Monday, November 14, 2011

Caveat Emptor

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I resolved some months ago to buy a hand-missal, having the new translation of the Ordinary Form Mass I perforce attend, as soon as possible...
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

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The useless priest who said Mass this morning preached the most spectacularly inappropriate homily – it being the feast of All Carmelite Sai...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Hobart Missa Cantata: the Postcommunion

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To-day I’ve been down to Hobart and back, for to M.C. at our monthly Traditional Latin Mass, the one and only permitted in the Archdiocese (...
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Past, Present - and Future?

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While reading a little from Dom Edmund Martene's De antiquis Ecclesiæ ritibus (Antwerp, 1763), I came across the following rather start...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Missa Cantata in Hobart

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To-morrow I drive down to Hobart, as our monthly Missa cantata is being held on the 2nd Sunday of November this year, our priest having bee...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity

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Laudem gloriæ – that was the "new name" that Blessed Elizabeth believed the Lord to have vouchsafed her: to live unto God as ...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Bring Back the Placeat

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A gift much to be hoped for would be the extension of several rubrics in the modern Carthusian Missal of 1981 to the whole Roman Rite. To r...

Mass in Hebrew, Greek, Latin – and English

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The Roman Mass is of course always offered in the three sacred languages (cf. St John xix, 20) of Hebrew, Greek and Latin, at least in the E...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Travel Advice, Please

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Having resolved to attend next year's Paris to Chartres Pilgrimage, I am now casting about for ideas for places to visit in la belle Fra...
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First Sunday using the New Missal

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This Sunday, at my parish of St Francis, the new translation of the Mass was at last used for all parts of the liturgy, with the arrival of ...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Litany of the Three Magi

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As is my wont, I was perusing old prayer books, when came I across this delightful composition, a litany of SS Gaspar, Melchior and Balthas...
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Good St Martin de Porres

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I heard Mass of St Martin de Porres, juxta formam ordinariam , on Thursday the 3rd; I read Lauds of his feast to-day, according to the pre-C...