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Category Archives: Linking Back
If it’s Immaculate Conception, then BLUE vestments on the 2nd Sunday of Advent… RIGHT??!? – POLLS
Remember the BLUE vestment craze during Advent? Does anyone still see that? Anyone can vote. You must be registered and approved to comment. [poll id=”354″] Meanwhile, at The Parish™ in Rome, this is what people say today, but NOT for … Continue reading
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The Advent Vespers Hymn – ‘Conditor alme siderum’ or ‘Creator alme siderum’
At Vespers during Advent we priests recite (or ought to) a hymn entitled Conditor alme siderum. This is perhaps from the late 6th or early 7th c. In Pope Urban VIII’s revision of the hymns of the Roman Breviary in … Continue reading
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Tagged Conditor alme siderum
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10th birthday of the fantastic TLM book “Treasure and Tradition”!
From a reader who is the publisher of the fantastic Treasure and Tradition! A GREAT gift idea! Hello Father Z, Sorry for the late notice…I knew this was coming up, but I’ve been so busy that the actual day snuck … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
Annual St Crispin Day – Henry V speech roundup!
What you have been waiting for all month, I’m sure, knowing that soon it would be St. Crispin’s. The 3rd c. martyrs Crispin and Crispinian were killed in Soissons. They converted people as they plied their trade as cobblers and … Continue reading
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5 years ago today – 21 October 2019: Pachamama demon idols go into the drink
Five years ago today (the Feast of Karl of Austria), a young Austrian man walked together with demon idols which were scandalously in a church and dumped them into the Tiber River. October 21st is Pachamama day! Five years since … Continue reading
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DIEBUS SALTEM DOMINICIS – 22nd Sunday after Pentecost: “Jesus paid the tax for our sins with the coin of His face.”
Something from 2022 for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost. It is yet relevant. A while ago, I ran into a claim that in the near future devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus would be more and more important. … Continue reading
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WDTPRS – 28th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): Authentic “walking together”
One of my “classic” WDTPRS posts, but appropriate given all the gas right now about “walking together”. This is about God’s walking together with us in the deepest sense… the one which can bring us to salvation instead of virtue … Continue reading
12 September – Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, anniversary of the Battle of Vienna (1683)
In the Divine Praises we pray: Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother. A few days ago, 8 September, we celebrated the Nativity of Mary. Today, 12 September, is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Devotion … Continue reading
