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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Video of a 1st Mass in 1954
One of you kind readers sent me a link to a video of the 1st Mass on Trinity Sunday in 1954 of Fr. Gerald Coates. The video was posted by the Tower Convent School (in West Sussex, founded in 1903 by … Read More
JUST TOO COOL! “Beating of the Bounds!”
This is for your Just Too Cool file. My friend and a commentator here, Fr. Martin Fox has on his blog a post about starting the custom of the “Beating of the Bounds”. In times past, around Ascension or the Rogation … Read More
SUPER! New book with table of readings for the Novus Ordo and TLM! ACTION ITEM!
UPDATE: Originally posted 14 April. I just learned of this and I am eager to get my hands on it. It should be a helpful tool. I have often longed for an easy to use chart to line up the readings … Read More
ASK FATHER: When Holy Days of Obligation… aren’t
From a reader… QUAERITUR: When a holy day such as the Assumption or All Saints Day falls on a Saturday or Monday and we are not required to attend mass, are the usual restrictions on work also lifted? Yes. When … Read More
#ActonU 2016 Wrap-up and a Scholarship Opportunity
This year’s Acton University ended with bang. Peter Kreeft gave a talk on the last day in which he made some great comments about music, including music used in church. Dr. Kreeft, a long-time prof at Boston College, began by … Read More
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There’s “That’s wrong!” and then there’s …this…
Someone ought to have a few words with this … fellow. From a reader… I hope that this isn’t really a photo of Mass. Maybe it’s some, I dunno, bible church group doing their thing. But I fear that it … Read More
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WDTPRS – 12th Ordinary Sunday: His Name – Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
This coming Sunday’s prayers is wonderful sing! It is stark and lavish and carefully balanced and quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, also in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday after the Ascension … Read More
About Latin and how hard Mass ought to be.
At Crisis there is an entry by Anne Maloney, a Philosophy prof at – or all places – the College of St. Catherine in St Paul, Minnesota. Let’s just say that Saint Kate’s has been really weird for a really long time, … Read More
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Novus Ordo news: 22 July is now the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
The Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by the great Robert Card. Sarah, has issued a decree making – for the Novus Ordo, mind you – what was the Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene into a … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can a nun give a homily?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a serious question. Should a nun w or wo a habit (I got wo habit of course) be allowed to give a homily by the priest who just got done reading the Gospel. I was under … Read More
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