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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. 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…”
- on How did we get HERE?: “I like this, pray for three things to be close-minded, judgmental and intolerant!”
- 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: Sanctus
In the print version of WDTPRS, the weekly column, I have been comparing the lame-duck ICEL translation of the Ordinary of Holy Mass still hear in our churches with the new, approved version we will one day be able to … Read More
WDTPRS: 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time – COLLECT: sheer audacity
Let’s have a look at this daring prayer. COLLECT – (2002MR): Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, quem paterno nomine invocare praesumimus, perfice in cordibus nostris spiritum adoptionis filiorum, ut promissam hereditatem ingredi mereamur. The Latin prayer was not in previous editions Missale … Read More
Transfiguration
Today is the titular feast of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome. "But Father! But Father", I can hear you objecting. "Don’t you know that that basilica is called ‘St. John‘? How can the Transfiguration of … Read More
PODCAzT 108: The new translation of the 3rd Eucharistic Prayer; Fr. Z digresses and rants
Herein we compare the lame-duck ICEL version of the 3rd Eucharistic Prayer now still in use with the new, approved and improved translation which we will soon be able to hear in our Churches. The new translation of the Roman … Read More
WDTPRS: zeal and mercy – 6th Sunday after Pentecost – COLLECT
Please flip open your own trusty copy of the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae Ordinis Anni Circuli 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 … Read More
WDTPRS: The Pallium, its blessing and imposition
Today during Holy Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter, near to Peter’s tomb, the Holy Father gave the pallium to new metropolitan archbishops. The pallium is a sign of the jurisdiction metropolitans have in their provinces and also a … Read More
WDTPRS: 4th Sunday after Pentecost – COLLECT (1962MR)
Today’s prayer is found in ancient sacramentaries, such as the Veronese and the “Hadrian” version of the Gregorian, and the so-called Gelasian. It is unchanged in the “Tridentine” form of the Missale Romanum as my trusty copy of the 1570MR … Read More
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – Post Communion (2002MR 1962MR)
The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord, or Corpus Christi, Corpus Domini in some places, actually falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. In the 1975 Missale Romanum, after the texts for the Mass, there is a … Read More
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…”
