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Gregg the Obscure on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)many good points. our pastor is an excellent homilist. i would like him to be more frequently at the Mass...
ProfKwasniewski on ASK FATHER: Can I be a Catholic AND a Libertarian?The great American publisher and political commentator, Neil McCaffrey Jr. (father of Roger McCaffrey of Roman Catholic Books and The...
Lindy on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Our priest (visiting) actually spoke of sin! Wowza! He said sin is so minimized today... called so many other things...
crule on CQ CQ CQ: #HamRadio – #ZedNet reminder – Sunday 17 Jan ’21Jonpatrick - you just need the talkgroup ID. The only reason you would want to download radio ID's would be...
philothea.distracted on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)First of all, about attendance. It was standing room only at the EF Mass I attended. Granted, half of the...
JonPatrick on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doThis made me think how fleeting things of this world are. Places we knew change beyond recognition. In my 40...
JonPatrick on CQ CQ CQ: #HamRadio – #ZedNet reminder – Sunday 17 Jan ’21Working on getting up and running. Received the Zumspot and DMR radio last week, working on learning how to set...
JonPatrick on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Travelling so we watched the EF low mass at St. Mary Providence RI. At first it seems strange that our...
Fulco One Eye on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Our priest gave an excellent overview of our blessed Mother’s role as a mediator for us taking off from the...
Semper Gumby on ASK FATHER: Can I be a Catholic AND a Libertarian?KL: Another problem with "c"atholic Socialists is their Marxist politics and fascination with tyranny. The lessons of the 20th century...
NancyP on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Our homilist commented on how, although it looked like Jesus was walking casually past John's followers, everything in Jesus' life...
Kathleen10 on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)We had an amazing Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form. Heaven must be something like the Mass we had today....
MWindsor on CQ CQ CQ: #HamRadio – #ZedNet reminder – Sunday 17 Jan ’21Any suggestions on getting in from Wires-X? 28598 hasn't been working for the past couple of months. It says there's...
ex seaxe on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doI can't get my head round the idiocy of translating Tempus per annum as Ordinary Time, my 1975 missal just...
Gab on LIVE VIDEO – 17 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – 2nd Sunday after EpiphanyOutstanding sermon, Father, have never heard the Wedding at Cana explained with such a thorough explanation. Thank you. I have...
SWP on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Also we had a Sanctity of Life blessing of the Memorial Garden for Unborn Children after one of the masses...
SWP on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)The homilist pointed out that one of the two followers of John the Baptist is identified as St. Andrew, but...
Sportsfan on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doThis coming week also has the anniversary of Roe versus Wade.
Gab on Daily Rome Shot 50@Gaudete, Thank you.
KL on ASK FATHER: Can I be a Catholic AND a Libertarian?The problem with Catholic Socialists is that they ignore Church teaching on property. The problem with Catholic Libertarians is that...
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- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)
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- Daily Rome Shot 53
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- LIVE VIDEO – 16 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – St. Marcellus, Pope, Martyr (Intention: benefactors)
- Daily Rome Shot 52
- ASK FATHER: Can I be a Catholic AND a Libertarian?
- Wherein Fr. Z gives an update about life and changes
- ASK FATHER: Why isn’t there a paper book with the Sunday propers in Latin and English?
- Another sign of the times
- Daily Rome Shot 51
- Question for readers: book search
- LIVE VIDEO – 15 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – St. Paul, Hermit (Intention: benefactors)
- 14 January – Festum Asinorum #FeastoftheAss Day!
