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"Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric"
- Anonymous
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- Anna Arco
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- Comment
"A cross between Kung Fu Panda and Wolverine."
- Anonymous
Fr. Z is officially a hybrid of Gandalf and Obi-Wan XD
- Comment
Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
- America Magazine
RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
-Austen Ivereigh on
Twitter
[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
“For me the saddest thing about Father Z’s blog is how cruel it is.... It’s astonishing to me that a priest could traffic in such cruelty and hatred.”
- Jesuit homosexualist James Martin to BuzzFeed
"Fr. Z's is one of the more cheerful blogs out there and he is careful about keeping the crazies out of his commboxes"
- Paul in comment at
1 Peter 5
"I am a Roman Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
I am a TLM-going Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
And I am in a state of grace today, in no small part, because of your blog."
- Tom in
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"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
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- Mark Shea
And in the EF, St. Symphoriam (along with Sts. Timotheus and Hippolytus) is commemorated today with 2nd propers (collect, secret, and postcommunion).
Re Bosworth Field (about 20 miles from here):
KING RICHARD III
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord; I’ll help you to a horse.
KING RICHARD III
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die:
I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
(Richard iii, Act V)
“In Autun, Lyon, France, the commemoration of St. Symphorianus, a martyr, whom his mother addressed from the city walls, while he was being led to torture, saying, ‘Be born, be born, Symphorianus, keep the living God on your mind. Today, life is not taken away from you, but changed for the better. ‘ ”
“Vita mutatur, non tollitur” is often included when I receive an alumni message to pray for the departed.
Salutationes omnibus
Tom in NY: “Be born”
What would happen if “nate” were vocative?
Si casu vocativo sit, anglice, “son”.
Tibi gratias ago.
Tom in NY: ,b>“son”
Which is, of course, the correct rendering of nate.
Nate, as an imperative, would have to be something like “Ya’ll have a swim!”
“Life is changed not ended” — I have seen it used online by some to refer to their new life in wedded bliss.
Two intersting references to the Church of St. Symphorian (as he is Englished by Lewis Thorpe) occur in St. Gregory of Tours’ ‘History of the Franks’ (II. 15 and VIII.30).
St. Gregory’s accounts of what various Christian Frankish kings and princes did, tend to make plausible the More-Shakespeare version of the history Richard III – which fortunately need not tempt one to abandon well-weighed Riccardianism!
Mirus ardor in matre, et vix credibilis fortitudo.