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Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
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RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
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[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Dubium:
What if your priest loves the EF, but can’t read Latin because of dyslexia?
I find this story heartwarming. It means that Latin comes so naturally to him that he doesn’t even notice when the words slide into a vernacular rubric.
Probably the same as what a blind priest does, get permission to say a given Mass from memory.
If he was using the ‘62 altar Missal, the priest would recite: “…peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere: (percutit sibi pectus ter, dicens:) mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa”, and shortly afterwards “…Kyrie, eleison. Postea in medio altaris extendens et iungens manus, caputque aliquantulum inclinans, dicit, si dicendum est, Gloria in excelsis Deo, et prosequitur iunctis manibus.”
And the congregation would think, “Wow, even the rubrics sound beautiful in the TLM”.
Much as I dislike making marks in a missal, one solution for the colour-blind priest might be for someone to underline the rubrics (neatly) with a pencil for him.
A sidewalk table at a cafe in the Yucatan, the afternoon air as steamy and ripe as the coffee in your mug.
The aroma of saltwater and spices drifted into the town from the port. From the jungle came the howls of disturbed monkeys.
Later, during the cool of the evening, perhaps you would take your journal and pen to the Plaza. Revolutionaries might shoot up the Mayor’s office. Perhaps a weather-beaten freighter would burst into flames at the pier.
Across the dusty street from the cafe a man wearing a tilma and a woman wearing a bright blue dress hurried a slightly annoyed boy out of a white-washed stone church. The boy looked at you, then at his parents, and briefly smiled at you. People are silly sometimes, he seemed to say. Then the family disappeared into the crowd.
A leisurely afternoon had taken an unexpected turn. You picked up your journal, removed the letter you were writing to your cousin Matthew and the two tickets for next morning’s 5:18 ferry to Puerto Barrios, and opened it to a blank page.
You picked up your fountain pen. The pen rested naturally in your hand, a casual yet functional extension of your inner self. The GK Chesterton Fountain Pen (No. 4308), available in black or red.
– J. Peterman Catalog, Spring 2021