- Daily Rome Shot 50
- Various prayers or “Orationes diversae” in the traditional Missale Romanum
- WDTPRS: Collect for the Votive Mass “to beg the grace of dying well”
- LIVE VIDEO – 13 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Baptism of the Lord (Intention: benefactors)
- Daily Rome Shot 49
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- WDTPRS: Prayer for enemies – Part III
- ASK FATHER: Help for a blind priest who wants to learn the Traditional Latin Mass – UPDATED
- LIVE VIDEO – 12 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Votive for the grace of a good death
- “Ab arbore autem fici discite parabolam…”
- WDTPRS: Prayer for enemies – Part II
- ASK FATHER: Baptism by immersion but water didn’t touch the head
- LIVE VIDEO – 11 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Votive for whatever necessity
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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.Yes, Fr. Z is taking ads…
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
ASK FATHER: Priest’s cassocks with shoulder capes
From a reader… I was wondering if any secular/diocesan priest is allowed to wear a black mozzetta as part of their choir dress? I have seen pictures of some priests wearing a black mozzetta such as the Canons Regular of … Continue reading
MUNICH: “Married” lesbian remains head of day care center
This is interesting… From LifeSite: ‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx’s diocese July 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The website of the German Bishops’ Conference, katholisch.de, reported yesterday on the first case of a practicing homosexual … Continue reading
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Archd. Munich, Card. Marx
19 Comments
A Scrat Interlude
Something light… but maybe not. I think most of you know that I don’t like squirrels… except Scrat. I actually have squirreled away somewhere a Scrat decal for the cover of my laptop, where the glowing bitten apple of sin … Continue reading
Fr. Z’s Voice Mail & ASK FATHER: Catholic and Orthodox wedding question
I’ve been monitoring my voice mail. A question came in a while back which I can now treat. Let’s have the audio… This is an interesting question. I’m a Latin Church, Catholic priest and not really qualified to speak about the … Continue reading
Blue Moon
On my way out of an eatery where I had met a reader and priest heading to Lacrosse for yet another conference with Cardinal Burke, as well as the great Archbp. Cordileone, [HERE] I saw the rising moon. Photos almost … Continue reading
Fishwrap – once again – publicly attacks the Church’s moral teaching
Over at the Fishwrap (aka National Sodomitic Reporter) Jamie Manson (openly lesbian activist, promoter of women’s ordination, mentored by Sr. Margaret Farley, and darling of the LCWR), laments the Church’s teaching about homosexuality. This piece is part of Fishwrap‘s incessant effort to undermine … Continue reading
What I’m dealing with today
Technology is great… when it works. Here’s is the latest stupid problem I have to deal with: Solving this stupid thing for almost every page I try to bring up! UPDATE: I did a full scan and installed some updates. … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes
11 Comments
Camille Paglia strikes again!
I have a love/hate relationship with Camille Paglia. I love her writing style an enjoy her stark commentary. Meanwhile, I hope and pray that she will come to senses about God. Right now at Salon she had a piece in … Continue reading
Day 2: Canon Law Conference – VIDEO greetings to you readers from Card. Burke
This video might be hard to view using Chrome. The conference is named also Speculum Iustitiae … “Mirror of Justice”, which is a title given to Our Lady in the Litany. We continue today with a presentation on the Apostolic … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Archbp. Broglio, canon law, Card. Burke, D. LaCrosse, Speculum Iustitiae
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Liberals – unmasked
Remember… Planned Parenthood was initiated to get rid of undesirables. Everyone… take a moment to go to Crisis and read Fr. George Rutler’s new offering. HERE A sample… Christ cannot be psychoanalyzed because he is perfect. It would be like seeking … Continue reading
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Cecile Richards, Fr. George Rutler, Planned Parenthood
19 Comments
Day 1: Canon Law Conference (and a video message)
See the video message, for you readers, below! ___ I’ve journeyed to LaCrosse and the magnificent Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the annual Speculum Iustitiae conference. Card. Burke organized the conference six years ago. It is always intellectually … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, SESSIUNCULA, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Archbp. Broglio, canon law, Card. Burke, D. LaCrosse
8 Comments
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. I get many requests by … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
34 Comments
ASK FATHER: Gregorian Masses
From a priest… QUAERITUR: I was in Fatima earlier this month and in the office to request Masses be offered for pilgrim’s intentions, I noticed a sign that said the stipend for a standard Mass stipend is 10 Euros but … Continue reading
Doing things “wrong” at Mass
A blog called EpicPew has some points to review about your participation at Mass. NB: A serious omission in the blog post is that it ignores the Extraordinary Form. It doesn’t even mention the Extraordinary Form. That is, when the author … Continue reading
And the winner of The Most Meanfull Job is…
#1… Clergy. This comes from Business Insider. The 13 most meaningful jobs in America If your goal in life is to make the world a better place, you should probably pursue a job in education or healthcare. Twelve of the … Continue reading
HUNGARY: Juventutem summer retreat
Juventutem (I wish it were Iuventutem) is on the march! They are organizing all over the place. I received word of this by email: This year, Juventutem Hungary is organising it’s annual summer retreat in Sopron, St. George’s parish. At … Continue reading
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point in the sermon you heard for your Mass of obligation for Sunday? Let us know what it was!
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
14 Comments
CQ CQ CQ – #HamRadio Saturday – POWER!
I have power. That is to say, the folks who made my Juicebox finally got the new batteries to me. You may recall that my hardened portable power unit wouldn’t charge, despite my various efforts. So, the Juicebox folks wrote to say they … Continue reading
Posted in Ham Radio
Tagged antenna, Buddistick, Echolink, Juicebox, Kenwood, Morse Code, The Phantom
30 Comments
Fr. Terence Ryan, CSP, approves of lesbian marriages
At the blog of one Fr. Terence Ryan CSP, I saw this. Apparently Father believes that the moral doctrine of the Church reflects bigotry. Lesbian Dismissal Seems that a Catholic Academy fired a woman for being a lesbian. She was … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Hand clapping during TLM
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m unlearned in the extraordinary form, and the other day, I saw the MC clap his hands when the servers were supposed to kneel. Is that common? I thought it was a little odd. Yes, a … Continue reading