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Sunday 7/20--Shiv`ah `Asar BeTammuzMORNING Kohen--Exodus 32:11-14Levi--Exodus 34:1-3Yisra'el--Exodus 34:4-10 EVENING Kohen--Exodus 32:11-14Levi--Exodus 34:1-3Yisra'el/Maftir--Exodus 34:4-10Haftarah--Isaiah 55:6-56:8 Monday and Thrsday mornings, 7/21 and 7/24Kohen--Numbers 30:2-9Levi--vs. 10-13Yisra'el--vs. 14-17 Strday 7/26--Shabbat Parashat MattotMORNING Kohen--Numbers 30:2-17Levi--31:1-12Shelishi--31:13-24Revi`i--31:25-41Chamishi--31:42-54Shishi--32:1-19Shevi`i--32:20-42Maftir--32:40-42Haftarah--Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 33:1-3Levi--vs. 4-6Yisra'el--vs. 7-10

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 7/14 and 7/17Kohen--Numbers 25:10-12Levi--25:13-15Yisra'el--25:16-26:4 Strday 7/19--Shabbat Parashat PinechasMORNING Kohen--Numbers 25:10-26:4Levi--26:5-51Shelishi--26:52-27:5Revi`i--27:6-23Chamishi--28:1-15Shishi--28:16-29:11Shevi`i--29:12-30:1Maftir--29:35-30:1Haftarah--I Kings 18:46-19:21 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 30:2-9Levi--vs. 10-13Yisra'el--vs. 14-17

Washington, Jul. 7, 2008 (CWNews.com) - The US bishops have rejected the latest proposed English translation of the liturgical prayers from the Roman Missal. In a mail-in ballot, support for the proposed translation fell well short of the two-thirds required for approval by the US bishops' conference. The mail ballot became necessary because of an inconclusive vote at a June meeting of the episcopal conference. The proposed translation was for "Proper" prayers for the Mass: the prayers for particular feasts and liturgical seasons. The US bishops have already given their consent to an English translation of the unchanging prayers of...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 7/7 and 7/10Kohen--Numbers 22:2-4Levi--vs. 5-7Yisra'el--vs. 8-12 Strday 7/12--Shabbat Parashat BalaqMORNING Kohen--Numbers 22:2-12Levi--22:13-20Shelishi--22:21-38Revi`i--22:39-23:12Chamishi--23:13-26Shishi--23:27-24:13Shevi`i--24:14-25:9Maftir--25:7-9Haftarah--Micah 5:6-6:8 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 25:10-12Levi--25:13-15Yisra'el--25:16-26:4

ROME, JULY 1, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum university. Q: Recently at our local national shrine I was visiting the Blessed Sacrament when a young priest whom I had never seen before began to set up for Mass. I sat down to wait, really happy to be there for this surprise Mass; it was 10 p.m. The priest "said" the whole Mass silently. At first I was confused. I'd never seen this before. It actually was quite beautiful nonetheless, and he did speak once, to invite us to...

Monday morning, 6/30Kohen--Numbers 19:1-6Levi--vs. 7-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-17 Thrsday 7/3--First Day Ro'sh Chodesh TammuzKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Frday 7/4--Second Day Ro'sh Chodesh TammuzKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Strday 7/5--Shabbat Parashat ChuqqatMORNING Kohen--Numbers 19:1-17Levi--19:18-20:6Shelishi--20:7-13Revi`i--20:14-21Chamishi--20:22-21:9Shishi--21:10-20Shevi`i--21:21-22:1Maftir--21:34-22:1Haftarah--Judges 11:1-33 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 22:2-4Levi--vs. 5-7Yisra'el--vs. 8-12

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling before the pope will become the norm at papal liturgies, said the Vatican's liturgist. While current norms allow the faithful to receive the Eucharist in the hand while standing, Pope Benedict XVI has indicated a preference for the more traditional practice, said Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies. Kneeling and receiving Communion on the tongue highlights "the truth of the real presence (of Christ) in the Eucharist, helps the devotion of the faithful and introduces the sense of mystery more easily," he said in a June...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 6/23 and 6/26Kohen--Numbers 16:1-3Levi--vs. 4-7Yisra'el--vs. 8-13 Strday 6/28--Shabbat Parashat QorachMORNING Kohen--Numbers 16:1-13Levi--16:14-19Shelishi--16:20-17:8Revi`i--17:9-15Chamishi--17:16-24Shishi--17:25-18:20Shevi`i--18:21-32Maftir--18:30-32Haftarah--I Samuel 11:14-12:22 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 19:1-6Levi--vs. 7-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-17

