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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “Bruised: You might be limiting your vision of the Church, which extends beyond where you live. There are places in…”
- on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “Yay. Sounds like another way to be “nice” and “include” the priest in Confirmation. IMHO most of these situations will…”
- on ASK FATHER: Question about the impacts of Excommunication: “I’m pretty sure the state of the priest’s soul does not change the fact that the Eucharist is being conferred…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “I’ve had my fair share of some rough homilies, from some retired priest talking about his “chick magnet” from back…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “I did walk out of a daily Mass once when the priest was going on and on and on about…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “My church- and liturgy-history readings are unsystematic and the opposite of rigorous to put it mildly, but how is the…”
- on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “A wonderful and dearly departed Priest was given the faculties to Confirm when he was a Military Chaplain. Those Faculties…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “If a homily is bad or terrible (in terms of content, up to and even including outright heresy) isn’t there…”
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Tag Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Why did we need Summorum Pontificum? Reason #7467
Here is a video from gloria.tv about a Mass in Germany for Fasching (the lead up to Lent called "Carnival" – historically a time of excess in various spheres). I know that Fasching has deep cultural roots… but… in church? … Read More
Seminary TLM training? A shout to seminarians!
It has been over two years since Summorum Pontificum went into effect. That is more than enough time for seminaries to get with the program and start providing both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form. In the Brick by Brick … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices
Tagged SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
4 Comments
4 Comments
Bp. Nickless (D. Sioux City): OUTSTANDING Pastoral Letter
It is a big day for the priests and people in the Diocese of Sioux City. His Excellency Most Reverend R. Walker Nickless, Bishop of Sioux City, four years as bishop, during this year for Priests, has issued a pastoral … Read More
QUAERITUR: can all daily Masses be TLMs in a regular parish?
On ZENIT there was a question put to their resident liturgical expert, Fr. Edward McNamara, of the Legionaries of Christ. Frequency of the Extraordinary Form And More on Habit-Wearers ROME, SEPT. 29, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Answered by Legionary of Christ Father … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, TLM
6 Comments
6 Comments
Finally getting around to it: Mickens of The Bitter Pill finds a TLM
In his Letter from Rome Robert Mickens of RU-486 (aka The Bitter Pill aka The Tablet) offers these observations about the older form of Mass and Pope Benedict’s "emancipation proclamation" Summorum Pontificum. Shall we have a look in the usual … Read More
QUAERITUR: use of the traditional Rituale Romanum
From a seminarian: I’m a seminarian and have a few questions regarding blessings. A newly ordained priest, who is a friend of mine recently started using blessings from the 1964 Collectio Rituum. For example, he uses the Blessing for Water … Read More
“…even if there were not a single ‘traditionalist’…”
His Hermeneuticalness picked up something on NLM which deserves some attention. People are starting to pay attention to a preface written by His Eminence Antonio Card. Cañizares for the Spanish translation of Msgr. Nicola Bux excellent book La Riforma di … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Cardinal Cañizares, Nicola Bux, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, TLM
48 Comments
48 Comments
His Hermeneuticalness reviews a review
His Hermeneuticalness reviews a review. Let’s have a look at the great Fr. Tim Fingan’s latest interesting entry. A recent book by John Baldovin SJ, "Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics", published by the Liturgical Press of Collegeville, … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Catholic Herald, Finigan, liturgy, reform, Reid, Sacrosanctum Conciliu, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
29 Comments
29 Comments
Feast of St. Mark: procession and litany
From a reader: How many parishes observed this feast day of St. Mark with the traditional procession chanting the litany of the saints? Ours followed a sung ad orientem Novus Ordo Mass with incense and Kyrie (Gr.), Sanctus, Mysterium Fidei, … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged liber usualis, litany, procession, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
34 Comments
34 Comments
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “Bruised: You might be limiting your vision of the Church, which extends beyond where you live. There are places in…”
