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Tag Archives: Extraordinary Form
A reader’s impression of 1st TLM (Pontifical!)
A reader sent in impression of the first Holy Mass he attended in the Extraordinary Form, and not just a Low Mass, either: I attended my first TLM this past week. It was a beautiful Solemn Pontifical Mass said by … Read More
QUAERITUR: May the pascal candle be used at EF baptisms?
NB: In a comment below, a participant posted some points about when the paschal candle may be used in the Extraordinary Form. Don’t just read my answer and then move on without also reading that comment. You will know which … Read More
QUAERITUR: I went to a TLM and felt like crawling under a pew. But as Mass began…
From a reader: Thank you kindly, Father. I’ve been to the Extraordinary form once. My sponsor was the celebrant. There is something greater there than at novus ordo. Something heavenly and otherworldly was at play. I definitely felt the fear … Read More
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Brick By Brick: Extraordinary Form training in seminaries – FOLLOW UP
From a seminarian: I responded before to your inquiry about what training was or was not being offered in seminaries in the celebration of the Extraordinary Form. At the time you inquired there was no training offered for the EF. … Read More
Reason #5 for Summorum Pontificum: vocations to the priesthood
Yet another reason to thank Pope Benedict for Summorum Pontificum: A long-time reader and participant (and donor) sent an alert about the following, with this comment: Interesting that CNS included a segment on Tradition starting at 2:15, featuring one Michael … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Bilingual TLM hand missals in Latin and Spanish
From a reader: I have a friend (she is learning to speak English) that attends our Tridentine Mass and needs a Complete Latin/Spanish Missal of the 1962 Mass. I want to buy one for her and I have been looking … Read More
Radio interview with a priest who learned the Extraordinary Form
Go HERE to hear an interview by Larry Roach on Fidelis Radio with Fr. Michael Rodriguez of the Diocese of El Paso. You have probably heard of him. Father was involved in a huge dust up in the defense of … Read More
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More on priests and formation in both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Form
This continues a couple different entries (HERE and HERE). From a priest: I am also a young priest (30), and an alumnus of your alma mater. [Neither “alma” nor “mater” in my day, I’m afraid.] Though I have received training … Read More
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FEEDBACK: If a priest cannot say Mass in the Extraordinary Form, is he properly trained?
A young priest took exception to what I wrote the other day about seminarians who are not given training by seminaries for the use of the Extraordinary Form. I am a young priest (age 30). Thank you for demeaning my … Read More
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QUAERITUR: If a priest cannot say Mass in the Extraordinary Form, is he properly trained? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader: At ordination, the rector of the seminary is asked if the candidate is fully prepared for priestly duties. If a priest cannot say Mass in the E F, should that be considered not being prepared to assume … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Elements of the Extraordinary Form in the Ordinary Form
From a reader: Can the Last Gospel and the prayers at the foot of the altar be a part of the Ordinary Form? Also, can the priest say, “May the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Celiac, Communion and the Extraordinary Form
From a reader: I have just been diagnosed with Celiac Disease-gluten/wheat intolerance. What does a person do at Holy Communion in the EF? I normally attend the reverent NO Masses in my area, but when I attend my Third Order … Read More
A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
For your Brick by Brick file. In another entry I answered a question from a lay person who desired to pray for a priest as he learns the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass at the request of his bishop. It … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Prayer for a priest as he is tasked to learn the TLM
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! From a reader: Fr. Z- During his homily this weekend, my pastor stated that our bishop asked him to learn to say the TLM so that he can say mass for a group of … Read More
Msgr. Steenson of the US Anglican Ordinariate about the Roman Rite’s Extraordinary Form
There was some controversy (HERE) about the position of the USA’s Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter for former Anglicans in communion with Rome concerning the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The head of the US Ordinariate, Msgr. Jeffrey … Read More
Signs of revival
At the site of Catholic World Report there is and interview with author Roger Kimball about his new book, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (UK link HERE). Within the interview you will find this … Read More
Anglican Ordinariates and the Extraordinary Form
At the blog The Anglo-Catholic I read: When I [that blogger] met him in Orlando some months ago, Monsignor Steenson [head of the US Ordinariate] held nothing back in the expression of his enmity towards Catholic Traditionalism and the so-called … Read More
Young lady on YouTube evangelizing like a champ, explaining the … Traditional Latin Mass!
A reader sent the link to this video. We’ve got to hand it to this young lady. She is on YouTube, explaining, even evangelizing, like a champ. [wp_youtube]ZDb8LNJ_NB4[/wp_youtube] WDTPRS kudos!
POLL: Should the “new” Prefaces be incorporated into the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite?
I urge interested readers to check out a “position paper” by the chairman of the Latin Mass Society in England, Mr. Joseph Shaw. He talks in brief here about his paper, which was posted in full by our friends over at … Read More
Sandy on Some Vatican news notes: “An interview on “60 Minutes”, what could possibly go wrong?! I am personally disgusted by this and afraid to watch.”
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