Fr. Z's Blog | Formerly entitled: "What Does The Prayer Really Say?" – Clear, straight commentary on Catholic issues, liturgy and life by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf o{]:¬)

Daily Rome Shot 179

Posted on 5 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged Rome Shot
2 Comments

Your Good News

Posted on 4 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Do you have some good news for the readership? How are things going with churches where you are? Is COVID Theater diminishing? (Good news, please.)

For my part, I am so very grateful for help I have received from people regarding my packing and moving. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am grateful to my benefactors and will say Mass for them again today. I am happy that things are loosing up a bit around here. Yesterday at the grocery store and another shop many people were without masks and they were pretty much grinning at everybody.

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
38 Comments

Daily Rome Shot 178

Posted on 4 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged Rome Shot
1 Comment

Just For Nice

Posted on 3 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is really nice. A little relief from the grim.

I love the Viennese tradition of decorating the monstrance with flowers on the feast of Corpus Christi. pic.twitter.com/QF4o0ER7TV

— Peter Anthony (@FrPeterAnthony) June 3, 2021

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged Corpus Christi
1 Comment

“Katonda!” The Feast of St Charles Lwanga, Martyr. Best patron saint for LGBT month!

Posted on 3 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

“Katonda!”

This year today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, but in 2022 I will with real pleasure be able to celebrate, using the Traditional Missale Romanum, the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga. The decree Cum sanctissima allows for the celebration of Saints canonized after 1962 provided that the day is not some feast that would outweigh it.

Here is what I posted on St. Charles in the past.

If you don’t know this saint, be sure to read it. It is powerful.

As “Pride” month continues…

Today is the feast of St. Charles Lwanga and companions, murder victims and martyrs of homosexual depravity.

Today we might also contemplate the various ways in which the State is encroaches in our lives in this regard and tries to force us to do things that are repugnant to nature and to God’s laws.

Today we should especially ask God to forgive and convert all those who in any way have contributed to or succumbed to any aspect of what is rightly called toxic “gender theory” and called demonic, due to its origin.

ASK FATHER: Cursed by a witch through a dating site. Now really bad things are happening.

Posted on 3 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

Hi Father,

Here is a hard one, and a subject you would probably rather avoid. But I truly need to talk to someone and I hope you can offer a few words of advice.

What happened was that I was using an international dating site and chatting with women around the world, just kind of fun and harmless. A middle aged black women from Sudan messaged me and I responded. We chatted just a few seconds amiably and she asked if I had a picture. Well, stupidly, I sent her a picture of myself and my Golden Retriever. She immediately disconnected from the website. Then a couple days later reappeared there and said “Good Evening. I ran out of airtime.” However that was not the case.

I was now getting red splotches on my arms and hands and just a day after this my back gave out and I have had to begin using a cane to get around. Several times in my house my nose started bleeding spontaneously. I have had a number of very strange uncanny experiences right in my own home (I can send you physical evidence of some of this by email). Worst of all, I am no longer able to sleep at night. I have to take Ambien or there is not one minute of sleep, night after night. Ambien can only be taken short-term.

This will gradually wear me down and I am frankly scared. If this goes on indefinitely my health will collapse. The idea that a woman in Sudan, a witch presumably, can or would do this to an American on the other side of the world for no obvious reason is bizarre I know. But it has happened to me and I don’t know what to do. I need some advice badly.

Many thanks for any insights you may be able to provide.

An “international dating site”. What could go wrong?

Firstly, check in with your doctor.

I took this seriously and consulted an highly experienced exorcist.

His advice.

1. Order this book: HERE

Say the pertinent prayers for your case – there are many there. Do a severance of soul ties. “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I (state his name) renounce and reject all the legitimate soul ties all illegitimate soul ties with the Sudanese witch. Everything I gave her, I take back. Everything she gave me, I return to her. In the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” (THREE TIMES).

2. Contact the diocese and ask to meet with the diocesan exorcist. If the diocese refuses to help, seek to seek a local priest who is willing to do prayers of deliverance and minor exorcisms, using this book: HERE

3. If they all refuse to help contact the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother: https://dolorans.org

Comment moderation is ON.

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Si vis pacem para bellum! | Tagged curses, exorcism, Manual of Minor Exorcisms, witchcraft, witches
15 Comments

Daily Rome (not!) Shot 177

Posted on 3 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In the first days
of the year 2020
an unknown virus
which came from China
sewed distress and many dead
in the whole world.
Moreover, the Palio of July
and August was not run.
This stone is intended to call to mind
this terrible occurrence.

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
Comments Off

A repressive document against the Traditional Latin Mass would be a disaster for those who promulgate and enforce it

Posted on 3 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At Catholic Culture Phil Lawler has some thoughts about the rumored document that would enervate Benedict XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” Summorum Pontificum. Such a document, as rumor has it, could be a kind of ecclesiastical “slave act of 2021”* which would return diocesan priests to forced servitude to their ring-wearing masters in the big house.

