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- jdt2 on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “How many others will need to jump through such hoops? Will anyone who has read (laughably in over his head)…”
- on SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops: “Weather: Rain is typically understood as “divine blessing”, a lightning strike independent of rain, not so much. Doves getting nailed…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “Father, I have a Quaeritur about one aspect of this that’s been on my mind for some time. What is…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@ Ceile De I will take a shot at answering your 3 questions 1 Laity attending for liturgical or spiritual…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Does this document really have the legal effect it purports to have?”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: ““Obedience is the only virtue which plants all the other virtues in the mind, and preserves them once they are…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@excalibur “Per Bishop Athanasius Schneider, there is no schism. https://mukwonago.wi.sspx.org/en/news/declaration-bishop-athanasius-schneider-sspx-consecrations-59783” As of June 22, the date of this article, there…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “Thank you for all this detail! Curious to think that the FSSPX clergy and all “imputable” laity have been transmewed…”
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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: seminarian wants advice about going to a fuzzy seminary
From a seminarian: I was wondering if you could offer some advice. I am what people in today’s church would call ‘ultra-conservative’ I love the Old Mass, Old Breviary etc. etc. I’m at a very [minor] seminary right now …. … Read More
QUAERITUR: strange things for a First Confession
From a reader: My son recently made his first Confession as part of a Reconciliation service for his entire grade. While they did have individual confessions, there were parts that seemed illicit and possibly invalid. 1. No one was given … Read More
QUAERITUR: cutting back confession hours before Christmas
From a reader: In the parish where I presently reside, it was announced today that the normal two hours of confessions heard on Saturdays, would be only one hour next week, and no more Saturday confessions before Christmas. The three … Read More
QUAERITUR: How to explain devotion to TLM to people who don’t like it
From a reader: Do you have any tips for charitably explaining one’s devotion to the TLM with those members of the Church, who, having attended the TLM in their youth, remember it as something dreadful or imposing? I think this … Read More
QUAERITUR: unbleached beeswax candles
From a reader: My wife recently completed a course on how to make yellow beeswax candles. My pastor has indicated he would love to receive them as a donation for requiem Masses, funerals, Tenebrae, All Souls, Good Friday, etc. (we … Read More
QUAERITUR: Nuptial blessing during a TLM
From a reader: For a traditional Latin Solemn High Nuptial Mass with three priests, are there any known restrictions on which priest may administer the nuptial blessing, and which priest may deliver the homily? In other words, may the priest … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged nuptial blessing
13 Comments
13 Comments
QUAERITUR: “Vamp till ready” during the “Lamb of God”
From a reader: It seems that recently our parish, at the direction of or with the consent of our priest has changed the wording of the Agnus Dei. Apparently, saying “Lamb of God” three times is boring and silly so … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Agnus Dei, Dave Brubeck, tropes
29 Comments
29 Comments
QUAERITUR: using really old Holy Water
From a reader: Retrieving some books from storage this afternoon, I came across a bottle of holy water that I filled at the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham a *long* time ago — more than 20 years ago. The … Read More
QUAERITUR: applause in church for music
From a reader: I have complained on your blog and to this forum in the past about their practice of vigorously applauding the choir after the communion “meditation”/song. Sometimes this song is even secular opera piece. After the applause, the … Read More
jdt2 on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “How many others will need to jump through such hoops? Will anyone who has read (laughably in over his head)…”
