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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…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people (1962MR)
Today’s "Prayer over the people" in the 1962 Missale Romanum is also the Postcommunion of Septuagesima Sunday. ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (1962MR): Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur: ut éadem et percipiendo requirant, et quaerendo sine fine percipiant. Glorious. In … Read More
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Tried and true… and back
From time to time I have heard… always from liberals… that children shouldn’t be made to memorize when they learn. They claim that, because children don’t "understand" what they are memorizing, memorizing is counterproductive. Piffle! The collapse of Catholic education … Read More
CURLING UPDATE
I don’t know if you will be able to tear yourselves away to go to Friday night devotions, but tonight there is plenty of CURLING to see! Alas, in the RESULTS: the USA men (all from Minnesota, no?) are way … Read More
A UK theological junkyard: “Stand Up For Vatican II”
Remember that theological junk yard of a group that rattles at the likes of the His Hermeneuticalness, the great Fr. Tim Finigan, P.P. of Blackfen? The "Stand Up For Vatican II" crowd? (Maybe our Vincenzo can make a new logo … Read More
First time for everything: Macs
I was out running errands and stumbled onto an Apple Store. Oh dear. OH! NO!
Are you ready to answer questions?
QUAERITUR: If someone were to ask you to explain why the Catholic Church uses Latin as its official language, what would you say? Let’s have some of your explanations and then see if we can’t refine some good bulletpoints for … Read More
Did you hear a good Ash Wednesday sermon? Share a point.
If you heard an Ash Wednesday sermon which was worthwhile, share ONE SINGLE POINT you can recall for us, as concisely as possible… a single sentence, if possible.
The Feeder Feed (Old Master Edition)
Since I have been on the road I haven’t been able to post many updates on the feeder… ANY updates. So here is an old master edition from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You might remember from my postings from … Read More
Museum
I love this museum in Philadelphia! Try to spend time in a good museum from time to time. I very much enjoy Turner. Of something about Benjamin Franklin:
“Go back to Hell. Our Church belongs to Christ.”
You’ve got to love an article that winds up with the tag: And by changing back the flag, by taking back our Mass, we are saying: Go back to Hell. Our Church belongs to Christ. OORAH! An article on why … 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…”
