Today things keep rolling along and I, uncharacteristically, am paying some attention.
In regard to the terrific speech that Harrison Butker made for commencement at Benedictine College, as the lib world has a spittle-flecked nutty, I was sent these two screenshots…
What do you suppose is their average age?
Here’s something to think about…
Gower Abbey, in Gower, MO, is there the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles are. They have so many vocations that they have to found daughter houses. They are building a huge new place in Ava, MO and a bishop in England is helping them take over an old abbey.
The Benedictines of Mount Saint Scholastica are associated (how much is hard to tell) with Benedictine College in Atchinson, KS. These two communities, one at death’s door and the other bursting life, are about 45 minutes apart by car.
A look at the website of the lib sisters is enlightening. They have a photo gallery!
The shot of sister carrying the Blessed Sacrament on Holy Thursday, with a humeral veil, is striking.
The Benedictines of Mary, at Gower Abbey, also have a photo gallery.
Compare and contrast.
Meanwhile, a friend informs me that Butker’s jersey is now among the top sellers in NFL jerseys.
And there’s this from the NYPost… it’s good to know that Archbishop Naumann is still a priest.
He is still a deacon too.
About the diaconate, I saw this at The Pillar….
[…]
This week marked the deadline for the world’s bishops’ conferences to submit feedback ahead of this October’s session of the synod on synodality, and several reports claimed significant support for the admission of women to the diaconate.
Australia, Austria, Luxembourg, and Switzerland all posted their reports online and, as Luke Coppen noted this morning, claimed “widespread agreement” for a female diaconate.
[…]
According to the German bishops’ portal, the teaching on sacramental ordination being reserved to men alone “isn’t infallible doctrine,” and the cardinal appeared to agree, saying “It can be changed. It needs arguments and time.”
[…]
Maybe the Benedictines of Atchison can get involved!
UPDATE:
Meanwhile, somehow this fits right in…
FRIDAY MUSIC
Here’s a photo of the autograph manuscript of Mozart’s Symphony No. 1, written when he was 8 years old. Its opening movement contains more musical ingenuity & depth than the entire output of Taylor Swift.
For your listening pleasure:https://t.co/0yXvkC1FyH pic.twitter.com/6pYce6rtbP
— Peter Kwasniewski (@DrKwasniewski) May 17, 2024
I wonder at what point in their 161-year history someone would first have ventured to make such a vague yet sweeping denunciation in the name of the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica?
And just what are the implications of the New York Post ‘un-personing’ one of the four people (and three Butker’s) in that photograph? If there is some journalistic policy about respecting the privacy of minors, this does nor seem an apt way to go about it.
Looks like a typical Canadian parish. No men, aging out. Heard of a parish here that had a gathering and dinner and discussion on how to save the parish in the future. The church building isn’t even 20 years old and the writing is on the wall. Collapse.
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The monks at Benedictine are so much better than the nuns. They’ve learned to celebrate the TLM, and have it every Sunday for the students. Fr. Ripperger has spoken there. I won’t deny there’s a battle there, but very good things are happening. Blessed be God! Please pray for Benedictine! May all “Catholic” schools have such a revival!
I heard a rumor that the Gower nuns may be expanding to Southwest Indiana.
I hope it’s true.
The sterility of the historic high altar in the chapel of the Benedictines of Mount Saint Scholastica communicates much about that community.
Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, miserere nobis.
Let me get this straight. The Sisters object to what Mr. Butker said in his speech, which as far as I can tell, corresponded to what the Catholic Church has taught for the last 2000 years. So exactly what teachings of the Church over the last 2000 years do the Sisters object to?
I think it’s pundit Michael Knowles who often says that the Catholic Church is currently the only institution in the world in which octogenarians are constantly badgering 20 and 30-somethings to “get with the times.”
The photo above should read:
The Sisters of St Scholastica in the diaspora*
*their own monastery
There is also a picture of their Prioress presiding on Good Friday in a stole: https://www.mountosb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_0523-scaled.jpg
Perhaps the good Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas can take some corrective action?
It’s such a beautiful thing, that we witness how God writes straight with crooked lines. Only because of the din about Harrison Butker’s speech did that speech go (as of yesterday I think) to a million views. If not for that it would have gone by pretty much unnoticed. So kudos to the crazed libs including nuns. In 20 years most of those nuns will be gone, while Gower takes in young women. They are the future, as are our young, traditional-minded seminarians.
I texted a young nephew and asked him to give Harrison’s speech a listen, and am going to try to pass it along to all our young family members, boys and girls. I also contacted the KC Chief’s and expressed support. It’s really important that Christians be a counterpoint to the culture and lend at least that much support. We can really all make a difference if we use even emails and phone calls to express support or protest. Rather than say difference can I make, we actually all can make quite a difference by doing even that. So there is something everyone can do, when these things come up. We miss great opportunities! If only we would harness our numbers. This is where lack of leadership really hurts us and we must take the initiative ourselves.