What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Many parishes and chapels will have the Via Crucis or Stations of the Cross during Lent.

What version does your parish use?  

Let’s get some titles/versions/authors and we can have a poll later on.

I have audio projects with the Way of the Cross.

Here is a reading of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, composed by Joseph Card. Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at the Colosseum in Rome.

Also, for your Lenten spiritual warfare, here are two versions the popular Via Crucis by St. Alphonsus Liguori.  One version is plain, just my voice.  The other is the same voice recording, but with the Gregorian chant Sequence Stabat Mater interlaced between the stations.

On Monday evening, 1 March 2010, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver gave a speech at Houston Baptist University called “The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life”.

The lecture was presented in coordination with the Pope John Paul II Forum for the Church in the Modern World at the University of St. Thomas.

He criticized President John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign speech on his faith impacting his possible presidency as “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.”

I think this was a very important address.  As such, I decided to make a PODCAzT by reading the text of the Archbishop’s speech (yes, it is available also on Youtube) with by comments before and after.  I received the link to the Youtube page while I was making this, but decided to post anyway.  And my rendering of the talk section is a bit short that the original.  Check the page of the Archdiocese of Denver.


http://www.wdtprs.com/podcazt/10_03_02.mp3

 

If you heard an Ash Wednesday sermon which was worthwhile, share ONE SINGLE POINT you can recall for us, as concisely as possible… a single sentence, if possible.

Here is a sermon for Quinquagesima.

I propose something for your Lent.

Moreover, it was a dreadful mistake to excise the pre-Lenten Sundays from the Church’s post-Conciliar calendar.

I am at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ.

This stay is going to be interesting!

First, I am here to do some of the heavy lifting (things that involve talking) for the great Fr. Pasley. He is recovering from surgery on his throat and cannot talk for more than a few minutes a day.

Second, the snowfalls in the area have caused one of the roofs in the rectory literally to cave in. There are going to be some serious things going on. I hear there are also cracks in the church hall. They have got to get some snow off the roofs! Maybe we should have the blognic here and every one can bring a shovel.

Third, I am recuping from a bit of a broken toe. So, I am moving a little slowly.

Fourth, this is my broadband right now:



It is supposed run to somewhere near 54mbps

My quixotic iPhone is faster right now!

Therefore, to whom shall we pray for increased speed… fast? St. Expeditus?

UPDATE:

On the way to supper… pot hole… trench… flat.

UPDATE:

The heat is out in church, and we can’t figure out why.

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.



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