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Monthly Archives: September 2011
19 September 2011
Your good news and your Sunday sermon recollections
Let’s start out the work week with some of your good news.
And give us also a good point from the sermon you heard on Sunday!
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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QUAERITUR: Bowing during the Creed
From a reader:
Why do we bow during the Nicene Creed for the lines “by the power of the holy spirit…” and who started this practice?
These lines are at the heart of the Creed. They are, as it were, the pivot … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged bowing, genuflecting, Nicene Creed, Peter of Cluny
43 Comments
“Copernican Revolution”? Not!
Our friends at Rorate have published part of something from Messa in latino, speculation about the “Doctrinal Preamble” offered by the CDF to the SSPX during their meeting of 14 September, last. I wrote about that here.
The speculation rises to … Continue reading
“And a little child shall lead them”. A reaction to the new, corrected ICEL translation.
In England, Catholics are already using the new, corrected ICEL translation of the Order of Mass. Fr. Finigan, mighty p.p. of Blackfen, has an interesting post about a reaction to the new, harder words in the Creed.
Excerpt:
The mother of a … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Isaiah 11:6
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Revising and updating the 1962 Missale Romanum
Sandro Magister at Chiesa has in interesting piece about the activity of the Holy See.
Here is a little bit of what he offered.
VATICAN CITY, September 19, 2011 – “The activity of the Holy See” is a hefty volume that gives … Continue reading
Where Chinese food and translations intersect… sort of
Every day I check the site Engrish. It has photos of amusing “translations” of East Asian languages into “Engrish”.
I see that Sancte Pater has also found Engrish. He posted, inter alia, a shot today.
Since I post often about Chinese food… … Continue reading
Card. Piacenza interviewed
On ZENIT there is part 1 of an interview with His Eminence Mauro Card. Piacenza, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.
I have heard Card. Piacenza speak several times and I was impressed. He has issued some good things as Prefect … Continue reading
18 September 2011
Dr. Peter’s responds to Dr. Kreeft
I posted a piece by Peter Kreeft who opined that it would be good for one hundred anti-abortion-graphic-image-totin’ bishops to be thrown in jail as a witness against abortion. Among other consequences, the press could not ignore the message.
I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Linking Back, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, Ed Peters, Peter Kreeft
36 Comments
CARA study on trends for parishes, Mass attendance
Over at the Fishwrap, their elder-dissenter Richard McBrien posted a column about shifts in Mass attendance. He works from a study about the “‘Supersizing’ the U.S. Catholic Parish Life” conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) … Continue reading
Bishops of England and Wales unveil their future priorities
It has happened int the past, that the Vicar of Christ has traveled to a place, was met with great enthusiasm, caused a bump, a wave in Catholic identity, and after a fairly short period of time everything went back … Continue reading
“Not because I hate bishops, because I love them.”
I have made the argument that John Paul II slowly shifted the character of the episcopate in the USA. Eventually, the balance shifted. The balance is shifting in presbyterates. The balance is shifting in seminaries.
When the numbers grow high enough, … Continue reading
An NLM collaborator ordained priest today!
NLM reports that their collaborator Br. Lawrence Lew of Blackfriars, Oxford, was ordained priest today.
WDTPRS kudos to Fr. Lew!
Technorati Tags: Blackfriars, Fr. Lawrence Lew, NLM, Oxford
Posted in The Campus Telephone Pole, WDTPRS KUDOS
Tagged Blackfriars, Fr. Lawrence Lew, NLM, Oxford
3 Comments
17 September 2011
WDTPRS – 14th Sunday after Pentecost: the finger and healths and hands
Sunday’s Collect for the Extraordinary Form survived the snipping and pasting of the Consilium and the late Rev. Annibale Bugnini’s liturgical experts to be used on Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent.
COLLECT (1962MR):
Custodi, Domine, quaesumus,
Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua:
et quia … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged Annibale Bugnini, Consilium, digitus salutaris, finger, Good Samaritan, Mercutio, propitiation, Romeo and Juliet, slippery slope, St. Thomas Aquinas
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FR. FINIGAN is up for a “new media” award.
My friend Fr. Tim Finigan’s blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, is up for an award.
Will you show some appreciation for the work he does?
He is in the Most Inspiring Leadership category.
On the award site we read:
The final stage of the … Continue reading
RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST
Here are a few posts of interest as the scrooooool along.
Saints of pots and pans, shipwrecks, beheading, and music both mystical and sublime
About Galileo, churches and the sun
Great photos of Card. Burke’s Mass at Fontgombault
Four Words Which Can Complicate Your … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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