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.”
Novus Ordo Lectionary
They Did Something Bad & Inexplicable • (Documentation Included)
I beg you on my hands and knees to read verses 12-20.
Glaring Omission from Post-Vatican II Lectionary
In the 1980s, Father Valentine wrote to a Vatican Congregation in Rome about this omission. It still hasn’t been fixed.
A Literal Translation of the New Testament
David Bentley Hart’s experiment in recovering the conceptual vocabulary of a distant
Are the Readings at Mass Meant to Be Didactic or Doxological?
Reflections from the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference
All Nine Readings
Celebrating the Easter Vigil in Its Fullness
Improve Your Parish Liturgy … Instantly!
Have you noticed the change in atmosphere when people dress fancy, as opposed to tank tops with jeans?
Preparing Funeral Liturgies
Who Should Pick the Readings?
The Real Trouble With Missalettes
Did you catch that last quotation? “Unless proper readings are given.” What does that passage mean?
The “Children’s Liturgy of the Word”
Are We Past This Yet?
Problematic Sequence Translations In Our Current Lectionary
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
PDF Download: Ordo Lectionum Missae & Ordo Cantus Missae
“…otherwise the entire Mass might be placed into the vernacular; whereupon the Council fathers burst into uproarious laughter.” — Cardinal Stickler speaking of Vatican II
Who Should Proclaim the Passion?
The “Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts”
Deo Gratias
The Liturgical Model of Gratitude
Official Lenten Acclamations In Latin & English
“Acclamationes pro tempore Quadragesimae”
Does The Vatican II Lectionary Distort Scripture?
“I have noticed that when the present Lectionary occasionally proposes a ‘Shorter Form’ for one of the Gospel readings, the lines edited are something Our Lord said that comfortable people would rather He had not said.” — Fr. George W. Rutler