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

Here is a quick PODCAzT which includes a conversation over skype with His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Timothy Finigan, parish priest in Blackfen, Kent. 

Then I go on with multiple digressions about a special blessings in the pre-Conciliar Rituale Romanum for the feast of Epiphany.

So, in this project we talk quite a bit about indulgences and sacramentals.
http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/10_01_04.mp3

The music at the beginning is from Respighi’s Roman Festivals.

A useful text:

BENEDICTIO AURI, THURIS ET MYRRHAE IN FESTO EPIPHANIAE

V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
R. Qui fecit caelum et terram.
V. Dominus vobiscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.

Oremus.
Suscipe, sancte Pater, a me indigno famulo tuo haec munera, quae in honorem nominis tui sancti, et in titulum omnipotentiae tuae majestatis, humiliter tibi offero: sicut suscepisti sacrificium Abel justi, et sicut eadem munera a tribus Magis tibi quondam offerentibus suscepisti.

Exorcizo te, creatura auri, thuris et myrrhae, per Pa + trem omnipotentem, per Jesum + Christum Fiium ejus unigenitum, et per Spiritum + Sanctum Paraclitum: ut a te discedat omnis fraus, dolus, et nequitia diaboli, et sis remedium salutare humano generi contra insidias inimici: et quicumque divino freti auxílio te in suis loculis, domibus, aut circa se habuerint, per virtutem et merita Domini et Salvatonis nostri, ac intercessionem ejus sanctissimae Genitricis et Virginis Mariae, ac eorum, qui hodie similibus muneribus Christum Dominum venerati sunt, omniumque Sanctorum, ab omnibus periculis animae et corporis liberentur, et bonis omnibus perfrui mereantur.  R. Amen.

Deus invisibilis et interminabilis, pietatem tu per sanctum et tremendum Fulii tui nomen, suppliciter deprecamur: ut in hanc creatuuram auri, thuris, myrrhae bene + dictionem ac operationem tuae virtutis infundas: ut, qui ea penes se habuerint, ab omni aegritudinis et laesi incursu tuti sint; et omnes morbos corporis animae effugiant, nullum dominetur eis periculum et laeti, ac incolumes tibi in Ecclesia tua deserviant: Qui in Trinitate perfecta vivis et regnas Deus per omnia saecu1a saeculorum.  R. Amen.

Et benedictio Dei omnipotentis, Pa + tris, et Fi + lii, et Spiritus + Sancti, descendat super hanc creaturam auri, thuris et myrrhae, et maneat semper.  R. Amen.

 

But first, a digression to whet your appetite.

Remember that whole business of a petition by those who are determined to resist the new translation of the Roman Missal?

A reader here sent me an interesting observation:

‘Anonymous’ Asks Bishops to Wait and See

Friends, I scrolled down the list (well, the beginning of the list) of names of the signers of this petition [link]. I was frankly surprised to see the number of ‘signers’ listed there such as the following: "Anonymous—- Religious—- NY", "Anonymous—- Lay Person—- Washington". C’mon, get off it. Is this list really supposed to impress anyone, let alone a bishop? Anonymous Religious? Anonymous Lay Minister? Are they really afraid of some kind of unwelcome retribution from a Superior for saying something as radical as that they have reservations about the new translations and want an experiment? Is that so dangerous a sentiment? What are they afraid of, hate mail? (If so, they’d better not ever look into my in-box!) Or do they just lack the courage of their convictions? Or do they really exist at all? Is someone, maybe, just adding ‘Anonymous’ signers in an ACORN-like fraud to make it seem like there’s an issue here? ..... I’m just asking….

"But Father! But Father!", you are no doubt saying by now.  "What are you about?  What’s this got to do with your ALERT and that request to other bloggers?"

Perpend.

In reference to that dissident petition, a priest has started another petition in support of the new translation.  Had the priest in question alerted me to this earlier, I would have linked to it earlier.  But… here it is.


I hope you will give that petition some honest support.

There are not yet many signers.  I hope you will get on board.



UPDATE 19 Dec 1649 GMT:


I see there are now over 1150+ signatures.  This is over 100% increase since I posted this.  Thanks! 

