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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
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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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
ASK FATHER: Send electronic donations to parish by texting during Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m not a registered user of your blog but I do “lurk” on a daily basis. I would appreciate it if you could comment on the following which was written up in our Sunday (Nov. 8th) Bulletin. “Next … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged collection basket, collections, technology, tithing
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ASK FATHER: The pastor anoints everyone at Mass, sick or old or not – everyone.
From a priest … QUAERITUR: Every year at this time, my pastor has a communal anointing of the sick at mass. At the mass, everyone gets anointed, whether they need it or not. Is this correct? What should I, a lowly … Read More
ASK FATHER: At end of Mass Father says “May Almighty God bless US…”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our modernist priest blesses the congregation at the end of Mass with “May Almighty God bless us …” where can I find the directive that he should be saying, “May Almighty God bless you …” ? … Read More
All Souls Day and you readers, living and dead
It is All Souls. We pray in special way for the dead today and during this octave, and indeed during this month. Do you know of any of the regular readers or commentators of this blog who have passed away? Let’s … Read More
ASK FATHER: There’s too much confusion. Are sedevacantists right?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have read much, maybe too much, on the sedevacantists and the SSPX, and previously considered them schismatic. Given the state of the Church hierarchy and problems with the various translations of the 1994 Catechism, one edition … Read More
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