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- jdt2 on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “How many others will need to jump through such hoops? Will anyone who has read (laughably in over his head)…”
- on SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops: “Weather: Rain is typically understood as “divine blessing”, a lightning strike independent of rain, not so much. Doves getting nailed…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “Father, I have a Quaeritur about one aspect of this that’s been on my mind for some time. What is…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@ Ceile De I will take a shot at answering your 3 questions 1 Laity attending for liturgical or spiritual…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Does this document really have the legal effect it purports to have?”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: ““Obedience is the only virtue which plants all the other virtues in the mind, and preserves them once they are…”
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- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “Thank you for all this detail! Curious to think that the FSSPX clergy and all “imputable” laity have been transmewed…”
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Tag Archives: Ash Wednesday
A Fr. Z “fervorino” for Ash Wednesday – “Sursum corda!”
From the 1st Reading for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo…. Return to Me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God. – Joel 2 … Read More
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18 February 2025 – Ash Wednesday – Fasting, Abstinence, and You (with remarks on coffee and the brushing of teeth)
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Read More
POLL: Your Ash Wednesday 2025 Sermon notes and ASHES – Did you get your #ASHTAG?
Ash Wednesday is NOT a holy day of obligation. That said, many people try to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday. Many, however, cannot. Therefore, let us know about your good experiences of Holy Mass and the good points in the sermon, if there … Read More
“Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot
Back in 2013, with a remnant of a cold, I read T. S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday. It’s interesting to go back to that post and see the comments. For example, Supertradmum is no longer with us. Say a prayer for the repose … Read More
Ash Wednesday – Fasting, Abstinence, and You (with notes on alligator, endothermic moonfish, &, of course, muskrat)
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Read More
Ash Wednesday by Eliot
Back in 2013, with a remnant of a cold, I read T. S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday. It’s interesting to go back to that post and see the comments. For example, Supertradmum is no longer with us. Say a prayer for the repose … Read More
POLL: Distribution of ashes and the form used – #AshWednesday #Lent 2021
This year we may have differing practices for the distribution of ashes today, Ash Wednesday. Let’s have a poll to find out what you readers experienced. Choose your best answer. Anyone can participate. To post a comment you have to … Read More
Ash Wednesday – Fasting, Abstinence, and You (with notes on alligator, endothermic moonfish, &, of course, muskrat
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Read More
ASK FATHER: Blessing ashes at home
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Peace and good times, Father Z. [Right now, I’d settle for okay times.] May the blessing and distribution of ashes be done at home in this time of pandemic? Our Archdiocese (in the Philippines) and the … Read More
ASK FATHER: COVID-1984 and Ash Wednesday 2021: sprinkling ashes instead of tracing a cross
From a reader… actually, more than one… QUAERITUR: Question on Ash Wednesday TLM ‘62 Missal; would the Priest be distributing ashes by sprinkling over head or would TLM be exempt and have ashes distributed as in previous years ( Communion … Read More
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jdt2 on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “How many others will need to jump through such hoops? Will anyone who has read (laughably in over his head)…”
