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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Friday of the 1st Week (after the 1st Sunday) in Lent: Feast of the Holy Lance and Nails
Before I forget, this is Ember Friday of Lent, but as the Friday of the 1st Week of Lent it is also the Feast of the Holy Lance (Spear of Longinus) and the Nails. It was established by Pope Innocent … Read More
WDTPRS 22 Feb – Feast of the Cathedra of Peter (2002MR): Antioch or Rome or… Texas?
Congratulations to all those who belong to the Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter a fine feast day. Today is an opportunity to reflect of the will of the Savior about a necessary element for His Church: the Petrine Ministry. … Read More
Remember… there’s one unique expression of the Roman Rite
A reader kindly alerted me to a astonishing creativity at St. Joseph’s in Mandarin, FL (Jacksonville area) in the Diocese of St. Augustine. First, to their credit, I see in their parish bulletin that they have an adoration chapel. Also … Read More
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Your Ash Wednesday Sermon notes and ASH POLL – Did you get your #ASHTAG?
Today is NOT a holy day of obligation. That said, many people try to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday. Many, however, cannot. Therefore, let us know about your good experiences of Holy Mass and the good points in the sermon, … Read More
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VIDEO: Larry Chapp interviews Bp. James Conley of Lincoln about the reform of the liturgy.
You will find this video quite interesting. Larry Chapp interviews Bp. James Conley of Lincoln about the reform of the liturgy. Please let me know your high points. For me: communion rails, communion on the tongue, the Roman Canon. They … Read More
WDTPRS – Candlemas: Purification of the BVM & Presentation of Our Lord
Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to … Read More
WDTPRS – Septuagesima Sunday: Lent doesn’t sneak up on “trads”
On this coming Sunday, Holy Church begins to sing in a new key. We have come around, in the traditional calendar, to Pre-Lent. The “Gesima Sundays” have Roman Stations. Today we are at St. Lawrence “outside the walls”. Being in … Read More
28 Jan ’24 Septuagesima Sunday – Will you bury your “Alleluia” this year?
Well? Are’ya gonna do it? Do you have to call the priest RIGHT NOW so you can have a plan in place for your Sunday TLM… or Novus Ordo for that matter. WHY NOT? It’s called “Solidarity with the oppressed”. … Read More
WDTPRS – 25 Jan – Conversion of St. Paul: Comparison of Novus and Vetus Collects
In honor of the Apostle to the Gentiles let us make a rapid comparison of the Collects for today’s feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. We’ll look first at the 1962 Missale Romanum and then the 2002 edition. The … Read More
WDTPRS – The Collect for Epiphany: Let Mass make us Magi
In the Novus Ordo calendar the observance of Epiphany (12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is in some places moved to the Sunday, this year tomorrow. Some say that moving it to Sunday allows … Read More
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