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A Papal Masterstroke Pope's Good Friday Prayer Reinforces Infallible Church Teaching Christopher A. Ferrara REMNANT COLUMNIST, New Jersey (Posted 2/05/08 www.RemnantNewspaper.com)The reports were true: The Pope has changed the traditional Good Friday prayer for the conversion of the Jews.  But, amazingly enough, the change is another positive development in this papacy, although I would never have thought so until I actually read the text of the new prayer. First of all, there is only one thing we need to know about the revised prayer in order to assess whether it is good or bad for the cause of the...

Boston's "Christmas Parish" Announces Schedule of Christmas Services and Concert BOSTON – December 18 - Known as the Christmas Parish because its German immigrant founders introduced many Christmas customs to New England and the country during the mid-1800s, Holy Trinity Church in Boston's South End announces its schedule of Christmas services for 2007. The 2007 Christmas Mass schedule at Holy Trinity, located at 140 Shawmut Avenue, is: Christmas Eve 11:30 PM: Concert of traditional German and English Christmas carols. Midnight: Traditional Latin High Mass; begins with candlelight procession in which the celebrant lays the Infant Jesus in the crèche. Christmas...

Includes the Mass Booklet which can be printed out (PDF format) for tomorrow's Mass (8 a.m. with encores at 6 p.m. & Midnight Eastern). Also includes links to Papal documents, church documents, special EWTN programming, online tutorial, workshops, and list of communities where the Extraordinary Form is celebrated.

Schedule for next week showing several programs on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, including the Solemn High Mass (from the Shrine) at 8 a.m. Eastern on September 14 (with encore presentations), Theology Roundtable at 10 p.m. Eastern on September 12, and The World Over Live at 8 p.m. Eastern on September 14 with Archbishop Raymond Burke. Go here for details: http://www.ewtn.com/wings/wings090707.htm