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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
MUST READ: Fr. Wylie’s hard-hitting sermon at Holy Innoncents (Manhattan, NYC) – How traditionalists are treated by priests and bishops
Remember my post “Dear Traditionalists,…” ? I meant what I wrote then and I still mean it now. In part, I wrote: Do you want this? Do you? Or, when you don’t get what you want handed to you, are … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Hard-Identity Catholicism, HONORED GUESTS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Archd. New York, Fr. J. Wylie, Holy Innocents
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Fr. Murray on Card. Kasper’s proposals
My friend Fr. Gerald Murray has a fine piece at The Catholic Thing about His Eminence Walter Card. Kasper’s odd proposals about the divorced and remarried, his notion that they can be, in their adulterous relations, tolerated but not accepted at … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z corrects some diaconal misinformation about the Missal of St. John XXIII – UPDATE
UPDATE 21 May: Rev. Mr. Ditewig has changed his original post around a bit and has apologized. ____ The usually sensible Rev. Mr. Kandra and the, well, I suppose less than always sensible (he seems to support women’s ordination and … Read More
REVIEW: The ULTIMATE Priest’s Gift – Super Cool Portable Altar
Sometime ago I learned of a carpenter who made a portable altar of wood, rather like a suitcase, with wings that folded out and drawers, and an embedded altar stone. I contacted the carpenter and he said he would make … Read More
ASK FATHER: Mass on TV and Sunday Obligation… again
From a reader… QUAERITUR: if I go to nursing [home] to visit someone and I go for mass and watch it on a tv and fr is in the chapel does that count for filling my sunday obligation We are … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged active participation, D. Black Duck, hear Mass, Holy Day of Obligation, moral presence, St. Fidelia, St. Ipidipsy, Sunday obligation, Tall Tree Circle, Unreconstructed Ossified Manualist
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WDTPRS 5th Sunday of Easter (2002MR) – eternity and sempiternity are different
Sunday’s Collect for the Ordinary Form was not in a previous edition of the Roman Missal. A precedent is found in the Sacramentarium Bergomense. COLLECT: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, semper in nobis paschale perfice sacramentum ut, quos sacro baptismate dignatus es … Read More
Of Masses Pontifical (D. Providence) and Solemn (D. Sacramento)
It will not be stopped. This is a little late in the posting, but I thought you would like to see a couple success stories. First, my friend Fr. Jay Finelli, “iPadre”, sent photos of a Pontifical Mass celebrated by … Read More
ASK FATHER: What can deacons bless?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I recently witnessed our parish deacon blessing an image of St. Francis. Do deacons have the power of blessing images. And if not, does the image to be “re-blessed” by a priest? Given that this is the season … Read More
Eucharistic Procession at St. Paul’s at Harvard
Some years ago I was hanging around outside the Paul VI audience hall (Vatican) during a plenary session of the Italian Bishops Conference. I was waiting for my bishop to emerge. As I waited I chatted with fellow journalists, the … Read More
