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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)
Total Voters: 26,606
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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)
Total Voters: 19,255
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“Whoah! Slow down; one motu at a time!”
Hold on now ladies, this is not the prayer of ordination for you
Hold on now ladies, this is not the prayer of ordination for you!
Up, up, and away!
“Whoa! Back, back, you liberals! I’m not signing any more Motu Proprio’s!”
“Some French bishops came and begged me not to release it, so I said, ‘Talk to the hands!'”
There will be NO MORE litrugical dancing at Mass! That means YOU Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony.
“Volare… o… o…”
“Wait’ll you hear this one. A priest and a rabbi walk into a bar and…”
Now this side of the audience hall, “Row, row, row your boat…”
(in Italian) – “Nel Vangelo di oggi c’è scritto che la porta è stretta, capito? Non agitatevi lì giù……Mettetevi in fila con calma, e aspettate ciascuno il vostro turno, quando vi verrà chiesto l’Ausweis celeste…”
Krister,
Brilliant!
“Please hold your applause. This is the extraordinary form of the Roman rite!”
Gentlemen, start your engines and may the fastest Popemobile win.
Simmer! Simmer down now…I didn’t say that all of you are trying to get in through the wide door, just most of you. Ve have vays to help you get in the narrower door. So simmer, I said!
WAIT! WAIT!!! I said I DON’T inhale the incense!
“I really enjoyed that mime preaching the homily, so now I’ll do one of my own… ‘Help! I’m trapped in a glass box!'”
“Calm down, everyone! I can’t replace ALL the recalcitrant bishops at once, so each one should wait his turn.”
Show this caption in the year 2017 AD:
” . . .and for those of you who are still attached to the Novus Ordo, it will be allowed on Sundays at 1:30 PM once a month in a select place in the diocese. If there are problems. contact the Ecclesia Loonia Commission . . .”
… and this year’s academy award in the “best caption” category goes to …
“A sedevacantist, a womanpriest, and a bishop in Communion with Rome walk into a bar, but the bishop ducked… I got a million of ’em, folks!”
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“I am happy to announce that I will offer a Solemn Pontifical High Mass in the usus antiquior every Sunday for the rest of my Pontificate!”
Oooooooooooo, the Motu’s out it’s time to chant
Doo daa, Doo daa
Watch the liberals freak and rant
Oooooo the doo daa daaaayyy…….
Whaddya mean NO? This IS my best Fr Z. impersonation!
Check his photo!
Look Ma, No Hands!
(It looks like he is riding a motorcycle)
“Now Bishops, what I have written, I have written. So, GET OVER IT and GET BUSY!”
“Do or do not; there is no try”
(Am I aging myself, here?)
No. Really, it was this big. But, you should have seen the 1 that got away. Would someone wearing the “Shoes of the Fisherman” exagerate something like this?
I am a seminarian at the North American College and we were right up front and to the side at the audience. He greeted us after the Angelus and prayed that we grow in, “… wisdom and pastoral charity.” during our time of formation. This was right when he came out and when he looked and saw that we were there, a good number of us in cassocks, he got a great big smile with this surprised look. It was a wonderful experience.
“Where is thumpkin, where is thumpkin , here I am , here I am”
“Quiet! There is a diocese in Antarctica waiting for each and every one of you”
Farvegnugen!
Recte “Fahrvergnugnen” (and I think there’s an umlaut over the “u.”)
I don’t remember much of my high school German, but I remember that much anyway.
“…happy birthday, dear Georg…”
A la tuhuelpa legria macarena
Que tuhuelce paralla legria cosabuena
A la tuhuelpa legria macarena Eeeh, macarena
A-Hai!
“No…wait, wait…so then…get this…Mahony says to Trautman…”
-J.
all togesser, now: ooooooooooooo clemens; oooooooooooooooooo pia; oooooooooooooooooooo dulcis Virgo Maria!
Woah-ho-ho! Hang on a sec! You were actually thinking that I am a traditionalist!?!?!?! Get real! *chuckles*
NAC Seminarian,
Your rector was a classmate of mine at the Angelicum.
Caption: Italian food is delicious. But Ooooooooooooh, that German bier!
Alright everyone, all together now –
“Michael row the boat ashore, halleluuuuuuuuuujah…”
What? You want an encore?
Stop! I said NO PERMISSION IS REQUIRED!
Well now! How did you know I was going to name Fr. Zuhlsdorf as my desired successor?
“For those of you leaving the Church with Marty Haugen…try not to bang your guitars on the way out…and you ARE on the way out.”