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Category Archives: Save The Liturgy – Save The World
Wherein Fr. Z recommends a couple of YouTube videos
I warmly recommend a pair of videos from Catholic Unscripted. Catholic Unscripted, if you don’t know about it, is an initiative from three English Catholics, Katherine Bennett, Gavin Ashenden, and Mark Lambert. They talk about stuff in a way that … Continue reading
Oldie ASK FATHER: Blessings that are not in Latin? Wherein Fr. Z rants at length.
NOTE: Today a question arrived in my email box which cited this post. I took at look and thought that it would be good to share gain. ___ Originally Published on: Feb 2, 2022 I received a somewhat convoluted note about … Continue reading
What Does The Prayer Really Say? Mass for the Election of a Supreme Pontiff – full of emotion, laden with longing,
Spolier: The Postcommunion is fantastic. And, forgive typos. I did this fast. This morning I said Mass with the formula of the Votive Mass Pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice… for the Election of a Supreme Pontiff. VETUS ORDO… USUS ANTIQUIOR… It … Continue reading
PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 49: Easter Tuesday – Worshiping with our whole being
Roman Station: St. Paul’s outside-the-walls Scott Hahn reflects on the Heavenly liturgy as related in the Book of Revelation and how it teaches us to worship. We also hear what my home parish sounded like on Easter Sunday and why … Continue reading
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Yes… Communion rails are returning and it isn’t going to be stopped…
Today I received a text from a priest friend who sent photos of the brand new COMMUNION RAIL which they just installed in the “old church”. This one these places where they built a new church but kept the old … Continue reading
Questioning the “success” of frequent Communion
At Crisis find a piece by Michael Ortiz which delves into the long term effect in the Church of the practice of frequent Communion. He reasonably points out what the intention of Pius X was and, in good circumstances, the … Continue reading
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Lent brings an old Roman tradition for Mass: the Oratio super populum… the Prayer over the people
The Oratio super populum… the Prayer over the people at the end of Mass was reintroduced in the Latin edition of the 2002 Missale Romanum. It never left the Vetus Ordo. With the new 2011 English translation we’ve had this … Continue reading
“Remember, boy, it’s 20 minutes, amice to amice.”
At Rorate I read some Q&A with Card. Roche of the Roman Dicastery tasked with liturgical issues, including persecuted the people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. It’s not just about the form of Mass, it’s about the people… they … Continue reading
Is papal authority over liturgy absolute?
The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that … Continue reading
