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Tag Archives: death
LENTCAzT 2023 – 18: Saturday 2nd Week – Confession notes
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Ss. Marcelino e Pietro Collect: San Clemente TODAY: Some notes helpful for confession Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – 18: Saturday 2nd Week – Confession notes
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 17: Friday 2nd Week of Lent
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Vitale Collect: Sant Agata dei Gotti TODAY: We hear about envy. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – 17: Friday 2nd Week of Lent
LENTCAzT 2023 – 16: Thursday 2nd Week of Lent – Hell on Earth or Heaven on Earth?
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Maria in Trastevere Collect: San Crisogono TODAY: Pius Parsch helps us see the linked between the figures of penitents in the first part of Lent and … Read More
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 15: Wednesday 2nd Week of Lent – More about your death
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Cecilia in Trastevere – Collect: San Giorgio TODAY: We go across the river to this storied Station and then hear more from Thomas a Kempis about … Read More
LENTCAzT 2023 – 10: Ember Friday 1st Week of Lent – Regret… to late
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santi Dodici Apostoli – Collect: San Marco TODAY: We hear of the amazing church which is the Station. Thomas a Kempis sobers us up. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf … Read More
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 08: Ember Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent: Deathbed repentance
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Collect Church is San Pietro in Vincoli and the Roman Station is Santa Maria Maggiore. It is Ember Wednesday in Lent, so we hear briefly about Ember Days. Then … Read More
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 06: Monday 1st Week of Lent – Certainty
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Peter in Chains (Collect Sts. Cosmas and Damian) We begin some reflections on the one thing that is certain but that we cannot predict. Fr. John … Read More
#ASonnetADay – 71. “No longer mourn for me when I am dead…” (with bell… not cowbell)
#ASonnetADay – 71. “No longer mourn for me when I am dead…” (with bell… not cowbell) pic.twitter.com/SLmEYxmSNX — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (@fatherz) October 24, 2020
ASK FATHER: Is the will really “fixed” at death or do we get another chance?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is death truly definitive in terms of divine judgement? There is a priest who spoke on the Patrick Coffin show (Fr. Chris Alar) that says that after we die we are given a chance to choose … Read More
Reading “Gaudete et exsultate”: Pope Francis schools those who shy from spiritual combat imagery
I’ve been working my way through the very long Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et exsultate (GEE). It’s a whopping 20K words. There is a very good section near the end. From GEE 159 and following, the Pope speaks in clear terms about the Devil, “the … Read More
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ASK FATHER: The “Ultima” chant
From a reader… QUAERITUR: When my father died, about 11 years ago, the priest who offered his funeral Mass ended it by chanting what he called “the Ultima”. The priest who did it is a very good friend of mine, … Read More
ASK FATHER: What if we are alive when Christ returns?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is it true that we will all die? If Jesus comes at this very moment many people will be alive. Do we die before going to hell or Heaven? First, we don’t know exactly what is … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Last prayer at the point of death
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Forgive the morbid nature of my query, but with the nature of the world today (and the mindset of an undertaker) a question has been on my mind. If one were to know death was imminent, … Read More
ASK FATHER: How long after death can Last Rites be given?
In the last few hours some of you have sent similar questions. QUAERITUR: How long after death can the Sacrament of Anointing be administered? Sometimes we say “Last Rites”, though technically Last Rites includes Penance, Anointing and Viaticum (Eucharist), and hopefully … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Do the devout have the hardest deaths?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have been unsettled by remarks of a Dr Martin Scurr (Daily Mail 27 Jan 2015) who some years ago served the Jesuits at their HQ in Mayfair and religious attached to Westminster Cathedral. “I always … Read More
“Welcome to Hell! Here’s your ice cream!”
It has been sometime since I posted anything from Savage Chickens. (I wonder where the Masked Chicken” got himself off to, anyway. You don’t suppose The Colonel finally caught up to him, do you?) New Hell! How jolly. While we, … Read More
Malaysian Airlines 17, Death and You
The black boxes from Malaysian Airlines 17 might indicate that the pilots attempted a vain evasion. I doubt it. I suspect that exploding death was sudden. Who knows who may have survived the initial blast and remained conscious for some … Read More
Boston’s Wake
In your charity, please pray for the victims in Boston and for their loved ones. As some prepare for wakes, this is a wake up call for a country and for families and individuals. One of the most important petitions … Read More
Alfred Hitchcock – Catholic
Who can fathom the graces God offers as death draws near to us? Some people are given the great gift of courage not to wait too long to become a Catholic, sometimes after a long time thinking about it. John … Read More
Memento mori!
Over at the amusing and often useful blog Art of Manliness there is a post about Memento Mori art. “Memento mori!” means, “Be mindful of death!” or “Don’t forget that you are going to die so repent, confess your sins, and live … Read More
Dad of Six on REMINDER : Visit of the Relics of Saint Jude the Apostle to these USA from September 2023 to May 2024: “Saw it in Lapeer, Michigan, and I also have a third class relic with my Rosary.”
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