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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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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Your Good News
Do you have some good news for the readership? We could all use some. For my part, I was able the other day to provide the last rites for a fellow who desired every single word in Latin in the … Read More
Our Lady of Sorrows Project: 2nd Sorrow – The Flight into Egypt
The first post in the series is 1st Sorrow – The Prophecy of Simeon Now we turn to the: 2nd Sorrow – The Flight or Escape into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13-23) Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon of the Mass you heard to fulfill your Sunday obligation? Let us know. For my part, I drilled into the details of the Lord’s parable about the Good Samaritan, explaining a … Read More
“Dario Viganò is getting bigger now. No, not that Viganò who is in hiding now!”
As a quondam but not-too-dedicated vaticanista, I watch now the goings on “oltratevere” (see… I can still bring the yiddish when I want to) in a combination of morbid fascination, as with glancing at road kill, and amusement, as with … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point or two in the sermon which you heard at your Mass in fulfillment of your Sunday obligation?
Your Good News
Do you have good news for the readers? Let us know. I have a few tidbits. First, today I had lunch with a priest friend from my native place who was driving through on the way home from a long … Read More
BACK TO SCHOOL TIME?
A lot of you are in the throes of getting organized for the return of your kinder to school. Need stuff? BACK TO SCHOOL When you shop Amazon using my links (always on the sidebar), I get a small percentage. … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – What Catholics DO BELIEVE about the Eucharist!
Was there a good point made in the sermon during your Mass of Sunday obligation? Let us know. For my part, I started with the image of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem and then went into the problem of a vast … Read More
CNA: “This is not the first low-quality document the Synod secretariate has produced”
Firstly, there is a MUST LISTEN to podcast from Damian Thompson about Card. Pell’s railroading into jail. HERE Take the time. Next, at CNA there is a piece in which Card. Pell comments on the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Pan-Amazonian … Read More
ASK FATHER: SSPX Bp. Fellay member of the Roman Rota
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Did you know that [SSPX] Bp. Fellay is now on the Roman Rota? A judge of the First Instance. No. It’s not that I didn’t know that. Rather, that claim is not accurate. Bp. Fellay would … Read More
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
