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: Patristiblogging
An image drawn by a Cistercian nun provokes thoughts about the Immaculate Conception and the Tears of Eve. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Today on Twitter I ran across an image HERE made by a Cistercian Trappist Sister of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey They have an online store for the support of their community HERE which includes prints of the image … Read More
“It was in these cataclysmic days that the people chose a certain Roman Deacon Gregory to be their new Bishop.”
In 589 Deacon Aigulf trekked home to Tours with relics he had collected in Rome. St. Gregory of Tours relates in his Historia Francorum that Aigulf saw with his own eyes the disasters that struck Rome that year. The Tiber rose to … Read More
Patristic Rosary Project – 4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption
Some years ago, I made something called the Patristic Rosary Project, reflecting on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary especially with quotes from the Fathers of the Church. Here is the entry for today’s beautiful feast: 4th Glorious Mystery: The … Read More
1st Sunday after Pentecost: Soul Food
Those who attend Holy Mass on Sundays according to the Vetus Ordo hear the texts for Trinity Sunday (yesterday) but not those for the 1st Sunday after Pentecost (yesterday). The texts for the 1st Sunday after Pentecost can be used … Read More
“The young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”
How fresh the Fathers of the Church can be in our own times. No wonder Pope Benedict wrote that we need to recover the perspective and methods of the Fathers. Let’s not imagine that we are the only ones who … Read More
Consubstantial with His Father. Consubstantial with His Mother.
From today’s Matins. Magnificent…. Sacraméntum reconcilatiónis nostræ, ante témpora ætérna dispósitum, nullæ implébant figúræ; quia nondum supervénerat Spíritus Sanctus in Vírginem nec virtus Altíssimi obumbráverat ei, ut, et intra intemeráta víscera, ædificánte sibi Sapiéntia domum, Verbum caro fíeret, et, forma … Read More
5th Glorious Mystery: The Crowning of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Today is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, in the new-fangled, Novus Ordo calendar. Here is an oldie post from 2006, the final installment of my Patristic Rosary Project. ___ We conclude our Patristic Rosary Project today with the: … Read More
