About this blog…
“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
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Fr. Z’s Podcasts RSS Feed
Federated Computer… your safe and private alternative to big biz corporations that hate us while taking our money and mining our data. Have an online presence large or small? Catholic DIOCESE? Cottage industry? See what Federated has to offer. Save money and gain peace of mind.
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
Donate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
Good coffee and tea. Help monks.
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT com
Category Archives: Lighter fare
Something lighter: Purgatory for Catholic bloggers
I saw this at Acts of the Apostacy and it made me chuckle. The writer muses about what penance in purgatory Catholic bloggers might have to endure. * LarryD – transcribe every issue of the National Catholic Reporter onto strips … Read More
Bp. Trautman in the news! (Fun.)
His Excellency Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie, has for years been in the cross hairs here on WDTPRS… rather his ideas have been in the cross hairs… rather, his wrong ideas about liturgical translation have been. Nevertheless, … Read More
SMS et Pipationes … LATINE! MVR!
Picked up via rogueclassicism and a Google+ page: +Lauren Stein suggested coming up with a list of Latin abbreviations for texting. I’m pasting in here some ideas for that which already surfaced at the eClassics Ning a couple of years … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged abbreviations, Latin, SMS, texting, Twitter
10 Comments
10 Comments
Monday Supper
I was in the mood for soup, and I didn’t care if it was a summer soup or winter soup. Therefore, I opened up my very own autographed copy of Lorraine Wallace’s Mr. Sunday’s Soups. “More than 75 delicious homemade … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z's Kitchen, Lighter fare, Linking Back
Tagged bean soup, Chris Wallace, soup
14 Comments
14 Comments
A tot of coffee!
As you may know, a “tot” is not just a small child but also a small quantity of anything, especially of some beverage, and most especially of a beverage such as rum. Here is a photo sent by a reader. … Read More
Great animated movies
Tonight I caught a few minutes of The Incredibles. This is a fun movie. This movie has it all, for adults of a certain age. I’m a sucker for super-hero movies anyway going way back. I had my own Superman … Read More
“Aestate pueri si valent, satis discunt.”
There is a little poem in the Epigrams of Martial which reminds us not to work children too hard during the summer, not to over schedule them or task them with too many organized activities or lessons. Ludi magister, parce … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Lighter fare
Tagged Epigrams, Ides of October, Latin language, Martial, school, summer vacation
8 Comments
8 Comments
Key stone anniversary and learning Latin
Today is the anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799. The ancient Egyptian “Rosetta Stone” has the text of a decree of Ptolemy V in 196 BC in three languages/forms of writing, hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek. … Read More
An afternoon refreshment break
I have had a few lousy days, with hot and grubby work involving dust, sweat, lots of lifting and hauling, spiders and a few dead things I would rather not remember, missing one deadline and barely making another. This afternoon … Read More
Gnothi seauton
γνῶθι σεαυτόν! Artist… know thyself. It could be that this is actually a commentary on the quality of most modern art.
