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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- WDTPRS – 21st Sunday after Pentecost: My strengths support yours. My sins weaken us all.
- A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.
- ROME 26/10– Day 16: Baronius… and traitors
- ROME 26/10– Day 15: munch
- ASK FATHER: “Are the faithful who go to the SSPX being sacramentally forgiven in confession, or not?”
- 15 October (4 Oct 1582) St. Teresa of Avila, Calendars, Chess, and You
- ASK FATHER: “Is it possible for the structure of the Church to be the ‘wrong’ church, while the ‘true’ Church is elsewhere?”
- ROME 26/10– Day 14: Great scissors
- ROMAE, die XIII commorationis, A.D. MMXXVI: Campana nos admonet aeternitatis.
- ROME 26/10– Day 12: “A church that cannot worship must be entertained, and …”
- This is what I get when I procrastinate… UPDATED
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-06 – Chester And Bp. Dozer
- ROME 26/10– Day 11: 100 year old WW2 Vet
- 11 October: Maternity of Mary. A tale of an antiphon, image, and a little street chapel.
- ROME 26/10– Day 10: butcher, baker… no candlestick maker (sorry)
- ROME 26/10– Day 09: very cool and a rare restaurant review
- Archbishop: Church had greater unity under Summorum Pontificum
- ACTION ITEM! GULF of America BISHOPS, PRIESTS, LAITY: Pray the Litany against Hurricane “Isaias”
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- 9 October – Feast of St. Abraham, Patriarch of the Old Testament – WDTPRS
- ROME 26/10– Day 08: Better
- Keeping an eye on the “Amoris laetitia” confab in Rome – 7-14 October
- What’s going on in Rome?
- ACTION ITEM REVIVED! The “Birettas for Seminarians Project”
- “The building of the blog never ends” – update about amazing maintenance and restoration
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- ROME 26/10– Day 07: A Battle and a Ceiling
- ROME 26/10– Day 06: Tomorrow should be good
- Catholics must read the entire Tradition in light of the Council in order to remain within the Church.
- This… this…. this… but this….
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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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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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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
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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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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This is a new Cross…
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Starlink… thoughts
I’m starting to see IP addresses in comments via “starlink”. I don’t usually pay attention to them. “starklink” got my attention. I can’t tell much about anything from those IPs, but the make me wonder. Anyone here using Starlink who … Read More
The Benedictine nuns of Gower Abbey sing the Tenebrae Responses… disc and digital download!
The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have a disc and digital download: Tenebrae at Ephesus US HERE – UK HERE These are the RESPONSORIES of Tenebrae for all three days of the Triduum. They are, arguably, … Read More
Pres. Trump’s Message on Holy Week, 2025
This has been out a day. Since we are in Holy Week, it seems appropriate to post it. I note in particular the references to the Triduum and “Mass of the Lord’s Supper” and Vigil. This is a decidedly Catholic … Read More
CNA: GREAT piece about the Archconfraternity at The Parish™ in Rome and the custom of washing the feet of pilgrims
Check out this GREAT piece at CNA. HERE From washing feet to a place to sleep: How Rome is welcoming jubilee pilgrims This piece describes how the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims and Convalescents, founded by … Read More
The fool says in his heart ‘There is no God.'”
From something I spotted in a tweet, I did some digging to find the source. This is from a Psalter in the Getty Museum. DESCRIPTION: An enthroned man wearing a fool’s cap illustrates the opening verse of Psalm 52-“The fool … 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




















