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Monthly Archives: December 2010
27 December 2010
The right to bear arms… and fill the freezer.
Even if Admiral Yamamoto didn’t actually say this, it is nevertheless true. Se non è vero, è ben trovato:
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
I received this amusing piece via … Continue reading
Smells and bells and sights and sounds and snow
Yesterday, we had a beautiful solemn TLM at Holy Innocents in Manhattan, the undersigned as celebrant. Here is a brief sample. I set up my little camera on a ledge pointed toward the altar just to see what might happen.
After … Continue reading
Posted in On the road
32 Comments
QUAERITUR: Which ’62 altar missal should I buy?
From a priest reader:
Fr. Z, I’ve decided to take the plunge and use my Christmas money to
buy a 1962 Missale Romanum for the altar, so I can get up to speed on the EF in the next year. Any thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Mail from priests
Tagged La Befana, LEV, Missale Romanum, PCP
26 Comments
Tornielli on Protestant Traditionalists
Beyond the interview with Card. Canizares, Andrea Tornielli added a rather explosive entry to his blog: The Liturgy and Traditionalist Protestantism. (My translation.)
Let’s just say it: many (or some, or few, you decide) traditionalists do not love Pope Benedict’s hermeneutic … Continue reading
Interview with Card. Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Cong. for Divine Worship
The intrepid Andrea Tornielli has an interview in Il Giornale with the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, His Eminence Antonio Card. Cañizares Llovera. The article is entitled: “Basta con la messa creativa, in chiesa silenzio e preghiera… Enough … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Card. Cañizares Llovera
26 Comments
QUAERITUR: priest switches from incense censer to a bowl
From a reader:
Our pastor has stopped using the traditional censer at
Solemn Masses (of which he has very few –only the highest of feasts)
in favor of using a free-standing incense bowl that he places in front
of the altar of sacrifice. The … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: priest in track suit for sacraments
From a reader:
Well.. a priest I know of, turned up late for a baptism and didn’t
vest before baptising this baby, he stayed in the tracksuit he was
wearing…and also he does not wear a stole while hearing confessions
at all. Im no … Continue reading
26 December 2010
“Here’s a fun game! Let’s grab the veil!”
As you know, on Sunday’s – if I can – I like to visit a nice museum if possible while traveling.
On this snowy snowy New York Sunday afternoon, a priest friend and I made our way to the Metropolitan … Continue reading
What the Military Must Learn from the Church
From the National Catholic Register with some editing and my emphases and comments.
While the consequences of abolishing Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell for the military is of great interest, for WDTPRS Mr. Drake’s comments on what homosexuality does to the … Continue reading
25 December 2010
WaPo, by indirection, finds direction out.
From WaPo‘s On Faith… with my emphases and comments.
Pope’s master of liturgy helps Benedict restore traditions
By Jason Horowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
IN ROME On a rainy Christmas Eve, Pope Benedict XVI followed a procession of Swiss guards, bishops and priests down … Continue reading
Brick by Cincinnati Brick
Here is a brick by brick piece in the Cincinatti Enquirer.
Catholic group looks to form Latin parish
The first time Ashley Paver stepped into St. Mark’s Church in Evanston, he knew he’d found the right place.
The tile mosaics, soaring arches, marble … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Cincinnati
27 Comments
Merry Christmas everyone!
There is time for the complicated, and there is time for the simple.
Tonight we celebrate the moment in history when our God, entirely transcendent, lowered Himself to take our human nature into a bond with his divine nature that could … Continue reading
Posted in Wherein Fr. Z Rants
98 Comments
24 December 2010
Papal Midnight Mass with no Communion in the hand
I was not able to watch all of the Papal Mass in the Vatican Basilica, but I have started to get interesting emails about something people noticed.
Among them was this email from a priest in Rome:
In a change to former … Continue reading
Benedict XVI’s sermon for 1st Mass of Christmas: Really and truly!
Here is the Holy Father’s Sermon for the 1st Mass of Christmas, with my emphases and comments.
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
“You are my son, this day I have begotten you” – with this … Continue reading
Posted in Pope of Christian Unity, The Drill
13 Comments
WDTPRS 24 December COLLECT (2002MR): The consolations of Thy Coming.
The Collect for today’s Mass in the 2002MR, the last of Advent, brings us to the very threshold of the humble place where the Lord was born.
COLLECT (2002MR):
Festina, quaesumus, ne tardaveris, Domine Iesu,
ut adventus tui consolationibus subleventur,
qui in … Continue reading
