"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios"
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Fr. John Hunwicke
"Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric"
- Anonymous
"Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who has never shied from picking fights with priests, bishops or cardinals when liturgical abuses are concerned."
- Kractivism
"Father John Zuhlsdorf is a crank"
"Father Zuhlsdorf drives me crazy"
"the hate-filled Father John Zuhlsford" [sic]
"Father John Zuhlsdorf, the right wing priest who has a penchant for referring to NCR as the 'fishwrap'"
"Zuhlsdorf is an eccentric with no real consequences" -
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- Michael Sean Winters
"Fr Z is a true phenomenon of the information age: a power blogger and a priest."
- Anna Arco
“Given that Rorate Coeli and Shea are mad at Fr. Z, I think it proves Fr. Z knows what he is doing and he is right.”
- Comment
"Let me be clear. Fr. Z is a shock jock, mostly. His readership is vast and touchy. They like to be provoked and react with speed and fury."
- Sam Rocha
"Father Z’s Blog is a bright star on a cloudy night."
- 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
comment
"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
Reader comment.
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- Mark Shea
I forgot my pot of lemon thyme on the back porch.
But we were on time (!) for a beautiful Vigil Mass in the EF. Incense, a half-dozne altar boys, a girls’ schola – our parish rocks. Afterwards, Father spoke to us about plans to rescue the altar rail from our local minor basilica and have it refurb’d and installed in our parish.
Brick by brick!
At St. Michael’s Russian Catholic Chapel (www.stmichaelruscath.org) on Mulberry Street flowers were blessed at the first Vespers of the Dormition.
At Our Lady of Czestochowa in Turners Falls, MA flowers and herbs are blessed every year for the Assumption. Father says this is an old Polish custom.
And if you forget to bring your own, the ladies have nosegays available for a donation.
http://www.chroniclesofczestochowa.com/
I love these devotions, and the lovely church! Our parish has a Polish history, and I have enjoyed the Blessing of the Food custom for Easter. This year I will bring my own lamb cake. These beautiful customs bind us to church and give something to pass along to our children and grandchildren. Children, no matter how they may act indifferently, come to love these practices, and end up sharing them with friends. “Our family always does this…” is a phrase I have come to hear and enjoy. As Tevye said “Tradition!…”
Father Bart Juncer said our High Mass at 7:30 p.m. last night St. John Cantius Church, Chicago IL and as our pastor, Father Frank Phillips had done in previous years, Fr. Juncer blessed herbs and flowers brought by our parishioners. No pictures as scaffolding is up everywhere while our ceiling paintings and wall frescoes are restored to their 1903 splendor.
With these stories about blessing this or that and such and such a time, I wonder: when is the appropriate time to call down curses on rodents and other pesky critters?
By happy chance I wound up singing the Gregorian Chant High Mass (EF) at St. Martin’s Church in Zagreb. I was thus caught in choro without any herbs when the priest came back from the sacristy after Mass to bless them. Luckily, and in true Croatian style, one of the women in the congregation noticed that we were lacking plants and came rushing up with sprigs of basil and rosemary for us just in time for the blessing and aspersion. (Ironically I got the basil, to which my wife is quite allergic, so I had to give it away afterwards).
@dans0622: The appropriate time is when you see one of those little boogers peeking their heads out!