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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
FLORIDA BISHOPS, PRIESTS: Pray the Litany against Hurricane #Irma – URGENT ACTION ITEM
Please retweet and share around. Hurricane Irma has been on my mind a bit. Some think that it will do more damage in Florida than Andrew did in 1992. Irma’s path will go straight up Florida, it seems. My mother … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is the TLM / Usus Antiquior dead? Forever stuck in 1962?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: In thinking about Benedict XVI’s teaching on the liturgy it wondered me if the TLM/Usus antiquior is a dead liturgy per se? If liturgy ought to grow (be reformed?) *organically* (as opposed to post-Vatican II “reform”), is the Tridentine … Read More
READER REQUEST: Help to start attending the Traditional Latin Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My wife and I are interested in learning the Latin Mass so we can attend one here in Nashville. Is there a video or a book we could purchase that starts from scratch? Great blog – … Read More
REQUEST: Old Roman Breviary & new Liturgy of the Hours – compare, contrast, discuss
Under another post this comment appeared: I ask Fr. Z if a discussion of the old breviary and the LOTH is a rabbit hole. If so, I ask him to post about a comparison between the old and the LOTH … Read More
UPDATE: WORTHY Traditional Liturgy Project needs YOU and Mass in London 7 Sept
UPDATE 7 September 2017: I had this note from the Administrator at Corpus Christi in Maiden Lane, London. Hi Father, I just wanted to give you a quick update: we’re currently at £3840.20 of the £5000 we need – so … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can’t get “Liturgy of the Hours” in Latin – Wherein Fr. Z RANTS
From a seminarian… QUAERITUR: I am a seminarian for ___, and I have been looking for a 4 Vol. Latin Breviary [Liturgia Horarum] … I emailed the Libreria Editrice Vaticana and received this response: Dear Mr. __, I’m sorry to inform … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z responds to Fr. H’s “brick by brick” comment
This from the inimitable Fr. Hunwicke at his always gratifying page with my Usual Treatment™: How to introduce the Vetus Ordo to a country church overnight “For weeks before my induction I had been in the parish seeing people in their … Read More
Worship, Memory and You
This morning at NLM Peter Kwasniewski makes some points about liturgy and memory, memorization, which are quite good… so good that I have made them myself in the past. Here is a good bit: This requirement [for priests who say … Read More
Help Carmelite nuns who make altar linens
There are several groups of sisters whom I like to support. I just received a note from another: the Carmelites of Port Tobacco. Frankly, I had to look that up to see if it was a real place and group. … Read More
ASK FATHER: EMHC’s at a Communion rail
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Can a lay person who is commissioned as an EMHC distribute Holy Communion to communicants kneeling at a Communion rail under the Novus Ordo? Allow me to remind the readership of the 1997 document which ought to frame every questions … Read More
L. on Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates: “Our diocese had a Priest who once was described by our disgraced former Bishop as an “innovative liturgist,” which was…”