Also, I am glad to see that most of you are not signing as anonymous.  Signing a real name of some kind will help distinguish this petition from that other one.

Speaking of that other petition, an alert WDTPRS reader sent me the following note:

Fr. Z

These two ‘women priests’ want a trial period before they are required to introduce the new translation to their congregations?

Judith Heffernan, M.Div

Priest

Unofficially Philadelphia

USA

Rev. Suzanne Avison Thiel

Priest

RCWP Portland, Oregon

USA

The above are two signatories to the "Why don’t we just wait?" petition… hilarious.

Here is a spur of the moment PODCAzT which I put together in record speed!  As I approach 100 PODCAzTs I am trying to figure out what I want to do with these audio projects, change formats, keep going, or if I should hang it up.  So, doing this quickly today, taught me a few things.

In any event, today I was moved by something I read in the Office of Readings, in the Liturgia horarum, an excerpt from Letter 2 of St. Ambrose of Milan (+397) to a shiny new bishop, a fellow named Constantius about whom we know little.  Ambrose gives the new bishop some advice, especially about how to teach and the source of his teaching.

A friend of mine from my native place, Bishop-Elect Paul Sirba, is going to be consecrated soon as the new Bishop of Duluth.  On Friday 11 Dec, in the Cathedral of St. Paul, in St. Paul, there will be a vespers service in the manner of a farewell to their native son as he goes off to a new place in a new role for Mother Church.  Since I cannot be there to fare him well, I offer the words of Ambrose as a little homage.  I am sure he read them today, on the threshold of his departure from his home and friends, and pondered them with emotion.  We shall pray for him.

Then I wax poetical about winter as we in the Northern Hemisphere descend into longer nights and icy chill.  The changes of seasons move me and cause me to think about life, the universe and everything.

In the course of this you may hear some music from Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice Vol. 3 and Vol. 2.

Included is one of my favorite Advent/Christmas tunes, based on a poem by Christina Rossetti set by Gustav Holst.


http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/09_12_07.mp3

Today we welcome St. Francis Xavier, SJ (+1552) who speaks to us from a letter he wrote to his superior, friend, mentor and fellow Basque, St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. 

On his feast day, we St. Francis’ feelings on finding a group of unformed Christians in India.  I think this is relevant to our situation today, and I expand on that.

Also, we have another installment of stories about the fictional don Camillo Tarocci, (+ A.D. ... ?) parish priest of "The Little World".

Some time ago, I began a to read stories from The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi.  There is a Don Camillo tag you can use to find the others easily. 

These delightful pieces are set in post-war Northern Italy. 

They blend brilliant insight into the human condition with solid applied Catholic Faith. 

Today we hear the story:

 

http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/09_12_03.mp3

 

An oldie PODCAzT about an Advent hymn.

As I wrote back then:

I decided during Advent to drill into the hymns in the Liturgia Horarum. 

We begin today with the hymn for Vespers called Conditor alme siderum, with its variation Creator alme siderum as it was in Breviarium Romanum. 

I dissect this hymn and we hear different translations and many musical version.

I ramble a bit.  No… I ramble a great deal.   We get into an amusing comparison of two Latin verbs… always hilarious and interesting.   You Latin students will be ROFL, because that’s what Latin students do with this stuff.  No. Really.

Then we veer sharply into Roman agriculture and cooking. 

Then we get into a book that screwed up the world, by Jean Jacques Rousseau.  And I talk about a book that talks about books that screwed up the world.

Sing the hymns! Buy a Liber Hymnarius!

 

You will hear various versions of the famous hymn along the way!

Based on your response to PODCAzT 93 & 94, and my own desire to drill more deeply into the issue, we welcome back as our guest Pope Paul VI (+1978).

In PART I we explored Paul’s General Audience of 26 November 1969, a few days before the Novus Ordo Missae went into force.  In PART II we heard his General Audience of 19 Nov 1969 when he begins to address the changes people were about to experience.

In this PODCAzT we will hear Pope Paul’s Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum. with which he promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae

We are coming up on the 40th Anniversary of the implementation of the Novus Ordo in the Latin Church.

