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Category Archives: Brick by Brick
¡Hagan lío! TLM now more than ever!
In the midst of disorienting news, here is orienting news. I saw this on the Twitter feed of Fr. Nathan Siray, @frnathansiray: “First of many…”. It warms the cockles of my beady-black heart. Fr. Z kudos. Fathers, we are living … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged ¡Hagan lío!, Extraordinary Form, Fr. Nathan Siray, TLM
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10 Comments
San Francisco: Pontifical Mass!
I was sent some photos from the Pontifical Mass at the Throne on Sunday celebrated by His Excellency Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone. First, it is nice to see the canopy. As a matter of fact, we are getting a canopy … Read More
Good news on the Spanish Front!
I received good news today (Sunday 14 September, as I write). Not all the news – most – I have received lately has been good. Perhaps things have not gone well in Blackfen or in Bakersfield, but in Dunn, … Read More
UK: Parish resuscitated by Extraordinary Form. New Evangelization continues
On whichever side of the Pond you are, you can be sure that reviving a parish doesn’t have to be rocket science. We have all heard of parishes which, though moribund, have been revived through the use of Catholicism. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Brick by Brick, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Michael Campell, D. Lancaster, New Evangelization
21 Comments
21 Comments
Pontifical Mass sighting
I am hoping for an widespread outbreak of Pontifical Masses in the traditional form of the Roman Rite. Thus, I was pleased to receive photos of a Pontifical Mass at the Throne celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke when … Read More
Bp. Matano (D. Rochester) ends decades illicit practice of “lay preaching”
For your Brick by Brick file. From the Democrat and Chronicle: Catholic diocese upends custom on homilies For the better part of 40 years in churches across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, clergy ceded the floor to laypeople for … Read More
Traditional young Catholics’ groups are spreading quickly
I saw at Aleteia a story about the great traditional young people’s group Juventutem (which has that unfortunate “J”). The undersigned is mentioned, but that is not the important issue. What is important is the growth of chapters of this … Read More
Pontifical Masses proliferate
Is it just me, or has there been an increase in the number of Pontifical Masses in the traditional Roman Rite lately? I just saw this at NLM: On the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the promulgation of Summorum … Read More
Archbp. Sample consecrated Portland to Our Lady
What did I write the other day? With the rapid degradation of morals, the overturning of common sense and natural law, and the dissolution of civil rule of law in these USA we are seeing – and this is not … Read More
Adoration in Austin… in the Capitol in the Capital
A reader sent me this. For Corpus Christi, in Austin, the state capital of Texas, there was a Eucharistic Procession from the Cathedral to the Capitol. (You who have English as a second language, or who were born after about … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool
Tagged Austin, Texas
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34 Comments
L. on Day 3 & 4 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology: “Because the conference is being held in Wheeling, I wondered if the new Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston appeared…”
