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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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- Fr. Kelly on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I have noticed this new strategy, of prelates asking for the NO to be celebrated reverently and according to the…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I wonder how the majority of priests, deacons, and bishops feel about several Catholics leaving Mass immediately after communion. No,…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Our now-retired pastor was asked by many to say the St. Michael Prayer at the end of Sunday Masses. He…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I’m actually torn about this. Not at all about the St Michael prayer, but perhaps about prayers before Mass. Some…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Wouldn’t praying various prayers together, or even one, after Mass be one of those so-called “organic developments” of the liturgy…”
- on WDTPRS – 21st Sunday after Pentecost: My strengths support yours. My sins weaken us all.: “Thank you for the hard work you do in “unpacking” all this and doing it every week. I wouldn’t have…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “The fact the headline he chose for his letter is “St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us”…….. rude is a…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo): Mercy and Justice are not opposed
The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to live in the post-Conciliar, reformed Missale Romanum! You can find it, somewhat wounded, for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form Missale … Read More
WDTPRS – 18th Ordinary (Novus Ordo) Sunday: cold reality
When the priest, alter Christus, says our prayers during Holy Mass, Christ, Head of the Body, speaks. His words have power to form us. Formed according to the mind of the Church, we Catholics then go out from Mass to … Read More
WDTPRS – 17th Sunday Ordinary Time (Novus Ordo): Sin Teflon, Demon Kevlar
Shall we look at the Collect for this upcoming Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form? It will the 17th Sunday of Greater Meatloaf…. Ordinary Time. COLLECT (2002MR): Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super … Read More
WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wherein Fr. Z rants.
We have been cheated of the beauty of our Catholic worship in Latin, which is our common patrimony. In fact, the swindle is far deeper. People have been denied the opportunity to learn Latin, which pretty much every more or … Read More
WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost – living right
The Collect for Mass and the Office for this upcoming 8th Sunday after Pentecost is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical snipper with their scissors and paste pots to live on in the … Read More
WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: God can neither deceive nor be deceived
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, … Read More
WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark
This week, the 15th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo calendar, we have a good example of the dramatic difference between the old, Obsolete ICEL version we suffered with for decades, and the Latin with the Current ICEL version. The … Read More
FOR PRIESTS: Wherein, prompted by this conference, Fr. Z posts something for CONFESSION
I’m at the annual conference for priests held by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. They have these three times a year. I’ve been going for year and wouldn’t miss it. There is great fraternity and the presentations, on … Read More
WDTPRS – 14th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): from dust to freedom
On the weekend in the wake of our 250th celebration of Independence Day, our Collect for the 14th Ordinary Sunday offers the image of material creation as an enervated body, weakened by sin, lying in the dust whence it came. … Read More
WDTPRS – 6th Sunday after Pentecost: Collect – FIND THE CHIASM!
Please flip open your own trusty copy of the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae edited by Leo Cunibert Mohlberg, OSB (in other words the Gelasian Sacramentary and yes, it is “Aeclesiae”.). You will find Sunday’s ancient Collect in the second group of … Read More
Fr. Kelly on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
