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The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.
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Tag Archives: Church Militant
WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clear and certain trumpet
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers. Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged CCC 733, Church Militant, custodio, disciplina, innitor, munio, pietas
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WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Epiphany: YOU, weary foot soldier of the Church Militant
This Collect sometimes winds up at the end of the liturgical year, depending on when Easter, and therefore Pentecost, falls. This year, because Easter is a little later, we have it before Septuagesima. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, qui nos in tantis … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 32nd Ordinary Sunday: As lightly burdened foot soldiers…
Let’s look at the Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday, keeping in mind that we are getting close to Veterans Day (DONATE to the Archdiocese for Military Services!). Sunday’s Collect has an antecedent in the Gelasian Sacramentary, is also used in the Extraordinary … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: How to “steel ourselves” and not come down off from our crosses?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Dear Father Z, In your post regarding the 18th Sunday after Pentecost you advised us to steel ourselves and not come down off from our crosses. Would you be so kind as to offer some specific … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 23rd Ordinary Sunday: Children of God, Soldiers of Christ
The Collect for the 23rd Ordinary Sunday was not in any pre-Conciliar edition of the Roman Missal, but it was in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary in a section for evening prayers during Paschaltide. Deus, per quem nobis et redemptio … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 17th Ordinary Sunday: Sin-Teflon and Demon-Kevlar
The 1962MR places today’s Collect at the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost though it is a little different from the newer version, to wit: sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus aeterna. Historically the prayer has roots in the ancient … Continue reading
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Tagged acedia, Church Militant, John 14:30, John 8:44, kevlar, teflon
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For those of you consciously engaged as the Church Militant…
I was sent this image. I had to share it. I could, wag that I am, replace those darts with the names of a few liberal tweeters. But that might be just a tad bit mischievous. Keep smiling. Keep that shield up. … Continue reading
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Be The Maquis, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged Church Militant
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WDTPRS 1st Sunday of Lent (2002MR): The sacrament of Lent
The Roman Station for the 1st Sunday of Lent is St. John Lateran. COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR): Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur. … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Church Militant, conversatio, LENT, Sacramentum
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WDTPRS: 5th Ordinary Sunday – A clear and certain trumpet
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers. Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged CCC 733, Church Militant, custodio, disciplina, innitor, munio, pietas
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The Infant King’s great war cry!
It is still Christmas. That is, we are in the Octave of Christmas. Holy Church stops her counting of time for a bit so that we can rest with the mystery of the Incarnation and contemplate it from various angles. … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged Church Militant, Msgr. Charles Pope
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WDTPRS – 32nd Ordinary Sunday: As lightly burdened foot soldiers…
We look today at the Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday, close to Veterans Day (DONATE to the Archdiocese for Military Services!) which, having an antecedent in the Gelasian Sacramentary, is also used in the Extraordinary Form on the 19th Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged CCC 1742, Church Militant, expediti
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WDTPRS – 23rd Ordinary Sunday: Children of God, Soldiers of Christ
The Collect for the 23rd Ordinary Sunday was not in any pre-Conciliar edition of the Roman Missal, but it was in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary in a section for evening prayers during Paschaltide. Deus, per quem nobis et redemptio … Continue reading
Posted in Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged adoptio filiorum, Cassiodorus, Church Militant, praesto, St. Ambrose, St. Hilary of Poitier
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Prep Wednesday: All Bleeding Stops – Spiritual and Physical “Blow Out Kits”
The analogy of the Church Militant as a spiritual field hospital is pretty good, provided that we remember that in field hospitals lots of people don’t make it. We are like pilgrim soldiers in the Church Militant, on the march to our … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 17th Ordinary Sunday: Demon-Kevlar and Sin-Teflon
Our Collect for the 17th Ordinary Sunday has roots in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary for the month of July and, with variations, is in the Extraordinary Form on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. After some digging I determined that the … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged acedia, Church Militant, kevlar, sloth, St. Augustine, teflon
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More “tactical clerical” attire
You clerics out there might recall that I have been making, or having made, tactical clerical shirts by adapting 5.11 uniform shirts. HERE and, amusingly and most recently, HERE. Fathers, you are clerics and officers of the Church Militant. Stay … Continue reading
