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The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 Votes)
- I like it and am happy to do it. (11%, 2,955 Votes)
- I don't care one way or another. (6%, 1,696 Votes)
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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Summorum Pontificum: my intro comments and the text
Thanks to be to Pope Benedict, who has given back to the Church and the world a great gift. As one friend put it, the world has been made just a little bit safer to live in. This document is … Read More
Chillin’ the Veuve
On the deck, with the little steeple of the Sabine chapel in the background. One bottle of the Widow is in the seau a glace, the other sits patiently on the MP itself (which remains under embargo until noon Rome … Read More
A song honoring the Motu Proprio
Maybe you won’t be able to sing Te Deum and Non Nobis in a liturgical setting, but you can walk around yodeling this offering from our frequent contributor Tim Ferguson, Official Parody Songwriter of WDTPRS. To the tune of “La … Read More
Another parish Te Deum: Mater Ecclesiae
News of planned celebrations marking the promulgation of the Motu Proprio, a document still under embargo at this time, are starting to roll in. I received this from my good friend the excellent Fr. Robert Pasley, who with his happy … Read More
Decrees for the Causes of Saints
Some time ago it was reported that the Congregation for Causes of Saints sent to the Holy Father its decision about the heroic virtue of Servant of God Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII. When the Congregation sends up their Decretum … Read More
Intentions for Friday Mass as thanks to you
On Friday 6 July in the Vatican Basilica there is observed the Feast of all the Holy Roman Pontiffs…. Omnium Sanctorum Romanorum Pontificum. This sounds rather like… well…. In the newer calendar it will be the feast of St. Maria … Read More
A break…. whew
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT I am heading down to the Sabine chapel to say vespers and then to the Sabine gym for a work out. Included will be a long sweat on the standing bike while I will kill many evil … Read More
A pastor on Tridentine Mass “not a situation I want to repeat”
I was alerted by a thoughtful reader to an entry on the blog of the Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church, the first Anglican Use parish in the USA established on August 15, 1983. I have always been interested … Read More
Card. Zen raises the stakes in Hong Kong
The South China Morning Post has an article about the continuing controversy in Hong Kong over the delays in implementing the democratic reforms after the handover in 1997. Act on reform or stakes rise, Zen tells Tsang Ambrose Leung The … Read More
MP: three year trial period?
I am reading in ASCA today an interesting story about the MP. In this story the claim is made that His Holiness, listening to the concern of bishops, may be issuing the MP for a three year trial period. I … Read More
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