Daily Rome Shot 457, etc.

Posted on 31 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Daily Mass Fervorini Page HERE

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Miscellaneous observations

Posted on 31 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

To fight the stupid persecution of the letter Z, please follow me on Twitter. Keep on ZEDDING!

A few interesting stories…

First, call about a long distance call.  HERE   In 1977 Voyager 1 was sent to the outer edge of the solar system.   In November, NASA wanted try to extend the probe’s life by doing a course correction with thrusters that haven’t been used in 37 years.  Voyager is so far away now that it took 19 hours for the confirmation signal to return.

Next, a Tulsa cop’s life was saved in a shooting incident because of a challenge coin he was carrying. HERE  I am still interested in challenge coin exchanges.  As a matter of fact, I just got my collection out of their box and rediscovered my own in another box.  I was going to have another one made for the occasion of the 100 millionth visit to to this blog, but time got away.  Had a design ready and everything.  Oh well.

Next, I am outraged.  This and the next story in line indicates that there is no limit to stupid.  It seems that there is now an attack on the letter Z because the Russians have Zs on their tanks, etc.  “Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called on the world to “criminalize” the letter ‘Z’, saying that it represents “Russia’s war of aggression.” Ironically he spelled the word ‘criminalise’ with a ‘z’, rather than use the correct English spelling with an ‘s’.”   Really.  This is a thing.  What’s a Fr. Z to do?  Maybe… since once the alphabet included as a last letter the “ampersand”.  &.   Fr. &?   And… or rather &, it has variations:

Since I share my native place with the late Prince, perhaps I should just go by &….etc.

& to make this easier…

Next, in a event at a homeless encampment in LA, Rep. Maxine Waters – once again making it unnecessary to check the Babylon Bee today – got frustrated with the crowd & told them, the homeless, to “go home”.   Yes, ladies & gentlemen, Maxine Waters.  Keeping our country on course.  HERE

However, on that page, an interesting thing popped up when I turned off the ad blockers so I could read that story (something I almost never do).  A video ad played in the pages main player for a site called Ham Radio Prep (hamradioprep.com) which purports to take you from step A through Z to get your Ham Radio License.  As it turns out right now they have a sale on for the Tech and General Exam prep courses.   It also turns out that I’ll be clearing out the cookies on my machine.

Getting a license isn’t that hard & it opens up all sorts of options in a world that is going to have some challenges.

Is it time for you to get that license & put some equipment together?  It is IMPORTANT that you start to NETWORK with others in your area, including a priest or two.  We don’t know what is going to go down in the next few months.

For these USA, here is one study guide for the entry level license: Technician

Make sure that any version you get is the guide for exams through 2022!

The Kindle version is about $10.

And there is this.

&, at QRZ, for example, there is a link to practice quizzes. HERE

To fight the obscene war on the letter Z, please follow me on Twitter.

 

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Fr. Z asks the readers: Is there a sommelier among you?

Posted on 30 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Is there a sommelier among you?

Contact me.  There could be an interesting opportunity.  HERE   In the subject line put “I’m a sommelier.”

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Daily Rome Shot 456, etc.

Posted on 30 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Daily Mass Fervorino HERE

Fervorino page

https://zuhlsdorf.computer/daily-mass-sermons-fervorini/

This one, this rather unusual madonnella.  I’ll be impressed if someone can locate this one.

Via Caritatis Wine GIFT CARDS HERE

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Fr. Z’s Kitchen: Long-distance breakfast with a reader

Posted on 30 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I’m having virtual breakfast this morning with one of you readers who sent me a wonderful surprise, which I relish.

There was no gift slip in the box from the UK, and the only address suggest that it was not the giver who did the packaging. God knows who you are and I will include you in my intended prayers for benefactors.

What, you might be wondering, was sent?

Patum Peperium!

US HERE – UK HERE

Just a little bit scraped over bread is not too little, as Bilbo was starting to feel as he aged, but is just the right amount, especially if the bread is good.

It is essentially a paste from anchovy with herbs.  I’ve written about it before.  Here, in a Zed-Head mug with strong English Breakfast Tea.

A wonderful change of pace from my usual powerful coffee and perhaps a little bread with jam and butter… or nothing.   Nothing other than coffee, that is.

The arrival of this Patum brightened two days, so far.  Happily, because it is used sparingly, there should be quite a few more.

The only problem is that, once I’ve finished off these rye toasts, I will want to start over.

UPDATE:

The last time I wrote about Patum (sent by commentator here Zephyrinus), and my attempt to make it myself, I had just received a book from Angelico Press, with a title that I relished.

Christ The Liturgy by William Daniel

US HERE – UK HERE

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Of Benedictines, Easter Cards and YOU. Or… If you send cards for Christmas, how much more for Easter?

