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ASK FATHER: “If a priest blesses something without following the ritual, is it really blessed? (BAD NEWS!)
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Well, basically that: if a priest were to bless something without following the ritual, assuming he has the intention to bless it, says “I/God bless you”, it’s done in the Holy Name of the Trinity, etc: … Read More
Priest weeps at irreverence for Eucharist, tells people to receive on the tongue. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From ChurchPop comes a video and article about a priest who, clearly reacting to some act(s) of irreverence in regard to the Blessed Sacrament, had enough of the sacrilege. There is a video of him literally weeping and then explaining … Read More
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WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (TLM): our season of transforming mystery
With this 1st Sunday of Lent we are fully into our forty day season of purification and preparation. Speaking of forty, the Latin for Lent is Quadragesima, “fortieth”. St Leo the Great (d 461) used the phrase quadragesimale ieiunium, “the … Read More
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Terrific podcast at Crisis with Scott Hahn. Don’t delay.
Joyless Catholic. That’s like married bachelor. It’s an oxymoron. Thus, Scott Hahn in a new podcast. BTW… Scott is also the guy who came up with the triptych of “rad trads, mad trads and glad trads”. I know which I … Read More
WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (N.O.): our season of transforming mystery
The Roman Station for the 1st Sunday of Lent is St. John Lateran. COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR): Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur. Quadragesima is the … Read More
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You are NOT exempt from service, dear readers. None of us are. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
At Crisis today there is a good piece about “cancel culture” and the would-be despots who use it as a tool of bullying and intimidation. “Cancel culture” is within the walls, now, of the Church as well, like orcs at … Read More
ASK FATHER: Blessing ashes at home
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Peace and good times, Father Z. [Right now, I’d settle for okay times.] May the blessing and distribution of ashes be done at home in this time of pandemic? Our Archdiocese (in the Philippines) and the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why do people today freak out so much over the idea of exorcisms?
From a reader…. QUAERITUR: I saw the really good posts that Father Tim Finigan and Father John Hunwicke put on their blogs and the comments. Why, Father Z, do you think people today freak out so much over the idea … Read More
ASK FATHER: How to suggest more Latin and Gregorian Chant in a Novus Ordo Parish without being annoying?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: How do you suggest a layman approach the question of getting more Latin used in a NO mass (or even of suggesting a traditional mass) without coming off as though I am telling the priest how … Read More
ASK FATHER: A one-page info sheet to help get the TLM started in a parish. ACTION ITEM!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: We’ve communicated a few times in the past concerning efforts to get the TLM going our parish. Thanks for your advice and input along the way. We are making progress. Can you suggest a simple one-pager … Read More
Is survival mode all we have now?
No one can give what they don’t have. In fun-Latin, nemo dat quod non ‘got’. And yet the universal vocation to evangelize is predicated on what we have, what we have received. We haven’t been evangelizing well. Rather, we seems to … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Projector screens installed in church
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I was wondering if you have any ammunition one might use to argue against the installation of projector screens in a church. My son, in seminary, just learned that a fellow seminarian’s home parish has ‘voted’ … Read More
Fathers! Votive options on Tuesday and Thursday after Sexagesima: Passion of the Lord and Reparation for Insults against the Eucharist
Tuesday after Sexagesima Sunday (which, as I write is in two day), there was a tradition of saying a Votive Mass of the Passion of the Lord. There were once various Votive Masses available focusing on the arma Christi, the … Read More
Burying the “Alleluia”
There is a lovely custom attached to Septuagesima Sunday and Pre-Lent: burying the Alleluia. At Septuagesima we stop, in the traditional rites, singing an Alleluia after the Gradual and, instead, sing a Tract. The Alleluia isn’t heard in Masses of … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Communion in the hand at the Traditional Latin Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, is allowing Communion in the Hand at the TLM/EF Mass something that is at the discretion of the local ordinary? I don’t know if some of our parish’s “extra” priests are confused, but even though … Read More
ACTION ITEM: Good article at Crisis. Then Fr. Z rants.
There is a good article at Crisis today, which all of you should both send by email and print out and hand to or send by mail to both your local priests and your bishops. This is time sensitive. As … Read More
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“Here is a link to a Newsreel from 1949 that seems as if it is from another planet.”
A friend sent this, with the comment, “Here is a link to a Newsreel from 1949 that seems as if it is from another planet.” A world that’s gone? I wonder… what sort of, what magnitude of cataclysm would … Read More
ASK FATHER: Coming late to Mass and reception of Holy Communion
From a reader…. QUAERITUR: If one is late for Mass because of an unexpected occurrence (line for confession was longer than expected, traffic, etc.), is he permitted to receive Communion? Is there a point in the Mass at which a … Read More
