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dep on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “I noticed that as well, re. the lead-lined, standard issue coffin. The bag, Msgr. Landry tells us on EWTN, contains…”
Robert on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “Also, for comparison, Benedict XVI: https://www.vatican.va/special/esequie-bxvi/documents/rogito-transito-benedetto-xvi_en.html”
Robert on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “Here you go: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-deed-rogito-coffin-life-petrine-ministry.html#:~:text=As%20per%20tradition%2C%20the%20Pope’s,also%20placed%20inside%20the%20coffin.”
Kenneth Wolfe on ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!): “One can also offer a novus ordo in English facing the people, with communion in the hand, with altar girls…”
donato2 on Pray for a new Pope to who will be… better than we deserve! : “Personally I am enjoying the sede vacante period. I realize that as a Catholic I should regret not having a…”
Veronica scriptor velum on When Card. Tagle sang “Imagine”: “It was actually John Lennon who composed and wrote the lyrics for the song “Imagine”, not Paul McCartney. All the…”
JT on Is this really shabby or is it my imagination?: “The German bishops have plenty of money. They’re not worried about much. Schism seems to be right around the corner.”
Gregg the Obscure on ROME 25/4– Day 16: Easter Thursday: “Said Bishop of Ajaccio is the senior Cardinal Deacon and, as such, is the one assigned to announce the election.…”
Suburbanbanshee on ROME 25/4– Day 15: Easter Wednesday: “If religion is so unimportant, why are all the atheist spies and politicians always sticking their noses into our Catholic…”
Bev on When Card. Tagle sang “Imagine”: “Cardinal Tagle sang a Christianized version of the song. No anti-religion lyrics. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIvrKh4geH4 Good prudence may suggest restraint against…”
Imrahil on “Quo nomine vis vocari?” What name will the next Pope take? – POLL: “As I said for the last election, but maybe I’m right this time, it may be Leo XIV. The reason…”
EAW on When Card. Tagle sang “Imagine”: “@TheCavalierHatherly: I don’t quite understand why you bring Paul McCartney into this. He wasn’t involved in this dreadful song, and…”
Grant M on “Quo nomine vis vocari?” What name will the next Pope take? – POLL: “How about Pope Michael? I know a couple of larpers have used the name, but it’s time for the real…”
Sonshine135 on “Quo nomine vis vocari?” What name will the next Pope take? – POLL: “I chose Pius, but Lando would be fun.”
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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
- 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!
- ASK FATHER: Priest and the Roman Canon… what do we say now?
- ASK FATHER: Octave of Easter, what about Requiem Masses, Votives for the Election of a Pope… Novena to St. Catherine?
- Pray for a new Pope to who will be… better than we deserve!
- With the death of Francis, some will have questions about an election
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 48: Easter Monday – Divine Symphony
- ROME 25/4– Day 12: Easter Sunday
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 47: Easter Sunday
- ROME 25/4– Day 11: Holy Saturday
- “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”
- Truth from T.S. Eliot
- LENTCAzT 2025 – 46: Holy Saturday
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: 19 August 2010
PODCAzT 110 & WDTPRSL: Learning the Roman Canon in Latin for Seminarians
I received a nice voice mail from some seminarians who are learning how to say the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass on their own. They asked for help with the Latin, since they have not ever heard the Roman Canon … Read More
Medal of Honor winners to vets returning home: Help is there!
A reader sent me a link to something I found very moving. Some recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor joined together to make a video PSA to encourage America’s military to seek help when adjusting to life after combat, … Read More
WDTPRS: Sanctus
In the print version of WDTPRS, the weekly column, I have been comparing the lame-duck ICEL translation of the Ordinary of Holy Mass still hear in our churches with the new, approved version we will one day be able to … Read More
It is good news time
Do you have some good news you care to post? Small things but good… I got an article done for the paper and writing it taught me something about Holy Mass.I am pretty much recovered from a recent malady.I am … Read More
Apostles of Jesus Christ, Priest and Victim
I had an email from a priest today who told me about a new initiative to build up diocesan priests in their lives and ministry. Their new initiative, which has the approval of Card. George in Chicago, is called The … Read More
QUAERITUR: keeping Hosts from different Forms of Mass separated
From a reader: We have a sung Sunday Mass celebrated in the Extraordinary Form at a local parish. The priest who says the Mass is not the pastor, but a diocesan priest who says Mass in both forms of the … Read More
PODCAzT 109: A dust up in ancient Carthage and parishes that schism
Many dioceses are having to close parishes. Now and then a bishop needs to discipline parishes which go renegade. It sometimes happens that groups of Catholics just go do their own thing. This got me thinking about a sermon of … Read More