Category Archives: My View

PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 50: Easter Wednesday – Wherein (also) Fr. Z rants

The Roman Station today is St. Lawrence outside-the-walls.  We started Septuagesima here! Scott Hahn drives home how liturgy, our worship, our participation in the Church’s liturgy affects the course of history. Sound familiar?  I have a few thoughts about that. … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday of Lent – Laetare – 2025

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It is the 4th Sunday of Lent in the Novus Ordo and in the Vetus Ordo.   It is nicknamed “Laetare Sunday”.   In … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 1st Sunday of Lent 2025

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It is the 1st Sunday of Lent in the Novus Ordo and in the Vetus Ordo.   Surprisingly, the experts of the Consilium … Read More

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Of football, changes, and the booing of Taylor Swift. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I’ll start with this. Trump gets massive cheers at the Super Bowl while Taylor Swift gets booed. – The world is healing! ?? pic.twitter.com/JXAGmTMoiC — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 10, 2025 The world may be healing, but is it … Read More

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ROME DAY 25/01 11: Time to go. My View For A While

The sun rise is about a half hour away as I write this sentence, at 07:17.  It will set long after my departure: 17:31. The Ave Maria Bell is still in the 17:45 cycle. All is ready in the apartment.  … Read More

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ACTION ITEM! 2-10 February – NOVENA to Immaculate Heart for FSSP for their Vatican “Visitation”

Here is a PDF of a Novena which you could pray beginning Candlemas, 2 February, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  More on this at LifeSite. The Novena and consecration to the Immaculate Heart line up with a visitation of … Read More

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My View For Awhile: Eastward

The sunset in Rome was at 1717.  The sunset where I am now is…right now!  (See below) The Ave Maria Bell doesn’t ring here either, but in Rome it ought to ring at 1730. Tomorrow, when I arrive in Rome, … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1217 – “Why”, you may be asking? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I have a comparatively short trip to Rome coming up.  First, a couple days with a priest friend in Brooklyn, which breaks up the journey and puts a buffer into the flights.  A couple weeks in Rome.  The same coming … Read More

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25 Dec 2020: Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD – RIP

In your goodness, please offer a prayer for the repose of the soul of Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD, who died on Christmas Day in 2020. Foster was a Carmelite if Holy Hill, WI, Latinist for many Popes in Rome, and … Read More

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My View For Awhile: Wind Bound – UPDATED – ADVENTURE!!!

A few days in the cool breezes of the Second City will be good. A little anxiety passed on his morning. Power was going on and off. Not knowing what was up, I got my car out of the garage … Read More

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