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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: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Collect
For the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. COLLECT (2002MR):Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere, in quibus habitare digneris. Note that the =eris endings look similar but are really quite … Read More
Please pray for a bishop
In your charity would be please pray for a friend of mine, an auxiliary bishop in St. Paul and Minneapolis, H.E. Most. Rev. Lee Piche? I hear he feeling poorly.
Barber shop
It is harder and harder to find a good old fashioned barber in an old fashioned barber shop. I am glad to know one in St. Paul, MN near Grand and Fairview.
Philadelphia blognic?
I will be in the area of Philadelphia from 12-21 Feb…. if flights go well. One of my correspondents has suggested another blognic. We could have this one at the same location: the Irish Pub at 20th & Walnut in … Read More
The Consilium revisited
In my recent reading, I happened again on a passage from the slim but interesting volume that came out a couple years back under the name of the former long-time papal master of ceremonies, Archp. Piero Marini. That’s Piero Marini, … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Annibale Bugnini, Card. Lercaro, Consilium, Guido Marini, Keith Pecklers, Mark Francis, Piero Marini, Sacrosanctum Concilium
62 Comments
62 Comments
Z mug sighting!
There has been another coffee mug sighting…. in the wild climes of Iowa! From a reader: Ave Zedissime pater! Thought you might be amused to add to your collection this sighting of a "Say the black…" mug standing watch over … Read More
POLL ALERT
Okay, turn off the siren. These are good polls. Over at Serviam there are two polls about how you… you, dear readers, use the media to be informed about your Catholic faith and matters pertaining thereto. Head over and vote!
Wyoming Catholic College
I recently had a trip to Lander, Wyoming to visit Wyoming Catholic College and speak to the faculty and student body. I am overdue in my review of the trip. First, I must say that the kids who can go … Read More
Cheese steak revisited, along with Philadelphia
I am heading to the Philadelphia area in a few days. "But Fadda! But Fadda!", I can hear the New Jerseyans saying even now. "Why…" I’ll be staying at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ for a little over a week. … Read More
Posted in Global Killer Asteroid Questions, On the road, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged blognic, Cheese Steak, Philadelphia
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52 Comments
“And he returned home, tired but happy!”
My iPhone had its own version of Ferris Bueler’s Day Off. But it is now safely back in my hands. FedEx came today with my iPhone, sent by the Lost and Found office of DIA. I was for a a … 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…”
