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| 12/31/2018
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Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 30, 7th day in the Octave...
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| 12/4/2018
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I received news of a TLM in Tampa. What caught my eye is that it will be at a Jesuit High School. “Jesuit High School, the Latin Mass Society of Tampa Bay, and Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church...
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| 11/1/2018
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QUAERITUR: I spoke with our parish priest today and he is open to attending a Latin Mass Workshop. Will you please recommend a workshop(s) for a young, U.S. diocesan priest with no EF Mass...
Our friends of the Sursum Corda Society report the following: The Latin Mass in Queens has a new home! On the Feast of Our Lady of The Holy Rosary, we celebrated our first Mass at St.
Fr. Cusick saying Mass at his home parish in Maryland. From Fr. Cusick: Priests - Deacons - Standing - Part - Training Priests and transitional deacons in good standing are invited to take part in...
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| 7/19/2018
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Yesterday I posted about a lovely video made in Italy, which clearly and in a positive light presents traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite and the priestly vocation.
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| 7/18/2018
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Pope Francis said something along the lines that certain realities can be seen only through eyes that have been cleansed by tears. At the Italian site Messa in Latino, I saw a little video,...
Solemn and lofty celebrations; intense training; beautiful, contemplative Gregorian chant, new friendships and a warm atmosphere—this is the short summary of the international liturgical workshops...
Una Voce Lafayette will be presenting a Sung Latin Mass for the Nativity of St. John the Baptist Sunday, June 24th, at 5 PM, at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Peru, Indiana. Fr.
The below message to our readers was penned by Fr. Donald Kloster of St. Mary's Church in Norwalk, Conn.: This past Corpus Christi Thursday about 300 faithful celebrated a Solemn High Mass at St.
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| 5/25/2018
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QUAERITUR: I hope you can help. How do I approach my Bishop in ___ to have us have a TLM. I run from one church to another just before Consecration. Thank you. Church - Day - People - Church -...
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| 5/21/2018
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A few bishops have blogs. A few blogs of bishops are worth looking at. Here is a blog post on a bishop’s blog which every bishop should read. Most Rev. Thomas E.
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| 5/5/2018
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QUAERITUR: I’ve not before thought about it, but does one have to have permission for one to do first communion *at all*, or simply wait until kids are seven? Everyone does the first communion prep...
Since this article appeared in The Remnant last month, a recent episode of EWTN's The World Over has beautifully confirmed all the suspicions presented in this article.
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| 4/22/2018
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In the midst of chaos, we need to bring our minds to work at hand, our work of sacred liturgy, the renewal of which is our only hope for true revitalization of the Church.
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| 4/15/2018
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This Sunday in the Novus Ordo is the 3rd Sunday OF Easter. This Sunday in the Traditional Calendar is the 2nd Sunday AFTER Easter. This probably reflects how, traditionally Romans tend to count.
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| 4/5/2018
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Do you remember that glorious, traditional Pontifical Mass that was celebrated by Bp Slattery in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC? His sermon HERE.
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| 2/28/2018
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We really hammered away! We are to celebrate Wednesday in the Second Week of Lent. The Roman Station is St. Cecilia in Trastevere. Trivia Here’s some fascinating trivia for you.
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| 2/9/2018
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QUAERITUR: Could a diocesan priest decide that he will only celebrate the TLM? Is he allowed to do so? What could a bishop do if he disagrees with the priest? Priest - TLM - Consequences - Bishop -...
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| 1/19/2015
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QUAERITUR: Lately I’ve been attending the EF mass but my only two options all week are a diocese EF mass at noon on Sunday or go to the local SSPX chapel for 8:30 am Sunday Mass.
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| 1/27/2017
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"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios" - Fr. John Hunwicke "Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric" - Anonymous Rev - John - Zuhlsdorf - Blogger - Fights "Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who...
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| 1/5/2018
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"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios" - Fr. John Hunwicke "Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric" - Anonymous Rev - John - Zuhlsdorf - Blogger - Fights "Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who...
