I received this: BIRMINGHAM – 1 October 2008 – 380 words Cardinal Newman Lying-in-State and Reinterment Mass Statement by Peter Jennings, Press Secretary to the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory and for the Cause of the Beatification and Canonisation of … Read More →
I head to Kansas City, MO where the church, Old St. Patrick will be made truly "up to date" by its consecration with the older, traditional Pontificale Romanum. The great Bp. Robert Finn will take Old St. Patrick "just about … Read More →
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I will be heading to Mater Ecclesiae for their 40 Hours Devotion 17-19 October. Fr. Pasley and I will hit the road for a bit, to visit a few places in the area. We may wind up in the area … Read More →
Catholic Key alerts us to a new offering by the great Bp. Robert Finn of Kansas City – St. Joseph. I admire this bishop more and more. More on this later, but here it is with my emphases. Freedom of … Read More →
You will want to watch the interview with His Excellency Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver which is to be found on the site of the Hoover Institute. Archbishop Chaput discusses the scandal caused by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) … Read More →
By a reader it is asked: I’m betting somebody has already asked this, but do you think the Holy Father will ever offer Mass in the Extraordinary Form? It’s been well over a year since the Motu Proprio has come … Read More →
AmericanPapist made a good catch today: Pope’s next encyclical delayed until April 2009?!That’s what it now says on Amazon. Que pasa? The encyclical in question is Caritas in Veritate or "Love in Truth" And I bet I know what … Read More →
The Cranky Professor has a good post tying into our investigation of an ancient Roman recipe. He deals with the dating of the Vesuvius eruption and.. garum! mmmmm…. garummmmm Garum, made from fermenting fish in saltwater, was basically the ketchup … Read More →
Yesterday I posted that I was watching my DVD Papacy of Reason: Inside the Mind of Benedict XVI. I posted a clip wherein liturgy is discussed. Lot’s of you looked at that clip! Here is the intro section, just to … Read More →
Why is Gwen Ifill to be the moderator of the Palin-Biden VP debate? Gwen Ifill has written a highly favorable book about Sen. Obama, Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. The release of the book is 20 … Read More →
I am still working on the pork roast, but last night, hungry, I added some pasta. I made a sauce from things grown here in the Sabine garden. You can see my sweet and small hot peppers, garlic, tomatoes, basil, … Read More →
I tried to figure out how to make cuts in this, but it is all so good that I think you should read it in its entirety. This is long, but it is good and closely argued. You have to … Read More →
You heard, I am sure, about the Vatican Gendarmerie joining Interpol. There is a ZENIT story about this. There is more to this than meets the eye. For the last year or so the Secretariat of State has been preferring … Read More →
I have to put this up in Italian for now, because I am simply stunned. The intrepid Andrea Tornielli is all over this one. There are some serious problems in Italy concerning respect for and implementation of the provisions of … Read More →
Here we go again. I got a question from a reader: As I greatly enjoy cooking, your last few posts have been a treat! Thank you for your blog and its plethora of liturgical and culinary delights. [O]ur pastor is … Read More →
There are those who hesitate to praise the work of Romano Guardini, a titanic figure in the Liturgical Movement of last century. He is sometimes looked at as being too close to the Beauduin camp. But his influence is indisputable … Read More →
Bishops far and wide are getting involved this year. My emphases and comments added to this article from the OregonLive.com. Archbishop takes Gov. Kulongoski to task over abortion-rights event by Dave Hogan, The Oregonian Tuesday September 30, 2008, 10:22 PM … Read More →
A reader sent this: MISSA CANTATA(Usus Antiquior, 1962 Missal) Solemnity of Our Holy Father St. Francis(Seraphic Patriarch) Saturday, October 4, 2008 7:00 pm Marian Friary of Our Lady of Guadalupe 199 Colonel Brown Rd.Griswold, CT 06351
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Mary Wether on 4-7 October – 4th Day – Act of Reparation: “Addendum to comment on the Golden Arrow prayer: the prayer is given correctly in the text of the book. However,…”
Mary Wether on 4-7 October – 4th Day – Act of Reparation: “The Golden Arrow prayer is almost universally mistranslated. Christ’s words to Mary of St. Peter were: “and in the Hells”,…”
Sulpicia on Rome 24/10 – Day 7: Our Lady of the Rosary: “Our priest organised a Rosary this evening, with all 20 mysteries incl. Luminous. The turnout was 1/2 that of the…”
JustaSinner on 4-7 October – 4th Day – Act of Reparation: “Can we ask for God’s Grace for Alexander Tschugguel and his band of heroes for tossing the Abomination into the…”
Gregg the Obscure on Rome 24/10 – Day 6: Our Lady of Pompeii: “i have a personal connection to Norcia for a few days: my pastor is on retreat there. this is understandably…”
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The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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