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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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- I am not making this up. Could it explain about clerics from a certain country?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 69-70: Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – DAY 1
- ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid
- ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Trinity Sunday
- ROME 26/5– Day 65 & 66: better late than the other thing
- ASKING FOR A FRIEND: Faithful Catholic Medical Doctors in South and East Ontario, CANADA
- WDTPRS – Trinity Sunday: Are you beautiful at Mass?
- REPOST ASK FATHER: How to make a “Trinitini” Martini for Trinity Sunday and avoid committing heresy?
- ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.
- OLDIE PODCAzT 59: St Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s Pentecost sermon
- Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville
- How did we get HERE?
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- ROME 26/5– Day 62 & 63: NEWS
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
- 26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 59 & 60: A lovely view
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Novus Ordo: Weaving the warp and the weft
- ROME 26/5– Day 57 & 58: doubled up
- ASK FATHER: “Ghost” or “Spirit”, which is it? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.
- ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?
- ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?
- ROME 26/5– Day 56: All that Jasmine… no, not the…
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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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Category Archives: My View
My View For Awhile: Southbound
I’m on the hoof today, heading home after a great trip to the freezing cold north. It was only 86 yesterday. Last night my hosts and I had some classics. That’s not Norcia beer in that Norcia beer glass, but … Read More
Fr. Z’s Kitchen: A bit of Rome in Chicago
I’m visiting friends and we decided on saltimbocca alla romana. Happily, even with chain supply problems, since we are in a heavily Italian neighborhood, there was plenty of veal and good prosciutto. There was a lot more than this. The … Read More
My View For Awhile: Society Edition
A couple of hops and I’ll be … not in but near the Windy City. That sad sad city, civilly and ecclesially. It ain’t my kinda town right now. Thence northward for meetings and personal chores and a glimpse of … Read More
14 September: Exaltation of the Cross and Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Today, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, is also the anniversary of the 2007 Summorum Pontificum going into effect. This Motu Proprio – the Emancipation Proclamation for the faithful who desire the Vetus Ordo – was a keystone … Read More
Another DIY project: Kindle
Many thanks go out to kind readers who sent replacement batteries for my old Kindles. I try to keep these going, especially because they still work, but also because they have built in text to speech ability. This project is not … Read More
UPDATE: DIY Camera Repair
Firstly, THANK YOU to the readers who sent batteries for my camera from my wishlist! Much appreciated! Continued from… HERE. We rejoin our adventure into camera repair after a break while we awaited the arrival of parts from China. I … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z’s screen time break, or rather, broken screen time
Because I didn’t post yesterday, I had a few notes asking if I was okay. I acknowledge that it is rare for me not to post at least something. Yesterday, however, I wound up pretty busy and hampered by a … Read More
Fr. Z’s Kitchen: In honor of Hungary’s Birthday
Some of you were asking me to make food posts. Lately, I have been very lazy in this regard. Frankly, I have not had much motivation to cook, especially do to the disgusting news and photos from Rome lately. There … Read More
The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.
The Vetus Ordo is not going away. No matter how much pressure and repression, no matter how much persecution of priests and marginalization of lay people certain “shepherds” apply, it will remain and grow stronger in ways they fear more … Read More





















