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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Nutty stuff that happens around Easter, right on schedule.
The nutty stuff comes out with the full moon and with Easter. It’s like clockwork each year. This year we have a deeply wrong offering from the loony National Sodomitic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) by lesbian Mary Hunt, student of the heretic … Read More
ASK FATHER: How do we fulfill our Easter Duty in this time of pandemic lockdown?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hi Father – my question is about how to fulfill the Easter duty during this time of quarantine. Does a spiritual communion during a “parking lot mass” on Easter Sunday count? Also, our pastor has insisted … Read More
LIVE STREAM – Holy Saturday Tenebrae – 0930 CDT
We will sing Tenebrae for Holy Saturday at 0930 CDT. Live stream HERE. Also check out LatinMass.live
ASK FATHER: Change the shape of Hosts to make them easier to administer in COVID-19 time
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Would changing the shape of a host be allowed in order to decrease the chance of the priest touching a communicant’s tongue? Would an oval shaped host, for example, make it easier for the priest when … Read More
LIVE STREAM – Good Friday Tenebrae – 0930 CDT
We will sing Tenebrae for Good Friday at 0930 CDT. Live stream HERE. Also check out LatinMass.live
Archbp. Viganò asks all priests and bishops to recite the Exorcism on Holy Saturday, 1500h Rome time #exorcismus2020
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has asked that all the bishops and priests in the world to recite from the Ritule Romanum Title XI, chapter 3, the “Exorcism against Satan and the Apostate Angels” (the long for of the prayer to St. Michael … Read More
Your Holy Thursday Sermon Notes 2020
I am sure that many of you watched a live stream of a Holy Thursday Mass. Was there a good point made in the sermon? Let us know what it was! Let’s build each other up and feed each other … Read More
Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) on the YACOD (aka YET ANOTHER Commission on Deaconettes)
The Fishwrap has an article replete with wailing and hand ringing. In a nut shell (a pretty good description of what’s inside the wrap that is that publication) they lament that there are members of YET ANOTHER Commission on women … Read More
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Tagged deaconesses, deaconettes, diaconate, ordination of women
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Brick By Brick: UK bishops back live-streaming of Extraordinary Form during Holy Week
I found this very encouraging at the Catholic Herald. If only more bishops remembered not to forget the Extraordinary Form. Bishops back live-streaming of Extraordinary Form Holy Week The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) in Warrington will provide a … Read More
Holy Thursday – Tenebrae and Mass
Alas, we cannot do the pre-55 rites this year, but we will sing Tenebrae, not in the evenings but in the morning because of our evening schedule. We want to live stream in the mornings and evenings. HERE
Venerator Sti Lot on Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”: “Fr Jackson, Many thanks! I do not recall reading that sermon before – and I think I would, if I…”
