Pope St. Pius V’s Reform of the Missal
"Those matters which concerned the preservation of a pure liturgy."
Colligite Fragmenta: Good Shepherd Sunday, 2nd after Easter
A few minutes by foot from where I presently write in Rome is the Basilica of St. Peter on the Vatican Hill. This was the traditional Roman Station for this Sunday in ancient times. The present church replaced the original built by the Emperor Constatine in the 4th century. It soars with its vast vaults…
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi: The Rules for Worship Are the Rules for Faith
The Mass is Church teaching, theology in motion.
Colligite Fragmenta: Low Sunday – “in albis”
In the post-Conciliar calendar this is the “Second Sunday of Easter”. In the 1962 Missale Romanum and in previous editions this Sunday is labelled: Dominica in Albis in Octava Paschae… Sunday in white garments on the Octave of Easter. In traditional parlance today is called “Low Sunday” or sometimes “Thomas Sunday” because of the Gospel…
Colligite Fragmenta: Easter Sunday
Happy Easter! My hopeful prayer is that you experience, in this Easter Season, true joy in a personal encounter with the Risen Lord. The Church’s firehose of imagery and traditions and sacred liturgy has been blasting fully at our little drinking cups. Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum can overwhelm as we reach the apex…
Colligite Fragmenta: Palm Sunday
This Sunday, Christ’s final days began. This Sunday they begin again liturgically. Through our sacred liturgical worship and by our baptismal character these sacred mysteries are made present to us and we to them in their devout celebration. Now, again, our Lord comes to Jerusalem, mounted on the colt of a donkey. Context. For months…
Colligite Fragmenta: Passion Sunday – “Iesus autem abscondit se”
From the pre-Lent, “Gesima” Sundays onward, Holy Mother Church began her plunge into liturgical death. At first we lost the “Alleluia”, the Gloria, and on Sundays we dressed in penitential violet to herald the proximity of Lent. With Lent, these privations applied every day, with the exception of our great feasts. Moreover, we became stiller…
Helpful Overview on Hand Missals from CFN
As we near Holy Week, we remember the days of COVID tyranny when we were forced to celebrate Easter MMXX in Dry Mass fashion. For myself, I built an Easter fire in my backyard with my son. At that time, I was very grateful to have a Missal. But ever since I discovered the glories…
Colligite Fragmenta: “Laetare” Sunday, the 4th of Lent
I will guess that we have all heard the explanation of why this Sunday is called Laertare (“Rejoice”) and why we have rose (rosacea) vestments and that the Roman Station is at the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. St. John Henry Newman wrote of this church: “This Basilica is so called, because Saint…
The Reverent Novus Ordo Doesn’t Scale
The extreme adaptability of the reverent Novus Ordo renders it unscale-able.
Colligite Fragmenta: 3rd Sunday of Lent
Welcome to the second part of Lent. As Pius Parsch puts it in The Church’s Year of Grace, in the first two weeks we put ourselves on guard against attacks by the Prince of this world, the Devil and fallen angels, with the weapon of mortifications. On this Sunday we move from defense against the…