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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Your Sunday Pentecost 2020 Sermon Notes – VIDEO
The Feast of Pentecost, 50 days after Easter has finally arrived. Did you attend or watch Mass for Pentecost? Was there a good point in the sermon? For my part…
The priest’s traditional Vesting Prayers – Wherein Fr. Z rants
A while ago I ranted about wanting the “salt” back in the Holy Water. Of course I bless Holy Water every Sunday, and I use exorcised and blessed salt. What I mean by “salt” in this context, are the other … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Decorum, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PRAYERCAzT: What Does The (Latin) Prayer Really Sound L, Priests and Priesthood, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Thanksgiving, vesting prayers
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15 Comments
#LaunchAmerica SUCCESS!
THAT was cool. This afternoon I set things aside to watch the launch of the first manned space flight from USA soil in almost a decade. Demo-2 atop the Falcon 9. Postponed a few days ago because of weather, today … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, The future and our choices
Tagged Demo-2, NASA, space program, spacex
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WDTPRS – Vigil of Pentecost (1962MR): Activate your Confirmation!
Can you believe that today is already the Vigil of Pentecost? COLLECT (1962MR): Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut claritatis tuae super nos splendor effulgeat; et lux tuae lucis corda eorum, qui per gratiam tuam renati sunt, Sancti Spiritus illustratione confirmet. This … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Sacrament of Confirmation, Vigil of Pentecost
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30 May – HOLY MASS (TLM) Vigil of Pentecost (St. Joan of Arc) – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)
I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h). Today: Mass for the Vigil of Pentecost. It is also the Feast of St. Joan of Arc, a great favorite of … Read More
The ULTIMATE SOLUTION for COMMUNION in time of CORONAVIRUS
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is there an effective way for a priest to distribute communion on the tongue at a Latin Mass while keeping to the requirement to “sanitize his hands between communicants?” What would this look like? I might … Read More
WISCONSIN: Churches specifically targeted with restrictions as other buildings open. ACTION ITEM!
This. Where I am, after the county said that churches could open up to 25% capacity, like many businesses such as gyms and movie theaters, they then reversed their rule and will now force churches to have only 50 people, … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, ACTION ITEM!, B as in B. S as in S., Be The Maquis, Liberals, Pò sì jiù, Religious Liberty, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, You must be joking!
Tagged ACTION ITEM, coronavirus, COVID-1984, religious persecution
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29 May – HOLY MASS (TLM) St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)
I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h). Today: Mass forSt. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Virgin. I will add prayers “Tempore mortalitatis“. Will you please tell others about this … Read More
A little perspective, please? “Imagine you were born in 1900….”
I was sent this. It helps to put what we are going through in perspective. At Fakebook a post by one Karl B. Andersen: It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what … Read More
Posted in Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-1984
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16 Comments
New layers of stupid emerge during COVID-1984: violation of anonymity of penitents seeking Confession
COVID-1984 Melodrammavirus is bringing out new layers of stupid, hitherto theorized, but not yet experienced. On Fakebook I saw: Really? Now I read this at Stream: I Went to Confession. Was Asked to Give My Name for Contact Tracing. I … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged anonymity, can.964, sacrament of penance
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33 Comments
28 May – HOLY MASS (TLM) St. Augustine of Canterbury – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)
I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h). Today: Mass forSt. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop and Confessor. I will add prayers “Ad petendam compunctionem cordis“. Will you please tell … Read More
Posted in LIVE STREAMING
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UPDATE: The movie ‘Apocalypto’ – Now online!
Remember how last year I was looking for a disc of the Mel Gibson movie Apocalypto? Very hard to find. Hollywood and the libs really hate Mel Gibson. It’s brutal. But it is educational. Trailer HERE PLEASE – IN THE … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Apocalypto
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8 Comments
New arrivals and Fr. Z’s Kitchen
A really big knife. It’s intended for pizzas, but I am contemplating other uses. And now, directly outside the window across from my door. I was going to post this the other day. On Memorial Day I got together with … Read More
Spectacular B as in B, S as in S
Today in the reading for St. Venerable Bede, we heard from St. Paul to Timothy: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their … Read More
VIDEO: Today NASA with SpaceX will, God willing, launch men into space, from these USA!! #LaunchAmerica @FatherZ wistfully muses
What I would give today to be several decades younger so that I could be a chaplain in the US SPACEFORCE! Today NASA with SpaceX will, God willing, launch men into space, from these USA!! First time in long time. … Read More
27 May – HOLY MASS (TLM) Venerable Bede – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)
I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h). Today: Mass for Venerable Bede Confessor, Doctor. It is the 29th Anniversary of my 1st Mass. I will add prayers “Pro seipso … Read More
Posted in LIVE STREAMING, SESSIUNCULA
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26 May – HOLY MASS (TLM) St. Philip Neri & Anniv. of Ordination – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)
I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h). Today: Mass for St. Philip Neri, Confessor. It is the 29th Anniversary of my ordination today. I will add prayers “Pro seipso … Read More
ASK FATHER: Mass at a side altar during Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament? And a short rant.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: It is permissible for to have Public Mass at a side altar during Adoration.? And does it matter that the side altar is in the sanctuary, which is quite small? It just seems odd to me … Read More