June 17th - The Eucharist chaired by the Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz Song of entrance, " People of God", procession of the cardinals

QUEBEC CITY, JUNE 16, 2008 (Zenit.org).- If Catholics really understood the meaning of Sunday Mass, they wouldn't miss it, Cardinal Josef Tomko said at the opening of the 49th International Eucharistic Congress. Cardinal Tomko, the Pope's special envoy for the event, presided Sunday at the opening mass of the weeklong congress in Quebec. He will also preside at the closing Mass on June 22, during which Benedict XVI will address the participants live via satellite. Some 11,000 pilgrims, 50 cardinals and more than 100 bishops have gathered for the inaugural Mass of the congress titled, "The Eucharist, the Gift of...

Who needs DisneyWorld when you've got a showdown on translations? By the looks of it, yesterday's Orlando debate and vote on the proposed revision of the Proper of Seasons packed even more of a punch than expected. NCR's John Allen relays: [O]nly seven bishops out of 250 Latin Rite prelates in the United States even bothered to propose amendments to the text, a clear sign that most felt the handwriting was on the wall. Like it or not, many concluded, Rome has made clear that the new translations must be closer to the Latin, both in structure and word...

Following up on the incredible news that the Traditional Latin Mass, now called the Gregorian Rite, will return to all parishes. Damian Thompson, in a comment at Fr. Z's WTDPRS sets the scene for us when he heard the words come from the mouth of Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. Not many parishes - all parishes! There were four journalists at the press conference – Anna Arco of the Herald, a Catholic guy from Reuters, Elena Curti from the Tablet and me from the Telegraph. I was skeptical that the Cardinal really envisaged the...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 6/16 and 6/19Kohen--Numbers 13:1-3Levi--vs. 4-16Yisra'el--vs. 17-20 Strday 6/21--Shabbat Parashat Shelach-LekhaMORNING Kohen--Numbers 13:1-20Levi--13:21-14:7Shelishi--14:8-25Revi`i--14:26-15:7Chamishi--15:8-16Shishi--15:17-26Shevi`i--15:27-41Maftir--15:37-41Haftarah--Joshua 2:1-24 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 16:1-3Levi--vs. 4-7Yisra'el--vs. 8-13

ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- Following a lively debate, the U.S. bishops left a 700-page translation of one section of the Roman Missal in limbo June 13 when it failed to obtain the number of votes needed to approve the text or to reject it. The translation of the proper prayers for Sundays and feast days during the liturgical year requires the approval of two-thirds of the 250 Latin-rite members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. But after more than a dozen bishops spoke against the translation, results of the voting were inconclusive. Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, USCCB...

ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- Opening their spring general meeting in Orlando, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops got an interim report on the causes and context of child sexual abuse by priests and made quick work of proposals to revisit the ethical guidelines on feeding tubes and to declare a National Catholic Charities Sunday in 2010. In the first morning session of the June 12-14 assembly at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, the bishops also took a preliminary look at two documents they will vote on later in the meeting. The first was a 700-page draft translation of...

Monday 6/9--First Day Shavu`otKohen--Exodus 19:1-6Levi--19:7-13Shelishi--19:14-19Revi`i--19:20-20:17Chamishi--20:18-26Maftir--Numbers 28:26-31Haftarah--Ezekiel 1:1-28; 3:12 Tsday 6/10--Second Day of Shavu`otMegillah--The Book of RuthKohen--Deuteronomy 15:19-23Levi--16:1-3Shelishi--16:4-8Revi`i--16:9-12Chamishi--16:13-17Maftir--Numbers 28:26-31Haftarah--Habakkuk 2:20-3:19* *A liturgical poem, Yetziv Pitgam (found in most prayerbooks), is inserted in the Haftarah reading between 3:1 and 3:2. Thrsday morning 6/12Kohen--Numbers 8:1-4Levi--vs. 5-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-14 Strday 6/14--Shabbat Parashat Beha`alotkhaMORNING Kohen--Numbers 8:1-14Levi--8:15-26Shelishi--9:1-14Revi`i--9:15-10:10Chamishi--10:11-34Shishi--10:35-11:29Shevi`i--11:30-12:16Maftir--12:14-16Haftarah--Zechariah 2:14-4:7 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 13:1-3Levi--vs. 4-16Yisra'el--vs. 17-20

