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Monthly Archives: May 2011
23 May 2011
QUAERITUR: Altar girls dressed as clerics. What to say?
From a reader:
What would be a proper response to a priest who not only allows his female altar servers to wear the black cassock and white surplice, but also tells the parishioners that it is perfectly acceptable to do so?
It … Continue reading
Where you are!
Here is a snapshot from the last few minutes of where some of you are (rough estimations).
The stats change so fast I can just give a few.
Colorado Springs, Color…
Brighton, East Sussex
Helsinki, Southern Finl…
Rome, Lazio
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Detroit, Michigan
New York
O Fallon, … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool
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Hate-filled editorial by The Tablet: Extraordinary Form, clericalism, and child abuse
From The Bitter Pill (aka The Tablet aka RU486). Make a decision before you read this to remain cool and composed. I worked on this a few days ago, but set it aside and then turned my own heat down … Continue reading
Posted in Throwing a Nutty
Tagged SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Bitter Pill, The Tablet, Universae Ecclesiae
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Universae Ecclesiae 28, the Eucharistic Fast, and You.
I had a post about Univerae Ecclesiae 28 and how the derogation in that paragraph makes it clear that the provisions of Summorum Pontificum exclude female service at the altar in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
The reason for … Continue reading
The Feeder Feed: Z-Cam update
I am still having some technical problems with the Z-Cam but I have it up and running again.
Here are a couple screen shots taken within just a few minutes.
And Oriole was hanging around on the hummingbird feeder and was just … Continue reading
Paul Augustin Card. Mayer, OSB – 100 years – R.I.P.
Paul Augustin Card. Mayer, OSB, would have been 100 years old today. He died on 30 April 2010.
Card. Mayer was a great friend and a mentor for me for many years and it was an honor to know him. He … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: What should we do when priests do stupid things?
Priests are people too. But sometimes I think, “Listen, pal. If you are too stupid to follow the rites for sacraments as they are written, maybe you should be working as a dishwasher.”
From a reader:
If you post this on your … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Biological Solution, confession, sacrament of penance, Temple Police
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22 May 2011
Universae Ecclesiae 28 and “altar girls” for the Extraordinary Form
The Instruction on Summorum Pontificum called Universae Ecclesiae makes it clear that there is to be no service at the altar by females for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
UE 28 reads.
28 – Praeterea, cum sane de lege speciali … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: A convert hungry to learn more
From a reader:
Now that I have been a Catholic for one year, I am finding that I am still thirsting for info on Catholic doctrine. I read all I can but at almost 60 I am finding it overwhelming. I … Continue reading
Terry Hatty with Marcus Grodi
Many elements of this man’s journey cross with my own.
I once had a Guild. I still have a 6 string Bozo Bell. My case has stickers from many countries.
Would it surprise you that I busked through Europe for months?
I still … Continue reading
21 May 2011
Starship Supper … awful… wonderful…
There is a reader here who really liked the 1997 movie Starship Troopers.
It was incredibly loosely based on the Heinlein novel we oooolllld people read when we were kids. And when I say loose, I mean loose.
There is now a … Continue reading
UPDATE: TLM with female servers at U. Cambridge v. Universae Ecclesiae 28
The Instruction on Summorum Pontificum called Universae Ecclesiae, in paragraph 28, excludes service at the altar by females for the Extraordinary Form.
You will recall that the chaplain at the University of Cambridge’s Fisher House, Fr. McCoy, decided to have celebrations … Continue reading
Mickens of The Pill K.O.’s “Universae Ecclesiae”!
Robert Mickens of The Pill (aka The Tablet aka RU486), found something really wrong with Universae Ecclesiae, something truly disturbing.
Some puir slow-witted gowk in the CDF or Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” screwed up the title or “incipit” of the Instruction … Continue reading
WDTPRS 5th Sunday of Easter (2002MR) – sempiternity
Sunday’s Collect for the Ordinary Form was not in a previous edition of the Roman Missal. A precedent is found in the Sacramentarium Bergomense.
COLLECT:
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus,
semper in nobis paschale perfice sacramentum
ut, quos sacro baptismate dignatus es renovare,
sub tuae protectionis auxilio … Continue reading
WDTPRS: Secret for Votive Mass of Mary on Saturday: a densely-packed lovely little theological gem
This morning’s Mass included a prayer I’ve said numberless times over the last nearly 20 (in a few days) years. In the traditional Roman calendar today the priest can say a Votive Mass of Holy Mary on Saturday, Sancta Maria … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged Consilium, impetration, intercession, Mary on Saturday, propitiation, Saturday, St. Thomas Aquinas, Votive Masses
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