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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Archbp. Sheen narrates Tridentine High Mass
A biretta tip o{]:¬) to Fr. Jim Tucker of Dappled Things who alerts us to a YouTube of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen doing color commentary on the celebration of a Tridentine High Mass for Easter (Resurrexi) with Gregorian chant … Read More
In honor of the “ordination” today
Today, on a boat in Pittsburgh, 12 women are pretending to get ordained. In their honor, a little riff on Gilligan’s Island has been written: Come sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,a tale of some heretics That started … Read More
31 July: St. Ignatius of Loyola
Here is the Martyrologium Romanum entry for this great saint and founder of the Society of Jesus. (To the right is my photo of the statue of St. Ignatius atop the colonade of St. Peter’s Square in Rome). Memoria sancti … Read More
Sts. Joachim and Anne: revisited
The other day I mentioned that at The Sabine Farm I had relics of Sts. Joachim and Anne. I promised photos and here they are. At the top is St. Joachim and in the center is St. Anne. On the … Read More
Viator for the Shrine
Over at the Shrine, a question was asked about the term homo viator, which descibes "the wanderer" (which is the name of a paper I write for), the Christian as a pilgrim or "wayfarer" en route. In this life we … Read More
Chrysostom on today’s 2nd reading from Ephesians
The second reading for today’s Holy Mass (with the Novus Ordo) is from Ephesians 4:1-6. Let us hear what St. John Chrysostom says about it. Again [Paul] uses the metaphor of bonding. We have lft it behind, and now it … Read More
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)
EXCERPT:
Our baptismal character remains forever, on earth, in heaven or in hell. It can never be removed. We are forever changed by this pouring or immersing with water and the Trinitarian formula. Our outward comportment and interior landscape must reflect this deepest of realities. At the moment we hear this Post communionem prayer, the Lord has deigned to allow Himself in the sacred Host to be “dipped” into what should be the pure and clean chalice of our earthly bodies. When the Host is “moistened” by us, our souls are imbued with the grace which it is: a Host does not merely symbolize Christ, it truly is Christ in itself. We must avoid that our baptismal character be, in thought, word and deed, merely “skin deep” as it were, as if the only thing being imbued was the surface of our skin. When a person or plant is parched and dying the surface and skin become terribly dry and cracked. Wetting the surface will momentarily restore it as the moisture imbues the outer part and renews it. It will however quickly dry again. The benefit passes quickly. The surface looks good for a while and then it diminishes in beauty, since the effects were only skin deep. What the organism needs is to be renewed from within so that the outward appearance can be restored and made whole and beautiful again. Our baptism imbues us with grace and makes us temples of the Triune God. This interior and invisible reality must imbue all we do from the inside out so that the dimensions of us most visible to others, and I don’t mean the way we look, are similarly beautiful, reflecting the One within us in whose image and likeness we are made. Read More
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)
EXCERPT:
In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we lovingly offer back to the Father in an unbloody way what was accomplished in a bloody way once for all time upon the Cross of our salvation. Christ, at the same time both Victim and Priest, who is the true actor in the Mass is offering Himself to the Father in a sacramental way. Sacramental reality is just as real as historical reality. In the Mass the Lord applies the fruits of His unrepeatable Sacrifice to us who are present and to those for whom Mass is being offered, living or dead. We are not trying to repeat the historic Sacrifice of Christ which took place at a specific moment in time. That is impossible and, in any event, unnecessary. Christ’s work is perfectly accomplished already. What we do now we do because of Christ’s command: we renew His Sacrifice in an unbloody and sacramental way. Holy Mass truly is the one and same Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, no less real than the event of 2000 years ago. Read More
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: COLLECT (2)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 I have received e-mail from DM (edited): “Thank you for your WDTPRS work, which a friend of mine, a high school Latin … Read More
Augustine on today’s Gospel: Luke 10:38-42
Let’s start off with the Collect for today, briefly. COLLECTOmnipotens sempiterne Deus, cuius Filius in domo beatae Marthae dignatus est hospitari, da, quaesumus, ut, eiusdem intercessione, Christo in fratribus nostris fideliter ministrantes, in aede caelesti a te recepi mereamur. LITERAL … Read More
“Nevertheless, not Your will, but mine be done…”
Rorate Coeli has done us a service again by alerting us to the recent declaration on the part of the SSPX. Here are some interesting parts of the cover letter and declaration with a few of my comments (my trans.) … Read More
Stinking Bishop at the Closed Cafeteria?
