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Tag Archives: Church Militant
URGENT ACTION ITEM: Special warfare for the Church on 1 Nov, 2 Nov, 3 Nov – VIDEO
Friends and I have kicked around a project which you can all participate. Get this video out to at least FIVE other people. Ask each one of them to share it with another FIVE… etc. What’s this about? The Church … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Fr. Z calls for prayer, fasting in defense of the Church
I lived in Rome for a long time. I have a good feel for this place, since over many years I left a lot of blood, sweat and tears here. Since I’ve been back on this trip – the last … Read More
“This is the time God chose for us. Get up off the ground!” Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Time for A Rant. I know that many of you readers are upset by what is going on in the Church. May I repeat some advice? Remember that Popes come and go. There are good Popes and bad Popes, important … Read More
Fishwrap’s @MichaelSWinters wants action from the US bishops. So does @FatherZ
Michael Sean Winters (aka the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left, aka Madame Defarge the Tricoteuse) is worried. He has called to the US Bishops to stop the schism! In his latest panic attack at Fishwrap, Winters identifies several groups … Read More
WDTPRS – 17th Ordinary Sunday: Sin-Teflon and Demon-Kevlar
Shall we look at the Collect for this Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form? COLLECT (2002MR): Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam, ut, te rectore, te duce, sic bonis transeuntibus nunc utamur, ut … Read More
How credible is “credible” in allegations against priests?
The accusations – based on a repressed memory of something 40 years ago – about Fr. Eduard Perrone in the Archdiocese of Detroit continue to raise questions. Dark questions. Something is not right about this. Michael Voris is digging in. … Read More
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The Church Militant and You
I had reason this morning to review what I might have written about our state in the Church in this earthly realm and I found this. It struck me as something that might be helpful, given what’s going on right … Read More
@Church_Militant report on a twisted priest-predator has a familiar ring
I received this note from Church Militant: Church Militant filed a FOIA request and obtained the disturbing police audio recordings of Fr. Robert DeLand, now serving time in Michigan State Prison, caught in the act of preying on a 17-year-old … Read More
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WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday: The clarion clear call
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, of soldiers. Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae in sola spe … Read More
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WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clear and certain trumpet
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers. Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae … Read More
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WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Epiphany: YOU, weary foot soldier of the Church Militant
This Collect sometimes winds up at the end of the liturgical year, depending on when Easter, and therefore Pentecost, falls. This year, because Easter is a little later, we have it before Septuagesima. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, qui nos in tantis … Read More
ASK FATHER: How to “steel ourselves” and not come down off from our crosses?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Dear Father Z, In your post regarding the 18th Sunday after Pentecost you advised us to steel ourselves and not come down off from our crosses. Would you be so kind as to offer some specific … Read More
For those of you consciously engaged as the Church Militant…
I was sent this image. I had to share it. I could, wag that I am, replace those darts with the names of a few liberal tweeters. But that might be just a tad bit mischievous. Keep smiling. Keep that shield up. … Read More
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WDTPRS: 5th Ordinary Sunday – A clear and certain trumpet
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers. Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae … Read More
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The Infant King’s great war cry!
It is still Christmas. That is, we are in the Octave of Christmas. Holy Church stops her counting of time for a bit so that we can rest with the mystery of the Incarnation and contemplate it from various angles. … Read More
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Prep Wednesday: All Bleeding Stops – Spiritual and Physical “Blow Out Kits”
The analogy of the Church Militant as a spiritual field hospital is pretty good, provided that we remember that in field hospitals lots of people don’t make it. We are like pilgrim soldiers in the Church Militant, on the march to our … Read More
More “tactical clerical” attire
You clerics out there might recall that I have been making, or having made, tactical clerical shirts by adapting 5.11 uniform shirts. HERE and, amusingly and most recently, HERE. Fathers, you are clerics and officers of the Church Militant. Stay … Read More
A note about the term Church Militant
I post this because our dear Michael Sean Winters had a little nutty about my use of this term over at the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter). All of you Catholics who are reading this, even if you mostly identify … Read More
1953: Pius XII to American seminarians: be holy, heroes, officers of the Church Militant (quotes St. Charles Borromeo)
Because I am still having some internet problems and composition of posts is a little hard, I have pulled a couple things from the archives in which St. Charles Borromeo is mentioned. (His heart, by the way, in the great … Read More
GUEST ENTRY: Praying and vesting in armor before combat and before Holy Mass
When a priest prepares for Holy Mass it is customary for him to say prayers as he dons each vestments. When putting on the amice, he lets it rest on the top of his head briefly and he says the … Read More
