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Category Archives: Mail from priests
8 February 2012
QUAERITUR: Can I, a priest, while camping, reserve a Host for adoration after Mass?
From a priest:
Thanks for all your work with your blog and for promoting the TLM.
Thanks to your promotion, I attended a TLM workshop last summer in Nebraska with the FSSP and have since offered the TLM several times – but … Continue reading
4 February 2012
QUAERITUR: Priest changes “many” to “all” in the consecration.
From a priest:
I was concelebrating a Mass last week (N.O., in English) and the principal celebrant substituted the word ‘all’ for ‘many’ at the consecration. I gather he does this at every Mass he offers. Does that change render the … Continue reading
2 February 2012
QUAERITUR: What to do if a bug gets into the chalice?
A young priest writes:
Last weekend after a somewhat fiery homily of exposition of evil and the devil I had a run in with a menacing fly (assuming not Beelzebub himself). At the epiclesis a very large fly dive bombed into … Continue reading
Bp. Zubik shares feedback he received after he responded to Pres. Obama’s declaration of war on the Catholic Church
A few days ago Bp. Zubik of Pittsburgh issued his own strongly worded response (rather than the USCCB template) after Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on the civil and religious liberty of Catholics. You will recall that Bp. Zubik said this … Continue reading
26 January 2012
Bp. Sample: “We cannot – we will not – comply with this unjust law.”
His Excellency Alex Sample, Bishop of Marquette, has made a powerful statement in the face of the Obama Administration’s open attack on the Catholic Church, the 1st Amendment, and the religious freedom of all Americans. My friend Fr. john … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices, WDTPRS KUDOS
Tagged 1st Amendment, Bp. Sample, conscience, D. Marquette, HHS, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
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QUAERITUR: Formula for distribution of Communion in Ordinary Form
From a priest:
Do you know when exactly the formula for giving Communion to the faithful was changed?
In the Ordinary Form the minister says “Corpus Christi… The Body of Christ” and the communicant responds “Amen”.
In the Extraordinary … Continue reading
18 January 2012
Note to priests, bishops about their blogs, links and WDTPRS
I am going to update links on my sidebar to blogs by priests and bishops.
I would be happy to update your link if it is out of date or add your link, if you are a priest or bishops with … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Linking Back, Mail from priests
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17 January 2012
Louisville, KY: 10-12 July: Conference for priests on being a better confessor
I have been harping on the need for a revival of the Sacrament of Penance. This means that priests have to hear confessions and preach about confession. As a matter of fact, if Pope Benedict has a “Marshall Plan” for … Continue reading
14 January 2012
Happy Feast of the Ass
No, I am not talking about whom you think I’m talking about.
I picked this up from Southern Fried Catholicism, an amusing blog by Fr. Joe Tonos. I hope you will go spike his stats.
Today on the medieval calendar, Churches celebrated … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Mail from priests
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13 January 2012
QUAERITUR: Should priests with effeminate manners work to correct them?
From a reader:
I hope you will not take this the wrong way but given certain sad realities of our time, do you think priests who are unusually effeminate in manner (e.g. speech) should work to minimize this aspect of their … Continue reading
10 January 2012
Veils, ciboria, baldachins, and the Eucharist.
A priest acquaintance, Fr. Bede Rowe, has on his interesting blog A Chaplain Abroad, an entry about a veil for a ciborium.
A ciborium is a sacred vessel which resembles a chalice but with a cover used for hosts to be … Continue reading
9 January 2012
QUAERITUR: Light One Up – Incense, Thuribles, and You.
From a reader:
I am writing to ask you about the proper provision for incense at Holy Mass. Can you or your readers recommend a way to ensure a plentiful supply of incense smoke from a thurible at Mass, and to … Continue reading
4 January 2012
3 January 2012
Reader Feedback: we helped prevent a sacrilege
Sometime I get feedback from a reader saying that something I wrote prompted him to return to the sacrament of penance or moved her to get her marriage straightened out. Those notes help me keep this blog going.
This is from … Continue reading
20 December 2011
Christians are “evil” if they resist the redefinition of marriage
I guess the next time I head across the pond to England (after Christmas, by the way, if everything works out the way I hope – blognic?) and have the chance to make supper for priest friends, I won’t be … Continue reading
