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- TheCavalierHatherly on ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid: “More Virgil, without edits: “Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. iam redit et Virgo,…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop: “We live on an island in Massachusetts, North Shore. Sea gulls galore. I refer to them as rats with wings.…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “White to move and mate in 4. Whew – this was a complicated one! Lots of variations. A big problem…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 65 & 66: better late than the other thing: “White to move and mate in 4 1) Bg6+ Kg8 forced 2) Qh7+ Kf8 forced 3) Qh8+ Bg8 forced 4)…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “I think that jhogan overlooked the fact that Black’s 2nd move Q×N (or Q×g6) puts White’s King in check. That…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop: “Your posts on all these little trials of life are so enchanting Father. Thank you for letting us share them.…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop: “I suppose your apartment in Rome is on the ground floor and also relatively well sheltered from direct sunlight, Father?…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop: “Sub Aquilis is a great name for a Roman apartment! I called our former second home in the mountains Offhand…”
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Category Archives: Priests and Priesthood
More about #indefectibility – Wherein Fr. Z rants about Popes, Councils, Priests.
I’ve had a lot of notes from people about a post from yesterday. I have, once again today, prayed the prayer I mentioned. I am going to make this part of my routine for the foreseeable future. Also, in regard … Read More
The Steamroller of Ambiguity and the Long Term. Wherein @FatherZ rants.
Many these days feel a little helpless as the lib Steamroller of Ambiguity squishes sickeningly forward, reducing clarity to an amorphous goo of permissive self-justification. What can we do? Feel helpless no longer. You have at your disposal – 24/7 – powerful arms … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Leonine Prayers, prayer for vocations
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ASK FATHER: Priest uses the Common Preface on a Solemnity
From a reader… What do you think of a priest who by reason of not able to find the Preface of Christ the King uses the the Common Preface instead in a mass for the Solemnity of Christ the King? … Read More
ASK FATHER: How early can seminarians start learning to say Traditional Latin Mass
From a seminarian… QUAERITUR: I recently read your post encouraging priests to learn the TLM. It made me think, how early should a seminarian begin to learn it? Would it be jumping the gun for someone in 1st Theology to … Read More
ASK FATHER: What can we do to get these men into seminary?
From a reader: I am a Youth Minister at a parish and have probably a dozen young men (age 12-19) who are discerning calls to the priesthood and are interested in seminary. I have young priests at the parish, but they are reluctant … Read More
ASK FATHER: What’s so difficult about learning to say the Traditional Latin Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Maybe this question is too broad, but here goes: What is so difficult about saying/learning the EF? My pastor recently mentioned that he simply does not have time to learn the EF well enough to say it himself (he … Read More
Ireland: manmade vocation wasteland
Ireland and the Catholic Church in Ireland have their problems. Sadly, they gave some of those problems also to the USA. However, since I am forever harping on praying for vocations to the priesthood, one problem in particular struck me … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged Ireland, lack of vocations, prayer for vocations
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19 Comments
How Pope John Paul II once saved a fallen priest from despair, homelessness and alcoholism
I have come to dread interviews with Popes. I have from the beginning of the interviews decades ago. I generally read them anyway because, well, I have to, don’t I. The recent book interview / conversation with Dominique Wolton released … Read More
IN THE WILD: Prayer for Vocations in a parish bulletin
I sincerely believe that the Prayer for Vocations which I posted here, and which seems to be spreading across the lands, will bear great fruit. Today I received a note from a priest in Sacramento with a link to a … Read More
Posted in In The Wild, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged prayer for vocations, priesthood
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9 Comments
TheCavalierHatherly on ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid: “More Virgil, without edits: “Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. iam redit et Virgo,…”
