Category Archives: Linking Back

Different confessional practices/customs around the world

Posted on 14 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Under another entry concerning “confessional etiquette” a commentator raised the good point that people from different language/ethnic backgrounds have different formulae for beginning and ending their sacramental confessions.
Most Americans of a certain age learned to begin “Bless me Father, I … Continue reading →

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Want a TLM in your parish? Here is how it was done in one place!

Posted on 14 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have written a few times (since the election of Francis – for example HERE) that it is time to push forward in the implementation of Summorum Pontificum.  People who have been wringing their hands or resting on the … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Distance of a priest’s valid consecration

Posted on 13 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Dear Father – Like yourself I am not a fan of concelebration, but I would like to ask two questions. These questions came about in one of those after dinner discussions which come under the heading of … Continue reading →

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Of Devils and Agencies and Metadata and You

Posted on 13 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Long before the scandal about government snooping and gathering of metadata broke, I wrote a post (HERE) about Pope Francis’ mentions of the Devil, the Enemy of the soul.
Consider the way angels can gather “metadata” on us and build an … Continue reading →

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External (TLM) Observance of Corpus Christi on Sunday… yes? no?

Posted on 2 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today I had qualms… qualms I say… about the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost for the traditional celebration of the Roman Rite.   Why?  ”External celebration”?
One of the long-time readers here posted in a comment (tossing some of my words back … Continue reading →

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OLDIE PODCAzT 119: The Holy Name and Blasphemy

Posted on 20 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From 2011:
Today is the feast of St. Bernardine of Siena (+1444) in both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Forms of the Roman Rite, and therefore I use this opportunity to offer something from one of his discourses about the Most … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS POLL: All-male sanctuary/altar service and vocations to the priesthood.

Posted on 20 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have posted this poll before, but in light of another post, I thought I would revisit the question.
Please select a response and make comments on this subject in the combox, below.
And, yes, I know that some churches don’t even … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS: Pentecost Sunday: weaving and imbuing and saving and dyeing

Posted on 19 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Fiftieth Day Feast, Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté, for the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, fifty days after the Exodus.  Fifty days after Our Lord’s Resurrection (the perfect number … Continue reading →

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Of flower petals, firefighters, dedication, and holes in the roof

Posted on 13 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today is the anniversary of the Dedication of the Roman church Santa Maria “ad Martyres“, which took place in 609.  This church is also called the Pantheon.
Since on upcoming Pentecost, Roman firefighters will be dropping red rose petals through the … Continue reading →

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Card. O’Malley to boycott Boston College when they honor pro-abortion Irish PM

Posted on 10 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I wrote HERE about Jesuit-run Boston College’s plan to have anti-Catholic catholic, pro-abortion Prime Minister of Ireland Enda Kenny speak at commencement and then confer on him an honor.
Outrageous. Shades of Notre Shame.
Now I read at the site of the Cardinal … Continue reading →

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