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Tag Archives: ad orientem
A priest takes his parish EAST. AD ORIENTEM!
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 →
Nebraska parish going “ad orientem”
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 →
UPDATED: Wherein Fishwrap accidentally promotes something good! POLL ADDED
UPDATE 20 Sept: Some of the comments have spurred me to add a POLL to the post. ___ Originally posted Sep 29, 2017 These days I have not been watching nightly news and cable commentary and I am leaps and bounds more … Read More →
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Mass “facing the people” and priest control freaks
The other day I had the privilege of meeting with a group of the Knights and Dames of the Holy Sepulcher to talk about the Novus Ordo, the TLM and so forth. In talking about celebration of Mass I brought … Read More →
Parish starts ‘ad orientem’. Parishioner whines. Pastor responds.
I had a note from a reader about a parish in the Archdiocese of Detroit which moved towards ad orientem worship last January. It seems that someone got her panties in a twist about it and wrote a nastygram email to … Read More →
ASK FATHER: Why are “ad orientem” and Communion on the tongue preferable?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am a convert to the faith 27 years ago and was just recently ordained a permanent Deacon. I am curios as to why celebrating the mass ad orientum and reception on the tongue exclusively are … Read More →
Card. Sarah’s stellar talk on urgent needs for our sacred liturgical worship
Robert Card. Sarah is quite simply terrific and profound. He opened a conference on Sacred Liturgy in Milan with clear, simple, deep, and urgent remarks about what is needed in our liturgical worship today. Read Card. Sarah’s great book The … Read More →
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A young priest recounts his experience and aspirations
For decades priests have done all sorts of goofy things to Mass and bishops did little or nothing to safeguard our sacred worship. Almost a year ago Robert Card. Sarah called for priests to celebrate Mass ad orientem more often, where possible, … Read More →
Our Lady of Fatima and worship ‘ad orientem’
For a while, in preparation for talk, I’ve been reviewing the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima. I noticed something interesting. Say that you are waiting for someone really important to arrive, perhaps someone you love. You watch in the … Read More →
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“Ad orientem” – No more excuses!
I’m having a really hard day, but this lifted my spirits. From a priest friend: That settles it. No more excuses!
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