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Evening Roundup - Thursday After Ash Wednesday, February 26th, 2009

The New Liturgical Movement >> First Mass of Don Franceso Ramella WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: The Perfect Priest WDTPRS >> Archd. St. Paul/Mpls on lifting the SSPX excommunications WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: difference between hand missals WDTPRS >> A Diocese responds: it is okay to violate the Holy Thursday rubrics ( viri selecti debate...again)

Four Star Edition - Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Summorum Pontificum >> Williamson Unfairly Attacked The Way of the Fathers >> Indian Patristics: Rather Huge News The Way of the Fathers >> De-Classifying the Secret History WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: Easter Sunday Mass during two weeks early WDTPRS >> Preparing for a yearly Triduum controversy ( " The Church clearly … crystal clearly… states that in the optional Mandatum ceremony of the washing of feet on Holy Thursday, only men should be chosen ." NB: My italics and underscore emphasis! ) WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: young people, music, Mass and entertainment WDTPRS >> CUA: Lecture on liturgy - Thursday 12 Feb (Msgr. Kevin W. Irwin)

WDTPRS: Holy Thursday Mass - optional washing of feet - only MALES

This is Father John's annual Holy Thursday column, it seems. The title speaks for itself . Here is a short snippet: If you have been informed that vir means only "men" and that excludes boys or youths, then you were probably misinformed. Vir refers to a person’s sex , not his age . There are specific Latin words to indicate categories of age in males, such as puer , adolescens , iuvenis and senex . The word vir can tempt a strict interpretaion of "man" in the sense of "adult male", but that would be too strict. Also, while clearly the Apostles were men, not boys or youths, the point is that they were "male", not that they were this age or that age. The Apostles were present in the Upper Room because they were chosen by Christ to be priests . And there is only a juridical, not an ontological, limitation on the age a male can be ordained. In any event, this whole debate has been cleared up more than once by the Holy See, especially