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Category Archives: Classic Posts
REPOST ASK FATHER: How to make a “Trinitini” Martini for Trinity Sunday and avoid committing heresy?
Here’s an oldie but goodie. QUAESITUM EST: We are planning to have a special drink for the potluck to commemorate the Feast of the Trinity. We were planning to do a “Trinitini”, a Martini with three olives to represent the … Read More
OLDIE PODCAzT 59: St Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s Pentecost sermon
? [Because the player which is now the default is not very good (there’s no obvious control for speed or to download and you can’t even skip around) … HERE… you can download. I don’t want you to be forced … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Linking Back, Patristiblogging, PODCAzT, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Ember Days
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OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
For an explanation of what has happened to links on the blog, HERE Original Notes: This is the third PODCAzT for the Pentecost Octave. Today we learn about what Ember Day’s are, these beautiful days which helped Catholics for may … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, PODCAzT
Tagged Pentecost, podcast
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OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
For Monday’s, and an explanation of what has happened to links on the blog, HERE These are from 2008. ORIGINAL NOTES: Today is Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged John Paul II, Pentecost, podcast
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WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
Let’s have a look at the Collect for today’s Mass of Pentecost Monday. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, qui Apostolis tuis Sanctum dedisti Spiritum: concede plebi tuae piae petitionis effectum; ut, quibus dedisti fidem, largiaris et pacem. I found this prayer in … Read More
Ascension Thursday and Lordly Feet
There are many images of the Lord’s Ascension to heaven through history, and rightly so. This is probably the greatest of all the Feasts of the Lord and for our own humanity. Imagine! Our humanity is seated – RIGHT NOW … Read More
ROME 13 May 609 – Exorcism, screaming demons, terrified people fainting
No, this is not about the take over of the Church by “walking together” ideology propagandists. This is about the Dedication of the Pantheon in Rome as a church in 609. Dear readers, this is the sort of thing that … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Linking Back
Tagged Pantheon
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WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (V.O.): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I am going to drag you – again – through my standard and sustained rant about liturgy, punctuated by Latin vocabulary and Neoplatonism. Consider this a different sort of “food post”. I will apply what I rant about to the … Read More
St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!
In the older calendar, today is St. Monica’s Feast, also spelled Monnica, a Punic name. Monica was an inch away from becoming an alcoholic. (The story of her abusive husband has been told here before.) This is IMPORTANT. At the … Read More
STATIONS OF THE CROSS – Audio from Fr. Z
Here are some of my audio projects of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross. I am redoing them with my new podcast setup. I’ll be adding some that I’ve done, so watch this post. And remember to GO … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.: “mcferran: What would Pope Leo XIV advise this individual? We may never know, given that we have nothing from him…”
