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- Lurker 59 on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “@Cratchit Not answering definitively, but consider the following: ———————– Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated…”
- on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “@bigtex While by no means universal, I have also been taken aback by the pettiness coming from FSSP priests in…”
- on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “Comments put on X like those from Camilla Rocha, do not help the cause. Her full frontal attack on the…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: ““1. What is wrong with the Second Vatican Council? The Second Vatican Council taught doctrines which had been already condemned…”
- on 2nd Joyful Mystery: The Visitation (Traditional observance 2 July): “@The Masked Chicken The issue that you are poking at can be clarified by understanding that “spirit” in the hebraic/aramaic…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Usually getting released from a Third Order requires Rome’s approval It depends on the Constitutions of the Order. In some…”
- 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?”
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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: flying a papal flag
From a reader: The Feast of Sts Peter and Paul is coming up this month which prompted me to order a Papal Flag to fly on that occasion. What is the custom for flying the flag throughout the year? Every … Read More
QUAERITUR: Latin for parts of the Ordinary Form of Holy Mass
From a reader: Is there any reason why one cannot use Latin for only one of the ordinary prayers of the mass in the OF? In other words, may the Agnus Dei be in Latin while the rest are in … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged Latin, mother tongue, Sacrosanctum Concilium 54, vernacular
21 Comments
21 Comments
QUAERITUR: A TLM Sunday obervance of Corpus Christi?
From a reader: I have a question regarding the Feast of Corpus Christi and its celebration in the Extraordinary Form Calendar. A newly ordained priest friend of mine has been asked to do a Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary form … Read More
QUAERITUR: Do laypeople pray “liturgically” when praying the office?
From a reader comes a question worthy of discussion (my emphases and comments): I was at a conference in the Winter in which the speaker was delivering a lecture on praying the Liturgy of the Hours and its connection to … Read More
QUAERITUR: What form of the Office should a lay person use?
From a reader: I am hoping to acquire a set of books for saying the office. Looking at the Latin options, there seems to be the Liturgiam Horarium, and the Brevarium Romanum (PPXII and Monastic Use). Which of these three … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged breviary, divine office, Liturgia Horarum, Liturgy of the Hours, Office, Roman Breviary
33 Comments
33 Comments
QUAERITUR: What to give a priest after a wedding?
From a reader: Help, my daughters wedding was yesterday and I was stuck, what is an appropriate tip or gratuity for the our parish Priest, besides what the parish charges, 20 50 100 I’m lost. After the Mass I just … Read More
QUAERITUR: What do about about a liturgical abuse in the Eucharistic Prayer
From a reader: I was at Mass today. It was a First Holy Communion. There were many things that were obviously not right, but one thing stood above the rest of the usual novelties and abuses. It was the Eucharistic … Read More
WDTPRS POLL & QUAERITUR: Do laypeople who use the older Breviary participate in the Church’s prayer?
There is a WDTPRS POLL at the bottom of this entry! From a reader: Summorum Pontificum art. 9 sec. 3 explicitly grants ordained clerics the faculty to use the Roman Breviary in force in 1962, but makes no mention of … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, POLLS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Breviarum Romanum, breviary, divine office, Liturgia Horarum, Office
58 Comments
58 Comments
QUAERITUR: does the Seal of confession apply also to the penitent?
From a reader: Except when he translates for or overhears another person’s confession, is a layman ever bound–like the priest–by the seal of Confession, such that he cannot mention either what he confessed or what he was told? I was … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can I receive Communion at two Masses in one day?
From a reader, a question that pops up every once in a while. Adhering to the adage repetita iuvant, here is the question and response: It used to be the rule that you could could go to Communion only once … Read More
Lurker 59 on ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication: “@Cratchit Not answering definitively, but consider the following: ———————– Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated…”
