Tag Archives: liturgy

HELP! A liturgy nerd is building a digital-calendar-generator for the TLM

Posted on 8 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Can you brilliant liturgy nerds help this… liturgy nerd cum computer geek?
Thanks!
From a reader:
Hi father Z!
I have spent the last two weeks constructing a digital-calendar-generator for the TLM/-62 (in Swedish, with celebrations according to the calendar found inside the new … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS Thursday 3rd Week of Lent – the “dying” the liturgy

Posted on 7 March 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today’s prayer has roots in the Padua manuscript the so-called Gregorian Sacramentary and also the manuscript at Bergamo.  It was not in any edition of the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum.
COLLECT
Maiestatem tuam, Domine, suppliciter imploramus,
ut, quanto magis dies salutiferae festivitatis accedit,
tanto devotius ad eius celebrandum
proficiamus … Continue reading →

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Bp. Sample’s great Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music

Posted on 13 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My old friend now-Archbishop Alex Sample, before his translation to Portland, issued a Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music for the Diocese of Marquette.  It is called “Rejoice in the Lord” and it is a hit.
First, remember his spectacular sermon about … Continue reading →

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VIDEO: Altar Boys

Posted on 19 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My friend Fr. Stephen Reynolds in Sugar Land, Texas has been doing some great things.
Here is the latest in some videos about worship and the life of the parish.

Fr. Z Kudos to Fr. Reynolds!

Technorati Tags: altar boys, ars celebrandi, liturgy, … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Laudamus Te – The Magazine of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Liturgy of the Roman Rite

Posted on 28 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Many of you subscribe to or know the small booklet Magnificat, an aid for the post-Conciliar form of Holy Mass.  It is pocket-size and it is sent to you each, I believe, month.
There is now a similar aid for the Usus Antiquior, or … Continue reading →

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Unless you recover the words, you can’t recover the concepts.

Posted on 26 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

When you change the words, you change the concepts.
The liberal progressivist liturgical terrorist reformers were successful in changing our way of speaking about our sacred liturgical worship.
For example, they made us – and no one asked them to do this, … Continue reading →

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Benedict XVI on liturgical worship and our identity

Posted on 4 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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This is GREAT.
The Holy Father’s Wednesday Audience with my emphases and comments:
VATICAN, OCTOBER 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today in St. Peter’s Square. The Holy Father continued … Continue reading →

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The Holy Father’s General Audience on liturgical worship

Posted on 26 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Our Holy Father on what Mass means during his General Audience.  I have read the Italian, but the English isn’t available and I am not going to translate it right now.  Video HERE.
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Vatican Radio translation … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Applause during Mass

Posted on 14 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
One thing I have seen at several different parishes is the priest, during mass, after a song by the choir during mass either leading applause or in two instance saying something along the lines of ” How about … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Elements of the Extraordinary Form in the Ordinary Form

Posted on 22 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Can the Last Gospel and the prayers at the foot of the altar be a part of the Ordinary Form? Also, can the priest say, “May the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life … Continue reading →

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