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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)
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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Desecrated church reconcilied in Missouri
There are sacred places, things and persons. Mistreatment of a sacred place, thing or person is the sin of sacrilege. By blessings and consecrations, places, things and persons are taken from the secular, temporal, profane realm and given to the … Read More
“Gather Us In” made (almost) acceptable!
When life gives you challenges like lemons, make lemonade. Right? When liturgists give you dreck like “Gather Us In”, make… toccatas. Remember: The Second Vatican Council gives pride of place to the pipe organ over all other instruments. Fr. Z … Read More
WDTPRS – 12th Sunday after Pentecost: FORWARD!
Today’s Collect survived the liturgico-surgical scalpels of the Bugniniites to live on in the Novus Ordo for the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time. The prayer is ancient, and results in the Gelasian Sacramentary as well as in the Veronese Sacramentary during … Read More
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A new priest hat to covet
I could kick myself for not getting a Spanish biretta when I was in Madrid. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. I guess I’ll have to go back. That said, I spotted a new priest hat to covet. Here is an image … Read More
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5 August: Dedication of St. Mary Major – Our Lady of the Snows
Pope Liberius (352-366) was Bishop of Rome in difficult times. In 350 Constans was assassinated and Constantius became the sole Emperor by defeating Magnentius. Some bishops in the East who opposed St. Athanasius in Egypt appealed to Liberius to get … Read More
PHOTOS: Pontifical Requiem at the Throne 1 August – Month’s Mind
Last night the Extraordinary Ordinary, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, sang a Pontifical Requiem at the Throne as a “Month’s Mind” for Msgr. Delbert Schmelzer, a beloved priest of the diocese. Here are some images. … Read More
A new priest opines on “Extraordinary Ministers” and people with only minor sins after several years.
From a priest, on two points: For our vigil Mass, we had our extraordinary ministers failed to show up. I also did not have a deacon. I preached about a 12 minute homily, used the Roman Canon, and distributed Holy … Read More
VIDEO: Ordinary Form Mass very much in the Roman style
I was sent a link to a video of the Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form celebrated at the Proto-Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Seattle in Vancouver, WA for their Patronal Feast of St. James the Greater. At this parish … Read More
1 August – Madison, WI – Pontifical Requiem at the Throne, “Month’s Mind”
His Excellency Most Reverent Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, the Extraordinary Ordinary, regularly celebrates Holy Mass also in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The next Solemn Pontifical Mass – a Requiem – will be offered by Bishop Morlino … Read More
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