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Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
What has Summorum Pontificum done? Damian Thompson opines.
At three years of Summorum Pontificum the big question is: has it made any difference? Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke makes some mordant comments, much to our surprise, about the third anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, together with giving some good … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Damian Thompson, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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A Hymn to the Motu Proprio
I received this from a priest reader: Hymn to the Motu Iam enim hiems transiit;imber abiit, et recessit.Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra;tempus putationis advenit:vox turturis audita est in terra nostra;ficus protulit grossos suos;vineæ florentes dederunt odorem suum. Vidi speciosam sicut columbam,ascendentem desuperrivos … Read More
Summorum Pontificum 3 years later: your reflections
Three years ago, I started chilling the Veuve Clicquot. Fitting for the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. I got up at Oh-dark-hundred to post the text of Benedict XVI’s long-expected Motu Proprio (I had an advance copy under embargo until … Read More
A priest explains: “Why the Old Form thrives in my parish”
On the site of the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly, (it has a great new look) there is an article you will want to see, with my emphases and comments. Why the Old Form thrives in my parish … Read More
“Opportune and necessary.”
I use the following good news as a stepping stone into a little rant of my own. A reader with the Latin Mass Society in the UK sent me a copy of a letter they received from the Pontifical Commission … Read More
WDTPRS POLL: girls serving at Traditional Latin Masses
Under another entry there is a discussion about the possibility or the propriety of girls serving Holy Mass in the older, traditional Roman Rite, the Extraordinary Form, hereafter TLM (Traditional Latin Mass). I mused that I thought most traditionalists would … Read More
WDTPRS POLL & QUAERITUR: Do laypeople who use the older Breviary participate in the Church’s prayer?
There is a WDTPRS POLL at the bottom of this entry! From a reader: Summorum Pontificum art. 9 sec. 3 explicitly grants ordained clerics the faculty to use the Roman Breviary in force in 1962, but makes no mention of … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, POLLS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Breviarum Romanum, breviary, divine office, Liturgia Horarum, Office
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Fr. Wissman in Bolivar, MO calls Pope Benedict, bishops, faithful, “faithless and hypocritical”, “whitewashed sepulchers”
Long-time readers of WDTPRS may remember that we have on at least two other occasions looked at the musing of Fr. Pat Wissman, pastor of St. Catherine Mission in Bolivar, MO in the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau. Fr. Wissman wrote … Read More
Bp. Moran of Aberdeen, Scotland, blocks an Extraordinary form Mass
From the blog Damian Thompson on a sad piece of news: A historic Latin Mass in the cathedral of the Orkney Isles… blocked by the Catholic bishop By Damian Thompson How sad to hear that plans to celebrate Mass in … Read More
Cincinnati: 7 May Solemn TLM for 5th anniv. of pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI
A reader alerted me to the following: Una Voce of Greater Cincinnati has arranged a Solemn Votive Mass of the Holy Ghost, in the extraordinary or more ancient use of the Roman Rite, to mark the fifth anniversary of the … Read More
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