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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
ASK FATHER: Priest received threat of violence
From a priest… QUAERITUR: Greetings! You have mentioned on your blog a few times that you sometimes receive threats. I received one today. On the advise of my lawyer I reported it to the authorities. Do you have any insight … Continue reading
BRICK BY BRICK in Montana! Priests making the TLM HAPPEN!
This is for your Brick By Brick file. Had I known about this, I might have attended! I spent a lot of time during my young summers between Billings and Greybull in N. Wyoming. From a reader… Have you heard … Continue reading
URGENT: for priests
Today at Crisis Fr. George Rutler is the purveyor of salutary advice to young priests. HERE Of particular interest to me, since I harp on the need for frequent confession: The Holy Mass is the heart of the Christian life, but to be that, … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Validity of absolution of accomplices in sexual sins
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have two questions about c. 977, which bars a priest from absolving an accomplice in sins against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue except in danger of death (on pain of excommunication, per c. 1378). … Continue reading
Wisconsin: Victory for free speech v. demonic gender ideology, homosexualist agenda
There are some good things happening in Wisconsin, not the least of which are the growing number of priests who say the Traditional Latin Mass and the places where the TLM is celebrated. For example, on Sunday, we will have … Continue reading
Challenge Coin Update
I have received several emails from priests who have upcoming Jubilees as well as from men who will soon be ordained. They, too, want to have challenge coins made as I did for my 25th. They wanted to know where/how I … Continue reading
JUST TOO COOL: Sunday – Feast of the Transfiguration – special blessing of GRAPES
Go buy some grapes and take them to the priest for the Feast of the Transfiguration (Sunday, 6 August), with a page from the Rituale Romanum (go to p. 345 – Benedictio uvarum), or cut and paste the English text … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Lay people using the Rituale Romanum to bless things
UPDATE: People don’t always read carefully before they react. Let me be clear. It is okay – it is good – for parents to bless their children by tracing the sign of the Cross on their foreheads. Stop sending me … Continue reading
Sign of Peace as ratification of what has gone before or as reconciliation before Communion?
Today my friend Fr. John Hunwicke has a stunner of a post in which he detonates and explodes the present day commonly chaotic infra dignitatem group-grope “Sign of Peace” during Holy Mass. First, he writes of period during which the Our Father … Continue reading
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Advice from a saint, praise for a priest, explanation for a practice
According to the Novus Ordo calendar, today is the Feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori. In the traditional calendar it falls tomorrow. He is a Doctor of the Church, whose writings set the Church’s approach to moral theology on a healthy … Continue reading
