Monthly Archives: December 2007

Please go check out the website of St. Aloysius Church in Sauk City, WI. The perspicacious pastor, Fr. Miguel Galvez, has posted the following item (my emphases and comments): Written by Fr. Miguel Galvez    Wednesday, 05 December 2007 Beginning … Read More →

Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, but let us continue with our march through Advent by looking at an ancient prayer from the Rotulus of Ravenna, which survived the centuries and became Saturday’s COLLECT:Deus, qui, ad liberandum humanum … Read More →

Under another entry, about St. Charles Seminary beginning to teach also the older form of Mass subsequent to Summorum Pontificum, one of the comments included this prize: I am proud to announce that Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA, run … Read More →

I received a very interesting scan (folks… if you want me to post on what you send, please send transcriptions if you send scans of documents).    I received a letter to priests by the Bishop of Cloyne in Cork, Ireland, … Read More →

Today is the feast of St. Ambrose of Milan (+4 April 397), a titanic figure of the late 4th century who changed the shape of Church and State relations for a thousand years, who brought much of the wisdom of … Read More →

Let us look today at the Collect for Friday of the 1st Week of Advent. This prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and is taken from the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary. COLLECT: Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni, ut, … Read More →

This is a wonderful item.  Check out the other photos over at The New Liturgical Movement. Bishop John Arnold of Westminster Becomes First English and Welsh Bishop to Celebrate the Traditional Rite in Westminster Cathedral Since the Liturgical Changes of … Read More →

Our friend The Roman Sacristan has sent us this!   "Smells & Bells" (to the tune of "Jingle Bells")   Processing into churchIt’s the TLM todayDoing liturgy rightChanting all the way (Glo-ri-a!)Bells at the sanctus ringRaising our spirits highOh how … Read More →

I posted entries on the travails of the University of St. Thomas where the freshmen have been assigned The Handmaid’s Tale as obligatory reading, the chapel is about to be "renovated", and the new Archbishop has been effectively kicked off … Read More →

Very recently I had an invitation to come to speak at an event in the UK during February.  I am looking around at airfares and finding some pretty good prices from the USA to the UK for most of February. … Read More →