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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
ASK FATHER: Penance and abstinence on Friday, 6 January, Epiphany
From a reader… QUAERITUR: The feast of the Epiphany is a Friday this year. Our FSSP calendar has it marked as a day of abstinence, according to 1962 law, but my TLM planner from The Liturgical Year calendar family does … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 626 and a final view of Benedict
Welcome registrant: CarKee1974 Meanwhile,… White to move and win. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Support great monks. Get good wine.
27 December – St. John the Evangelist – Today we bless WINE!
The liturgical year guided and nourished and shaped Catholics for centuries. It does so far less now, since it is much diminished after the “reforms” that hacked away at the calendar. However, once upon a time people not only followed … Read More
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AUDIO: Singing the 2022 Christmas Proclamation or Kalendas – in Latin
For a couple years I’ve posted about this custom. This year I had pretty much forgotten about it until I got an email from a priest who asked for a recording of this year’s version. The main text does really … Read More
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WDTPRS 21 Dec. – O Oriens – The Winter Solstice and thoughts on time
This year’s Winter Solstice is marked in special ways. First, this is the day when, at last, the days in the Northern Hemisphere began to lengthen. I don’t know about you, but these short days are hard on my. Second, … Read More
WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 20 December – O Clavis David
We continue our look at the O Antiphons with today’s O Clavis David Again we hear the theme of Christ as the Liberator. LATIN: O clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: … Read More
WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 19 December – O Radix Iesse
Here is the O Antiphon for 19 December: O Radix Jesse Again Our Lord is presented as the Liberator. LATIN: O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum … Read More
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ACTION ITEM! Form of absolution to CHANGE in 2023. OPPORTUNITY: Inform priests who have been screwing around with the form of absolution.
Because I continue to get question in my email about bizarre things that priests do to the FORM OF ABSOLUTION, it is good to remind everyone that in 2023 the Novus Ordo form of absolution in English is to change. There … Read More
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