Daily Rome Shot 1375 – Roast PIG

Posted on 18 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Yum.

Do you know what this pairs well with?  Norcia beer… “Birra Nursia”

The wonderful monks of Norcia make some of the best beer I’ve had. It goes well with savory things, sausages cheeses, etc.

There is a “Bionda” (blond), “Tripel” which is deep amber great with all sorts of pizzas and pastas, ” “Extra”, which is dark brown malty and caramelly pairing with robust meat sauces, nuts, fruit pies, game.

You can get this beer by subscription, 1 case every month or every other month.  Consider get a subscription for your priests!

I’ll an unboxing video of some beer which the monks set.

MEANWHILE… HEY s***@atlantic.net – Your mailbox is full and my thank you note was kicked back.

WELCOME REGISTRANTS:

btkng115@gmail.com (not a good idea to use email as username)
david@federated.computer (ditto)
Father Thomas Kennedy
Trad Pens Fan

Meanwhile…

God bless Card. Burke.

Castel Gandolfo.   This help this town recover economically, also, from the devastation of the last years.

This is nice.

YAY SCOTUS!

In chessy news…. white to move and win.  HERE

Interested in learning?  Try THIS.

Right now, there is a “Father’s Day” sale on all courses, some up to 80%.

Also, CHESS HOUSE has a “Father’s Day” sale on.  Nice people.

Nice people! Great service!

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Daily Rome Shot 1374

Posted on 17 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Viewing oppression in the Archdiocese of Detroit through the lens of a video

Posted on 16 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I subscribe to the YouTube channel of Midlife Stockman. He works a lot in Detroit. This guy, who might be one of the nicest guys who walks the earth, spots properties that are neglected or abandoned eyesores, dangers overgrown sideways, etc., and cleans them up for no charge. The transformations are amazing. His videos can be habit forming. You have been warned.

Tonight I watched a video while making supper of what was maybe his biggest challenge yet. Usually he works along (how, I don’t know). This time he needed and team and to invest his own money.

As I watched I thought of the Archdiocese of Detroit, and the Diocese of Charlotte and the Diocese of… and the Diocese of… and the Diocese of… and the Diocese of… and the Diocese of… and the Diocese of….

I’m mulling over this video as a metaphor (analogy?) to consider. Before we can do a lot of rebuilding, a lot of demolition and clean up must take place. Things must be cleared.

That will require grace and elbow grease.

Of course, that begins with a personal challenge: GO TO CONFESSION.

(If that hasn’t also been banned as being against “unity”.)

Maybe where you are you can brain-storm together with others and tackle some problems. For example, I direct your attention – ever shorter these days under the barrage of information – back the unfortunate Charlotte where at a Mass with their overlord… bishop, 95% of the people present knelt for Communion after he communicated to in writing (to the watching world) that he doesn’t like that sort of thing.

Again, analogies limp and metaphors are never perfect. But something about what this guy does is on target and inspiring.

There are two other channels I have been thinking about in this light.

No, they are not about chess. I’ll get to those eventually, too.

BRICK BY BRICK.

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Daily Rome Shot 1373 – Dedication

Posted on 16 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today is the observance of the Dedication of Santissma Trinita dei Pellegrini, The Parish, in Rome.

The true day is 12 June, but it was transferred because of the Octave of Pentecost.

12 June 1616 – 409 years.

Hence, the dedication candles, which mark the places where the walls were anointed with Sacred Chrism when the church was consecrated, have been lighted.

In chessy news, WR had a bad day. Nepo and Hikaru were late for blitz and wound up with something like 30 seconds on their clocks. They lost. So did “Puer”. Flagged.

NB: This guy has been Archbishop of Milan since 2017…

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1st Sunday after Pentecost: Soul Food

Posted on 16 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Those who attend Holy Mass on Sundays according to the Vetus Ordo hear the texts for Trinity Sunday (yesterday) but not those for the 1st Sunday after Pentecost (yesterday). The texts for the 1st Sunday after Pentecost can be used during the week that follow… with GREEN vestments for the first time since before last Lent!

In olden days, the 1st Sunday after Pentecost we called “Mercy Sunday” because of the emphasis on… mercy.

Here are the beautiful readings in the RSV. Chew these over.  I’ll make a comment afterward.

Lesson from the first letter of St John the Apostle 1 John 4:8-21
Dearly beloved:  let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because he first loved us. 20 If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Continuation ? of the Holy Gospel according to Luke Luke 6:36-42
In that time Jesus said to his disciples:  36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 38 give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”  39 He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one when he is fully taught will be like his teacher. 41 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 42 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

What pops out right away are the themes of mercy, almsgiving and forgiveness.  If you want mercy, be merciful.  If you want to receive what you need, given for the needs of others.  If you desire forgiveness, be forgiving.

St. Augustine frequently writes on these themes to the theme of mercy, almsgiving and forgiveness as being essential for the Christian life and necessary for the remission of sins.

