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Are any of your parishes doing Tenebrae? And other Christian churches in your area? I’m curious. The name “Tenebrae” has been given because this Office is celebrated in the hours of darkness, formerly in the evening or just after midnight, now the early morning hours. There is an impressive ceremony, peculiar to this Office, which…

Palm Sunday edition. Again, not a discussion thread. If a question appears and persists, I’ll pull it and make a separate post. For us: Liturgy begins in the school gym, where the ritual for the blessing of Palms occurs. A small group – maybe about 100 people, max, who processed to the church, where there…

Incoming… Over the weekend, various stories have broken and hints emerged regarding the Motu Proprio "releasing" the 1962 Missal. The most significant is an interview with Cardinal Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, which appeared in the French Le Figaro: [Secretary of State] Cardinal Bertone: The merit of the conciliar liturgical reform is intact. But both…

Focusing on Honduras, John Allen asks a question: If any corner of the globe should bear the imprint of Catholic values, it’s Latin America. Catholicism has enjoyed a spiritual monopoly in the region for more than 500 years, and today almost half the 1.1 billion Catholics alive are Latin Americans. Moreover, Latin Americans take religion…
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