Help Dominican Nuns! Buy some handcrafted soap.
-
-
Click and say your “Daily Offering”
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Buy “Say The Black Do The Red” stuff
Fr. Z likes his Kindle!
Our Lady of the Clergy, Pray for us!
Because you asked…
Monthly Archives: June 2006
30 June 2006
30 June: Proto-martyrs of Rome
In 412 St. Augustine was preaching on the meaning of a psalm in the city of Carthage.
Remember that Augustine had stenographers who wrote with astonishing accuracy everything he said. You can hear the "oratorical" quality of this piece. You … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
1 Comment
29 June 2006
Bp Lynch on the translation
Bishop Lynch of Florida has begun to comment on the new translation (which is still in preparation). I was amused to read:
new principles of translation were forthcoming which insisted on a slavish, strict translation of the Latin text
LOL!! Look… I … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
3 Comments
Oath and Prayers of the Pallium
Today during Holy Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter, near to Peter’s tomb, the Holy Father gave the pallium to new metropolitan archbishops. I didn;t have a front row seat, but I wasn’t too far back either. There some … Continue reading
Posted in My View, SESSIUNCULA
6 Comments
29 June – Sts. Peter & Paul: COLLECT
This Collect is in part inspired by that of the parallel prayer in the 1962 Missale Romanum. However, it seems to be a rather new creation, if not entirely new.
COLLECT: Deus, qui huius diei venerandam sanctamque laetitiam in … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
1 Comment
Augustine on Sts. Peter and Paul
This is a great day for the Roman Church and the Catholic Church throughout the world. Let’s get some insight into the importance of Peter and Paul through the writings of St. Augustine. Here is a starter from s. 295.
1. … Continue reading
Posted in Patristiblogging, SESSIUNCULA
1 Comment
28 June 2006
“Shouts” better come in out of the sun
I wonder if Guy has been spending too much time out there in the Piazza under the blazing hot sun!?
o{];¬)
He wrote:
the NCR (you know…the "Wanderer" of the left)
Now, really! That isn’t the case at all. The NCR … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
5 Comments
Roman Canon 1: The Preface
EXCERPT:
I am not an advocate of boisterous liturgy, but sometimes when I hear these prayers, and I sense the depth and the breadth of them through countless generations bursting from well-springs of Christian experience nourished by the actual blood of those who first prayed them, and I hear responses at Mass which are anemic, pale, timid, feeble, thin, mumbled, I simply want to stop everything, take people by the collective hands and say: “Do you NOT GET THIS??!†Continue reading
The Roman Catechism on Pro Multis
This is extracted and edited from an article in the WDTPRS print version in The Wanderer published in 2004.
Many arguments have been forwarded to justify the choice to translate pro multis as “for all”. In Latin pro multis means … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Comments Off
I have no comments to make
So, off they go! A delegation led by Archbishop Claudio Celli has been in China since Sunday, June 25.
Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong told AsiaNews that the visit is "a friendly gesture," but added that "I do not expect … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Comments Off
Of summer baptisms and spray can clothing
Everywhere in the northern hemisphere diligent and charitable priests have, I hope, reminded their flocks how they ought to dress when they come to church. Rather, they will have at least reminded them how not to dress. Right now there … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
11 Comments
27 June 2006
Pro multis
In the left-wing English The Tablet (June 24, 2006), there is an interesting bit about the “pro multis” issue. Emphasis mine:
“Turning down some proposals, the bishops noted the ‘expressed intention of the Holy See’ to decide … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
13 Comments
The Bartolucci Chronicles: 2
Sandro Magister has weighed into the concert in the Sistina with Dominco Bartolucci in the presence of the Roman Pontiff. I commented on this already.
Here is Sandro. Very interesting:
The person responsible for Bartolucci’s removal in 1997 was the master of … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Comments Off
Aggiornamento and ressourcement
An esteemed commenter noted in another entry that
aggiornamento and ressourcement must go hand in hand in order to be faithful to both. For without ressourcement, aggiornamento loses its bearings, and with out aggiornamento, ressourcement fails to effectively fulfill any … Continue reading
Posted in Patristiblogging, SESSIUNCULA
Comments Off
Pondering the Bartolucci issue
Pope Benedict doesn’t do things with out reasons.
At the concert the other day, which you have all read about by now, the Pope said: "Sacred polyphony, especially the so-called ‘Roman school,’ is a legacy that must be carefully conserved, … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Comments Off
