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- EAW on ROME 25/4– Day 11: Holy Saturday: “How about both? The boots for being out and about and the buckled shoes for liturgical celebrations. I’m happy and…”
- on “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”: “From the Byzantine Holy Saturday Liturgy: Today, Hades groans and cries out, “It would have been better for me if…”
- on Holy Thursday Plenary Indulgence: “A new translation of the ritual book for services like Benediction and Communion outside of Mass was just put into…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 11: Holy Saturday: “dollars to donuts the tactical boot belongs to our gracious host Fr. Z.”
- on “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”: “i very much look forward – should i live so long – to seeing how Mel Gibson addresses this in…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 9-10: Holy Thursday – Good Friday: “This magnificent photo of the Altar of Repose was one of 7 featured in the NCR showing 7 sites visited…”
- on “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”: “Did you ever read the poem “Limbo” by the now deceased Sr. Mary Ada? The ancient greyness shifted Suddenly and…”
- on Good Friday FASTING and ABSTINENCE explained, links to recipes, notes about what breaks the fast, what doesn’t: “I’m 78, so I’m exempt from the fast. However, being in pretty good health, I try to observe it. Breakfast:…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “cathgrl: This almost reads like… It does, doesn’t it? First, he himself wrote that it was “a very brief reference…”
- on UPDATED – IMPORTANT: Archd. Detroit: New Archbp crushes the people who frequent the TLM within one month.: “This almost reads like the new archbishop wasn’t planning on having TLM in regional locations until the social media firestorm.”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 9-10: Holy Thursday – Good Friday: “Yesterday afternoon we attended the Good Friday liturgy which was done according to pre 1955 as was our entire Holy…”
- on YOUR Holy Thursday SERMON NOTES and a POLL about Holy Thursday Washing of Feet: “I noted our traditional leaning pastor delegated that part of the Mass to the priest who was concelebrating.”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 9-10: Holy Thursday – Good Friday: “a lack of parking, snow, and a biting wind discouraged me from attending the Cathedral. i went with plan b…”
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Category Archives: Traditionis custodes
“Pro aris et focis” – Food for thought
Not being a fan of The Pillar for various reasons, I wouldn’t ordinarily point out one of their posts. However, this one is by Luke Coppen, my former editor at The Catholic Herald when I wrote for them in happier times. I … Read More
Another Traditional Latin Mass cancelled! Happy New Year! – UPDATED… sad
Happy New Year! ? Another Latin Mass CANCELLED. Two minutes before Mass yesterday, St Stanislaus in New Haven, CT, was informed by @ArchbishopBlair that their Latin Mass will no longer exist as of January 14th. Who’s next? https://t.co/REWZQtLYNa pic.twitter.com/jWSeytWLsq — … Read More
Raymond Arroyo video interviews with Ed Pentin, Damian Thompson, Archbp. Gänswein
Raymond Arroyo interviewed Archbp. Georg Gänswein on his recent show. (BTW… that ä means his name is pronounced like “gens-vine” not “gans-wine”). Please. At a certain point, Raymond asked Gänswein about what Benedict XVI thought about his own motu proprio Summorum … Read More
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More tears shed in St. Louis.
From The Federalist: St. Louis Archdiocese Closes Thriving Traditional Latin Mass Parish […] As a result of all those meetings and focus groups, St. Barnabas, a growing Traditional Latin Mass parish with children consisting of 35 percent of the congregation, … Read More
Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s and the Season of Creation
My heart goes out to people who are constrained either to attend Sunday Masses at parishes where weird stuff goes on or have to drive great distances. My heart is broken for people whose shepherds deny them their Christian dignity by … Read More
Diocese of Orange: TLM cancelled
Remember, that the attacks on the Traditional Latin Mass are really attacks on the PEOPLE who desire it. I received this from a reader… How might one respond to this letter? How about something like this. Dear Father Quang, Thank … Read More
The persecution of traditional Catholic faithful continues: TLM forbidden at St. John Vianney’s shrine in France
Remember: It’s not just the rites that they fear, because they make them uncomfortable, it’s the people who desire those rites whom they really distain. It’s the people. The TLM is effectively banned at the Shrine of Ars. How is … Read More
BELATED ANNIVERSARY! 2nd year of “Traditionis custodes”.
