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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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- 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!
- ROME 26/10– Day 25: King things
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Feast of Christ the King (N.O.: 30th Ordinary)
- Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica
- ROMAE, die XXIII Octobris, A.D. MMXXVI
- 23 October – St. Severinus Boethius: “A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”
- ROME 26/10– Day 22: Colors and courses and Coco
- ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain
- 21 Oct – St Gaspar del Bufalo – “Hammer of Freemasons”
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-12 – Brainstorming!
- Not a huge fan, but the question is dead on right…
- ROME 26/10– Day 19-20:
- Are things as bad as the seem? Auctores scinduntur.
- ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad
- WDTPRS – 21st Sunday after Pentecost: My strengths support yours. My sins weaken us all.
- A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.
- ROME 26/10– Day 16: Baronius… and traitors
- ROME 26/10– Day 15: munch
- ASK FATHER: “Are the faithful who go to the SSPX being sacramentally forgiven in confession, or not?”
- 15 October (4 Oct 1582) St. Teresa of Avila, Calendars, Chess, and You
- ASK FATHER: “Is it possible for the structure of the Church to be the ‘wrong’ church, while the ‘true’ Church is elsewhere?”
- ROME 26/10– Day 14: Great scissors
- ROMAE, die XIII commorationis, A.D. MMXXVI: Campana nos admonet aeternitatis.
- ROME 26/10– Day 12: “A church that cannot worship must be entertained, and …”
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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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- 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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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Fr. McTeigue asks for a novena of reparation for the Anglican … thing… in Rome
Shout out to my buddy Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ. His media concern Stations of the Cross Media is having a fundraiser. HERE Fr. McTeigue was on a tear today about the Anglican CIRCUS in Rome in light of what was … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is religious liberty in “Dignitatis humanae” the same as before the Vatican II? Of SSPX relevance. Wherein Fr. Z also makes an impassioned plea to Leo.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Could you explain how the definition of religious liberty in Dignatis Humanae is the same as how Popes defined it previously before the Second Vatican Council, I don’t quite understand how it can be said to … Read More
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ROME 26/4– Day 36: Seeing red
In the Eternal City we had the rising of the sun at 6:08 and its setting at 20:08. The Ave Maria cycle changed to 20:30. For the Curia. It does that. But they don’t ring it. It rings today at … Read More
ROME 26/4– Day 35: Theatre of the Absurd
Today the sun rose at 06:10 and it will set at 20:06. But that’s in Rome, not in Columbia Heights. The Ave Maria Bell is still in the 20:15 slot for the Curia. It is the Feast of the great … Read More
ROME 26/4– Day 34: A good example
A little bit each day. The sun appeared to be raised up at 06:11 and to be pushed down at 20:05. The Ave Maria was to ring at 20:15, at least for the Roman Curia. Along with being the 3rd … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th Sunday OF Easter)
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 3rd Sunday after Easter … Read More
ROME 26/4– Day 33: Here’s a little Latin for you
ROMAE SOL ORTUS EST HORA VI ET XIII. SOL OCCIDET POST PAUCA MINUTA HORA XX ET IV. CAMPANA “AVE MARIA” PRO CURIA ROMANA HORA XX ET XV SONARE DEBET, SED NON SONABIT. POTIUS, APUD ECCLESIAM SANCTISSIMAE TRINITATIS PEREGRINORUM ET CONVALESCENTIUM … Read More
ROME 26/4– Day 32: What a day
In Rome the sun rose at 06:14. It set quite a while ago at 20:03. The Ave Maria Bells is still listed in the 20:15 cycle. Welcome Regstrant: CRM Among others, today was the Feast of Sts. Maria Cleope and … Read More
ROME 26/4– Day 31: tired
Over Rome at 06:16 the sun emerged and it will remerge (?) submerge at 20:02. The Ave Maria Bell ought to ring for the Curia at 20:15 (but it won’t). It’s the feast of St. George and St. Adalbert. I’m … Read More
ROME 26/4– Days 30: R.I.P.
Up came the sun at 06:17. Down goeth the sun at 20:01. The Ave Maria is in the 20:15 cycle for the Curia. It is the feast of three saintly Popes of yore: Soter, Caius and Agapitus. Perhaps more important … Read More




















