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Category Archives: GO TO CONFESSION
WDTPRS: Prayers for the Tried and Tempted
In my daily Masses, when I can, I add orations to the regular orations designated for the day. I take these additional prayers often from the Orationes diversae section. One of the set of prayers I select are “Pro tentatis et … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged iustifico, maiestas, tried and tempted
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ASK FATHER: All who enter a church must sign a visitors book, include name, contact details
From a reader… QUAERITUR: In my home diocese (in Australia) our Bishop has decreed that all people who enter a church must sign into a visitor’s book and include their name, contact details and the time of entry and departure. … Continue reading
Another vain attempt to impose Novus Ordo lockstep unity on the faithful: Archdiocese of Seattle
It is at least ill-advised to attempt the same thing again and again and again with unvarying poor results, and yet keep on the poorly chosen course. Yet another discouraging example of episcopal over-reach, in the interest in trying to … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, You must be joking!
Tagged Archbp. Etienne, Archd. Seattle, communion rail, kneeling, standing
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WDTPRS – Pentecost Tuesday: Wherein Fr. Z performs a liturgical dance
According to the older, traditional Roman calendar, today is Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost. On this day the traditional “Dancing Procession” is performed in Echternach, Luxembourg, founded by St. Willibrord. As bands play, the people move forward slowly in … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Linking Back, WDTPRS
Tagged liturgical dance, Octave of Pentecost
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New layers of stupid emerge during COVID-1984: violation of anonymity of penitents seeking Confession
COVID-1984 Melodrammavirus is bringing out new layers of stupid, hitherto theorized, but not yet experienced. On Fakebook I saw: Really? Now I read this at Stream: I Went to Confession. Was Asked to Give My Name for Contact Tracing. I … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged anonymity, can.964, sacrament of penance
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ASK FATHER: What should I do if I hear a priest break the Seal of Confession?
From a reader in the combox under another post. HERE QUAERITUR: What is the proper procedure for a person to whom the Seal is broken? For example, folks who happen to hear those two Libville homilies? The “Libville homilies” were … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Penalties for Violation of the Seal. Wherein Fr. Z and a fictional SSPX priest explain the situation.
In the combox I was asked… QUAERITUR: Doesnt revealing the content and identity of a penitent incur grave penalties? I respond thusly. First, for a person – and priests are people, too – to incur a censure, he has to … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Cardinal says confession and absolution over the phone is okay
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I was shocked, as I heard, that the local bishop allowed phone confession and absolution over phone because of COVID-19. A priest from my community says the Cardinal of says that he may use phone to … Continue reading
The Church’s highest confessor, Card. Piacenza, says that, in this time of COVID-19, there must not be “ecclesial distancing”
At Vatican News I read that His Eminence Mauro Card. Piacenza – the Penitenziere Maggiore or the head of the Church’s highest tribunal that covers matters of the Sacrament of Penance, all internal forum issues, and indulgences has something to … Continue reading
Fomites of Viruses, Fomites of Sins, and YOU
Today on a TV news channel I heard a doctor talking about the ways that virus can spread. He used a term “fomites” (pronounced “foe-mights”). I immediately knew what it was about, but I looked it up: “any inanimate object … Continue reading
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Tagged custody of the eyes, fomes peccati
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Note from the Apostolic Penitentiary on the Confessions, the Sacrament of Penance in the COVID-19 pandemic
This is from the Penitenzieria Apostolica, the tribunal of the Holy See which is concerned with matters of the internal forum and the granting of indulgences. First, this is a NOTE. It doesn’t change anything, but it clarifies. It repeats … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, sacrament of penance
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In time of Coronovirus a priest foolishly suggests confession by phone. FAIL!
UPDATE 28 March 2020: The CDW instructed the USCCB that mobile phones should not be used to amplify vocal exchanges between confessor and penitent, when the penitent is at least a little distant from, but still with, the priest. CNA … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: I might be contagious. Would it be a sin to go to confession to an elderly priest?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Given that the priests at the chapel where I typically confess are all rather elderly and at high risk should they become infected, would it potentially be morally problematic to go to confession and put them … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 2020: 14 – Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent: “Act as if each day were the last of your life”
It’s Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent. The Roman Station is Santa Balbina. However, it’s observance was moved to San Bartolomeo on the Tiber Island. Moreover, in Rome churches have been shut down for the time being because of … Continue reading
Posted in Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, LENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged Commendation of the dying, LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT, St. Alphonsus Liguori
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ASK FATHER: What about confession if the virus gets really bad and we are all locked down?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I just read that Italy is taking the measure of locking down the entire country, 60 million people, until 3 April. I don’t know if this is irrational panic or not. Let’s say that it is. … Continue reading
PRIESTS! BISHOPS! ACTION ITEM! Ideas, some novel, some not so novel, for increasing CONFESSIONS
Have I ever urged you … GO CONFESSION! Yes, I believe I have. I have also urged priests and bishops to preach, teach, admonish, in season and out, about the Sacrament of Penance and to hear confessions. Get into the … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 2020: 00 Shrove Tuesday – GO TO CONFESSION
And so we begin again a series of daily 5 minute podcasts for Lent. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I provide these especially in gratitude … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
Tagged LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast, PODCAzT, Shrove Tuesday
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VIDEO contrasts participants in March for Life and Women’s March
LifeSite posted this fascinating, predictable, video. But an image is worth a thousand words. Listening to the view of the other side in this video is like witnessing the autopsy of long dead cadaver in really bad shape. You can … Continue reading
Worried about Coronavirus? Feed your anxiety, and commonsense. – UPDATED
UPDATE 31 Jan 2020: We’ve learned that, in Chicago, there is a case of human to human transmission of the virus. W.H.O. declared an emergency. Today I read. Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte says the first two coronavirus cases have … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Semper Paratus, TEOTWAWKI, The Coming Storm
Tagged dystopian, pandemic
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Death, #KobeBryant, and You
You will hear a great deal in the next few days about the early death of basketball star Kobe Bryant, who seems to have been a practicing Catholic. It might even bump some impeachment coverage off the waves. A death … Continue reading
Posted in Cri de Coeur, GO TO CONFESSION
Tagged A subitanea et improvisa morte, confession, sacrament of penance
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