Daily Archives: 14 June 2025

Here we go again! Comments on forcing table altars and forbidding Mass “ad orientem”.

I’ve been asked by several people whether or not a diocesan bishop has authority on his own to require only versus populum celebration of Mass in the Novus Ordo. This seems to be what the Archbishop of Detroit desires.   I’ve posted on … Read More

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Why reverent, traditionally-oriented Novus Ordo Masses may soon come under attack.

There is a piece at the blog Unam Sanctam Catholicam which merits attention. I’ll preface this with personal experience. Over the years I’ve seen time and again that people who are exposed to a more traditional style of worship in … Read More

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Pentecost Saturday: We Are Our Rites – Wherein Fr. Z rants

Today, Pentecost Saturday, the Season of Easter comes to an end.  The cycle that started with pre-Lent Sunday’s is over. Being an Ember Saturday, there would have been a vigil in the night in preparation for ordinations to the priesthood … Read More

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OLDIE PODCAzT 61: Pope Leo I on a post-Pentecost weekday; Fr. Z rambles not quite aimlessly for a while

Published on: May 17, 2008 Today is Saturday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus Ordo as it is in the older, Traditional Roman Calendar. This is the sixth and final PODCAzT … Read More

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