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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
VIDEO – Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Here is the video of the Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception which I attended last Saturday. There was a new composition for the Mass. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco was the celebrant. Check out in … Read More
Rome: Mass at St. John Lateran for Dedication – wierd
I saw some of the video of the Mass at the Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral Church, for the feast of its dedication, 9 November. Strange. Two things. Where are the altar candles? What’s with shapeless bag albs and no cinctures? There … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Should I accept an invitation to be installed as an acolyte?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: First, thanks. Your blog helped me find my way back into the Church after many years and was very formative for me. I and several other men I’m close with have been asked by our pastor … Read More
ASK FATHER: For Communion can I chose to go only to the priest and not the lay ministers?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I felt very uncomfortable when I attended a weekday Novus Ordo mass and the priest called up 3 EMs (when there was maybe 40 people) and then positioned himself on one of the sides to hand … Read More
FISHWRAP: Piteous tirade about the people who attend the Traditional Latin Mass
Happily, I had not sullied my eyes with a glimpse of the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) for some time. Then I received a message from a priest friend asking if I had seen the opinion piece there about the Traditional … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass that fulfilled your Sunday Obligation? What was it? For my part… I have some jocular introductory remarks about the TMSM and singing. I’ll start the video … Read More
New GREEN vestments from “Sacra Domus Aurea”
When you love someone, you lavish attention. You provide the best and the beautiful. In Madison that is what we are trying to do with Holy Mass. Our Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison (please donate! – 501(c)(3)) … Read More
The numbers are growing and the “gravitational pull” is getting stronger
Did you all see the article in the Washington Examiner? It tells us something that we all know. All of us, even the libs. Some day, more bishops are going to admit that this is a trend. Then we’ll see what … Read More
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Archbp. Cordileone answers some questions
Coming up in November, His Excellency Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, will celebrate a Pontifical Mass at the Throne at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Those interested can learn more about the Mass of the Americas … Read More
10 Dec now Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto (Novus Ordo) – LATIN PROBLEM ALERT
In the Bolletino yesterday, we read that Francis has made 10 December in the Novus Ordo an Optional Memorial (Memoria ad libitum) for Our Lady of Loreto. The decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship is in the above-linked Bolletino … Read More
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