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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
CQ CQ CQ #HamRadio Saturday: taverns, windmills and dumplings
Now for another edition of Ham Radio Saturday. I created a page for the List of YOUR callsigns. HERE Chime in or drop me a note if your call doesn’t appear in the list. I’ve been really busy lately, so I … Read More
Posted in Ham Radio, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Chinese food, CQ, Ham radio, Ham Radio Saturday, windmill
8 Comments
8 Comments
VIDEO: Straight talk from Fr. Murray about secular media that mocks prayer and belief in God (ACTION ITEM!)
After the massacre in San Bernardino the liberal New York Daily News mocked people to pray and who believe in God. HERE My friend Fr. Gerry Murray provided some straight talk on Fox News with Neil Cavuto. This is outstanding! … Read More
Posted in ACTION ITEM!, Biased Media Coverage, HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, Mail from priests, The Coming Storm
Tagged Fr. Gerald Murray
24 Comments
24 Comments
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. I get many requests by … Read More
More theological gobbledygook about degrees of doctrinal authority
There is a piece at Jesuit-run Amerika. I was going to post about it earlier, but a theologian friend of mine sent me an email about it with some analysis. With his permission I repost some of what he wrote … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged America Magazine, Jesuits, magisterium
29 Comments
29 Comments
Fr. Z’s Voice Mail: A wish for a dying seminarian – ACTION ITEM! #wookies4wes
It has been a while since I have posted about my voice mail. I enjoy your voice mail messages! FIRST, about the seminarian who is dying from cancer. [UPDATE: Okay, now she doesn’t want her voice mail here. Go figure.] What an … Read More
Posted in ACTION ITEM!, Four Last Things, HONORED GUESTS, Pray For A Miracle, Seminarians and Seminaries, Urgent Prayer Requests, Voice Mail
Tagged seminarian
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday Obligation? Let us know. I said Masses in both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Form today, and wound up giving different sermons – as the spirit … Read More
Blue Vestments: wherein Fr. Z rants
The use of blue vestments during Advent is pretty much cliché now, so cliché that not even the aging hippies are clinging to it. Here’s my annual rant about the use of blue vestments in the Roman Rite. At this … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Parody Songs, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ADVENT, antinomianism, blue vestments, cerulean
40 Comments
40 Comments
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point in the sermon you heard for this LAST Sunday of the Church’s sacred year of grace? Let us know.
“Asking Our Lady to Help Us Make Up for Lost Time” AUDIO INTERVIEW
On this Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I want to give a couple priest friends a plug. Msgr. Charles Mangan I have know since the 80’s. He is a priest of Sioux Falls and he worked … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Fr. Gerald Murray, Msgr. Charles Mangan
3 Comments
3 Comments
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. I get many requests by … Read More
OrdainedButStillbeingFormedDiakonos on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “I’m finally reading the Divine Comedy. I’m through the Inferno and halfway in the Purgatorio. I often wonder if someone…”
