Fr. Longenecker - follow up poem to the ad orientem post
Remember that great post from Fr. Longenecker about talking with the High School aged boys about ad orientem celebration?
I especially enjoyed…
"It feels more holy ... it feels like you are offering the Mass for us more … I think it feels more, well, manly."
There is a follow up. This time in poetic form!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008Well said!
New PoemFr. Dwight LongeneckerA Student’s Plea
No, no, Father, please don’t toss the mike
like a DJ when you preach. Please don’t be cool.
Please don’t ride a Harley motorbike
when you come to school.
Don’t wear red cowboy boots for Pentecost,
and tell dumb jokes to be our pal. Please don’t ‘high five’,
say, “Sweet!” “Awwsome!” “You suck!” “You’re toast!”
or teach us how to jive.
Don’t sing along to the latest pop band;
you don’t need to be hip and up to date,
or come to our parties with a drink in your hand,
trying to relate.
Play it straight. Say the black and do the red. [Well put, even though I do say so myself!]
Refrain from politics and rainbow pins.
Pray for all of us, the living and the dead,
and listen to our sins.
We want you to keep the faith, you see,
but keep it as it was. We want it old.
We want it to be waiting there when we
come in from the cold.
We want you to be our Father, not our mate.
We want a solid rock; so when we roam,
we know you’ll be there, waiting at the gate,
to welcome us home.





































Today is Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus Ordo as it is in the older, Traditional Roman Calendar. 
The Real Presence of the Eucharistic Lord remains so long as the "accidents", those outward sensible signs, are able to be distinguished. As a result we must be pay attention to any corruption of the substance of what was once bread, now the Host, which still has its material characteristics. If there is any degradation of the material characteristis, it is best simply to consume what there is and consecrate another Host.
Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos to Celebrate Pontifical High Mass in the Traditional Latin Rite in Westminster Cathedral, Saturday 14 June 2008