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Tag Archives: TLM
Houston: Extraordinary Form PARISH to be established by Card. DiNardo
Speaking of Houston, I just noticed that our friends at Rorate posted this. For your Brick by Brick file. Wonderful news for the faithful of the largest city in the great state: a full Parish, exclusively dedicated to the Traditional … Read More
Brick By Brick in Michigan
From a reader comes this for your Brick By Brick file. I have some news for your brick by brick file. I am happy to report that this morning, August 9th, Fr. Tom Wasilewski, Diocese of Lansing Ordinand, 2010, celebrated … Read More
QUAERITUR: Degrees of dialogue during the Extraordinary Form – WDTPRS POLL
I do confess that it is sometimes disconcerting while saying Mass in the Extraordinary Form, to turn around, say “Dominus vobiscum” and not even hear crickets in return and barely a chirp from the server(s). I have gotten used to … Read More
PRAYERCAzT/PODCAzT: Pentecost – the whole nine yards – WDTPRS POLL
I inflict my singing on you for most of this project. There is also a POLL. This is also PODCAzT 120. Quite a while back I started a PRAYERCAzT series, wherein I read and/or sang the prayers and readings for … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Canticum Clericorum Romanum, Epistle tone, Extraordinary Form, Gospel tone, liber usualis, Missa Cantata, podcast, preface, Solemn Mass, St. John Cantius, TLM, tonus ferialis, tonus festivus, tonus solemnior, tonus solemnis
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ENGLAND: TLM training for priests and servers concluded, new session announced for August
From the Latin Mass Society in England with a few edits: THE LMS’s Seventh Training Conference for Priests and Servers Successfully Concluded Over thirty clerics and laymen attended the Latin Mass Society’s seventh residential training conference for the training of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Brick by Brick, England, LMS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, TLM
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TLM with female servers… not just a theory? FACT.
A while ago Cardinal Burke, not a slouch when it comes to the Church’s law, made a statement about head coverings for women in church for Mass. In a nutshell, he said that, while the present Code of Canon Law, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged altar girls, Cambridge, Fisher House, TLM
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92 Comments
James MacMillan: TLM not the “usual trendy rubbish” (Fr. Z rants)
The fine composer James MacMillan (who wrote music for the Papal Visit to the UK and who also has a superb Seven Last Words) has comments about his participation at a TLM in Amsterdam. My emphases and comments. April 6th, … Read More
Posted in SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged FSSP, James MacMillan, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, TLM
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29 Comments
The numbers game: attendance at TLMs
A friend of mine has made an argument that if the numbers of TLMs and people attending them may not be growing quickly, it is nonetheless growing. At the same the number of people going to the Ordinary Form, and … Read More
A priest writes about his love of the Novus Ordo
Here is a counterpoint to the position many of the readers will have. You should also check out his blog. You will find that he is a fellow traveler. This fellow is no liberal. The Happy Priest: Why I Love … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill
Tagged Novus Ordo, Sacrosanctum Concilium, TLM
55 Comments
55 Comments
WDTPRS POLL: girls serving at Traditional Latin Masses
Under another entry there is a discussion about the possibility or the propriety of girls serving Holy Mass in the older, traditional Roman Rite, the Extraordinary Form, hereafter TLM (Traditional Latin Mass). I mused that I thought most traditionalists would … Read More
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