Issue: What are the biblical origins of the Mass and the New Testament priesthood? Is the Mass really a sacrifice, or is it merely symbolic?Response: The biblical origins of the Mass and the New Testament priesthood are rooted in the Old Testament. Both the Old and New Testaments provide clear evidence that the Mass is a true sacrifice, offered by a priest, and the Victim is the Body and Blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ.      God stated three times that the Passover sacrifice would be “an ordinance for ever,” not for a temporary period, such as until the Messiah...

Monday morning 6/2Kohen--Numbers 4:21-24Levi--vs.25-28Yisra'el--vs.29-37 Wdnsday 6/4--Ro'sh Chodesh SivanKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Thrsday morning 6/5Kohen--Numbers 4:21-24Levi--vs.25-28Yisra'el--vs.29-37 Strday 6/7--Shabbat Parashat Naso'MORNING Kohen--Numbers 4:21-37Levi--4:38-49Shelishi--5:1-10Revi`i--5:11-6:27Chamishi--7:1-41Shishi--7:42-71Shevi`i--7:72-89Maftir--7:87-89Haftarah--Judges 13:2-25 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 8:1-4Levi--vs. 5-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-14

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 5/26 and 5/29Kohen--Numbers 1:1-4Levi--vs. 5-16Yisra'el--vs. 17-19 Strday 5/31--Shabbat Parashat BeMidbarMORNING Kohen--Numbers 1:1-19Levi--1:20-54Shelishi--2:1-34Revi`i--3:1-13Chamishi--3:14-39Shishi--3:40-51Shevi`i--4:1-20Maftir--4:17-20Haftarah--Hosea 2:1-22 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 4:21-24Levi--vs.25-28Yisra'el--vs.29-37

Ignazio Ingrao, religion journalist of the Italian weekly Panorama, has the following aticle in this weeks Panorama (NLM translation): Good-bye Happening Masses - The Pope Limits Concelebrations No more Happening Masses: the Pope wants to put a brake on large concelebrations with hundreds of priests, often far from the altar, as we are now accustomed in the World Youth Days and papal travels. Benedict XVI has entrusted to the Congregation for Divine Worship the task of preparing, if necessary, an instruction. The concelebrations will be limited to specific circumstances and with a reduced number of priests around the altar....

In a private conversation before the release of the motu proprio "Summorum Pontificum," a leading personality of U.K. Catholicism predicted that the reinstatement of the Traditional Latin Mass would grant again such an abundant flow of graces that it would even effect the restoration of society on sound Christian principles. While that outcome remains to be seen, the release of the motu proprio has certainly sparked a series of controversies and debates — especially in Italy, the heart of Catholicism, and that goes a long way in showing how sensitive the issue is among faithful and non-faithful alike. The...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 5/19 and 5/22Kohen--Leviticus 26:3-5Levi--vs. 6-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-13 Strday 5/24--Shabbat Parashat BeChuqqotayMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 26:3-5Levi--26:6-9Shelishi--26:10-46Revi`i--27:1-15Chamishi--27:16-21Shishi--27:22-28Shevi`i--27:29-34Maftir--27:32-34Haftarah--Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 EVENING Kohen--Numbers 1:1-4Levi--vs. 5-16Yisra'el--vs. 17-19

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 5/12 and 5/15Kohen--Leviticus 25:1-3Levi--vs. 4-7Yisra'el--vs. 8-13 Strday 5/17--Shabbat Parashat BeHarMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 25:1-13Levi--25:14-18Shelishi--25:19-24Revi`i--25:25-28Chamishi--25:29-38Shishi--25:39-46Shevi`i--25:47-26:2Maftir--25:55-26:2Haftarah--Jeremiah 32:6-27 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 26:3-5Levi--vs. 6-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-13