From time to time I have let you know about what we are eating here at the Sabine Farm. Over at The hermeneutic of continuity there is fun menu posted. Check it out via that link but here it is: … Read More
St. Simeon – the Cal Ripken of Stylites
Sometimes saints seem a little… how to put this… weird. Today is the feast of St. Simon the Stylite, called Simeon Stylites, a 5th century Syrian monk who lived for 36 years on top of a tall pillar. Even as … Read More
26 July: St. Joachim and Anna
Today is the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since I am at the time of this writing up on the North Shore of Lake Superior and connecting through my cellphone, suffice for … Read More
25 July: “Mister” Christopher
Today is the feast of Saint, er um… "Mister" Christopher. This beloved figure "lost", as it were, his status as saint when the Holy See made a determination to remove from the universal calendar some certain figures (e.g., "Miss Philomena") … Read More
25 July: St. James, Apostle (Chrysostom on the Gospel reading)
Today is the feast of St. James the Apostle. I am sure other blogs will tell you about the great Apostle. I will give you the perspective of a patristiblogger. The Gospel for today’s feast is from Matthew 20:20-28, when … Read More
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24 July: Sts. Boris and Gleb
It took guts to be a Catholic and saint back in the day, let me tell you. Today we have the feast of a couple fellows who lived in pretty tough times. Today we celebrate Sts. Boris and Gleb, martyrs. … Read More
Vatican Commission on Medjugorje?
There is an interesting piece on Medjugorje over at Te Deum Laudamus to which I owe a biretta tip. o{]:¬) It would be nice for someone who knows Croatian to verify the following translation: 15.07.2006 18:15 SURPRISE FROM THE VATICAN … Read More
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion
EXCERPT:
Just as an aside you might remember once in WDTPRS (on the Super oblata of the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – The Wanderer 7 February 2002) we discussed the placement of accents in Latin words and how they can change the meaning. The examples were derivatives of the verbs condio which gives us the word condÃÂtor (“pickler”) and condo producing cónditor (“founder”). We must be careful when singing St. Ambrose’s great hymn Cónditor alme siderum not to misplace the accent in such a way that we are singing “O loving pickler of the stars” rather than “creator of the stars”. The connection? The clearest example showing the meaning of baptizô is a text from the Greek grammarian, poet and physician Nicander of Colophon (fl. II c. B.C., not to be confused with an epic poet Nicander son of Anaxagoras). The text is a recipe for making pickles in which Nicander uses both baptô and baptizô. He says that to make a good pickle (I am not making this up) we must first “dip” (baptô) the veggie into boiling water and then “baptize” (baptizô) it in the vinegar solution. Both verbs concern the immersing of vegetables. The first immersion is a preparatory stage while the second, the act of “baptising” the vegetable, produces the permanent change in which the vegetable is “imbued” with new properties.
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16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super Oblata (2)
EXCERPT:
In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we lovingly offer back to the Father in an unbloody way what was accomplished in a bloody way once for all time upon the Cross of our salvation. Christ, at the same time both Victim and Priest, who is the true actor in the Mass is offering Himself to the Father in a sacramental way. Sacramental reality is just as real as historical reality. In the Mass the Lord applies the fruits of His unrepeatable Sacrifice to us who are present and to those for whom Mass is being offered, living or dead. We are not trying to repeat the historic Sacrifice of Christ which took place at a specific moment in time. That is impossible and, in any event, unnecessary. Christ’s work is perfectly accomplished already. What we do now we do because of Christ’s command: we renew His Sacrifice in an unbloody and sacramental way. Holy Mass truly is the one and same Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, no less real than the event of 2000 years ago. Read More