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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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- Rob83 on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As the demographic collapse accelerates, priests may find it prudent to live together in a central location with their deanery.…”
- on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: “This is the best explanation I have heard in my almost 50 years. I wish it was what was heard…”
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- on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “The obelisk outside the building was originally built by Thutmose III, and contains dedications from subsequent pharoahs. If you follow…”
- on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: “Yet, as a modern farmer, none are leaving weeds to grow with the main crop until harvest. Zero. Everyone is…”
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- on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Fr Z — this is an excellent piece. Great teaching. Thanks for this.”
- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “Another thought: sometimes the only one who can successfully use the scalpel on us is ourself. Because ultimately, it is…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Benedict XVI before the Pietà of Etzelsbach
Here is the text of the homily delivered by Benedict XVI in Etzelsbach, Germany at a pilgrimage church where a wooden statue of the Pietà is honored. Whereas in his other talks Pope Benedict has been a little more “intellectual”, … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged contemplation, dictatorship of relativism, Etzelsbach, Mary, Pietà
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7 Comments
Benedict XVI’s sermon at Holy Mass in Erfurt
Pope Benedict celebrated Holy Mass in Erfurt, Germany. Here is the sermon. A highlight: “you have had to endure first a brown and then a red dictatorship” And: “We have no wish to hide in a purely private faith….” My … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged 1941, 1989, 836, baptism of bells, bells, Benedict XVI, Erfurt, fides quae creditur, Thuringia
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7 Comments
Benedict XVI with Lutherans in Erfurt: “It is not strategy that saves us and saves Christianity, but faith.”
During his State Visit to Germany, the Holy Father gave this address at Erfurt during an ecumenical gathering at the Lutheran church. Erfurt is, of course, where Martin Luther’s Augustinian convent was. A highlight: Faced with a new form of … Read More
Your good news and your Sunday sermon recollections
Let’s start out the work week with some of your good news. And give us also a good point from the sermon you heard on Sunday!
QUAERITUR: Bowing during the Creed
From a reader: Why do we bow during the Nicene Creed for the lines “by the power of the holy spirit…” and who started this practice? These lines are at the heart of the Creed. They are, as it were, … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged bowing, genuflecting, Nicene Creed, Peter of Cluny
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43 Comments
Where Chinese food and translations intersect… sort of
Every day I check the site Engrish. It has photos of amusing “translations” of East Asian languages into “Engrish”. I see that Sancte Pater has also found Engrish. He posted, inter alia, a shot today. Since I post often about … Read More
Bishops of England and Wales unveil their future priorities
It has happened int the past, that the Vicar of Christ has traveled to a place, was met with great enthusiasm, caused a bump, a wave in Catholic identity, and after a fairly short period of time everything went back … Read More
“Not because I hate bishops, because I love them.”
I have made the argument that John Paul II slowly shifted the character of the episcopate in the USA. Eventually, the balance shifted. The balance is shifting in presbyterates. The balance is shifting in seminaries. When the numbers grow high … Read More
RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST
Here are a few posts of interest as the scrooooool along. Saints of pots and pans, shipwrecks, beheading, and music both mystical and sublime About Galileo, churches and the sun Great photos of Card. Burke’s Mass at Fontgombault Four Words … Read More
A curious and annoying blog glitch on the side bar
A curious glitch. I have noticed that some widgets on my right sidebar appear on Chrome and IE but not on Firefox. For example, I have a couple amazon.com widgets, search boxes and so forth, which don’t appear. Strange. Nooooo… … Read More
Rob83 on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As the demographic collapse accelerates, priests may find it prudent to live together in a central location with their deanery.…”
