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Monthly Archives: April 2025
The Whatever High Atop The Thing has rushed to the General Congregations BEFORE Cardinals can arrive. What’s the hurry?
What’s the massive hurry? This rush feels to me like an attempt to organize a voting block before the far flung cardinals arrive. We can ask: To whose advantage/disadvantage is it to hurry the process and thereby deny some of … Read More
PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 49: Easter Tuesday – Worshiping with our whole being
Roman Station: St. Paul’s outside-the-walls Scott Hahn reflects on the Heavenly liturgy as related in the Book of Revelation and how it teaches us to worship. We also hear what my home parish sounded like on Easter Sunday and why … Read More
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ROME 25/4– Day 13: Easter Monday called “of the angel”, Pasquetta, and Happy 2778th Birthday of ROME!
Sunrise today was at 06:18 and it set a few minutes ago at 20:00. The Ave Maria Bells is slated to chime at 20:15. The Roman Station is St Peter’s Basilica. Today, in the reckoning of St. Anselm of Canterbury, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Priest and the Roman Canon… what do we say now?
Priests have written, one with some precise notes and cites, and I’ve seen one piece in my email by Louis Tofari, who knows his way around an Ordo. QUAERITUR: With the death of Francis, what do priests say in the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Octave of Easter, what about Requiem Masses, Votives for the Election of a Pope… Novena to St. Catherine?
From reader(s)… synthesized… QUAERUNTUR: Is it possible to have a Requiem Mass for Francis during the Octave of Easter? It seems that it is not possible, either in the Novus Ordo or in the Vetus Ordo. The Octave outweighs just … Read More
Pray for a new Pope to who will be… better than we deserve!
Now that Francis has gone to God, our role is to pray not only that that God will be merciful to him, but also for the election of a new Pope who will be … better than we deserve! Let … Read More
With the death of Francis, some will have questions about an election
Francis’s soul went before the Just Judge at about 07:35 this morning, Easter Monday. The vast majority of the Catholic world accepted readily that Francis was the legitimate Successor of Peter, the Vicar of Christ. Others questioned whether he was … Read More
PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 48: Easter Monday – Divine Symphony
The Roman Station today is St. Peter’s on the Vatican Hill. Today we heard about what a liturgical octave is. Also, Scott Hahn describes how all of creation is like an orchestra played by angels for the sake of divine … Read More
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ROME 25/4– Day 12: Easter Sunday
From 06:20 until 19:59 did the Roman sun shine. The Roman Curia had, in general, no business today, but … I’ll bet someone checked email and fax in the Sacra Penitenzieria Apostolica!… the Ave Maria is still in their 20:15 … Read More
PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 47: Easter Sunday
The Roman Station today is at Santa Maria Maggiore. This is fitting since there is a tradition that the first things that Christ did after the Resurrection is visit his mother. Today Scott Hahn talks about how, by God’s design, … Read More
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