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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
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- ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 23 – Monday 4th Week of Advent – “Thy kingdom come!”
- Forced unity is not unity. It’s uniformity.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday of Advent – 2025
- 21 December – Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle… and the beating, living, healing, Heart of Love.
- ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 22 – 4th Sunday of Advent – How we treat our neighbor says a lot
- Daily Rome Shot 1510
- WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 20 December – O Clavis David – The Key to everything
- ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 21 – Ember Saturday 3rd Week of Advent – Smiles?
- WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 19 December – O Radix Iesse
- Daily Rome Shot 1509
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 20 – Ember Friday 3rd Week of Advent – “A breath of fresh air”
- A Christmasy Emmaus! Old Testament Prophets are SAINTS in the Church’s calendar.
- WDTPRS: O Antiphons – 18 December – O Adonai
- Daily Rome Shot 1508
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 19 – Thursday 3rd Week of Advent – True love
- Daily Rome Shot 1507
- WDTPRS: O Antiphons – 17 December – O Sapientia – The Way of Prudence
- The Riches of Ember Wednesday of Advent – The Missa Aurea or Golden Mass
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 18 – Ember Wednesday – 3rd Week of Advent – Embers and O and Golden Mass
- Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 17 – Tuesday 3rd Week of Advent – Patience
- Daily Rome Shot 1505 – an appeal
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 16 – Monday 3rd Week of Advent – Upcoming
- Augustine v. Jerome, Gimli v. Legolas, and The Roman Thing. Wherein Fr. Z rants and digresses.
- ASK FATHER: Why do the TLM Gospels switch between “Ierusalem” and “Ierosolyma”? Wherein Fr. Z drills and then rants. – UPDATED
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- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete” – 2025
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 15 – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete”
- 12 December – The pivotal Feast of St. Lucy, the year’s “darkest day”
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 14 – Saturday 2nd Week of Advent
Let us pray…
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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