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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
ASK FATHER: Lighting Advent wreath during Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, is it appropriate to replace the penitential rite with the lighting of the advent wreath? No. Just… no. The longer explanation is, course, Nooooooooo. I think there is a blessing for a wreath that can … Read More
Vestment Prayers – A Modern Update
Tonight in Madison, the Extraordinary Ordinary, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of the same Madison, will celebrated a Pontifical Mass at the Throne in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The Mass will begin at 7 … Read More
WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent: “we escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”
LISTEN also! Our Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged consors, lutum, St. Augustine
6 Comments
6 Comments
FEEDBACK: “This morning at seminary we were discussing….”
I am glad when I get feedback about how this blog has been useful for someone, especially in important matters having to do with the life of faith. Today I received a note about something that happened in a seminary … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!
Tagged A subitanea et improvisa morte, Apostolic Pardon, Viaticum
9 Comments
9 Comments
Fr. Tim Finigan: “Isn’t Margate terrific?”
From the newly retooled Catholic Herald, the best Catholic weekly in the UK comes this abut my friend Fr. Tim Finigan, who was in the autumn transferred from his parish in Blackfen to far-flung Margate, where Turner painted and where … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z is happy
You might recall that, at the end of October, while I was in Rome I shopped for fabric and trim and ordered up a set of Pontifical vestments from the famous ecclesiastical shop Gammarelli. Here are a couple of shots … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged D. Madison, Gammarelli, gold silk, Pontifical vestments
19 Comments
19 Comments
OLDIE PODCAzTs: Advent 1969 the Novus Ordo imposed by Paul VI – 45 years later
In conjunction with reading Peter Kwasniewski’s new, provocative book (which rather reads like this blog in many respects), I just reviewed three old PODCAzTs I made at the time of the 40th anniversary of the implementation of the Novus Ordo … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged 1969, 1970, Novus Ordo, Paul VI
25 Comments
25 Comments
US Catholic Colleges with Holy Mass “ad orientem”, TLM and Ordinary Form
The Cardinal Newman Society, which studies Catholic Higher Education, has an interesting piece about ad orientem worship at Catholic schools. The CNS has a great news widget on my sidebar. Check it out now and watch it every day! Students … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Ave Maria University, Cardinal Newman Society, Christendom College, College of Saint Mary Magdalen, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Holy Apostles College, Thomas Aquinas College, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, University of St. Thomas-Houston
10 Comments
10 Comments
ASK FATHER: Rorate Masses in Advent
Some of you have written asking about “Rorate Masses” during Advent. This is a beautiful custom whereby Mass is celebrated illuminated only by candlelight. They are usually before dawn. The Mass is a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin, and … Read More
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