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Category Archives: Mail from priests
QUAERITUR: sacristy sign with the name of the bishop
I had an interesting note from a priest with a question: I want to put in our sacristy a sign for visiting priests about the name of the bishop so they know what name to say during the Eucharistic Prayer. … Read More
QUAERITUR: concelebration and seeing the elements – and Fr. Z rants
From a priest reader: I’ll get right to the point: is it not required that a concelebrant be able to see the matter he is consecrating? I am certain that it is, but I am not able to defend this … Read More
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Sacerdotal kitchen solidarity
Fr. Christensen, a priest of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, of White Around the Collar, has posted something of his own kitchen endeavours. WDTPRS desires to express solidarity. Father prepares caprese and a roast.
Altar breads from Cistercian nuns, with video
From a priest reader: Thank you for all that you do to promote the religious life, especially the businesses that cloistered religious operate to support themselves. I thought you might appreciate (and plug) this video on the altar breads business … Read More
QUAERITUR: Latin forms of confirmation names, genders
A question came in from a priest friend preparing confirmands for confirmation in the older traditional, form. The question posed was about the Latin form of the name which the confirmands chooses. The confirmand is called by name in Latin, … Read More
A priest’s first public Traditional Mass: his reflections
A kind reader alerted me to an entry on the blog Specious Pedestrian by Fr. Dominic Holtz, OP, who wrote about his experience of saying Holy Mass with the Extraordinary Form publicly for the first time. Let’s have a look … Read More
Good spiritual reading in New Jesuit Review’s latest issue
In the latest issue of New Jesuit Review (issued by real Jesuits!) there is a fine article by my friend Fr. John Gavin, SJ, whom I got to know in Rome. Folks, there are good young Jesuits. Really. His article … Read More
QUAERITUR: It is hard to learn the “Tridentine Mass”?
From a priest reader: I’ve been a priest since 1984 and when I was ordained my bishop did not look favorably on the traditional Latin Mass. Therefore my seminary training at St. Meinrad did not include any mention of the … Read More
Safe in New Jersey… sort of…
I am at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ. This stay is going to be interesting! First, I am here to do some of the heavy lifting (things that involve talking) for the great Fr. Pasley. He is recovering from surgery … Read More
Biretta sighting
Thanks to my friend Fr. Robert Johansen of Thrown Back we know what clerics are up to at the Liturgical Institute near Chicago: This is what you may receive from us at the mention of liturgical dance:
Angelo Tan on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 16th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 24th Ordinary): “The sermon for the 24th Sunday was brief but impactful. The Dominican priest encapsulated the whole Gospel reading for that…”