That was Forty years ago on 30 Nov 1969 .  It was the 1st Sunday of Advent.

We are facing our own challenges today, with changes to the English translation and also the reintegration of the pre-Conciliar form of Mass in the life of the Church, thanks to Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum.

The questions Pope Paul asked back in 1969 are valid for us as well.

You will hear Paul Paul’s General Audience text along with my commentary.

We start with a pop hit from 1969… just to set the stage.

 

Based on your response to PODCAzT 93, and my own desire to drill more deeply into the issue, we welcome back as our guest Pope Paul VI (+1978).

In the last PODCAzT we explored Paul’s General Audience of 26 November 1969, a few days before the Novus Ordo Missae went into force.  This time we turn the clock back one more week to his General Audience of 19 Nov 1969 when he begins to address the changes people were about to experience.

We are coming up on the 40th Anniversary of the implementation of the Novus Ordo in the Latin Church.

That was Forty years ago on 30 Nov 1969 .  It was the 1st Sunday of Advent.

We are facing our own challenges today, with changes to the English translation and also the reintegration of the pre-Conciliar form of Mass in the life of the Church, thanks to Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum.

The questions Pope Paul asked back in 1969 are valid for us as well.

You will hear Paul Paul’s General Audience text along with my commentary.

Be careful if you have headphones or earphones... the beginning is a bit jarring.  I meant it to be jarring.

 

We are coming up on the 40th Anniversary of the implementation of the Novus Ordo in the Latin Church.

Forty years ago on 30 Nov 1969 the Novus Ordo went into force.  It was the 1st Sunday of Advent.

Therefore, we welcome as our guest Pope Paul VI (+1978) who gave a General Audience 26 Nov 1969 address on the subject of the changes people were about to experience.

It is interesting to return to such a moment, in the face of the changes we are facing today with the reintegration of the older, traditional form of Holy Mass through the provisions of Summorum Pontificum and the change in the English translation of the Novus Ordo.

You will hear Paul Paul’s General Audience text along with my commentary. 

The pop music selections were all hits from 1969.   Their choice is also part of my commentary.

 

LISTEN TO PART II

I dissected a hymn to Christ the King in PODCAzT 74.

What a PODCAzT looks like when it is done.



092 09-10-04 Gregory the Great to bishops on preaching the hard stuff; Harvest Moon

In this audio project, St. Gregory the Great (+604) tells priests about the need to preach also the hard stuff. 

Bishops especially must not be afraid to preach the truth, or worry about human respect.  They have a duty to the flock, whom they must protect like a wall before the face of the enemy.

A timely message for priests and bishops of today.  I rant about that for a bit.

This is taken from the Regula Pastoralis of St. Gregory, used today – the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time – in the Office of Readings in the Liturgia horarum.

I then, in perhaps a melancholy state, pull out some poetry about the Harvest Moon, which falls on this day, 4 October 2009.  To help us appreciate the Harvest Moon and change of seasons we bring in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (+1881), Carl Sandberg (+1967) and Wm. Shakespeare (+1616)

http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/09_10_04.mp3

 

Some music along the way… and we are all over the place! 

Les Brown and His Band of Renown The Capitol Years – Shine On Harvest Moon
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons – Autumn   Il Cimento Dell’Armonia ed Invenzione – I Musici – Autumn – 2 – Aria, Andante
Sacerdotes Domini – O Sacrum Convivium
Yue Er Gao (The Moon On High) – China: Music of the Pipa
Autumn – Daniel Hecht – Windham Hill Sampler ‘81
Rosemary Clooney – Shine On Harvest Moon – Rosie Solves The Swinging Riddle
Harvest Moon – Chris & Meredith Thompson – Clearwater
Two Socks at Play – Dances With Wolves
Leon Redbone – Shine Harvest Moon – Double Time

RECENT PODCAzTs:

