Daily Rome Shot 1064 – NEW ABBOT!

Posted on 1 July 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Figs are in season.

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White to move and mate in 3.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

In chessy news, the location of the World Championship has been revealed: Singapore. Also, 10 year-old Faustino Oro has become the youngest International Master in history. Today is a rest day in Bucharest. Fabiano Caruana is in the lead. Wesley is tied with several guys in third after his draw yesterday with Pragg. Lots of drawn games so far.

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1 July – Most Precious Blood and the Feasts of St. Junipero Serra and St. Aaron, brother of Moses

Posted on 1 July 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A thought for you:

Though we all may be different in height or sex or shape of eye and color of skin, we all bleed the same red Our Savior bled for our sins.

Our unifying human blood, divinely infused, courses ruddy within His risen veins, His glorious and still lacerated Sacred Heart!

What a powerful proof of the unity of our entire race.

Today is the Feast of the Most Precious Blood… in the older, traditional calendar of the Roman Rite.  Thus we inaugurate the month of July, during which in a special way, fire up our devotion to the Most Precious Blood of the Lord.

Every even tiny drop is worth the salvation of the souls of everyone who has ever lived.

While many have and will accept the gift Christ won by the pouring out of His Precious Blood, not all will.

Here is the Collect:

Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui unigénitum Fílium tuum mundi Redemptórem constituísti, ac eius Sánguine placári voluísti: concéde, quaesumus, salútis nostræ prétium sollémni cultu ita venerári, atque a præséntis vitæ malis eius virtúte deféndi in terris; ut fructu perpétuo lætémur in coelis.

Here is someone else’s translation:

Almighty, eternal God, Who made Your only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to be reconciled by His Blood, grant us, we beseech You, so to worship in this sacred rite the price of our salvation, and to be so protected by its power against the evils of the present life on earth, that we may enjoy its everlasting fruit in heaven.

And… by the way… today is also the feast of St. Aaron, brother of Moses.

Some people may not realize that many great figures of the Old Testament are considered saints and are listed in the Roman Martyrology.

Here is his entry in the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum:

1. Commemoratio sancti Aaron, de tribu Levi, qui a Moyse fratre oleo sacro unctus est sacerdos Veteris Testamenti et in monte Hor depositus.

Who wants to translate this for the readers?

Also, today is the, in the Novus Ordo calendar, the feast of St. Junipero Michael Serra Ferrer, whose memory is being attacked, sacrilegiously, these days. I was so pleased when Archbp. Cordileone read the Title XI, Chapter 3 exorcism at Golden State Park where the demoniac influenced mob tore his statue down.

Here is his Collect (Notitiae 269 Vo. 24 (1988) p. 928:

Deus, cuius ineffabili misericordia plurimas Americae gentes Ecclesiae tuae per Sanctum Iuniperum Serra, aggregare dignatus es; da nobis, eius intercessione, ita corda nostra tibi in caritate coniungere ut imaginem Unigeniti Filii tui coram hominibus semper et ubique portare valeamus. Qui tecum vivit et regnat.

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30 June 2024: What’s going on?

Posted on 30 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As I write, there is a big problem with the back end of the blog, what is “under the hood” that drives it. It has to do with the WordPress engine and data base. The wonderful people who give me tech support are “coincidently” hampered from assisting. No blame to them. Circumstances are too amazing.

Blog problems cropped up on the Vigil of the Feast of St. Peter and Paul. I noticed that the blog’s admin was slow. On the Feast itself, worse. Today, Sunday but the Commemoration of St. Paul, but the 6th Sunday after Pentecost.

In this period, there was a consecration of the new Abbot of the traditional Benedictine monastery in Norcia, Italy. It was the first elevation of an abbey in Italy since the 1960s. That says a lot about the life of the Church in Italy. My main blog tech fellow is an oblate of that abbey and he went to the consecration of the new Abbot. Therefore….

