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Category Archives: Brick by Brick
Espresso: Italian Church imposing discipline on liturgical music [POLL ALERT]
The affliction many people experience each week in church from the music choices and choosers is not limited to the Anglophone world. You should hear the stuff they play in churches in Italy. You feel like you are drowning in … Read More
Oakland: Pontifical TLM
I picked up from NLM that His Excellency Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, Bishop of Oakland, … … [l]ast Sunday, September 20, … offered Pontifical Mass in the usus antiquior at St. Margaret Mary Church, an apostolate of the Institute of … Read More
“I cover my head when I worship.”
From KansasCity.com comes this, with my emphases and comments. Never mind the problems with terminology, dig right in and read to the end. My spirit came alive through Latin Mass I cover my head when I worship. I am not … Read More
Ad orientem… in Korea
Here is a real brick by brick story from to warm the heart all the way from Korea. This comes by by of the Totus Tuus blog with a biretta tip to The Western Confucian. Note the date. The First … Read More
Philly: building choirs for a TLM
From a reader: Beginning on October 25,2009, weekly sung Traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated at 12 noon at St. Paul Church in South Philadelphia on Christian Street between 9th and 10th Streets. St. Paul Parish is forming a mixed … Read More
John Allen on upcoming SSPX Summit
My friend John L. Allen, the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded correspondent of the ultra-lefty dissenting National Catholic Reporter is a good analyst. In his weekly Friday letter he drills into the upcoming talks that are soon to begin between the SSPX … Read More
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QUAERITUR: When can I say a Requiem TLM?
From priest reader: I just started praying the usus antiquior low mass after a year of preparation (of latin and the rubrics). Question: When may I opt to say a missae defunctorum? When may I not? In other words, may … Read More
Fitchburg, Mass., brick by brick with the TLM
A reader pointed out this article from telegram.com, of Fitchburg, Mass. Sunday, September 13, 2009 In Fitchburg, Latin Mass ‘resonates with rhythm’Fitchburg church celebrates traditional service By Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFFbkush@telegram.com FITCHBURG — The pews at … Read More
2nd Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – YOUR experiences
My experience is that when things are going poorly, lots of people write and call and complain. Feedback abounds. When things are going well you get a great deal less feedback. We are coming up on the 2nd Anniversary of … Read More
Two years later… the “gravitational pull”
From the blog Ten Reasons I find this brick by brick post – with a rather nice turn of phrase in it! Feeling gravity’s pull A friend who would know tells me that the Friday 9 AM Latin Mass in … Read More
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