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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: How should we approach a priest to ask for the Extraordinary Form?
From a reader: A group at my parish is planning on approaching our pastor to request Mass in the Extraordinary Form. I would like to be prepared to answer his questions about the “mechanics” of putting on this Mass: training … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can a pastor/liturgist force servers to receive Communion under both kinds?
From a reader with my emphases: Our parish liturgist has sent out the following to all Altar Servers and Acolytes who assist at the Novus Ordo mass. “Servers at Saint Mary receive both Species if they receive at all. If … Read More
QUAERITUR: How to confess well? I worry I am not doing a good enough job of it.
From a reader: Hi. I am convert. [… S]ince being brought up in a protestant tradition and only becoming catholic as an adult, I was never exposed to the traditions, the formality. In our confirmation classes we was taught the … Read More
A priest who ‘get’s it’ about how people receive Communion!
WDTPRS KUDOS to Fr. Lankeit! Here is the text from his 30 January bulletin of the Cathedral of Sts. Simon and Jude in , Very Rev. Fr. Fr. John Lankeit. Here is a link to the PDF if you want … Read More
QUAERITUR: What should members of a chant group wear?
From a reader: I am a member of a men’s Gregorian chant group, and recently a local priest whose parish we were singing at voiced reservations about our uniform (black cassock and white surplice). He preferred we not look like … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged cassock, schola canoturm
27 Comments
27 Comments
QUAERITUR: Lay people decide on their own to have a Communion service, help themselves.
From a reader: At Mass yesterday morning, the substitute priest forgot to show up. Several members of the congregation took it upon themselves to have a “Communion Service” with all the readings, etc. One of the EMHCs opened the Tabernacle … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Communion service
32 Comments
32 Comments
QUAERITUR: Of subdeacons and tunics
From a deacon reader: I was in the middle of some research last night and discovered some new tidbits on vestments. More precisely, the difference between a dalmatic and a tunicle. I captured a number of my thoughts on my … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged dalmatic, deacon, Ministeria quaedam, subdeacon, tunic
21 Comments
21 Comments
QUAERITUR: I haven’t been to confession for 10 years! I don’t know what to do!
From a reader: I haven’t been to Confession in 10 years, and I’ve only gone three times back when I was still in grade school. It’s possible I wasn’t catechized in the sacrament properly because I don’t recall requiring the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged confession, penance, reconciliation, sacrament of penance
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QUAERITUR: What sort of candles can be blessed at Candlemas?
From a reader: If I bring personal candles to the EF mass on Candlemass, must they be made of beeswax? Can they be entirely made of non-beeswax (paraffin)? Not sure if the old regulations about things like this still apply … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Linking Back
Tagged Candlemass, candles, wax
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QUAERITUR: Prayer for distribution of Communion at TLM and what to respond?
From a reader: Fr. Z: Our parish priest often resorts to using “Corpus Christi” from the Novus Ordo rubrics in the distribution of Holy Communion at our extraordinapeory form Traditional Mass— when the deacon is not present and presumably he … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Communion
40 Comments
40 Comments
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