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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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- Orual on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “One of my elderly former pastors fell in his home and laid there for 3 days before anyone came to…”
- on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Many priests live alone, with no one to notice if they fail to rise, suffer a fall, or become suddenly…”
- on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Father, in case you haven’t already considered this, an iPhone might help you or another priest in that situation. “…”
- on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “his Theatines maintain a minor seminary in the neighborhood under his patronage. i drove by it on the way to…”
- on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Great stuff Fr Z….. are the doors to St John Lateran originally the doors from the Roman Curia in the…”
- 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…”
- on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: “moon1234: We have to understand something about the Lord’s parables. The parable, or Hebrew mashal is an allegorical lesson of…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
WDTPRS – Saturday 3rd Week of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. Priests can use this prayer NOW at the end of … Read More
SCRUB ALERT: The Times reopens its bear-baiting pit
In another entry, I said that we would see an increase in attacks on the Holy Father, attempts to implicate him personally in the cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by priests when the Pope was still Archbishop of Munich. … Read More
CWN: US bishops oppose Senate health reform bill, clarify Politico
This morning I heard on one of those start-up-the-day TV shows (some news mixed with the mind-numbingly inane) that the Catholic bishops had in some way endorsed the proposed health care legislation for the US despite the obvious funding of … Read More
Pray for the Pope
V. Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto. R. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciateum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius. [Ps 40:3] Pater Noster…, Ave Maria…. Deus, omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum … Read More
USCCB NATIONWIDE BULLETIN INSERT/ACTION ALERT
This is making the rounds. Help it make more rounds. I got this from the Catholic Key, the page of the newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City, MO. This afternoon, the USCCB contacted dioceses across the country with a … Read More
Hell’s Bible on the attack with the help of minions
The pragmatical clinchpoops of Hell’s Bible have cobbled together an article written by committee which has no other purpose than to cast the Pope in a bad light. No surprise. Written by committee, surely with touching up by the editors … Read More
Card. Ruini will head a study of Medjugorje
The former Vicar of Rome for Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, His Eminence Camillo Card. Ruini, will head a group to study what is going on at Medjugorje. Most of these ROME REPORTS are good, though a little … Read More
Mr Hoopes replys to Mr Zmirak’s reply to Mr. Hoopes’s reply to Mr. Zmirak
Literature is full of re Mr. John Zmirak started this here. Tom Hoopes responded. Zmirak responded to Hoopes. My role? just think of me as "Fr. Tom Servo" commenting on the whole thing. I posted on first pieces and in … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged John Zmirak, Thomas Hoopes
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WDTPRS – Thursday 3rd Week of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. Priests can use this prayer NOW at the end of … Read More
Orual on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “One of my elderly former pastors fell in his home and laid there for 3 days before anyone came to…”