In this last 48 hours or so, I lost all audio settings on the laptop that handles the live stream of my Masses. I fought with it for a couple hours (after midnight), which screwed up my next day. Then I had internet problems. The problems with the blog were underway. Today, when I tried to print out notes for days Mass (I read the readings in English and give a fervorino), neither of my printers would work.

Not only that, although I just managed to replace the roof on my house (which I wouldn’t have had to do were I not treated so well by a certain bishop, leaving me financially devastated – thanks, I pray for you), I have now found other difficulties that require some urgent attention precisely in the place where my home chapel is. I am not sure, but I may have related that I am pretty sure I and this place are under siege. When I had the place painted, I anointed the walls with chrism before the painting and put Miraculous Medals and St. Benedict Medals in the nooks and crannies before the place was refloored. A priest friend of mine who is an exorcist helped me do a dual exorcism of the place. However, I keep getting indications of affliction, including one day when I entered the chapel to say Mass for the anniversary of the death of a prominent Catholic figure, and a frog was sitting on the altar.

Get the picture?

Someone doesn’t like me.

Writing this will surely bring more problems. PERSEVERE.

Friends, the axe will be falling again soon and more people will suffer. I address myself to them.

Do NOT NOT NOT waver in your dedication to being a faithful Roman Catholic. NEVER. Do NOT for a moment consider orthodoxy (massively dysfunctional and NOT the Church Christ intended). Never give up! Never Surrender!

Tech.

However, I had already determined, in light of what I am hearing about a potential document attacking people who want the Vetus Ordo – while I now believe based on what I hear will indeed come on 16 July, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (again) – is not only aimed at diocesan priests (guys like me, though I’ve been partially cancelled) it is aimed at bishops. I believe that they are going to be forbidden to use the Pontificale Romanum.

This is sacramental contraception.
In view of what I think is on the way, I had intended to post for the Feast of the Most Precious Blood – 1 July – an urgent plea for prayers for defense of the Traditional Latin Mass. I wanted to urge people to take action now for home chapels and to network with the priests.

I’ll postpone some other comments about what I think is going on. This is the auxiliary bridge.

I ask prayers for the protection of the Holy Angels from spiritual and temporal harm.

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Daily Rome Shot 1063

Posted on 30 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This post is late because I am having problems with the “back end” of the blog, the admin area. I am hoping for some support for this soon. Meanwhile, what I can do is hit and miss.

There was a procession yesterday evening at the Basilic of St. Paul outside-the-walls, with the chains that held St. Paul.  Members of the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Trinity (from my adoptive parish) were chosen to help carry the reliquary.

One thing I do wish is that the videos would be horizontal.

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About the Apostolic Pardon given to the dying. Wherein Fr. Z informs and admonishes!

Posted on 28 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Looking back at some posts, I found this which (though from happier days in 2021, despite everything) bears repeating.

Two recent email exchanges brought up the importance of the Apostolic Pardon (AP).  It is also sometimes called the Apostolic Blessing.

The AP is a special indulgence given by a priest to a person who is dying which remits all temporal punishment due to sins.

The AP does not, itself, forgive sins.   The AP should be received in the state of grace.  Hence, it is generally imparted after sacramental confession of sins (if possible) and/or the sacrament of anointing, and possibly with Viaticum (final reception of the Eucharist).

NB: If there is no priest available at the time, a person can gain a plenary indulgence at the time of death if they are properly disposed and under the usual conditions.  That means you need to be aware of it and be thinking about it when the time comes!  That means you have to be thinking about death NOW, not later.  NOW.  NOW.  NOW.

We have to practice dying, in a certain sense, so that we will be good at it when it comes.

With Summorum Pontificum we have also the traditional form of the AP along with two newer forms.

The older, traditional form of the AP:

“Ego facultate mihi ab Apostolica Sede tributa, indulgentiam plenariam et remissionem omnium peccatorum tibi concedo et benedico te. In nomine Patris, et Filii, + et Spirtus Sancti, Amen.”

