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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
ASK FATHER: Father denies Communion to girl who was “rebaptized”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My daughter attended a Christian Youth Camp this summer with her girl friends. She asked me if she could renew her baptism vows in Lake [removed]. [Renew “vows” or “promises”? We do that at Easter. But… in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged baptism, schism
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ASK FATHER: Use of the Advent Preface in the TLM, Extraordinary Form
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hello Father, Happy Advent! Today, our priest didn’t use the Preface for Advent which my hand missal says was promulgated (along with one for the Holy Eucharist, All Saints, and the Dedication of a Church) in … Read More
ASK FATHER: No Catholic Mass on Sunday. Are we obliged to attend Orthodox Divine Liturgy?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My question comes from what my professor said in class and it doesn’t seem correct. In class, we were told that if a Catholic was in Russia [and there being no Catholic Church; either Latin or … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is it a sin not to have a cere-cloth on the altar?
From a preist reader… QUAERITUR: We recently began the Tridentine Mass in Santa Fe, at the oldest church building in the United States, San Miguel Chapel, built in 1610. [Kudos! It would be nice to visit sometime.] I have a … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can Orthodox obtain indulgences through the Catholic Church?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am an Orthodox Christian. I believe that the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church are both Apostolic Churches, albeit, not in full communion. I converted to EO from Calvinism after being raised Pentecostal. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Both Lungs
Tagged indulgences, Indulgentiarum doctrina, Orthodox
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ASK FATHER: The mantelletta and other clerical gear were “abolished” but under Summorum Pontificum can they be used? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am writing with a follow up question to your post yesterday (16 November) on the subject of the mantelletta. HERE In your response to the reader, you mentioned the (dolorous) decision, issued motu proprio, of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged mantelletta, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
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10 Comments
ASK FATHER: Adult child living at parents’ home doesn’t want to go to Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our 18 year old says she does not want to go to Mass anymore. She is being home schooled through Seton Home Study and gets A’s in all her religion courses, so she is learning the Catholic faith … Read More
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VIDEO: How to fold a cassock, normal and with a shoulder cape
During my last trip to Rome (thanks, donors), I had business at the famous clerical shop Gammarelli. I ask one of the helpful men at the shop to demonstrate how properly to fold a cassock. This is a useful … Read More
Fr. Z asks for help: houseling cloths (communion rail)
Where I help out on Sundays we are planning on adding “houseling” cloths, cloths over the Communion rail. The Communion rail is used at the parish for all Masses. It is wonderful how smoothly, quickly and reverently Communion time goes. Here … Read More
