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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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Category Archives: My View
13 November: St. Stanislaw Kostka
Today in the new calendar is the feast of St. Stanislaw Kostka, the young Jesuit who dies in Rome. This holy young man could be a good example for young people today, if people knew his story. It is interesting … Read More
Radio Sabina: the Z-Cam is on again
… at least for a little while. Some of you WDTPRS vets have seen the Z-Cam in times past. I used to have it set up and on in the chapel of "The Sabine Farm", where I live when I … Read More
details… details…
Here are a couple shots of a vestment used yesterday for All Souls. A detail: Contrast this with a vestment I saw recently: No details of this one are needed.
Just a great photo
I simply have to show you a great photo of child I baptized. There are a couple more, here and here. The young feller is named Giuseppe. He one of the several children of a dear friend of mine in … Read More
Oolong satisfaction
A warm xie xie goes out to the kind soul, JW, who plucked an item from my amazon wish list and sent me some Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong Tea. I am sipping it with appreciation right now on this … Read More
Purple fruits of Sabine Labor Day
Here at The Sabine Farm it is Labor Day, though every day is a day of labor at The Sabine Farm. Today I share with you readers the purple fruits of the place. Here are some grape bunches. It wouldn’t … Read More
Chillin’ the Veuve
On the deck, with the little steeple of the Sabine chapel in the background. One bottle of the Widow is in the seau a glace, the other sits patiently on the MP itself (which remains under embargo until noon Rome … Read More
Give me thy grace, good Lord: To set the world at nought
On the Z-Cam in the Sabine Chapel, I have an audio loop playing 24/7. Right now one of the sections in the loop features a famous prayer for detachment by St. Thomas More, whose feast is celebrated today. With a … Read More
Back at the Sabine Farm
The flights went without flaw yesterday. Everything at the Sabine Farm is just right. No sign of mice. My car started. This morning brought the predicted "big American breakfast" to which I had been looking forward. The local library had … Read More
Pentecost at the Pantheon
There is a tradition in Rome on Pentecost Sunday. At the Church S. Maria ad Martyres, the Pantheon, at the end of Mass red rose petals are let fall in great abundance through the oculus, the dome’s "eye" which is … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/10 – Day 30: With apologies to the Bard: “Tacens stat ursus. Turrim spectat clericus. Quis sapit magis?”