“By the Faculty which the Apostolic See has given me, I grant you a plenary indulgence and the remission of all your sins, and I bless you. In the Name of the Father and the Son + and the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

Two newer forms:

“Ego facultáte mihi ab Apostólica Sede tribúta, indulgéntiam plenáriam et remissiónem ómnium peccatórum tibi concédo, in nómine Patris, et Fílii, + et Spíritus Sancti. Amen”

“By the authority which the Apostolic See has given me, I grant you a full pardon and the remission of all your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit.”

“Per sancrosáncta humánæ reparatiónis mystéria, remíttat tibi omnípotens Deus omnes præséntis et futúræ vitæ pœnas, paradísi portas apériat et ad gáudia te sempitérna perdúcat. Amen.”

“Through the holy mysteries of our redemption, may almighty God release you from all punishments in this life and in the life to come. May He open to you the gates of paradise and welcome you to everlasting joy.”

Frankly, that last one seems … meh… let’s just say that the sign of the Cross is important.  However, lay people are not to bless in the manner of a priest.

Again, if a priest cannot be had, the Church grants a plenary indulgence, to be acquired at the moment of death, to any a) rightly disposed Christian who b) in life was accustomed to say some prayers, with the Church herself supplying the three conditions normally required for gaining a plenary indulgence (Confession, Communion and prayers for the Pope’s intentions).

Take aways…

  1. GO TO CONFESSION
  2. Pray diligently

What did St. Paul suggest in 1 Thessalonians 5:17.

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Daily Rome Shot 1062

Posted on 28 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Yesterday, I thanked the reader who sent the filleting knife.  I got a nice note in return, catching up on news of people we know in common.  However, the very intelligent and kind reader finished the note this way:

Enjoy the fillet knife, Father. I’m going to tape a small note on my laptop and my husband’s to remind us to use your affiliate link when ordering from Amazon (we both need the visual reminder to break the old habit of typing amaz… and clicking the url that automatically pops up just a few keystrokes in).
Take care, and God bless you!

That’s great! I hope others will do the same. It really makes a difference for my bills.

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I had a note from another reader, really nice.

Thank you for your “kitchen”
Made alla amatriciana. Boffo reviews!
(I did buy Italian pecorino afterwards)
Tomorrow (Friday) Collatura and fresh angel hair

All’amatriciana! So good. I wrote back:

Thanks. Macerate finely diced and then mashed garlic in the colatura for a few minutes. Have fresh Italian parsley, chopped at the last moment with close chops with a very sharp knife. Don’t overcook the angel hair. Have a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking and to chill the pasta. Serve the dish cold. I use a salad spinner to get rid of excess water. If the spinner has big holes in the spinner part, line with paper towels. A grind of fresh pepper is good. A little hot pepperoncino or cayenne is fun.

Enjoy! I really like the colatura. UMAMI BOMB! And the ancient Romans would have loved it. Just like garum!

Get some colatura HERE.

Black to move and mate in 3.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

In chessy news, the battle is engaged in Bucharest.  Fabi and Gukesh are tied for first.  However, yesterday in Round 2 my guy Wesley So got into a bad position against Fabiano so much so that, in the post-game interview, he said he had considered resigning several times.  But Wesley kept going.  A lesson for us all.  He managed to snatch a draw from Fabi, who got into time trouble and made mistakes.  Round 3 today is underway as I type.

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Behold the Good Shepherd

Posted on 27 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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A Fr. Z OLDIE rant! First Blessings by new priests. Indulgenced? NO! Latin texts for blessings.

Posted on 27 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This has been ordination season, for deacons and priests even in the Diocese of Libville.  It is always a pleasure to read of ordinations.  HOWEVER… there are issues concerning claims of indulgences and about the manner of newly ordained priests imparting blessings.  I posted some information about this some time ago, which I now share again.

There have been quite a few ordinations in the last month or so.  I am always glad to see the pictures or good videos.  However, year in and year out, I note with a measure of concern among the newly ordained and younger priests a trend to be curtailed as soon as possible.

