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- on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “Mickeyfitz, I can answer your first 3 questions. It’s not personal against the four sspx priests chosen. They weren’t actually…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D “The obvious response to your question though is that in their recent statements they have started to proclaim a…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D, And Fr. Feeney was reconciled to the Church, after Nostra Aetate was promulgated and without abjuring his eponymous position.”
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- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Lurker 59: I was quoting Mueller quoting a participant of the Council of Trent, and he was claiming the SSPX…”
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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
ASK FATHER: Hand missals, Mass books for children
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Do you have any recommendations for good children’s missals for both the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Mass? We have two school-aged children (2nd grade and kindergarten) that we want to work with on a … Read More
ASK FATHER: Father gave me a penance that discouraged me.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am struggling with food and alcohol addiction. After confessing this, my penance was to fast the next day after such indulgences. I was discouraged. My confessor did not know my circumstances. I have successfully done … Read More
GUEST POST: “I celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass before today’s exorcism…”
Time and again, priests tell me that when they learn the traditional form of Holy Mass and begin saying it, it changes them profoundly. Today I received this note from a priest (slightly edited): I finished the [Saint John Cantius … Read More
ASK FATHER: EMHCs when instituted acolytes are present
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am an instituted acolyte in formation for Holy Orders. Based on my reading of the GIRM, an instituted acolyte is an extraordinary minister of holy communion and would be expected to serve in that role … Read More
ASK FATHER: So angry from liturgical abuses that I didn’t go to Communion!
From a reader… QUAERTUR: While out of town we attended a Redemptorist ____. They had a visiting priest from “Food for the Poor. He began the Mass as if he were a Baptist preacher making us all say “Amen” several times until … Read More
ASK FATHER: Metropolitan Archbishops and Pontifical Masses
From a reader… QUARITUR: I know Cardinals can celebrate pontifical high masses “at the throne” anywhere. Can metropolitan archbishops do so anywhere within the ecclesiastical province, or only within their own archdiocese? According to the Usus Antiquior, the Extraordinary Form – call … Read More
Congratulations Rep. Sensenbrenner!
Congratulations to Congressman Sensenbrenner! From the WSJ: Joined by church leaders, Sensenbrenner becomes Catholic Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls) converted to Catholicism in a quiet ceremony at Milwaukee’s St. Francis de Sales Seminary on Monday — a private affair … Read More
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ASK FATHER: The priest’s Eucharistic fast in the Extraordinary Form
From a priest… QUAERITUR: I mostly do the Extraordinary Form. I saw in the De defectibus of 1962, it tells priest to fast 3 hours before communion, does that still hold with extra ordinary form Mass or does the hour … Read More
ASK FATHER: Hogging the confessional
From a reader: I know you frequently encourage your readers to attend to making use of the confessional and I support you in your efforts! However, I have a question as to how you handle penitents who hog the confessional? We are … Read More
Question for readers: TLM and NO readings
Do any of you know of a site where someone has compared, side by side, the readings or “pericopes” for both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Forms of the Roman Rite, for the whole liturgical year? That is to say, … Read More
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