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Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Casimir. Liturgical Changes Should Take Place Organically Vatican In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Msgr. Guido Marini, the Pontifical master of …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Casimir.

Liturgical Changes Should Take Place Organically

Vatican

In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Msgr. Guido Marini, the Pontifical master of ceremonies, said that Benedict XVI. would strongly encourage practices such as administering Communion to the faithful kneeling and on the tongue, the central placement of a crucifix on the altar, and the celebration of Mass ad orientem. But these would be "proposals," the liturgist said. He does not anticipate formal papal directives to change the liturgy. Msgr. Marini emphasized that liturgical changes should take place "organically," not through sudden shifts. Concerning the traditional Latin Mass he said that the Pope's goal "is that the two forms of the Roman rite look upon one another with great serenity”.

Sand Instead of Holy Water

Internet

Father Zulsdorf has published on his blog photos of fonts from unidentified Churches in the US that are filled with sand instead of Holy Water. A plate explains that the lack of holy water, should remind us of the way through the desert. Fr Zulsdorf asks his readers “if you go into a church where you see this sort of idiocy… for the love of God, DON’T bless yourself with SAND”. The holy water is a sacramental and not a toy.

Formal Request for an Anglo-Catholic Ordinariate in the USA

Yesterday, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America - the American Province of the Traditional Anglican Communion – have decided to formally request the implementation of the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum cœtibus in the United States of America by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Selfdeception

“People who've been deceived believe all roads (religions, or paths of enlightenment) can lead to the one true God” - belindabensonsbrain.blogspot.com writes. The Blog adds: But Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.