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- Titus on LENTCAzT 2025 – 45: Good Friday: “Would it be possible, please, Father, to have put up on the blog at some point some close-up photos of…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think there was any attempt to justify this decision, other than a fairly…”
- on YOUR Holy Thursday SERMON NOTES and a POLL about Holy Thursday Washing of Feet: “Our pastor washes the feet of the 12 most senior/accomplished altar servers each year. The chance to be chosen leads…”
- on Holy Thursday Plenary Indulgence: ““This year the words of O Salutaris Hostia and Tantum ergo have completely changed ” Excuse me?!?!?”
- on YOUR Holy Thursday SERMON NOTES and a POLL about Holy Thursday Washing of Feet: “Abp. celebrated and preached. this may be his last triduum in that office as he turns 75 in September. due…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “Since The Astronomer mentioned him, I will repeat what Malachi Martin told me. In my comment already made I mentioned…”
- on Pres. Trump’s Message on Holy Week, 2025: “O Blood and Water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a Fount of Mercy for us.. I…”
- on LENTCAzT 2025 – 44: Holy Thursday: “Bergsma’s book on Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls talks about how “the many” was a Hebrew/Aramaic expression found in…”
- on YOUR Holy Thursday SERMON NOTES and a POLL about Holy Thursday Washing of Feet: “Father spoke about how Our Lady provided daily bread for the Bread of Life for most of His earthly life.”
- on Holy Thursday Plenary Indulgence: “In the missal at our parish, on the inside of the back cover is the benediction hymns and prayers. This…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “Just a guess, but I am going to speculate that supporters of the TLM are also large supporters of various…”
- on Stop what you are doing and read this. No, really.: “I remember when he was first diagnosed. I was so scared to see an update that he had died. But…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “@OneTradMale Correction – Archbishop Wiesenberger is NOT offering the 9 AM Low Mass on Easter Sunday – rather, the Mass…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “Bishop Weisenheimer is a sock puppet for Jorge Bergoglio. Why did he not visit some of the many thriving Latin…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “Something for the Archbishop to consider; As Christ said to Saul: “Saul. Saul. Why do you persecute Me ?”. Let’s…”
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Monthly Archives: November 2020
#ASonnetADay – 104. “To me, fair friend, you never can be old…”
#ASonnetADay – 104. “To me, fair friend, you never can be old…” pic.twitter.com/itQfYRE4kn — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (@fatherz) December 1, 2020
Posted in Poetry, Sonnet A Day
Tagged #ASonnetADay, Poetry, William Shakespeare
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ASK FATHER: Does the SSPX “exercise legitimate ministries” or not?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I appreciate all of your hard work on the topic of the SSPX and just your whole candid approach to speaking clearly about topics that are otherwise ambiguous. I attend the SSPX frequently and have had … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Benedict XVI, SSPX
Tagged SSPX
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Daily Rome Shot 11
Photo by Bree Dail.
NOTA BENE! FINAL DAY 30 Nov. – Special Decree extends opportunity for Plenary Indulgence for Poor Souls through whole of November
30 November: FINAL DAY The Church’s senior tribunal, which handles all matter of the internal forum and indulgences, the Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, has issued a decree about the annual opportunity to gain indulgences for the souls in Purgatory in time … Read More
#ASonnetADay – 103. “Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth…”
#ASonnetADay – 103. “Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth…” pic.twitter.com/xt69t3Rnf6 — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (@fatherz) November 30, 2020
Posted in Poetry, Sonnet A Day
Tagged Poetry, Shakespeare, Sonnet A Day
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 1st Sunday of Advent – 2020
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass for your Sunday (obligation or none), either live or on the internet? Let us know what it was. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to … Read More
An important apostolate: SEVEN SISTERS
As this new liturgical year begins, I want to bring this back up to the readership’s awareness. I think this is an extremely important apostolate.. specially right now. It’s an older post. Do you know about the Seven Sisters Apostolate? … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged Seven Sisters Apostolate
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#ASonnetADay – 101. “O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends…” & 102. “My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming…”
#ASonnetADay – 102. “My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming…” pic.twitter.com/2516V4ruJX — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (@fatherz) November 29, 2020 #ASonnetADay – 101. “O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends…” pic.twitter.com/Cke09n9THM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (@fatherz) November 28, … Read More
Mass schedules… then and now
Not all parishes need to have a schedule like this, which is near to Penn Station in Manhattan. But it does tell you something about the state of the Faith then and now. Crikey! Look at the size of that … Read More
GOOD NEWS: “Key” available for Scanlon’s “Latin Grammar: Grammar Vocabularies, and Exercises in Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary”
There is some GOOD NEWS. It’s down below. Meantime… I’ve been ranting for years about the need for clerics to know the language of their Latin Church, Roman Rite. In most cases that means that priests and seminarians have to … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 08
Photo by Bree Dail.
Is it time to exorcize the Democrat Party?
Each day for a while now, after saying Mass I’ve been saying the Exorcism Against Satan and Apostate Angels, which is chapter 3 of Title XI in the Rituale Romanum. I’ve been doing this with the authority of the bishop for … Read More
Liturgical tweaking: rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
A few days ago, Corriere della sera had a piece explaining that on 29 November, the 1st Sunday of Advent, the suffering Italians who still bother with the Church will now have to change the way they have prayed the … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, You must be joking!
Tagged liturgical translation, Our Father
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ACTION ITEM! Seminarian in need of prayers
It is deeply troubling that the tactics of the 80’s and 90’s are being redeployed now. From a reader… In connection with your psyops article from just over two years ago, there is a seminarian in need of serious prayer. … Read More
ASK FATHER: What happens to the Eucharist if the priest does not communicate during Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’ve learned through your blog that if a priest does not receive Holy Communion at the Mass he is celebrating, the Mass is invalid. But what happens to the bread and wine that were consecrated moments … Read More
#ASonnetADay – 100. “Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long…” Thanks, @sirpatstew …
#ASonnetADay – 100. “Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long…” Thanks, @sirpatstew for inspiring one of my readers to ask me to read the Bard’s Sonnets, old friends now read through the lens of greater age. pic.twitter.com/Or08UZ0OcJ — … Read More
Titus on LENTCAzT 2025 – 45: Good Friday: “Would it be possible, please, Father, to have put up on the blog at some point some close-up photos of…”
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