Serialization foreword

Take a ride in this witty classic combining the wandering adventures by gasoline of two priests who address liturgical deviations.

Each story intertwines the Liturgiologist (providing rubrical commentary) and the Antiquary (providing historical insights), a passion for automobiles, and a healthy sprinkling of Latin phrases.

Have flivver? Will travel and critique!

Written in 1928, some terms may escape younger readers, so explanatory footnotes have been included where necessary as well as further references or commentary about the Liturgiologist’s or Antiquary’s musings.

2. The Liturgiologist is Distracted at Prayer!

3. The Antiquary Asks Some Questions

4. The Liturgiologist Rescued

5. Bells and Boys

6. The Prayers after Low Mass

7. Mistakes of Altar Boys Again

8. Handling the Censer

9. Confessionals

10. Candles at Funerals

11. Out of Gas for an Hour

13. On Christmas Decorations

14. A Christmas Ceremony [kneeling for the Credo]

15. Utilitarian Ceremonial

16. Hot Air and Pulpits

18. Side "altars" or "shrines"

19. Amices and Purificators

20. Peregrinus goes to the Eucharistic Congress

21. The Care of Holy Oils

22. The Asperges Ceremony

23. Communion of the Sick

24. The Long and Short of It

26. The Use of the Biretta

27. Summer Vestments

28. Local Customs

30. Sisters and Ceremonies

31. Bungling Benediction

32. Dum Ta Dee Dee

33. "Twinkle, Twinkle, little - "

34. Submissa voce

35. Cum dignitate

36. PUSCO'S

37. Latin, Italian or English?

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