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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Snowy Sabine Scene
I was pretty much snowed in at the Sabine Farm today. But yesterday the FedEx guy could still get in easily. He brought Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh and The Priests a CD of music sung by, well, priests. These … Read More
PODCAzT 77: An Advent hymn dissected “Vox clara”, with digressions
I decided during Advent to drill into the hymns in the Liturgia Horarum. We continue our drilling with the hymn for the Office of Lauds or "Morning Prayer" in the post-Conciliar Liturgia Horarum called Vox clara ecce intonat, with … Read More
QUAERITUR: kissing the ring of a bishop
From a reader: I am a daily reader of your blog and have learned a number of things over the last few months. So, thank you. However, I have a question… I am planning on attending the installation of Msgr. Barry … Read More
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Advent (2002MR)
Today’s Collect is the Post-communion of the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the 1962MR. Most of you who recite the Angelus know this prayer. This time we also get the WDTPRS version since we want to know what … Read More
WDTPRS 4th Sunday of Advent 1962MR
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles COLLECT (1962MR):Excita, quaesumus, Domine,potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut, per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, … Read More
An interesting review of the Twilight movie
I found an interesting review on the site of Our Sunday Visitor. It is about this new vampire movie, Twilight, based on a series of books I have neither read nor know much about, other than that they are aimed … Read More
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If you can bear the cold.. The Ursids are coming
SPACE WEATHER ALERT: RADIO METEORS: The Ursid meteor shower caused by Comet 8P/Tuttle peaks this year on Dec. 22nd. About a dozen meteors per hour will fly out of the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor) as Earth passes through the comet’s … Read More
WDTPRS: 20 December COLLECT (2002MR) – it’s “ineffable”
Here is the (ineffable) Collect for 20 December, during this period of intense prayer and longing for the Lord’s Coming. COLLECT: Deus, aeterna maiestas, cuius ineffabile Verbum, Angelo nuntiante, Virgo immaculata suscepit, et, domus divinitatis effecta, Sancti Spiritus luce repletur, … Read More
Harmonizing the traditional calendar with the post-Conciliar
I had an e-mail from the fine folks at Messa in latino, an Italian site. They wrote about the use of the traditional Roman calendar. You willr ecall that the conference of Bishops in England and Wales decided to … Read More
Radio Sabina glitch fixed
The audio on Radio Sabina was down for a while, because of a network glitch. It is working again.
D. of Altoona-Johnstown: a note to priests about TLMs
A reader sent a note from the Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown: Diocese of Altoona-JohnstownOffice of The Bishop126 Logan BoulevardHollidaysburg, PA 16648 December 17, 2008 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Pastoral Service to the Household of God, This is to inform you … Read More
Thanks to readers
I am very grateful to those who have recently used the donation button on the left sidebar and on some posts. Also, I received from AN a nice little jar of Mostarda di Cremona. I will plan a meal around … Read More
WDTPRS: 19 December – COLLECT
Here is the Collect for 19 December in the 2002MR, duing this period of intense preparation before Christmas: COLLECT: Deus, qui splendorem gloriae tuae per sacrae Virginis partum mundo dignatus es revelare, tribue, quaesumus, ut tantae incarnationis mysterium et fidei … Read More
A sign of the times
I just read that a French TV concern has canceled their broadcast of the Holy Father’s Midnight Christmas Mass. Sign of the times! Just the other day, the Holy Father spoke with the workers at the Centro Televisivo Vaticano about … Read More
A global-killer asteroid question
In another thread of comments, someone opined: Fear leads to Conservatism? I can see where fear of the wrath of God might lead someone to the TLM. A while back I was having a chat with a priest friend, who … Read More
QUAERITUR: From the Shrine, a question about “ad orientem”
There is an interesting entry over at The Shrine, where a Latin word/term common to WDTPRS has caught my eye. Make sure you check it. Let’s have a look. In Spirit of the Liturgy, Cardinal Ratzinger famously writes that the … Read More
Catholic Herald: Bp. Conry (Arundel & Brighton) speaks out
Today in the excellent Catholic Herald, the best Catholic weekly in the UK, there is an article/interview with His Excellency, Most Reverend Kieran Conry, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. Inter alia he talks about Summorum Pontificum and the TLM. Let’s … Read More
Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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