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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
QUAERITUR: Sitting instead of kneeling during the Consecration.
From a reader: First, thank you for your internet ministry and your tireless promotion of the liturgical use of Latin. My parish is being renovated and Mass is temporarily being celebrated in a nearby university chapel. Since the chapel is … Read More
QUAERITUR: Does kneeling for Communion show a “spirit of disobedience”?
From a reader: Our new pastor recently published a letter in the bulletin [I’ve cut that out in order to “anonymize” this.] in which he uses the GIRM [General Instruction on the Roman Missal] to argue that those who genuflect … Read More
QUAERITUR: Sign of peace is an “undignified and self-serving sacrilege”? WDTPRS POLL
From a reader: I recently read an opinion that giving the sign of peace at mass is irreverent. To quote her, ” Hand-holding is not only not in the rubrics of the Mass, it is a horrifically distracting, undignified and self-serving sacrilege that … Read More
D. Springfield, MA – 5 Aug: 1st Solemn TLM since… well… since the ’60’s.
For your Brick by Brick file this is from a reader: On Sunday, August 5, at 10:30 am, a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be held at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 84 K Street, Turners Falls, … Read More
Anglican Ordinariates and the Extraordinary Form
At the blog The Anglo-Catholic I read: When I [that blogger] met him in Orlando some months ago, Monsignor Steenson [head of the US Ordinariate] held nothing back in the expression of his enmity towards Catholic Traditionalism and the so-called … Read More
To gladden the heart and encourage the brethren: Another First Mass in the Extraordinary Form
Some time ago I asked seminarians and new priests to drop me a line about what their real preference would have been for their First Holy Mass: Ordinary Form or Extraordinary Form. More and more new priests are opting for the … Read More
ACTION ITEM: Remembrance of things past.
Our friends at Rorate have posted about comments made by His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Lynch, Bishop of St. Petersburg in Florida, on his blog … did you know he had a blog?… about the bad old days, the older form … Read More
Reason #5863 for Summorum Pontificum
From the site of the Italian daily La Repubblica comes this. CAPTION: Melissa, a street-artist, play the sax during Mass. She earns her living in the streets with her saxophone. Melissa has always had a dread: to play in a … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Variations in reciting the Rosary
From a reader: On Wednesday before Mass a friend of mine leads the public recitation of the Rosary. She inserts after the Fatima Prayer in each decade this pray; Jesus, protect and save the unborn and the sanctity of life. … Read More
