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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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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1482 – “A…. ?… for your thoughts.”: “Fr. Jackson: Sorry… the gumint ain’t making no pennies no more sos I ain’t gotta say. (See above.) o{]:¬)”
WVC on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 13-11-25 – Bishops meeting: “It’s wild that I find myself having sympathy for Bishop McButterpants . . .”
maternalView on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 33rd) 2025: “Father took the line from today’s Epistle “…their God is their belly…” to deliver a homily on gluttony. I have…”
Fr Jackson on Daily Rome Shot 1482 – “A…. ?… for your thoughts.”: “A penny for your thoughts on the SSPX reaction, Father.”
Greg Hlatky on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 13-11-25 – Bishops meeting: “I’ve never met a member of the clergy higher than my pastor, so I don’t know but I always thought…”
Sportsfan on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “His excellency doesn’t seem to be a big proponent of the principle of subsidiarity.”
Ave Maria on Not just for Austin!: “From Psalm 94: We have known for centuries to kneel before God: Come, let us worship and bow down, bend…”
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JonPatrick on Not just for Austin!: “But Father! But Father! This kneeling thing – it will slow down communion. And it will confuse people! Doesn’t that…”
Not on Not just for Austin!: “That is awesome. I can still kneel at Mass but during Stations of the Cross, they let us Seniors go…”
Not on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 13-11-25 – Bishops meeting: “Bishop McFatty pants. I have tried speaking to NO Bishops over the years. All they do is try to change…”
summorumpontificum777 on Daily Rome Shot 1483: “Fascinating history, JayKay. Thank you. I was previously unaware of that 3-month restoration at Christ Church in 1689.”
Robert on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “@TonyO While I can understand your concern, I do not believe it is well founded. Obviously there are bishops who…”
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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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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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