SPECIAL GUEST

Peter Kwasniewski 

Website - https://www.peterkwasniewski.com/

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* I never ever repeat talks on a lecture tour.

* So there will be new information at each destination.

Sulphur - Lessons Catholics can learn from the history of the Popes.

Lafayette - Elevated by the past, the normative role in traditional life.

Covington - Poets, Lovers, Children, Madmen and Worshipers.

New Orleans - The genius of Christianities Roman Rite.

* A lot of what happens have practical reasons too.

* They had a natural habit of wanting to attach symbolism to them.

* Like washing the hands, it is a Ritual Purification - symbolic value.

* Lifting of the chasuble - in the beginning it was b/c they were very heavy garments.

* The Roman chasuble when it entered it is a much simpler and cut down shape.

* It is almost like a sandwich board and it is extremely easy to elevate the Host but we would never give up the ‘tradition’ of this.

* The Priest is acting as Christ - so it must be like the woman in the Gospel that touches Jesus’ garment to be healed.

* It isn’t contrary to anything it just ADDS to the symbolism of the Mass.

* The Catholic worship has always been deeply rooted w/ Jewish worship and structure.

* Christ was a Jew, His apostles were Jews - obviously they took what they knew from that and inserted Catholicism.

* Into the Passover Ritual -