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Category Archives: Brick by Brick
“And a little child shall lead them”. A reaction to the new, corrected ICEL translation.
In England, Catholics are already using the new, corrected ICEL translation of the Order of Mass. Fr. Finigan, mighty p.p. of Blackfen, has an interesting post about a reaction to the new, harder words in the Creed. Excerpt: The mother … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Isaiah 11:6
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Revising and updating the 1962 Missale Romanum
Sandro Magister at Chiesa has in interesting piece about the activity of the Holy See. Here is a little bit of what he offered. VATICAN CITY, September 19, 2011 – “The activity of the Holy See” is a hefty volume … Read More
Bishops of England and Wales unveil their future priorities
It has happened int the past, that the Vicar of Christ has traveled to a place, was met with great enthusiasm, caused a bump, a wave in Catholic identity, and after a fairly short period of time everything went back … Read More
A reader’s story of an emergency room confession and advice to readers
From a reader: Yesterday (Friday) and I was rushed to the E.R. with a possible aortic dissection. It turned out that it was just muscle pain. I asked for a Catholic priest, and, to my great fortune, my regular parish … Read More
Great photos of Card. Burke’s Mass at Fontgombault
NLM has some spiffing eye-candy photos of Holy Mass celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke in the beautiful medieval church at the French monastery of Fontgombault. There are beautiful vestments as well. And yes, there is a cappa magna. … Read More
England: 17 September – Inauguration of Bl. John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music
This Saturday, 17 September, will bring the official inauguration of the Blessed John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in Birmingham, England. My friend Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth wrote me saying that this is “probably the most significant enterprise in liturgical … Read More
Sermon of Archbp. Nichols at consecration of Bp. Sherrington in Westminster Cathedral
Today in Westminster Cathedral in London, His Grace Archbishop Vicent Nichols consecrated a new auxiliary bishop, Most Rev. John Sherrington. Archbp. Nichols sermon is online. Pretty good. Give it a listen. You can got to the website of the Diocese … Read More
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Tagged Archbp. Nichols, Bp. Sherrington, Westminster
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Brick by Brick in Duluth – 14 Sept. Solemn TLM (Great story behind this!)
For your “Brick by Brick” file, from the site of the Diocese of Duluth where the His Excellent Most, and I do mean Most Reverend Paul Sirba is Bishop, comes this. I have written about Bp. Sirba before, here. The … Read More
SSPX leaders to receive document from the Holy See on 14 September
Andrea Tornielli has a piece in his Vatican Insider (English, Italian) about what is supposed to happen tomorrow when the SSPX Superior, Bp. Fellay and his assistants, go the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio in Rome, which houses the CDF and the … Read More
Benedict XVI on the benefits of kneeling before the Eucharist
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, the great parish priest of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, alerted me via his blog to something the Holy Father said during his trip this weekend to Ancona, Italy, for the Eucharistic Congress. The full … Read More
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