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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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- emmatag1126 on FRANCE: Majority of Young Priests now Celebrate the Traditional Mass: “I wonder how much higher the statistics would be if TC hadn’t been. I know that has held back some…”
- on FRANCE: Majority of Young Priests now Celebrate the Traditional Mass: “If my high school French still serves me after 50 years, the Rorate article promises a little more than it…”
- on ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Our old PP, who also gives or gave the TLM (not sure in this current era of Traditores restrictions), got…”
- on Collect for Bl. Fulton Sheen?: “Father, what about the naming of the date of his feast, which I heard as being “die nona mense Decembris.”…”
- on ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As an acolyte at a Novus Ordo parish, when I help distribute Holy Communion I slowly and very carefully/softly place…”
- on ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As a catechist (for adults) I have to thread a line between one “right” and the other “right” on this.…”
- on Collect for Bl. Fulton Sheen?: “Father, as I listened to Cardinal Tagle read the apostolic letter of beatification, he seemed to say “Fultonius” (nominative).”
- on ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “it always gladdens my heart to see the story of St. Ambrose’s admonition to St. Monica, though i strongly prefer…”
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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her, some Latin
From Serge Lancel’s Augustine, the best biography I know of the great Bishop of Hippo (p. 8 ff – emphases mine): Before devoting himself entirely to Mother Church, as he approached the age of forty, Augustine had had a concubine … Read More →
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Tagged alchoholism, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Monica
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4 May – St. Monica: Intercessor for children who who have fallen away from the Faith
In the older, traditional Roman calendar today is the feast of the mother of St. Augustine, St. Monnica, widow. She died in Ostia (Rome’s port) in 387, when she and her family were heading back to North Africa after Augustine’s … Read More →
28 April – Prepare to be amazed! – St. Gianna Molla’s 2nd miracle. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
This is an oldie post, but it is very worth review if you’ve seen it before. If not, prepare to by amazed. Today is the Dies Natalis of St. Gianna Beretta Molla (+28 April 1962 at 39 years of age). … Read More →
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Tagged miracles, St. Gianna Beretta Molla
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Fr. Z’s Kitchen: A weird intro and then Hungarian food in honor of Bl. Karl’s centenary
I stumbled across Modernist Pantry. “Well,” quoth I, “let’s see what this might be.” Noting the similarity of theme with the Fishwrap or a German Synod (“walking together”) where they can whip up any sort of modernism you want, can make … Read More →
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Tagged Card. Marx, Hungarian Food, Pörkölt
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25 March: Feast of St Dismas, the Good Thief “who stole heaven”
Today is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, the instant of the Incarnation. However, 25 March is also the Feast of the Good Thief, St. Dismas! Fulton Sheen famously quipped of this thief-saint that he “stole heaven”. A good thief … Read More →
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Tagged Good Thief, St. Dismas
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Daily Rome Shot 447, etc.
Daily Fervorino from live stream. HERE With Litany of St. Joseph. WORDLE
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Tagged Rome Shots, sermons, St. Joseph, Wordle
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12 March 1622 Canonizations – 400 years ago today
On this day, 12 March, in 1622 Pope Gregory XV canonized Sts. Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Philip Neri and Isidore the Farmer. “Four Spaniards and a saint!”
8 February: St. Josephine Bakhita, Daughter of St. Magdalene
J.R.R. Tolkien’s concept of eucatastrophe runs strong with the Catholic “thing”. We Catholics know that there are some catastrophic events which produce unexpected blessings. Usually with a lot of pain along the way. O Felix Culpa! I am trusting God … Read More →
22 January – St. Vincent Pallotti. Wherein Fr. Z reflects on God’s plan.
Today, in addition to being the Feast of Sts. Vincent of Saragossa and Athanasius the Persian, it is the feast of another Vincent, St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pious Society of Missions (the Pallottine Fathers). I have a connection … Read More →
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NEW BOOK on St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher!
How does the phrase go from… is it Kipling?… if you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…. Something like that. It describes rather aptly these days how tradition-oriented Catholics are … Read More →
Posted in Modern Martyrs, REVIEWS, Saints: Stories & Symbols, The Campus Telephone Pole
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Tagged St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More
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emmatag1126 on FRANCE: Majority of Young Priests now Celebrate the Traditional Mass: “I wonder how much higher the statistics would be if TC hadn’t been. I know that has held back some…”
