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Altar Server Training and Ars Celebrandi after the Pandemic

By Fr. Timothy Smith, Homiletical and Pastoral Review, March 29, 2023 Note: This article was drafted in spring 2021 and completed and submitted to Homiletic & Pastoral Review in October 2022. In the June 2022 Apostolic letter Desiderio Desideravi, Pope Francis issues the... read more

The Guitar Blessing at Mass: There Was More That You Missed

Tracing the Sign of the Cross with the acoustic instrument, the suburban Chicago pastor ended the Feb. 13 Mass, which included other irregularites. Father Terrence Keehan, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in Inverness, Illinois, uses a guitar to give the final blessing at a Mass... read more

Three Cardinal Cupich Updates That Make The Story Look Even Worse

By Jane the Actuary, Patheos, January 1, 2022 Earlier this week, Cardinal Cupich announced that henceforth the Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Chicago would be prohibited on the first Sunday of the month as well as the holiest days of the year for Catholics: Christmas, the Triduum,... read more

Archbishop Villegas says no to clapping during Mass, a memorial of the Calvary

“We are a Church called together by God, not a self-organized mutual admiration club,” writes the Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan in his letter for Lent. “The breaking of the Bread is a commemoration of the violent death that the Lord went through. Who claps while others are in pain? It is... read more

Bishop Schneider: The Rite of Holy Communion in times of a pandemic

'The ban on Communion in the mouth … constitutes an abuse of authority.' By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, LifeSite News, February 28, 2020 Editor’s note: The following article was first published at Rorate Caeli, and is reprinted with Bishop Schneider’s permission. February 28, 2020... read more

Comparison of Old and New Prayers for Blessing of Ashes

By Peter Kwasniewski, OnePeterFive, February 26, 2020 It’s on special days like [Ash Wednesday] that I notice most sharply the vast difference between the LEX ORANDI of the old and the new liturgies. I have prepared a chart comparing the blessing of ashes in the Tridentine rite with its... read more