Monday 5/5--First Day Ro'sh Chodesh 'IyyarKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Tusday 5/6--Second Day Ro'sh Chodesh 'IyyarKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Thrsday morning 5/8Kohen--Leviticus 21:1-6Levi--vs. 7-12Yisra'el--vs. 13-15 Strday 5/10--Shabbat Parashat 'EmorMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 21:1-15Levi--21:16-22:16Shelishi--22:17-33Revi`i--23:1-22Chamishi--23:23-32Shishi--23:33-44Shevi`i--24:1-23Maftir24:21-23Haftarah--Ezekiel 44:15-31 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 25:1-3Levi--vs. 4-7Yisra'el--vs. 8-13

Four Japanese bishops have travelled to Rome for a meeting with Pope Benedict to seek Holy See intervention to resolve what they describe as a "serious problem" with the methods of the Neo-Catechumenal Way movement and its seminary in a Japanese diocese. UCA News reports it was the third time Japanese bishops visited and brought up the matter in five months. "We hate to come so often but we had to give the serious nature of the problem that needs to be resolved", Archbishop Okada of Tokyo, president of the bishops' conference, told UCA News in Rome. During their ad...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Liturgical renewal launched by the Second Vatican Council is an "irreversible path" and has not been affected by Pope Benedict XVI's concession on wider use of the Tridentine rite, a Vatican official said. "The pope's decision has so far not produced any change in the celebrative practice of our ecclesial communities. His gesture was only one of service to unity," Archbishop Piero Marini, who arranged papal liturgies for more than 20 years, said in an interview April 25 in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. "Therefore let's look ahead and let's continue with enthusiasm the path undertaken...

Declaration On Relations with Rome Made In Honour of Our Lady of Good Counsel April 2008 We hold firmly with all our heart and with all our mind to Catholic Rome, Guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary to the maintenance of this faith, to the eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth. We refuse on the other hand, and have always refused, to follow the Rome of Neo-Modernist and Neo-Protestant tendencies, which became clearly manifest during the Second Vatican Council, and after the Council, in reforms which issued from it. That is why, without any rebellion,...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 4/28 and 5/1Kohen--Leviticus 19:1-4Levi--vs. 5-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-14 Strday 5/3--Shabbat Parashat QedoshimMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 19:1-14Levi--19:15-22Shelishi--19:23-32Revi`i--19:33-37Chamishi--20:1-7Shishi--20:8-22Shevi`i--20:23-27Maftir--20:25-27Haftarah--Amos 9:7-15 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 21:1-6Levi--vs. 7-12Yisra'el--vs. 13-15

This month I must reflect on a phone call I received from an old and discerning friend who was extremely upset over the music used at the papal Mass in Washington on April 17, and on a note another friend sent saying, "It was as if the Washington, D.C., crowd were pleasing themselves and not their guest."  I missed the Mass but heard that it included quite a mélange of musical styles. My oldest son, who watched at his grade school, did not like it. Neither did Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, who apparently said on EWTN that the music was...

There is an interesting development in the matter of Summorum Pontificum and the use of the vernacular in celebrations of the TLM. The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei reponded to a questions proposed concerning Art. 6. The questions were: "Can readings be given in the vernacular in the context of the Liturgy?  Does Article 6 uphold the practice of duplicating the readings reading them in the context of the Liturgy in Latin, then before a homily in the vernacular, or does it allow them to be read from the Altar in the vernacular?Also, can local editions of the Missal that refer...

I recently learned that there is a Byzantine Catholic Church about a mile from my new house, St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church. So my family went there this morning. This was my second time to attend the Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Church. The first time was a Melkite parish. To be honest, it can be a bit intimidating at first. Everything is a little different. Early in the liturgy I realized that there would be no way for me to follow the books so I did my best and tried to participate by watching and listening....

