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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
WDTPRS: 7th Sunday after Pentecost – acts of faith
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Act of Faith, dispositio, Faith, fallo, fides
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BOLIVIA: Holy Communion from paper bags at papal mega-Mass?
For the most part, in recent times I have tuned out from the papal mega-Masses. However, I saw a report that at the mega-Mass in Bolivia, Holy Communion was distributed from paper bags. I was ready to believe that, since the … Continue reading
Posted in Francis, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, You must be joking!
Tagged Bolivia, mega-Masses
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ASK FATHER: Is it wrong or illicit to go to a different diocese to be confirmed?
From a reader… Is it wrong or illicit to go to a different diocese to be confirmed? Does an Ordinary have the right to confirm his subjects? Does the Bishop of another diocese have to have permission to confirm someone … Continue reading
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point you gleaned from the sermon you heard as you fulfilled your Sunday obligation? Let us know. Meanwhile… for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost… whether there are good points in it or not… [display_podcast]
Posted in Four Last Things, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged indulgences, Poor Souls, Purgatory
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ASK FATHER: Priest who baptizes any baby brought to him
From a reader… I know of a local Ukrainian Catholic priest who baptizes any Catholic baby (whether Roman or Eastern Rite) who is brought to him by their parents (whether or not the parents knew of this priest or if … Continue reading
Minnesota: Extraordinary Form with preaching in Spanish
Brick by brick in Minnesota! From a priest in my email: This Friday, July 3, I will be offering Mass at 7pm at St. Mark’s -350 Atwood St, Shakopee -in the «Extraordinary Form» – also known as the Old Latin … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Proper location on altar for stuffed koala
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our local Extraordinary Form group was preparing for Mass and we found left on the altar a stuffed koala bear apparently from an earlier Novus Ordo Mass. One of the members wondered aloud if a stuffed … Continue reading
WDTPRS 12th Ordinary Sunday – “His hand on the wheel of our lives”
Here is a wonderful prayer to sing! It is stark and lavish and carefully balanced and quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged gubernatio, gubernator, Holy Name, Holy Name of Jesus
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WDTPRS 4th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Our great Captain
Today’s prayer is found in ancient sacramentaries, such as the Veronese and the “Hadrian” version of the Gregorian, and the so-called Gelasian. It is unchanged in the “Tridentine” form of the Missale Romanum as my trusty copy of the 1570MR … Continue reading
An idea whose time has come! Exorcism over an entire nation.
Remember when Illinois gave the F-finger to God and passed same-sex marriage? Bp. Paprocki of Springfield performed an exorcism over the state. For which he is to be applauded. Catholics – traditionally – not so much today – use exorcisms. … Continue reading