Notre-Dame de Chretiente (NDC)—the organization responsible for what the late, great Michael Davies described as the ‘most important annual event in Christendom’—the Chartres Pilgrimage from Paris...
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| 12/15/2017
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Click daily and say this powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel in this time of chaos and spiritual warfare for the Church's integrity. "We as Catholics have not properly combated (the...
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| 12/15/2017
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An icy wind rips along a boarded-up downtown street, swirling paper wrappers into the air. A city bus roars past, trailing fumes. A man in rags begs for a handout.
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| 12/9/2017
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The talented Catholic artist Daniel Mitsui, whom I’ve often mentioned in these electronic pages, has completed a set if illuminated altar cards for use in the Traditional Latin Mass (aka Usus...
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| 12/8/2017
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Click daily and say this powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel in this time of chaos and spiritual warfare for the Church's integrity. "We as Catholics have not properly combated (the...
Join hundreds of faithful from around the country for a Pontifical High Mass offered by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on Sunday, December 10th, at the beautiful Shrine of Our Lady of...
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| 11/24/2017
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Click daily and say this powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel in this time of chaos and spiritual warfare for the Church's integrity. "We as Catholics have not properly combated (the...
Fr. Z's Blog
| 9/8/2017
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"We as Catholics have not properly combated (the culture) because we have not been taught our Catholic Faith, especially in the depth needed to address these grave evils of our time.
Fr. Z's Blog
| 8/26/2017
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QUAERITUR: I kindly ask your opinion (and perhaps advice) on the following matter of great importance to our local TLM community. Rector - Church - EF - Parish - Letter The rector of the church (who...
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| 8/21/2017
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This past weekend I attended a TLM, let’s just say in New England, where a a couple odd things occurred. 2) Mass went on as usual. As this was a Palestrina Mass, I could not hear the priest over the...
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| 8/21/2017
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QUAERITUR: (b) faces no restraints to attend either (e.g. is not burdened with long driving distances to attend one or the other, is not burdened with family politics), does said person have a moral...
This just in from the AgendaEurope website: Thanks to the initiative of a Polish MEP, former Sejm Marshal Marek Jurek, there is now a Catholic Mass in the so-called “extraordinary rite” (i.e.
Fr. Z's Blog
| 5/21/2017
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QUAERITUR: I’ve been to Solemn High Masses where a seminarian (perhaps having been instituted as an acolyte) was acting as Subdeacon (a “straw” subdeacon, I think, since he’s not ordained).
Fr. Z's Blog
| 5/20/2017
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I get quite a few books for review. I can’t handle all of them, but this one, for sure, I will recommend even before I read it… and I will read it. This is timely.
Fr. Z's Blog
| 5/16/2017
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"We as Catholics have not properly combated (the culture) because we have not been taught our Catholic Faith, especially in the depth needed to address these grave evils of our time.
Fr. Z's Blog
| 5/12/2017
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"We as Catholics have not properly combated (the culture) because we have not been taught our Catholic Faith, especially in the depth needed to address these grave evils of our time.
Fr. Z's Blog
| 5/2/2017
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At the invitation of the Holy See, Bertalan Kiss – the President of the Fœderatio Internationalis Juventutem – spent much of the first week of passiontide in Rome, as a member of a conference which...
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| 4/29/2017
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QUAERITUR: A blessed Eastertide to you. I hope you are well. Form - Upon - NO - Mass - Parish Although I’ve been offering the Extraordinary Form almost exclusively (unless I’m called upon to offer...
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| 1/14/2017
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I can’t think of a time when it was more important to beg God for mercy and aid, with bent knees, face to the ground. In the reformed calendar, we have moved into the Time called “Ordinary”, by which...
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| 12/18/2016
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We are drawing close, though because Christmas falls on Sunday we still have a week to go. COLLECT (1962MR): Excita - Quaesumus - Domine - Potentiam - Tuam Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam,...
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| 11/16/2016
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And... GO TO CONFESSION! “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain...