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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: at consecration the priest holds ciborium not host
From a reader: I’m sure you’ve covered this before, but if during the actual words of consecration the priest just holds the ciborium and then after the words, during the elevation picks a host out and holds it above the … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged ciborum, consecration, host
9 Comments
9 Comments
Homosexual activists attack iPhone examination of conscience app for confession
No surprise here. The Guardian in the UK has an article about homosexual apologists attacking the new iPhone app to help people make a good confession. I reviewed the iPhone here with follow up entries: UPDATE REVIEW: iPhone app to … Read More
QUAERITUR: knee injury makes me choose either sitting or kneeling
From a reader: I have incurred a quite painful knee injury and am currently wearing a brace, between the pain and the brace kneeling is out of the question, Is it preferable to stand or sit during the consecration, I … Read More
QUAERITUR: seminarians and earrings
From a reader: Do you think seminarians should be allowed to wear earrings? I know of two seminarians who are allowed to wear earrings or one earring in two different seminaries. Do these earrings mean something, as I have been … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can a traditional rite of baptism be in English?
From a priest reader: Please excuse my sending this request to you, but I have not been able to find an answer to my questions. A couple have asked me to baptize their soon-to-be-born child, using the EF of Baptism. … Read More
QUAERITUR: Why is the Protestant “For the kingdom, the power, the glory…” in our Catholic Mass?
A reader asked: One of the things I like about the TLM [Traditional Latin Mass] is that we don’t have to pray like the Protestants Our Father. Isn’t the fact that Bugnini and crowd put “For the kingdom, the power, … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged doxology, embolism, Lord's Prayer
53 Comments
53 Comments
QUAERITUR: Is it a sin not to pray every day?
Regarding the new iPhone app to help make a good confession (which I thoroughly reviewed here) a reader asks: I read a couple bloggers didn’t like that the app includes that it is a sin not to pray everyday. They … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged confession, daily prayer, iPhone app, prayer, sacrament of penance, sin
47 Comments
47 Comments
QUAERITUR: Long distance sacramental absolution of sins? No.
Subsequent to my review of the new iPhone app to help with (not substitute for) sacramental confession and absolution of sins, I have received some questions about absolution over the internet and even some challenges proposing that it is valid. … Read More
QUAERITUR: folded chasuble
From a reader: Yesterday, a 75-year old monsignor asked me if I’d ever seen a chasuble folded in front. I replied, No, only in the back. At TLM ordinations. He said he’d seen chasubles folded on the front once, back … Read More
QUAERITUR: How can I leave the Catholic Church?
From a reader: I joined the Church through RCIA about five years ago. My experience as a Catholic has been pretty unsatisfactory and I’m beginning to wonder if I haven’t made a mistake. If I do decide that I’m not … Read More
PatriotPoohBear on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Confessions illicit. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Is there a particular reason that your headline says “confessions illicit”? Its pretty clear that their confession are now invalid…”
