Monthly Archives: January 2011

CNS: CHA Pres. Sr. Keehan affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives

I saw this on CNS.  My emphases and comments. First, you might review this: the Magisterium of Nuns (and this). CHA president affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives [Uh huh.] By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) … Read More

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A priest who ‘get’s it’ about how people receive Communion!

WDTPRS KUDOS to Fr. Lankeit! Here is the text from his 30 January bulletin of the Cathedral of Sts. Simon and Jude in , Very Rev. Fr. Fr. John Lankeit. Here is a link to the PDF if you want … Read More

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QUAERITUR: What should members of a chant group wear?

From a reader: I am a member of a men’s Gregorian chant group, and recently a local priest whose parish we were singing at voiced reservations about our uniform (black cassock and white surplice).  He preferred we not look like … Read More

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QUAERITUR: Lay people decide on their own to have a Communion service, help themselves.

From a reader: At Mass yesterday morning, the substitute priest forgot to show up. Several members of the congregation took it upon themselves to have a “Communion Service” with all the readings, etc. One of the EMHCs opened the Tabernacle … Read More

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QUAERITUR: Of subdeacons and tunics

From a deacon reader: I was in the middle of some research last night and discovered some new tidbits on vestments. More precisely, the difference between a dalmatic and a tunicle. I captured a number of my thoughts on my … Read More

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Summorum Pontificum, reforming the reform, and resisting the reform

Pope Benedict, in his ongoing effort to heal the rupture that occurred in our worship when a composed, artificial rite was suddenly imposed on the Church, in 2007 put into effect the provisions of Summorum Pontificum, by far surpassing the … Read More

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Grumbling about Anglicanorum coetibus

With the provisions of Anglicanorum coetibus, Benedict XVI (the Pope of Christian Unity) opened a door for and gave a place to Anglicans who desired unity with the Bishop of Rome in the Catholic communion.  Certainly they were distressed by … Read More

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Evening activities

I am at Our Savior on Park Avenue to hear a talk by the German writer Martin Mosebach.

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Today’s TLM sounds (some excerpts)

Here are some audio clips, stitched together, from Holy Mass this morning at Holy Innocents in NYC.  This was a Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form.  We were happy to have good polyphony and Gregorian chant … as there is … Read More

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Sunday Supper: China Town edition

I am in Manhattan and eating with a friend in Chinatown at Shanghai Asian Manor (next to Transfiguration Church). I am picky about Soup Dumplings. These were good! Then we had fried dumplings. On to the Shredded Pork with Dried … Read More

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WDTPRS: Wherein Fr. Z rambles about the Collect for the 4th Ordinary Sunday, or, “All you need is love”.

Today’s prayer was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the Leonine Sacramentary or, as it is better titled by its editor, the scholarly L. Cunibert Mohlberg, the Veronese Sacramentary. Were … Read More

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QUAERITUR: I haven’t been to confession for 10 years! I don’t know what to do!

From a reader: I haven’t been to Confession in 10 years, and I’ve only gone three times back when I was still in grade school. It’s possible I wasn’t catechized in the sacrament properly because I don’t recall requiring the … Read More

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Please.. someone tell me this is an early April Fool’s gag.

I hope this isn’t true. A tip of the biretta to Jimmy Akin,    o{]:¬\      though this is on NPR: Priest Known As ‘Father Oprah’ To Get Fox Show [Say it ain’t so.] by The Associated Press MIAMI January 25, … Read More

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NEW WDTPRS MUG – Newman “To be deep in history”

The other day I was having a skype conversation with His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Tim Finigan.  He mentioned Bl. John Henry Newman’s phrase “To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.” Thinking back on the course … Read More

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RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST and some thanks.

Some recent posts of interest: The slipping-away of Catholic identity Just too cool stuff Let the swimming begin! The Anglican Ordinariate is going to grow. FOLLOW-UP: Online volume of Acta Apostolicae Sedis has been corrected A mordant observation about the … Read More

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Benedictine Monks of Norcia Summer Discernment Program

From Norcia: As we prepare for the 11th Annual Summer Discernment Program in Norcia, Italy from July 4 – July 29, the Monks of Norcia would like to invite you or anyone you know who might be interested in this … Read More

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My next novel is all lined up!

I think I’ll start writing a Catholic science-fiction novel. Well… maybe not.  I am more of the secret Vatican vampire assassin squad kind of guy.  Gotta be more readers there. But if I did write a Catholic science fiction novel, … Read More

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REVIEW: LaserMonks – caveat emptor

UPDATE 20 April 2011: I was alerted to the fact that the website of Laser Monks has been down for maintenance for a while.   I sincerely hope they are able to get back on their feet and do a great … Read More

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28 Jan: St. Joseph Freinademetz, priest, missionary

Be sure to check this story at The Catholic Herald in their “Saint of the Week” feature. This week they focus on Joseph Freinademetz, priest, whose feast is today, 28 January. Fr. Freinademetz was a missionary to China who embraced … Read More

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The slipping-away of Catholic identity

I think that Pope Benedict had as a project for his pontificate the revitalization of Catholic identity.  The West is losing its soul because Christianity – Catholicism in particular – is not being lived by the mature or passed on … Read More

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