Daily Rome Shot 1498 – URGENT VIDEO WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST BOTH *STUPID* AND *HERESY*

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1. ajf1984 says:

   4 December 2025 at 12:20 PM

   I appreciated Fr. McTeigue’s insights (as usual) and his brief mention of Fr. Joseph Fessio, another member of the Cadre of Good Jesuits! Also worth mentioning in this context is the Lutheran Satire video “Mary Tells Us What She Knew” (trigger warning: there is a swipe at Purgatory at the end, but the rest of the vid is spot on!)
2. Irish Timothy says:

   4 December 2025 at 3:23 PM

   Fr. McTeigue – like you Father Z – is a tremendous blessing. Common sense with clarity in teaching. We see some horrifying things from some of the clergy around the world but there are still plenty of good, solid priests we are blessed with. I will pray for all priests to be like these two men.
3. johntenor says:

   4 December 2025 at 3:56 PM

   Not to add insult to injury, but I’ve heard “Mary Did You Know?” sung during the Good Friday Liturgy. It was at Holy Redeemer by the Sea in Kitty Hawk, NC. And the next before at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper during there were vestment changes during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. I don’t remember the color sequence, but it included purple, red, and white and pauses after the Liturgy of the Word, for instance. The homily includes some Catacheatsis on the appropriateness of the practice which basically was, “Because I feel like it.”

   It was Boomer Liturgical Theater.
4. revueltos67 says:

   4 December 2025 at 4:07 PM

   White to move and mate in 4

   White’s strength is on the f file and will naturally be pushing the black king to the d file putting e7, covered by 3 black pieces plus the king, at the center of the action. White can’t win a duke out on e7 and a check blocked on e7 by the c6 knight might allow the king to escape to the queen side via c6.

   1) Qxf7+ Kd8 forced
   2) Qf8+ Kd7 forced
   3) Be6+ Kxe6 forced
   4) Qf7 mate
5. Chicagiensis_Indianapolitana says:

   5 December 2025 at 6:38 AM

   I was a church organist and choir director for a number of years. Every year, without fail a visitor would lament to me that they really missed hearing this during the Vigil Mass or the Mass of the Day. It gave me an opportunity to catechize and then get to the root of why they liked it. I usually got one of two responses… “Oh, I never thought of it that way.” or “Well, it’s so moving when they sing it at my parish.” Fr. McTeigue is 100% spot on.

   I place the blame squarely on our most of Catholic bishops. They’ve chosen to allow the creation of “catholic” mega publishers to peddle dreck to our people. Open up just about any “hymnal” in almost any Catholic parish and just peruse some of the offerings. As a rant, OCP’s Glory & Praise should NOT be in it’s 3rd edition, it should be dead and buried. GIA’s Gather should NOT be in it’s 4th edition, the gathering should have been disbanded ages ago.

   When I was in the seminary, we used to use Gather hymnals as doorstops, things to throw at others to get attention, we played a form of indoor curling with them. All in an effort to destroy them to force the seminary to replace them. The Rector, Director of Liturgy and Music Director just couldn’t figure out how they ended up in such bad shape so quickly… *shrugs shoulders* “Bad batch, quality control at GIA has really fallen off Father!”
6. jhogan says:

   6 December 2025 at 7:03 PM

   There appears to be an ongoing effort to minimize or lessen the role of Our Blessed Mother in salvation history. My own view is that this is because of the so-called “ecumenical” need to make Catholicism acceptable to Protestants. If you read the actual Vatican II documents, the Council affirms that the one, true Church founded by Jesus Christ is the Catholic Church, and that there is no salvation outside of it. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to ever minimize Mary!
   Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus!
7. TonyO says:

   6 December 2025 at 10:15 PM

   The Rector, Director of Liturgy and Music Director just couldn’t figure out how they ended up in such bad shape so quickly… *shrugs shoulders*

   So…they ordered more, i.e. sales increased, which is why it went to a 4th printing!?! So, you’re the reason? Egad!

   But thanks for that rant. Good to know at least one director / organist gets it.

   I loved Fr. McT’s diatribe against the dreck of “mary did you know?’, but on one point he was off just a bit: (As I understand the teaching), while it was wholly fitting that God should have lifted Mary out of sin from the first moment of her existence, the divine Christ could have been born to her without that special grace, doing so was not beyond God’s power.
8. Venerator Sti Lot says:

   8 December 2025 at 12:40 PM

   Exercises spring to mind, such as, how minimally might the text need to be revised?
   For example, “would soon deliver” to ‘had first delivered’ – is that enough? And there is the matter of variant texts (think of, without necessarily imitating, Pope Urban VIII) – though Jennifer Henry’s horizontalist revolutionary effort is no improvement (assuming the version provided with the Korean guitarist’s performance on the Phillips UMC YouTube channel video is accurate). Has anyone – or have various folks – produced one or more superior contrafacta? (All this apart from the question of the propriety of liturgical – or immediately post-liturgical recessional – use of any such orthodox contrafactum.)

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