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- adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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Category Archives: Parody Songs
A different Epiphany hymn
On a lighter note for your Epiphany joy, here is an offering from the official WDTPRS Parodohymnodist, the great Tim Ferguson. He provides an introduction: I was just poking around my computer looking for a file and happened across a … Read More
WDTPRS POLL: Color of Advent Vestments and my annual rant
Some veteran readers here know about my annual rant about BLUE vestments during Advent. Blue is not a liturgical color of the Roman Rite (though some use it for Marian feasts according to some old tradition in Spain and former … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Parody Songs, POLLS, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ADVENT, blue vestments, Parody Songs
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38 Comments
QUAERITUR: “bishops in soutanes with big, gaudy riiiiiiings”
We now shift away from the less important issues – salvation outside the Church and American exceptionalism – to focus on something of momentous significance. From a reader: At times I have seen priests wearing a short black cape over … Read More
If you live long enough…
… you’ll see just about everything. Brick by brick. I have nothing else worthwhile to add to that. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_RZQ3GLmI]
My Favorite Things… revisited
Years ago, long before the existence of WDTPRS, the official WDTPRS Parodohymnist – in the dark days of seminary – worked up new words to a tune familiar to all. To the Sound of Music tune "My Favorite Things": Dalmatics … Read More
The Very Model Of A Modern Seminarian
This comes from a seminarian reader. Fr. Z: Lot of things in the news, thought I’d send something light. I’m a seminarian and longtime reader of your blog. I also like operettas. So, while I was waiting for something the … Read More
ACT XXIV, SCENE 13. On the eve of the health care battle.
A tip of the biretta o{]:¬) to American Catholic who got this in turn from IowaHawk. Enjoy! And remember! Talk Like Shakespeare Day is coming up! (with apologies to the Bard) ACT XXIV, SCENE 13. On the eve of … Read More
Aging Hippie Paradise
No… this is not about the offices of the NCR. It is actually about a rap music song. I have always thought that rap did for music what S&M did for romance… but I digress. I came by a rap … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Lighter fare, Parody Songs
Tagged aging hippies, gangsta, Hans Kung, parody song, rap, Richard McBrien, Rudolph Bultmann, Tim Ferguson, Zuhlio
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61 Comments
O Come, O Come Liturgical Blue!
Over at NLM there is an interesting and serious post about Latin Rite blue vestments in Spain. There are some good photos over there (in which they specialize). For example: H.E. Jesús Esteban Catalá Ibáñez, bishop of Málaga, celebrating First … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Lighter fare, Parody Songs, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged ADVENT, blue vestments, liturgical blue
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23 Comments
WDTPRS POLL: Color of Advent Vestments – Wherein Fr. Z rants
Here is my annual rant on blue vestments for Advent (see the POLL results about that). "But Father! But Father!", you might be saying. "Aren’t the confused liberal dinosaurs dying off? Aren’t blue vestments cliché? Yes and yes. Nevertheless, there … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Parody Songs, POLLS, SESSIUNCULA, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ADVENT, blue vestments, parody song
62 Comments
62 Comments
PARODY SONG ALERT: Gather Us In
A facetious reader sent the following: "Straight from the pages of Facebook and a group called SLAP (Survivors of Liturgical Abuse in Parishes)" Gather Us In […to the tune of, that is!] Here in this place, our comfortable parish,All of … Read More
QUAERITUR: Advent wreaths and my annual rant on BLUE vestments
About this time of year I start getting questions about advent wreaths. For example, this came from a a reader today: Dear Fr. Zuhlsdorf, Is it proper to use scented candles for the advent wreath? Sure… if you want to deal … Read More
TLM in Winchester Cathedral, UK! (PS: This is the Anglican Cathedral)
Just when the Catholic Cathedral in Cardiff hits the LMS from the blind side, over in Winchester, at the Anglican Cathedral, something very different is happening. I got this e-mail from a kind reader: It is reported that this is … Read More
QUAERITUR: Sequences…. Should we stand or should we sit? [PARODY SONG ALERT]
I got a question from a reader. Perhaps you can chime in with answers. I believe he is talking about the Novus Ordo. Should the congregation STAND or SIT for the singing of the Sequence on Easter and Pentecost? At … Read More
How WDTPRS deals with anger? Fun!
Tonight all across the world people will, alas, take note that some priests and bishop have decided to wash the feet of women during the Holy Thursday Mass. They do this even though they shouldn’t and, probably, know they shouldn’t. … Read More
The Official Song Writer at it again
The Official WDTPRS Parody Song Writer, the esteemed Tim Ferguson has been at it again. As he put it, “I ruminated a bit more … and came to the realization that, while “La Donna e Mobile” might be readily appreciated … Read More
adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
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