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Monthly Archives: December 2011
28 December 2011
QUAERITUR: Ringing bells during Mass
From a priest:
I’m looking for the reference, which I once read, about the option of ringing a bell as a signal for receiving Holy Communion during the Mass. In the past, I’ve always instruted the altarboys to ring the bell once when the … Continue reading
‘Did you see that hoopoe?’ cried the man in the black coat.
I posted about my mediated encounter in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a story-telling Hoopoe. HERE.
All of a sudden, the memory swarmed into my my, like an able-seaman into the foretop.
A Hoopoe makes an important … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Linking Back, O'Brian Tags
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27 December 2011
More on the Archd. Detroit v Real Catholc TV dust-up
You heard about the dust-up between Michael Voris’ initiative, Real Catholic TV, and the Archdiocese of Detroit. The Archdiocese is saying that Mr. Voris cannot use the word “Catholic”. I have been puzzled by the actual canon law of this … Continue reading
Posted in Linking Back, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Archd. Detroit, Michael Voris, RealCatholicTV.com
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Catholic League’s 5th Ave Nativity Scene
I posted some time ago about the Catholic League’s Creche or Nativity Scene in New York City.
I went to find it today.
Many people stopped to look qt it and take photos.
I added a FourSquare location when I saw that nobody … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Should I write to the bishop about urging priests to hear confessions?
From a reader:
Would it be appropriate to write a bishop asking if diocesan priests
under his leadership be encouraged to hear confessions more regularly? Most parishes seem to only have confessions on Saturday afternoons. I know our priests are busy, but I read … Continue reading
Mystic Monk Coffee: December Selection!
The Wyoming Carmelites have a little dialogue to describe their December “Coffee of the Month”
Choir Monk: I can tell this coffee is a blend – the different sizes and colors of the beans tell me that there are a few … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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“the time has come for us to be courageous in working for a true reform of the reform and also a return to the true liturgy of the Church”
A friend and I have been talking about the provisions of Summorum Pontificum and the need to press press press them forward again. We need to keep pressing and working.
On that note, I was delighted to read at NLM that … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, WDTPRS KUDOS, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Card. Ranjith, Extraordinary Form, Marshall Plan, Vetus Ordo
16 Comments
27 Dec: Today we bless WINE! HUZZAH!
The liturgical year guided and nourish and shaped Catholics for centuries. It does so far less now. But once, people not only followed the turning of the earth and the wheeling of the stars and the rising and setting of … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Blessings at Communion… again.
From a reader:
In the OF some Priest’s will bless those who present themselves in the
Communion line with their arms crossed. (Although I am doubtful to the legality of this) So can a Priest who is celebrating the EF bless those who … Continue reading
More points about the new, corrected translation and update on matters like the Liturgy of the Hours
Some useful items from the newletter f the USCCB’s Committee on Divine Worship. They deal with some points about the use of the new corrected translation. Sorry about the format.
In response to many questions from the body of … Continue reading
26 December 2011
QUAERITUR: “openly gay EMHC, an ex-priest”
From a reader:
I come from a mid-sized parish with at least 10 EMHCs every Sunday, which just seems like way too much. I’ve also noticed that they give blessings, with the laying on of hands and everything, to catechumens, non-Catholics, etc. I’m a … Continue reading
The Feeder Feed: Met “Hoopoe” Edition
In the new Near East section at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you are able to view “The Concourse of the Birds”, which is on a folio of the Mantiq al-Tair (Language of the Birds) of ‘Attar, painted in about … Continue reading
WDTPRS POLL: Genuflecting during the Creed on Christmas.
In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, when the Creed is said or sung, all present bend the knee or kneel at the words “et incarnatus est“. In the Ordinary Form this practice was reduced only to two days … Continue reading
WDTPRS POLL: How did you fulfill your Christmas/Sunday Mass obligation? (With a short rant about Hell.)
Catholics are obliged to attend Holy Mass on Sundays and also certain other “days of precept”, also called Holy Days of Obligation. We fulfill our obligation by attending Mass (or Divine Liturgy of course) on the day itself or … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, De Novissimis: Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Christmas, hell, Holy Days of Obligation, judgement, mortal sin, Sunday Mass Obligation
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