It occurs to me that we missed celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the stupidly unnecessary, falsely grounded and wickedly cruel attack on the people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass via the document Taurina cacata… er… um… Traditionis custodes. In … Read More
16th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end and a fitting song.
Sincerely, I think all this madness will pass one way or another. Today is the anniversary of the release of Summorum Pontificum, the saintly Pope Benedict XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for those who desired what they ought to have had all along: freedom … Read More
20 Feb 2023 Rescript ex audientia – The Dictastery for Worship tattled and got some tape and glue to patch up their paddle
And people ask me why I post a lot about chess these days. The Congregation Dicastery for Worship has become a parody of itself. So much for the ‘Social Justice’ Principle of Subsidiarity! Translated: The Holy Father, in the Audience … Read More
There’s a bad moon on the rise
There’s this. More from the reign of terror…. GRAVE NEWS Peter Kwasniewski has posted the following letter from a bishop to a TLM priest explaining the new restrictions from Roche (1 of 2) pic.twitter.com/9DuEWEXlFk — Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) February 6, … Read More
Crisis: Will today’s shepherds provoke a schism as they have in the past?
I am from the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, where, back in the day, the “consecrated blizzard of the North”, Archbp. John Ireland (nomen omen) drove thousands of Ruthenian Catholics into schism by his narrow prejudices and tyrannical attitude. … Read More
The Federalist’s reaction to the “Hell’s Bible” hit piece against TLM-going Catholics
A couple weeks back Hell’s Bible (aka NYT) published an airy yet vicious attack piece about Catholics who attended the Traditional Latin Mass. Apparently, if you go to the Vetus Ordo, you might be a white right-wing extremist of some … Read More
Chicago: Cathedral Rosary Rally for the restoration of the TLM interrupted by an assault
This deserves wider attention. It underscores the attitude of cruelty unleashed in the tragically ill-conceived, ineptly named Traditionis custodes. In that unfortunate Archdiocese of Chicago, this … at the cathedral. From 1 Peter 5: Chicago Rosary Rally Assaulted Since February … Read More
In honor of Traditionis custodes… not. “Lord, we ask on this dark day – Make this nuisance go away. Amen.”
And there’s this… ACTION ITEM! Be a “Custos Traditionis”! Join an association of prayer for the reversal of “Traditionis custodes”. HERE
Persecution by Rome of the Bp. of Fréjus-Toulon – UPDATED
I firmly believe that their overreach will overtake them. Hitherto, Bp. Rey of Fréjus-Toulon in France has been open to accepting traditionally-minded seminarians and religious. Vocations in that diocese were up, unlike the rest of France. Hence, Rome is now … Read More
♬ “Let Church Bulletins Keep Silence” ♬
As you may remember “Rome”, in their micromangerial zeal for the faithful being mauled by their pastoral care, forbade that Mass times for TLMs be put in parish bulletins. Some priests started calling their TLM the “Youth Mass”, for obvious … Read More
17 Sept 2022 – Washington DC – Pilgrimage for the Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass for all Catholics
In Washington DC, on Saturday, 17 September 2022, the faithful will mark the 15th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, the motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI, which went into effect on 14 September 2007, liberating the Traditional Latin Mass for all … Read More
“The liturgical reform was ‘sold,’ so to speak, on a mighty promise of the countless wonderful blessings it could not fail to bring to the Church.”
I read a story at CNA about a diocese in the Netherlands where the wonderous springtime of Vatican II has revolutionized all of Catholic life. So successful has the Vatican II reform been, that the Diocese of Roermond has said … Read More
EAW on ROME 25/4– Day 11: Holy Saturday: “How about both? The boots for being out and about and the buckled shoes for liturgical celebrations. I’m happy and…”
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