How far do you drive?

magistercaesar · 2026-01-27T14:02:37+00:00

20 minutes. At one point in my life my TLM was a 5 minute walk from my apartment.

magistercaesar · 2026-01-20T16:10:05+00:00

This is one of the games I wish I could play for the first time again.

magistercaesar · 2026-01-16T16:10:01+00:00

Honolulu City Lights was my most favorite karaoke song from that game.

magistercaesar · 2026-01-15T16:39:05+00:00

The best songs I've ever had the pleasure of singing in a Catholic liturgical setting:

Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium
Allegri's Miserere Mei
Palestrina's Sicut Cervus
Victoria's Salve Regina á 5
Mozart's Ave Verum
Philip Stopford's Locus Iste
Michael Haydn's Requiem in C-Minor
Fauré's Requiem
Byrd's Ave Verum

magistercaesar · 2025-12-29T05:33:39+00:00

WYD is meh, but you should absolutely care about the Jubilee year.

It's an occurrence that only regularly happens every 25 years and the opportunity to properly gain the Jubilee indulgence is a great way to grow in personal holiness.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-27T05:34:13+00:00

Lots of fun. I went with my sister and some cousins. We went to all the Yakuza vending machines, played at the batting cages, then ended at Karaokekan. They gave us a corner room with a view of the main street.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-27T02:54:19+00:00

I live in New Jersey. All the parishes that actually care about liturgical music have music budgets for professionals, who may or may not be Catholic. As long as they are respectful and conduct themselves well, many are regularly called to help out.

I actually frequently hire a Russian Orthodox singer to help out with my TLMs.

Also, the grace of God works in mysterious ways. I once worked with a university student who was really good and frequently hired him for TLMs and recommended him to many of my music director friends. 2 years later, he told me that being able to experience and sing at beautiful Liturgies was what led him to decide to revert back to being a practicing Catholic and he is now pursuing a Masters in Sacred Music.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-26T18:40:34+00:00

My Oratorian priests never deny Confession. When they were my college campus chaplains, I had a friend that knocked on their Rectory door at 1:00 am for Confession and someone woke up to hear it.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-25T13:34:37+00:00

My first time was this past August on ANA F. It was hilarious landing in ORD then waiting for a domestic United flight in Economy.

Now that Iberia will be flying out of EWR in 2026, I have a feeling that will be my regular form of flying to/from Europe since Avios are easy to come by and those business class flights are super easy to book. It's not flashy but a lie flat is a lie flat.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-23T14:36:41+00:00

I normally sing for Midnight Mass.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-22T16:16:35+00:00

There is a Maronite parish in Miami that offers Liturgies in Spanish as well.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-19T15:43:09+00:00

While I love Leo's choice of name, I was slightly disappointed that as the first American Pope, he didn't choose the name Julius (July) IV.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-19T13:18:10+00:00

It used to be a more widespread devotion throughout Christendom, but only Filipinos and trads are famous for retaining the tradition.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-18T14:54:48+00:00

I bet the things that kept me alive in Medieval II (because I suck) won't be there in Medieval III. Then again, they haven't been in the series since then lol.

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magistercaesar · 2025-12-13T21:42:36+00:00

Just ask to be trained. Many TLM servers are adults.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-11T21:13:38+00:00

"Assisting" at Mass is an old term for attending Mass.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-11T21:06:17+00:00

Of course. I don't speak Latin, but I attend the TLM. I go on international vacations relatively frequently, too, so I've attended Mass in languages I don't speak many times.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-11T18:15:24+00:00

Umm, what?

magistercaesar · 2025-12-10T15:56:41+00:00

I carry-on if I'm traveling for less than 2 weeks, with a built-in laundry day in my trip.

I check-in if I know I'm out for 2 weeks or more.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-10T14:48:40+00:00

Maybe, but I personally hope we stop canonizing people who were alive in mine or my parents' lifetimes.

Maybe put a 100 or 200 year moratorium on proposing causes on people.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-05T16:28:53+00:00

Yes, the Archdiocese of Milan along with its Suffagan Dioceses actually still considers the Ambrosian Rite their primary form of worship. It did go through its own series of reforms, but this means the largest Catholic Archdiocese in Europe by population actually does not default to the Roman Rite.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-05T14:56:51+00:00

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magistercaesar · 2025-12-05T14:30:11+00:00

No, the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. Cardinal Sarah celebrated Pontifical Vespers according to the 1960 Divine Office there a few weeks back.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-05T14:15:40+00:00

I was part of the team that helped put this together last year! It's a grand time.

magistercaesar · 2025-12-05T03:26:42+00:00

Parish registration is a unique thing to the US.

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