Strday 4/19--Shabbat HaGadol/Shabbat Parashat 'Acharei-Mot/`Erev PesachMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 16:1-17Levi--16:18-24Shelishi--16:25-34Revi`i--17:1-7Chamishi--17:8-18:5Shishi--18:6-21Shevi`i--18:22-30Maftir--18:28-30Haftarah--Malachi 3:4-24; v. 23 repeated (In KJV Malachi 3:4-4:6; 4:5 repeated) EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 19:1-4Levi--vs. 5-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-14 Sunday 4/20--First Day of PesachKohen--Exodus 12:21-24Levi--vs. 25-28Shelishi--vs. 29-36Revi`i--vs. 37-42Chamishi--vs. 43-51Maftir--Numbers 28:16-25Haftarah--Joshua 3:5-7; 5:2-6:1; 6:27 Monday 4/21--Second Day of PesachKohen--Leviticus 22:26-23:3Levi--23:4-14Shelishi--23:15-22Revi`i--23:23-32Chamishi--23:33-44Maftir--Numbers 28:16-25Haftarah--II Kings 23:1-9; 21-25 Tusday 4/22--First Day Chol HaMo`ed PesachKohen--Exodus 13:1-4Levi--vs. 5-10Shelishi--vs. 11-16Revi`i--Numbers 28:19-25 Wdnsday 4/23--Second Day Chol HaMo`ed PesachKohen--Exodus 22:24-26Levi--22:27-23:5Shelishi--23:6-19Revi`i--Numbers 28:19-25 Thrsday 4/24--Third Day Chol HaMo`ed PesachKohen--Exodus 34:1-3Levi--vs. 4-17Shelishi--vs. 18-26Revi`i--Numbers 28:19-25 Frday 4/25--Fourth Day Chol HaMo`ed PesachKohen--Numbers 9:1-5Levi--vs. 6-8Shelishi--vs. 9-14Revi`i--Numbers 28:19-25 Strday 4/26--Shabbat/Seventh Day of PesachMORNING Megillah--Shir HaShirim (The Song of Solomon)Kohen--Exodus 13:17-19Levi--13:20-22Shelishi--14:1-4Revi`i--14:5-8Chamishi--14:9-14Shishi--14:15-25Shevi`i--14:26-15:26Maftir--Numbers 28:19-25Haftarah--II Samuel 22:1-51...

Raymond Arroyo, commenting on the odd choices for some of the music in the liturgy at Nationals Stadium, after listening to an absolutely awful conga version of an offertory hymn (including bongos and a kettle drum) just said that "the music in this liturgy, is out of character for papal masses of late. The music has a sort of amazon flavor to it!" Funny and sad. Update: That mass, musically speaking, was one of the oddest things I have ever seen. It was so multicultural that it ceased to have any culture whatsoever! There were so many different bad songs...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 4/14 and 4/17Kohen--Leviticus 16:1-6Levi--vs. 7-11Yisra'el--vs. 12-17 Strday 4/19--Shabbat HaGadol/Shabbat Parashat 'Acharei-Mot/`Erev PesachMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 16:1-17Levi--16:18-24Shelishi--16:25-34Revi`i--17:1-7Chamishi--17:8-18:5Shishi--18:6-21Shevi`i--18:22-30Maftir--18:28-30Haftarah--Malachi 3:4-24; v. 23 repeated (In KJV Malachi 3:4-4:6; 4:5 repeated) EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 19:1-4Levi--vs. 5-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-14

I guess it was only a matter of time, but Archbishop Marini has written a book. And why not? When you've been in power for a long time, and some new upstart boss comes along and replaces you just like that, there's only one thing to do: vent your spleen in a juicy, tell-all book designed to embarrass all the enemies you made on the way up, particularly the boss who just replaced you, so that they all go skulking around thinking to themselves, "Well, I guess he showed us." Of course, that's all in your imagination, since your new...

