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Category Archives: Mail from priests
QUAERITUR: making vestments
From a priest reader: I’m sure you’ve posted on this, but I cannot recall when… I’m interested in who you would suggest to make a vestment, particularly a rose one, so it’s just right. My preference would be either a … Read More
POLL: communion in the hand
Do you believe that each particle of a Host is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ Jesus, God and man? Do you receive Communion in the hand? A reader sent two photos. The first is of an unconsecrated … Read More
QUAERITUR: Biformal priests and the gravitational pull
I am guessing that this might freak out a few people, but here goes. I received this from a regular reader via e-mail. My emphases. A priest who regularly celebrates both forms of the Roman rite — and while celebrating … Read More
PODCAzT 81: Benedict XVI’s Letter on SSPX excomms; your voicemail
A fast PODCAzT this time. I am so grateful to the folks who sent the new microphone and the boom. They really help. In this session I read Pope Benedict’s Letter to Bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of … Read More
Fr. Finigan thanks his supporters in the best way
his Hermeneuticalness posted this notice: Many thanks to all of you who have sent in contributions for vestments for the Sacred Liturgy via Damian Thompson’s Holy Smoke blog, and Fr Zuhlsdorf’s "pound Fr Finigan" campaign on his blog What Does … Read More
QUAERITUR: Revive the Oath Against Modernism?
A priest reader sent the following: I know that there is much being done to work toward restoring the Sacred Liturgy in the Latin Church… Have you heard any suggestion at all that the Oath again Modernism be reinstated as … Read More
Rigging for Church
On the site Breviarium Romanum Fr. Cusick posted that Fr. Charles Johnson, Catholic chaplain aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, currently deployed, sent photos of the Ordinary Form, sung on the Second Sunday of Lent in the ship’s foc’sle. Fr. Cusick … Read More
Rose vestments for sale
I really don’t want to turn this blog into a college campus telephone pole, but this is an attempt at a good deed. A priest who is in need wrote to say that he wants to sell an "Iberian" style … Read More
QUAERITUR: a priest functioning as a deacon
From a reader: In the extraordinary form of the Latin Rite, a priest may vest and serve as a deacon at the celebration of the Mass. Is there general or particular legislation to prevent a priest from vesting and serving … Read More
QUAERITUR: ashes for infants
From a priest reader: Dear Father Z. The "mad dash" for ashes has begun here. A question I have, that you may know the answer to or at least have an opinion of, is, does it make sense to impose … Read More
ProfessorCover on REMINDER: “The Life of Little Saint Placid”: “Wow!”
