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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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Ariseyedead on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “As Bryan D. Boyle notes, a pickup truck. Really? A Dodge Ram pickup truck? Don’t they have proper hearses in…”
Bryan D. Boyle on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “How fitting, on the back of a pickup truck, not even proceeding at a dignified speed, for the Vicar of…”
grateful on ROME 25/4– Day 20: Tolling and rolling: “Probably in the early 50’s, we got out of class to sing the funeral masses. I remember singing the Requiem…”
Robbie the Pict on ROME 25/4– Day 20: Tolling and rolling: “Where did they get a Tripple Crown for the Catafalque….???”
JR on Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s): “… Or, from the Missal: Collect of the Votive Mass for the Election of a Pope (Via SSPX) Orémus. SÚPPLICI,…”
Diane on ROME 25/4– Day 20: Tolling and rolling: “Thank you so much for the Mass, Father. God bless you.”
monstrance on Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s): “Thank you Fr Z for this powerful prayer. Hoping for a Marian Apparition next week in the Sistine Chapel.”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 54: Low Sunday – “scandal, hypocrisy, bland liturgies, false teaching, broken families, sin and sinners everywhere.”: “It’s nice to have a “thank you”. Thank you for that.”
Ariseyedead on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “Pasquino, in the anguished pose of an introvert who is eternally embarrassed for being required to live out his days…”
Ms. M-S on Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s): “Thank you, Father Z, for posting these and other prayers to help your readers join together to do their part…”
JonPatrick on ROME 25/4– Day 19: Low Sunday – with a grand digression: “Yesterday for Low Sunday we had a wonderful Solemn Mass. We are truly blessed at our parish with currently 4…”
JonPatrick on PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 54: Low Sunday – “scandal, hypocrisy, bland liturgies, false teaching, broken families, sin and sinners everywhere.”: “Thank you Father for these podcasts which have been part of my morning breakfast routine since Lent began.”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/4– Day 17: Easter Friday: “For you who commented on the chess puzzle, see the main entry again for more information.”
Gregg the Obscure on ROME 25/4– Day 16: Easter Thursday: “thank you Suburbanbanshee. i looked around. i couldn’t find Clement X’s cardinalatial rank when he was elected, but with that…”
monstrance on ROME 25/4– Day 19: Low Sunday – with a grand digression: “The rock band Rush starts a song with the 3 letter identifier for Toronto Airport in Morse Code – Y…”
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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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"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
- VIDEO: Gavin Ashenden distills the last 12 years or so poignantly and pointedly
- VIDEO Message from Card. Burke before and for the Conclave
- Another Roman dialect sonnet about the papal funeral in St. Peter’s
- ROME 25/4– Day 20: Tolling and rolling
- FLASH: Conclave to begin on 7 May
- Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s)
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 54: Low Sunday – “scandal, hypocrisy, bland liturgies, false teaching, broken families, sin and sinners everywhere.”
- ROME 25/4– Day 19: Low Sunday – with a grand digression
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- ROME 25/4– Day 18: Easter Saturday
- Sonnet about the papal funeral procession
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 53: Easter Saturday – More real than now’s real
- Opportunity to get a striking Sacred Heart Flag before June, month of the Sacred Heart
- Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?
- ROME 25/4– Day 17: Easter Friday
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!)
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 52: Easter Friday – Marital imagery
- ROME 25/4– Day 16: Easter Thursday
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 51: Easter Thursday – The Bride
- When Card. Tagle sang “Imagine”
- Is this really shabby or is it my imagination?
- Internet jury rigged… for awhile… but food photos and a rant
- ROME 25/4– Day 15: Easter Wednesday
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 50: Easter Wednesday – Wherein (also) Fr. Z rants
- “Quo nomine vis vocari?” What name will the next Pope take? – POLL
- Francis and the post-mortem smear job
- ROME 25/4– Day 14: Easter Tuesday
- The Whatever High Atop The Thing has rushed to the General Congregations BEFORE Cardinals can arrive. What’s the hurry?
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 49: Easter Tuesday – Worshiping with our whole being
- ROME 25/4– Day 13: Easter Monday called “of the angel”, Pasquetta, and Happy 2778th Birthday of ROME!
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: 7 May 2010
What to do? Sunday supper
About Sunday supper. I have been working on eggs, sandwiches, cereal and ramen for a while. Thus, I have a hankering for one of these two. Which shall it be? Help me chose. I will have to go for groceries … Read More
The Feeder Feed: New Bird!
Today’s new bird is not new to me, but this is the first sighting of the season. I just had time to point the camera and shoot, but he was on his way. Mr. Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. UPDATE: No sooner did … Read More
What’s wrong with this? “Cogito, ergo sum; thus if I think I am reverent, I am”
This is sure to delight readers with a predisposition for the older form of Mass, or at least Roman-style worship, and those with a predilection for St. Thomas Aquinas. I received a curious email about an organization called the Institute … Read More
New English translation perhaps in use in UK by next summer
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald comes this piece about the possibility of actually using the new English translation of the Roman Missal by next summer. New Mass translationwill be introduced next summerBy Mark Greaves 7 May … Read More
SSPX Superior Bp. Fellay and his defense of Pope Benedict
From DICI, the site of the SSPX, we find SSPX Bp. Bernard Fellay’s defense of Pope Benedict XVI. My emphases and comments. Letter to Friends and Benefactors no. 76 05-7-2010 Dear Friends and Benefactors, The Church’s situation increasingly resembles … Read More
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Kathryn Jean Lopez on Pope Benedict, the New York Times, and the recent controversy
From Headline Bistro of the Knights of Columbus comes this piece by Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review. My emphases and comments. A Holy Father by Kathryn Jean Lopez It was Holy Week. It was Holy Week and everywhere I … Read More
The perfect soft-boiled egg
I don’t often make soft-boiled eggs, partly because I can do an egg over-easy in half the time. But once in a while, I attack the task of making a soft-boiled egg, which is not one of the easier techniques … Read More
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