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Tag Archives: Extraordinary Form
What does the TLM mean to you?
From a reader: Reason #19878 for Summorum Pontificum.
ASK FATHER: Resources about Traditional Mass for newbies
From a reader… Quaeritur: Can you provide or refer me to a resource that explains the beauty of the Traditional Mass for those who have never experienced it – in a simple and easy-to-understand way? A soft-of Traditional Mass for … Read More
FOLLOW UP: Buy TLM learning materials for a “baby priest”
Do you remember that some time ago I asked you to pitch in and buy some resources for a “baby priest” who wanted to learn the Extraordinary Form? HERE You really stepped up. You put into his hands what he … Read More
“Novus Ordo Priest” learns the TLM. Holiness ensues.
I have been urging you not to let up. Liberals think they have the big mo. HA! Do not give out. Do not give up. Do not give in. Press forward. Be encouraging to your priests. Be supportive. Give and … Read More
The New Evanglization moves forward: A priest’s 1st TLM!
At the blog Voice in the Wilderness, Fr. Shawn P. Tunink describes his experience of saying Mass in the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite for the first time. Every Latin Church priest ought to be able to celebrate … Read More
Solemn Mass ’45 style!
A reader sent me a note with a link to a movie (the whole thing on YouTube) called Christmas Holiday 1944. From about minute 18 you will find a Solemn Mass. Very nice. New Evangelization! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UFSZay18go&feature=player_embedded
GUEST POST: TLM 1st experience: Extraordinary Form is easier than the Novus Ordo
From a reader: I just read the post in which you shared a reader’s observation about the pastoral nature of the TLM. I experienced something similar. I went to my first TLM on Nov. 2 for All Souls. A few … Read More
GUEST POST: 1st Traditional Latin Mass experience – “The highly pastoral nature of the Extraordinary Form.”
From a reader: Over the past 10 years have assisted at a few dozen EF masses. I usually go alone and sometimes with my very Catholic friends, but this weekend I took a group of high school students and their … Read More
GUEST POST: A 1st Traditional Latin Mass experience – at Holy Innocents in Manhattan, NYC
I received this from a reader: First of all, thank you for your blog. It has been tremendously instructive and encouraging for myself and many of my friends. I attended my first Traditional Latin Mass just over a year ago … Read More
A 1st TLM experience: “I had the sense that that Host was REALLY consecrated.”
Some will find this provocative. I find it to be true. I had to make a call to a local parish office today, and while chatting with the secretary, found out that she attended her first Extraordinary Form Mass on … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged EF, Extraordinary Form, OF, Ordinary Form, TLM
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Saint110676 on ASK FATHER: If a priest explains away a mortal sin, and the penitent believes him, is the absolution valid?: “Is confession the time to discuss the “theology of sin” or moral theology? Should we priests not simply give absolution…”
