I want to encourage you to visit Orbis Catholicus where my friend John Sonnen, whose parents I saw today after Mass, posted marvelous TLM eye candy from the visit of Card. Canizares to the Roman parish Ss Trinita dei Pelegrini.
Yah… we can enjoy all the lovely photos of clerics posed in vestments.
But…
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on ROME 22/10 – Day 4: A stroll and an “I dunno”: “*Shocked* to see Carlo Cipolla’s little book on human stupidity on a best-seller shelf 20+ years after his death. Once…”
on ROME 22/10 – Day 4: A stroll and an “I dunno”: “Neal: Right the white queen is overloaded, forced as she is to multitask and defend both the knight and the…” on ASK FATHER: Are evil dreams from the Devil?: “Jack: Joseph of the Old Testament The Church teaches this. That should be sufficient. But, if you are “type” who…”
on “They hate the Old Rite because the Enemy has set fear in their hearts.”: “Wow, again, no coincidences. I have recently been pondering the self-posed question, “Why in the NO has the option become…” on ROME 22/10 – Day 3: Of a hairy bear, a column, and a case of littering.: “prece et lacrymis urget … we should all be so fortunate. [AMEN! As a priest without a lot of close…”
on ROME 22/10 – Day 4: A stroll and an “I dunno”: “1. …Bxe3 2. Qxb3 Rxh8 You’re forking the white king and queen. I believe that the queen is called overloaded,…”
on ROME 22/10 – Day 4: A stroll and an “I dunno”: “The vestments… I insist they look like bad 1950s drapes. My wife insists that both the colour palette and design…”
on WDTPRS – 17th Sunday after Pentecost: diabolical contagion: “One might even say that the People of Israel and were “walking together” with the false idols.”
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OK, this made my day. How beautiful to see the old tradition of kissing the hand of a priest. And of course, the vestments made me swoon.
The deacon should have told him to get that thumb and forefinger together!
How absolutely beautiful, after forty + years they are finally starting to get it right. Keep praying your rosary’s you trads, it’s working, thank you Blessed Mother.
Last October (2008), I was privileged to be on pilgrimage with the FSSP to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding. Our pastor from St. Stephen’s, Sacramento, Fr. Novokowsky, celebrated Mass for us at the now personal parish of the FSSP. What a wonderful old church is Ss Trinita dei Pelegrini. Its history is fascinating, as well. The huge depiction of the Trinity over the main altar by Reni is imposing. Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos presided at the final, solemn high Mass there for the pilgrims, German, French and English-speaking groups. To hear the organ, the schola and choir filling the air with beauty and reverence to end the barren feeling too long experienced even in our ancient churches gave me goosebumps.
The deacon should have told him to get that thumb and forefinger together! -frere wilfrid
Yeah, that’ll work. A deacon telling the Prefect for Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments the rubrics of the Mass. I’m grateful His Emminence took the time to offer the Mass in all its complexity.
A beautiful Mass by a prominent churchman in a beautiful church building! Thanks for sharing, Fr.Z.
Ah, how cool that is….’Little Ratzinger’ at San Trinita!
I would have loved to see this!
We’ve come so far back out of the desert in just a few years. Three years ago such a Mass celebrated by such a Cardinal would have
been front page news across the globe. Now such a Mass is reported with less astonishment and more quiet satisfaction. Brick by
beautiful brick….
Oops-my bad-I meant to say ‘Sanctissima Trinita’!
Probably thought of ‘San Trinita dei Monti’, where the Spanish Steps are!
Oh, well-what do you expect? I haven’t been to Rome since 1983-and I never got to see either ‘Trinitas’!