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Category Archives: Linking Back
15 March – Annual ramble about the #IdesOfMarch
We call today the Ides of March, made especially famous in the English speaking world by Shakespeare in his play Julius Caesar. Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the … Read More
“Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot
Back in 2013, with a remnant of a cold, I read T. S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday. It’s interesting to go back to that post and see the comments. For example, Supertradmum is no longer with us. Say a prayer for the repose … Read More
OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter
I was taken up today with watching the inauguration, playing OTB, and doing errands and chores so much that I nearly forgot. This is the Eve of St. Agnes. In the classical calendar we venerate many Roman martyrs in a … Read More
If it’s Immaculate Conception, then BLUE vestments on the 2nd Sunday of Advent… RIGHT??!? – POLLS
Remember the BLUE vestment craze during Advent? Does anyone still see that? Anyone can vote. You must be registered and approved to comment. Meanwhile, at The Parish™ in Rome, this is what people say today, but NOT for ADVENT. Rather, … Read More
The Advent Vespers Hymn – ‘Conditor alme siderum’ or ‘Creator alme siderum’
At Vespers during Advent we priests recite (or ought to) a hymn entitled Conditor alme siderum. This is perhaps from the late 6th or early 7th c. In Pope Urban VIII’s revision of the hymns of the Roman Breviary in … Read More
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10th birthday of the fantastic TLM book “Treasure and Tradition”!
From a reader who is the publisher of the fantastic Treasure and Tradition! A GREAT gift idea! Hello Father Z, Sorry for the late notice…I knew this was coming up, but I’ve been so busy that the actual day snuck … Read More
WDTPRS – 31st Ordinary Sunday: Running and stumbling! Wherein Fr. Z rants.
At the end, I rant. The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, … Read More
Annual St Crispin Day – Henry V speech roundup!
What you have been waiting for all month, I’m sure, knowing that soon it would be St. Crispin’s. The 3rd c. martyrs Crispin and Crispinian were killed in Soissons. They converted people as they plied their trade as cobblers and … Read More
5 years ago today – 21 October 2019: Pachamama demon idols go into the drink
Five years ago today (the Feast of Karl of Austria), a young Austrian man walked together with demon idols which were scandalously in a church and dumped them into the Tiber River. October 21st is Pachamama day! Five years since … Read More
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