Daily Archives: 8 July 2017

REMINDER: The Internet, Prayer and You

Do you pray before using the Internet?  It might be a good idea.  Aside from the dangers for custody of the eyes and from reading horrible soul-annihilating things at Fishwrap (et alibi), there are matters of time expenditure and prideful personal exchanges, … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged
7 Comments

ACTION ITEM! Birettas for Seminarians Project ONGOING!

¡Hagan lío! I had a nice note from a reader who met a seminarian recipient of one of your birettas. Here at Fr. Z’s Samizdat, for now I’ll anonymize this “In The Wild” pic.  It is just better that way, … Read More

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, In The Wild, Seminarians and Seminaries | Tagged ,
16 Comments

ASK FATHER: Corruption, sodomy, drugs, infidelity… How can we trust anything from Rome? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

UPDATE: Feedback from a reader… In a recent post, you respond to a question about the distress that is caused by the latest homosexual scandal in the Vatican. You pointed out that the enemy will attack, “in particular,” those who have influence over … Read More

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, ASK FATHER Question Box, Be The Maquis, Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged , , , ,
41 Comments

Congregation for Divine Worship’s new document on valid bread and wine for the Eucharist

The sacraments have both matter (the physical stuff) and form (the words pronounced).  In the case of the Eucharist the matter is twofold: bread and wine.  The bread must be from wheat and, in the Latin Church, unleavened.  The wine … Read More

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000 | Tagged , , , , , , ,
25 Comments

ASK FATHER: Can an Eastern Catholic priest confirm a Latin Catholic

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is it licit for a child who has received the sacraments of baptism and first communion in the Western Rite to receive the sacrament of confirmation from an Eastern Rite priest? Canon 696 of the Code of the … Read More

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Both Lungs, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity | Tagged ,
4 Comments