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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: illuminating the Host during Exposition
From a reader: Our TLM Chaplain has been severely reproached by his brother priests and parishioners for removing the spotlight/bulb that shines directly through the Blessed Sacrament in a Monstrance (in the context of an Adoration Chapel). I remember reading somewhere … Read More
QUAERITUR: TLM on 25 Jan. for Conversion of Paul, not 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
From a reader… actually quite a few readers, but this e-mail is representative: I’m wondering if you have an opinion on whether the Conversion of St. Paul can be celebrated this Sunday in the EF? It’s not mentioned in the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Divided Sanctus and Benedictus
From a reader: I attended the local EF Mass … It was as usual, the most beautiful thing this side of heaven. I have one question however on a point I had not witnessed before. During the chanting of the … Read More
QUAERITUR: covering relics when the Bl. Sacrament is exposed
From a reader: Is it still rubrical for reliquaries to be covered when the Sanctissimum is exposed? The old rubrics call for it, I believe. So, this is about what to do in the newer, post-Conciliar forms of liturgical … Read More
QUAERITUR: follow-up to “kissing the ring of a bishop”
Taking up issue of kissing a bishop’s ring, which we have look at before, this is from a reader: I wanted to add a few comments about kissing a bishop’s ring outside of the liturgy. Technically there is no hard … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can I use an Angleus Press prayer book?
From a reader: I wasn’t sure how to submit this for your column. By chance is there a provision in Canon Law relating to the use of materials put out by the SSPX and their publishing house Angelus Press? As … Read More
QUAERITUR: bridesmaids and mantillas: yes or no?
From a reader: Hello. My sister is getting married in March in an Ordinary Form Mass and I am a bridesmaid. I wear a chapel veil when I go to Mass, whether I assist in the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form. … Read More
QUERITUR: show tunes and wedding music
From a reader: The Catholic church where my daughter is getting married does not allow the song from Fiddler on the Roof, "Sunrise, Sunset", to be sung at the ceremony because it is not liturgical. The Catholic church where my … Read More
QUAERITUR: Where’s the papal pallium pin?
From a reader: I have been watching the papal liturgies on EWTN for several years. I recently noticed that when the Pope Benedict is wearing the pallium he SEEMS to be missing a pin/nail on the red cross over his … Read More
QUAERITUR: how to iron purificators
From a reader: Good Morning Fr. Zuhlsdorf, I ordered the booklet from Angleus Press about Laundering Linens. Before I approach the head sacristan, I would like your opinion. When folding the purificator the booklet says that the embroidered cross should … Read More
hwriggles4 on Daily Rome Shot 1654: another jackass: “The priest dancing reminds me about ten years ago I attended a Spanish Mass at the parish close to my…”
