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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 5th Sunday after Pentecost … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1651: MAMBO!
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, and now also my late mother’s place (which needs a roof). At no extra cost, you provide help … Read More
WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
At work in the Collect for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time are themes of divine adoption, the liberation of the children of God, the peril of error, and the splendor of Truth. Here is the Collect: Deus, qui, per … Read More
WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love
This Sunday’s prayer is at least as old as the Gelasian Sacramentary. It has survived the post-Conciliar revisions to live again on the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The version in the Novus Ordo, however, adds a comma after ut. COLLECT – (1962 Missale Romanum): … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1650: shocked but not surprised
Welcome registrant: SursumCorda91 I had posted a Mom’s Stuff Page – hoping to learn what things are and what they might be worth. Someone reached out to buy something. Nice. So much better than something my mom made going off into … Read More
I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.
I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them. I pray to God and the angels and any human agents out there that they be made known to Pope Leo … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates
Welcome registrant: eta2000 NB: I can take some MASS INTENTIONS right now. I have quite a few from two people, but I will work new ones in. If there is something URGENT, tell me. HERE The saga of dealing with … Read More
“Perdonamose!” St. John’s Birthday Feast and Midsummer Snails
Hard to improve on this from a couple years ago. Little changes. Your planet once again is whirling its way towards your solstices, Summer in the North and Winter in the South. Since the emphasis in Western Civilization has been … Read More
23 June – Vigil of St. John – solstices and snails, bonfires and witch burnings
It is nice to have as your Patron the great Baptist, for I get two feasts a year, his Nativity and his Beheading. For the Vigil of St. John (today, as I write even thought it is the 5th Sunday … Read More
22 June in the VETUS AND NOVUS Ordo: St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More
In the Church’s traditional calendar St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More have their feasts on 9 July. More was martyred on 6 July and Fisher on 22 June. In the Novus Ordo calendar they are celebrated today, together. HOWEVER: … Read More
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