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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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- Gregg the Obscure on Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!: “Thank you Fr. Z! should cloud cover cooperate, this will be splendid.”
- on Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”): “I can’t help but associate the word “Synod” with “Monad.” I’m a little at loss as to why exactly this…”
- on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “I am not retired but I wanted to build on Professor Covers suggestion: Huntsville Alabama sounds reasonable and cost effective.…”
- on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “Retirement? It is not the business of those journeying on the synodal path to take rest and respite of this…”
- on Fathers! Pay attention. Video of an attack on the Eucharist during Communion at Sunday Mass. Nasty and planned.: “Actually, it’s my understanding the federal F.A.C.E. Act protects a reproductive health care facility or a place of worship from…”
- on Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”): “That was refreshing. The soft, blurred edges of novel and undefined words, like synodality, need to be clarified and defined.…”
- on Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”): “I like both the snarky definition which describes the current reality, and the unsnarky definition which returns the synodal process…”
- on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “There will be no ‘stable’ diocesan TLMs going forward. The goal is to eliminate them. The FSSP and ICKSP will…”
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
QUAERITUR: ashes for infants
From a priest reader: Dear Father Z. The "mad dash" for ashes has begun here. A question I have, that you may know the answer to or at least have an opinion of, is, does it make sense to impose … Read More
Holy Father at Santa Sabina
The Holy Father has processed from Sant’Anselmo on the Aventine Hill to Santa Sabina for the Station Mass of Ash Wednesday. As I write he is vesting for Mass. It is live on various streams. I have the sermon and … Read More
The Tablet: no dissent allowed
Damian at Holy Smoke reports that The Tablet, after launching bitter personal attacks on Fr. Finigan of The Hermeneutic of Continuity, will not publish a contrasting letter by a once favored contributor, the fine composer James MacMillan. Since The Tablet … Read More
WDTPRS: Ash Wednesday
Today’s Roman Station is Santa Sabina. The Collect in the 2002 Missale Romanum, is an ancient prayer found in the Gelasian Sacramentary for the Vigil of Pentecost. It is also among the prayers for the 4th day of the 4th … Read More
Bp. of East Anglia (England) comments on SSPX excommunications
His Excellency Most Rev. Michael Evans, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia has commented on his website about the lifting of the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops. Shall we have a look? My emphases and comments: STILL … Read More
QUAERITUR: changing words near the consecration
From a reader: When I travel I frequently have to attend NO Masses. Such was the case last Sunday. The parish is liberal and so is the “guest” priest, but I was with a friend, so on I went. The … Read More
A convent dilemma
I had an e-mail which is both sad and uplifting. Sad because the obvious decline of religious life. Uplifting because of the potential and the fact that someone wants to do something about it. Parishes far and wide are trying … Read More
Book Change
Do you say the office, from either devotion and/or obligation? Change your volume and get your ribbons set up.
Reponse to a reponse on question of insisting on Communion in the hand
I have gotten some e-mail about the question sent me about the man who, at the Communion rail during a TLM, stood insisting to the priest that he be given Communion in the hand. Originally I had the combox open … Read More
An unspeakably ironic note
A reader sent a fun note: Father, I saw this prayer on the website of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. As you are well-aware, many members of the Federation are the same people who are on the “progressive” side … Read More
Gregg the Obscure on Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!: “Thank you Fr. Z! should cloud cover cooperate, this will be splendid.”
