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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Greensboro, NC: Summorum Pontificum applied
Here is a piece from the News Record about the application of Summorum Pontificum in Greensboro, North Carolina. My emphases and comments. Latin Mass fills pewsBy Nancy McLaughlinStaff WriterMonday, Jan. 14, 2008 3:00 am GREENSBORO — The pews quickly filled … Read More
The Benedictines of Clear Creek
This is in from the Tulsa World. The great monastery of Fontgombault in France, near Tours, has a foundation in the USA. This is an article about that foundation. Tulsa World A vision appearing by: BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer … Read More
IHT on the Pope with his “back to the people”
UPDATE: At the blog Finding Pasture there is a very funny reaction to the howler in the statement in the AP article (which I treat below) about the Pope’s celebration ad orientem as being a "break with tradition" The breathless … Read More
At last
At long last we see the Holy Father celebrating Mass ad orientem versus. Here he is kissing the altar at the beginning of the Mass for the Baptism of the Lord in the Sistine Chapel.
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Benedict XVI for Baptism of the Lord: Mass ad orientem in the Sistine Chapel
Big news. Step by step we have seen the Holy Father and his new MC, Msgr. Guido Marini, reintroducing elements of a more traditional liturgical style. For the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord, 13 January, the Holy Father … Read More
Good news in WI
I picked up from Credo Catholic Journal this nice item: 12 January 2008Latin Mass to be said today in Baileys Harbor Wisconsin Those in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin will have an opportunity to attend the Traditional Latin Mass today. BAILEYS HARBOR … Read More
The Marini (I) Gambit
This is from the fine site of the New Liturgical Movement. You will recall that over 500 people in the Archdiocese of Milan signed a request for the older form of Mass. Card. Tettamanzi, who was one of the preeminent … Read More
Still in NYC
Greetings. I am still in New York City. I have put out feelers to a few people who wrote asking for a meeting, but I haven’t heard back. FWIW. I can’t repond to all the e-mails I am getting but … Read More
St. Louis: Kenrick-Glennon seminarians train for TLM… etc.
I found a rather interesting story in the St. Louis Review Online. My emphases and comments. January 11, 2008 Vocations: Kenrick-Glennon seminarians train to meet faithful’s liturgical needs by Jennifer Brinker, Review Staff Writer It’s important for the Church to … Read More
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