Open Letter to Bishop Roche • “12 Considerations”
I write in response to the 6 July 2022 statement by Pope Francis: “Make your voices heard! If they do not listen to you, shout even louder.”
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I write in response to the 6 July 2022 statement by Pope Francis: “Make your voices heard! If they do not listen to you, shout even louder.”
I beg you on my hands and knees to read verses 12-20.
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In the 1980s, Father Valentine wrote to a Vatican Congregation in Rome about this omission. It still hasn’t been fixed.
David Bentley Hart’s experiment in recovering the conceptual vocabulary of a distant
Reflections from the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference
Have you noticed the change in atmosphere when people dress fancy, as opposed to tank tops with jeans?
Did you catch that last quotation? “Unless proper readings are given.” What does that passage mean?
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
“…otherwise the entire Mass might be placed into the vernacular; whereupon the Council fathers burst into uproarious laughter.” — Cardinal Stickler speaking of Vatican II
The “Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts”
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* 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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