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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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- 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
Posted in ADVENTCAzT, ADVENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Christmas, podcast, PODCAzT
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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
Posted in ADVENTCAzT, ADVENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Christmas, podcast, PODCAzT, St. Joseph
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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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Tagged ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Christmas, podcast, PODCAzT
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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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Tagged ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Christmas, podcast, PODCAzT
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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
Posted in ADVENTCAzT, ADVENTCAzT, PODCAzT
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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Tagged ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Christmas, podcast, PODCAzT, St. Nicholas
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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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Tagged ADVENT, ADVENTCAzT, Christmas, CHRISTMASCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT
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WDTPRS – 2nd Mass of Christmas (1962MR): bathed in new light
Originally, the second Mass of Christmas went together with Lauds. The antiphons of Lauds form a kind of call and response, or question and answer cant about the experience of the shepherds coming to find the Christ Child. Sometimes the … Read More
Posted in Christmas and Epiphany, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Christmas, lux fulgebit
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The “Kalenda”, the solemn Christmas Proclamation – AUDIO
One of the many gifts we receive for Christmas is the singing of the Martyrology which has the special Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, the “Kalenda“. I am getting ready to sing it tonight. It has been a while. … Read More
The nonsense is coming to an end.
A story to warm the cockles of my beady-black heart. From BuzzPo: Passenger Offended by the Words Merry Christmas – Gets Himself Thrown Off an American Airlines Flight Merry Christmas! Those are the two words that offended one American Airlines … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged anti-Christian, Christmas, dumb
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“The sobs of that appalling infancy cleanse me, those tears wash away my sins.”
From my old Patristic Rosary Project: We continue our Patristic Rosary Project today with the: 3rd Joyful Mystery: The Nativity Christ came into the world in “the fullness of time” (Gal 4:4). His First Coming was foreseen from all eternity … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Patristiblogging
Tagged Christmas, Fathers of the Church, Nativity
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Fanon of Christmas Past
Exactly two years ago, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the First Holy Mass of Christmas and he wore the fanon, hated by liberals and the ungodly HERE. I turned on the Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica for a little … Read More
Teacher trashes 1st graders Christmas gifts: “Jesus is not allowed in school”
More liberal tolerance. From The Blaze: TEACHER REPORTEDLY SEIZES FIRST-GRADER’S CHRISTMAS GIFT AND TRASHES AFFIXED RELIGIOUS STORY A first-grade teacher in California told a student that “Jesus is not allowed in school” before removing a religious story the child affixed … Read More
“The Gift of the Magi”
There is a lovely little story by the American writer O. Henry called The Gift of the Magi. A young couple, poor, want to give each other Christmas gifts. Their choices, their sacrifices, teach each other about love. At the … Read More
US ARMY “equal opportunity officer”: You can’t say “Christmas”
From Human Events: […] Maybe it was about time to get the Army involved in the War On Christmas – a long march through every corner of American life by the anti-religious, collectivist Left, designed to scour this prime patch … Read More
“If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the window”… a song about shopping. VIDEO
I liked this: I have the same thought, year round, when I see those awful “No CCW” signs. GRRRRR!
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Lighter fare, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Christmas
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WDTPRS: Candlemas
Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged Candlemas, Christmas, Presentation of the Lord
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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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