Fathers, when you give your first blessings, don’t hunch over people and grab their heads as if you were a dark wizard extracting their life force for your own evil purposes.

Firstly, don’t hunch.   Next, stand up straight.  If you simply must hold your hands over someone, hold them straight and parallel to the ground.   When you make the Sign of the Cross, put your left hand on your breast while you make the Sign with your right.

And… just how much piety do you think you can squeeze into a blessing before people get impatient or lost in what you are trying to say?  There is no need to throw in all sorts of other ingredients as if those to be blessed were lined up at a salad bar …  sprinklings of pious imagery, vague invocations of niceness and holy fluff, rambling discourses that dead end in words like “beautiful” … you know of which I speak.

Say the blessing and get over yourselves.

The blessing:

Benedíctio Dei omnípotentis Patris, et + Filii, et Spiritus Sancti descéndat super te [plural: vos] et máneat semper. Amen.

May the blessing of Almighty God, Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit/Ghost, descend upon you and remain with you forever. Amen.

Memorize this.

This is also the blessing the priest should give to servers after Mass.

HOWEVER: There are some blessing prayers for people having to do with their state in life.  Some, quite lovely.  You would probably have to have these texts.   Alas, I don’t have their provenance.  I had an old file that has gone from computer to computer over the years and eventually to this blog.   These are blessings prayers for new priests.

Formulæ Benedictionum

Sacerdoti:

Resúscitet in te Dóminus grátiam Spíritus Sancti quam per mánuum impositiónem accepísti, ut sis dignus mínister Christi et fidélis dispensátor misteriórum Dei – sis sal Christi numquam infatuándum et lucérna ardens in domo Dei – memor sit Dóminus omnis sacrifícii tui, et holocaústum tuum pingue fiat. Tríbuat tibi Dóminus longitúdinem diérum et finálem grátiam, ut possis bonum certámen certáre et cursum tuum felíciter consummáre, adiuvánte Dómino nostro Iesu Christo, qui vivit et regnat cum Deo Patre in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia saécula sæculórum. Amen.

Clerico [Let’s call this deacons and major seminarians]:

Effúndat super te Dóminus Spíritum sapiéntiæ et intelléctus, consílii, sciéntiæ, fortitúdinis, pietátis ac timóris Dómini, ut evádas sacérdos secúndum cor Dei. Adímpleat Deus petitiónes tuas et omne consílium tuum confírmet, ac omni benedictióne cœlésti ac terréstri benedícat te Deus Pater et Fílius et Spíritus Sanctus.  Amen.

Regulari vel Moniali:

Deprecatiónes tuas admíttat Dóminus ad sacrárium exauditiónis suæ, ut possis gloriári in cruce Dómini nostri Iesu Christi, per quem tibi mundus crucifíxus est et tu mundo, et cui fidéliter desérvis, ipse sit tibi merces tua, qui vivit regnat cum Deo Patre in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia saécula sæculórum. Amen.

Patri vel Matri [adjust if they are together]:

Accipe Pater (Mater) benedictiónem a fílio, qui tibi sit báculus in senectúte tua, benedícat te Deus benedictiónibus cœli et terræ, ímpleat omnes petitiónes tuas, det tibi ómnia secúndum cor tuum, confírmet omne consílium tuum. Largiátur tibi de abscóndito thesaúro suo, plenitúdinem omnis grátiæ et longitúdinem vitæ tuæ; cum autem defécerit virtus tua non derelínquat te Dóminus, sed tríbuat tibi finálem grátiam meque in ætérnæ claritátis gaúdio fáciat te vidére, qui vivit et regnat in saécula sæculórum. Amen.

Fratri vel Sorori:

Accipe frater (soror) benedictiónem a fratre tuo, quam Deus ratam hábeat in conspéctu suo (reliqua si sit adolescens, ut infra pro adolescente; si virgo, ut pro virgine.)

