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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: a seminarian praying the older, traditional Office, conflict with the newer calendar
From a seminarian: I am a transitional Deacon… I ask you not to include my name if you choose to use this email in any way, as I am at ____ and unfortunately things related to the Extraordinary Form are … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged breviarium romanum
20 Comments
20 Comments
QUAERITUR: I had gum soon after Mass, threw it away. Am I excommunicated?
From a reader: After Mass I absent-mindedly had some gum. It was pretty soon after so had I any particles still in my teeth etc, it would have got in the gum. I realized this and retained the gum until … Read More
QUAERITUR: academic attire for priests
From a priest reader: I would like to know what the appropriate academic dress is for priests at a graduation ceremony. I understand that the current "secular" dress evolved from clerical dress in the first place, namely the cassock … Read More
QUAERITUR: the obligation of priests to dress as priests in public
From a reader: In my former parish, the pastor wears his collar only during "business hours" (he gave a class in his jeans) and very rarely off parish grounds. I suggested that wearing his clerics around the town (we live … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged black suit, cassock, clerical attire, Roman collar
76 Comments
76 Comments
QUAERITUR: good commentary on Sacrosanctum Concilium
From a reader: I am currently taking an Intro to Liturgy course for my MA in Theology program. I am not entirely sure that what is being taught is orthodox. The professor certainly seems to have a liberal bend. We … Read More
QUAERITUR: teenage girl dancers during Easter vigil
From a reader: I am from Puerto Rico and I want to consult to you something that bothered me a lot on my Parish’s Paschal Virgil. I belong to the San José Parish in Caguas, Puerto Rico; it is a … Read More
QUAERITUR: renaming the sacred oils in the Latin Church
From a priest reader: When we brought home the oils from last night’s Chrism Mass, they were labeled SC, OS and OC. Inquiries from the confused like me have yielded the answer that OC is Oil of the Catechumens and … Read More
QUAERITUR: leaving the “and” out of the form for absolution
From a reader: Forgive the scrupulosity of the question: At my most recent confession, the priest, who I confess to with some regularity on and off, absolved as follows – while making the sign of the cross: I absolve you … Read More
QUAERITUR: how the Ceremonial of Bishops guides Novus Ordo worship
Let’s get some discussion going about this point concerning the Ordinary Form – Novus Ordo liturgy. From a reader via email: Is it proper for a priest to use the rubrics and prayers for priests contained in the Ceremonial of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged Ceremonial of Bishops
6 Comments
6 Comments
QUAERITUR: Catholic “seder” meal
From a reader: If you have time this week, I was hoping you could post something about Seder meals and whether or not they are important for Catholics to have them. It seems that I’m hearing varying responses about it. … 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…”
