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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Books for singing the Passion during Holy Week in the Extraordinary Form
My friend Jeffrey Tucker – who just a few says ago found me a version of the Apostle’s Creed in Latin with chant notation for a project I was working on – has posted at Chant Cafe an entry about … Read More
“And with your spirit”
From the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly, with my emphases and comments. I edit because of length. The author, Fr Milner died in December, [Stop now, dear reader, and say a prayer for the author.] a few months … Read More
Funny stuff
From the National Catholic Register with my emphases and comment: 11 Craziest Things I’ve Ever Heard in Church by Matthew Archbold 1) Whispered by a father in the pew behind me to his children who were being a little noisy: … Read More
A March for Life in London?
From His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan: The Catholic Herald is floating the idea of holding a March for Life in London. This is an excellent idea: we wouldn’t be able to match the scale of the US March but we could … Read More
QUAERITUR: Prayer for distribution of Communion at TLM and what to respond?
From a reader: Fr. Z: Our parish priest often resorts to using “Corpus Christi” from the Novus Ordo rubrics in the distribution of Holy Communion at our extraordinapeory form Traditional Mass— when the deacon is not present and presumably he … Read More
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Liverpool: reversing the order of the sacraments
The ancient Church, and in Eastern Churches today, the sacraments “of initiation” were given “continuously”, that is, all at once. Even infants were confirmed after baptism and then given the Eucharist. The separation of confirmation came about probably as a … Read More
3-6 May – England – workshop for priests to learn the TLM
From the Latin Mass Society in the UK. Latin Mass Society Announces 2011 Priests Training Conference The Latin Mass Society has announced its seventh residential conference for priests who wish to learn the Extraordinary Form of Mass. The conference will … Read More
Pope Benedict comments on “social networking”
The Holy Father issued the text of his Message for the 85th annual World Mission Sunday. It has a few interesting points for those of us who work online a great deal. My emphases and comments. Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity … Read More
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