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Category Archives: Mail from priests
ALERT! Maniple follow up!
Looking for the perfect gift for that priest who is curious about Summorum Pontificum but is too timid to get off his backside and actually do something about it?Encouragement is here! I got this useful item via e-mail from Fr. … Read More
FOLLOW UP: My review of the Visitor at Mass from Angelus Press
You may have seen the review I posted of a very helpful little booklet designed precisely For the Visitor at Mass. It is on sale from the Angelus Press, publishing arm for the SSPX. The director of the Angelus Press … Read More
A KC priest on Denver’s new Auxilary: “This is huge!”
I got this note from a very fine priest I met at the Kansas City blognic: I am sure that you have heard about the new bishops named early this morning. [I sure have!] Msgr. Conley, currently of the Diocese of … Read More
Videos of the Sarum Rite
My friend Fr. Raymond Blake sent an interesting link to videos of the Sarum Rite celebrated for Candlemass posted at Valle Adurni. Check it out! Here is the first installment. This looks like Merton College chapel in Oxford. [youtube:v=h4iOqek9Y4Q] For … Read More
Help a reader with a TLM question
I got a question by e-mail from a retired priest military chaplain (edited): Can you tell me why the number of the signs of the cross over the sacred species after the consecration [in the TLM]? After all, we are … Read More
HUZZAH! A friend of mine was made bishop!
I lived with this fellow for several years in Rome! OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS VATICAN CITY, 18 JAN 2008 (VIS) – The Holy Father: – Appointed Fr. Protase Rugambwa, official of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as bishop of … Read More
Question about incensing the altar at vespers
I got a good question from a priest friend via e-mail. This could be a good point of discussion. Any word on why the Holy Father did not incense the altar personally at vespers [that is, papal vespers on 31 … Read More
Another request for help: good albs and surplices for a priest
A priest wrote to asking for a good source of good… well… here’s his mail. I am in the market for a nice alb and surplice that has plenty of manly lace (such we have seen adorning the Papal Master … Read More
Summorum Pontificum does not create an ecclesiastical Jurassic Park
Under another entry, there is some debate about the reception of Communion in the hand during Holy Mass celebrated in the extraordinary form. Some contend that Communion may not be given in the hand, because it could not be given … Read More
A priest is concerned about a “hybrid” form of Missa Cantata: questions raised.
I got this very interesting e-mail from a priest friend. Here is the priest’s concern: As far as I could tell from the picture you posted of the Mass in Vermont, the bishop was celebrating not a Solemn Mass but … Read More
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