Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

About Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Fr. Z is the guy who runs this blog. o{]:¬)

Daily Rome Shot 1541 – It is the way

Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no extra cost, you provide help for which … Read More

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YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! In your charity would you please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who are ill, who will … Read More

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WDTPRS: Septuagesima Sunday

The Collect of the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday is bracing.  It has a different feel than many of our Sunday orations.  Bl. Ildefonso Schuster observes, that this prayer “betrays the deep affliction which weighed on the soul of St. Gregory … Read More

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Sunday “in the seventieth” – Septuagesima

We have already come to Septuagesima Sunday, so early this year thanks to the vagaries of the Moon. Pre-Lent is here.   With the traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, in the Vetus Ordo, you cannot be surprised by Lent sneaking … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1540 – Request

I ask that in your kindness you might say a decade of the Rosary for my mother. Welcome registrants: Edsterman calenyulmaion

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Daily Rome Shot 1539 – Request

Before all else, I ask that in your kindness you might say a decade of the Rosary for my mother. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance … Read More

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UPDATE – 30 Jan Some new Christmas cards arrived! HERE

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29 Jan – Hearts and Vinegar – A sweet and sour taste of St. Francis de Sales in Benedict XVI’s ‘Spe salvi’

In the traditional Roman calendar, today is the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor.   He was a great warrior for the Church in the face of the Protestant Revolt. According to the Louis de la Rivière in … Read More

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Dezinformatsiya is alive and well

Some years ago I read a stunning, alarming, enlightening book: Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism by Ronald Rychlak and Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa. Rychlak wrote books about the smearing of … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1538

Today’s Wordle: 5 Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no extra cost, you provide … Read More

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