Hi all, I have been away from the keys most of today out running errands to prepare for my return to Budapest next week. A priest friend sent me this while I was away, and man, it is something else. It’s been a long time since I invoked the Prytania Theater, where Ignatius J. Reilly used to go to see movies, but this Baby Boomer Catholic priest calls for it, and then some. Behold:

While the bishop of Venice (FL) bans ad orientem, he apparently has no problem with a priest in his diocese replacing the Penitential Rite with three “spiritual breaths”.

Source (warning: this is a full boomer Mass): https://t.co/pHIoLxYgcz pic.twitter.com/lANApa4AIs

— Eric Sammons (@EricRSammons) January 26, 2022

And this fuller version:

Highlights, remixed.

(source: Fr “Jerry” Kaywell, Sacred Heart, Punta Gorda, FL, USA: https://t.co/MyhGR7BMoc) pic.twitter.com/vPRPbiAwsb

— Matthew Hazell (@M_P_Hazell) January 26, 2022

Hey, at least he’s not speaking Latin and facing east!

You can hear more from this musically gifted showbiz cleric at the iTunes store:

Seriously, I bet Father Jerry is quite popular with his flock. It is very hard to grasp, though, how the Pope will let the Father Jerrys do these California dreamin’ liturgies, but finds the Tridentine mass intolerable.