SHOPPING ONLINE? Please, come here first!
About this blog…
“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
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Wonderful about St. Joseph! “Terror of Demons”
PLEASE donate using VENMO!
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
Do you want to show some appreciation?
Do you have a faithful Catholic website that needs competent and reliable tech support?
Fr. Z’s VOICEMAIL
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
CanukFrank on PASCHALCAzT 2021: 54 – Low “Quasimodo” Sunday: “A question for you!”: “Thank you so very much for these podcasts. After my morning prayers and before I start my day, I listen…”
liebemama on PASCHALCAzT 2021: 54 – Low “Quasimodo” Sunday: “A question for you!”: “I am very thankful for your podcaZts. I have been listening for many years now. I rarely comment and I…”
george on PASCHALCAzT 2021: 54 – Low “Quasimodo” Sunday: “A question for you!”: “Yes, I do, Father. I was baptized on .y parent’s anniversary: May 10th. Thank you for the podcaZts!”
Ms. M-S on PASCHALCAzT 2021: 54 – Low “Quasimodo” Sunday: “A question for you!”: “Thanks, Fr. Z, for this and all the podcasts!”
Mariana2 on PASCHALCAzT 2021: 53 – Easter Saturday: “Sin is the shipwreck of the soul”: “Thanks, Father!”
Andrew Saucci on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “I liked that Crisis article a whole lot. Part of the problem is that men are conditioned to be weak…”
robtbrown on Vatican “rehabilitation” of … Judas?: “This Judas situation is part of a larger scheme to blur the line between good and evil. And that is…”
iPadre on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “You think he’ll pass the psychologicals? God save us!”
TonyO on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “I want to be admitted to the White House as a “president”. Should I be granted that? (In actuality, I…”
Father G on 10-13 June – Guadalajara – Summorum Pontificum Conference: ““I wonder if the TLM has already been celebrated at Mexico City’s Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe.” @kurtmasur, Yes,…”
Scott Woltze on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “Then-Archbishop Burke approved a man who had transitioned, then repented of it, to form a religious community as a religious…”
APX on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: ““I have always felt like a woman” I keep hearing/reading this from people who identify as a woman and it…”
APX on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “I saw this coming. My concern was with women identifying as men being admitted into the seminary in an attempt…”
Semper Gumby on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “So, the way to serve God is to rebel against and mutilate the body God provided. Now, this is just…”
JustaSinner on Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?: “And women WANT men to be men…so men, set aside your quiche and tears, put on your Bug Boy pants…”
Books which you must have.
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Get ready…
Don’t rely on popes, bishops and priests.
“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.”- Fulton Sheen
Therefore, ACTIVATE YOUR CONFIRMATION and get to work!
Send Snail Mail to Fr. Z
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Tridentine Mass Society of Madison
733 Struck St.
PO BOX 44603
Madison, WI 53744-4603
For email HERE
- “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
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
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
-
Recent Posts
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 54 – Low “Quasimodo” Sunday: “A question for you!”
- Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?
- LIVE VIDEO – 10 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Saturday “in albis”
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 53 – Easter Saturday: “Sin is the shipwreck of the soul”
- #ASonnetADay – SONNET 140. “Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press…”
- Is there ice on Mars? It seems that, yes, there is.
- LIVE VIDEO – 9 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Friday
- 10-13 June – Guadalajara – Summorum Pontificum Conference
- Daily Rome Shot 126
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 52 – Easter Friday: Is Christ passing you by?
- #ASonnetADay – SONNET 139. “O call not me to justify the wrong…”
- Daily Rome Shot 125
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter?
- BOOK: Mysteries of the Lord’s Prayer
- PARIS: Priests arrested because of COVID-1984 guidelines
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 51 – Easter Thursday: “Virtue is difficult, a prolonged martyrdom.”
- LIVE VIDEO – 8 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Thursday
- Vatican “rehabilitation” of … Judas?
- POLL: Traditional Latin Mass with VERNACULAR readings for low Masses
- Fishwrap, La Crock team up with Beans to attack Archbp. Chaput’s new book
- LIVE VIDEO – 7 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Wednesday
- Daily Rome Shot 124
- “Gregorian Mass” match ups: available priests with people who have requests
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 50 – Easter Wednesday: “You are a holy seed, a colony of bees, my joy and my crown”
- Daily Rome Shot 123
- Fr Hans Küng, R.I.P.
- LIVE VIDEO – 6 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Tuesday
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 49 – Easter Tuesday: “The battle of spiritual resurrection”
- The Easter Sequence: Victimae paschali laudes
- #ASonnetADay – SONNET 138. “When my love swears that she is made of truth…”
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.
Yes, Fr. Z is taking ads…
Be a “Zed-Head”!
CHALLENGE COINS!
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...
This is really useful when travelling… and also when you aren’t and you need backup internet NOW! I use this for my DMR “Zednet” hotspot when I’m mobile. It’s a ham radio thing.
If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Please use my links when shopping! I depend on your help.
WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...
Fr. Z’s stuff is everywhere
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
GREAT causes to support
Daily Archives: 20 April 2009
Msgr. Richard Schuler – RIP
Today is the anniversary of the death of Msgr. Richard Schuler, a well-known Church musician and pastor for many years of the Church of St. Agnes in St. Paul, MN. This was a man who fought the good fight, in … Read More
Harrisburg, PA: Solemn Mass Video
Apparently there was a Solemn TLM yesterday in Harrisburg, PA at St. Lawrence Chapel. The sender wrote: Though this is an apostolate of the Fraternity, it was the first Solemn High Mass celebrated there since the post-conciliar reforms. For many … Read More
The Feeder Feed
Some recent bird shots at the Sabine Feeder. You can see that the abundant Goldfinches are going for the gold again. The Sparrows are back. Perhaps Spizella passerina. I am not sure who this little guy is. They have been … Read More
First Holy Communion
Here is a great photo from St. Norbert’s in Roxbury, WI. This is a solemn Mass with the priests of the Society of Jesus Christ the Priest. First Holy Communion!
QUAERITUR: Taking a RCIA group to a TLM – advice
From a reader: I am a volunteer for the RCIA group in my parish. Thanks be to God, eight were baptized and another twenty-two from our parish were received into the Church at the Easter Vigil. I’ve talked the director … Read More
SHHHHHSSSSers
Under another entry commenter "Allan" posted the following, which is worthy of consideration on its own. My emphases and comments. I’ve been wondering where to post this, but under the theme of “brick by brick” I think there’s a lesson … Read More
219 Comments
“I feel like I’ve been deceiving myself about what it means to be a ‘traditional Catholic’.”
From a reader: I’ve been attending the Traditional Latin Mass for a while now, and have found many wonderful Catholics there. But today was a shock to me. The afternoon TLM had been moved to an early-morning time slot to … Read More
Comments Off on “I feel like I’ve been deceiving myself about what it means to be a ‘traditional Catholic’.”
Bp. Finn: “We are at war”
The great Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO, has again struck the nail on the head. You should read his Keynote Address at the Second Annual Gospel of Life Convention this last weekend. The Catholic Key has the … Read More
QUAERITUR: real wax candles or oil inserts in fake candles
From a reader: I have been searching for the answer to this question but cannot find the rubrics for altar candles. Is it still mandated that altar candles during mass be of wax, or is it permissible to use the … Read More
Card. Cañizares (CDWDS): the “great campaign of liturgical formation”
I have long argued that Pope Benedict has been implementing a "Marshall Plan" to revitalize our Catholic identity, both for the Church herself and then for what the Catholics can offer the world in the public square. Liturgy is a … Read More