Ye Ol' Acolyte

I've always been fascinated by the brief overlap where both the Novus Ordo and the Subdeacon existed. I got my hands on a 1969 GIRM to explore the Subdeacon's forgotten role in the new Mass. More below 👇

Did the National Catholic Reporter just write a piece defending the SSPX ordinations???

@RorateCaeli Sounds like he is proposing, essentially, '67 interim missal for the TLM with the new calendar and new lectionary.

The Abbot of Solesmes Sends a Letter to the Pope on the Integration of the Old Rite -- Followed by Interview with the Abbot rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-ab…

@BaldwinIVofJer If he claims there is a state of emergency in his diocese, does he get to do it anyways?

>Be Bishop >not get what you want from the institutional Church > threaten illicit ordinations despite clear prohibitions from Rome. >claim you are justified in doing so anyway >be bishop of Antwerp (and you thought this was about the SSPX).

@NiwaLimbu1988 Is there an English version of this book? Also, why only the Italian bishops?

Read for my latest SSPX Update 29.0: The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) has sent all diocesan bishops in Italy a newly published book explaining the reasons behind its planned episcopal consecrations.

@pluant The left always pushes. It's how they got communion in the hand, female altar servers, etc. I assume Mike Lewis will soon write an article condemning this bishop, right?

Another shameless leftist determined to force Leo into needless conflict.

@lukei4655 Isn't wearing the cross over the chausble allowed by the rubrics?

1. He's the architect of the China deal. So, right or wrong, I'm not going to be taking his advice on international affairs. 2. I don't take bishops who wear their pectoral cross over their chasuble seriously.

@CatholicSmark @cabanelmd Hey now, I have it on good authority that if a bishop grew a beard it was a signal that he was anti-Francis! Lmao

@cabanelmd The conflict being the years of polarization and acrimony, over who invented what or didn't do what, this or that conspiracy, was all for nothing. Leo disarmed 90% of it by doing nothing. It really was that easy, and Francis and his ilk really were just that bad at their jobs

He's mad people arent hating the Pope more.

@RorateCaeli Are there any trad trappist orders?

Pope Receives Abbot of La Trappe -- Will the Venerable Abbey Close Down? rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/03/pope-r…

@williamofdallas Obviously, it is a proper tunicle, and thus smaller than the dalmatic. So, it is properly hidden.

@yeacolyte The Deacon I picture is wearing a dalmatic. Where is his tunicle? This picture is confusing

Where is the Subdeacon

@pluant I was not expecting to see that they have 133 monks. Which makes them the second largest monastery in the US.

Ruff is one of the most relentlessly rigid of ideologues. Fun fact: watch one or two videos of his abbey’s liturgy, and you’ll conclude that “liturgical renewal” is all about how to make liturgy as depressing, boring, and soporific as possible.

@archeohistories Sound collision!

The USS San Francisco, a nuclear submarine, in dry-dock in 2005 after hitting an underwater seamount at 35 knots... On January 8, 2005, the submarine was traveling at full speed about 350 miles south of Guam when it slammed into an uncharted underwater mountain known as a seamount. The impact occurred at roughly 35 knots, or about 40 mph. The collision was so violent that sailors were thrown across compartments and equipment ripped loose inside the vessel. Despite the catastrophic damage to the bow, the submarine’s nuclear reactor remained intact and safely shut down. One sailor died from injuries and nearly 100 others were hurt. Remarkably, the crew was still able to bring the submarine to the surface and navigate it back to Guam under its own power. The damaged bow section was later completely replaced using the front portion of the decommissioned submarine USS Honolulu (SSN‑718). The seamount the submarine struck was not properly marked on the navigation charts the crew was using. After the accident, the U.S. Navy reviewed submarine navigation procedures and improved how digital ocean-floor mapping data is integrated into submarine charts. © History Pictures #archaeohistories

@ccwatershed @pluant Depends on the price. I cannot afford the going rate on eBay.

@yeacolyte @pluant Would you be interested in purchasing our pristine copy?

Collegeville could make a good profit if it reprinted the Bugnini Reform of the Liturgy. You’d think they’d want to promote the magnum opus of their hero! Alas, I suspect they know that Bugnini’s own book is a marvelous way to convince someone to be a trad…

@SandyofCthulhu Secretly an atheist

Don’t forget that every single “nice” priest in a movie is a total alcoholic wreck.

@thelb236 I know it was dropped in the '62 or '60 changes, but what is the significance of the stational churches?

Fri, 3/13/26: Today is a Lenten feria under the 1954 (simple) and 1962 (III class feria) rubrics. Mass: Proper Mass. Violet. Station church at St. Lawrence in Lucina. Omit Gloria. Gradual/Tract with genuflection at Adjuva nos. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus (1954)/Ite (1962). Under 1954, 2nd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints. 3rd prayer Omnipotens for the living and the dead. No additional prayers under 1962. Office: Ferial office. Violet. Matins of 1 nocturn of 3 proper lessons. Omit Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema II). All else from the ferial office for Lent. Proper Benedictus antiphon and collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Preces at Lauds and the hours (1954)/Lauds only (1962). Suffrage (1954 only). Under 1954, add displaced psalm 98 at Prime. No displaced psalm added at Prime under 1962. Vespers: Of the Lenten feria. Violet. Psalms and antiphons of the feria. All else from the ferial office for Lent. Proper Magnificat antiphon and collect. No commemorations. Preces. Suffrage (1954 only). Compline of Friday.

@TLM_Ryan @fr_geckle There are also EO who hold the TLM as invalid. Basically, if it's outside the EO Church - it's not valid.

Clip from last night’s discussion with @fr_geckle. In fact, the Eastern Orthodox also do not view the new mass as valid – one of several dividing lines preventing reunification.

@pluant Why not? I don't really know anything about this cardinal.

The Krajewski appointment isn’t a ringing endorsement of the Team Francis agenda.

@WalkingHymnal @katholischj0815 What is a superannuated Dicastery Prefect?

@katholischj0815 It's not a shock that Martín got promoted. That was expected (he was previously rumored for the Dicastery for Bishops). What's shocking is that Cardinal Krajewski is the first real domino to fall when there are five actual superannuated Dicastery Prefects.

Woah. This is a shock!!! Pope Leo XIV has named Cardinal Konrad Krajewski as Archbishop of Lodz in Poland & has named Bishop Luis Marín de San Martin, OSA, until now Undersecretary of the Synod, as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity & Papal Almoner.

@lukei4655 Any chance you have a link to the Tome?

Someone needs to read the Tome of Leo. Pope, St. Leo the Great explains why the term Holy is used as an honorific for the Pope of Rome. Let the reader also know that traditionally it’s not exclusively used for the Pope of Rome.