What Does The Prayer Really Say?
W D T P R S

After solving a few of my techincal problems, which made getting the last couple PODCAzTs made and promulgated so arduuous, today I am having environmental problems!

It seems like everytime I settle into get something done, the phone squawks or FedEx rings the doorbell.  Now, the lawn is being mowed.  And it is a big lawn!  To get the whole thing mowed it takes about 20 gallons of gas and a whole day on a large noisy anti-PODCAzT tractorlike beast of a….

In any event, I guess I can get some of the other production details out of the way. 

Years ago I wrote A prayer before connecting to the internet.  It now appears in many translations.  I have been gathering them together on one page here at WDTPRS.

I am please to have found a verison in Filipino.  I am not sure if this is the same a Tagalog.  Someone can let me know.

I am very pleased to receive new versions.  I would VERY much like an audio file, from native speakers, of the prayer being pronounced in different languages.

FILIPINO

Isang panalangin bago pumasok sa internet:
Diyos na makapangyarihan at walang hanggan,
na lumikha sa amin ayon sa Iyong imahen
at nagtagubiling hanapin ang lahat ng mabuti, totoo, at maganda,
lalo na sa  banal na persona ng Bugtong Mong Anak, ang aming Panginoong Hesukristo,
nagsusumamo kami na Iyong tulungan,
sa pamamagitan ni San Isidro, Obispo at Doktor,
sa aming mga paglalakbay sa internet
na akayin lamang ang aming mga kamay at mata sa nakalulugod sa Iyo
at pakitunguhan nang may habag at tiyaga ang lahat ng kaluluwang makikilala.
Sa pamamagitan ni Kristong aming Panginoon. Amen

In many official statements and articles which are less than warm in their reception of Summorum Pontificum we find curious claims along the lines that "not many churches are suited to the older form of Mass". 

Oh really?

You remember the video I posted showing the transformation of an very modern looking table altar into a rather nice altar for the older form of Mass.  I will include it again, below.

In that same vein, Shawn Tribe over at NLM has these before and after shots.  Look at that ghastly space and what they did with the altar.





Don’t even THINK of saying that the older form of Mass cannot be celebrated in a church just because it doesn’t look like some some revival style building from the 1920’s.

Have you even seen the fairly awful chapel of the FSSP seminary in Wigratzbad?

 

Here we go!  Show this to a priest or liturgist who says that the altar or church is "not suited" to the older form of Mass.

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I was alerted by my friend Fr. AL, to whom I tip the tricorno   o{]:¬)  that the über-liberal National Public Radio on its Morning Edition had a piece by Sylvia Poggioli on the older form of Mass.  The title:

Catholics Concerned Latin Mass Not Progressive

With the exception of a strong accurate soundbite from my dear friend Raphaela Schmid of the Becket Institute (who recently produced a fabulous DVD/video "God In China"), this piece from NPR was ridiculous.  You can hear in it almost every cliché along with a strong does of hysteria. 

Some high points.  

Pope Benedict’s move harks to the Inquisition.

• It is an attempt to turn back the clock.
• This is a "counter reformation" against the Council and religious freedom.
• Jews are offended.
• It is slap in the face of John Paul II’s ecumenical efforts.
• "Traditionalists" refer to the older Mass "in code"  (sound like a reference to that DaVinci thing?)
• The old Mass will create divisions.
• She gets one thing right: she says that Benedict is trying to reestablish a Catholic identity.

As you listen, remember that this is from NPR.
 

FYI, the link to the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum was removed from the Holy See’s main page today.

It is still available here.

Notice that there are still no official translations!