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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
The “gravitational pull” and market forces
I learned from my friend Fr. Ray Blake, mighty p.p. in Brighton, that the Belgian liturgical goods maker Slabbinck is now making – I am not making this up – Roman vestments. Their stuff has never been my cup of … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged chasuble, pianeta, Roman vestments, Slabbinck, vestments
10 Comments
10 Comments
Reader Feedback: we helped prevent a sacrilege
Sometime I get feedback from a reader saying that something I wrote prompted him to return to the sacrament of penance or moved her to get her marriage straightened out. Those notes help me keep this blog going. This is … Read More
QUAERITUR: Genuflecting before a tabernacle
From a reader: Dear Fr. Z., I am aware that the GIRM for OF Masses requires all passing in front of a tabernacle to BOW instead of genuflect, and for everyone to comport to the action of the priest during … Read More
BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JANUARY 2012
BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JANUARY 2012 VATICAN CITY, 30 DEC 2011 (VIS) – Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for January 2012 is: “That the victims of natural disasters may receive the spiritual and material comfort they need to rebuild … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, The Campus Telephone Pole
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QUAERITUR: Priest scandalizes religious ed students by disobedience.
Another form of clerical abuse. From a reader: I’m a DRE with an important question. Today at Mass, a visiting priest in the diocese indicated the following during his homily: 1. He is very much opposed to the new, more accurate … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged liturgical abuses, PRO MULTIS, RS 176, RS 51
26 Comments
26 Comments
WDTPRS POLL: “Blesséd” or “Blessed”
Today is the Feast of the Holy Name. The feast reminds me of a question I have wanted to ask in a poll. During the Divine Praises we bless the Holy Name of Jesus. In some context we seem to … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, POLLS
Tagged Blessed, Holy Name
46 Comments
46 Comments
QUAERITUR: Why were the candles in echelon instead of in a line?
Under another entry, a commentator asked: Why [were] the altar candles sometimes in line (as for the Mass of 1 Jan) and sometimes in echelon (as at Christmas Midnight Mass). I think he was asking about putting the candles at … Read More
Dealing with McBrien on the new, corrected translation
From the dissident Fishwrap‘s long-time dissident columnist, Fr. Richard McBrien, comes this piece about the new, corrected translation. Pay close attention to the contempt he shows for a vast number of people and also the attitude of disobedience he promotes. … Read More
Benedict XVI’s Mass for Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
For on demand video of the Mass click HERE. The video opens with the lead up to the Mass, with lots of panning around the basilica, inside and out. The entrance procession, which begins with the super-Italian cheesy trumpet fanfare … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Pope of Christian Unity
Tagged Papal Mass
31 Comments
31 Comments
Another way to get Father’s attention!
A reader alerted me to this amusing bit at the blog Acts of Apostasy. Apparently a parishonert at Divine Tambourine parish was fed up with the liturgical abuses inflicted by the priest and, having been rebuffed a few times, found … Read More
