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It being the Feast of St.

I was in full contact Taekwondo for years, and fencing (epee).

Pope Leo went to France and said a lot of things.

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From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am wondering if there are limits to the trope-ability of the Kyrie.

September 22nd, 2026 Dear Diary, Had Mass at St.

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From a reader… QUAERITUR: I understand that before Vatican 2, only the priests distributed Holy Communion.

The Collect for Sunday Mass this week in the Extraordinary Form wound up in the Ordinary Form Missale Romanum as the Collect for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent.

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Via Rorate.

I’ve been looking for the Collect for the Mass for Bl.

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom and of Our Lady of Walsingham.

From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have taken your advice from almost a decade ago in a previous «Quæritur» to heart; I want to help the church where I live and be a diocesan priest.

The main doors of Rome’s cathedral church St.

In the September Ember Wednesday Mass as observed in the Vetus Ordo, the Usus Antiquior, Holy Church offers a promise of abundance within a call to fasting.

The hymn Iste Confessor comes up often in Roman Breviary.

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Time for a fundraiser.

Today is the Feast of St.

My Sunday Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things.

September 13th, 2026 Dear Diary, We closed St.

Is this prayer appropriate today or what?!?

For Catholics, the consequential impact of the nearly complete obliteration of the cycle of readings for Holy Mass in the Latin Church, and the imposition of an entirely novel (which the Council Fathers explicitly forbade) set of two cycles cannot … Read…

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A priest who has a site called The Roman Caller sent a short story about when married permanent deacons are at last ordained priests.

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Recently there was a nasty desecration of the Most Precious Blood at a parish I know well in my native place.

We need to Vatican II harder!

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hello Father, I was making a typo correction to this Mass when I noticed that the Introit (John 19, 25) has Salome at the foot of the Cross.

From The World’s Best Sacristan™ from the Procession for Exaltation of the Cross, with a relic of the True Cross of Our Lord.

Today, the day after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, is the Feast of Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Today’s feast commemorates the discovery in AD 325 in Jerusalem by the Emperor Constantine’s mother St Helena of the Holy Cross, as tradition has it, under sweet basil herb bushes.

In the swampy Hell Hole that was St.

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At LifeSite there is a piece about a conference on “pastoral ministry” for an particular alphabet group and some 10 Italian bishops attended.

Happy Feast of the Holy Name of Mary!

Today for my live Mass, I said: Today, on this anniversary, we offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for those who died in the attacks of 11 September 2001: those in the towers, at the Pentagon, aboard the aircraft, … Read More →

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father Z., I see you include soon-to-be Bl.

This dense Collect for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost survived the scissors and paste-pots of the Consilium during the 1960s and lived on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum as the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Rome’s Church of St.

One of Charlie Kirk’s last videos was to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary and to tell Protestants and Evangelicals to honour her more He called her the solution to ‘toxic feminism’ pic.twitter.com/gjuiHLEPiw — Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) September 10, 2…

Welcome registrant Erickhhv This year’s Summorum Pontificum Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem, will have a Pontifical Mass celebrated in the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where both St.

Sources told me that it was the Secretariat of State who announced the pilgrimage Latin Mass in the Vatican would be cancelled.

UPDATE: Thanks to DR, GP, JH NB: Scroll down for the Latin and English texts for the Blessing of Beer.

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Let’s have a look at the hymn from the Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin, Ave Maris Stella.

The Nativity of Mary, which we celebrate on 8 September is older than the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was precisely nine months ago.

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