A reader alerted me to a piece written by the director of Liturgy for the Archdiocese of Miami. He writes on the website of the Archdiocese about Pope Benedict’s emancipation proclamation, the 2007 Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Let’s see what … Read More →
The other day I visited Fr. Sherbrooke at St. Patrick’s on Soho Square. Today I receive an e-mail from one of the staffers there. It is a good cause, so I want to pass it on and make it visible. … Read More →
I will be off to Eastbourne to meet His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Finigan, as well as excellent PP of Chistlehurst, Fr. Briggs, and the lofty PP of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, Fr. Blake! I am not sure if there … Read More →
UPDATE: I received from a reader a full translation of Cardinal Zen’s letter. There is also the whole Chinese text. Many thanks to "Dor Dor". Click HERE. ____________ORIGINAL POST The gentlemanly Sandro Magister has a piece about the problems stemming … Read More →
From a reader: This is an email (copied/ pasted) that I received from Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. earlier today. Could you ask your readers to pray for Fr. Fessio and for the Ave Maria University (Naples, FL) community? Thank you … Read More →
The artificially long process of preparing the new translation of the Missale Romanum had a small step forward. USCCB News Release 09-159July 17, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE All Four Pending Liturgical Items Pass; Work On The Translation Of The New Roman … Read More →
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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.