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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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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27: “Sorry… my bad. It is indeed SIX. 1. Rh8+! Kxh8 2. Qh2+ Kg8 3. Qh7+ Kf8 4. Qh8+ Ke7 5.…”
- on Encrypted Yeast? The Fathers on “What does the “leaven” really say?” (6th Sunday after Epiphany Resumed): “I especially like St. John Chrysostom’s insight, that when we are “hidden” in the normal places we live and work,…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27: “pestolover: For what it’s worth, your solution was the best I could do also.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27: “Fr Z thanks so much for 2 reminders. 1. Using your Amazon link! For heaven’s sake it costs us nothing…”
- on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “So interesting that you bring this up, a couple weeks ago a priest at a neighboring parish died unexpectedly. They…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27: “All moves are forced for black. R-h8+, KxR Q-h2+, K-g8 Q-h7+, K-f8, Q-h8+, K-e7 QxP+, K-e6 Q-f7++ Ok, so 6…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27: “I couldn’t post on the ad orientem article. Here’s what I wanted to post: “Let the bishops restore ad orientem…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
D. of Davenport, Iowa on Summorum Pontificum
Let’s have a look at what is going on in the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, about Summorum Pontificum. In what follows there is the cover note in the e-mail I received [edited] and then a letter of Bp. Amos to … Read More
ALERT: Quadrantid meteor shower
This is from Space Weather: METEOR SHOWER: Earth is about to pass through a stream of dusty debris from near-Earth asteroid 2003 EH1, producing the annual Quadrantid meteor shower. Forecasters expect a brief but intense peak of 50+ meteors per … Read More
Letter from an alumnus to St. Thomas University in St. Paul
You know about the controversy at St. Thomas University, in St. Paul, which effectively gave the heave-ho to the local Archbishop as an ex officio member of the board. There are other reasons to be concerned about the Catholic identity … Read More
Tolkien’s Birthday: Raise a glass!
Via Bettnet we learn the following from the Tolkien Society: On the 3rd January 1892 JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. To celebrate this event, on this day each year Tolkien fans around the world are invited to … Read More
ALERT for students around Cornell and Ithaca
The Recovering Choir Director has some news. Let those in the area of Cornell pay attention. Iosephus at the Cornell Society reports that on the Octave of Christmas, an Extraordinary Form Low Mass was celebrated at St. James in Trumansburg, … Read More
News from TT
Yes, everyone, there is good news from TT. “But Father! But Father!”, you may be asking me. “Who is TT?” Perpend, dear reader. It’s a “where” not a “who”. My emphasesand comments. Tridentine Mass returns to TT Thursday, January 3 … Read More
Good news from Hawaii
You know I don’t mean the outcome of the game with Georgia, I think. Read this good piece in the Hawaii Catholic Herald with my emphases and comments. Bishop, vicar general, others learning Latin Mass By Patrick Downes | Hawaii Catholic … Read More
Good news from St. Louis
I received this nice note by e-mail from Fr. Gregory Lockwood (edited): Greetings from the Archdiocese of Saint Louis; [THERE WERE PHOTOS… but embedded in the e-mail and too time consuming for me to edit and then upload to my … Read More
At the Sabine Farm
There’s a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes. Heavenly hurt it gives us;We can find no scar,But internal differenceWhere the meanings are. None may teach it anything,‘Tis the seal, despair,-An imperial afflictionSent us of … Read More
I have nightmares like this
Vincenzo is up to his old tricks again, with some flotsam from The Crescat. O Lord…. … I have nightmares like this.
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27: “Sorry… my bad. It is indeed SIX. 1. Rh8+! Kxh8 2. Qh2+ Kg8 3. Qh7+ Kf8 4. Qh8+ Ke7 5.…”
