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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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- Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 36: Ultimate
- WDTPRS – 5 November: Feast of the Holy Relics. These bones shall live again. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 35: Penultimate
- Germans… “for many” in the Consecration formula, rather than “for all”
- WDTPRS: A charming translation for the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo – 4 November
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 34: Requiem for deceased benefactors
- CQ CQ CQ – EWTN shut down its shortwave radio service on 31 October. Understandable, but I have some reservations.
- ASK FATHER: “Is it proper to pray for the repose of souls who died before the Resurrection and the harrowing of Hell?”
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 33: All Souls
- ASK FATHER: “Why isn’t the Male Only Holy Orders a Dogma?”
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 32: All Saints
- ACTION ITEM! 1-8 November PLENARY INDULGENCE for the Poor Souls
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? “Placáre, Christe, sérvulis”
- If you are a priest or seminarian, this is your immediate homework. A judicial decision from the Roman Rota roundly condemned publishing lists of “credibly accused” clerics.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – All Saints (Vetus Ordo and Novus Ordo)
- MAIL CALL: A note about St. Expeditus and an online shrine
- ROME 26/10 – Day 31: Blast from the … present!
- Is the needle moving?
- ASK FATHER: If a priest explains away a mortal sin, and the penitent believes him, is the absolution valid?
- ROME 26/10 – Day 30: With apologies to the Bard
- RIP Patrick Stewart … my competitor!
- ROME 26/10 – Day 29: hard to read inscription
- ASK FATHER: Definition and the duties of a pastoral associate.
- ROME 26/10 – Day 28: Natalis Dies
- You knew this had to happen
- ROME 26/10– Day 27: Vigil
- Rush: on …what’s going on now
- ROME 26/10– Day 26: Rube Goldberg
- My Annual St Crispin’s Day roundup with Henry V speech!
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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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
“St Swithin’s day if thou be fair…”
Today is the Feast of St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester (+862). His bones in Winchester were the occasions of many cures, but his shrine was destroyed by Protestants. He is celebrated today, 15 July, because this is the day his … Read More →
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 →




















