Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise

Posted on 13 December 2024 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The angelic choir in the presepio at the great Ss. Trinità in Rome.

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On the churchy side…

St. Thomas Aquinas on effeminacy. Effeminacy is on the rise. What is “effeminacy”? HERE

One of the new cardinals says that denial of Communion to adulterers is an injustice. HERE

Nice people! Great service!  Christmas gifts!

“Now you see it. Now you don’t”. First, there was going to be a homosexuality element to the Jubilee Year. Then there wasn’t then there way. First, in the Vatican nativity scene, Baby Jesus was lain up on a keffiyeh (sending an interesting signal to Israel and Jews everywhere). Now the keffiyeh is gone.

Does anyone have the whole article in the Atlantic about Bp. Barron? HERE

‘Dumbed-Down Catholicism Was a Disaster’
America’s most watched bishop, Robert Barron, is scouting out a new future for Christianity.

By Molly Worthen

Speaking of cardinals, he of the Windy City – where I am as I write – issued a letter in the diocesan paper with an admonition for the faithful to stop kneeling to receive Communion.  Why?  Processions!

He starts with this as if it were undeniable writ: “We all have benefited from the renewal of the church ushered in by the Second Vatican Council.” I’m not sure that this is universally acknowledged or can be easily backed up. No matter, just accept it as a FACT and move on to where he quotes the adage about the relationship of worship and belief, in his version, (emphasis added)

“lex orandi, lex credenda,” a phrase often associated with Prosper of Aquitaine…

Hey, don’t blame me.

There follows an explanation that in the Mass there are processions. We’ve always had processions at the beginning, offertory, and Communion. This is true. So, processions are traditional. I’ll bite. Anything that inhibits a procession, like kneeling, is against processions. … ? … So, because bishops tell you not to kneel for Communion,

Disrupting this moment only diminishes this powerful symbolic expression, by which the faithful in processing together express their faith that they are called to become the very Body of Christ they receive. Certainly reverence can and should be expressed by bowing before the reception of Holy Communion, but no one should engage in a gesture that calls attention to oneself or disrupts the flow of the procession. That would be contrary to the norms and tradition of the church, which all the faithful are urged to respect and observe.

Get that? Processing expresses “their” (your) faith. Faith is what? “that (you) are called to become the very Body of Christ (you) receive.” So, Communion is a communal thing more than it is an individual act. If someone is out of lock step, so to speak, and does something against The Procession, then he is breaking the communal experience and, I suppose, diminishes the faith because of what he wrote: lex orandi, lex credenda (sic). Moreover, you haven’t realized how selfish you are being because by your kneeling you are calling attention to yourself (not the communal processional hive action. Not only that, since processions are traditional… this is the good one… kneeling is against tradition.

Wasn’t there a video on Twitter/X of a procession in Chicago wherein the participants are practically power walking?

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Next, In New Hampshire some jackasses set up a monument to the Devil which was promptly destroyed. HERE

And this is very cool:

In chessy news…

White to move and mate in 4.

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