About this blog…
“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
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
This REALLY helps! And it’s great coffee (and tea)
Polls
Loading ...Donate using VENMO
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Do you have a faithful Catholic website that needs competent and reliable tech support?
Fr. Z’s VOICEMAIL
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
Not on UPDATED – 14 August Pontifical Mass at the National Shrine: FORBIDDEN: “Does it surprise any of us that in the Capital of our country, full of liberal “catholic” politicians that the…”
on Another wrinkle to the meaning of your phone’s “location services”.: “If I was working at the Vatican I would worry that God may get tired of all this and subject…”
on Baseball’s Cleveland Indians change name to… guess what….: “It is sad, not to mention cringeworthy, that a sports team should feel it necessary to kowtow to political correctness…”
on Another wrinkle to the meaning of your phone’s “location services”.: “Privacy issues aside… what about priestly celibacy? Chastity?”
on UPDATED – 14 August Pontifical Mass at the National Shrine: FORBIDDEN: “No surprise as it is a tainted seat since Theodore McCarrick. Exorcisms are needed. An exorcism of all D.C is…”
on Another wrinkle to the meaning of your phone’s “location services”.: “The now-US-based shell company that owns Grindr is still controlled by the Chinese, just sayin’.”
on Another wrinkle to the meaning of your phone’s “location services”.: “You can shut off your gaydar if they’re using Grindr. Just saying…”
on UPDATED – 14 August Pontifical Mass at the National Shrine: FORBIDDEN: “I’m with boredoftheword. TC is a declaration of war against the TLM and the faithful who cherish it. I’m all…”
on UPDATED – 14 August Pontifical Mass at the National Shrine: FORBIDDEN: “He is a product of his mentors and became what he beheld.”
on “Why, then, would Francis punish those who worship according to the Latin rite?”: “Clare: You raise a good point. “I just don’t get it. How are large families who raise faithful children and…”
on Daily Rome Shot 230: “This is the unforgettable funeral monument by and for Giovanni Battista Gisleni, an Italian Baroque architect and stage designer who…”
on “Why, then, would Francis punish those who worship according to the Latin rite?”: “Is not the destruction of the institutional Church, at a minimum, and beyond that the Faith itself exactly what they…”
on UPDATED – 14 August Pontifical Mass at the National Shrine: FORBIDDEN: “Few of us in the Archdiocese of Atlanta will be surprised by this. While here Cardinal Gregory frowned on more…”
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
Yes, Fr. Z is taking ads…
Be a “Zed-Head”!
CHALLENGE COINS!
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...This is really useful when travelling… and also when you aren’t and you need backup internet NOW! I use this for my DMR “Zednet” hotspot when I’m mobile. It’s a ham radio thing.
If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Fr. Z’s stuff is everywhere
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
GREAT causes to support
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Tag Archives: Exaltation of the Cross
WDTPRS: Exaltation of the Cross … and kingly herbs … and BASIL EMERITUS!
Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. The feast commemorates the discovery, as tradition has it under sweet basil herb bushes, of the Holy Cross by Emperor Constantine’s mother St Helena in AD 325 in Jerusalem as … Read More
1 Comment
14 Sept – Solemn Mass in the Bronx!
I had some great news yesterday about a Solemn Mass in traditional Roman Rite which will be celebrated on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 14 September, in the Bronx, NY. Announcement: “There will be a celebration … Read More
3 Comments
WDTPRS: Exaltation of the Cross
This year, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross takes precedence over the Ordinary Form calendar’s 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time and over the Extraordinary Form’s 14th Sunday after Pentecost. Let’s look at the Collects for the Feast of … Read More
4 Comments
Exaltation of the Cross, Summorum Pontificum, Basil Pesto
Tomorrow, 14 September, I think I shall make some fresh pesto tomorrow for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross… 7th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. I found this on Vultus Christi: The aromatic herb, basil (Ocimum basilicum) has long … Read More
Sweet Basil and the Holy Cross
An Orthodox priest reader sent some photos of their tradition using sweet basil on their observance of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Here are three. Great tradition. I didn’t get around to posting about the basil … Read More
16 Comments
