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

For the one year anniversary of the release of Summorum Pontificum, on 7 July, I asked you readers to post some of your own thoughts about what the Motu Proprio has meant to you, what the provisions have done for you, one way or another.

Your response has been generous and rich with interesting comments.

I warmly invite you to go over to that entry and spend some time reading through the responses. 

There are over 140 posted so far.

I am impressed and I think you will be too.

Thanks!

I got this note via e-mail:

Dear Fr Zuhlsdorf,

Since you were so kind as to post a blog entry about the creation of the new personal parish for the traditional Mass in Vancouver, I thought you would be interested to know that we now have a website:  www.holyfamilyvancouver.ca

In the next couple of days we should be posting some photos of the inaugural Mass on the Feast of the Precious Blood, and also the full text of the Archbishop’s decree establishing the parish, which is a grand document showing a clear understanding of the Holy Father’s intentions for the motu proprio.

I have to ask….

Is there anyone in the Anglican Communion really thinking that the Church of England, etc., will be taken more seriously if they consecrate woman as bishops?

The theologicai hermeneutic for the Anglican Communion seems to be the latest social trend.

When the next thing comes along…. say… polygamy or blessing pedophilia.  

As the social trends push on them, they cave in and nothing in Scripture in going to hold them back from caving in? 

Is this how they are going?

Like astronomers watching a sta go black, are we watching the death of a Church?

As I muse on these things, I open my mail to see the following from our friend, Fr. Dwight Longenecker:

As a former Anglican priest I am covering the Anglican crisis in some detail on my blog.

I have just posted advice for Anglican priests seeking to convert. I have included a free offer of my book, The Path to Rome—Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church. This is a book of mostly Anglican conversion stories.

To help in this ecumenical and evangelistic endeavor would you please put something about this on your blog? I know a good number of traditionalist Anglicans read your blog and it might offer them some encouragement and help.

Dictum factum.

Today we read that H.E. David L. Ricken, formerly of Cheyenne, WY, is now the new bishop of Green Bay, WI.

Also, as per the rumor reported yesterday, H.E. Angelo Amato, SBD, is now the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Fr. Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, SJ, takes Archbp Amato’s place as Secretary of the Cong. for Doctrine of the Faith.

No word yet on Divine Worship.