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Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
American papal Nuncio score a goal on Summorum Pontificum, reform, ad orientem
I was alerted to a piece on a blog called Island Envoy, the blog of the papal nuncio to a whole bunch of places in the Carribean, the Antilles. He is Most Reverend Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, originally a priest of … Read More
Report on the TLM with Mozart’s “Sparrow Mass” in Kalamazoo
UPDATE: I added the audio of the sermon for the Mass. ____________ Our friends at St. Mary’s in Kalamazoo have sent photos and sound clips of the Mass yesterday for the Last Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR). The music was Mozart’s … Read More
REVIEW: The TLM instructional DVD by the FSSP. Stunning!
Get excited. Mr. FedEx came today to present me with a package sent by the estimable Fr. Justin Nolan, FSSP, whom I interviewed for a PODCAzT. Fr. Nolan sent me an advance copy of their long-awaited instructional DVD for priests … Read More
PCED respond: bishops can’t force changes to Roman calendar for TLM
Our friend at Holy Smoke Damian Thompson has an interesting post, written in his usual gentle and conciliartory manner o{];¬) My emphases and comments: Vatican slaps down English bishops over holy days of obligationPosted By: Damian Thompson at Nov 10, … Read More
A priest says his first TLM: “it felt like tool that just fits the hand”
Our friend Fr. Ray Blake of Saint Mary Magdalene in Brighton has an interesting post today about his experience of saying Mass with the Extraordinary Form yesterday for All Souls. The first Mass was simple just with the Ordinary (Kyrie … Read More
Bring Back Our BLACK!
Over at NLM there is a good long post about black vestments, in advance of the observance of All Souls, Sunday 2 November (Novus Ordo), Monday 3 November (1962MR). I want to ad my voice to theirs in support of … Read More
Card. Castrillon responds to some questions about Summorum Pontificum
A kind reader alerted me to a interesting set of responses from His Eminence Dario Card. Castrillon Hoyos to questions about Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum. The Q&A is, interestingly enough, posted on clerus.va, the website of the Congregation for Clergy. … Read More
New opportunity for traditional Ambrosian Rite Masses
I don’t have time to translate this. Maybe one of you will to the honors. The upshot is that there is a new opportunity for people to attend Masses in the older form of the Ambrosian Rite, one of the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Are bishops obliged to establish “personal parishes”?
From a reader: Dear Father Z: Some people in Glasgow are considering asking Archbishop Conti for a personal parish. They are going to get some names of people who want one – a petition – and present them to His … Read More
QUAERITUR: We have two TLM places – should we push for more?
From a reader: My wife and I are recent converts. Our family is increasingly drawn to the beauty and transcendence of the EF. I have approached our parochial vicar and gently inquired about the possibility of having a EF mass. … Read More
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