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- monstrance on Daily Rome Shot 1078: “I guess JV will be going into the Hall as a Tiger. Then, probably a future coaching Little League.”
- on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-09-22: “Reminds me of when we had some parish sharing initiative in the diocese of Los Angeles. You were supposed to…”
- on ASK FATHER: “Are limits to the trope-ability of the Kyrie?”: “An interesting “trope” is the song 1985 “Kyrie” by the band Mister Mister . It went to #1. Band member…”
- on ASK FATHER: “While I don’t like seeing female Eucharistic ministers, from a spiritual perspective how can it be worse than lay men?”: “I note that at St. Patrick’s here in Columbus, the tabernacle has a ‘back door’ so that priests could get…”
- on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-09-22: ““outside the diocesen synodal framework”. Hahaha. Except is probably true in many places. Poor +Atticus, he accidentally did the real…”
- on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-09-22: “She said she’s gonna say that my remarks should not be interpreted “outside the diocesen synodal framework”. Wonderful diary entry…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Iste Confessor (Common of Confessors not Bishops.)
The hymn Iste Confessor comes up often in Roman Breviary. I have been drilling into a few of the frequent hymns. After all, you can’t just keep reading them without looking for something new! There are 10th c. manuscripts with … Read More
WDTPRS – – 17th Sunday after Pentecost – Diabolical Contagion
Is this prayer appropriate today or what?!? It seems to me that we can see what we are praying against at nearly every level of the Church today. Some are witless about it, others are witting. Among the witting, some … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why is “Salome” at the foot of the Cross in the Introit for the Feast of the Sorrows of Mary?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hello Father, I was making a typo correction to this Mass when I noticed that the Introit (John 19, 25) has Salome at the foot of the Cross. Seemed unlikely to me, so I looked at … Read More
WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: Grace before us, grace behind us
This dense Collect for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost survived the scissors and paste-pots of the Consilium during the 1960s and lived on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum as the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This prayer, used for centuries, … Read More
What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Ave Maris Stella (Feasts of the B.V.M.)
Let’s have a look at the hymn from the Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin, Ave Maris Stella. This hymn has been attributed to Fortunatus and, because of his deepply Marian devotion, St. Bernard. However it is in a 9th … Read More
8 September – Feast of the Nativity of Mary and a “flash of anamnesis”
The Nativity of Mary, which we celebrate on 8 September is older than the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was precisely nine months ago. Stop for a moment. Consider what our eternal prospects were before the birth not only … Read More
WDTPRS – 15th Sunday after Pentecost: The Church is taking on water. Is she sinking?
For the last few years I’ve had a terrible inkling that the Church hit an iceberg and is taking on water faster than it can be pumped. It has ever been so, in cycles, since the Lord’s Ascension. The Church … Read More
WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): snatched up into invisible love
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, … Read More
WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo): Mercy and Justice are not opposed
The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to live in the post-Conciliar, reformed Missale Romanum! You can find it, somewhat wounded, for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form Missale … Read More
WDTPRS – 18th Ordinary (Novus Ordo) Sunday: cold reality
When the priest, alter Christus, says our prayers during Holy Mass, Christ, Head of the Body, speaks. His words have power to form us. Formed according to the mind of the Church, we Catholics then go out from Mass to … Read More
monstrance on Daily Rome Shot 1078: “I guess JV will be going into the Hall as a Tiger. Then, probably a future coaching Little League.”
