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Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Priests need your prayers this Passiontide
catholics journeying towards the new jerusalem through the sacrament-season of lent, our mysterious new exodus, from this sunday onward espe...
Omnium Gatherum: a water break on the Lenten marathon
the fourth sunday of lent is known by the first word of the introit, the first chant of mass, “ laetare … rejoice”! this is one of two days ...
Keep Fridays meat-free – but alligator is fine
last week i concluded with the latin adage, plenus venter non studet libenter (“a full stomach doesn’t willingly apply itself to study”). re...
The meaning of 'The world, the flesh and the Devil'
in the extraordinary form of the roman rite this sunday we are served a bracing slap of reality. holy mass begins with an antiphon taken fro...
Lent is drill practice for our spiritual battle
each day during lent has, traditionally, assigned a church in rome called a “station”. in ancient times the people and clergy would process ...
We can all strive to live without mortal sin
"we are in a fight for our lives." this was part of the message ancient converts received as they approached their reception into the church...
St Thérèse understood the spirit of Sexagesima
in the traditional roman calendar this sunday is called sexagesima, latin for the “sixtieth” day before easter. these three purple-draped su...
What does Septuagesima mean?
easter falls late this year because of the vagaries of the moon. but easter will come, and before it our serious penitential “fortieth” seas...
The Church is not afraid to combine images of family and soldiering
a couple of weeks ago, we met a "liturgical unicorn". unicorns do pop up once in a while. he's back this sunday too: the same collect in bot...
Even in Japan, the Traditional Mass was reassuringly familiar
it was an age of the great charity which impelled missionaries to cross both endless seas and narrow channels. they bore in their hands the ...
Omnium Gatherum
this week we encounter a liturgical unicorn. we shall celebrate the second sunday in ordinary time in the ordinary form of the roman rite, a...
Omnium Gatherum
after epiphany, the church teases forth into liturgical celebrations different manifestations of the lord’s divinity, including his baptism ...
Omnium Gatherum
this year, we are happy to celebrate epiphany on a sunday, which by calendric niceties coincides with real epiphany, january 6. there is no ...
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