Vox Cantoris: March 2025

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Ave Maria - Robert Parsons

A blessed Feast of the Annunciation to all.

Most Blessed Mary, ever-virgin, intercede for this writer and his readers. Amen.

Sunday, 16 March 2025

"Tis Good, Lord, to Be Here!"

1 'Tis good, Lord, to be here!

Thy glory fills the night;

Thy face and garments, like the sun,

Shine with unborrowed light.

2 'Tis good, Lord, to be here,

Thy beauty to behold,

Where Moses and Elijah stand,

Thy messengers of old.

3 Fulfiller of the past!

Promise of things to be!

We hail your body glorified,

And our redemption see.

4 Before we taste of death,

We see Thy kingdom come;

We fain would hold this vision bright,

And make this hill our home.

5 'Tis good, Lord, to be here!

Yet we may not remain;

But since Thou bid'st us leave the mount,

Come with us to the plain.

Friday, 7 March 2025

Mass attendance is down 18% in 5 years!

As we warned, the legacy of Thomas "No Mass For You" Collins has come to fruition, and it is rotten fruit. Mass attendance is down 18%! What did he and the rest of them expect when they shut down churches five years ago this month? What did they expect when they told Catholics that Mass wasn't important enough to come to in person and that watching on television or a computer sufficed? What did they expect when they threw their lot in with globalists, communists and atheists?

A valley of tears of their own making.

A rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.

Cardinal Collins in an empty St. Michael's Cathedral, Christmas 2020

Mass numbers hover below pre-pandemic level | The Catholic Register

Where recent trends show Catholic Mass attendance levels in the United Kingdom and the United States have all but returned to post-pandemic levels, the Archdiocese of Toronto finds itself still with a ways to go.
The Archdiocese is witnessing approximately 18-per-cent fewer people in its parishes' pews for Mass compared to pre-pandemic years, though the faithful have slowly returned since church doors have reopened.
Statistics from the Office of Spiritual Affairs show that the recorded weekend Mass attendance in 2019 was 266,519 parishioners. As many parishes pivoted to virtual offerings following outright cancellations of Mass in 2020 when COVID shuttered the doors of churches everywhere, the number plummeted to 89,386, a decrease of more than 65 per cent.
As restrictions eased in 2021, attendance rose to 114,550 before increasing by 47.9 per cent to 169,482 in 2022. The 200,000 mark was surpassed a year later with an average of 204,713 in 2023 before climbing again to 217,780 last year.
Maribel Mayorga, director of communications for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said information on attendance numbers would be collected diocese by diocese and that no formal reporting structure to the CCCB for national numbers exists at the moment. Still, the pattern in Toronto is shared by dioceses across Canada.

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Miserere Mei, Deus

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Looking back to a past Shrove Tuesday

It was Shrove Tuesday, which fell a few weeks earlier than this year in 2015, a decade ago. I was sitting with a colleague at lunch when an email came across the Blackberry: "Letter to Domet." What is this? I exclaimed. A letter from the prominent Toronto law firm of Fogler Rubinoff and a well-known solicitor within the Italian community named Nina Perfetto. I was being sued by Thomas J. Rosica, a Basilian priest and Executive Producer of Salt + Light Television, Vatican apparatchik, Francis minion and all-around annoying bully to anyone in his path. Within hours of the upload of the interview below, the internet went wild. Emails from all over the world, offers of financial support for the lawsuit, messages through third parties from Cardinals and Bishops in Rome and Europe, but not a thing from mine in Toronto. It was an explosion! Even the law firm was taken to task by readers around the world so much that the "pro-bono" lawsuit was quickly no longer. Fogler Rubinoff met its nightmare.

Tom Rosica, now suspended, shamed and taken down by his own actions as a serial plagiarist, (first exposed by this writer) and found to have been coming out of a "gay" bathhouse in Toronto and eventually being sued by another priest for alleged "sexual assault" finally held to some form of account.

But I did it first.

Happy Anniversary, Tom!

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

YOUR BLOGGER VOX CANTORIS IS THREATENED WITH A LAWSUIT BY VATICAN OFFICIAL AND PAPAL ADVISER - FATHER THOMAS ROSICA, CSB

On Shrove Tuesday, February 17, 2015, I received a letter from Nina Perfetto, a Litigation Solicitor with one of Toronto's most expensive law firms, Fogler Rubinoff. The threat of a lawsuit was from Father Thomas J. Rosica, a Basilian priest, Executive Producer of Salt + Light Television, Consultor to the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, English-language Synod spokesman for the Holy See and member of various academic institutional Boards.

A few weeks later, after incredible international pressure and bad publicity, intervention by Cardinals of the Holy Catholic Church, letters, and other pressures, he dropped the lawsuit, saying, " It was never intended" and that the lawyer was working "pro-bono."

This post shall remain through this front page link permanently as a matter of public record.

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