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- CasaSanBruno on ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day: “Thinking of Jasmine ruins my breakfast.”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “I just saw that there is an article on Aleteia entitled : Pope Leo carries Eucharist among 1.2 million people.…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “THE Mystery of faith…gone from the novus ordo in the Consecration and instead there is a choice of “a mystery…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “As a proof, we could turn to secular society and notice that during the covid lockdowns, when the unwashed masses…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “@Venerator Sti Lot Latin is concrete (as we would expect from the inventors of concrete) and so it assumes the…”
- on ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day: “Safe travels back to the USA Father. Our parish is having a procession tonight following the 5 PM Sunday evening…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: ““not all the writers intend something heterodox. They’re just trying to sound deep.” The English poet, the catholic John Dryden,…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “Suddenly realizing with fresh emphasis how bad my canonical/theological Latin is, it occurs to me to wonder what real, living…”
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Category Archives: The Coming Storm
Reminder: Moral injury of the clergy and laity
A couple years ago I posted about the psychological abuse of priests and the resulting Moral Injury. It is good to review this concept occasionally, and consider it in light of what is going on in the Church today. Moral … Read More
It takes real effort to make something like this happen
I was sent this news: France: Number of Ordinations at A Low Only 88 French candidates will be ordained priests this year, announced Eglise.Catholique.fr (June 22). 52 of them belong to dioceses. It is the lowest number of ordinations in … Read More
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s
This came to my email and I have to share it. Some of you have surely seen it already but repetita iuvant! I am reminded of what the ancient Roman Martial said: aestate pueri si valent, satis discunt. … if, … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Semper Paratus, TEOTWAWKI, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Ides of October, Martial
28 Comments
28 Comments
WDTPRS: Mass Prayers “Pro seipso sacerdote – For the priest himself” (1962MR)
This time of year many new priests are being ordained and, consequently, many priests observe their own anniversaries. In the traditional, Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite a priest can add orations for himself, Pro seipso sacerdote, on the anniversary … Read More
Two things: Part 3 of Bp. Huonder’s VIDEO and what Francis said to Jesuits in Hungary.
Two things. First, Swiss Bishop Vitus Huonder has released the third in a series of videos about the undeniable crisis in the Church. It is in German with subtitles. Put down or put aside other things. Click. Fold your hands and watch this … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II
Tagged Bp. Vitus Huonder
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15 Comments
VIDEO: Die Grosse Wunde – The Great Wound: The Church is in one of the greatest crises in history.
This is interesting… Website: HERE
1993 – 30 years ago when Mother Angelica declared war
I am stretching back into my memory for how this all worked. In 1993 John Paul II went to Denver for World Youth Day There were Stations of the Cross, mimed, in which a woman depicted Christ. Mother Angelica of … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Women Religious
Tagged Mother Angelica
13 Comments
13 Comments
Missae pro Missa Update: News release for traditional Catholic media
In my Daily Rome Shot today, I had photos of billboard that have appeared in Rome, quoting popes, in favor of the Traditional Latin Mass. I subsequently received a request from the people behind a different initiative along with a … Read More
MUST READ! Why do heretics remain in the Church instead of just being honest and getting out?
At Crisis there is a MUST READ piece by Jennifer Bryson Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church? The counterfactual optimism of heretics keeps them in the Church while working to destroy it. A perennial question. She breaks it down … Read More
CasaSanBruno on ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day: “Thinking of Jasmine ruins my breakfast.”
