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Shouldn’t the congregation participate?

From the most ancient times, man has associated silence with profound reverence. It seems fitting, then, that the most solemn parts of the Mass should be spoken silently. It is for this same reason that the server is there to make the responses on our behalf, so that we may take advantage of the silence […]

About Rites and Ceremonies of the Church

And this is written deep in the nature of man: We must have sensible signs and figures, for we are partly spiritual and partly corporal…And the truths of religion are spiritual, and the rites and ceremonies are corporal; yet as the soul is contained in the body, so the truths of religion are contained in […]

From the Confessions of an SSPX Sympathizer

The more I read about the Écône consecrations and give a fair hearing to the SSPX’s side of the story – explained here by one of the four bishops consecrated that day, Bernard Fellay – the more I’m at least beginning to understand why Lefebvre carried them out. Far from being an ecclesiastical renegade, he seems to me now […]