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- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: October 2023
WDTPRS – 30th Ordinary Sunday: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace… In His will is our peace.”
In the Novus Ordo this Sunday it is the 30th Sunday of what an old friend of mine (rest in peace) called “Greater Meatloaf Season”. Let’s look at upcoming Sunday’s Novus Ordo Collect. This prayer has a precedent in the … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 27: Making history
The sun rose at 07:34, later and later. It will set at 18:14, earlier and earlier. The Ave Maria should ring at 18:30. Welcome registrants: AnthonyBongiovanni EAW Maribill48 Mathitis It is a dies non in the Vetus Calendar. Today I … Read More
IMPORTANT: Bp. Schneider’s new catechism. Wherein Fr. Z presents and rants about what’s going on.
Before anything else, again and again I get questions like: “Things are going badly. I feel like I have to do something, but I feel helpless. I don’t have any power to stop what is going on. What can I … Read More
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ROME 23/10 – Day 26: Walking in deepest darkest Trastevere
The sun rose at 07:33 and will set, hopefully on a lovely Roman October day, at 18:15. The Ave Maria Bell is in the 18:30 cycle. The “Ave Maria” indicates the change of the religious day from day to night. … Read More
Francis: NO WOMEN DEACONS
I suppose this throws a spanner into the spanners (like theology, history, common sense…) already in the gears. From CNA: Pope Francis on women deacons: ‘Holy orders is reserved for men’ Pope Francis reaffirmed the impossibility of women becoming priests, … Read More
A video that gets to the HEART of things.
I call your attention… no. Wait. To those who don’t like the Traditional Latin Mass… to those who don’t like me personally or what I write or defend… to those who don’t understand why there are Catholics who aren’t just … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 24: More rain
Had it been clearer, we might have seen the sun rise at 07:32. I hope to see it set at 18:16. I do not hope to hear the Ave Maria chime at 18:30. Welcome new registrants: stl_tlm avalonjohn44 Today is … Read More
ASK FATHER: Bowing to the priest when he enters for Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I saw a tweet or whatever it is that they are called now starting an argument about whether or not people in the pews should bow to the priest when he enters to say the Traditional … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 24: Ego enim sum Raphaël Angelus, unus ex septem, qui astámus ante Dóminum.
In the early morning the sun rose at 07:30 and it will set at 18:18. The Ave Maria bell is in the 18:30 cycle. In a few days, 29 October, the “legal hour” ends and we will set our clocks … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 23: Cheery and bright
Sunrise: 07:29. Sunset: 18:19. Ave Maria: 18:30 It is the Feast of St. John Capistrano. Also, in the “aliquibus” section there is a Mass today for the veneration of Christ called “Nazareno” which originated in Rome among the Trinitarians at … Read More
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