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- ADVENTCAzT 2019 05: Angelic suggestions or our own thoughts?
- MADISON – 4 Dec – 6:30PM – Solemn Requiem Mass for Bp. Robert C. Morlino
- ADVENTCAzT 2019 04: When liturgical participation became “doing”
- Fulton Sheen’s Beatification put on hold at the request of “some bishops”.
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- ADVENTCAzT 2019 03: “Make straight the path”
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- ADVENTCAzT 2019 02: When a friend harms you, it hurts all the more.
- PRAYER REQUEST: Bp. Paul Sirba, R.I.P.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 1st Sunday of Advent 2019
- ADVENTCAzT 2019 01: “If we love Him, He will come to us”
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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.Yes, Fr. Z is taking ads…
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Tag Archives: Sacred Heart
Listen for their hearts.
I wrote this for the current issue of the Catholic Herald, now published in both the UK and these USA. Each week I write 400 words for the issue. ___ As this number of the weekly you now peruse was issued, … Continue reading
June and Martin, SJ
Why is Jesuit homosexualist Father James Martin’s obsessive focus so troubling? Here’s an example. No mention of June as the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart. Rather, his focus for June is on “pride” in sodomy. To all my many … Continue reading
The image of the badge of the Vendée came to mind today
The other day, I saw a stage of the Tour de France that was in the Vendée. Today is the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Carmelites of Compiègne. I’ve been watching the lunatic frenzy and eruptions of malice from … Continue reading
The Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
In the Novus Ordo calendar, today – the day after the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – is the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Before Mary conceived Our Lord beneath her heart, she … Continue reading
Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Since the time of Pius XI’s Quas primas in 1925, the following was to be recited on the Feast of Christ the King, which in the traditional calendar falls on the last Sunday of October. In the new-fangled calendar it is … Continue reading
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, ACTION ITEM!, Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged Act of Consecration, Quas primas, Sacred Heart
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Intense new image of the Sacred Heart and your Act of Reparation (ACTION ITEM!)
This striking detail from a new print by the Catholic artist Daniel Mitsui. It is inspired in part by the visions of Gertrude. and the 1467 Sanctus Salvator. Even the small details, the little animals that are scattered through the background, have symbolic meanings…. … Continue reading
Posted in ACTION ITEM!, PRAYER REQUEST, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Daniel Mitsui, Sacred Heart
4 Comments
PARIS – Day 6: La chasse and prayers and shells
Yesterday one of you readers gave me a good lead on where to find images (probably holy cards or other) of Our Lady of the Clergy in that version I posted. Since their main store is a few minutes walk … Continue reading
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged D'Artagnan, Laduree, Montmarte, mussels, Sacred Heart
15 Comments
INDULGENCE ALERT – Feast of the Sacred Heart
Today, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, the faithful can gain a plenary indulgence by the public recitation of Iesu dulcissime (Act of Reparation) (Ench. Indulg., al. conc., 3). All other recitations gain a partial indulgence. Priests and Bishops! Have … Continue reading
JUST TOO COOL: Sisters and their prey!
A friend send this very cool link to these very cool sisters. Meet the Sisters of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. First, I love the idea that there is a fairly new foundation interested in reparation for … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged deer, reparation, Sacred Heart, Sisters of Reparation, TEOTWAWKI
19 Comments
PODCAzT 133: Reparation for Sin – Pius XI’s Miserentissimus Redemptor
Connected to confession of sins, which I am constantly pounding away at here (now Card. Dolan has also stressed at the Synod of Bishops and the need reviving the Sacrament of Penance) is reparation for sins. Together with recognition of … Continue reading
June and Sacred Heart Devotions – YOUR events, Masses, etc.
June is a month given in a special way to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am getting requests from people to advertise their events, Masses, etc. Were I to do that, this would no longer be my … Continue reading
Have I missed something?
I read on the SSPX site for the USA that SSPX Bp. Fellay has asked the Society’s members to “renew the Consecration of the Society of St. Pius X to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Friday, June 15, the … Continue reading
June and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
June is a month dedicated especially to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Is this part of your discipline of prayer?
QUAERITUR: Feast of the Precious Blood transferred this year?
From a reader: I believe that there is an error on the FSSP calendar this year. Their calendar shows the Feast of the Most Precious Blood being transferred to July 2 because July 1 is the Feast of the Sacred … Continue reading