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Author Archives: Rev. Anthony Cekada

An SGG School Mother Says “Thanks”

Saturday, January 16, 2010

NOTE: A mother with children in St. Gertrude the Great School sent Bishop Dolan this letter on the Feast of the Circumcision, 2010. (The children’s names have been changed.) Your Excellency: After Mass this morning we stopped into the church bookstore. Anna picked out a tiny plastic Baby Jesus (about an inch long) that she […]

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A School Parent Condemns the Campaign against SGG

Sunday, January 10, 2010

NOTE: The year-long Internet campaign of lies and calumnies against our church and school has deceived and confused many people. One of our parishioners with children in St. Gertrude the Great School gave us permission to publish this e-mail to his parents, who had become worried about all the horrible accusations that our enemies have […]

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School Dazed

Monday, November 23, 2009

How a few complaints about our little parish school suddenly became a world-wide campaign of lies and calumny. A GROUP OF disgruntled parents had come into my office to complain about our school principal and his wife, Joan. The principal, they said — a big man with a typical Polish face who was also our […]

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Bugnini’s ’51 Easter Vigil: “First Step” to the Novus Ordo

Friday, April 10, 2009

LAYMEN who frequent Masses offered under the auspices of Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum or organizations such as the Society of St. Pius X are under the impression that the rites they see performed there represent the apex of pre-Vatican II Catholic liturgical tradition vis-à-vis the New Mass of Paul VI. In the case […]

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Good Friday: Old vs. ’55/62 Rite

Thursday, April 9, 2009

GOOD FRIDAY originally had no liturgical service. No Mass was celebrated because, as Pope Innocent I explained in the 5th century, it was a day on which “the Apostles hid themselves for fear of the Jews.” Eventually, however, the Church instituted a liturgical service for this day. In the traditional rite this consists of a […]

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Maundy Thursday: Old vs. ’55/62 Rite

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

BECAUSE THE Maundy Thursday ceremonies in the traditional Missal consist principally of rites connected with the Mass, the changes introduced in the 1955 Renewed Order for Holy Week are not as numerous as those for the other days of Holy Week. The 1955 Ordo moves the celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper to […]

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The Office of Tenebrae: Old vs. ’55/62 Rite

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

ONE OF THE most dramatic and mystical ceremonies of Holy Week was the chanting in larger churches of the Office of Tenebrae (“Darkness”) on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. This consists of the Offices of Matins (nine psalms, nine readings) and Lauds (five psalms, the Benedictus, an antiphon, Psalm 50 and a collect) from the […]

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Holy Week: Palm Sunday: Old vs. 1955 Rite

Sunday, April 5, 2009

INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The modifications in the Holy Week rites introduced in 1955 were part of a series of incremental liturgical changes beginning in 1951 that eventually led to the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae in 1969. The creation of the ’55 Holy Week rites, like the creation of the Novus Ordo, was orchestrated by […]

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Calvinism in the Secret for the Living and the Dead?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

QUESTION: The third Secret you recited last Sunday (For the Living and the Dead) read as follows: “O God, who alone knowest the number of the elect to be admitted to the happiness of heaven, grant, we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of all Thy saints, the names of all who have been recommended […]

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Smog-O-Scopus: Bp. Williamson on the New Ordination Rite

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

In a November 15 post on his blog, Dinoscopus, Bishop Richard Williamson SSPX dismisses an argument against the 1968 priestly ordination rite with the following comment: “But the argument above, to arrive at its conclusion, would have to prove that Conciliar documents and reforms in themselves positively exclude the Catholic priesthood and religion, because so […]

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