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I was tagged in a meme to open the closest book to page 56 and copy the 5th sentence, as well as two to five sentences following.

Le critiche non si fermarono.  Paolo VI dall’applicazione della riforma si aspettava «una felice diffusione della religione cattolica nel nostro tempo.  Chi poi profitta della riforma per darsi ad arbitari esperimenti, disperde energie e offende il senso ecclesiale» (udienza generale del 22 agosto 1973).

I am informed that Holy Mass was celebrated in the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Southwark, England on 6 December using the 1962 Missale Romanum.

A couple photos were sent.  Perhaps we’ll get more.

 





UPDATE:

the Celebrant was Fr Andrew Southwell,
Deacon Fr Peter Gee,
Sub-deacon Fr Chris Basden,
Preacher Canon James Cronin, Cathedral Dean
Master of Ceremonies Jason Kenny
Composer of the Mass & Motet Nicholas O’Neill, Organist, St George’s Cathedral
Director of Music Nick Gale, St George’s Cathedral
Organist Thomas Wilson, Precentor, Westminster Cathedral
Choir the Choir of St George’s Cathedral
 
The Mass was the first performance also of Nicholas O’Neill’s new Mass setting & Motet.


 

Check out the photos of the St. Nick’s "Boy Bishop" tradition posted by Fr. Longenecker at his place.

I just found a Twitter ap for my phone.  It’s a twitchy Twitter ap, that doesn’t seem to like working with my wifi.

I the meantime, I added a few followers yesterday and today.

We continue our look at the Super oblata or "Prayer over the gifts" for Masses during Advent.

SUPER OBLATA
Devotionis nostrae tibi, Domine, quaesumus,
hostia iugiter immoletur,
quae et sacri peragat instituta mysterii,
et salutare tuum nobis potenter operetur.

Today’s Super oblata is the same as that used for Wednesday of this week.

You can consult the entry HERE. 

The Sabine Farm is pretty socked in, today.  With effort I could get into town, but I am wondering just why I would do that.  The snow is blowing around pretty fiercely at the moment.

You can just make it out in this filmette, wherein the locals are consuming the little income I have.

 

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The little tree is doing well, fittingly perched today atop a volume of Horace’s Odes.  Winter seems not to bother this miniature Carmona microphylla in the least.


 

From a reader:

Dear Father Zuhlsdorf,
 

It is with great pleasure that I can report to you that Father Sean Donnelly of Immaculate Conception Church, Madison, Ohio (Cleveland Diocese) has committed to celebrating The Traditional Latin Mass on the first Sunday of each month starting in January 2009 at 12:30 pm. The intention is to eventually have one a week.
 
Many prayers are being answered!
 
Is there any way you can publicize this for us? There are many in our area that view your website, and read your column in The Wanderer. It could help us get the word out.
 
Thanks in advance. May our good Lord bless and protect you!

According to Damian Thompson the name of the the next Archbishop of Westminster might be be announced on January 2

I am sure you will join me in wishing His Hermeneuticalness well.  The odds are long… but hey!

Posted By: Damian Thompson at Dec 6, 2008 at 12:36:00

The name of the next Archbishop of Westminster will be announced on January 2, according to a senior aide to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.

I can’t guarantee that he’s right; I’m just passing on a piece of information from someone who ought to know. Alas, there was no hint as to who the Cardinal’s successor will be.

The assumption in clergy circles is that the choice will be between Archbishop Nichols of Birmingham and Archbishop Smith of Cardiff. But – and I can hardly believe I am saying this – don’t rule out a former champion figure skater who has plenty of admirers in Rome.

That’ll be an interesting dilemma for me, won’t it? +Arthur at Westminster. Common sense tells me that, whoever gets the job, I should be drawing a line under the past. But the goings-on in Leeds were truly disturbing: the dispossessed elderly people of suppressed parishes – whose requests for an interview with Bishop Roche went unacknowledged – are certainly finding it difficult drawing a line under them.

What we shouldn’t expect, alas, is an outsider, an appointment that will mark a decisive break with the mediocrity of the past. The Pope is not a free agent; all but a few of his decisions are effectively made for him by institutional machinery operated by friends and allies of the Magic Circle. Senior clergy have been working overtime (and notching up air miles) to make sure that it will be business as usual after +Cormac steps down. And, crucially, they have the ear of the Nuncio.

