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Monthly Archives: January 2011
31 January 2011
CNS: CHA Pres. Sr. Keehan affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives
I saw this on CNS. My emphases and comments.
First, you might review this: the Magisterium of Nuns (and this).
CHA president affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives [Uh huh.]
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In an exchange of … Continue reading
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The future and our choices
Tagged Archbp. Dolan, CHA, magisterium of nuns, Sr. Keehan
20 Comments
A priest who ‘get’s it’ about how people receive Communion!
WDTPRS KUDOS to Fr. Lankeit!
Here is the text from his 30 January bulletin of the Cathedral of Sts. Simon and Jude in , Very Rev. Fr. Fr. John Lankeit.
Here is a link to the PDF if you want to see … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: What should members of a chant group wear?
From a reader:
I am a member of a men’s Gregorian chant group, and recently a local priest whose parish we were singing at voiced reservations about our uniform (black cassock and white surplice). He preferred we not look like a … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged cassock, schola canoturm
27 Comments
QUAERITUR: Lay people decide on their own to have a Communion service, help themselves.
From a reader:
At Mass yesterday morning, the substitute priest forgot to show up.
Several members of the congregation took it upon themselves to have a “Communion Service” with all the readings, etc. One of the EMHCs
opened the Tabernacle and got the … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Communion service
32 Comments
QUAERITUR: Of subdeacons and tunics
From a deacon reader:
I was in the middle of some research last night and discovered some new tidbits on vestments. More precisely, the difference between a dalmatic and a tunicle. I captured a number of my thoughts on my blog … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged dalmatic, deacon, Ministeria quaedam, subdeacon, tunic
21 Comments
Summorum Pontificum, reforming the reform, and resisting the reform
Pope Benedict, in his ongoing effort to heal the rupture that occurred in our worship when a composed, artificial rite was suddenly imposed on the Church, in 2007 put into effect the provisions of Summorum Pontificum, by far surpassing the … Continue reading
Grumbling about Anglicanorum coetibus
With the provisions of Anglicanorum coetibus, Benedict XVI (the Pope of Christian Unity) opened a door for and gave a place to Anglicans who desired unity with the Bishop of Rome in the Catholic communion. Certainly they were distressed by … Continue reading
30 January 2011
Evening activities
I am at Our Savior on Park Avenue to hear a talk by the German writer Martin Mosebach.
Today’s TLM sounds (some excerpts)
Here are some audio clips, stitched together, from Holy Mass this morning at Holy Innocents in NYC. This was a Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form. We were happy to have good polyphony and Gregorian chant … as there is … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
15 Comments
Sunday Supper: China Town edition
I am in Manhattan and eating with a friend in Chinatown at Shanghai Asian Manor (next to Transfiguration Church).
I am picky about Soup Dumplings.
These were good!
Then we had fried dumplings.
On to the Shredded Pork with Dried Bean Curd.
Back into the … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, On the road, SESSIUNCULA
15 Comments
29 January 2011
WDTPRS: Wherein Fr. Z rambles about the Collect for the 4th Ordinary Sunday, or, “All you need is love”.
Today’s prayer was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the Leonine Sacramentary or, as it is better titled by its editor, the scholarly L. Cunibert Mohlberg, the Veronese Sacramentary.
Were you … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
14 Comments
QUAERITUR: I haven’t been to confession for 10 years! I don’t know what to do!
From a reader:
I haven’t been to Confession in 10 years, and I’ve only gone three times back when I was still in grade school. It’s possible I wasn’t catechized in the sacrament properly because I don’t recall requiring the Act … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged confession, penance, reconciliation, sacrament of penance
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Please.. someone tell me this is an early April Fool’s gag.
I hope this isn’t true.
A tip of the biretta to Jimmy Akin, o{]:¬\ though this is on NPR:
Priest Known As ‘Father Oprah’ To Get Fox Show [Say it ain't so.]
by The Associated Press
MIAMI January 25, 2011, 05:41 pm ET
A … Continue reading
28 January 2011
NEW WDTPRS MUG – Newman “To be deep in history”
The other day I was having a skype conversation with His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Tim Finigan. He mentioned Bl. John Henry Newman’s phrase “To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”
Thinking back on the course of … Continue reading
RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST and some thanks.
Some recent posts of interest:
The slipping-away of Catholic identity
Just too cool stuff
Let the swimming begin! The Anglican Ordinariate is going to grow.
FOLLOW-UP: Online volume of Acta Apostolicae Sedis has been corrected
A mordant observation about the Week for Christian Unity
QUAERITUR: … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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