nostrae devotioni concedis effici temporali,tuae nobis fiat praemium redemptionis aeternae. This prayer is in the ancient Veronese … Read More
Card. Arinze explains some changes to the 3rd edition of the 2002 Missale Romanum
In the Italian monthly 30 Giorni His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze, Prefect of the CDWDS, explains some changes made to the new printing of the 3rd, 2002 edition of the Missale Romanum. You have all heard about some of them, … Read More
Rumors, moves, and a tidbit
Sometimes when we who watch the Holy See closely are looking for clues about what might happen in the near future, we watch the audience lists. Consider that His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze, Prefect of the CDWDS, has recently celebrated … Read More
WDTPRS: Monday 1st Week of Advent – COLLECT (2002MR)
Today in the newer calendar, it is Monday of the 1st Week of Advent. The Collect today is ancient. You can find it in the Gelasian Sacramentary in the Orationes de aduentu Domini. It is also in the Liber sacramentorum … Read More
Pontifical
In Rome there was a Pontifical TLM sung by the President of the Pont. Comm. Ecclesia Dei, His Eminence Dario Card. Castrillon Hoyos in the Roman Basilia of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs in the Chapel of … Read More
Poland – TLM report
From a reader: I am happy to inform you that for the first time after liturgical reform in Poland, polish ordinary celebrated Traditional Latin Mass. Bishop Wac?aw Depo (55), ordinary of Zamo?? – Lubaczów diocese, celebrated the Mass on … Read More
An ineffable wedding experience
From a priest reader: I [recently] presided at a wedding in my parish. I also attended the reception at which the Best Man gave the customary speech/toast. The Best Man was the Groom’s nephew and in the course of a … Read More
Where you are
Here is a snapshot from the last few mintues of the locations where many of you are when you log in to WDTPRS. These locations are not necessarily exact. San Diego, California Staples, Minnesota Buffalo, New York London, London, City … Read More
This year’s Christmas stamps – a rumor
From a reader. Does anyone know anything about this? "The Post Office is to issue both secular stamps and Religious stamps but like last year, you have to stipulate if you want religious!! Apparently each PO has been asked to … Read More
Oceanside, CA: turning a parish to face the East
From a reader: Dear Fr. Z, At St. Margaret’s Church in Oceanside, CA, our pastor, Fr. Cavanna Wallace has been using the "Benedictine arrangement" of candles and crucifix since August (when it was introduced with a catechetical homily). This morning, … Read More





















