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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Making the Church appealing. What “sells”?
When it is time to draw people in, do those in charge show ugly modern churches bereft of statues, windows and obviously Catholic elements? SURE they do! When it is time to make a movie and portray something about … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made during the sermon you heard for this 1st Sunday of Lent? Let us know. Mine… If the audio didn’t play immediately, refresh. I had the wrong link for the audio file for a few … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged LENT, sermon
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Pontifical Requiem Mass for a great lover of the Church’s sacred liturgy
On this Friday after Ash Wednesday, at St. Mary’s in Pine Bluff, we bade farewell to a founding member of the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison (TMSM). Please, in your goodness, say a prayer for Jacek Cianciara, … Read More
Friday after Ash Wednesday: Feast of the Crown of Thorns
Last year a reader has sent photos from the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris where she saw the relic exposed! She wrote: I was impressed by the huge crowd and most went up to venerate the Crown. The service was … Read More
Your #AshWednesday Sermon Notes #ashtag – AUDIO Fr Z
Today is NOT a holy day of obligation. That said, many people try to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday. Many, however, cannot. Let us know about the good points in the sermon, if there was one. I wrote “good”. Let’s make … Read More
Singing and confession – Just Too Cool!
When I was very young, I used to curl up with the dictionary. One word would lead to another and to another. I wound up building my vocabulary as if by capillarity. I sometimes do this with tweets, specially with … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why can lay people read at Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My family goes to EF Masses on Sundays most of the time, but Novus Ordo once a month. My 3-year-old son asked me a question which I have no answer. He asked, “Why is the reading … Read More
ASK FATHER: When should babies be baptized?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: This subject comes up constantly in Catholic mom groups online. I would love your take on it. Canon 867 §1. Parents are obliged to take care that infants are baptized in the first few weeks; as … Read More
Wherein Fr. Hunwicke explained and explains today’s “Festum Ovorum”
A few years back the inimitable Fr Hunwicke offered us a brilliant post which about the Saturday before Ash Wednesday, nicknamed the “Festa ovorum”. THERE He is back for an updated crack it this year. HERE Here’s his offering from 2015. … Read More
