Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM

The Tablet: another piece on the Motu Proprio

The English lefty tabloid The Tablet (28 July) has a somewhat more balanced piece than the usual hysteria we can expect from the ranks of their writers.  Today we read a contribution by a man who back int he day … Read More

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PODCAzT 38: Ratzinger on “active participation”; The Sabine Farm; Merry del Val’s music

https://zuhlsdorf.computer/podcazt/07_07_25.mp3 Our PODCAzT today comes after a long break.  I has some technical problems. In today’s PODCAzT I continue the project I started last time of looking at some fundamental characteristic of Holy Mass, especially in light of the older, … Read More

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PODCAzT 37: The position of the altar and the priest’s “back to the people”

Our PODCAzT today comes after a long break.  I had some technical problems. This is the first PODCAzT since Pope Benedict XVI issued the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.  On 14 September the use of the older form of Mass will … Read More

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Summorum Pontificum – TRANSLATION ISSUES

Our experience with documents in the last… well… long time, has taught us to trust what the Holy See releases, but… verify verify verify. This will obviously apply also to what the USCCB releases. The website of the Holy See, … Read More

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Summorum Pontificum P art. 6 – lectionary in the vernacular

There is debate about whether in celebrations of the older Mass the new Lectionary, that is, new readings for the Novus Ordo, could possibly be used in celebrations of the older form of Mass.   Art. 6. In Missis iuxta … Read More

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