Search results for Liturgy Science Theatre 3000

Vestment Instruction from The World’s Best Sacristan™

WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (V.O.): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I am going to drag you – again – through my standard and sustained rant about liturgy, punctuated by Latin vocabulary and Neoplatonism. Consider this a different sort of “food post...

ROME 26/4– Day 35: Theatre of the Absurd

Today the sun rose at 06:10 and it will set at 20:06.  But that’s in Rome, not in Columbia Heights. The Ave Maria Bell is still in the 20:15 slot for the Curia. It is the Feast of...

596. Holy Saturday Morning: First Divine Liturgy of the Resurrection

Brothers and sisters, there is a whole lot going on this morning, so pay attention. This Liturgy begins as a celebration of Christ’s victory over Satan and death “down below”, and...

Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Quasimodo Sunday (and “Low” and “Thomas” and “Divine Mercy”)

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligat...

OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost

For Monday’s, and an explanation of what has happened to links on the blog, HERE These are from 2008. ORIGINAL NOTES: Today is Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ou...

ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical

Liturgically busy day, just as it was in life.  I’m getting behind.  By the end of the day, I’m…. ugh. The Roman sun rose at 5:39. The Roman sun set at 20: 36. In the Curia the Ave...

ROME 26/3– Day 09: Wednesday in Holy Week

Tonight during Tenebrae we sang: Tuus est dies, et tua est nox: * tu fabricátus es auróram et solem. Tu fecísti omnes términos terræ: * æstátem et ver tu plasmásti ea. The Lord’s S...

3 April: Feast of St. Richard of Chichester. A comment about science.

The feast of St. Richard of Chichester cannot go by without my remembering a limerick my old pastor Msgr. Richard Schuler would occasionally quote: There was an old Bishop of Chich...

LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity – UPDATED

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about the Bapistry of St. John Lateran, where the ancient catechumens became new creations. Card. Schuster...

NIGHT PRAYER: Saturday 4/4

The Easter Vigil opens with a Service of Light which features the Exsultet, a 1200 year old hymn of praise in honor of the Paschal Candle (the Light of Christ in our midst). Back...

597. Holy Saturday Midnight: The Great Paschal Service: Paschal Matins and Divine Liturgy

GREAT AND HOLY PASCHA!   Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! Father Alexander Schmemann called our Orthodox Paschal celebration “an explosion of joy”. I’ll say little: words are in...

581. Lazarus Saturday Morning Divine Liturgy

Orthodox Holy Week Now we begin our twice-daily commentaries on the services and themes of Holy Week and Pascha – based on talks I gave at these services during the twenty-five yea...

Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville

Pentecost Thursday. The Roman Station is St. Lawrence outside the walls, which is where it was in the Easter Octave on Wednesday. In the Gospel from Luke 9, Jesus sends the Apostle...

WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Novus Ordo: Weaving the warp and the weft

The Fiftieth Day Feast, Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté, for the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, fifty days after the Exodu...

589. Holy Wednesday Morning Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

In case you’ve tuned in late to this series: These posts are “repeats” (with a little reworking each year) of my Holy Week posts from past years – which are based on talks I gave f...

ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy

When 06:00 arrived, up came the sun here in Rome. The sun set was at 20:14, officially that is. The schedule for the Ave Maria Bell is still 20:30, though technically it should be...

587. Holy Tuesday Morning: Vesperal Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

Kievan chant, sung by “Archangel Voices” Troparion/Apolytikion of Bridegroom Matins Alleluia. Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and blessed is that servant whom He shall fi...

ROME 26/4– Day 33: Here’s a little Latin for you

ROMAE SOL ORTUS EST HORA VI ET XIII. SOL OCCIDET POST PAUCA MINUTA HORA XX ET IV. CAMPANA “AVE MARIA” PRO CURIA ROMANA HORA XX ET XV SONARE DEBET, SED NON SONABIT. POTIUS, APUD ECC...

ROME 26/3– Day 10: Thursday in Holy Week

On this Holy Thursday the Roman sun arose at 06:49. The tramonta will be at 19:39. Listen for the Ave Maria Bell at 20:00… you won’t hear it… except at The Parish™ where it rings a...

594. Holy Friday afternoon: Vespers of Holy Saturday: “Taking down from the Cross”

At last! a Holy Week service that is “in sync” with the time of day and doesn’t go on forever! Beginning with last night’s Procession of the Cross of Christ and continuing through...

“He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”

Quiet day, as befitting Holy Saturday.  All is quiet in the Church as Christ’s soon to be reclaimed Body is in the tomb while His human fused divinity harrows Hell. I understand th...

ROME 26/3– Day 11: Good Friday

Sunrise… 06:48 Sunset…19:40 Ave Maria Bell … 20:00 It is Good Friday.  It is a 1st Friday. It is the Feast of St. Richard of Chichester (+1253) which I cannot let go by without rem...

OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost

For an explanation of what has happened to links on the blog, HERE Original Notes: This is the third PODCAzT for the Pentecost Octave. Today we learn about what Ember Day’s are, th...