Women at the altar is, in reality, a type of spiritual lesbianism and dressing women in ecclesiastical vestments is a form of spiritual transvestitism.
Category: Liturgy
13th Sunday after Pentecost: We Live in the Relief, not the Burden
For some weeks we had Pauline readings from the Letters to the Corinthians. We begin this Sunday with pericopes from the Letter to the Galatians. The Epistle reading for this 13th Sunday after Pentecost (or as our ancient Roman forebears …
Trad Godmother: Why We Fought for the Latin Mass
The young Latin Mass attendees are like that storm.
12th Sunday after Pentecost: You are Christ’s love letter
In the flow of our green Vetus Ordo Sundays, this 12th Sunday after Pentecost brings the last selection from Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians. Next week we begin with Galatians. The order of our readings is very ancient, older in …
Does Modern Man Have a Capacity for Liturgy? (1966)
The poor layman has now become the battlefield and the experimental retort which theologians use to give vent to their struggles with their own unresolved past.
11th Sunday after Pentecost: Soccer balls instead of doctrine? Not so much
We continue with this year’s focus on the Epistle, the first reading, in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. This week we hear from St. Paul in 1 Cor. 15:1-10. Context remains important. Last Sunday we observed the Feast …
Transfiguration Sunday: “We Have the Prophetic Word Made More Sure”
This Sunday we observe the Feast of the Transfiguration rather than the “green” Sunday after Pentecost, being the 10th. This Feast of the Transfiguration has a complicated history. First, in Rome there were celebrated on 6 August the feast of …
Does the Church Have a Duty to Protect Her Own Cultural Heritage?
"Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way." -Vatican II
9th Sunday after Pentecost: “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to…”.
For the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, we hear in the Vetus Ordo a reading from 1 Corinthians. Paul is correcting the behavior of the Corinthians using, in this chapter, examples from the history of Israel, moments when God sent punishments …
Anniversary of the Restoration at Solesmes
The situation in France was therefore very painful and perhaps only someone who could act from within could do something to change it.