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Category Archives: My View
ACTION ITEM! 2-10 February – NOVENA to Immaculate Heart for FSSP for their Vatican “Visitation”
Here is a PDF of a Novena which you could pray beginning Candlemas, 2 February, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. More on this at LifeSite. The Novena and consecration to the Immaculate Heart line up with a visitation of … Read More
My View For Awhile: Eastward
The sunset in Rome was at 1717. The sunset where I am now is…right now! (See below) The Ave Maria Bell doesn’t ring here either, but in Rome it ought to ring at 1730. Tomorrow, when I arrive in Rome, … Read More
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Daily Rome Shot 1217 – “Why”, you may be asking? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I have a comparatively short trip to Rome coming up. First, a couple days with a priest friend in Brooklyn, which breaks up the journey and puts a buffer into the flights. A couple weeks in Rome. The same coming … Read More
25 Dec 2020: Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD – RIP
In your goodness, please offer a prayer for the repose of the soul of Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD, who died on Christmas Day in 2020. Foster was a Carmelite if Holy Hill, WI, Latinist for many Popes in Rome, and … Read More
My View For Awhile: Wind Bound – UPDATED – ADVENTURE!!!
A few days in the cool breezes of the Second City will be good. A little anxiety passed on his morning. Power was going on and off. Not knowing what was up, I got my car out of the garage … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Advent – Immaculate Conception
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this traditional 2nd Sunday of … Read More
Rome 24/10 – Day 37: Wherein Fr. Z rants
Morning sun movement became visible at 06:47. It will disappear from view at 17:00. Thank you for this day, Lord. The Ave Maria rings at – according to the errant curial calendar – 17:30. But that’s wrong. It should now … Read More
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
WDTPRS – 31st Ordinary Sunday: Running and stumbling! Wherein Fr. Z rants.
At the end, I rant. The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, … Read More
WDTPRS – 29th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): It’s about the children. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
A little rant, before launching into this comment on a prayer for Mass, which called to mind a beautiful piece of art with a special theme. At the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” and in papal audiences there is increasing … Read More
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