This morning at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ, where I have been for the last week, I had the chance to bless people with a reliquary containing relics of Sts Peter and Paul (among others). You can see it set up on the Gospel side of the altar.
There are Agnus Dei included.
St. Peter.
You can see the care that was given to these reliquaries once upon a time.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on Prayer request for an amazing priest blogger: “Will certainly add the erudite and edifying Fr. John Hunwicke to my prayer list.”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “To add to what Father said: As some of you may know, I reside in the diocese of Rockville Centre.…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 17th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 25th) 2023: “Everyone: Thanks for sharing the GOOD stuff. We have enough bad. Some people don’t get any good at all.”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “I know it is no longer Sunday, but I just came from a funeral Mass for a grandmother where the…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 17th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 25th) 2023: “We couldn’t make our normal TLM at 7am, so we went to the new (as of Sept 10) TLM at…”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “Yep. A parish is 5 minutes from us – “charismatic” with a rock and roll band. Ugh. So we go…”
on LONG LOST AUDIO of funny Latin speech about how Latin is spoken with different accents: ““…but there are nooo cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese….” Hmmm. More seriously, best make sure…” on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “As I watch, I think the youngsters are yet too young to be embarrassed. I don’t think they know what…”
on Daily Rome Shot 803: “Not sure how you’d rack up a $400 bill on AT&T that way. The AT&T plan is for $10/day and…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 17th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 25th) 2023: “Share the good. Our parish priest is kind and devout. He clearly loves the mass and does everything with reverence.…”
on Daily Rome Shot 803: “Rome Shot: The top of the arch in the sanctuary at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “The Director of Liturgy at St. Anne’s is Rory Cooney. This explains much.” on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “Don’t judge all priests of a diocese from a few stranger ones. Give the new guy a chance to show…”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “Our new bishop is from Rockvlille Centre. Now I’m very concerned I may have to find a new parish in…” on LONG LOST AUDIO of funny Latin speech about how Latin is spoken with different accents: “As far as the mouse scenario is concerned, you have to have a foundational principle. Things which are consecrated, and…”
Loading ...
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
Loading ...If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Loading ...
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Use my code for a discount
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
The Reverend enjoys a high privilege to hold these relics — and the faithful to enjoy His blessing through this history.
Relics were a powerful tool in medieval times, and more recently. The Wall Street recounted this episode from Vatican II. One of Bishop Woytyla’s projects was the Ark Church in Nowa Huta. During the Council, the bishop arranged an audience with Paul VI for himself and the pastor-elect. During the audience, the Holy Father gave the pastor a box with a masonry relic. “My son, this is from the tomb of St. Peter. Take it with you to Poland for your new church.”
Salutationes omnibus.
I have a relic of St. Peter along with Sts. Paul, Batholemew, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Ambrose and a few others. There are at least eleven saints on it (It’s not unlike the one pictured but in very poor condition) with some of the labels missing. It looks as if it has been reduced from a larger reliquary. I found it on a shelf in the tiny sacristy of one of our communities which is now closed. It’s been with me since. I hope to get a decent reliquary made to hold it but they’re expensive. I looked for the right kind when in Rome they were all outside my pocket. Unfortunately I don’t have the document to prove their authenticity and so I don’t think it can be used for public veneration. I also have a first class relic of St. Leopold Mandic. I don’t think I appreciate them enough!
Thats really nice. Looks like an old reliquary. I have some relics myself. They had a large display of relics at St. Peter’s at 5tth and Gerard in Philadelphia. When they renovated the shrine downstairs they got rid of the relics. I don’t know what they did with them. Its a shame. All in the “Spirit of Vatican II”.
When they renovated the shrine downstairs they got rid of the relics. I don’t know what they did with them. Its a shame. All in the “Spirit of Vatican II”.
If the Shrine renovations, which restored the high altar and got the mosaic of St. John Neumann out of the way, are part of the Spirit of Vatican II, then many churches need more of that same spirit.
I don’t know what they did with the relics either, but I am sure they did not throw them away.