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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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@ArchbishpSample of @archdpdx issues a dispensation regarding Francis’ very own Plessy v. Ferguson
The cruel Francis’ legacy document – his very own Plessy v. Ferguson – Traditionis custodes is calling forth what many reasonable people think are unnecessary statements from dioceses. Some are really bad, but that is to be expected given those … Read More
PHOTOS of beautiful Pontifical Mass in Rome at Ss. Trinità and UPDATE on the Baptismal Font Project
Last October I involved you in a project at at Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini, the FSSP parish and my adoptive home parish in Rome. Historically, the place had never been a parish church. Therefore, it didn’t have a baptistry or … Read More
Advice for #Synod2018 about young people and traditional liturgy
Julian Kwasniewski (any relation to…? Nah… couldn’t be…) interviewed Archp. Sample of Portland and the transcript of the interview is parked at NLM. The interview took place last June. Archbp. Sample talks about why young people are attracted to traditional … Read More
@ArchbishpSample to make liturgical changes in the @archpdx
His Excellency Most Reverend Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland has stood up again and again in favor of a strong Catholic identity. I remind the readership of his stellar sermon some years ago at Assumption Grotto in Detroit (HERE) and … Read More
Archbp. Sample’s good sermon at the National Shrine
The other day I posted about the great sermon that Archbp. Sample gave at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the Pontifical Mass in honor of the 10th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. While I posted a video of … Read More
Solemn Pontifical Mass in thanksgiving for #SummorumPontificum with @ArchbishpSample
How I would have loved to have been there. Sermon: 54:00
AUDIO and VIDEO: @ArchbishpSample – outstanding address in Germany
¡Hagan lío! His Excellency Most Reverend (and I sincerely mean both of those honorifics), Alexander K. Sample, Archbishop of Portland, gave an outstanding address to liturgy conference in Germany. He includes some personal reflections and analysis of the situation we … Read More
Archbp. Sample on ‘Amoris laetitia’: conscience isn’t a law unto itself
At CWR my old friend Archbp. Alex Sample of Portland as some things to say about Amoris laetitia. He issued some instructions about the controversial document and commented on the. HERE Especially good is this… CWR: The first misuse you address … Read More
Archbp. Sample quoting Benedict XVI: “If we don’t have the liturgy, what do we have?”
At CWR there is an interview with Archbp. Alex Sample of Portland. Among the things he addressed are sacred liturgy and sacred music. […] Some have said that the sacred liturgy is my personal hang up, that I have an … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Archd. Portland
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24 Comments
Compare and Contrast: An Archbishop’s statement about Obergefell v. Hodges
His Excellency Most Reverend Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland, issued a statement about SCOTUS’s pathetic same-sex “marriage” decision. HERE ‘Simply wrong’ Archbishop Alexander Sample responds to decision by Supreme Court legalizing same-sex “marriage” I am deeply saddened by the narrow … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Obergefell v. Hodges, SCOTUS
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68 Comments
Archbp. Sample on a “house divided”. Tune in, trads and liberals alike!
I direct the attention of the whole readership to a video of a sermon of my old friend His Excellency Most Reverend Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland. He is celebrating a Pontifical Mass at the Throne. He preaches about the … Read More
Archbp. Sample consecrated Portland to Our Lady
What did I write the other day? With the rapid degradation of morals, the overturning of common sense and natural law, and the dissolution of civil rule of law in these USA we are seeing – and this is not … Read More
VIDEO: Sermon for Archbishop Sample’s 1st Pontifical Mass – MUST SEE
“When Summorum Pontificum came out, and the Holy Father said this is one of the forms of the Latin Rite, the Extraordinary Form, I said ‘I’m a bishop of the Church, I must know this rite!’ And I encourage my … Read More
¡Vaya lío! Archbp. Sample weighs in on same-sex unions in Oregon. Fr. Z kudos.
From the Oregonian: Portland Archdiocese joins anti-gay marriage effort; lay group plans Ash Wednesday action Since Pope Francis began his reign as the head of the Catholic Church a year ago, he’s sounded a more welcoming tone toward gays. [Their … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Archd. Portland, Bp. Liam Cary, D. Baker, homosexual activists, same-sex unions
48 Comments
48 Comments
A Pontifical Mass at the Throne
At the Brigittine Priory of Our Lady of Consolation in Amity, Oregon, His Excellency Most Reverend Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland, celebrated Holy Mass in the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite, a Pontifical Mass at the Throne. It will … Read More
OREGON: Govt. official: those who resist “gay” marriage must be “rehabilitated”
During the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976 – the time when the greatest damage was being done in the name of the Spirit of Vatican II) people were bullied into rejection of the sì jiù, the Four “Olds”: Old Customs, Old Culture, … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Archd. Portland, bakers, Cultural Revolution, eliminating the four olds, homosexual activists, Oregon, Pò sì jiù, re-education, rehabilitation, self-criticism
67 Comments
67 Comments
Canon Law Conference at O.L. Guadalupe Shrine
Over the last couple days I attended a Canon Law and Civil Law Conference at the beautiful Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Diocese of LaCrosse. A great setting for a great conference. Alas, the Shrine is in … Read More
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Bp. Gainer, canon law, Canon Law Conference, Card. Burke
17 Comments
17 Comments
ARCHBISHOP Sample is in Portland
Archbishop Viganò just read the letter of Pope Benedict XVI from last January to Archbishop Alexander Sample, now being installed in Portland. There is a live stream. Here is a great screen capture. A mitre (a little odd), a cardinal’s … Read More
Bp. Sample’s great Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music
My old friend now-Archbishop Alex Sample, before his translation to Portland, issued a Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music for the Diocese of Marquette. It is called “Rejoice in the Lord” and it is a hit. First, remember his spectacular sermon … Read More
Archbp. Sample interviewed. Well done.
His Excellency Most Reverend Alexander Sample, the next Archbishop of Portland, was interviewed by The Oregonian. They didn’t lob him softballs. After an introductory paragraph or two in which they tee the reader up with the news that he is … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Archd. Portland, Bp. Sample
21 Comments
21 Comments
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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