Daily Archives: 24 January 2008

As you know I have in the past had a few problems with syndicating my audio projects to iTunes. I think that problem is solved. However, if there is someone out there who is Podpress (the WP plugin I use) … Read More →

This just in: Dear Father, In case you have not already gotten this heads-up I wanted to let you know that Bishop Joseph N. Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will celebrate a solemn Traditional Latin Mass at Holy Rosary parish … Read More →

His Excellency is right about "instant communication" today.  Let’s have as many people as possible hear this. I applaud the initiative of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert Lynch, to use video and audio on the … Read More →

UPDATE 28 Jan 2008 – 20:55 GMT: Be sure to read this disclaimer I received from the business manager at the FSSP seminary where they are offering to train priests in how to say the TLM.  It is interesting. ______________________ … Read More →

Rorate tips us, and I tip back   o{]:¬)   to an interesting comment in the Italian monthly 30 Giorini, of the Orthodox Patriarch of Russia, Alexius II, about the derestriction of the older form of Mass by the Pope of … Read More →

His Excellency Most Reverend John Nienstedt, the Coadjutor Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis was recently at the great St. Agnes Church for the celebration of their patronal day, Sunday 20 January 2008. His Excellency had a photo with the … Read More →

The Catholic faithful of the Diocese of Baker are invited to participate in the offering of a Missa Cantata (High Mass) on the occasion of the 8th Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Robert Francis … Read More →

  This is the annual week for Christian Unity. Is there not another angle here? In Summorum Pontificum we read: Art. 5, § 1.  In parishes, where there is continuously present a group of the faithful attached to the previous … Read More →

Here is the Holy Father’s Message for the 2008 World Day for Communications. My emphases: The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service. Searching for the Truth in order to Share it with Others Dear Brothers and Sisters! 1. … Read More →

I got this provocative little item via e-mail from a WDTPRSer.  It is a copy of a note he sent to the Bishop of Birmingham, AL, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert Baker.  My emphases: Most Reverend Robert J. Baker Bishop … Read More →

This just in from Apcom in my translation: Città del Vaticano, 24 January (Apcom) – There will be a change to the communications structure of the Vatican, also if "the when and how is still a point of reflection, however … Read More →

Preserving Christian Publications is reprinting the Benzinger edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum.  Happily, they made sure that it really is a 1962 edition.  You have the choice of it being bound in red or green, just like the old … Read More →

With a tip of the biretta to TNLM   o{]:¬)  I direct your gaze to a site called Christus Rex for some stunning photo of a Mass recently celebrated back on 14 September 2007: And another well-dressed bishop:  

I received this notice via e-mail: New York City Traditional Candlemass On February 2, there will be a (traditional) Solemn Mass at Our Lady of Good Counsel. The church is located at 230 East 90th Street, between 2nd & 3rd … Read More →

This just in from CNA: Liturgy Commission expects 2008 completion of Roman Missal draft Mumbai, Jan 24, 2008 / 07:15 am (CNA).- The International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) met in Mumbai last week, planning to complete the … Read More →

I got this note from a student at the Jesuit operated Boston College (me emphases): Fr. Z,      I’m a sophomore at the Jesuit-run Boston College and a Catholic who longs for liturgy and worship that is spiritually fulfilling, having … Read More →