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- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Here again, it’s the consistency which is truly frightening. A truly random lot of attitudes and dispositions would not generate…”
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- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Bishop Paprocki of Springfield in Illinois has something to say on this topic. From the beginning of his time as…”
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Category Archives: Hard-Identity Catholicism
Card. Burke invites everyone to join in a Nine Month Novena to culminate on 12 December 2024
I’m calling on every Catholic in America to return to Our Lady and join in prayer. – RAYMOND LEO CARDINAL BURKE The website is HERE Sign up and each month you will received an email from Card. Burke. This video … Read More
Friday of the 1st Week (after the 1st Sunday) in Lent: Feast of the Holy Lance and Nails
Before I forget, this is Ember Friday of Lent, but as the Friday of the 1st Week of Lent it is also the Feast of the Holy Lance (Spear of Longinus) and the Nails. It was established by Pope Innocent … Read More
“Let y’all know!” The “Noveritis” Epiphany chant announcement of 2024’s movable dates and feasts
At Epiphany we Latins have – traditionally – chanted a solemn proclamation of the key liturgical dates or movable feasts for the new year of salvation, just begun. This underscores how these dates and seasons are all interconnected. The liturgical … Read More
IMPORTANT ASK FATHER: Blessing wine on 27 December – St. John’s Day… or “another beverage”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: You usually give your readership an annual reminder for the blessing of wine on St. John’s Day. The Rituale says “Benedicere… hunc calicem vini et CUJUSLIBET POTUS”- so presumably any hard beverage could be blessed with … Read More
Priests and the imparting of blessings for same-sex “couples”. Risks? Wherein Fr. Z prays.
This comes via a comment under another post HERE QUAERITUR: Serious question – if a priest were to bless an unholy act, would he be bringing a curse upon himself? God the Father is very clear in the Dialogue of … Read More
ASK FATHER: Validity of absolution and reception of Communion in the state of grace
In light of several missives I’ve received – probably because of news about a recent confusing document – I reiterate hereunder what the Church holds to be true about the Sacrament of Penance, or Reconciliation. From Ott’s Fundamentals of Catholic … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged contrition, sacrament of penance
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ACTION ITEM! “I will not permit myself to be confused.”
Let me repeat… Repetita iuvant! Repeated things help! Repetitio mater discendi! Repetition is the mother of learning! Changing the image a bit… Si vis pacem, para bellum! If you want peace, prepare for war. A couple weeks ago in Rome I attended … Read More
Full marks plus an extra kudo to Jesuit Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ. for his comments on “Eucharistic Revival”
I give full marks plus an extra kudo to Jesuit Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ. His article at Catholic World Report is OUTSTANDING. How many times have I here urged GO TO CONFESSION! Have I not again and and begged priests … Read More
Another reason why the TLM cannot be killed off. Boys.
At Aleteia, which I also never look at, there is a piece very much worth reading from top to bottom. I’m glad a friend alerted me to this. A man with sons set them to a hard task. He muses … Read More
ASK FATHER: “active participation” in the Traditional Latin Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a question about “active participation”. The priest that used to service my SSPX chapel was very adamant about is using a missal to follow and pray the Mass. He added that it wouldn’t be … Read More
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