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Category Archives: Liturgy: Misc

Ratzinger, Reverence and the Epistle Babe

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

IS BENEDICT XVI launching a liturgical reform to restore tradition and reverence in Catholic worship? Having permitted the use of the ’62 Missal as the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite,” is he now trying to make New Mass itself “more traditional”?
Conservative bloggers who devote themselves following liturgical matters in the post-Vatican II Church would [...]

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The St. Michael Prayer: A “Falsified” Text?

Monday, November 12, 2007

ONE STORY that periodically resurfaces in traditionalist circles alleges that the St. Michael Prayer, recited after the traditional Mass in many places as a part of the Leonine Prayers, is a “falsified” version of a longer prayer written by Leo XIII. The longer prayer, the story goes, warned that Judaeo-Masonic infiltrators would achieve their long-time [...]

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The Traditional Mass: How We “Participate”

Friday, November 9, 2007

QUESTION: Friends who are regulars at the Novus Ordo say that they like all the participation at the service, and that they don’t like the traditional Latin Mass because it doesn’t really have much.
I tell them that there’s nothing wrong with not participating, and that it makes for more reverence. Do you have any thoughts [...]

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