Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

So this first full week of Lent is also an Ember Week! But, er, what does that mean? Originally, there were only three Ember Seasons: arou...

Legg again ... "In days of Anglo-French rivalry the prestige accruing to the King of France from being anointed with this heaven-sent ...

 Spitting, liturgically, has a secure and respected place in the Traditional Roman Rite. The collect for the Third Sunday AFTER Easter is th...

 L G Wickham Legg writes: "There should be no need to remind the reader of the famous story of how at the baptism of Clovis a crystal p...

There is a tacit assumption that licit Liturgy rests on a basis of Papal positive legislation . What he decrees, everybody has to do. When h...

 A few days ago, I included a paragraph from Fr Adrian Fortescue about the immense auctoritas , the antiquity and majesty and theological im...

So, according to the old Roman Pontifical, on Ash Wednesday the Bishop expelled the Ashed Penitents from Church "with tears" (did ...

I noticed, winking at me from my revolving book-case, my 1845 (Hanicq) Pontificale Romanum . Nice engravings! Idly wasting the lazy moment, ...

 From Gueranger: "The ancient discipline of the Church obliged all the faithful, under pain of being considered as no longer Catholics,...

DLS was, from the beginning, not averse to writing ... erotically? ... not, I think, the right word; 'explicitly', perhaps. Her firs...

 DLS used to spin 'mysteries' for her living ... and for the amusement of her devotees. But she herself left behind a mystery, in th...

 After my words about the repetition of the Sexagesima Mass on ferial weekdays, wise and intelligent friends have asked the obvious question...