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- mburduck on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “Good Lord forgive us and bless us..I don’t know what else to say.”
- on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “This is outrageous. God created the earth! And the Mother we should honor and love is Mary, our Blessed Mother!”
- on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “May there soon come a time when Vatican officials will be fed to Pachamama.”
- on ASK FATHER: During Covid, the Bishop anointed my niece by means of a Q-tip. Valid?: “Wouldn’t it have been more meaningful had the Bishop used coca leaves instead of a cotton swab?”
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- on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “I’ll be sure to do a penance today. What a grim episcopal news cycle we’ve had lately. Incidentally, it was…”
- on REVIEW: Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick – “in danger of death”: “a follow-up question presents: what if a person who is unable to confess has been excommunicated latae sententiae, does anointing…”
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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
QUAERITUR: A saint’s qualification for the title “Virgin”
From a reader: Praised be Jesus Christ! I was recently told (by someone who heard from someone else) that in order to bear the title “Virgin”, a Saint would not only have been kept from all physical sins of impurity … Read More
QUAERITUR: conferring baptism using another person’s hand
A few people asked me today via email about the validity of a baptism wherein someone used the hand of a dead person to pour the water, someone moving the hand. A rare scenario, of course, and one that is … Read More
News and urgent request: Pray for Archbp. Brown!
REPOSTED: I have a warm request and two new items. This is from VIS, and it has two points of great interest. My emphases and comments. PAPAL MASSES FOR EPIPHANY AND FEAST OF THE LORD’S BAPTISM VATICAN CITY, 5 JAN … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization
Tagged Archbp. Brown, Epiphany, Ireland
25 Comments
25 Comments
QUAERITUR: Does wine in a cruet left on the altar also get consecrated?
From a reader: During week day Masses the priest at our parish sometimes has no server. In this circumstance he obviously has to go to the credence table himself to get the gifts. After pouring the water and wine into … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can the new Lectionary be used with the Extraordinary Form?
From a seminarian (edited): Fr. Z, thanks for all you do. [My pleasure.] I have learned much from reading your blog over the last few years, and I continue to come here as a seminarian for trusted commentary on different issues. I … Read More
REVEREND FATHERS! Epiphany is coming: We have special blessings we can use!
Remember that you can bless Epiphany Water, and chalk, and gold, frankincense and myrrh, and houses…. Lot’s of cool Catholic stuff can be done on Epiphany!
QUAERITUR: Is Epiphany 2012 a Holy Day of Obligation for those who attend the Extraordinary Form?
Questions have come to my inbox about Epiphany as a Holy Day of Obligation this year. Apparently, some zealous participants of TLMs are saying that Epiphany is a holy day of obligation and therefore the faithful are bound under pain … Read More
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
mburduck on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “Good Lord forgive us and bless us..I don’t know what else to say.”
