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Monthly Archives: July 2021
Trouble keeping the sacristy quiet before Mass?
Fathers, do you have trouble keeping the sacristy quiet before Mass? Too much random, unfocused chatter irrelevant to the sacred action about to take place. Old sacristies would have a large sign calling for… SILENTIUM I may have found something … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged sacristy, silentium
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BREAKING “Latindr App used to catch priests in compromising situations”
This is straight from Eccles and so it must be true. Latindr App used to catch priests in compromising situations As reported by journalists from the Bitter Pillar (formerly the Tablet), data from the popular social networking Latindr app, used by … Read More
WDTPRS – 18th Ordinary Sunday: cold reality, warming confidence
When the priest, alter Christus, says our prayers during Holy Mass, Christ, Head of the Body, speaks. His words have power to form us. Formed according to the mind of the Church, we Catholics then go out from Mass to … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 233
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ASK FATHER: The priest only said, “I absolve you from your sins”. Is that sufficient for a valid absolution?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I went and confessed all sorts of actual mortal sins to a priest, and for the absolution, I definitely heard him say either “I absolve you from your sins” or “I absolve you of your sins” … Read More
ACTION ITEM! 15 August 2021 – World-wide Consecration to the Immaculate Heart by all TLM communities
This came by email and I warmly endorse it. The Holy Catholic Church is in an unprecedented world wide crisis. The only hope for the Faithful is a Divine intervention, through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two … Read More
Traditionis custodes and “reception theory” – or – When a law is no law at all.
Have you ever heard of “reception theory”? Reception theory states that a law, in order to be a law, a binding law, must be received by the community for which it is intended. If they community does not receive it, … Read More
29 July 1941 – An “offering of life”
On 29 July 1941 ten prisoners from an block at Auschwitz were chosen to be starved to death because a prisoner from that same block had escaped. Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan who founded the Militia Immaculatae, offered his life, … Read More
Amateur Scholastic on PODCAzT 188 – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?: “Does anybody take the Third Commandment remotely seriously?”
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