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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Such wealth and depth we have in the traditional Roman Rite
Before Lent was lengthened, yesterday, Laetare Sunday, was the mid-point of Lent. Another nickname for the 4th Sunday in Lent is “Mediana“. In this week the fast, but not abstinence, was somewhat relaxed as a kind of refresher before Passiontide. … Read More
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A Roman Station, Saintly Parallels, a Prayer over the People, and a Painting by Raphael
For the Roman Stations during Latin there are often reasons why particular readings were chosen for particular places. The ancient compilers of the Roman Mass formularies – back to the 7th c. and likely before – did not usually arrange … Read More
WDTPRS – Collect of Ember Wednesday of Lent (TLM & Novus)
I’m sure you know that only a tiny percent of the orations of the Vetus Ordo made it into the Novus Ordo unmolested. Well… maybe that isn’t quite the right word in every case. In some cases the Novus changed … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why are Sunday “of Lent” in the Novus Ordo and “in Lent” in the TLM?
From a priest reader QUAERITUR: I noticed that in the Traditional Latin Mass calendar we have Sundays IN Lent and in the Novus Ordo we have Sundays OF Lent. What’s going on? In the 1962 Missale Romanum today is called … Read More
The Blessing of Ashes – Novus Ordo v. Vetus Ordo – Could there be differences?
In the Vetus Ordo, Usus Antiquior, there are four prayers for the blessing of ashes. In the Novus Ordo there is one, split into one of two … yes… options (aka a defining characteristic of the Novus Ordo). The business … Read More
WDTPRS: Septuagesima Sunday
The Collect of the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday is bracing. It has a different feel than many of our Sunday orations. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster observes, that this prayer “betrays the deep affliction which weighed on the soul of St. Gregory … Read More
Sunday “in the seventieth” – Septuagesima
We have already come to Septuagesima Sunday, so early this year thanks to the vagaries of the Moon. Pre-Lent is here. With the traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, in the Vetus Ordo, you cannot be surprised by Lent sneaking … Read More
More commentary on The Roche Report
At Crisis Magazine my good friend Msgr. Hans Feichtinger, who was a theologian for the CDF during the Ratzinger years, examined The Roche Report. Liturgical Terrorism At its core, liturgical tensions point to deeper issues in theology, the transmission of tradition, … Read More
“Let us run with this thought experiment for a moment.”
Peter Kwasniewski invites a mind experiment. Let us run with this thought experiment for a moment. Imagine the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom as our starting point. Now, take away most of the litanies; substitute a newly-composed anaphora (with … Read More
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