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Category Archives: Save The Liturgy – Save The World
A message from Pope Leo to Charlotte
From Leo’s Christmas Address to the Roman Curia today. We can fall into the temptation of swinging between two opposite extremes: uniformity that fails to value differences, or the exacerbation of differences and viewpoints instead of seeking communion. Thus, in … Read More
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The Riches of Ember Wednesday of Advent – The Missa Aurea or Golden Mass
This week we observe, being after St. Lucy’s Day last 13 Dec, the Advent Ember Days. Ember Wednesday of Advent had the tradition of celebrating the Missa Aurea, or Golden Mass, so-called because in ancient illuminated missals and sacramentaries the … Read More
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Msgr. Bux’s Open Letter v. Card Cupich
Edward Pentin has – HERE – the text of an Open Letter correcting Card. Cupich who not long ago wrote a bizarre piece for Vatican News using Dilexi te as a springboard to trash the Church’s liturgy which has been … Read More
For the Bishop of Charlotte
Just a moment of your time, Your Excellency… 75% of Charlotte Seminarians Come from Parishes with Altar Rails This weekend the faithful of Charlotte have learned that as of the 1st Sunday of Advent November 30, 2025, Bishop Michael Martin … Read More
Wherein Fr. McTeigue has a good idea.
Remember the B as in B, S as in S put out about the TLM recently by the Windy Prelate? HERE
Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine on Leo XIV and what to do about people who desire traditional sacred worship (TLM)
Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine bravely comments about Leo XIV and the TLM … behind a paywall. (There are ways….) Mind you… anything or anyone jesuitical commenting on liturgy should right away be held as suspect. There are exceptions. Is this one? … Read More
Cupich on “Dilexi te” and and what it means for LITURGY!
Card. Cupich’s essay on Dilexi te! In the NEWS section of Vatican.va. Cupich’s op-ed reflection on Dilexi te offers yet another example of what happens when ideology substitutes for theology and historical revisionism obscures fidelity to the Second Vatican Council. … Read More
Diocese of Scranton: Good News – TLM community given a great new church
I received a note that a FSSP TLM personal parish in the Diocese of Scranton has been given a lovely church for their use, St. Lucy. I’ve tried to open diocesan links but, at the time of this writing none … Read More
Look at this carefully.
Look at this carefully. Preference for the Traditional Latin Mass is massively correlated with orthodoxy. This is precisely why certain people want it suppressed. They call the TLM “divisive” but the reality is that it is its opponents who want … Read More
REVIEW: Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the PRE -1955 Roman Rite – UPDATED LINK
You may recall that a little while ago I posted a video of my unboxing of a new reprint of a pre-1955 Missale Romanum, beautifully bound. There is a growing interest in the pre-1955 Roman Rite. In most places the … Read More
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