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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- waalaw on 31 October: All Hallows Eve – Vigil of All Saints: “In high school, we learned of the first successful slave revolt in the New World — led by Toussaint L’ouverture…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 31: The game’s afoot: “My prayers to St. Joseph for your new residence in Rome,”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 31: The game’s afoot: “Yucatan Sunshine is great! Used to be my mainstay, and I forgot about it. Also worthwhile, Russell Kirk’s book *Ancestral…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 31: The game’s afoot: “I am sorry you are not here in Chile. Thomas and I could fix that step up in one day,…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 31: The game’s afoot: “White to move and mate in 2 [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 30: A little help, please: “Regarding donations to the Vatican, I can’t remember the last time I heard about a Peter’s Pence collection being taken…”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: ““Gratias tibi” to Fr Z for raising this issue. I must admit that I never thought about this before and…”
- on UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year: “It seems to me the generation of the past imagine the entire youth are like their great-great-grandchildren who don’t practice,…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 30: A little help, please: “1. Q-c2+ If . . . . . . . B-e2 2. R×e2# (Black’s Q screens e2) If . .…”
- on UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year: “Unexpectedly, social media seems to be appropriating Luce in ways the artist and the Vatican probably did not intend (basically…”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “I recently saw a priest after morning prayer pull out his phone, look at it then retreat into the sacristy.…”
- on UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year: “Is it significant that the object to be put on display with this pathetic doll is a painting not, say,…”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “If someone is tasked to spy on me, they really drew the short straw.”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “Perhaps a tasteful wooden drawer lined with a signal (and sound) blocking material in the confessional? Prevents broadcast and recording,…”
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
ROME 24/3– Days 18 & 19: Octave of Easter and Annunciation
The sun, which will not visibly eclipsed in totality from Rome, rose at 06:39 and it will set at 19:46. The Ave Maria should ring at 20:00 Speaking of the Ave Maria, today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Low Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday, Thomas Sunday, Sunday “in albis depositis” 2024
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for Low Sunday, 2nd of Easter? Tell … Read More
On Divine Mercy Sunday a sobering thought from a Pope about that terrible day
“Divine Mercy! Rah, rah, rah!” Right? Right. However… We have come to Low Sunday, Dominica in albis, the Octave of Easter. I reviewed something of what Fathers of the Church had to say about our Gospel passage on this famous … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 17: Easter Saturday “in albis” (& Fr. Z’s Kitchen)
Hello sun at 06:42 and g’bye at 19:44. Ave Maria, still at 20:00. It is Saturday in albis. It is amazing how the Church wove the texts and readings of Holy Mass together over the Octave. Today, in the ancient … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 16: Easter Friday (& Fr. Z’s Kitchen)
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – UK HERE WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc.. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I … Read More
FATHERS! Enlightening article at CWR – Civil Suits by Catholic Priests: A Status Report by Michael Mazza
Reverend and Dear Fathers… Here is a link to an article that was just released late yesterday on the website of The Catholic World Report. Civil Suits by Catholic Priests: A Status Report by Michael Mazza HERE Michael Mazza is … Read More
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum!
From a reader… Dear Father Z, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for your constant exhortations to “Go To Confession.” It has taken me quite a while (years) to step up to the … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 15: Easter Thursday
The Parish™ 6 July 2023 4 April 2024 This beautiful sunny yet cool Roman day started by the sun’s rising at 06:45 and it will end at 19:42. The Ave Maria (which you know all about now) is at 20:00 … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter?
We are now in the Easter Octave – Happy Easter! Let’s get out in front of this before the calendar clicks over to Friday. First, allow me to post a shot of last night’s (Wednesday’s) repast. The beef is so … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 13 & 14: Easter Tuesday and Wednesday – QUAERITUR: The Ave Maria Bell Explained… even too much
Today, 3 April, Easter Wednesday, at 6:47 the sun rose over the Eternal City. The sunlight day will begin to end at 19:40. I got a little screwed up with my days in posting, so this is a sort of … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, GO TO CONFESSION, Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Ave Maria Bell, noad
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8 Comments
Not an April Fool’s joke from the Fishwrap
I was alerted to a manipulative piece at Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) with a massively ironic headline and intro. The Institute of Christ the King took over a parish in Cleveland that has Hungarian roots. Of course they started … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Pò sì jiù, Turn Towards The Lord, Vatican II
Tagged altar, D. Cleveland
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33 Comments
ROME 24/3– Day 12: Easter Monday – great food
The sunny part of the day began at 06:50 and ended at 19:38. I’m writing on the 2nd. The Ave Maria: 19:00 (where rung) It was the Monday of the Octave of Easter, called “Pasquetta” here in Rome. At the … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 11: Easter Sunday – With notes for priests on how properly to wear a stole
Looking at my queue in the admin area, I realized that I left the Easter Sunday post as a draft! Hence, I will quickly add some points and move on. Lunch at the nearby place, now a favorite, featured an … Read More
waalaw on 31 October: All Hallows Eve – Vigil of All Saints: “In high school, we learned of the first successful slave revolt in the New World — led by Toussaint L’ouverture…”
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