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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: disposing of glass “chalices”
From a reader: I live next to a mission parish where I observed this past summer the use of glass vessels. I brought this to the attention of the pastor, a faithful, though unformed man, referencing GIRM & Sacramentum Caritatis. … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: How should seminarians make Mystic Monk Coffee?
From a seminarian: I’m a seminarian studying at a certain ____ seminary (guess). I have begun the practice of drinking Mystic Monk coffee. I’m am curious about the means by which you brew your Mystic Monk coffee. I have a … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Mail from priests
Tagged coffee
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QUAERITUR: removal of 2nd Confiteor harmful to the faithful?
From a reader: I am a lay Catholic and over the month past month I have felt truly home since going to the Mass of the Ages. Please forgive my ignorance but the missal of blessed John XXIII has omitted … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: I saw a woman walk away with Host, put It in pocket
From a reader: At my confirmation “spirit” day my parish priest asked me to altar serve. At communion one of the eucharistic ministers gave the host to a lady and I saw her walking very far with it and I … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: using old Mass rubrics in the new Mass
From a reader: Recently, our apostolate targeted priests to say the Ordinary Form properly as well, and even encourage the use of the rubrics of the Extraordinary Form, in the Novus Ordo. Nonetheless, one of our priest consultants (who is … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged mutual enrichment, rubrics
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QUAERITUR: harmonizing with the priest during the doxology
From a reader: Please don’t think I’m a heretic, but I was at one of those great circumstances where multiple celebrants sang the last part of the Eucharistic prayer (which I think is the doxology). They sang it together and … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: I heard “excommunication” in the words of absolution!
From a reader: While I am praying my Act of Contrition in the Confessional, I hear the priest praying in Latin. Sometime I hear him say the Latin word for excommunication and this always makes me afraid that he has … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: sandals
From a reader: When I was on vacation at Lookout Mountain, Georgia USA, I saw the Priest wearing SANDALS with his vestments. Yeah – that surprised me, too! Is this normal? Shoes are rather new-fangled inventions, actually. And there are … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: getting around celibacy by leaving Church and coming back
From a reader: For the sake of argument, couldn’t a married Catholic man, who wanted to become a priest, simply get around the un-married rule by seeking ordination in an Episcopalian/Anglican seminary and after ordination simply take advantage of John … Continue reading
