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Category Archives: Classic Posts
STATIONS OF THE CROSS (audio from Fr. Z)
Many parishes and chapels will have the Via Crucis or Stations of the Cross during Lent. What version does your parish use? Let’s get some titles/versions/authors and we can have a poll later on. I have audio projects with the … Read More
Merry del Val revisited; sundry digressions on Ratzinger and Horace and The Cardinal
Once upon a time the Secretary of State was not at the top of the heap in the Vatican Curia. Then came Pope Paul VI. To gain some historical perspective be sure to check the piece about Card. Merry del … Read More
Gaudete Rose is coming; WDTPRS POLL
We know that blue is not the color for the season of Advent in the Latin Church. But we also know that on one Sunday of Advent we can have a variation from purple/violet. Therefore, confident in the principle behind … Read More
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Tagged ADVENT, Gaudete, Laetare, rosacea, rose
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Pro-death politician refused Communion
You probably already read this story last May, but here it is again, to refresh your memory. A reader, PR of Adelaide, alerted me to the following from Ille Curator News Service. I have a few qualms about the details … Read More
PODCAzTs on the 40th Anniversary of the Novus Ordo
On the 1st Sunday of Advent in 1969, 40 years ago, the Novus Ordo of the Mass went into effect. I recently made some audio projects about this monumental event (and I may make more). Be sure to check these … Read More
Wherein Bp. Trautman runs down new translation and Fr. Z responds
In the Catholic Review of the Archdiocese of Baltimore comes this CNS story. On 22 October His Excellency Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie, gave a talk at Catholic University of American in which he ran down the … Read More
OLDIE PODCAzT: Augustine on Prayer; how to treat newcomers to Traditional Latin Masses
I am digging out of the archive an old PODCAzT. These days in the Liturgy of the Hours we have had readings from St. Augustine’s Letter 130 to the wealthy widow Proba, who had fled to North Africa after Alaric … Read More
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