Monthly Archives: January 2011

CNS: CHA Pres. Sr. Keehan affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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A priest who ‘get’s it’ about how people receive Communion!

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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QUAERITUR: What should members of a chant group wear?

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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QUAERITUR: Lay people decide on their own to have a Communion service, help themselves.

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

Then the priest and deacon show up! [ 2:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1161)
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QUAERITUR: Of subdeacons and tunics

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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Summorum Pontificum, reforming the reform, and resisting the reform

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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Grumbling about Anglicanorum coetibus

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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Evening activities

Posted on 30 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am at Our Savior on Park Avenue to hear a talk by the German writer Martin Mosebach.

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Today’s TLM sounds (some excerpts)

Posted on 30 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

11-01-30 Holy Innocents - NYC [ 22:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1073)
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Sunday Supper: China Town edition

Posted on 30 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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