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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point you heard in the sermon you heard as you fulfilled your Sunday Mass obligation? Let us know. Sometimes people are in a situation where they don’t hear good sermons. Help them out. In the … Read More
Of liturgical silence and gigantic centipedes
Here is a great point for our reflection on our obligation to revitalize our liturgical worship of God. Unless we revitalize our liturgical worship, no other aspect of a New Evangelization will have any lasting effect. Dan Burke wrote at … Read More
“Missale Romanum cum lectionibus” now available online
A watershed. The busy bees at Corpus Christi Watershed – apart from providing the great music resources for the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite – has now provided for your free download the whole of the 4 volume Missale … Read More
A 1st TLM experience: “I had the sense that that Host was REALLY consecrated.”
Some will find this provocative. I find it to be true. I had to make a call to a local parish office today, and while chatting with the secretary, found out that she attended her first Extraordinary Form Mass on … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged EF, Extraordinary Form, OF, Ordinary Form, TLM
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70 Comments
VIDEO Horrific Sacrilegious “Mass”
This was a Swiss/German liturgical production from 2012. The video was just brought to my attention. The worst liturgical sacrileges I have seen in recent times are perpetrated by German speakers. If they puff up in high dudgeon about renovating … Read More
A new bishop for Rochester: reconstruction continues
As I wrote when His Excellency Most Reverend Leonard Blair was translated from Toledo to Hartford: “Bishops are not being penalized for involvement in the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR. They are being promoted.” The Fishwrappers had a spittle-flecked nutty. Micken’s … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Bp. Matano, D. Rochester
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33 Comments
GUEST POST: Preaching about confession
From a transitional deacon: I’m an avid reader of the blog. I have noticed how often you mention confession in the blog and wanted to relay this short little bit of my experience this weekend. I’m a newly ordained transitional … Read More
GUEST POST: “I finally realized what appeals the most to me in the Extraordinary Form.”
From a reader: I finally figured out why I love the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. I attended the Requiem Mass for All Souls at ___ in ___ this weekend. The Priest and the servers were composed of the younger Priests in … Read More
QUAERITUR: Immaculate Conception 2013 – Holy Day of Obligation… NOT
From a reader: I know that the Immaculate Conception is transferred to December 9th this year. Is it obligatory to attend mass on that day? This year, 2013, 8 December falls on a Sunday. For this reason, according to the Ordinary Form calendar, the … Read More
Some thoughts on Holy Innocents, Manhattan
Let me tell you a little about Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan. I have written about the place many times but usually from the point of view of their upcoming Masses and events. It has also been my honor to … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Hard-Identity Catholicism, I'm just askin'..., Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices
Tagged Archd. New York, Extraordinary Form, Fr. Rutler, Holy Innocents, Manhattan, TLM
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