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- Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O.: 4th of) 2023
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It was the 3rd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 4th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo. In … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 30: Fr Z’s Kitchen – Vongole veraci
At the dawn of the tie-breaker between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren the sun broke the horizon at 06:06. When it sets at 20:10, there should be a new official FIDE World Champion. It has been an amazing match. I … Read More
From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 23-04-29 – Upcoming ordination and Fr. Tommy trouble
April 29th, 2023 Dear Diary, Thinking about the deacon Luis’s pending ordination in June. Too bad he’ll be alone up there in the sanctuary for his ordination. I really miss Butch, but he’s up there now having a nice bourbon … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 29: A bad nun and a bit with a dog
Rome enjoyed a new sunrise at 06:07 and looks forward to another beautiful building hue changing sunset this evening at 20:08. Seven minutes later the Ave Maria is supposed to ring… but won’t… mostly. In the Novus calendar it is … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 28: Patzers and Pasquinate
Sunrise 06:09 Sunset 20:07 Ave Maria 20:15 Welcome registrant: Servatius In the Novus calendar St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort is celebrated today. In the Vetus, we venerate St. Paul of the Cross, whose tomb is here in Rome at the … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 27: Crunchy little fishes and nibbles with tentacles
Sunrise in Rome was 06:10 and sunset will be at 20:06. Each day a little longer and they are, right now, beautiful days. The Ave Maria should ring at 20:15. It is the Feast of St. Peter Canisius, SJ, Doctor … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 26: The joy of concelebration
Here in the Eternal City the sunrise was at 0612 in a cloudless sky. Who knows what the sky shall be when the sun sets at 2005. The sky will probably be the same at the Ave Maria, still in … Read More
UPDATED: Head of Pontifical Academy for Life favors legalizing assisted suicide
UPDATE 25 April: As one of my correspondent’s wrote: I’ve seen it all: Paglia tweets the link to a Church Militant report DEFENDING his indefensible statements and “clarifications” Link to a serious and accurate video from Dr. Jules Gomes of … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 25: Rose and Rogation
0613 for sunrise today and 2004 for sunset. The Ave Maria is still in the 2015 cycle on this 115th day of the year. It is the Feast of St. Mark, Evangelist, liturgically rich. Today is a Rogation Day. Latin rogare means … Read More
If a NUKE can be gentle, this is it. VIDEO: A Bishop addresses the present crisis. ¡Hagan lío!
This is amazing. Watch every minute. It is part ONE. No other explanation? No. Just WATCH it.
ROME 23/04 – Day 24: Rooms, blooms and tentacles
01615 was the sun’s rising and at 2003 will it set. The Ave Maria is at 2015. Today is the Feast of, among others, foundress of the Brigidines, S. Maria Elisabeth Hesselblad (+1957 whose tomb is just up the way. … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter (N.O.: 3rd of) 2023
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It was the 2nd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 3rd Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo. Was … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 23: Salons and Solutions
Sun rise over Rome was at 6:16 and Sunset will be at 20:02. The Ave Maria should be rung at 20:15 right now. It is the Feast of St. George, whose relics are at San Giorgio in Velabro. Welcome registrants: … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 22: Nuptial and Nutella
Sun: came up at 0618. Sun: went down at 2001 The Ave Maria is stuck at 2015 for a while. Three Pope martyrs were in the book for today, Soter (+175), Caius (+296) and Agapitus I (+536). Concerning the last, … Read More
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WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo): honey sweet summons
This Sunday, in the Novus Ordo calendar, is called the 3rd Sunday of Easter. Let’s have a look at the Collect. This Sunday’s Collect, it seems to me, reflects a conscious attempt on the part of Holy Church to remind … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 21: Happy Birthday, Rome!
Today: Sunrise 0619 – Sunset 1959 – Ave Maria 2015 Today is the 2776the Birthday of Rome Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius. Q. Horatius Flaccus Carmen … Read More
From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 23-04-20 – Future financial trouble
April 20th, 2023 Dear Diary, Someone from some subcommittee or other of the USCCB came and gave a presentation. It was supposed to be for me, the priest council, and the clergy who are on my finance council. One of … Read More
Anglicans given the altar of St John Lateran for their thingie. Hijinxs ensues.
The other day a wretchedly scandalous thing took place in the Lateran Basilica. A group of English Anglicans had their liturgy, like a Mass but of course invalid because they don’t have valid orders, at an altar in the apse … Read More
ROME 23/04 – Day 20: Mysteria and wysteria
In Roma in this 110th day of the year, the sunset will be at 1958, having risen at 0621. The Ave Maria ought to chime, but in the place most worthy of its sounding it won’t, at 2015. Welcome new … Read More
Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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