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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
ASK FATHER: How to gain a plenary indulgence if I can’t receive Communion? PRIESTS! BISHOPS! PAY ATTENTION!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Can you please clarify the conditions to gain an indulgence? My diocese thankfully has not yet closed churches but my archbishop has forbidden communion on the tongue. In obedience, my TLM pastor is continuing to say … Read More
ASK FATHER: If the diocese cancelled Mass, but Father says Mass anyway, can we attend? Can government forbid it?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our Gov. In NC has banned gatherings of 100, church and schools alike (but not restaurants, malls, etc). One is subject to Misdemeanor II charges. Our holy priest told a parishioner that he will say mass … Read More
Stuck because of COVID-19? How to make a Spiritual Communion.
Where I am, in the Cupboard Under The Stairs, the local county has decreed that gatherings of 250 or more, including religious events, are banned. You can still go to nearly every other sort of place, but not church if … Read More
Votive Mass “Tempore Mortalitatis”
With the permission of Bp. Hying we are able to celebrate Votive Masses “Tempore Mortalitatis” and “Pro Infirmis” also on 3rd Class Ferias of Lent. We will do this regularly. Si vis pacem, para bellum! Today, before Mass, we sang … Read More
ASK FATHER: I might be contagious. Would it be a sin to go to confession to an elderly priest?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Given that the priests at the chapel where I typically confess are all rather elderly and at high risk should they become infected, would it potentially be morally problematic to go to confession and put them … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Eucharistic Processions in time of disease!
In the past I recounted how, outside the hideous Paul VI Audience Hall, during a meeting of the Italian Bishops Conference, an old bishop who had escaped the nonsense within growled something I’ve shared here many times: “Meno chiacchiere… più … Read More
ASK FATHER: More about removal of Holy Water at church because of the Chinese Virus. BYOB!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our TLM group shares a church with the NO parish and they have removed holy water from the stoops at the entrance. Apparently our Bishop has instructed this to be done to avoid anything being “shared”. … Read More
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ASK FATHER: What about confession if the virus gets really bad and we are all locked down?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I just read that Italy is taking the measure of locking down the entire country, 60 million people, until 3 April. I don’t know if this is irrational panic or not. Let’s say that it is. … Read More
This blog, donations, cancellations, and you.
Friends, I am deeply grateful for your donations. They are what keep me in insurance and groceries. That said, I have had a few notes from people wondering why I cancelled their monthly donations. I haven’t. Here’s what is happening … Read More
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ASK FATHER: What to do when intransigent priests refuse Communion on the tongue.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m thinking we should all have a united voice on the question of reception of Holy Communion in a time of draconian policies forbidding Communion on the Tongue with the excuse of Coronavirus. You have a … Read More
