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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “On the mixed seafood plate there are various raw slices of fishes, tuna, salmon, swordfish, and a couple of mudbugs…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “For those of us in the Midwest crockpot demographic, what exactly do you have on the plates?”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “Well Father, you’re in good company along with Padre Pio, Cure of Ars… wasn’t it St Teresa of Avila whose…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “Father, we arrived in Rome yesterday and I can’t believe we haven’t been hit by a car yet. Or a…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “Father, as the quondam ghostwriter of Bishop McButterpants’ diary, as you review the latest encyclical, I thought you might enjoy…”
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- on Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville: “Fr Z jokingly writes, …[Kai] is also a form of karate associated with a particular kind of snake practiced in…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS “Low” Sunday, “Mercy” Sunday, “Quasimodo” Sunday, Sunday “in albis”
This Sunday has many nicknames. In the post-Conciliar calendar it is the “Second Sunday of Easter (or of Divine Mercy)”. It is also called “Thomas Sunday” (because of the Gospel reading about the doubting Apostle), and “Quasimodo Sunday” (from the … Read More
Posted in EASTER, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Divine Mercy Sunday, Dominica in albis, Low Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday
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12 Comments
“among so many adversities”
Fr. John Hunwicke has a superb post over at his place. He looks at today’s Collect in the Extraordinary Form. My emphases and comments. in tot adversis Da quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui in tot adversis ex nostra infirmitate deficimus; … Read More
WDTPRS: Annunciation – Lady Day
This is the very Feast of the Incarnation. Today we celebrate that moment when our Lord elevated our humanity by taking our human nature into an indestructible bond with His Divinity. In the Incarnation God opened for us the path … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Annunication, divinization, GS 22, Incarnation, Lady Day, Leo the Great
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13 Comments
WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Lent (2001MR): “Sticking to a plan even though it is hard”
We can become weary in the midst of our Lenten discipline and the enemy is tirelessly working for our defeat. In the Ordinary Form Collect for the 3rd Sunday of Lent we beg God to pick us up, and help … Read More
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Lent: Purify your “spiritual view” lest God be offended
Here is the Collect of the 2nd Sunday of Lent, a new composition for the Novus Ordo based on a precedent in the Liber Mozarabicus Sacramentorum: Deus, qui nobis dilectum Filium tuum audire praecepisti, verbo tuo interius nos pascere digneris, ut, spiritali … Read More
Posted in LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged aspectus, gloria, hearing, Henry V, intuitus, St. Bonaventure
4 Comments
4 Comments
WDTPRS: Epiphany – Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
In the ancient Western Church and in the East, Epiphany was more important than the relative latecomer Christmas. Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”. There are many “epiphanies” of God in the Scripture. Think, … Read More
WDTPRS: Holy Family – children first learn who God is by knowing their parents
This coming Sunday in the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo, Ordinary Form calendar, is the Feast of the Holy Family. In the traditional Roman calendar, Holy Family will be on 11 January. The place God Incarnate chose to begin manifesting His sacrificial … Read More
WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Advent – “the childlike dash towards the long-desired thing”
We are coming to the 3rd Sunday of Advent, also nicknamed Gaudete…. the plural imperative of gaudeo, “Rejoice!”. This Sunday there is a relaxation of the penitential aspect of Advent. Yes, Advent is a penitential time, though not so much … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged ADVENT, rosacea, rose
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2 Comments
WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent: “we escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”
LISTEN also! Our Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged consors, lutum, St. Augustine
6 Comments
6 Comments
REMINDER: CD of music for Advent by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
Do you remember there is an album of Advent music available? The wonderful Benedictine Nuns in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph provide it. Here are a few little samples. It is still available! There are zillions of Christmas music … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Linking Back, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged ADVENT, Benedictines of Mary
7 Comments
7 Comments
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “On the mixed seafood plate there are various raw slices of fishes, tuna, salmon, swordfish, and a couple of mudbugs…”
