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- Verygrateful1 on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “I’m sure I have lot’s of company in saying that the closing of Francis’ coffin makes me think of something…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 16: Easter Thursday: “If the senior Cardinal Deacon is elected Pope, he’s no longer the senior Cardinal Deacon. So logically, the next-senior guy…”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “I was watching a video on about the Pope’s coffin and how it differs from other popes’ coffins. He chose…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 17: Easter Friday: “Love all your food and Rome photos. Thank you for always sharing with us!”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “It’s funny how much better everyone is, in the schola and in the procession, at singing Latin, than at Pope…”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “Well, they said elsewhere that it was just zinc-lined. But honestly, I expect it’s pretty easy to stick lead sheets…”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: ““Pope Francis’s doctrinal magisterium was extremely rich…attentive to avoiding the pitfalls of self-referentiality and spiritual worldliness…” I only read one…”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “I noticed that as well, re. the lead-lined, standard issue coffin. The bag, Msgr. Landry tells us on EWTN, contains…”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “Also, for comparison, Benedict XVI: https://www.vatican.va/special/esequie-bxvi/documents/rogito-transito-benedetto-xvi_en.html”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “Here you go: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-deed-rogito-coffin-life-petrine-ministry.html#:~:text=As%20per%20tradition%2C%20the%20Pope’s,also%20placed%20inside%20the%20coffin.”
- on ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!): “One can also offer a novus ordo in English facing the people, with communion in the hand, with altar girls…”
- on Pray for a new Pope to who will be… better than we deserve! : “Personally I am enjoying the sede vacante period. I realize that as a Catholic I should regret not having a…”
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Daily Archives: 14 March 2015
D. Albany: First TLM – PONTIFICAL! – in Cathedral in decades
For your brick by brick file I received this good news from a reader: Bishop Edward Scharfenberger celebrated the Extraordinary Form in his Cathedral Saturday. This was the 1st time Mass has been celebrated in Albany’s Cathedral in decades. The New … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Bp. Scharfenberger, D. Albany, TLM
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ASK FATHER: Can priests change the wording given in the Missal?
From a reader… I recently heard a priest say: “We should go back to the [previous] version of the Missal, because I never had to change any wording. But now I have to change it all the time in the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Will the Extraordinary Form outlast the Novus Ordo? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Since His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has allowed the Latin mass to be celebrated by Priest without special per mission, many younger Priest and young Catholics have been celebrating the Latin mass more often. Do you … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged can. 249, Extraordinary Form, Latin, tertium quid, TLM, Veterum Sapientia
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ASK FATHER: Hosts found on the floor… twice
From a reader… QUAERITUR: The attached strongly worded letter was in our bulletin today and it has left me greatly disturbed. In the past two weeks we have found Jesus left on the floor, not once, but twice. I am … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged Blessed Sacrament, desecration, Eucharist
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Verygrateful1 on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “I’m sure I have lot’s of company in saying that the closing of Francis’ coffin makes me think of something…”
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