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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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- ASK FATHER: Is the priesthood dominated by men who are varsity-level players or 3rd and 4th stringers?
- 29 August – The Beheading of John the Baptist: Corruption exposed and the “brass ring” revealed
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome’s wide open spaces
- Kudos to the Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
- Daily Rome Shot 1691: When Augustine and his mother Monica were reunited after 1617 years
- Roundup of books on St. Augustine of Hippo
- ASK FATHER: Priests tells me to say Act of Contrition outside the confessional, afterward
- ASK FATHER: Is the Collect from Leo’s “Mass for Creation” heretical?
- 27 August – St. Joseph Calasanz
- Over at Substack… I’m taking baby steps there… I posted about Jesuit Thomas Reese’s latest idiocy at RNS
- Daily Rome Shot 1690: without shame
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria
- “People reject the Church because she speaks against the sins they love” – St. Augustine…. NOT! Wherein Fr. Z corrects and then rants.
- A four letter word
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?
- Daily Rome Shot 1689: Oaf For A Year!
- Daily Rome Shot 1688: Let’s use the word for these people… evil
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
- “These, Reverend Father, are no mere words, nor lifeless thoughts, but they are arrows shot from the strong bow of God Himself…”.
- PODCAzT – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs
- Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!
- Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”)
- 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.
- Fathers! Pay attention. Video of an attack on the Eucharist during Communion at Sunday Mass. Nasty and planned.
- Wherein Fr. Z and St. Augustine reflect on the Samaritans of the 12th and 13th Sundays after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo) and the danger of false teaching in the Church today
- Daily Rome Shot 1686
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 13th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 21st Ordinary)
- A work in progress…
- 22 August: Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Vetus Ordo), Queenship of Mary (Novus Ordo)
- Daily Rome Shot 1685 – items wonderful and appalling
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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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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
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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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Monthly Archives: June 2011
St. Paul/Mpls: Archdiocesan Corpus Christi Procession – Sunday 26 June
Archdiocesan Corpus Christi Procession, Sunday, June 26, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Little Sisters of the Poor to the Cathedral of St. Paul. Bring your family and friends for this festive walk with our Eucharistic Lord. Ice cream social follows. Park in the … Read More
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What Does GIRM 160 for the USA Really Say?
When the new English translation of the Roman Missal is released, it will sport a new translation of the GIRM, the General Institution/Instruction of the Roman Missal. There are, of course, adaptations for the USA and other Anglophone regions. As … Read More
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Visiting a Roman basilica? There’s an app for that.
It would be nice to have some silence during visits to beautiful churches in Europe. This comes from CNA: Vatican hopes iPod can bring silence to Rome’s churches Rome, Italy, Jun 24, 2011 / 06:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican … Read More
Close asteriod flyby – 27 June
From Space Weather. ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above Earth’s surface on Monday, June 27th. NASA analysts say there is no chance the space rock will strike Earth. Nevertheless, the encounter is … Read More
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Vespers for Corpus Christi (BrevRom)
No frill vespers read from the Breviarium Romanum. [display_podcast]
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – Post Communion – using God
The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord, or Corpus Christi, Corpus Domini in some places, actually falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, not on Sunday. It is supposed to correspond to the Mass of the Last … Read More
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – Super Oblata – Eucharist: sign of unity, flashpoint of discord
The Roman calendar observes Corpus Christi today. In another place I drilled into the Collect. Let’s look at the Super Oblata, or “Prayer over the gifts”, in the new, corrected translation called the “Prayer over the offerings”. SUPER OBLATA (2002MR): … Read More
NYC, Manhattan 23 June: Corpus Christi with procession
Today, Thursday, 23 June at 6 pm there will be a Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form, followed by a procession with the Blessed Sacrament, in Manhattan, NYC, at the Church of the Holy Innocents (128 W 37th – btw … Read More
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Corpus Christi no frills Matins (Breviarium Romanum)
No frill Matins for Corpus Christi with the Roman Breviary. Perhaps the weary brethren can make use of it. The hymn is particularly nice. You can follow on Divinum Officium or your iPhone app BrevMeum. In recording, I had a … Read More
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