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ASK FATHER: Revealing tops and dresses… dress code?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Do you think there should be a dress code for attending Mass? I am talking about girls and women wearing shorts and revealing tops and dresses? It would be a bad idea to have...
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More reasons for the promotion of Summorum Pontificum
The Congregation for Divine Worship in Rome received a new Prefect last November, His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah. He should be a good, solid Prefect. At the same time, however, there was a bit of a...
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Will Pope Francis be the only able-bodied diocesan bishop NOT to celebrate...
From the marvelous Fr. Hunwicke. I had to smile. HERE Job Sharing? Why don’t people swap roles occasionally? Fr Lombardi could go riding around in airliners making remarks to journalists; then the...
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Bp. Tobin’s Tough Love: Hirsute flabmeisters… mature women with skimpy...
His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas J. Tobin, Bishop of Providence has sobering reminders for his flock. HERE No doubt His Excellency is addressing himself only to the Catholics of Providence. So, if...
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ASK FATHER: Priest’s cassocks with shoulder capes
From a reader… I was wondering if any secular/diocesan priest is allowed to wear a black mozzetta as part of their choir dress? I have seen pictures of some priests wearing a black mozzetta such as the...
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SUCCESS! ACTION ITEM! Correct a GREAT INJUSTICE! (Hint: Birettas… seminarians…)
UPDATE 13 AUG: We have hit our initial goal! I distributed a few of the birettas to the guys yesterday and they were pretty chuffed. I should have some thank you notes pretty soon. “But Father! But...
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The importance – and legitimacy – of ‘ ad orientem ‘ worship
I bring to the readership’s attention a letter that was issued by His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments. A priest friend...
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WDTPRS – 33rd Ordinary Sunday: thoughts (rant) on the “sign of peace”
This Sunday’s Collect is rich. The ancient author was skilled. The translators of the current ICEL version blew it. We will see where they went wrong and then drill into a pair of words leading us...
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Chatter v. Silence
What is it like in your parish church before and after Mass? Is it still, recollected, decorous? It is agitated, busy, undignified? Is it silent? Is it noisy? Can we separate our identity as...
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ASK FATHER: How to become a papal knight of the Supreme Order of Our Lord...
From a reader… QUAERITUR: How does one become a knight of the Papal Supreme Order of Our Lord Jesus Christ? This is the highest papal honor that can be given to a layman. There are a handful of “papal...
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WDTPRS – 33rd Ordinary Sunday: thoughts on the “sign of peace”– POLL
Since the day I was ordained, I have celebrated both forms of the Roman Rite, the Novus Ordo and the TLM. When I am called upon to say the Novus Ordo, I jump up and help out. After all, I am not...
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Make Church Great Again! “Free Our Churches From the Ugly and Stupid”
So I’m reading my email. A reader sent the text of a Wall Street Journal piece (they have an evil paywall) entitled “Free Our Churches From the Ugly and Stupid“. “This hath potential”, quoth I, and in...
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ASK FATHER: Is it OK to clap at the end of the recessional hymn at Sunday Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: At our Sunday Masses there is instantaneous applause at the end of the recessional hymn. Is this OK? I have sent many emails to the parish priest and he agreed that this is...
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ASK FATHER: The inevitable “Rite of Thanking” at the end of Mass
From a reader…. QUAERITUR: I’m curious about your reaction to a part of the Mass I’m calling the “Rite of Thanking”. While it seems that it is especially common with bishops at most liturgies they...
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On the Pope’s clothes.
I firmly believe that occasions require decorum: the effect or result that we desire conditions the choices we make in outward expression. We adapt and are “apt” for the situation. Language and...
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ASK FATHER: Masses outdoors or not in a church
Portable altars by St. Joseph’s Apprentice are wonderful. They are great gifts to priests. From a reader… QUAERITUR: According to Canon 932 s1: The eucharistic celebration is to be carried out in a...
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Who cares what libs think? Boldly recover and use great traditional items and...
At the newish blog LAJ, Shawn Tribe has a good post about boldness in regard to some traditional vesture and other items of yore. In the 60s Paul VI abolished quite a lot of good things. That was a...
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