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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
NYC 7 December: 1st Friday @ Holy Innocents – all night vigil with Masses and devotions
Anyone in the New York City area should want to know that at the Church of the Holy Innocents an all night vigil is held on 1st Fridays. Holy Innocents is 128 West 37th Street (between Broadway and 7th). It … Read More
QUAERITUR: Priest at Mass as mere “presider”?
From a reader: I have attended a spiritual recollection of cathechesis assistants of ___. The augustinian frater who led the sessions concentrated on the Vatican II, said in his presentation about the SC constitution: “We all celebrate the Mass, the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Do I fulfill my 8 December Holy Day Mass obligation on Saturday and my Sunday obligation by going to Mass on Saturday evening?
Go HERE for an important follow-up post. I am getting a lot of questions about fulfilling the Mass obligation on the upcoming Saturday afternoon, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. For example, Would it fulfill my obligation for the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Are we now in the end times?
From a reader: Are we now in the end times? Yes, we are. We have been in the end times ever since Our Lord ascended to the right hand of the Father. Because of Our Lord’s promises to return even … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Four Last Things, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged End Times, eschatology, Four Last Things, judgement
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44 Comments
It’s Winter Festival time!
I was walking by a building in Manhattan last night and saw in their lobby a Christmas tree, a menorah, and an Islamic crescent moon. “Where’s the parity in that?”, quoth I.
Are Christ’s mission and Holy Church well-served by “me-tooism”?
My friend Fr. Tim Finigan, His Hermeueticalness, has written with a touch of irony about the recent launch of the Holy Father’s Twitter account, @pontifex. Among Father’s observations is an amusing bit about how the Holy See’s explanatory announcement of this Twitter … Read More
Guest Post: First TLM report
This came by email: I’m a college student in Dubuque, Iowa (Loras College if you’ve heard of it) and after growing up on the Novus Ordo I thought it would be interesting to go to a Latin Mass. I found … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged TLM
34 Comments
34 Comments
CDF Prefect Archbp. Müller: “the hermeneutic of reform” is “only possible interpretation”
My old pastor, the late Msgr. Schuler used to say that “You can go into the ditch on either side of the road, left or right. Either way, you are still in a ditch.” This has been my concern about … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Year of Faith
Tagged aggiornamento, Archbp. Müller, Benedict XVI, December 2005, discontinuity, heresy, hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture, hermeneutic of reform, SSPX, traditionalists
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39 Comments
Joe in Canada on WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): snatched up into invisible love: “A priest saying the NO Mass could choose to sing it, even in Latin. But a priest offering a low…”
