Monthly Archives: August 2007

Here is a happy story from Burlington, VT about the celebration of the older form of Mass by His Excellency Most Reverend Salvatore Matano. There are video clips attached to news articles.  Very good!  Click here and here. Burlington, Vermont … Read More →

Last year on this day, in the Cathedral of Camden in New Jersey, I had the honor of delivering a sermon for the marvelous Solemn Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum sponsored by His Excellency the Bishop and the Mater … Read More →

NOTA BENE: At the time this was written, the text of the Motu Proprio was still a little fluid in regards to “stable group” and so forth. I just got an amazing e-mail from a priest in Scotland (today seems … Read More →

I received this note via e-mail: Just letting you know that tonight (Feast of the Assumption) the Cardinal of St Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland is presiding at the Tridentine Mass at the Church he allows the FSSP to use.  … Read More →

Back in the day, I did a patristiblogger series called The Patristic Rosary Project.  Some newcomers to the blog may not have seen it.  Here is a slightly modified review of my entry for the 4th Glorious Mystery, appropriate for … Read More →

Yesterday, which in the old calendar was the Vigil of the Assumption, was in the new calendar St. Maximillian Kolbe.   It is hard to know how those using the old calendar would celebrate the feast of St. Maximillian.  Some people, … Read More →

There was a very good audio piece on Vatican Radio concerning the older form of Mass and a conference to be held in the UK aiming to help priests to say the older form of Mass.  You might want to … Read More →

Here is a document issued by His Excellency Most Reverend Robert H. Brom, Bishop of San Diego, to the priests of that warm and sunny diocese.  It came with a very short cover letter and a summary of the Motu … Read More →

IMPORTANT UPDATE AND CLARIFICATION BELOW: I received this e-mail from a kind reader.  Slightly edited and with my emphases and comments. Dear Fr. Zuhlsdorf, Since 1989 the Archdiocese of Dublin has had Mass in the Extraordinary rite celebrated in a … Read More →