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Daily Rome Shot 463, etc.

Posted on 7 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Daily Mass Fervorino: HERE
Daily Fervorino Page: HERE

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From chess.com today
Black to move

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YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

Posted on 6 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read?

Continued from THESE.

Let’s remember all who are ill, who will die soon, who have lost their jobs, and who are afraid.

I get many requests by email asking for prayers. Some are heart-achingly grave and urgent.

As long as my blog reaches so many readers in so many places, let’s give each other a hand. We should support each other in works of mercy.

If you have some prayer requests, feel free to post them below.

You have to be registered here to be able to post.

I ask a prayer for myself. I’m dealing with a lot of challenges right now.

Posted in SESSIUNCULA, Urgent Prayer Requests | Tagged Your Urgent Prayer Requests
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Daily Rome Shot 462, etc.

Posted on 6 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Daily Fervorino HERE

Daily Fervorino Page: HERE

Photo by The Great Roman™

Posted in Sermons, SESSIUNCULA | Tagged Rome Shots, sermons
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A note of thanks and something truly weird that I promise I will never do

Posted on 5 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Sometimes I receive items from my wishlist and there is no gift slip or indication who sent them. That has recently occurred, to my great frustration.

That said, thanks to the person recently sent a helpful powertool.

I did find the slip for the tomatoes and the jam. Thanks, GS! They are always appreciated. As a matter of fact, yesterday for lunch I had a PBJ and I used tomatoes in the evening for supper with guests from out of town.

His etiam scriptis, I saw that the ironing board that was on the list seems to be on its way. Thank you. I don’t know who you are… yet. But thanks in advance. The table wasn’t working for me any more. Also, I seriously hate ironing, and not having the proper gear for it makes it all that much more onerous.

While I may not enjoy the ironing board in the way that I will enjoy the tomatoes, I also solemnly promise not to do the following.

Did you know that there is something called extreme ironing? Yes… this is a thing. HERE

Posted in You must be joking! | Tagged extreme ironing
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Daily Rome Shot 461, etc.

Posted on 4 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Use your phone’s camera!

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ASK FATHER: Now that canon law allows for females to be instituted acolytes, can a female be straw subdeacon in a Solemn Mass?

Posted on 4 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

Now that canon law allows for females to be instituted acolytes, is it possible, prudential, for a female to be a straw subdeacon in a solemn high mass?

Listen here wise guy. You are probably not a biologist… or maybe a biologian. So, you are unqualified to know what a woman is, much less a woman acolyte!

We are bound by the current – always changing – Code of Canon Law, but we are also bound by the grammar of the rubrics, which refer to the subdiaconus not the subdiacona much less a subdiaconx.

Straw subdeaconettes? No. As with deaconettes… a sin that would cry to Heaven.

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Pò sì jiù | Tagged deaconettes, straw subdeacon
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ASK FATHER: Can I get a dispensation from my Sunday Mass obligation from an SSPX priest?

Posted on 3 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader….

QUAERITUR:

I generally fulfill my Sunday obligation by assisting at a Mass said at a nearby SSPX chapel. We have an opportunity to attend a family reunion in a few months. Given how far away we live and how scattered the family has become, and how old certain members have become, we are not confident that we will have another opportunity to see all of them again. Here is the catch: it is over a Sunday, and the nearest Mass (TLM or NO) is over four hours away.

SSPX priests have chapels, and not parishes because they lack the canonical jurisdiction to establish parishes within dioceses. Is a dispensation to miss Mass required under these circumstances? Can the pastor of my SSPX chapel grant it, or must I go to the nearest diocesan parish to ask permission not to go to Mass from a place I never go to Mass?

Firstly, we have to clarify a couple of things.

You are correct on the point that the SSPX isn’t a parish and the priest in charge at that chapel, whom I’m sure is a fine, diligent priest, is not a pastor (parochus… “the parish priest… pastor”). Hence, the SSPX priest there doesn’t have the ability to dispense. The ability to dispense requires jurisdiction. Sadly, the SSPX priests do not have jurisdiction… yet. We can pray, hope and work towards that day, but for now they don’t.

The dispensation would have to come from your territorial pastor (or if you are a true member of a personal parish, from that pastor). REMEMBER: Being REGISTERED at a some parish that is not your territorial pastor does NOT make you a member of that parish! Registration provides little more than names and addresses for them to send you envelopes or perhaps to provide some services for you. This is part of the reality of having wildly differing priests and parishes in a highly mobile society.

Contact your local, territorial parish priest, the pastor. If he gives you any grief, contact your diocesan vicar general and ask for the dispensation. Not all of them are jerks, and you will probably obtain what you need.

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Canon Law, SSPX | Tagged dispensation, SSPX, Sunday obligation
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NYC: Opus Dei priest at St. Agnes canceled the Sunday TLM after decades of tradition

Posted on 3 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In New York City for over 30 years, long before Pope Benedict’s Summorum Pontificum, the Traditional Latin Mass or Vetus Ordo was celebrated at the Church of St. Agnes near Grand Central Terminal. Opus Dei took over the parish.

The Opus Dei priest in charge has announced that today will be the last day for the old use. Thud.

It will be replaced by the Novus Ordo in Spanish. Yet another Novus Ordo Mass in Spanish.

So much for not making those attached to Tradition feel marginalized.

A photo from today’s final Mass…

Posted in Traditionis custodes | Tagged Archd. New York
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CQ CQ CQ: Ham Radio – #ZedNet reminder – 3 April ’22

Posted on 3 April 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Fellow hams, here’s a reminder about ZedNet for Sunday 3 March ’22 – evening at 2000h EST. (0100h ZULU Monday).

NB: I CANNOT BE NET CONTROL TONIGHT. Will one of you volunteer?

It is possible that I could get it started, but I can’t remain long.

We now have the site running: http://zednet.xyz

Zednet exists on the…

Yaesu System Fusion (Wires-X) “room” 28598, and 83466 which is cross-linked to
Brandmeister (BM) DMR worldwide talkgroup 31429 (More HERE)
Echolink WB0YLE-R

Fellow hams who have access locally to a Yaesu System Fusion repeater, a repeater on the BM network, or a multi-mode hotspot registered with BM can get on and have a rag chew…. 24/7/365

Want to get involved? WB0YLE provided a Bill Of Materials, with links, for what you need. HERE THIS WAS UPDATED on 22 March 2021

I created a page for the List of YOUR callsigns. HERE Chime in or drop me a note if your call doesn’t appear in the list.