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Monthly Archives: April 2011
22 April 2011
WDTPRS REVISITED: The “new” Good Friday prayer for Jews inserted into the 1962MR
Later today, I will participate in the Good Friday service in the Extraordinary Form. Thank you, Holy Father for Summorum Pontificum.
During the Good Friday service, there are many intercessory prayers. One of them is for the Jews. Over the decades, … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged Benedict XVI, Good Friday, Prayer for the Jews, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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LENTCAzT 45: Good Friday
These 5 minute daily podcasts for Lent are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.
Today is Good Friday. The Roman Station is Santa Croce … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, PODCAzT, PRAYERCAzT: What Does The (Latin) Prayer Really Sound L
Tagged crucifixion, Good Friday, Passion of the Lord
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WDTPRS Good Friday: cruor… streaming gore
Cruor has a precise meaning: “Blood (which flows from a wound), a stream of blood (more restricted in meaning than sanguis, which designates both that circulating in bodies and that shed by wounding).
ORATIO:
Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine,
et famulos tuos aeterna protectione … Continue reading
Major League Baseball – another Good Friday blown save
There are quite a few Major League Baseball games scheduled for tonight, but there is just one scheduled during the day at the time Good Friday services are on: 2:20 PM ET in Chicago: Dodgers at Cubs at Wrigley.
I honor … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged bad taste, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Good Friday, Major League Baseball, MLB, Wrigley Field
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21 April 2011
23 April: Talk Like Shakespeare Day…. POSTPONED?
A had a note from a reader:
Father Z: thank you for supporting Talk Like S. Day in the past. Because it falls on Holy Saturday, will you defer it this year to a later date?
Quoth I in response shot back … Continue reading
Preparing for Holy Thursday Mass
The chasuble I get to use tonight at Holy Innocents in Manhattan.
A detail. I am told the Sister who made this didn’t have the chance to finish it.
UPDATE:
A few photos of the Mass.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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D. Springfield: revival of the St. Michael the Archangel Prayer
I received a very interesting note from a reader in my email today. On the blog of Fr. Daren Zehnle called Servant and Steward I learn that His Excellency Most Rev. Thomas John Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield has authorized for … Continue reading
WDTPRS POLL: Attending Triduum services
A quick WDTPRS POLL:
Please leave a comment in the combox if you care to.
Technorati Tags: EASTER, poll, Triduum
Card. Burke on women covering their heads in church
The great Canonical Defender, Dr. Ed Peters has an interesting note on the use… here we go again… about women wearing head coverings in church.
He has something from Cardinal Burke in the topic.
But first, in a nutshell here is the … Continue reading
Question about Pope Benedict’s Holy Thursday adoration at Altar of Repose
If any of you watched the Holy Father’s Mass at the Lateran, and perhaps recorded it, could you do me a favor?
I noticed that the Pope’s time of silent prayer before the Altar of Repose after Mass was especially prolonged. … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged altar of repose, holy thursday, Pope Benedict XVI
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Benedict XVI’s sermon for Holy Thursday Mass of the Last Supper
Pope Benedict’s sermon for the Holy Thursday Mass of the Last Supper. My emphases and comments and I add some extra paragraph breaks.
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
“I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer” (Lk … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Benedict XVI, holy thursday, Maundy Thursday, sermon, Successor of Peter
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I’ll bet you thought Jesus died for our sins. HAH! NCR has a new angle.
It is hard to know what to do when you see a “catholic” site post something that is simultaneously heretical and thoroughly dopey.
Do you ignore it? Do you post about it and therefore drive traffic to it?
This is my dilemma … Continue reading
Posted in Throwing a Nutty
Tagged heresy, heterodoxy, National Catholic Reporter, soteriology
50 Comments
LENTCAzT 44: Holy “Maundy” Thursday of Holy Week
These 5 minute daily podcasts for Lent are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.
Today is Thursday in Holy Week, “Maundy” Thurday. The … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 44: Holy "Maundy" Thursday of Holy Week [4:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWDTPRS Holy “Maundy” Thursday in the Triduum
The term “Maunday” or “Maundy” Thursday refers to Christ’s mandate (mandatum) in John 13:34 to His apostles in the service of the Church. It is also called sometimes “Shere” Thursday, perhaps from “shere” indicating “tolerance” and “remedy”, in the … Continue reading
20 April 2011
QUAERITUR: Can we attend non-Catholic weddings?
From a reader:
Is it wrong if not in fact sinful to attend the weddings and funerals
of non-Catholics? For as Pope Pius XI stated in his encyclical
treating on Christian unity, Catholics are never to participate in
schismatic or heretical congregations. I would … Continue reading
