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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Fr. Rutler interviewed. Fr. Z rants.
Speaking of Hell’s Kitchen, over at CWR there is a dynamite interview with Fr. George Rutler, Pastor of St. Michael’s in Manhattan. He speaks on a range of issues, from the decision of the Church of England to “ordain” women … Read More
NYC – Holy Innocents’ Feast Day! Great News!
How I would like to have been in Manhattan on Sunday at Holy Innocents parish for their Patronal Feast! Holy Innocents, once considered for the guillotine, was given a reprieve by His Eminence Timothy Card. Dolan. Many people expressed their dismay that such … Read More
27 Dec: Today we bless WINE!
Today we bless WINE! The liturgical year guided and nourish and shaped Catholics for centuries. It does so far less now. But once, people not only followed the turning of the earth and the wheeling of the stars and the … Read More
WDTPRS: Holy Family – children first learn who God is by knowing their parents
This coming Sunday in the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo, Ordinary Form calendar, is the Feast of the Holy Family. In the traditional Roman calendar, Holy Family will be on 11 January. The place God Incarnate chose to begin manifesting His sacrificial … Read More
How to make your parish more self-centered!
A reader alerted me to this. Pop over to National Catholic Register for a peek at an old (2011) satirical piece by Tim Drake about… 14 Steps to a More Self-Centered Church […] 14. Community Center Rather than describing your … Read More
ASK FATHER: What am I supposed to do during Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: At the TLM I understand that I, as a layperson, gain the graces simply by being present, but what am I supposed to do during it? I’ve heard that people used to pray the rosary silently. … Read More
Just Too Cool: Polyphonic sacred music earlier than previously thought!
It stands to reason, in a way. This is for your Just Too Cool file. Form phys.org: Earliest known piece of polyphonic music discovered New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Léonin, Pérotin, polyphony
13 Comments
13 Comments
ASK FATHER: Pyxes left in the choir loft after Communion
From a reader…. QUAERITUR: I frequently find communion pyxes lying on the organ in the choir loft. They seem to be left there from a prior Mass where they were used to bring Holy Communion to the choir by an … Read More
I read Mass this morning. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I read Mass this morning. No, actually, I sang Mass this morning, but saying “read Mass” is more fun. It annoys liberals. We have various phrases which means basically the same thing, but with certain nuances. And old-fashioned description of … Read More
Thursday Night Football Saturday. Hey! Wait a minute!
Transferring important Feasts, such as Ascension Thursday, to a Sunday is a Really Bad Idea. Ascension Thursday Sunday? What sense does that make? But wait! There’s more. Who knew that the officially sanctioned watering down of our Catholic identity in the transfer … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Ascension Thursday Sunday
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5 Comments
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