"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."-
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"Fr. Z disgraces his priesthood as a grifter, a liar, and a bully. -
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A very common comment is that ” It`s just like coming home ” .
Pax et bonum .
From Our Lady`s Land of the Southern Cross .
I also want to thank you for your blog, Fr. Z. I use it to learn how to discern secular news events from a faithfully Catholic perspective as well as to find out what is happening in the Church. I think you are providing us with a valuable and much-needed service, and I hope that you are able to keep your blog going for many more years. Thanks again!
Many thanks from me as well. Without your blog I wouldn’t know that the Extraordinary Form existed, but thanks to you I am very happy to be attending my first EF Mass on the 21st (a birthday present from my husband)! Can you direct me to the EF Lectionary readings for next Sunday, and also please pray for me: that he and I will get to Confession ASAP? Gratias, gratias, gratias!
Thanks from me as well. You, Father, and another priest, are responsible for how I view the Mass today.
Mrs.Abingdon,
What a lovely present! I will pray for you, both for your assisting at that Mass and for being able to find a confessor beforehand.
A decent EF calendar can be found at http://www.calefactory.org/calendar/wc201210.htm or you can look at The Latin Mass Society’s ordo (England-Wales-Ireland-Scotland) at http://www.lms.org.uk/find-a-mass/liturgical-calendar-2012
21 October is the 21st Sunday after Pentecost.
The Order of the Mass and the readings and translations for each Sunday and feast are published in handout form by The Saint John Fisher Missale Project hosted by the Church Music Association of America at http://musicasacra.com/sjfm/ (scroll down the page). The Order of the Mass is the “Ordo Missae”, and you find the propers for each Sunday and feast by clicking on the correct season and then on the correct Sunday/feast.
Our pastor (who offers the EF as the principal Sunday Mass at our parish) says that, at one’s first EF, one should not try so very hard to follow along, but enter into the sacred mystery of the Mass by letting the beauty and the silence still your soul and bring you into the Presence of Our Lord.
—But if you are type A (as I am) you can print out the Ordo Missae and the day’s propers and therefore have some clue what is happening (although much of it will look very familiar) and when to sit/stand/kneel and so on. It is also helpful if you sit partway back so that you can be guided by worshippers who are experienced–and you don’t feel on display.
(Also, be prepared for random things to happen to attempt to keep you from the EF. The Enemy hates the EF.)
I think most readers of Fr. Z’s blog would join me in hoping that you will let us know about your experience. May it be a great blessing for you and your husband!
Another useful liturgical calendar is one maintained by AirMaria which is run by the Franciscans of the Immaculate which is an orthodox Franciscan order here in Massachusetts.
http://airmaria.com/Liturgy/explr/litrgyexplr.php?st=c
Thank you, Vox Laudis and JonPatrick. Updates to follow! :)