I wish all of you joy, peace and graces for the new year of salvation 2009!
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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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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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- WVC on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “All statues and images covered.”
- JSzczuka on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “All statues were covered except one large pieta. We have a lot of statues! Father said it took 2 people…”
- EAW on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “The poll doesn’t work. All statues and images that could be covered were covered.”
- Suburbanbanshee on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “I can’t access the poll, either, but everything at church was covered.”
- Philliesgirl on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “Our deacon gave the sermon today. He started by talking about the precepts of the Church. Go to Mass on…”
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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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- YES! (66%, 1,905 Votes)
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
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- “The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
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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
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils
- ASK FATHER: John 8:55
- I love this story and it makes me sad
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 33: 1st Passion Sunday (5th Lent) – “Christ entered once into the Holies…”
- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Lent: The Church, liturgically dying
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 32: Saturday 4th Week in Lent – Approaching Passiontide
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 31: Friday 4th Week in Lent – The 3rd Station
- Ite ad Ioseph… Go to Joseph!
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 30: Thursday 4th Week in Lent – St. Joseph
- Daily Rome Shot 1569
- In the ancient Roman Church today, Wednesday “in mediana” was a big day for catechumens.
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- LENTCAzT 2026 – 29: Wednesday 4th Week in Lent – Purity and Mud
- SSPX in Italy sent a book all Italian Bishops about the upcoming consecrations
- Daily Rome Shot 1568
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 28: Tuesday 4th Week in Lent – Mass and Cross
- Daily Rome Shot 1567 – It was worse than we thought
- Such wealth and depth we have in the traditional Roman Rite
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 27: Monday 4th Week in Lent – The truth and you
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Laetare Sunday, 4th in/of Lent 2026
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 26: Laetare Sunday, 4th in Lent – The goal
- Daily Rome Shot 1566
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 25: Saturday 3rd Week in Lent – The spirit of prayer
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 24: Friday 3rd Week in Lent – Evangelize with our lives
- “Days in Rome” Project – Easter 2026 and beyond
- HEAR YE! HEAR YE! New from TAN – “The Matins Lectionary: The Complete Readings from the Traditional Roman Breviary”
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 23: Thursday of the 3rd Week in Lent – Feet on the earth, minds in Heaven
- UPDATE on Fr. Z
- Daily Rome Shot 1565
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 22: Wednesday of the 3rd Week in Lent – Don’t let it fester
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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The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 Votes)
- I like it and am happy to do it. (11%, 2,955 Votes)
- I don't care one way or another. (6%, 1,696 Votes)
Total Voters: 26,606
WDTPRS POLL
Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
Total Voters: 19,255






















Same to you, Father! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Father.
And you as well, Father. :)
May God continue to bless you. May he keep you healthy, safe, happy & prosperous. HAPPY NEW YEAR !
Carol & Ray
HAPPY NEW YEAR FATHER ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always.
God Bless you Fr. Z and may you have a blessed and healthy new year!
God bless you Fr. Z and all of the WDTPRS bloggers.
Fr,
Wishing you great blessings and great happiness in 2009
Happy New Year Father!.
Happy New Year Father Z.
A very happy and blessed New Year to you too, Father! And a happy Solemnity of Mary too! May her prayers bring many blessings to you and to all of her sons in the priesthood, in 2009 and always.
Have a Blessed Happy New Year Father…!!!
Happy new year and happy feast day!
Happy Feast of Mary, Mother of God!!!
Happy Octave Day of Christmas!!!
Happy New Year!!!
Yet more and more souls to add to the history of salvation! Happy New Year Father, and happy Feast! Thank you for all you do for us and for God’s Church!
The same to you Fr. Z
God bless you father.
You are a great asset, Father. I wish you all the best in continuing the great work for our Holy Church.
May God bless you in the New Year and always, Father Z!
Happy New Year, Father Z. Let’s hope and pray 2009 is a lot better than 2008 was.
A blessed and holy 2009 to you Father Z and to all your blog readers.
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
Happy New Year to you as well, Father!
M’nohaya Lita!
Happy New Year Fr Z.
Happy New Year!
Feliz Ano Novo, Padre Z! :)
A happy and holy new year! many thanks, Father, for all your good work.
A Happy and Holy New Year to you Fr. Z, and to all who follow your blog – whether they post or not.
Thank you, Father! God bless you. May it be a year of filling seminaries!
Happy New Year, Father!
And thank you for all your work.
Happy New Year Father! God bless you, and thank you for this wonderful blog!
Happy New Year, Fr. Zuhlsdorf. Keep fighting the good fight.
And a Blessed Feast of the Circumcision to you as well. I come not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it. Tradition! Tradition!
Happy New Year, Father!
Thank you Father and bonne année to all of you from Belgium. Some readers may be interested in the news that Cardinal Vingt-Trois, the Archbishop of Paris, will celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Rite at the Parish Church of St Eugène — Ste Cécile, Paris, on Sunday, 4th January 2009 at 11.00am (the feast of Ste Geneviève, patroness of the city). The occasion will be a farewell to Mgr Batut, the curé and friend of the TLM, who is to be ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon.
Happy New Year! Did you eat pork/sausage and sauerkraut, or blackeyed peas, or red beans and rice?
A very Happy New Year, too, to you, Father! Thank you so much for maintaining this blog.
May the Lord bless you and keep you in this the New Year and always, Father.
Xin nien kuei le!
Happy New Year, Father…may God continue to keep you safe and healthy in 2009!
Thank you, Father, for your good wishes, and for sharing your thoughts and life with so many.
May God keep you and shine His Face upon you!