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hwriggles4 on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “Two comments: 1. I heard recently that Pope Leo XIV was invited to pray with an Iman inside a mosque.…”
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A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1507: “On the chess problem: there are very few moves to try for White. The one that works is: 1. Rb7.…”
Fr. Kelly on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “Thank you @Josephus I missed that point. Not having seen both colors, I thought blue was the correct letter in…”
Archlaic on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “I was going to make a comment but I would not wish to be childish…”
revueltos67 on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “Black to move and mate in 4 1) … Rh5+ 2) Kg1 (forced) Rh1+ 3) Kxh1 (forced) Qh3+ 4) Kg1…”
grateful on ADVENTCAzT 2025: 17 – Tuesday 3rd Week of Advent – Patience: “Lots of wisdom there, Thank You.”
Josephus Muris Saliensis on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “If I may say to those who replied, you’re all slightly missing the point. the letters in the right place…”
Senor Quixana on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “I had never associated bagpipes with childishness until now. This is rather like blasting Gangsta Rap on a boom box…”
Fr. Kelly on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “@David I “absta” would be a good guess, in my opinion, In fact, I made that guess and the puzzle…”
maternalView on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “Yes Charivari Rob I do think it’s fantastic. The Catholic Church is the on true faith established by Jesus Christ. If…”
David L. on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “Haha, I failed at formatting. I think the word is “absta,” from “absto, abstare.””
David L. on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “1. Ra4+ Kb8 2. Ra8+ Kxa8 3. Qa6+ Kb8 4. Qb7# In re ludi latini, cur non vocabulum <> eliges?…”
fac on Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes: “I think in the U.S. there has been a move over the last 60 or so years to silence the…”
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 19 – Thursday 3rd Week of Advent – True love
- Daily Rome Shot 1507
- WDTPRS: O Antiphons – 17 December – O Sapientia – The Way of Prudence
- The Riches of Ember Wednesday of Advent – The Missa Aurea or Golden Mass
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 18 – Ember Wednesday – 3rd Week of Advent – Embers and O and Golden Mass
- Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 17 – Tuesday 3rd Week of Advent – Patience
- Daily Rome Shot 1505 – an appeal
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 16 – Monday 3rd Week of Advent – Upcoming
- Augustine v. Jerome, Gimli v. Legolas, and The Roman Thing. Wherein Fr. Z rants and digresses.
- ASK FATHER: Why do the TLM Gospels switch between “Ierusalem” and “Ierosolyma”? Wherein Fr. Z drills and then rants. – UPDATED
- ASK FATHER: What’s the difference between the “rejoice” of “Laetare” Sunday of Lent and “Gaudete” Sunday of Advent?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete” – 2025
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 15 – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete”
- 12 December – The pivotal Feast of St. Lucy, the year’s “darkest day”
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 14 – Saturday 2nd Week of Advent
- Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 13 – Friday 2nd Week of Advent
- Daily Rome Shot 1503
- “Babes in Arms” Meets “Universi Dominici Gregis” – Hijinks Ensue
- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 12 – Thursday 2nd Week of Advent
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- ADVENTCAzT 2025: 11 – Wednesday 2nd Week of Advent
- Daily Rome Shot 1502
- An image drawn by a Cistercian nun provokes thoughts about the Immaculate Conception and the Tears of Eve. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- 9 December – Feast of St. Juan Diego. The AMAZING miracle for his canonization!
- ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 10 – Tuesday 2nd Week of Advent
- Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception 2025
- Daily Rome Shot 1501 – Tota pulchra
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Tag Archives: Archbp. Gullickson
A Bishop calls on his brother Bishops to celebrate the Traditional Pontifical Mass, TLM
A few bishops have blogs. A few blogs of bishops are worth looking at. Here is a blog post on a bishop’s blog which every bishop should read. Most Rev. Thomas E. Gullickson is the Papal Nuncio in Switzerland. … Read More
Nuncio in Switzerland, “The Old Latin Mass is the future of the Church”
From Gloria.TV: “The Old Latin Mass is the future of the Church”, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson (67), the nuncio to Switzerland and former nuncio to the Ukraine, said in September during a meeting with old rite priests in Sankt Pelagiberg, Switzerland. … Read More
Archbp. Gullickson: “ad Orientem” will be our saving grace
Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Nuncius to the Antilles, has a blog called Island Envoy. We have heard from His Excellency before, when he had sharp words about bishops who resist Summorum Pontificum. Here is something from Archbp. Gullickson’s latest entry: What … Read More
A Papal Nuncius with sharp words about bishops who resist Summorum Pontificum.
Yesterday we saw with the help of Rorate and Messa in Latino that an Italian bishop had some things to say about other bishops who resist Pope Benedict’s visions and provisions. Today, our friends at NLM clue us in about … Read More






















