Author Archives: Schutz

I am delighted to give publicity to The Glorificamus Society for Renewal of Catholic Liturgy, and to their next Novus Ordo Latin Mass on April 29th, at 6pm at St Brigid’s Catholic Church, 378 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy North (Melways Map … Continue reading →

Today, in parishes all over Melbourne, His Grace, the Most Reverend Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne, made following announcement: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am happy to announce today that, in line with the discipline of the Universal … Continue reading →

Past Elder’s latest comment (to the previous blog) puts me in mind of a variation upon a classic Monty Python skit: Man: Do you have “Olsen’s Standard Book of Christian Sacraments”?Bookseller: O-L-S-E-N?Man: Yes.Bookseller: S-A-C-R-A-M-E-N-T-S?Man: Yes.Bookseller: Yes, well we do have … Continue reading →

Some thoughts raised by a conversation last night with Fraser and this morning’s collect at the end of Morning Prayer: Lord God, you have made one people out of many different races and nations, united through confessing the glory of … Continue reading →

There are many Protestants who are “Anti-Catholic”. Indeed, for them, this is what it means to be Protestant. The assumption is sometimes made, therefore that we Catholics–especially we CONVERT Catholics–are “Anti-Protestant”. Nothing could be further from the Truth. I have … Continue reading →

How was your Easter? Joyful? Oddly, mine wasn’t. Why not? Well, I was weighed down with what I am here going to outline as “The Seven Sorrows of Schütz”. These are not complaints–they are real sorrows, which bring me often … Continue reading →

While I’m blogging (I should be singing alleluias at this time of Easter Eve rather than sitting in front of this infernal machine), I have been reflecting on the Footwashing. At my wife’s Lutheran parish, they had the footwashing this … Continue reading →

It is possible at times to get really pissed off with the official English translations from the official Latin documents from the Holy See. Let us just go with “Sacramentum Caritatis” for a moment. With that exact phrase, okay? We … Continue reading →

Mmm. A new opening line for those parishes who do a re-enactment of the Passover liturgy on Maundy Thursday perhaps? Peter Holmes asked me what the “clappers” are all about at the consecration on Maundy Thursday. We didn’t have clappers … Continue reading →