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- Cratchit on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “Can one still fulfill his obligation to attend Mass on Sunday by going to an SSPX chapel?”
- on 2nd Joyful Mystery: The Visitation (Traditional observance 2 July): “P. S. This is not to imply that the boundaries of the soul cannot be enlarged to contain more of…”
- on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “Thank you, Father, for answering this, as our situation is similar, although instead of “occasional”, ours is more “routine” (eg.…”
- on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “I think the Vatican has a list and every month they have a new bishop lay down the axe on…”
- on 2nd Joyful Mystery: The Visitation (Traditional observance 2 July): “Respectfully, I have to disagree with Origen when he writes: Mary also was filled with the Holy Spirit [w]hen she…”
- on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “I’m still trying to come to grips with the fact that 2 of our FSSP priests during their homilies, characterized…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1653: Pius X’s caption call: “I hate to be that guy…. But “Fr” Martin Navarro is as much a priest as I am(He’s a member…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “How can they accept the doctrines of V2 if it was a pastoral council that proposed no doctrines?”
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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: Saying the Office for an Old Testament saint from the Martyrology
From a reader: While reading the martyrology yesterday, I saw that today (6/14) has the prophet Elisha listed. I remembered your posts reminding your readers that the Church commemorates old testament figures and that "if there were no other saint … Read More
QUAERITUR: conflict with priest over receiving Communion kneeling
From a reader: My pastor refuses to give me Holy Communion on my knees. I approached him privately. He claims that I am denying him his rights as a priest, destroying unity……he has tried to compromise with me by requiring … Read More
QUAERITUR: Strange baptism: priest says words but deacon pours water
From a reader: So Father, this weekend I attended the baptism of my cousins daughter. The PRIEST said the words properly, BUT this perfectly healthy priest was NOT baptizing the child, the "DEACON of the word" was doing the pouring … Read More
QUAERITUR: priest uses hand sanitizer at Mass, not water
From a reader: I am a reader from ___. Here the local franciscan priest who says mass at his franciscan center uses hand sanitizer when he washes his hands in the mass. Is this licit? I have a good idea … Read More
QUAERITUR: glass tabernacle and reserving Precious Blood
From a reader comes this distressing bit of information from Australia: Attached is an excerpt from a local parish newsletter. Fr Richard Leonard is a prominent Australian Jesuit and Director of the Australian Catholic Film Office. The glass-fronted tabernacle he … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can instituted acolytes wear the biretta?
From a reader: I am trying to determine who may wear the biretta during Mass. It is clear that clergy (deacons, priests & bishops) wear the biretta. Seminarians also wear the biretta, though I have not found any specific provision … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged biretta, cassock
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18 Comments
QUAERITUR: Public recitation of Office without a priest or deacon
From a reader: Is it permissible for the laity to organize and do Vespers in public without a priest or deacon present? I may try to organize something for a weekly vespers from the Monastic Diurnal, and once a month … Read More
QUAERITUR: mixed choir in cassock and surplice
From a reader: Perhaps you have already addressed this question somewhere, but as a choir director myself, I was bothered by something I saw on Corpus Christi. In the midst of a trip away from home, I was worshiping at a … Read More
QUAERITUR: Female altar servers at a TLM?
From a reader: Is it allowed to have female altar servers at the TLM? I get this question every once in a while and have answered it in the past. Allow me to recap. At present, the 1983 Code of … Read More
QUAERITUR: clerics fulfilling office obligation with older Office in vernacular
From a priest reader: I’m a priest and religious and I’ve wanted to pray the psalter in the traditional way for a long time and while clearing out our library I came across a Breviary in English from 1964, an … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged breviarium romanum, breviary, Liturgy of the Hours, Office
37 Comments
37 Comments
Cratchit on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “Can one still fulfill his obligation to attend Mass on Sunday by going to an SSPX chapel?”
