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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Daily Rome Shot 1277
Just off the Via dei Coronari is a little stair leading to the last vestige of the only church in Rome for the Apostle Simon. Just the door remains. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. … Read More
24 March – Feast of St. Gabriel, Archangel – images – EXPANDED
Last year I posted some images of the Announcing Archangel St. Gabriel, whose feast day it is in the Vetus Ordo, appropriate in the presence of tomorrow’s Annunciate, the Feast of the Annunciation. NB: The Feast of the Annunciation, as … Read More
Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11
On this 3rd Sunday of Lent in the Vetus Ordo we have a Gospel reading from Luke 11:14-28 in which Our Lord refutes an accusation that He cast out demons because He was aligned with the Devil. It is helpful to … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It is the 3rd Sunday of Lent in the Novus Ordo and in the Vetus Ordo. Surprisingly, the experts of the Consilium … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1276
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US 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 … Read More
Daily Rome (video) 1275 – a trip to the tailor
Instead of a static photo today, here’s a video about Gammarelli in Rome (ecclesiatical tailor). You will recall several vestment projects here on the blog, which caused a great deal of joy and continue to enrich sacred worship. Before I … Read More
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Daily Rome Shot 1274 – processions and more
Not Rome, but Norcia. A procession with a relic of St. Benedict… of Norcia, his birthplace. One day in May, years ago by now, I was hanging around outside the Paul VI audience hall (Vatican) during a plenary of the … Read More
Sterile faith v. living faith
From the pen of Bl. Ildefonso Schuster, the great liturgist and Cardinal Archbishop of Milan. The Church, as though she feared that the very splendour of her liturgy might lead simple folk into thinking that Christianity consisted merely in holding … Read More
Ite ad Ioseph… Go to Joseph! – UPDATED
Try to wrap your head around the paradox in the vocation of St. Joseph. Firstly, he was a relatively poor craftsman, a tekton, which in Greek is “builder” which can include “carpenter”. However, consider the implications of the genealogy at the … Read More
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