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Category Archives: Four Last Things
Your Good News – UPDATED
Do you have some personal good news for the readership? Yesterday, I found daffodils on sale. One of my favorite flowers. Here, “Still Life with Extinguished Candle, Daffodils and Ganganelli Mug“. There’s an allegory in there somewhere, just as in … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants about Hell and sin and Enemy of the soul
I often read from visitors here that they rarely, if ever, hear anything about the Four Last Things from their pulpits. I mention the reality of our possible eternal destiny with some frequency here and from the pulpit. It is … Read More
“You just want the 1950’s back!”
One of the things that the goulish faculty of my hellish US seminary hissed at me in my re-education sessions during my second awful year when I was under super double-top secret probation, was “You just want the 1950’s back!” … Read More
Mass and Triumphalism. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
The other day I posted something about churches and synagogues losing membership. HERE This is going to happen, friends. Demographics, on top of decades of stupidity, are not on our side. I’m not saying that this is the great “falling … Read More
“Know also this, that, in the last days, shall come dangerous times.”
From Matins today: Lesson from the second letter of St. Paul the Apostle to Timothy (2 Tim 3:1-5) Know also this, that, in the last days, shall come dangerous times. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, … Read More
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PODCAzT 170: Card. Müller – Manifesto of Faith: “Let not your heart be troubled!”
Gerhald Ludwig Card. Müller, former Prefect of the CDF, has issued a “Manifesto of Faith”. It has a title reference of “Let not your heart be troubled!” (John 14:1). You can get the text HERE. The idea clearly is that … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Confession before suicide
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I haven’t been to confession in a long time, and I’d like to go soon. But I’ve also been very depressed and considering suicide. So I feel like one of my motivations to go would be to prepare … Read More
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Priest preaches at funeral, world falls on his head – UPDATE – HOMILY TEXT
UPDATE 17 Dec 2018: Canonist Ed Peters has a post about the text of the sermon that Fr. LaCuesta gave at the funeral for the young man who committed suicide. The family fueled the usual hyped-up MSM faux reporting. (NYT … … Read More
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Holy Face of Manoppello, Sankt Gallen, “designer babies”
At LifeSite there is an engaging article/interview with an expert, Paul Badde, who has written about the image of the Holy Face kept at Manoppello, Italy. They touch on the role this image might have played in the thwarting of … Read More
The Exequies for @BishopMorlino in @MadisonDiocese
Last night I attended a Vespers service held to pray for the soul of Bp. Morlino. A former Vicar General of Madison, now Bp. of Sioux Falls, Most Rev. Paul J. Swain presided and preached. There were many people whom … Read More
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