Matthew Hazell
@M_P_Hazell
Catholic. Liturgy geek. Contributor to @NLMblog and @RorateCaeli. Associate member of @LiturgySociety. (Tweets = personal capacity)
This lovely horse, who lives in Ireland, would like you to get a copy of the proceedings of the 2023 Fota International Liturgical Conference, edited by me and now in print! 😊
Grillo, TC's ghost-writer, desperately spinning: "the [leaked DDF] text repeats completely unfounded clichés. It is false that the presence of the 'extraordinary form' ensures 'liturgical peace'... Francis rightly deemed this text worthy of the dustbin..." cittadellaeditrice.com/munera/lo-scoo…
Another liberal not all that keen on this new Mass: "When I first heard about a forthcoming votive Mass in honor of creation months earlier, I was very excited... However, when I looked at the released prayers... I found myself somewhat disappointed." ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-vo…
And confirmation that at least one participant at the Assisi seminar last Dec, on establishing a "feast of creation" in the liturgical calendar, is *not* happy with the new VNO Mass for the care of creation: it "barely qualifies as better than nothing"! praytellblog.com/index.php/2025…
It isn't remarked on enough, how just recklessly irresponsible it is to spend probably $1m all told that I'm sure the Diocese can't really afford, just to inconvenience one's ideological opponents. Will look great next time to Diocese is crying poor trying to stiff abuse victims
“He didn’t need to.” Mike’s right, just not in the way he meant.
I get the sense that the new translation of the LotH will reveal the same thing as the new translation of the Order of Baptism - that the ritual itself, and not the translation, was the problem. But we have neither the courage nor the brainpower to overhaul it.
The four week psalter is the biggest practical difficulty for parish lauds/vespers. Not only because of the needless complexity, but also because it prevents printing short versions of the breviary in prayer books, missalettes, and hymnals.
"The Council of Nicaea would not pass the test of synodality as it in fact accomplished the “impossible arrangement” of “eliminating tensions” by deciding “in favour of one of the sides,” that is, orthodoxy was affirmed and heresy was anathematized."
The Jargon-Filled Synodal Trajectory thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/18/the… via @CatholicThing
A new series, the Os Justi Studies in Liturgical History and Reform, under the general editorship of Matthew Hazell, has just been launched with its first volume—by far the most ambitious project Os Justi Press has yet undertaken: the first English translation of Jean-Baptiste Le…
4 Years of Traditionis Custodes - 4 Years of Lies rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2025/07/4-year…
Looking forward to a few days R&R by the Douro river (and possibly slightly beyond) 😎 🐙 🍷 🏖️ 🇵🇹
Mad Hatter Francis "Liturgist" Andrea Grillo: The Bishops Were All Wrong, I'm Right -- plus a major assessment by Sandro Magister of the Lies on which Traditionis custodes were based rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2025/07/mad-ha…