Comprehensive Conversation on Veils
An interior talk about why woman cover their heads at Mass.
Articles
“Missale Romanum Cum Lectionibus Ad Usum Fidelium”
Gone forever? “A portable Latin missal which contains everything said or read at Mass.”
Requiem pour une américaine à Paris
One of the most powerful spiritual experiences I ever had was the Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the 2012 Sacred Music Colloquium in Salt Lake City. Many of the liturgies at the Colloquia have shaken me to the core; I have been overwhelmed with an unspeakable sense of awe, mystery, and joy.
Photograph of Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
Photograph of “Father Schmitt” of Boys Town taken during the 1950s.
Silence (Part 3 of 3)
The fundamental precondition for active participation is interior silence. Praying in silence is a particularly noble form of human activity—more active than merely speaking or singing.
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke Interview
“In the reforms as they were introduced after the Council, a fundamental misunderstanding took place. Namely, this was that the reforms were undertaken with the idea there had been a rupture …” —Raymond Cardinal Leo Burke
Taste Like Salt
In which we music directors get to not act like the hypocrites.
Were You An Altar Boy In The 1960s?
Do you recall trying to memorize the “Confiteor” and the dreaded “Suscipiat” to serve at Mass?
“I Love Ewe”
“The altar versus populum is not a new idea brought in by the reforms of Paul VI. The Mass could always be celebrated with the priest facing the people, as indeed it was in Rome and in many other places for centuries. True, it was not the usual way, but it did exist.” — Monsignor Richard J. Schuler
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #26
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
A Personal Remembrance . . .
“Could I have imagined at that time that I was sitting and conversing with the future Pope? Not in a million years!” — Fr. Christopher G. Phillips
High School Students
Finding God
Here I owned Thy Presence
Owning up to the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Do hymns help?
Should The Priest Face The People At Mass?
“In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pius XII regarded as ‘archeologists those who presumed to speak of the altar as a simple table.” — Newsletter of the Vatican Congregation of Divine Worship.
Never Do This. Just Say “No.”
Ruth Slenczynska wasn’t right about everything … but she was right about this.