Sunday 4/6--Ro'sh Chodesh NisanKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Monday and Thrsday mornings, 4/7 and 4/10Kohen--Leviticus 14:1-5Levi--vs. 6-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-12 Strday 4/12--Shabbat Parashat Metzora`MORNING Kohen--Leviticus 14:1-12Levi--14:13-20Shelishi--14:21-32Revi`i--14:33-53Chamishi--14:54-15:15Shishi--15:16-28Shevi`i--15:29-33Maftir--15:31-33Haftarah--II Kings 7:3-20 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 16:1-6Levi--vs. 7-11Yisra'el--vs. 12-17

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 3/31 and 4/3Kohen--Leviticus 12:1-4Levi--12:5-8Yisra'el--13:1-5 Strday 4/5--Shabbat HaChodesh/Shabbat Parashat Tazri`a/Shabbat Machar ChodeshMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 12:1-13:5Levi--13:6-17Shelishi--13:18-23Revi`i--13:24-28Chamishi--13:29-39Shishi--13:40-54Shevi`i--13:55-59Maftir--Exodus 12:1-20Haftarah--Ezekiel 45:16-46:18; I Samuel 20:18, 42 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 14:1-5Levi--vs. 6-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-12

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 3/24 and 3/27Kohen--Leviticus 9:1-6Levi--vs. 7-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-16 Strday 3/29--Shabbat Parah/Shabbat Parashat SheminiMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 9:1-16Levi--9:17-23Shelishi--9:24-10:11Revi`i--10:12-15Chamishi--10:16-20Shishi--11:1-32Shevi`i--11:33-47Maftir--Numbers 19:1-22Haftarah--Ezekiel 36:16-38 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 12:1-4Levi--12:5-8Yisra'el--13:1-5

The washing of feet is a symbolic action which expresses living a Eucharistic Life, a life of self emptying love in imitation of the Lord who emptied Himself for us. It is an invitation to become a man or woman poured out for others.

Monday morning 3/17Kohen--Leviticus 6:1-3Levi--vs. 4-6Yisra'el--vs.7-11 Thrsday 3/20--Ta`anit 'EsterMORNING Kohen--Exodus 32:11-14Levi--Exodus 34:1-3Yisra'el--Exodus 34:4-10 EVENING Kohen--Exodus 32:11-14Levi--Exodus 34:1-3Yisra'el/Maftir--Exodus 34:4-10Haftarah--Isaiah 55:6-56:8 Thrsday night 3/20--Leyl PurimMegillat 'Ester (The Book of Esther) Frday 3/21--PurimKohen--Exodus 17:8-10Levi--vs. 11-13Yisra'el--vs. 14-16Megillat 'Ester (The Book of Esther) Strday 3/22--Shabbat Parashat TzavMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 6:1-11Levi--6:12-7:10Shelishi--7:11-38Revi`i--8:1-13Chamishi--8:14-21Shishi--8:22-29Shevi`i--8:30-36Maftir--8:33-36Haftarah--Jeremiah 7:21-8:3; 9:22, 23 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 9:1-6Levi--vs. 7-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-16

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 3/10 and 3/13Kohen--Leviticus 1:1-4Levi--vs. 5-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-13 Strday 3/15--Shabbat Zakhor/Shabbat Parashat VaYiqra'MORNING Kohen--Leviticus 1:1-13Levi--1:14-2:6Shelishi--2:7-16Revi`i--3:1-17Chamishi--4:1-26Shishi--4:27-5:10Shevi`i--5:11-26Maftir--Deuteronomy 25:17-19Haftarah--I Samuel 15:2-34 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 6:1-3Levi--vs. 4-6Yisra'el--vs.7-11

The Mass is celebrated publicly about 176 times each week at Notre Dame when the University is in session, says Father Richard Warner, CSC, the director of campus ministry. Different Masses meet different spiritual needs. Congregants may pray together in English, Spanish or Latin and choose from a sampler box of musical styles and aesthetic surroundings. All of these Masses are celebrated according to the reformed Roman Missal of Pope Paul VI introduced in 1970. All except one, that is. At 8 a.m. on October 14, some 100 people gathered with Father Thomas Blantz, CSC, in the Saint Charles Borromeo...

