What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Please accept, O WDTPRSers, both active and lurking, my gratitude for what you have been doing lately.

First, your support has helped WDTPRS be the front runner for two blog awards.   In the 2007 Weblog Awards we did respectably well.  The voting is closed as of 8 November.  We are also doing well in the ongoing 2008 Blogger’s Choice Awards, even after the oddities that took place.  Your support helps put Catholic blogs in the spotlight and provides benchmarks which help WDTPRS remain on solid footing.

Second, several people have lately used the donation button, either on the left side bar or on the audio project pages.  Thanks very much.  Since I pretty much have to support most of what I do by writing, your help is very welcome. 

Also, many thanks to the kind soul, MF of CA who sent me a copy of Tertullian, Cyprian & Origen On The Lord’s Prayer from my Amazon wish list.  As a matter of fact, I received several nice things via the list recently, which sure brightened up my days!

I add here many thanks to JH of MN who sent me a copy of Boniface Ramsey’s Ambrose, a very good and useful book!  It arrived today as a lovely surprise!

On Friday, 9 November, the Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, I will bring a list of recent donors with me to the altar and happily remember you at the Memento (of the living!).

On Friday, I’ll be saying Mass at 1100 EST - (1800 CET - Rome)

Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? 

Today we will hear the prayers for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost in the 1962 Missale Romanum.  The texts for this Mass are from the 5th Sunday left after Epiphany.   This is explained at length in a recent article in The Wanderer.  I speak all the prayers and readings and also sing the Collect and Post Communion prayers in the Festal Tone.

http://www.wdtprs.com/prayercazt/071108_24_post_pent.mp3

If priests who are learning to say the older form of Holy Mass can get these prayers in their ears, they will be able to pray them with more confidence. So, priests are my very first concern.  However, these audio projects can be of great help to lay people who attend Holy Mass in the Traditional, or extraordinary form: by listening to them ahead of time, and becoming familiar with the sound of the before attending Mass, they will be more receptive to the content of the prayers and be aided in their full, conscious and active participation.

My pronunciation of Latin is going to betray something of my nationality, of course. Men who have as their mother tongue something other than English will sound a little different.  However, we are told that the standard for the pronunciation of Latin in church is the way it is spoken in Rome.  Since I have spent a lot of time in Rome, you can be pretty sure my accent will not be too far off the mark.

I deliver them more slowly than I would ordinarily during Mass.  But hopefully the pace will help you hear the words a little more clearly.

If this was useful to you, let your priest friends know this resource is available.  And kindly make a little donation using the donation button on the left side bar of the blog or or by clicking here.  This is a labor of love, but those donations really help.  And don’t forget to check out the PODCAzTs!

Pray for me, listen carefully, and practice practice practice.

Nota bene: With the beginning of a new liturgical year at the 1st Sunday of Advent, I will be evaluating whether or not I want to continue to do these audio projects based on the download statistics.  Good stats – PRAYERCAzTs – Bad stats – .... cf. Hamlet V.ii.363

Frequent reader/commentor Henry gets a biretta tip  o{]:¬)  for letting me know about this following:

Heartland Catholic Podcast: Interview with Father Zuhlsdorf

After an exceptionally opinionated and interesting inaugural episode, the Heartland Catholic Podcast is back! In this episode we have a few comments about the previous podcast’s interview with Bishop Williamson, a roundup of Catholic news from the previous week, and an interview with Father John Zuhlsdorf: priest, author, blogger, and liturgical commentator. We ask him about Summorum Pontificum, what it was meant to address, what does it mean, and what will be its effect on the Church. We also invite your feedback on the podcast at heartlandcatholic@gmail.com.

Links from the podcast:

Father Z’s blog: http://www.wdtprs.com/blog
The Wanderer Press: http://www.thewandererpress.com
Sancta Missa: SanctaMissa.org: http://www.sanctamissa.org

Length: 42 minutes 46 seconds

Direct link to the audio: http://www.heartlandcatholic.org/hccast/20071107__0001__Interview_with_Father_John_Zuhlsdorf__32.mp3

I was alerted by RM to whom I tip my biretta  o{]:¬)  for the following tid bit buried in a Bulletin issued by the University of St. Thomas.  I don’t have a degree from UST, but I did take many philosophy courses there while I was a grad student at the Univ. of Minnesota.  The recent hijinx at UST caught our attention a couple weeks back.  Remember this story?

For a long time there has been some debate about whether UST is really a "Catholic school" any longer.  That could be said for any number of colleges and universities in the USA, of course.

So, please read this and think about it.

In the 8 November UST Bulletin we read about the doings at the fall Board of Trustees meeting.  My emphases:

One very upbeat moment during the plenary session came when the board saluted Archbishop Harry Flynn for his leadership as chairman since 1995. The board presented him with a framed certificate of appreciation that said: "Champion of Catholic higher education and model of servant leadership, intellectual and moral courage, you exemplify caritas, the greatest of all Christian virtues. You do us honor, and we thank you."

Implementing a process the Board Affairs Committee began last February, the board also elected Archbishop Flynn to a five-year term as chairman of the board after making appropriate changes to the university’s bylaws which heretofore had stipulated that the ordinary (head) of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis serve ex officio as chairman.

....

These changes as well as others made previously reflect recommendations made to us five years ago by the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities when it reviewed with our board best governance practices. One AGB recommendation was to conform our bylaws to what is now the common practice among Catholic colleges and universities: to elect the board’s chairman and vice chairman.

Hitherto, the Archbishop and Vicar General always served on the Board ex officio.  It was a Catholic school.

 

WDTPRS is on the list for the 2007 Weblog Awards.

Great!  Thanks to all of you!

The voting is open and WDTPRS is making a strong showing.

People can vote more than once, but only once in a 24 hour period.

Polls close November 8, 2007 so do please vote every day.

Click here or the logo on the right to got to the voting page.

UPDATE:

Someone wrote to let me know that one of the other finalists making a strong showing has mentioned WDTPRS on his blog.  This is rather amusing.  Over at Evangelical Outpost:

While I’m a Catholic-friendly evangelical, I can’t just allow Fr. John Zuhlsdorf from What Does The Prayer Really Say? to whoop me (he’s currently ahead 130-77) without showing our Catholic brothers and sisters that we can turn our the Reformed vote. Fr. Z may be predestined to win, but let providence decide that after you cast your ballot.