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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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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “The collars of the servers are sort of like the collar of St Philip, which means sort of like the…”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “First… it is a negroni… BUT… it isn’t. It is a “negroni sbagliato”.”
Geoffrey on ROME 25/4– Day 24: Conclave insider stuff and MSM machinations: “The more I learn about him, the more I am hoping that Cardinal Pizzaballa is elected. I think the cardinal…”
edm on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “Here’s a totally superficial question. Is the white collar on the MC/sacristan and some others a shirt collar, worn over…”
Ariseyedead on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “Nice pics of Solemn Mass, vespers and the seminarians! A few of the young men have very short surplices. Is…”
JonPatrick on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 3rd Sunday of Easter): “At our FSSP parish, this being Good Shepherd Sunday, the sermon was about a particular priest who was an example…”
grayanderson on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 3rd Sunday of Easter): “So, I attended an evening Mass at my old college. It was the first time attending something other than the…”
HFL on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “I’ll go with an Aperol spritz . . . because of the color and the orange.”
NancyWmichael on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “It’s a Manhattan surely. If not, it ought to be. Thank you for all you do.”
bigtex on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “The darker color red suggests whiskey instead of gin, so is it a boulevardier? The cocktail is an American invention,…”
VForr on St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!: “A timely reminder that I needed to hear. Thank you, Father.”
Philmont237 on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 3rd Sunday of Easter): “My oldest son received Confirmation and his first Holy Communion this weekend!!! Deo Gratias!!!! He took the name Paul Miki,…”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/4– Day 25:: “Matt: Oooo… sooooo close. You get points for that. But.. not… quite.. close.”
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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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Recent Posts
- ROME 25/4– Day 26:
- St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!
- ROME 25/4– Day 25:
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 3rd Sunday of Easter)
- ROME 25/4– Day 24: Conclave insider stuff and MSM machinations
- ROME 25/4– Day 23: What’s up?
- Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s)
- ROME 25/4– Day 22: bare bones
- ROME 25/4– Day 21: Market forces
- Explanation of a how a Conclave works: another Roman dialect sonnet “der Belli”
- With respect, I think Archbp. Viganò is wrong.
- VIDEO: Gavin Ashenden distills the last 12 years or so poignantly and pointedly
- VIDEO Message from Card. Burke before and for the Conclave
- Another Roman dialect sonnet about the papal funeral in St. Peter’s
- ROME 25/4– Day 20: Tolling and rolling
- FLASH: Conclave to begin on 7 May
- Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s)
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 54: Low Sunday – “scandal, hypocrisy, bland liturgies, false teaching, broken families, sin and sinners everywhere.”
- ROME 25/4– Day 19: Low Sunday – with a grand digression
- Internet again…
- ROME 25/4– Day 18: Easter Saturday
- Sonnet about the papal funeral procession
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 53: Easter Saturday – More real than now’s real
- Opportunity to get a striking Sacred Heart Flag before June, month of the Sacred Heart
- Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?
- ROME 25/4– Day 17: Easter Friday
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!)
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 52: Easter Friday – Marital imagery
- ROME 25/4– Day 16: Easter Thursday
- PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 51: Easter Thursday – The Bride
Let us pray…
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: D. Cleveland
Not an April Fool’s joke from the Fishwrap
I was alerted to a manipulative piece at Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) with a massively ironic headline and intro. The Institute of Christ the King took over a parish in Cleveland that has Hungarian roots. Of course they started … Read More
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TERRIFIC! School Choir accomplished, back to back, Solemn Roman and Eastern liturgy!
This is impressive by anyone’s standards. The wonderful Lyceum school in Cleveland, has a great choir. They sang for a Pontifical Mass with Card. Burke and then a Divine Liturgy with Bp.Milan Lach. Read about it HERE. I want to … Read More
Some good things are happening
I have had notes from reader about good things going on. First, I call your attention to a good initiative in the Diocese of Burlington (Vermont). A new group has been established called the St. Philip Neri Latin Mass Chaplaincy. … Read More
Photos from a Mass of Reparation for sacrileges and blasphemies
In the midst of ongoing bad news, seemingly on all fronts, I had some good news. My friend Fr. Dave Ireland in S. Euclid OH had at his beautiful Church of St. Gregory, a Solemn Mass in the Traditional Roman … Read More
Another bishop thinks Catholic teachers should be role models
Another bishop supports the idea that teachers in Catholic schools must serve also as role models. The Cardinal New Society, which watches the status quaestionis of Catholic education in these USA, has a letter that His Excellency Most Rev. Richard … Read More
GO TO CONFESSION… in Cleveland! 4 March UPDATE! Not only Cleveland.
I received this from a reader: I am visiting my company in the Cleveland Diocese this week and I heard at mass yesterday that the entire diocese, every single church, will be having confessions from 5-8pm on March 4. What … Read More