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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
WDTPRS: 11th Ordinary Sunday – ‘firmness’ and ‘infirmity, ‘intention’ and ‘action’
This week’s Collect is pretty much the same as one in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and the prayer in the 1962 Missale Romanum used during the week after Trinity Sunday. Deus, in te sperantium fortitudo, invocantibus nostris adesto propitius, et, … Read More
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QUIZ: What is this thing? – SOLVED!
UPDATE: 16 June Solution posted, below. Originally posted 15 June: ___ Here is quiz. Does anyone know what this liturgical object is? UPDATE: Some really interesting guesses are coming in! I’ll wait to post quite a few at once. UPDATE: … Read More
GREEN! Photos of green vestments for Solemn Mass in production, and a pitch
UPDATE: Thanks to those who have sent donations through PayPal. MH, J-AF _____ As you know, I am involved with a Society for the promotion of all things liturgically traditional, the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison. This … Read More
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READER FEEDBACK to post: Why we Say The Black and Do The Red
The other day I posted an excerpt from an offering by Peter Kwasniewski at NLM, under my title: “Why we Say The Black and Do The Red“. In a nutshell, the traditional manner of proclaiming or chanting the readings during … Read More
ASK FATHER: Validity of sacraments from a schismatic priest
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My wife and I recently discovered that Fr. Paul Wickens was schismatic priest. All we ever knew about him, we learned from our family. We attend Holy Mass at the chapel he built (now run by … Read More
A great restoration @CathedralStPaul
The Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, MN, is in my estimation a candidate for “grandest cathedral in these USA”. It is also the National Shrine of St. Paul. One of the advantages of this cathedral is that is … Read More
Terrific photos of traditional rite ordination in England!
At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald there are lots of great photos of the recent priestly ordination of a young man in the FSSP at Warrington in England by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool. Really… the photos are … Read More
Why we Say The Black and Do The Red
Let us begin with an understatement. The revitalization of our Catholic identity will be an opus magnum et arduum. Most of us reading this will not see but the first fruits. We have to be smart and persistent, using all … Read More
ASK FATHER: What does the comma really say?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: When listening to a Collect (or any similar prayer) in Latin, whether OF or EF, I notice that the priest tends to “punctuate” the final phrase as such: “in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula … Read More
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