Adolescenti:

Omnipoténtia ætérni Dei Patris consérvet te, Fílii Dei sapiéntia erúdiat te, et Spíritus Sancti cáritas inflámmet te, ut crescas sapiéntia et ætáte, ac grátia apud Deum et hómines. Sis báculus in senectúte tuórum paréntum, et vídeas bona Ierúsalem ómnibus diébus vitæ tuæ, ac omni benedictióne cœlésti ac terréstri benedícat te Deus, Pater et Fílius et Spíritus Sanctus.

Virgini:

Tríbuat tibi Dóminus de abscóndito thesaúro suo grátiam, ut sis virgo sápiens, et una de número prudéntum. Effúndat super te Spíritum pietátis, castitátis ac timóris sui, ut sponso cœlésti complacére, et ad thálamum eius admitti mereáris, qui vivit et regnat in saécula sæculórum. Amen.

Benedictio communis: [along with the other one, above, the winner!]

Omni benedictióne cœlésti et terréstri, benedícat te omnípotens Deus, Pater et Fílius et Spíritus Sanctus. Amen.

Benedictio generalis: in casu innumerabilis populi ambas manus extendendo dicit:

Pax Dómini nostri Iesu Christi, et virtus sanctíssimæ passiónis, et signum sanctæ crucis, et intégritas beatíssimæ Maríæ Vírginis, intercessiónes ómnium Sanctórum et suffrágia electórum Dei sint in vobis, ut inimícos vestros visíbiles et invisíbiles, máxime in hora mortis superáre valeátis, et omni benedictióne cœlésti et terréstri benedícat vos omnípotens Deus, Pater et Fílius et Spíritus Sanctus.

Per impositiónem (extensiónem*) mánuum meárum sacerdotálium, et per intercessiónem beátæ Maríæ semper Vírginis, et Sancti (Sanctæ)…, et ómnium Sanctórum; Benedíctio Dei Omnipoténtis, Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti, descéndat super te (vos) et máneat semper Amen.

* “Extensiónem” was/is used for anyone tonsured or for consecrated nuns.  You wouldn’t touch them.

Another thing about 1st Blessings.

While there is a plenary indulgence given to the faithful who assist devoutly at the first Mass of a priest (and also as his 25, 50, 60 and 70 year anniversaries, as per Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, art. 27), there is no indulgence now for receiving the first BLESSING of a priest.

HOWEVER: The law permits diocesan bishops the right to grant partial indulgences to their subjects (Enchiridion 7).   Hence, a new priest could ask the bishop to grant for a period of time – say 30 days – a partial indulgence for those who receive his first blessing.  In the case of religious, the newly ordained’s major superior could ask the bishop to grant this.

 

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27 June: Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Posted on 27 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have great affection for the title of Our Lady “Perpetual Help”.  At my home parish in St. Paul every Tuesday evening there was the recitation of the Novena of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, followed by Benediction with the Litany of the Heart of Jesus and then confessions.  Many came.   One got to know all the prayers by heart.

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Here is the lovely collect:

Domine Iesu Christe, qui Genitricem tuam Mariam, cujus insignem veneramur imaginem, Matrem nobis dedisti perpetuo succurrere paratam: concede, quaesumus; ut nos, maternam ejus opem assidue implorantes, redemptionis tuae fructum perpetuo experiri mereamur:…

Anyone want to have a go at it?

They had to get that “redemptio” in there, since the Redemptorists have the image in their church in Rome, Sant’Alfonso.

Here’s is Daniel Mitsui’s fusion version.

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Daily Rome Shot 1061

Posted on 27 June 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Thanks to DK for signing up for a new monthly donation. Also, thanks to SU for items from my wishlist. I’ll do my best to avoid doing what people usually do with a new knife! (It’s a flexible fillet knife.)

White to move and mate in 2.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

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In Bucharest, Gukesh beat Deac and with black Fabiano beat “Puer”.  Always satisfying.  The other games were draws.    Round 2 is going on as I write: My guy Wesley So is up again Fabiano. Go GMWSO!

Tomorrow there is a somewhat informal tournament in a nearby town (45 min away).  Should I go?

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