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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Reader Feedback about going to confession
From a reader: Dear Fr Z Until today, I had not been to confession (and therefore not taken Communion) this calendar year. My spiritual life was decaying and I was “lapsing”, having lost trust and hope in the saving grace … Read More
WDTPRS Tuesday 5th Week of Lent: bittersweet
In the Tridentinum and in the 1962 Roman Missal this prayer is listed for Tuesday after Passion Sunday as the Oratio super populum. It also has roots in the Gelasian. COLLECT Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, perseverantem in tua voluntate famulatum, ut in diebus nostris et merito … Read More
QUAERITUR: An iPad in place of a Missal (the book itself) for Mass
Please use the sharing buttons!From a reader: Dear Father Z., accorging to you, would it be possible for a priest to use an electronic form of the Missal? Like, for example, we were on a pilgrimage to Israel recently (with … Read More
Feedback from a reader about confession
From a reader: Hello Father! Thank you for your constant reminders about confession…I had been in a state of mortal sin for 3 weeks and every Reconciliation time somehow never happened…not being able to receive the Eucharist was a source … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, GO TO CONFESSION, HONORED GUESTS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged confession, reconciliation, sacrament of penance
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Some comments on the “Three Days of Darkness” in L.A. 2012 (and 2011)
Oddly, I wasn’t invited to speak at the Three Days of Darkness in L.A., which transpired (I guess) over the weekend. I am talking, of course, about the annual religious education circus … confab … conference. With a new Archbishop in place, you … Read More
Of heavenly conjunctions, the turning of the spheres, and astrological divination
Last night and the night before I went out into the crisp darkness to gaze for a while at a celestial conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and a sliver of a Crescent moon, all gathered directly under the Pleiades. This spiffing … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged astrology, Astronomy, conjunction, Galileo, Tertullian
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31 Comments
Lady Day
Because yesterday was a Sunday of Lent, indeed 1st Passion Sunday, the Feast of the Incarnation, the moment of the Annunciation is observed today. Therefore, in the Ordinary form, today is one of only two days of the year when … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged Annunciation, Lady Day
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11 Comments
Lex Orandi Lex Credendi swag “in the wild”
A kind person who ordered some of the Lex Orandi Lex Credendi swag posted a photo over at the FB page. I really like the way the car magnet/bumper sticker turned out.
QUAERITUR: Penances in confession for the sin of abortion
From a priest: I have been a priest for 7 years and in that time I have heard a few confession that involve women confessing abortion. I found that the women have been extremely repentant of their actions, to the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Writing sins on a card and burning it instead of confession.
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! From a readerette: I went to church this wednesday to a Lent conference. The guest Father organized a “write your sins in a card, be absolved and burn your sins” ceremony. Is my understanding … Read More
BeatifyStickler on ASK FATHER: During Covid, the Bishop anointed my niece by means of a Q-tip. Valid?: “I thought about this before in regards to ordination. Does the glove change the laying of hands?”
