Category Archives: Turn Towards The Lord

30 years a priest, 60th birthday – a priest’s first real Solemn Mass! Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 24 June 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is the season of First Holy Masses.   For example, on Saturday 30 June, I will be helping as Assistant Priest with the First Mass of a newly ordained priest to be celebrated in the presence of the bishop (coram … Read More →

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Francis’ Corpus Christi Eucharistic procession. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 3 June 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is a really sad tweet about this year’s Corpus Christi procession moved from Rome to Ostia. (Not a great idea, but, hey, they didn’t ask me.) There is a link to a video of the whole thing. Click ahead … Read More →

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ASK FATHER: Can modern architecture churches have “ad orientem” worship?

Posted on 7 January 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader… Dear Father, I been trying to find and answer to a question about Ad Orientem worship facing west. Is it licit? Can churches hampered by modern architecture still worship Ad Orientem? Thanks in advance. From the earliest days, and … Read More →

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CHICAGO: 30 Dec. – Solemn Mass @ststanschurch and a word from the pastor on ‘ad orientem’ worship

Posted on 30 December 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This afternoon there is to be a Solemn Mass at the beautiful and massive St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Chicago (NB: at the time of this writing, their website comes up with music… grrrr).   They are celebrating their 150th year. They … Read More →

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ASK FATHER: Does a priest need a dispensation to say Mass “ad orientem”?

Posted on 17 December 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hello Father. I recently asked my Pastor if he would ever celebrate the Ordinary Form of the Mass ad orientem. He replied that a dispensation is required from our Bishop. I’ve never heard such a thing. Could this be … Read More →

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“Perhaps we have arrived at the End Times.”

Posted on 1 December 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, there is an interview with His Eminence, Raymond Leo Card. Burke. ‘Perhaps we have arrived at the End Times’: an interview with Cardinal Burke […] CARDINAL RAYMOND BURKE In the present … Read More →

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Another parish goes ‘ad orientem’ at Advent

Posted on 27 November 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A while back I posted about the first TLM celebrated in decades at a famous North Side Chicago Church, St. Stanislaw Kostka.  HERE Now I’ve received additional good news about that same church. They will have ad orientem worship beginning in … Read More →

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A priest takes his parish EAST. AD ORIENTEM!

Posted on 21 November 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I found a priest’s blog with a charming name: Father Talks Too Fast Back in October Fr. Joseph Faulkner preached a sermon about ad orientem worship. It’s a little weird at first, but he gets good points across.  He posted … Read More →

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Nebraska parish going “ad orientem”

Posted on 19 October 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Unless and until we get our act together regarding sacred liturgical worship, no initiative we undertake in the Church at any level will bear the fruits we hope for. We need widespread, generous use of the older, traditional form of … Read More →

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Wherein Fr. Z rants… about and to diocesan priests

Posted on 27 September 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A while back, I posted a comment on the post of a young man who had, quite properly, praised the work of those orders, fraternities and institutes set up under the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei“.  He left out diocesan priests. … Read More →

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