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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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Recent Posts
- Daily Rome Shot 1646: We have to move on.
- Detroit’s Archbishop attends mosque opening, says: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness”
- Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations
- Daily Rome Shot 1646: Restoration and BOGO SALE
- ASK FATHER: Priest says the consecration of the chalice over the host
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-15 – Ordination?
- What sets Federated Core apart is its privacy model.
- Daily Rome Shot 1645: Homework
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 11th Ordinary)
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- “…the young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”
- Leo XIV to priests on the Feast of the Sacred Heart
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 4: Southbound and, yup, we did it again
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 3: Amatriciana
- A few things I found today that I think are interesting
- Wherein Fr. Z rants. Benediction using the humeral veil BUT… blessings at Communion time? Fathers! THINK!
- ASK FATHER: For Benediction why the humeral veil?
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 2: CHINESE
- ASK FATHER: After Benediction why were the “Divine Praises” not in Latin?
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 1: catching up
- ROME 26/6 – Day 76: Brooklyn Bound
- ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Corpus Christi (transferred)
- ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 72: hot (Novena Day 3)
- ROME 26/6 – Day 71: Real Corpus Christi (Novena Day 2)
- I am not making this up. Could it explain about clerics from a certain country?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 69-70: Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – DAY 1
- ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid
- ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
12 July: Sts. Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin
Today is the feast of two saints married to each other and the parents of another. Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin have their feast in the Novus Order calendar. They are the parents of St. Therese, the Little Flower. July 13th … Read More →
Fulton Sheen’s body to return to his native Diocese of Peoria
Such is the news from WGLT and the NatCathReg: PEORIA, Ill. — On the evening of June 8, the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, announced that earlier in the day the Supreme Court of New York had ruled for the second … Read More →
28 May – St Augustine of Canterbury: chance meetings make a difference
Chance meetings are important. In the traditional Roman calendar, today is the Feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury (+604). He had been the prior of the monastery in Rome on the Caelian Hill during the pontificate of the Great … Read More →
4 May – St Monica, intercessor for children 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 →
1 May: Feast of St. Jeremiah, Old Testament Prophet
Today is not only the feast of St. Joseph the worker, but also the feast of the prophet Jeremiah. Some people do not know that many figures of the Old Testament are considered saints by the Catholic Church. They are … Read More →
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25 March – Feast of the Thief who “stole heaven”: St. Dismas
Today is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, the instant of the Incarnation… and we would be celebrating it if it were not for the vagaries of the Moon. Palm Sunday and Holy Week have pushed our observance to another … Read More →
20 Feb – Feast of Sts Francisco and Jacinta of Fatima
Last year, His Holiness of Our Lord canonized young Jacinta and Francisco, the seers of Fatima. They are, I believe, the youngest canonized non-martyr saints on the calendar. “On the calendar…”. They aren’t on the traditional Roman calendar. I’ve written … Read More →
JUST TOO COOL! Wherein Fr. Z is AMAZED at … coincidences? I think not.
Okay… someone tell me what’s going on here! (Trick question. I think I know.) As you recall, I have a great portable altar from St. Joseph’s Apprentice, and Pelican case to ship it in. HERE I also now have great … Read More →
Your parish priest and YOU.
I just received an email from a priest who informed me that today is the 200th anniversary of the day that St. John Vianney, arrived at his parish in Ars and began his work as a pastor with the care … Read More →
ASK FATHER: Newly canonized saints and the Traditional Roman Rite. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: In the 1962 Rubrics, Votive Mass of any Saint with an entry in the Roman Martyrology. Does this include the current Martyrology? Yes, no? No and yes. No, in the sense that Summorum Pontificum authorized the use of … Read More →





















