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“To me, the most serious element in all this was the breach of fundamental, liturgical consciousness.”
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In Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year, from the works Joseph Ratzinger (you know who) for 25 April we read a blurb from his perennially useful Feast of Faith (US link … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: ad libbing during Masses with children
From a priest:
I am an associate pastor and am charged with celebrating Masses in our elementary schools. For these Masses, the pastor has taken the liberty to modify the prayers (collect, prayer over the offerings, post communion prayer) and the … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: To clink or not to clink. WDTPRS POLL
From a reader:
I had the privilege of attending a wonderful EF Mass for Easter, and on the way back we were engaged in a discussion as to whether whoever is doing the incense is required to try to cause the … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged berreta, chain, clink, fire extinguishers, incensation, incense, liturgy, poll, thurible, worship
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WDTPRS Easter Thursday – diversity and wholeness
The Collect for the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form caught my eye:
Deus, qui diversitatem gentium in confessione tui nominis adunasti,
da, ut renatis fonte baptismatis
una sit fides mentium et pietas actionum.
This is a modern tinkering with an ancient prayer. In … Continue reading
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Tagged EASTER, Latin, liturgy, Octave, pelican, pelican in her piety, pietas, piety, prayer, sacrifice, St. Thomas Aquinas, worship
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QUAERITUR: English translation of Breviary to fulfill duty of saying the Office
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Just wondering if the new Latin / English Breviaries put out by Baronius Press fulfill the canonical objection of priests?
Particularly, can a priest say the English translation and fulfill his obligation? I am currently a seminarian and find … Continue reading
Card. Ranjith works personally to improve liturgical worship in his diocese
I desire to redirect you to our friends at Rorate who have presented some exquisite reflections and directives from His Eminence Malcolm Card. Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo. May he be emulated far and wide.
You may remember that last year Card. Ranjith … Continue reading
WDTPRS: Palm Sunday – an example so perfect that it has the power to transform us
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. The Sacred Triduum (triduum from tres dies – “three day space”) were once days of obligation when people were freed from servile work so that they could attend the liturgies, once celebrated … Continue reading
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Tagged consortium, documentum, exemplum, Holy Week, liturgy, Palm Sunday, prayer, translation, Triduum, worship
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WDTPRS Wednesday 5th Week of Lent: “a gracious hearing when they cry out to you”
Please use the sharing buttons!Fr. Bugnini’s cutters and pasters, the experts of the Consilium, drew today’s Collect out of a prayer in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Saturday (Feria VII, yes, 7th – unusual to our eyes ) of the Fifth Week … Continue reading
WDTPRS Tuesday 5th Week of Lent: bittersweet
In the Tridentinum and in the 1962 Roman Missal this prayer is listed for Tuesday after Passion Sunday as the Oratio super populum. It also has roots in the Gelasian.
COLLECT
Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine,
perseverantem in tua voluntate famulatum,
ut in diebus nostris
et merito et numero populus tibi serviens … Continue reading
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QUAERITUR: An iPad in place of a Missal (the book itself) for Mass
Please use the sharing buttons!From a reader:
Dear Father Z., accorging to you, would it be possible for a priest to use an electronic form of the Missal? Like, for example, we were on a pilgrimage to Israel recently (with prayers … Continue reading