Posted on 30 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I often mention that the Benedictines of Norcia make great beer and that when you but, you help them.  (That beer is really good.)

So, too, I mention the Benedictines of Le Barroux who make wine (and they now have GIFT CARDS!  A great gift idea HERE), the Benedictines in Frejus-Toulon who have a publishing concern and the Dominicans of Summit who make soap.

The Benedictines of Silverstream Priory in Ireland have produced some great things that I’ve mentioned here, such as my favorite set of altar cards for Mass and a great Way of the Cross for Priests.

Now the Silverstream Benedictines are making Easter Cards.

Here’s a lovely little video.

If you send cards for Christmas, how much more for Easter?

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Move fast so you can have these cards early in the Easter season!

I always enjoy your Christmas cards.  The notes and letters which describe the year people have had are interesting and, often, moving.  I read them all.   Easter cards would be great too.  This is perhaps a tradition to start or to revive.  Maybe even some Silverstream cards will come!

And the Christmasy drawings by kids were a hoot.  I’d bet they could do great Easter drawings.

As for Christmas I’ll try to post all the places whence they were mailed from around the world.  Keep in mind that if you don’t include your address, at least your city, I can’t easily do that.

I have a US PO BOX address.

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
733 Struck St.
PO BOX 44603
Madison, WI 53744-4603

That is the P.O. Box of the Tridentine Mass Society of Madison

Someone will regularly check the P.O. box for me and forward everything.  That will add aEaster little time to how long it takes to reach me.

Please DO NOT send perishable food items like … butter lambs or chocolate… anything. I am sure they would be wonderful but, please, just don’t.

If you want to send a box or something time sensitive contact me. HERE   We might be able to find you a faster address!

 

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SAVE THE LITURGY – SAVE THE WORLD: We need a strong revival of the Forty Hours Devotion and we need it NOW.

Posted on 29 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For years I’ve contended that we need a strong revival of the Forty Hours Devotion.

Forty Hours Devotion developed in time of necessity.  It is not a kind of long Corpus Christi.  It is not a long Holy Thursday.

It grew up to beg God for relief and protection from plague and invasion and other calamities.   It is a mighty public supplication to the Eucharistic Lord in time of trial.

Plague… invasion and calamities.  Sound familiar?

I was sent this video of Forty Hours at the mighty Brompton Oratory.   I sure miss that place and visits to London.

Once, dioceses had Forty Hours going on somewhere every week.   The year’s schedule for the churches where Forty Hours would be was even published in secular papers.   The clergy would invite each other to participate and priests would come to pray and then to spend time together afterwards… serious and good clericalism!  The final Mass was, under the Clementine Instruction about Forty Hours, is celebrated coram Sanctissimo!

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How is what Paul VI did to the Mass entirely unlike what Pius V did?

Posted on 29 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the great Fr. John Hunwicke at his elevating blog Mutual Enrichment [emphases and comments mine]:

Popes, Liturgy, and Authority (3): S PIUS V compared with S PAUL VI and PF

We are sometimes told that the imposition of a new rite by S Paul VI is precisely what S Pius V did in 1570.

It is not.

What S Paul VI did is precisely the opposite of what S Pius V did..

People who tell you anything different either have not read Quo primum … or cannot understand Latin … or have a regrettably fugitive grasp upon Truth.  [Or they just plain lie.]

S Pius V dealt with the question of churches with a Use of more than 200 years (i.e., going back to before the invention of printing made life so easy for liturgical tinkerers and innovators) in the following way.

He said “nequaquam auferimus” — in no way whatsoever do we take it (their old rite) off them.

It is true that he added a “permittimus” — we permit that, if they like my edition of the Missal better, they can adopt it “de episcopi vel praelati capitulique universi consensu” — provided that the bishop and the unanimous Chapter are in agreement.

If S Paul VI … or PF … had really wished to behave like S Pius V, they would have needed to decree something like this:

“We do not take away the right to use a Missal with more than 200 (or 600? Or 1200?) years of lawful use; but if a Bishop and his entire Chapter really do want to use my Novus Ordo instead, I will permit them to do so.”

As I recall, Fr. H posted this line of entirely accurate thought before, with a witty scenario involving a curmudgeonly canon.

Meanwhile, facts are stubborn.

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ASK FATHER: Marital relations in marriages of non-Catholics or Catholics to non-Catholics

Posted on 29 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader….

QUAERITUR:

In what status does the Church consider the marriages of non-Catholics/Catholics to non-Catholics and marital relations within such marriages? I ask due to a couple I know of where neither spouse is baptized and the husband is showing interest in the Church. There has been some uncertainty among acquaintances because one couple (both cradle Catholics who fell away and only recently returned to the Church, both with previous – annulled – marriages) were apparently instructed to maintain a Josephine marriage for a period of time, though they have not clarified the specifics of the timing. They are under the impression that Catholics married to non-Catholics (or at least non-Christians) are not permitted to engage in marital relations. I’ve tried to help, but this is an area of Church law with which I am totally unfamiliar, and there’s so much confusion regarding marriage matters in the Church I’m not sure I’d trust most internet research anyway.

