Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000

Especially for discussion of liturgical abuses and wacky ideas

Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine on Leo XIV and what to do about people who desire traditional sacred worship (TLM)

Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine bravely comments about Leo XIV and the TLM … behind a paywall. (There are ways….) Mind you… anything or anyone jesuitical commenting on liturgy should right away be held as suspect.  There are exceptions.  Is this one?  … Continue reading

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Cupich on “Dilexi te” and and what it means for LITURGY!

Card. Cupich’s essay on Dilexi te!  In the NEWS section of Vatican.va. Cupich’s op-ed reflection on Dilexi te offers yet another example of what happens when ideology substitutes for theology and historical revisionism obscures fidelity to the Second Vatican Council. … Continue reading

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Diocese of Scranton: Good News – TLM community given a great new church

I received a note that a FSSP TLM personal parish in the Diocese of Scranton has been given a lovely church for their use, St. Lucy. I’ve tried to open diocesan links but, at the time of this writing none … Continue reading

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Look at this carefully.

Look at this carefully. Preference for the Traditional Latin Mass is massively correlated with orthodoxy. This is precisely why certain people want it suppressed. They call the TLM “divisive” but the reality is that it is its opponents who want … Continue reading

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9 October – Feast of St. John Henry Newman – WDTPRS: Collect for Newman and “Lead, Kindly Light”

Here is the COLLECT for the Feast of  St. John Henry Newman Memorial, anniversary of the day, 9 October 1845, when he was brought into greater light and received into Holy Catholic Church at Littlemore. Pope Leo XIV will proclaim … Continue reading

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WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: We need grace so as not to fail in the vocations God entrusts to us

See my piece on the readings for the 16th Sunday over at One Peter Five: HERE 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 … Continue reading

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23 Sept – Latin Collect for St. Pio, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

It took some time but I dug up the Latin Collect for St. Pio, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Pio of Pietrelcina 23 Sept Collecta Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui sanctum Píum, presbýterum, crucis Fílii tui singulári grátia partícipem esse donásti, et … Continue reading

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REVIEW: Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the PRE -1955 Roman Rite – UPDATED LINK

You may recall that a little while ago I posted a video of my unboxing of a new reprint of a pre-1955 Missale Romanum, beautifully bound. There is a growing interest in the pre-1955 Roman Rite. In most places the … Continue reading

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8 September – Feast of the Nativity of Mary and a “flash of anamnesis”

The Nativity of Mary, which we celebrate on 8 September – let’s get out ahead of it this time – is older than the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was precisely nine months ago. Stop for a moment.  Consider … Continue reading

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