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Tag Archives: Fr. John Hunwicke
PODCAzT 142: It’s Nazi Germany, it’s 1937, you are Catholic, and you are afraid. Mit brennender Sorge!
Fr. John Hunwicke, at his fine blog Mutual Enrichment, reminds us all that on this liturgical day, Monday of Holy Week, in 1937… … the Gestapo raided diocesan offices and presbyteries all over Germany. The previous day, Palm Sunday, when the churches … Read More
“What a bore clergy find the ‘Hymn to Love’ in I Corinthians 13…”
From Fr. Hunwicke of Mutual Enrichment comes this brilliantly blistering entry. I am glad he’s on our side. And I am especially glad to have another defender of the pre-Lent Sundays. They were 86’d in the time of Paul VI. … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged 1 Cor 13, Fr. John Hunwicke, pre-lent, Quinquagesima
3 Comments
3 Comments
Some profess respect for separated heretical brethren, but hate unseparated traditional brethren
Fr. John Hunwicke has an interesting comment about the FSSP over at his excellency blog Mutual Enrichment. This is the second of a short series. He has a penchant for chain-posts, it seems. You can find the rest over there. Meanwhile, … Read More
Concerning concelebration
At his excellent blog, Mutual Enrichment, Fr. Hunwicke has a few posts about concelebration. Samples… Pope Innocent III on Concelebration: Innocent III takes it for granted that “from time to time many priests concelebrate” and adds “the Cardinal Presbyters of Rome … Read More
What ‘Quo primum’ says and what it doesn’t say
At his engaging blog Mutual Enrichment, Fr John Hunwicke has a good note about Pius V and Quo primum. He points out a common error or two about that famous Apostolic Constitution. Quo primum was the instrument of promulgation of the first “Tridentine” … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged Fr. John Hunwicke, Quo primum
20 Comments
20 Comments
Notes on Eucharistic Prayer II
Every once in the while, when I was saying the Novus Ordo far more often than I do today (last Sunday was the first in several months, after the EF and before an EF baptism), why I used the Roman … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, POLLS
Tagged 2nd Eucharistic Prayer, Fr. John Hunwicke, Louis Bouyer
57 Comments
57 Comments
“among so many adversities”
Fr. John Hunwicke has a superb post over at his place. He looks at today’s Collect in the Extraordinary Form. My emphases and comments. in tot adversis Da quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui in tot adversis ex nostra infirmitate deficimus; … Read More
“Do not exaggerate, overestimate, what a Pope can do….”
The inimitable Fr. Hunwicke has a good reminder at his fine blog HERE about papal authority (my emphases): Two points. Despite the anxieties entertained by the Intellectuals on both sides of this question … the Traditionalists and the Tablettentendenz … … Read More
Where Fr. Hunwicke explains “Festum Ovorum”
The intimitable Fr Hunwicke at his place has a brilliant post which I’ll reproduce here with the urgent admonition that you visit his place, over THERE: FESTUM OVORUM Well, that’s how they describe the Saturday before Quinquagesima year by year … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Lighter fare
Tagged Egge Satterday, Falstaff, Festum Ovorum, Fr. John Hunwicke, muscadines, Oxford University
15 Comments
15 Comments
“lingua latina bene calleant”
Many are the times that I have lamented the nearly complete disobedience to the Code of Canon Law and the expressed will of modern Roman Pontiffs about the Latin language. For example, the 1983 Code of Canon Law, can. 249, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Cri de Coeur, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Vatican II
Tagged can. 249, Fr. John Hunwicke, John XXIII, Latin, OT 13, SC 36
34 Comments
34 Comments
B on Remember… the TLM has to be suppressed because… you know… reasons.: “They no longer believe in Christ and so they fill that vacuum.”
