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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Wednesday Audience: Benedict XVI speaks of “turning toward the Lord”
UPDATED 23 Jan 07 – 22:05 GMT: In his Wednesday audience address, focused mostly on Christian unity, the Holy Father subtly reinforced what he has been doing about reorienting the focus of liturgy, both the positioning of the Crucifix in … Read More
Caption call
"Yes, for the hundreth time… they found the ring, already!
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
More about the TLM at AVe Maria University
As you know, not many Catholic universities have rushed to implement Summorum Pontificum when students make requests for the older form of Mass. However, we did hear that Ave Maria University finally made a move to see to the legitimate … Read More
25 years ago today….
This is in from VIS: CODE OF CANON LAW PROMULGATED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO VATICAN CITY, 22 JAN 2008 (VIS) – In the Holy See Press Office at midday today, a press conference was held to present a forthcoming congress on … Read More
Now THIS is what a bishop looks like!!
Remember my entry about Archbishop Prendergast in Ottawa going to celebrate the older form of Mass? Check this out! I really like the gloves with the little suns on the back. Biretta tip o{]:¬) to St. Clement’s in Ottawa.
Let me provoke you today with some Ovid
Today I step out of my patristicist shoes and take off my theologian’s cap, to become for a moment what I started out as lo those many years ago: a classicist. TV representations of ancient Rome often give you the … Read More
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT article follow-up
Some time ago, the now liberal American weekly U.S. News and World Report had a cover story about a return to traditional religion. I wrote about it here. The cover photo was of a celebration of Mass in the older … Read More
OAKLAND: Bp. Vigneron to preach at a TLM on 23 January
On 23 January, His Excellency Allen Vigneron, Bishop of Oakland, California, will preach at a Solemn High Mass in the extraordinary form at St. Margaret Mary Church, Oakland The Mas is part of a novena in preparation for the feast … Read More
A new WDTPRS “Say the Black – Do the Red” store
Well… I finally went ahead and did it. (And I updated the image.) People have been telling me to open one of these stores for coffee mugs and hats, and so forth. I think I figured out how to do … Read More
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