GUEST PRIEST RESPONSE: Fr. Tim Ferguson

Marriage is marriage is marriage. Sacramental marriage is sacramental marriage. Not all marriages are sacramental. Only valid marriages between two baptized Christians is sacramental – only the baptized can receive a sacrament. So, if a baptized person is validly married to an unbaptized person, it’s not a sacrament, but it is a marriage.

A marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic is not ideal, but can be permitted by the Church. For a Catholic to marry a baptized non-Catholic, the local bishop needs to give his permission, which he will generally grant freely, as long as the non-Catholic party is aware that the Catholic party has the obligation of remaining faithful to the obligations he (or she) accepted at baptism, and that includes the obligation of sharing the faith – especially of sharing the faith with any children that may be born to the marriage. For a Catholic to marry an unbaptized person, the bishop needs to give, not just permission, but a dispensation of the law.

Now, in the situation given to us, the marriage took place between two unbaptized persons. Check – presumably valid marriage. One of the parties is thinking about becoming Catholic. Hooray! When he is baptized, he brings his marriage with him. It’s still not sacramental, because you can’t have half a sacrament, but it’s a real marriage. There is no requirement that he abstain from intimacy with his legitimate spouse, no requirement that the marriage be a Josephite one (not a Josephine marriage, but a Josephite marriage). As I understand it, a Josephine marriage is when a French general civilly marries the widow of another French general and the husband later becomes First Consul and agrees to marry in the presence of the Pope as a condition for the couple being crowned as Emperor and Empress of France. It’s pretty rare.

In any case, curiosity about the goings-on of other people’s marriage is best kept to a minimum, if at all. Let them work out those details with their pastor, wish them all sorts of happiness, and then turn the conversation to sports, the weather, politics, or early 19th century French history.

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ASK FATHER: If Francis isn’t the real Pope, then do the priests of the SSPX still lack faculties to absolve sins?

Posted on 29 March 2022 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

If the SSPX, until 2015, lacked faculties for confession, then, in the event that Benedict is still the pope and not Francis, does that mean the SSPX actually still lack faculties and sins are not being absolved? Or would the Church supply in that case?
I’ve been going to SSPX Masses for about 2 months now, confession too, and this only occurred after reading your 2013 post about SSPX confessions not being valid at that time.

Background. During the Year of Mercy, in a round about way Francis gave faculties to the priests of the SSPX to hear confessions and validly absolve, thus giving them broader faculties than regularized priests!    Irony, much?   Francis extended that at the end of the Year of Mercy.

Of course the priests of the Society of St. Pius X would be unconcerned about whether or not a Pope gave them faculties.  They will say that they have faculties anyway.

For the sake of the question, however, we can look at this as a mind exercise.

If Benedict is still THE POPE, that changes a lot of things.

So, imagine.  Benedict is still pope, but he let’s another pretend that he is pope. One could argue that, especially with something as important to the salvation of souls as Confession, if Realpope Benedict permitted Fakepope… let’s call him Edgar, Fakepope Edgar to permit Catholics to receive valid absolution from priests of the SSPX, then such permission would implicitly have the approval of Realpope Benedict.  Decrees should be in writing, but one can imagine a scenario where Realpope Benedict doesn’t want anyone to know he’s really The Pope.  To avoid a paper trail, Realpope Benedict just verbal consent to the decree of Fakepope Edgar.   This should be a movie!

Another scenario.  Realpope Benedict remains The Pope. He is being held against his will and excluded from acting as The Pope. In this scenario, Fakepope – let’s call this one Derek, Fakepope Derek is an evil mastermind, pretending to be pope while he holds the Realpope Benedict captive.  In this case, every act of Fakepope Derek would be invalid. One can then wonder…. would the faithful, deceived by Fakepope Derek, be sent to the bowels of hell with unabsolved sins on their souls because the priests of the SSPX lacked faculties?  Here, the Church gives us can. 144: common error.  Common error is the sort of error that would arise if the entire Church were to have been deceived and the man acknowledged by the Cardinals and even, apparently, The Real Pope as being the pope – attempted to provide the governance required for valid absolution.

Now, as long as we’re at it, if the NASA really didn’t land men on the moon in 1969, then the validity of the Diocese of Orlando’s claim to jurisdiction over the moon would be questionable.   BUT!  Should a priest from Orlando officiate at a wedding on the moon, common error would provide the jurisdiction for that act as well.

 

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