FSSP Palm Sunday (2018) • “Pre-1955 Rubrics”
Rome gave permission this year to a few parishes to use the “Pre-1955” Holy Week.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Rome gave permission this year to a few parishes to use the “Pre-1955” Holy Week.
Remember to change any electronic bells this Friday and Saturday! Links to some good ratchet sounds included.
When I saw this page, my opinion of Fortescue went down—but then I remembered…
“…Who didst establish the salvation of mankind on the tree of the Cross; that whence death came, thence also life might arise again, and that he, who overcame by the tree, by the tree also might be overcome…” —Preface
“I don’t think I need to say why a complete Palestrina online would be a good idea.” —Gervais Frykman
“We are fully determined to restore Latin to its position of honor.” —Saint John XXIII (22 February 1962)
Good-hearted musicians amplify success musically, economically, and spiritually.
Dogmatic definitions never involve a new doctrine of faith or morals, since whatever a Pope defines must be contained in Holy Writ or in Tradition in order to be infallible.
David Bentley Hart’s experiment in recovering the conceptual vocabulary of a distant
“Grant us, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that we may treat with unfeigned veneration and ever receive with heartfelt faith Thy holy rites which we constantly celebrate…”
A very special project at the University of St Andrews: the TheoArtistry project.
Most German hymnals we’ve come across contain words only—but this one has harmonies!
Invoking Mater Ecclesiae in a new annual feast
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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