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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- A Tale of Two Cardinals: unity in diversity v. unity in uniformity
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- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 18th Ordinary)
- My View For Awhile: first Pete and now repeat – surreally updated and now terminated
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- WDTPRS – 18th Ordinary (Novus Ordo) Sunday: cold reality
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- Daily Rome Shot 1672
- Diane Montagna has all of her scalpels out, dear readers. The object of the autopsy is….
- Daily Rome Shot 1671
- THE FIFTH CONJURATION – A Scene in Blank Verse after the Manner of Christopher Marlowe
- A priest’s prayers for before and after hearing confessions
- ASK FATHER: What’s your preferred English translation of the Bible?
- Keep in mind the phrase: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
- Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point?
- “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”
- An important topic revisited: Moral Injury
- Daily Rome Shot 1670 – a note to a Mass stream viewer in Canada and a limerick in Latin
- A JESUIT SAYS: “If you are able to go to confession once a month and choose not to, I would not want to be responsible for your soul.”
- Daily Rome Shot 1669 – important notes!
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 17th Ordinary)
- WDTPRS – 17th Sunday Ordinary Time (Novus Ordo): Sin Teflon, Demon Kevlar
- Daily Rome Shot 1668
- Daily Rome Shot 1667
- Daily Rome Shot 1665
- Remember… the TLM has to be suppressed because… you know… reasons.
- Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”
- 22 July: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene – A rocky history. Like the saint herself?
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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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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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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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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: Bp. Donald Hying
Wherein Fr. Z responds to the rude attack from Beans – @MassimoFaggioli – on @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese
I believe that my best public response to Massimo “Beans” Faggioli’s vicious attack on Bp. Hying of Madison, is to say Holy Mass for his intention tomorrow, a 1st Saturday. Beans posted this on Twitter. For those of you who … Read More →
27 August 2020 – @MadisonDiocese – Bp. Hying will administer Sacrament of Confirmation in the TRADITIONAL Rite
On Thursday, 27 August 2020, His Excellency Most Reverend Donald J. Hying, Bishop of Madison, will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Traditional Roman Rite. The Rite of Confirmation followed by a Solemn Mass will take place at 6:00PM … Read More →
UPDATE: Becket Fund and law firms team up with @MadisonDiocese to OPEN UP CHURCHES
UPDATE: 5 June 2020: The County and City backed down. Brief Statement from Bishop Donald Hying, regarding today’s decision by County officials: “We are pleased that the County and the City have ended the unequal 50-person cap on religious gatherings. … Read More →
VIDEO: Bp. Hying prays to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Most Rev. Donald J. Hying, Bishop of Madison, has been doing short daily videos. They are just a couple of minutes long, but they are usually packed. Today, 1 May, he speaks about Mary and the consecration of these USA … Read More →
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VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese in Rome for the ad limina visit 3 & 4
Bp. Donald Hying of Madison is doing brief videos each day. He has done so also from Rome on his ad limina visit. Here are two more. He has been visiting the Major Basilicas. We have seen St. Paul’s and … Read More →
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VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese in Rome for the ad limina visit 1 & 2
Two “Moments” with Bp. Hying during his ad limina visit. He has good insights.
VIDEO: Bp. Hying of @MadisonDiocese – “Let Advent Be Advent”
Bp. Donald Hying of Madison posts brief videos each day on a range of topics. Today, he speak about Advent.
VIDEO: Bp. Hying on St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Bp. Hying of Diocese of Madison loves the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As a matter of fact, at his installation Mass he declined to wear the chasuble with his own new coat-of-arms we had made especially to match what everyone … Read More →
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VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese about suffering
Bp. Donald J. Hying of the Diocese of Madison is issuing nearly daily brief videos, just a couple minutes each, on varying topics. Lately, he concluded a 5 part series on suffering. Unfortunately, the diocesan channel on YouTube doesn’t show … Read More →
VIDEO – Bp. Hying of @MadisonDiocese on minimalism. Then Fr. Z rants at length.
Bp. Donald Hying of the Diocese of Madison is issuing brief daily videos. Today he talks about “minimalism and maximalism”. This is really important for our individual lives and for the whole life of the Church, especially in these troubling … Read More →




















