General Instruction of the Roman Missal (PDF)
Download: “Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani”
Articles
Give us our words back! (1 of 3)
I have a hard time believing that nuns told young Catholics, “Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible!” Seriously?
Everybody hates a hypocrite! (2 of 3)
A particular Greek manuscript may or may not be more ancient than, for instance, St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate.
A Very Cool Thing! (3 of 3)
A section of the Gospel of John dating sometime around 120 A.D. (!!!)
What not to do on GitHub
Read my mistakes to save yourself the trouble.
Help! What does Fr. Deryck Hanshell mean?
USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship: “The GIRM never speaks to every possible scenario that could take place.”
Pope Pius X: The Pope Who Carried His Shoes
Named Bishop of Mantua, Sarto began in 1884 to teach dogma courses in the Seminary, giving each student a personal copy of the “Summa Theologiae.”
Musings of an Aristotelian Catholic
In the mystery of the Incarnation, God takes delight in responding to man’s sensible, bodily nature, and the resulting need for tasting and touching our God.
Bishop Christensen Attempts To Ban “Ad Orientem”
“There is nothing in the Council text about turning altars toward the people.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
First, the Priests
The importance of the priest singing the orations at Mass.
Singing Propers and Ordinary . . . at Low Mass?
“And the practice of saying a Low Mass while the choir sings bits of things is too dreadful to be described.” — Fr. Adrian Fortescue, 1912
The Gift of Music
Whose Gift Is It?
Essay on Gregorian Accompaniment
I published this article in 2007. I am reproducing it here in case anyone finds it useful.
A hymn for St Mary of the Cross
A beautiful hymn from Rev Fr Popplewell FSSP from Canberra, Australia.
Anticipation of Richard . . .
One of our contributors, Richard Clark, plans to write about the 1998 ICEL translation . . .