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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
Summorum allows substitution of Novus Ordo Masses with TLMs on priest’s own initiative
I have been having an internet nightmare for a few days, so I am pretty sure someone may have picked up on this already. I have had many discussions with priest friends about the flexibility with the provisions of Summorum … Read More
Z update – mostly grrrrr
I had reported that things here at Mater Ecclesiae are rather chaotic right now. The pastor, Fr. Pasley, had throat surgery – which I why I am here – and he cannot talk very much. He came home on Sunday … Read More
CURLING IS COMING!
I am looking forward to seeing some Curling during the coverage of the Winter Olympics. I will have to follow the coverage ex longinquo in more than one way. Here at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ, as I reported elsewhere, … Read More
Gong xi fa cai!
Happy New Year! The observance of the New Year (Xin Nian) typically several days, but the New Year season lasts from the middle of the previous years’ final month to the middle of the first month in the new year. … Read More
Where the bread is salty
Dante perfectly, precisely captured the inner disorientation of the exile when he wrote of a place where "the bread is salty and the steps are hard to climb". Tasting salty bread was a reminder that he wasn’t in Florence. Climbing … Read More
Posted in On the road, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged dante, exile, lefsa, Philadelphia, san marzano, scraple
49 Comments
49 Comments
“Consubstantial” – Who do people REALLY say that He is?
The new translation contains an alarming new threat. "Consubstantial" By clinging to the inaccurate rendering of "consubstantialem Patri" in the Creed as "one in being with the Father", liberals obfuscate the dogma of the Church that Jesus is God, that … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Tagged Arian, Catholic, consubstantial, consubstantialem Patri, ICEL, liberal, liturgy, translation
114 Comments
114 Comments
Not every valid Council was a fruitful Council.
"Not every valid council in the history of the Church has been a fruitful one; in the last analysis, may of them have been a waste of time. Despite all the good to be found in the texts it produced, … Read More
Archbp. Coleridge hits a liturgical home run
Ever since the papal Master of Ceremonies Msgr. Guido Marini gave a talk in Rome to English-speaking priests about liturgy and liturgical reform, liberals have been coming out of the wood work. They are now emboldened to attack Benedict XVI … Read More
Rest assured
At the airport off to Philadelphia. Security was a ZOO, but within it is rather calm. Go figure. Many people here had to change flights because of snow on the east coast of the USA. With that in mind I … 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…”
