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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
ASK FATHER: “active participation” in the Traditional Latin Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a question about “active participation”. The priest that used to service my SSPX chapel was very adamant about is using a missal to follow and pray the Mass. He added that it wouldn’t be … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 30th Ordinary Sunday: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace… In His will is our peace.”
In the Novus Ordo this Sunday it is the 30th Sunday of what an old friend of mine (rest in peace) called “Greater Meatloaf Season”. Let’s look at upcoming Sunday’s Novus Ordo Collect. This prayer has a precedent in the … Continue reading
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ASK FATHER: Bowing to the priest when he enters for Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I saw a tweet or whatever it is that they are called now starting an argument about whether or not people in the pews should bow to the priest when he enters to say the Traditional … Continue reading
Adventures in Sunday Worship: Winnie The Pooh and Sunday Mass
Remember! There’s only one expression of the Roman Rite. Right? We turn our adventurous eyes today to Zimmerman, Minnesota and Christ Our Light parish. Fr. Kevin Anderson, pastor, demonstrates how very badly things can go wrong when there is a … Continue reading
palestrina500.org – This is something!
Here is some amazing news. In Grand Rapids, MI, at the great Sacred Heart parish (wow, what a school!), there is going to be a musical series unlike anything I’ve heard of in the States or elsewhere. It is a … Continue reading
ANNUNTIO VOBIS GAUDIUM MAGNUM! We have RED VESTMENTS in Rome!
I have great news. The other day the sacristan at Santissima Trinità here in Rome and I were chatting about the RED VESTMENT PROJECT. In a nutshell, the various sets of red vestments for Mass that many priests use on … Continue reading
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September Ember Days
With the arrival of mid-September, and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14 Sept) we come around again to our Ember Days. The September Ember Days this year are today, Wednesday 20 Sept, Friday 22 and Saturday 23. … Continue reading
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Card. Sarah wrote about Joseph Ratzinger and Sacred Liturgy… has the article been “cancelled”?
The other day we read at NLM that His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah (former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments) published a piece at the journal of Communio. Communio (Ratzinger, Bouyer, de Lubac) is/was the … Continue reading
Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s and the Season of Creation
My heart goes out to people who are constrained either to attend Sunday Masses at parishes where weird stuff goes on or have to drive great distances. My heart is broken for people whose shepherds deny them their Christian dignity by … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: We need grace so as not to fail in the vocations God entrusts to us
This Sunday’s dense Collect survived the scissors and paste-pots of the Consilium during the 1960’s and lived on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum as the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This prayer, used for centuries, is in the Sacramentarium Hadrianum, … Continue reading
