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Category Archives: Mail from priests
He’s back! Fr. Byers returns from silence
It is good to see that – after a hiatus – Fr. George David Byers is back and up and running on these interwebs. His new blog is Arise! Let us be going! To set the mood, at this time … Read More
Posted in Mail from priests, SESSIUNCULA, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Fr. George Byers
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Down with pews! Away with them!
I have a recurring dream about having to build a church. It’s Romanesque and open, uncluttered, especially by pews. My friend Fr. George Rutler is in Crisis. He is talking about pews. He has a few digressions – he … Read More
ASK FATHER: Priests who do not believe in the Real Presence
From a reader… It is my understanding that the priest’s intention to consecrate is necessary for transubstantiation to take place. I know that there are Catholic priests out there that do not believe in the Real Presence. If the celebrating priest does not … Read More
ASK FATHER: Novus Ordo formula for Communion during TLM?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I was told by a reverent, well-formed priest who celebrates the old Mass well and often that the formula for distribution for communion is not specified in the missal. [Ooops!] He showed me that in the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged Communion, Corpus Christi, distribution of Communion, Extraordinary Form, formula of distribution, Ritus servandus in celebratione Missae
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Blessings for important things and things for everyday use
The traditional Roman Ritual has wonderful blessings for all sorts of things we use in our daily life, things and places not designated specifically for sacred purposes. For example, you can get your grapes blessed, along with your airplanes, mountain climbing … Read More
ASK FATHER: Priest’s cassocks with shoulder capes
From a reader… I was wondering if any secular/diocesan priest is allowed to wear a black mozzetta as part of their choir dress? I have seen pictures of some priests wearing a black mozzetta such as the Canons Regular of … Read More
Fr. Terence Ryan, CSP, approves of lesbian marriages
At the blog of one Fr. Terence Ryan CSP, I saw this. Apparently Father believes that the moral doctrine of the Church reflects bigotry. Lesbian Dismissal Seems that a Catholic Academy fired a woman for being a lesbian. She was … Read More
More “tactical clerical” attire
You clerics out there might recall that I have been making, or having made, tactical clerical shirts by adapting 5.11 uniform shirts. HERE and, amusingly and most recently, HERE. Fathers, you are clerics and officers of the Church Militant. Stay … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is it wrong or illicit to go to a different diocese to be confirmed?
From a reader… Is it wrong or illicit to go to a different diocese to be confirmed? Does an Ordinary have the right to confirm his subjects? Does the Bishop of another diocese have to have permission to confirm someone … Read More
TheCavalierHatherly on ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?: “Vatican II documents, recent encyclicals, witings, papal homilies, etc, all leave me with the same feeling as when I wake…”