• 091 09-09-09 A hymn dissected "Te lucis ante terminum"; don Camillo (Part VI)
• 090 09-09-05 St. Leo on the beatitudes; the sacred, sacrilege and reparation
• 089 09-08-31 Imitation of Christ on temptation and consolation, Fr. Z rambles about the world, the flesh and the devil
• 088 09-06-11 Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart; Leo XIII’s Annum Sacrum
• 087 09-05-06 Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
• 086 09-05-30 Year for Priests; Pius IX on priests, Mass and Holy Days of obligation
• 085 09-05-03 Gregory the Great on the Good Shepherd
• 084 09-04-30 St. Pius V and Quo primum
• 083 09-04-19 St. Augustine on the challenge of remaining faithful

OTHER PODCAzTs about St. Gregory:

• 085 09-05-03 Gregory the Great on the Good Shepherd
• 046 07-10-08 Gregory the Great on when pastors should SPEAK UP; priests and getting your way [I treat the same reading here and have all of the Latin and lighter fare – including how to get things changed in your parish, how to deal with priests.]
• 032 07-05-28 Gregory the Great on Job; rubrics; sacred music

 

Today we will drill into a hymn sung by Holy Church in the Liturgia horarum for Compline every evening.  It is called Te lucis ante terminum. 

Since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the hymn was rewritten a bit, the words changed… and thus the meaning.  We will see the variations.  As a matter of fact in the making of this audio project I noted that in one recording of the pre-Conciliar version monks were singing "omnipotens" even while I was reading "piissime"!  Shocking!

I dissect this hymn, sing it in the Gregorian chant tone, and we hear different translations and many other musical versions.

I just might ramble a little while drilling into the meaning of the hymn.

Sing along with the hymns! Buy a Liber Hymnarius! 

Also, we have another installment of stories about the fictional don Camillo Tarocci, (+ A.D. ... ?) parish priest of "The Little World".

Some time ago, I began a to read stories from The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi.  There is a Don Camillo tag you can use to find the others easily. 

These delightful pieces are set in post-war Northern Italy. 

They blend brilliant insight into the human condition with solid applied Catholic Faith. 

Today we hear two tales:

On this beautiful Saturday of the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time, Labor Day Weekend, I have spend inside laboring on another PODCAzT just for you listeners. 

Today we hear from St. Pope Leo I, "the Great" (+461) in his Sermon 95, on the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5).  From across the centuries Leo’s voice rings out about the root of the "happiness" expressed in the beatitudes, humility, which cuts across all classes of society and each person’s lot in life.  There are some wonderful images, such as "consecrated tears". 

I was inspired to do this audio project by the second reading in the Office of Readings in today’s Liturgia horarum, or Liturgy of the Hours, the "office", which priests are obliged to recite.  It is always a pleasure to work with Leo.

I then ramble for quite a while the sacred and the profane.  We need to recover a sense of the sacred, and how it is different from the temporal sphere, dominated by the "Prince of this world".  There are many acts of "sacrilege" occurring now.  I talk about what sacrilege is and then speak of reparation.
http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/09_09_05.mp3

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090 09-09-05 St. Leo on the beatitudes; the sacred, sacrilege and reparation
089 09-08-31 Imitation of Christ on temptation and consolation, Fr. Z rambles about the world, the flesh and the devil
088 09-06-11 Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart; Leo XIII’s Annum Sacrum

051 08-02-25 Communion in the hand

 

 

 

It has been a long time since I have made a PODCAzT. 

I thought a quick project might get me back into the swing of things after many computer problems and being a little burned out.

Today we hear from Thomas a Kempis (+1471) in a selection from The Imitation of Christ 3,3, taken today from the Office of Readings in the Liturgia horarum.  We hear about how God "visits" us with temptations and with consolations.

I then ramble for quite a while on temptations, with some tactics on dealing with temptations and how to get rid of bad habits. I don’t neglect some tough talk about the world, the flesh and the devil and that we are soldiers of the Church Militant, not the Church Comfortable.  We are beset by enemies.
http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/09_08_31.mp3

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In the wake of many disappointments we have all seen in the press, continually see from people who should know better, concerning even Christians, Catholics, even whole Christian communities which betray both reason and Scripture and Christian Tradition, here is a Sunday sermon.

The Gospel is included and a prayer for vocations which is customarily recited after the Gospel in this parish.