For example, in Enchiridion On Faith, Hope, and Charity, 19 (emphasis added):

There are two works of mercy, by which the remission of sins is obtained: namely, almsgiving and the forgiveness of the sins of others. This is why the Lord mentions these two in brief when He says, Give, and it will be given to you; forgive, and you will be forgiven [Luke 6:37]. Therefore, these are the two kinds of works of mercy that are done for the remission of sins, and they are commemorated in the Lord’s Prayer, where we say: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and Give us this day our daily bread [Matthew 6:11-12], which is rightly understood as almsgiving. For often, under the name of bread, all works of mercy are figuratively meant, as when it is written: Break your bread to the hungry, and so on [Isaiah 58:7].

“…under the name of bread, all works of mercy are figuratively meant…”

“Nam plerumque sub nomine panis omne opus misericordiae figurate ponitur.”

Food for the soul.

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News of the Church 15 – 15 June 2025

Posted on 16 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Welcome to the 15th edition of News of the Church.

It’s 15 June 2025 and it is Trinity Sunday, most feasts tell us what God does, but this one tells who God is. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World. in the movie, years after the Civil War, a former confederate officer travels from town to and town and reads aloud stories from different newspapers. He scratches out a living as a gazetteer. People pay a dime .10c a head to listen, which is about $2.50 today. [HERE] The idea of a wandering gazetteer caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer for you.

00:14 Init
01:02 – Philip Lawler on what to expect from Leo XIV
09:44 – Coenaculo Newsletter
13:54 – Catholic Herald – Young people and the TLM
21:25 – Melancholy Space News
25:23 – SSPX Angelus: Back Cover Letter
30:42 – Exit

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Daily Rome Shot 1373 – TRINITY!

Posted on 15 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

It is Trinity Sunday at The Parish™… and I’m not there.  *sniff*

I did get some glimpses.

A shot of the wonderful little 16th c. portative organ that they restored.

The Archconfraternity carries out what St. Philip Neri established: washing the feet of pilgrims during the Jubilee.

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In chessy news… in London the Team Rapid and Blitz tournament is going on. Too complicated to explain. However, a 13 year old beat Hikaru.

Black to move and mate in 4.

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

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“O vos omnes sordidi mementote retrorsi…!” More joy in Detroit.

Posted on 15 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

You can, I am sure, picture this.

Young families, with several small children, along with others of all ages and walks of life now have to rise that much earlier to travel the much greater distance to participate on a Sunday at the Traditional Latin Mass. They do so, with dedication and conviction, but it now costs them more in time, effort, and money. Everything has been made harder in times already hard.

As Father at the ambo finishes reading the Gospel in English, he takes up a sheet of paper and, with a humiliated and apologetic glance at the congregation reads the following:

“Those gathered for the celebration of Mass using the 1962 Missale Romanum are reminded that you belong to a parish for which priests are assigned for full care of souls and from whom the Faithful receive such care. Participation in this Mass is not a substitute for such care and the obligation to support your parish community.”

Men shift in their pews and cross their arms. Women look down at their prayer books or at the tabernacle. Kids stir uneasily, sensing that something isn’t right. Older people, who’ve been attacked for decades, glare.

Thus it shall now be in the Archdiocese of Detroit at the command of Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger.

I am not making this up.

Here is a screenshot from the document that that shepherd of the Motor City issued about the implementation of his inspirations:

One Michigander priest of my acquaintance sent me this:

Could we get a chant setting, maybe in Greek and Latin, for the deacon to make the “all you filthy trads remember to pay up to your territorial parish” announcement they have to make in Detroit?

I’ll get the ball rolling.

O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, mementote sordidi retrorsi paroeciae vestrae territoriali solvere!

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Trinity Sunday 2025

Posted on 15 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.

Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for the Trinity Sunday?

Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.

Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?  I know there is a lot of BAD news.  How about some good news?

A taste of my thoughts from the other place: HERE

“Si comprehendis, non est Deus… If you can grasp it, it’s not God.” — St. Augustine (s. 117.5)

That stark declaration by the Doctor of Grace brings us, creeping like Moses, to the cleft in the rock through which we must peer longingly for the ultimate mystery.    We believe in the Triune Godhead, and therefore strive for understanding.  But this mystery is not for human comprehension, but rather for adoring and transforming awe. Trinity Sunday is not so much an occasion of theology and debate.

 

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Diocese of Charlotte and the “Salt March to the Sea”

Posted on 15 June 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In 1930, Gandhi led a 240 mile protest march to the Arabian sea to protest the British salt tax in India.  People went to the sea to make salt, which was not legal.    This gesture of non-violent disobedience gained momentum in spite of mass arrests.   In one incident, soldiers fired into a crowd.  Those who refused were arrested.  In another, soldiers beat the unresisting protesters with with clubs.  The sickening stories made the international press.

I read a story at LifeSite about a Novus Ordo confirmation Mass in the Diocese of Charlotte, where the local bishop intended to severely restrict the TLM, repress any traditional liturgical elements and signs, and ban altar rails.  According to reports, 95% of the people present, starting with the confirmands, “marched with their knees” and knelt to receive Holy Communion, also from the bishop.

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