WDTPRS 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Being even more ourselves.
Ordinary Form 18th Ordinary Sunday HERE Today’s Collect is from the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors...
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WDTPRS 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “In His will is our peace.”
Let’s look at this week’s Collect, a prayer having a precedent in the 1962MR as the Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. It was also in the Veronese and Gelasian, ancient sacramentaries both....
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Pope Francis did two really cool things
First, yesterday, Pope Francis went to a parish near Ostia (Rome’s ancient port where St. Augustine’s mother, St. Monica, died – today is her feast in the traditional calendar). Before saying Mass, His...
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In the Extraordinary Form, Sunday’s Collect is from the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors and thread to...
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WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”
Today’s prayer survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary....
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WDTPRS 2nd Ordinary Sunday: the position of a beggar
In the reformed calendar, we have moved into the Time called “Ordinary”, by which we mean “ordered”, not “unexceptional”. In the traditional calendar of the Extraordinary Form, this is the “Time...
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WDTPRS 3rd Sunday after Easter (1962MR): Be distinguished by your profession...
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. This Sunday’s Collect...
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WDTPRS – 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “E ‘n la sua volontade…”
Let’s look at upcoming Sunday’s Collect, for the 30th Ordinary Sunday according to the Novus Ordo. This is a prayer having a precedent in the 1962MR as the Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost....
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Anthony Esolen under attack by his school, Domincan-run Providence College
I often direct you to the writings of Anthony Esolen, who contributes frequently to the increasingly-valuable Crisis. Esolen is a prof at Domincan-run Providence College. I saw this at Touchstone,...
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Our Rich Traditions of Ember Wednesday of Advent
Do you remember the little mnemonic poems? “Lenty, Penty, Crucy, Lucy”, or else “Fasting days and Emberings be Lent, Whitsun, Holyrood, and Lucie.” The Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after St. Lucy...
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WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary Sunday (NO) & 2nd after Epiphany (TLM): We are beggars
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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To a priest who learned the Traditional Mass and then quit because it was hard.
I have often written about how priests are never the same after having learned how to say the older, traditional form of Holy Mass in the Roman Rite. Many priests have related to me about how, once...
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“O you who come to this abode of pain…”, thoughts on ‘Amoris laetitia’
“O you who come to this abode of pain. . .beware how you come in and whom you trust. Don’t let the easy entrance fool you.” Today at The Catholic Thing Robert Royal has a short and suggestive piece...
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Anthony Esolen makes a point – with napalm
The brilliant Anthony Esolen (how I envy his prose) makes a point – with napalm – at the increasingly useful Crisis today. The post confirmed me in my desire never to be on his bad side. He begins…...
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WDTPRS – 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Pray to love what God commands
In the older, tradtional form of the Roman Rite, this Sunday, the last in October, is the Feast of Christ the King. In the Novus Ordo, however, we has the 30th Sunday of what an old friend of mine...
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A Sunday afternoon riff on salty bread and Chinese noodles
I am enjoying a break in my evening for a bit of frivolous entertainment. I was going to watch Bladerunner, but opted for something considerably lighter. However, in a moment of post-modern...
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WDTPRS 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “In His will is our peace.”
Let’s look at this week’s Collect, a prayer having a precedent in the 1962MR as the Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. It was also in the Veronese and Gelasian, ancient sacramentaries both....
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Saturday Stroll
Today I have done some reading and listened to the monks of Le Barroux sing the Tenebrae office. For lunch I found a great pastrami sandwich and went to the Park. Okay… here’s a better shot of the...
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CDF and LCWR: A “Dialogue” by Prof. Esolen. Fun and sad.
At The Catholic Thing, Anthony Esolen has a great dialogue, I use the word a little loosely, which typifies much of what the LCWR is doing in the face of the CDF’s guidance. Let’s have a look at a...
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“Not so fast!”, says the damned soul. “Amoris laetitia says,…”.
So this morning my phone goes “ding”. “What fresh hell is this!?”, quoth I, reaching. Indeed, it was “fresh hell”! At Messa in Latino a wag has posted a bit of Dantesque parody about an adulterous...
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