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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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- JonPatrick on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I’ll bet that 1% of sisters under the age of 40 are predominantly those in traditional orders.”
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- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Published on Aleteia :: 01/30/17 In his Regina Caeli message of Sunday, April 24, 1994, St. John Paul spoke of…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “The next page is Bedyngham’s “O rosa bella”, with a more dragonish pink-masked beast in several colors. Shrug. Anyway, the…”
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- 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,…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
At work in the Collect for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time are themes of divine adoption, the liberation of the children of God, the peril of error, and the splendor of Truth. Here is the Collect: Deus, qui, per … Read More
WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love
This Sunday’s prayer is at least as old as the Gelasian Sacramentary. It has survived the post-Conciliar revisions to live again on the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The version in the Novus Ordo, however, adds a comma after ut. COLLECT – (1962 Missale Romanum): … Read More
WDTPRS – The Collect for the 12th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): His Name and Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
This coming Sunday’s Collect is wonderful to sing! It is stark and lavish, carefully balanced, quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, also in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday after the Ascension (Thursday). … Read More
WDTPRS – Trinity Sunday: Are you beautiful at Mass?
At some point we wind up taking a stab at explaining the Trinity to someone. Results vary. Since this coming Sunday (at the traditional close of the Octave of Pentecost) we observe Trinity Sunday, appropriate after Easter and Pentecost. To … Read More
WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
Let’s have a look at the Collect for today’s Mass of Pentecost Monday. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, qui Apostolis tuis Sanctum dedisti Spiritum: concede plebi tuae piae petitionis effectum; ut, quibus dedisti fidem, largiaris et pacem. I found this prayer in … Read More
WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Novus Ordo: Weaving the warp and the weft
The Fiftieth Day Feast, Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté, for the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, fifty days after the Exodus. But Jewish feasts also looked forward even as they … Read More
ASK FATHER: “Ghost” or “Spirit”, which is it? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Something I’ve wondered about for a while. Old books and hymns have Holy Ghost and new ones have Holy Spirit. I know they are the same third person of the Trinity, but what’s going on with … Read More
WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (V.O.): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I am going to drag you – again – through my standard and sustained rant about liturgy, punctuated by Latin vocabulary and Neoplatonism. Consider this a different sort of “food post”. I will apply what I rant about to the … Read More
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): “The smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God”
We’ve come to the 4th Sunday after Easter according to the older, traditional Roman calendar. Today’s Collect survived the slash and hack editors of the Novus Ordo. You can find it in the Novus Ordo for the 21st Sunday … Read More
WDTPRS – Tuesday in Holy Week: Our grasp on Christ, His grasp on us
[A special note for priests alone at the end. Nobody else look! o{];¬) ] COLLECT (1962MR & 2002MR): Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis ita dominicae passionis sacramenta peragere, ut indulgentiam percipere mereamur. This prayer was in the 1962MR on Tuesday … Read More
JonPatrick on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I’ll bet that 1% of sisters under the age of 40 are predominantly those in traditional orders.”
