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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
MADISON, WI – #AshWednesday – TLM 6:30 PM
There will be a Missa Cantata in the traditional Form of the Roman Rite this evening at 6:30PM at St. Mary’s, Pine Bluff. Fr. Z is the celebrant. Music The Ordinary will be Kyrie XVI, Sanctus XVIII, and Agnus Dei … Read More
ASK FATHER: Lent, #AshWednesday and the ol’ aligator on Friday question!
I have posted on this in the past, but repetita iuvant as we say in Latin. ORIGINAL: Someone sent me a copy of a letter written by the Archbishop of New Orleans to a member of his flock about eating alligator … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged alligator, crocodile
14 Comments
14 Comments
Remember! #AshWednesday Fast and abstinence! What’s your plan?
What are you all having for your meals today? I had a slice of toast this morning. Later, probably a bowl of vegetable soup. For supper, after Mass… we’ll see. Probably nothing. According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the … Read More
Wyoming Catholic College has a cool new thing…
The next time you are passing through Lander, WY be sure to stop at Wyoming Catholic College‘s new downtown coffee shop. Crux Coffee! I sincerely hope that they offer also Mystic Monk Coffee, purchased through my link of course (HERE) … Read More
Posted in Events, Just Too Cool, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged coffee, Wyoming Catholic College
12 Comments
12 Comments
Super Bowl Doritos commercial annoyed big-business abortion NARAL!
Today I am going to buy a bag of Doritos… a small one. Via one of its Super Bowl commercials Doritos annoyed big-business abortion NARAL. One of the Doritos commercials featured an ultrasound moment. Apparently Doritos are so good that Dad … Read More
Card. Onaiyekan on the proper disposition to receive Holy Communion
I have had my eye on John Card. Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja in Nigeria, for some time. There was recently a Eucharistic Congress in the Philippines. Since Archbp. Piero Marini (former MC to JP2) is in charge of these conferences … Read More
“What a bore clergy find the ‘Hymn to Love’ in I Corinthians 13…”
From Fr. Hunwicke of Mutual Enrichment comes this brilliantly blistering entry. I am glad he’s on our side. And I am especially glad to have another defender of the pre-Lent Sundays. They were 86’d in the time of Paul VI. … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged 1 Cor 13, Fr. John Hunwicke, pre-lent, Quinquagesima
3 Comments
3 Comments
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point or two from the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday obligation? Let us know. For the EF, I spoke of the move I am currently enduring and sorting and getting rid of things. … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z promotes monkish beer! – UPDATE
UPDATE 5 February: From the the chant monks, the beer monks of Norcia… This week, the first major shipment of Birra Nursia left the walls of the monastery and of Norcia and began its long journey to the United States. … Read More
Making it illegal to differentiate between male and female
One of these days horrible things will start happening because of the blurring of sex and the because of the sick and twisted “gender” re-engineering that is going. We are hurtling toward the brink. From CNA: Could it soon be … Read More
Robert Micken’s Lutheran conversion may be complete
It seems that Robert Micken’s Lutheran conversion is complete. HERE You recall that Mickens was fired by The Tablet because of his horrid online denigration of Benedict XVI. HERE Recently, Archbp. Rino Fisichella announced a couple initiatives for the Year of Mercy to boost … Read More
LIBS! University level liturgy course for YOU! BIG PUPPETS!
At the UConn Drama department: Puppet Arts Classes in puppetry were first taught at UConn in 1964 by Professor Frank W. Ballard, who had joined the faculty of Theatre Department as a set designer and technical director eight years earlier. … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Liberals, Lighter fare, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged big puppets
34 Comments
34 Comments
ASK FATHER: St. Blaise Blessing from a laywoman
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Yet another weird anomaly for our Modernist parish is having laity assist the priest in blessing throats on St. Blaise’s Feast. The laymen make no “Sign of the Cross” at least, merely place the candles across … Read More
3 Feb: St. Blaise and the blessing of candles and of throats
Every time I get my throat blessed on St. Blaise Day, I get a sore throat or bronchitis. Although… this year I have already had it, so I hope I’ve dodged for February. Ever the optimist, I keep going back … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged blessing of throats, candles, St. Blaise
13 Comments
13 Comments
Tabernacle by Tabernacle
A while back there was a flurry of discussion in Madison, WI about the long-standing, patiently-implemented, diocesan-wide policy of returning the tabernacles for the Blessed Sacrament to the center of churches. News reached me that in Brooklyn, a church is … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged D. Brooklyn, restoration, tabernacle, wreckovation
9 Comments
9 Comments
Candle by Candle in NY
In Wisconsin we had rather dreadful weather and so cancelled the Candle-mass. I am consoled, however, with this. From a reader… First mass celebrating the proper feast today in the EF in this church (St. Mary’s, Roslyn, NY – Long … Read More
Fr. Rutler on Card. Kasper and the Germans: “Modernists are people who do not believe what they believe.”
Run, don’t walk, to Crisis to see Fr. George Rutler’s latest. HERE. The German bishops, theologians and Card. Kasper are front and center. Here are some of my favorite moments… […] The social consequences of German idealism were hymned in … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Drill
Tagged Africa, Card. Kasper, Charles Péguy, Fr. George Rutler
10 Comments
10 Comments
Jill Stanek’s house vandalized by pro-aborts. She’s not about to quit.
Pro-life activist Jill Stanek’s house was vandalized by pro-abortion cowards. The story is HERE. One of them threw a brick through her window with the note: “Quit the pro-life bulls**t.” It’s in a Target sack. I’ll take Irony for $1000, Alex. … Read More
Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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