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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…”
Backwardist 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…”
JabbaPapa 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…”
Eoin OBolguidhir 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.”…”
B 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…”
TonyO 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.…”
Hellenist 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).”
Gregg the Obscure 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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Recent Posts
- Daily Rome Shot 1077
- FRANCE: Majority of Young Priests now Celebrate the Traditional Mass
- Collect for Bl. Fulton Sheen?
- 24 September: Of Our Lady of Walsingham, Our Lady of Ransom, and a prayer
- ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- Daily Rome Shot 1076
- Wednesday of the Fast of the Seventh Month
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Iste Confessor (Common of Confessors not Bishops.)
- Daily Rome Shot 1075
- “Days in Rome” Project – October 2026 and beyond – UPDATED
- 21 September – St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist: Wherein the Feast begat a blog post
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 17th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 25th Ordinary)
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-09-13 – Closing St. Casimir
- WDTPRS – – 17th Sunday after Pentecost – Diabolical Contagion
- NEW BOOK about how the Novus Ordo Lectionary came to be with its cycles and edits of Scripture
- Daily Rome Shot 1074
- GUEST POST: “Father Bob’s First Day on the Job”
- Daily Rome Shot 1073
- Recent report of the “gift of tears” during Mass that was being live streamed
- What’s the solution?
- ASK FATHER: Why is “Salome” at the foot of the Cross in the Introit for the Feast of the Sorrows of Mary?
- Daily Rome Shot 1072 – Procession
- 15 September: Seven Sorrows of Mary – The “Our Lady of Sorrows Project”
- WDTPRS- Exaltation of the Cross
- Sunday Sermon Notes… ON STEROIDS. Wherein Fr. Z posts a must listen sermon from his old friend Fr. A
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 16th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 24th Ordinary)
- They are moving fast.
- Daily Rome Shot 1071 – 343 years ago today
- 11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…
- ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?
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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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"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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