Lawler argues that such a document would be a “disaster”, and not just for those who desire the Traditional Latin Mass, the number of whom is growing very fast. In some places it is the most vibrant sector of the Church’s life due to the increasingly dedicated participation of young people and, especially, young families.

It is Lawler’s view that the “disaster” also resides in the contradiction that the document implies. Benedict XVI said that the TLM was never abrogated and said that “what earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful”.

If this rumored document is released, to the detriment of all these priests and people, a signal of traumatic discontinuity will be sent through the whole Church. As Lawler puts it:

[I]f Pope Francis can contradict the teaching of Pope Benedict, what is to prevent a future Pontiff from contradicting Pope Francis? Anyone who is genuinely interested in preserving papal authority (as opposed to gaining a temporary advantage in intramural debates) should recognize the mischief this draft document could cause.

[…]

If he contradicts the teaching of previous Pontiffs—if he suggests that what was once sacred is sacred no longer—he attacks the base on which his own authority rests.

In Rome there is a saying: “Morto ‘n papa se ne fa un antro. … A Pope dies, you make another.” Popes come and go. If one Pope, through sheer use of force, overturns the work of his predecessor, the next Pope could do the same to his work. And so on and so on. The whole institution is undermined. This works on every level, in the Church: diocesan chanceries… parishes. A new ~~pharaoh~~ bishop or pastor arrives and – BAM! – he overturns what his predecessor worked to build.

Ironically, those who want to bring down a sledge-hammer on the aspirations of young people and so many priests spent the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI whining about top-down use of power.

But that is the sort of hypocrisy with which the Left rolls.

It is possible that the rumors about a new “slave act of 2021” are part of a “false flag” campaign of disinformation, to discomfit and incite those who have traditional aspirations. It is possible.

But, as the Romans say, “Fidasse è bbene, nun fidasse è mmejo”.

*The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was ” arguably the most hated and openly violated piece of federal legislation in the nation’s history.”

Posted in Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill |
19 Comments

NEW can. 1379 § 3 makes a canonical crime an attempt to ordain a woman to ANY of the three sacred orders (episcopate, priesthood, diaconate)

Posted on 2 June 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Yesterday I wrote about the new Book VI of the Latin Church’s Code of Canon Law. This new Book VI, dealing with offenses and punishments, completely replaces the older version. Some changes are mere rearranging. Others are more substantive. Yesterday I mentioned one of the substantive changes.

Can. 1379 § 3. Both a person who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; a cleric, moreover, may be punished by dismissal from the clerical state.

However, this new canon makes it explicit: women cannot be ordained. Women cannot be ordained to any of the three sacred orders. Period. They cannot be ordained as bishops, priests or deacons.

The diaconate (order of deacon) is a sacred order. It is one of the three grades of Holy Orders.

Two “deaconette” study Commissions in Rome notwithstanding, if there were any serious notion of a possible ordination of women to the diaconate, this canon would not have been included in the new Book VI. Instead, in the interim, the older language would have been retained or expunged. But, no. It was made more explicit still.

And please note that word “attempts”. “A person who attempts to ordain…”. That excludes the suggestion that the ordination would be valid but illicit. The point of “attempt” means that the “attempt” fails and the woman in question is not ordained. But it is still such a grave crime even to try, that it incurs the censure by the fact of attempting it.

The previous corresponding canon, in the now lame-duck Book VI, said that anyone who “simulates the administration of a sacrament” was to be punished with a just penalty. Any attempt to ordain a woman to any sacred order would be simulation of a sacrament. The sacrament is not conferred, even though what happened simulated the rite of ordination.

That said, because there are some people who go on and on and on and on and on about the ordination of women either to the priesthood or to the diaconate, this new canon removes all doubt: woman cannot be ordained to any of the Holy Orders.

Other commentators, canonists, have noted this too. NB: “graviora delicta“.

The new penal law has inserted into the Code the graviora delicta of the ordination of women. With this, @Pontifex has emphatically closed the door on deaconesses, reaffirming that even ordination as deacons is a canonical crime.

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) June 2, 2021

Among the changes made to #canonlaw today by #PopeFrancis is a new wording for the crime of attempting to ordain a woman – including as a deacon. How does that effect the German synodal plans? Analysis from @canonlawyered https://t.co/AcCRpUHLBH

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) June 1, 2021

It is a canonical crime to attempt to ordain a woman to any of the three Holy Orders.

Let us accept this new canon with both gratitude, because it gives strong guidance to those who obsessively push for the ordination of women, and also resolve, because it underscores our own responsibility in fostering vocations and in supporting those who are ordained.