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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Daily Rome Shot 781 – Wherein Fr. Z rants
Nice for Saturday! Thanks to The Great Roman™! The wonderful Benedictine monks of Le Barroux make great wine from the ancient vineyards of the Avignon popes. You can have some. Get some and help them. Win. Win. White to move … Read More
ASK FATHER: What if an aardvark runs by and the priest goofs up the LATIN while baptizing?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m going to entirely recast this question in my own words because I need to address the answer to priests, rather than to the laymen who sent the original query. It seems that a priest recently … Read More
Number of Priestly Ordinations in Free Fall
A recent piece at the SSPX site deals with the “vertiginous” drop in priestly vocations in France, in particular, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The figures they used are from the French bishops conference and other non-SSPX sources. The … Read More
“O Father, thank you for that message. I didn’t understand all of it, but I could hear every word.”
I’m confident that pretty much all of us priests have at one point or another after a Mass heard something along this line, generally from one of our treasured senior mass-attending Catholic ladies: “O Father, thank you for that message. … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 11th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 19th) 2023
Share the good stuff. It’s the 11th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 19th Sunday of the Novus Ordo. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Tell … Read More
WDTPRS – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: healthy “pessimism”
With a minor variation this week’s Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. It survived the cut to live on in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui … Read More
WDTPRS – 19th Ordinary Sunday: Father God, not Stranger God
The Collect for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time was not in previous editions Missale Romanum before the 1970 Novus Ordo. It has roots in the 9th century Sacramentary of Bergamo and thus is ancient text. Note that for the 2002 … Read More
Bp. Strickland: Any attack on the Traditional Latin Mass is an attack on the Deposit of Faith
Fr. Z kudos to Bp. Strickland. Christ is the vine. The traditional Latin Mass is rooted in the vine, robust with truth & bears much fruit. Any attempt to sever the traditional Mass from the Church is an attack on … Read More
Getting the Rites right… Roman… Sarum… all’em
A priest friend sent a link to a piece in The European Conservative which argues for the Sarum Rite. In itself, that’s interesting. Adherents of the Roman Rite will, however, appreciate the introductory section. My emphases and comments: The Tragedy … Read More
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