Category Archives: Mail from priests

QUAERITUR: Biformal priests and the gravitational pull

Posted on 15 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am guessing that this might freak out a few people, but here goes. I received this from a regular reader via e-mail. My emphases. A priest who regularly celebrates both forms of the Roman rite — and while celebrating … Continue reading →

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PODCAzT 81: Benedict XVI’s Letter on SSPX excomms; your voicemail

Posted on 13 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A fast PODCAzT this time. I am so grateful to the folks who sent the new microphone and the boom. They really help. In this session I read Pope Benedict’s Letter to Bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of … Continue reading →

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Fr. Finigan thanks his supporters in the best way

Posted on 13 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

his Hermeneuticalness posted this notice: Many thanks to all of you who have sent in contributions for vestments for the Sacred Liturgy via Damian Thompson’s Holy Smoke blog, and Fr Zuhlsdorf’s "pound Fr Finigan" campaign on his blog What Does … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Revive the Oath Against Modernism?

Posted on 12 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A priest reader sent the following: I know that there is much being done to work toward restoring the Sacred Liturgy in the Latin Church… Have you heard any suggestion at all that the Oath again Modernism be reinstated as … Continue reading →

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Rigging for Church

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

On the site Breviarium Romanum Fr. Cusick posted that Fr. Charles Johnson, Catholic chaplain aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, currently deployed, sent photos of the Ordinary Form, sung on the Second Sunday of Lent in the ship’s foc’sle. Fr. Cusick … Continue reading →

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Rose vestments for sale

Posted on 6 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I really don’t want to turn this blog into a college campus telephone pole, but this is an attempt at a good deed. A priest who is in need wrote to say that he wants to sell an "Iberian" style … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: a priest functioning as a deacon

Posted on 28 February 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader: In the extraordinary form of the Latin Rite, a priest may vest and serve as a deacon at the celebration of the Mass. Is there general or particular legislation to prevent a priest from vesting and serving … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: ashes for infants

Posted on 25 February 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a priest reader: Dear Father Z. The "mad dash" for ashes has begun here. A question I have, that you may know the answer to or at least have an opinion of, is, does it make sense to impose … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: incomplete vestment sets for TLM

Posted on 20 February 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a priest reader (edited): With Lent about to begin I have a question regarding Laetare Sunday and what vestments I should wear for the TLM that day. I will be celebrating a Sung Mass in the EF for Laetare … Continue reading →

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