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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
How stupid are things getting in this time of Coronavirus, you ask?
How stupid are things getting in this time of coronavirus, you ask? Here are a couple of examples. How NOT to do things. Concelebration. This is wrong is so many ways. Not that this nitwit doesn’t have a paten with … Continue reading
ACTION ITEM: A tip for receiving Communion on the tongue in time of COVID-1984: HOLD YOUR BREATH!
In this time of COVID-1984, where up is down and back is front and clocks are melting off the edges of tables, there are some in high places in the Church who are determined to ban Communion on the tongue. … Continue reading
Fearmongering @JamesMartinSJ goes to the zoo on national TV about churches reopening and about @RealDonaldTrump
Last night when I heard on Martha MacCallum’s show on FNC that Jesuit homosexualist activist Fr. James Martin was up to talk about the lockdown and reopening of churches after Pres. Trump’s comments about opening places of worship, I had … Continue reading
Posted in Blatteroons, Jesuits, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-1984, Donald Trump, Fr. James Martin SJ, POTUS
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UPDATE: BAPTISMAL FONT PROJECT – INSTALLATION! Video message to YOU READERS!
I have GREAT news! Do you remember that last October, while I was in Rome, we had a fundraiser for “new”, but antique, baptismal font for the church Santissima Trinita dei Pelegrini (my adoptive parish in Rome)? That is the … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: What is physically required for the laity to participate at Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: What is physically required for the laity to participate at Mass? If the laity cannot enter the church building, is outdoor Mass required for the laity to be able to participate? If one can follow the … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Can you fulfill your Sunday Mass obligation during “lockdown” by watching online?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: While on lockdown, can watching (within a sunday) a replayed online mass fulfill the sunday mass obligation? Or must one have to watch the online sunday mass in real time to fulfill this obligation? First of … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: “Why aren’t Masses restarted without Holy Communion?”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, thank you so much for the live streamed daily Mass. I’m ‘attend’ every day since you started and it has kept me focused on what’s important. My question: I thought that the Holy Sacrifice of … Continue reading
Prot. N. 655/09/L v. can. 223 and bishops restricting Communion on the tongue
Remember 2009? H1N1 “Swine Flu” Pandemic. Right? Here’s some food for thought for bishops out there who think that they can simply run over the law – and people – via the excuse of can. 223. Meanwhile, in a US … Continue reading
Posted in 1983 CIC can. 915, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged can. 223, CDW, coronavirus, H1N1
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ASK FATHER: You are against dropping Hosts onto hands, but you drop the Host every day during Mass!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father Z your blog is great and I’ve learn many things on it. I have to point out an inconsistency. On 5 May you yourself had a “spittle-flecked nutty” about a diocese which tells priests to … Continue reading