In 1941, a German bomb destroyed the chamber in which Britain’s House of Commons had met for almost a century. Afterward, several members of Parliament suggested that the old Gothic-style chamber with choir-style stalls facing one another should be replaced by a more modern chamber, with seats fanned out in a semicircle, like the legislatures of France and America. Winston Churchill opposed the modernization, arguing before the House of Commons that "first we shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us." Similarly, the material elements of the Mass—such as the altar with its linens, candles and flowers, the priest’s...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 3/3 and 3/6Kohen--Exodus 38:21-23Levi--38:24-27Yisra'el--38:28-39:1 Frday 3/7--First Day Ro'sh Chodesh 'Adar SheniKohen--Numbers 28:1-3Levi--vs. 3-5Shelishi--vs. 6-10Revi`i--vs. 11-15 Strday 3/8--Shabbat Sheqalim/Parashat Pequdey/Shabbat Ro'sh Chodesh/Second Day Ro'sh Chodesh 'Adar SheniMORNING Kohen--Exodus 38:21-39:1Levi--39:2-21Shelishi--39:22-32Revi`i--39:33-43Chamishi--40:1-16Shishi--40:17-38Shevi`i--Numbers 28:9-15Maftir--Exodus 30:11-16Haftarah--II Kings 12:1-17; Isaiah 66:1, 23 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 1:1-4Levi--vs. 5-9Yisra'el--vs. 10-13

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 2/25 and 2/28Kohen--Exodus 35:1-3Levi--vs. 4-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-20 Strday 3/1--Shabbat Parashat VaYaqhelMORNING Kohen--Exodus 35:1-20Levi--35:21-29Shelishi--35:30-36:7Revi`i--36:8-19Chamishi--36:20-37:16Shishi--37:17-29Shevi`i--38:1-20Maftir--38:18-20Haftarah--I Kings 7:40-50 EVENING Kohen--Exodus 38:21-23Levi--38:24-27Yisra'el--38:28-39:1

That last post ended on what some might call an inflammatory note. The suggestion that some priests would react to a “re-reform” of the Roman Liturgy by setting their priesthood aside may seem hyperbolic to some; but I’m a priest, and know a lot of priests, and am confident that I’m not just whistling Dixie here (especially since whistling Dixie here could get you thrown out of some finer eating establishments). The operative question for any priest whose ministry has been exclusively post-conciliar is this: Does he view his style of ministry, his personal spirituality, his manner of celebrating the...

Robert Blair Kaiser, the East Valley Tribune informs readers, was once "a young journalist covering the heady and historic Vatican Council II in Rome for Time magazine." It appears that the "the Phoenix journalist and Jesuit-educated Catholic" is still lost in the Sixties, having written eleven books, "including four that deal with a call for church reform in the spirit of that council." His latest is a novel titled Cardinal Mahoney that depicts the Archbishop of Los Angeles being kidnapped by liberation theologians (I'm not making this stuff up; Kaiser is), and taken to a "southern Mexican jungle compound": In...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 2/18 and 2/21Kohen--Exodus 30:11-13Levi--vs. 14-16Yisra'el--vs. 17-21 Strday 2/23--Shabbat Parashat Ki-Tissa'MORNING Kohen--Exodus 30:11-31:17Levi--31:18-33:11Shelishi--33:12-16Revi`i--33:17-23Chamishi--34:1-9Shishi--34:10-26Shevi`i--34:27-35Maftir--34:33-35Haftarah--I Kings 18:1-39 EVENING Kohen--Exodus 35:1-3Levi--vs. 4-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-20

ROME, FEB. 12, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum university.Q: I am an extraordinary minister of holy Communion. I am not an instituted acolyte. In December we had training in the new procedures for purifying and cleaning chalices, ciboria and other vessels used in Communion. We have been told that there have been more changes and we are to receive new training. Can you provide any information on recent changes? -- F.C., Little Egg Harbor, New JerseyA: The changes probably referred to a letter from the Holy See which...

Having (finally!) been relieved of his duties as the Vatican's chief liturgist, Archbishop Piero Marini-- not to be confused with his successor at that post, Msgr. Guido Marini-- has written a little book defending his approach and denouncing his critics. If you enjoy liturgical dance, conch-shell fanfares, and rainbow chasuables-- in short, if you are high on the "spirit of Vatican II-- you probably miss Archbishop Marini, and would enjoy his new book, A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975. Father George Rutler is not a big fan, however, and his acerbic review of the Marini...