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Monthly Archives: February 2020
Happy Bissextilis! (No, it’s not a Jesuit holiday.)
It is a Leap Year Day. In Latin this is bissextilis, and has nothing to do with prominent Jesuits and their abetters. When there isn’t a 29 February, the saints are observed on 28 February. For this intercalary day in the … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 2020: 04 – Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Backbiting and hen plucking
It is Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Lent is getting underway. The Roman Station is Sant’Agostino. REMINDER: I am on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. I remember my benefactors in my prayers. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
Tagged LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT, St. Philip Neri
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27-28 Feb 2020 HOLY LAND TLM PILGRIMAGE – Day 6-7: The Dead Sea and the Holy Sepulcher
From way up in Jerusalem we zoomed way down past sea level to the lowest place on your planet, where the Jordan enters the Dead Sea. It was a short hike from there to the mountain where the Lord was … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 2020: 03 – Friday after Ash Wednesday: When the lights are out and silence has fallen
It is Friday after Ash Wednesday. Lent is getting underway. The Roman Station is Sts. John and Paul on the Caelian Hill. REMINDER: I am on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. I remember my benefactors in my … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
Tagged Antonio Card. Bacci, crucifix, examen, examination of conscience, LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT
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Fri 28 Feb (Thurs evening in USA!) – Mass for Benefactors at the Holy Sepulcher of Christ in Jerusalem
Tomorrow, Friday 28 Feb 2020, early our time in Jerusalem (evening on Thursday 27 Feb in the USA), we will rise and go to the beginning of the Via Dolorosa, the “Way of the Cross”. We are planning to begin … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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LENTCAzT 2020: 02 – Thursday after Ash Wednesday: “A hand was lifted up against the face of Christ”
It is Thursday after Ash Wednesday. Lent is getting underway. The Roman Station is San Giorgio in Velabro. REMINDER: I am on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. I remember my benefactors in my prayers. I provide these especially in … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
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Pres. Trump’s Message for Ash Wednesday
Did you all see the Ash Wednesday Message from Pres. Trump? Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2020 Presidential Message on Ash Wednesday, 2020 Melania and I wish everyone observing Ash Wednesday a peaceful and prayerful … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Italy shuts down Masses, but leaves everything else going.
A reader sent me a link to the site of the SSPX in Italy. They have a statement in reaction to the government shut down of Masses till 1 March. As you know, there has been an outbreak in Italy. … Continue reading
26 Feb 2020 HOLY LAND TLM PILGRIMAGE – Day 6: Jesus Wept and Peter Denied
Today took us to several significant sites in the life of Our Lord and His chief Apostle and His Blessed Mother. We started Mass at the church built near the spot where the Lord came ’round the bend and saw … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 2020: 01 Ash Wednesday – The ash marks won’t last, except…
It is Ash Wednesday. Lent begins. The Roman Station is Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill. REMINDER: I am on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. I remember my benefactors in my prayers. I provide these especially in gratitude to … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
Tagged Ash Wednesday, LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT
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24-25 Feb 2020 HOLY LAND TLM PILGRIMAGE – Day 4-5: Carmel and Caesarea, Bethlehem and Baptist
Zuhlsdorf’s Law has kept me from posting. On the way… a view from a distance of the place where Mary was probably born. Above Haifa is the Stella Maris convent, built around the cave in which Elijah stayed. We had … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 2020: 00 Shrove Tuesday – GO TO CONFESSION
And so we begin again a series of daily 5 minute podcasts for Lent. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I provide these especially in gratitude … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
Tagged LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT, Shrove Tuesday
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Is Francis perhaps backing away a little from the progressivist, lib, German-driven agenda?
I wonder if Sandro Magistro is right? He doesn’t often put his foot wrong. At his place, Magister has an analysis piece worth reading. He is of the mind that the resistance to the obvious machinations of the Germans, and … Continue reading
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Germany, Sandro Magister
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HOLY LAND TLM PILGRIMAGE – Day 3: Primacy of Peter, Pan, NOT Peter Pan
Sunrise over the Sea of Galilee. What it sounded like. https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Galilee_birds_dawn_02.mp3 Today we explored Peter. It is Quinquagesima Sunday, but because we were at the place where the Lord appeared to the Apostles after the Resurrection, and Christ interrogated … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Caesarea Philippi, pilgrimage, Primacy of Peter
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HOLY LAND TLM PILGRIMAGE – Day 2: Beatitudes, Fish and Fisherman
Today we went up to the mount where the Lord delivered the greatest sermon ever to be given and recounted, the Sermon on the Mount. On the way, we went by the opening of the valley that leads up to … Continue reading
Forty years ago… USSR v US at Lake Placid
I’ve been lately in a place where a lot of miracles were worked. However, today I also remember the so-called “Miracle on Ice”. Forty years ago… can it be that long?… the US ice hockey team beat the Russians. I … Continue reading
HOLY LAND TLM PILGRIMAGE – Day 0-1: Sunset, Sunrise, Son of God
Last night before my flight I saw the sun go down on Manhattan from Brooklyn. This morning I saw it rise over the Sea of Galilee. Fishermen were pulling in nets this morning. The place we are staying is right … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Annunciation, pilgrimage, Tabor, Transfiguration, Wedding at Cana
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It seems Francis isn’t a big fan of homosexualist Jesuit James Martin
I think that Jesuit homosexualist activist James Martin is probably pretty bright. He has found a niche wherein he excels. He has carefully cultivated an image. Since his message perfectly dovetails with “the wisdom of this world”, adored by the … Continue reading
My View For Awhile: This year, Jerusalem
I’m on my way to the Holy Land. In the midst of the first of two layovers, the next one longish. So far, everything is going smoothly. Even in the psychedelic bad trip tunnel in DTW. The blog combox has … Continue reading
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
I am gearing up for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. All Masses will be in the traditional Roman Rite. I will take my benefactors and donors along in my intentions while I am saying Masses at the holy sites. … Continue reading