But, as I was saying the other day, the culture of the Catholic Church is beginning to change. So, however unimaginative the appointment to Westminster, the new Archbishop will have to deal with younger laity and clergy who, while not rejecting Vatican II, look to the preconciliar Church for inspiration. Also, the consecration of England’s first truly conservative (or radically orthodox) bishop can only be a matter of time. So, believe it or not, things will eventually get better.

Meanwhile… back at paddy power.

From a reader:

I just realised that the newly approved Canadian NRSV lectionary is now officially in use with the First Sunday of Advent, and I was wondering if you or your readers had a chance to encounter it yet. I was visiting Hong Kong, and one of the parishes actually use the Novalis Sunday Missals 2008-2009 edition. On the copyright page, I noticed that the scriptural texts are drawn from the Lectionary for Sundays and Solemnities© Concacan, 2008. So for what it was worth, I perused through the texts. Although I didn’t have time to really study the texts, I found out that:
 
(1) The angelic salutation for Mary, instead of NRSV’s banal "Greetings, favored one" was changed to "Hail, full of grace" in the new NRSV lectionary,
(2) In the account of creation, instead of NRSV’s"So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.", the new lectionary has "So God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him, male and femaile he created them."
(3) And in Galatians 4, in the famous sonship texts, NRSV originally had:
"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ?Abba! Father!? So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.
 
But in the new NRSV lectionary, we have:
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons and daughters, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ?Abba! Father!? So you are no longer slave but son, and if son then also heir, through God.
 
I didn’t have time to study the rest of the texts, nor could I take the missal out of church, but it looks really promising after all. I wonder if you have had a chance to study the new NRSV lectionary in depth?

Mass is at 1500 GMT (UK) 1000 EST (NYC) 1600 CET (Roma).

Join your prayers to the Holy Sacrifice wherever you are. 

I am glad to have a relic of St. Nicholas in the chapel.

Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas.

At the snowy Sabine Farm there is a relic of this great saint in the chapel.



There are several relics in this old reliquary.

Here we have St. Nicholas, St. Blaise, St. Joachim, St. Ann and St. Paul, Apostle.

The rivalry of Scandinavian countries continues in a very happy way.   This is from a reader:

Dear Father,

As you recently posted about Finland, I thought I´d let your readers know what is happening in Sweden, the largest Northern country. (Finland, by the way, was long a part of Sweden.)

For 3 ½ years, the Institute of Christ the King has been visiting Sweden, with the blessing of the Bishop of Stockholm, H.E. Anders Arborelius, OCD. Msgr Schmitz, Vicar General of the Institute, has met with His Lordship twice. Most of the time, it is Father Marcus Künkel who comes for Mass. There have already been weddings and baptisms in the "usus antiquior". In Rome, one the the Swedish diocesan seminarians helps serving the Institute´s mass on Sundays and feasts.

Beside these visits, there are now, thanks to "Summorum pontificum",  three diocesan priests and two Religious (a Franciscan and a young Dominican) who regularly celebrate holy Mass in the classical rite. Mass in the traditional rite is presently being celebrated regularly in Stockholm, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Jonsered and Lund.

One may visit the website of the Association to the Memory of Cardinal Dante (at http://www.kristkonung.se/ ), where a certain amount of information and Mass schedules are given also in English and French. The Association is working torwards a renaissance of the Gregorian liturgy and Gregorian chant in Sweden.

The Association also keeps a blog at http://dantesnyheter.kristkonung.se/

With many greetings and prayers,

___

P.-S. The Society of Saint Pius X visits Scandinavia each month. Since 1998, I believe.
They have three Swedish seminarians of which two are to be ordained next summer.

From a reader:

Father, a happy and blessed Advent, and if you would be so kind:

This Sunday at 4:00pm the last Extraordinary Form Mass of the semester will be offered at Franciscan University, in Christ the King Chapel.

This is the last Sunday Mass of the semester.  How incredible is the progress, from fighting and fearing we had lost, to having the final Sunday send-off being in the TLM…