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- Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 10 – Tuesday 2nd Week of Advent: Marian Dogmas. Why?
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 10 – Tuesday 2nd Week of Advent: Marian Dogmas. Why? Today, St. Alphonsus talks about how God chose to save us … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 09 – Monday 2nd Week of Advent: Joseph
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 09 – Monday 2nd Week of Advent: Joseph Today, we hear about St Joseph’s choice about Mary: Send her away? Fulton … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 08 – 2nd Sunday of Advent: Prophecy
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 08 – 2nd Sunday of Advent: Prophecy Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the foundation of our ability to recognize the Messiah.
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WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: “We escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”
Our Novus Ordo Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. … Read More
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 07 – Saturday 1st Week of Advent: Memento
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 07 – Saturday 1st Week of Advent: Memento Today, Fr Alfred Delp speaks from his Nazi prison in 1944. We have … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 06 – Friday 1st Week of Advent: Immaculate
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 06 – Friday 1st Week of Advent: Immaculate Today, Fr. Troadec about Mary as Virgin of virgins. Joseph Ratzinger and St. … Read More
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Tagged ADVENT, Catholic, Christmas, Immaculate Conception, liturgy, prayer
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 05 – Thursday 1st Week of Advent: Ambrose
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, St Ambrose and one of his hymns. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent: Ambrose
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent Today we have notes about Santa Claus, a vivid description of a crime scene, and a … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 03 – Tuesday 1st Week of Advent: Time
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 03 – Tuesday 1st Week of Advent: Time Today, Joseph Ratzinger speaks about the time and creation full of meaning rather than emptiness. … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 01 – 1st Sunday of Advent: bedight with Alleluias
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 01 – 1st Sunday of Advent: bedight with Alleluias Today, Card. Zen reflects and Fr. Z rambles and Bl. Ildefonso amazes and Fulton … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 00 – Final Saturday before Advent: “approach”
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 00 – Final Saturday before Advent: “approach” Today, St. John Henry Newman connects the two ends of the year. Fr. Z rambles. Bookend … Read More
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DIEBUS SALTEM DOMINICIS – 1st Sunday of Advent: The Drills of a Militant Church
The essence of a cliché is that it is unoriginal and often repeated. However, as the old Latin phrase goes, repetita iuvant… repeated things help. Allow me to get an initial cliché out of the way: with the 1st Sunday of … Read More
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Our Rich Traditions of Ember Wednesday of Advent – The Missa Aurea, Golden Mass
In the old Julian calendar before the Gregorian reform, 13 December was about the darkest day of the year (= Greg 26 Dec). Hence, St. Lucy, whose name is from the Latin lux… “light”, reminds us who dwell in the … Read More
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New free video series for Advent from the (traditional) Fraternité Saint-Vincent-Ferrier ( @FSVR-Chemere )
Here is a marvelous initiative from the Fraternité Saint-Vincent-Ferrier that I was tangentially involved in. I think this is going to be really helpful. Sign up! HERE I’ve had a preview of one of the still unlisted videos about Communion … Read More
WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 20 December – O Clavis David – The Key to everything
We continue our look at the O Antiphons with today’s O Clavis David Again we hear the theme of Christ as the Liberator. LATIN: O clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday of Advent “Rorate” – 2020
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass for your Sunday (obligation or none), either live or on the internet? Let us know what it was. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to … Read More
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Advent and “Rorate” Masses
Advent is just days away. Another liturgical year closes, another begins. Advent burgeons with beautiful customs. One of the loveliest is the Rorate Mass. These Masses are generally offered during Advent on Saturdays, which is the customary day of the … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday of Advent – 2019
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass that fulfilled your Sunday Obligation? What was it? There are a lot of people who don’t get many good points in the sermons they must endure. So, … Read More
WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Advent: The childlike dash
We are coming to the 3rd Sunday of Advent, also nicknamed Gaudete…. the plural imperative of gaudeo, “Rejoice!”, the first word of the Introit chant. This Sunday there is a relaxation of the penitential aspect of Advent, just Laetare Sunday does … Read More
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Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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