More thoughts about Communion in the hand.
“At the same time, however, this reform cannot and does not repudiate the past. It tries to guard carefully.” — Cardinal Knox, writing on behalf of Pope Paul VI in 1974
Communion in the hand?
Catholics in America are free to receive the Holy Eucharist in their hands, but the way Cardinal Bernardin forced this issue is disturbing.
1949 Mass at the ruins of the Nagasaki Cathedral
Extraordinary photographs of a 1949 Pontifical Mass for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of St. Francis Xavier in Japan.
First Look Images! • Campion Second Edition
“The scribes seldom knew Greek, so these renderings of Greek texts in Latin characters teem with mistakes of every kind.” — Dr. Peter Wagner
Medieval Latin Catholics Sometimes Sang In Greek?
“The scribes seldom knew Greek, and so these renderings of Greek texts in Latin characters teem with mistakes of every kind.” — Dr. Peter Wagner (1903)
The Little Rock Nine
How would you like to have the United States army escort you to school each day?
Pope Pius XII speaks about the Liturgy (1956)
“Where it can be done away with without too much difficulty on the part of the faithful, it should be abrogated.” — Pope Pius XI on “orchestral Masses” (private letter)
How Does One Use The Ordo Cantus Missæ?
The second half of an article about the most important book you’ve never seen.
Ordo Cantus Missae — English Translations
Who should start the “Glory to God” at Mass? Who should intone the Gloria? Ordinary Form.
Photograph of Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
Photograph of “Father Schmitt” of Boys Town taken during the 1950s.
“Missale Romanum Cum Lectionibus Ad Usum Fidelium”
Gone forever? “A portable Latin missal which contains everything said or read at Mass.”
“I Love Ewe”
“The altar versus populum is not a new idea brought in by the reforms of Paul VI. The Mass could always be celebrated with the priest facing the people, as indeed it was in Rome and in many other places for centuries. True, it was not the usual way, but it did exist.” — Monsignor Richard J. Schuler
Were You An Altar Boy In The 1960s?
Do you recall trying to memorize the “Confiteor” and the dreaded “Suscipiat” to serve at Mass?
Never Do This. Just Say “No.”
Ruth Slenczynska wasn’t right about everything … but she was right about this.
Should The Priest Face The People At Mass?
“In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pius XII regarded as ‘archeologists those who presumed to speak of the altar as a simple table.” — Newsletter of the Vatican Congregation of Divine Worship.