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ASK FATHER: Parish prayer effort to beg protection from Islamic terror. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 14 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

I will appreciate your help in leading me to a prayer to protect us from terrorism (specifically Muslim, if possible) that can be recited by our parish weekly during these threatening times. I do this at the behest of my Pastor.

Your pastor is wise to seek to do something like this. We are living in increasingly dangerous times.

Today I had lunch with a priest who remarked that the Church is really good and reacting and reforming, but not very good at foreseeing and avoiding. Why wait to tackle a problem before it turns into disaster? A stick in time saves nine applies also to the fabric of the Church.

The Rosary was used at the Battle of Lepanto! Can you think of something better than that?

But wait! There’s more.

I was recently reminded of the 1889 encyclical about St. Joseph, Quaquam pluries of Pope Leo XIII (will we see his like again, I wonder). In that encyclical Leo asked that a prayer be added at the end of the recitation of the Holy Rosary especially during the month of October (dedicated in a special way to the Rosary). The prayer was indulgenced then and it is still indulgenced now. It is in the Handbook of Indulgences. It would be said after the Salve Regina and the usual concluding prayer of the Rosary. Of course it could be used after any Marian devotion (it seems appropriate to use it in conjunction with a Marian devotion). It could be used by itself as well.

Prayer

To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse, we confidently invoke your patronage also.

Through that charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities.

O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness.

As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God’s Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven.

AMEN.

So, perhaps you might have in the parish a Rosary after morning Mass and a Rosary in the evening as a scheduled event, and include the prayer to St. Joseph. Father could hear confessions for the time of the devotion (and after).

Also, don’t forget that one of the historic reasons for the institute of the Forty Hours Devotion was the threat of Islam!

“But Father! But Father!”, some of you panty-waists are grizzling, “This is horrible. Pray against terrorists? They are simply misunderstood! After all, Vatican II says that we all pray to the same God… and … you know. We are brothers and sisters and we must never suggest anything so triumphalistic and retrograde! They are a ‘menace”? NO! YOU are the menace with your throwback fear mongering! You are a deplorable xenophobic islamophobe! You probably support Donald Trump because you HATE VATICAN II!

I’ll pray for you after I sorrowfully watch the video of a thug in a hood shouting in Arabic as he saws your head off on the street outside your parish church… no, wait… your faith community’s worship space. Even though you are seriously screwed up right now, there is hope for you. I’ll pray that, at the end, you gave courageous witness to the Catholic Faith and to Christ. And, if you are beatified, I’ll pray to you, asking you to intercede for our nation and to beg that God be appeased. Until then, please just shut up.

Back to Forty Hours. If the Rosary is something that you can have in the parish everyday, Forty Hours is a special event, very intense, which you can have once a year.

The mighty St. Charles Borromeo (shall we see his like again, I wonder) wrote to Pope Paul III asking for indulgences for his institution of Forty Hours. Paul III responded:

“Since … Our beloved son the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Milan at the prayer of the inhabitants of the said city, in order to appease the anger of God provoked by the offences of Christians, and in order to bring to nought the efforts and machinations of the Turks who are pressing forward to the destruction of Christendom, amongst other pious practices, has established a round of prayers and supplications to be offered both by day and night by all the faithful of Christ, before our Lord’s Most Sacred Body, in all the churches of the said city, in such a manner that these prayers and supplications are made by the faithful themselves relieving each other in relays for forty hours continuously in each church in succession, according to the order determined by the Vicar . . . We, approving in our Lord so pious an institution, and confirming the same by Our authority, grant and remit”, etc.

It is time to bring this devotion back and to do it right! Forty Hours Devotion means 40 hours. I would like to see this done as it used to be: on a rotating basis, parish to parish, throughout dioceses, on a fixed, annual schedule so that it is predictable. It would also like to see used the Clementine Instruction and in the Extraordinary Form.

There are many devotions and prayers already written and used by our forebears for centuries.

They must be REVIVED!

So many people today ought not to be receiving Holy Communion. They perhaps go to Communion anyway when they are at Mass because they feel pressure as everyone goes forward. At all these devotions, stand alone and without Holy Mass, everyone participates equally with no need to go forward. They can pray and participate in the life of the parish and be devout and join the personal problems and petitions to the prayers being offered. People would return to Church on Sundays for Vespers and Benediction. Old hand missals often included the prayers for Vespers along with the prayers for Mass.

WE NEED THESE DEVOTIONS!

I’ve often contemplated the signs of the times and wondered if the wrath of God will be averted through our prayers and mortifications. Once there were many communities of sisters who did reparation for the sins people committed. Once there were many many more Masses being offered. Once there were many more devotional practices and, as a Church, we talked about sacrifice and expiation, the anger of God at sins and our need to beg for mercy.

Before it is too late, this must be RESTORED!

Once upon a time, Popes vigorously moved the entire Church – which still had a strong identity – to common action in prayer. I wish that our bishops, at least, would give us collective guidance that doesn’t amount to nice thoughts about kitties, sunshine, and birthday cakes on this real threat and on a range of other issues.

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ASK FATHER: Pope Francis said Fr. Hamel is a martyr. Is he now “Blessed Jacque Hamel”?

Posted on 14 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

I saw today that Pope Francis confirmed that Fr. Hamel is a “martyr.” Does this mean we can now refer to him as St. or Blessed or Venerable Fr. Hamel?

I strongly suspect that Fr. Jacques Hamel, recently killed in his church at Mass by an Islamic murderer in N. France, is a martyr. The murderer was pledged to ISIS.

However, just as the Church has procedures when promulgating laws and teaching definitively, so too the Church has procedures when determining if a slain Catholic was martyred. “Martyr” is also a technical term for someone who was killed precisely for hatred of Christ, the Faith, or some aspect of the Faith that is integral to it.

Now the back story. Pope Francis celebrated his daily Mass at Santa Marta for Fr. Hamel today. HERE He also gave quite a good sermon. English language reportage HERE.

To the congregation gathered at Santa Marta and which included Archbishop Dominque Lebrun of Rouen, along with 80 other pilgrims from the diocese, Pope Francis said that “to kill in the name of God is satanic”. [Pope Francis does not shirk from talking about the Enemy. That’s good.]

Reflecting on the many martyrs that are part of the history of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said: “this is a story that repeats itself in the Church, and today, he said, there are more Christian martyrs than there were at beginning of Christianity” [Francis used the word “martyr”.]

Today – he continued – there are Christians “who are murdered, tortured, imprisoned, have their throats slit because they do not deny Jesus Christ”.

This history, the Pope said – continues with our Father Jacques: he is part of this chain of martyrs.

“Father Jacques Hamel was slain as he celebrated the sacrifice of Christ’s crucifixion. A good man, a meek man, a man who always tried to build peace was murdered (…). This is the satanic thread of persecution” he said. [There’s the s word again.]

And, Pope Francis continued: “What a pleasure it would be if all religious confessions would say: ‘to kill in the name of God is satanic'”. [He’s on a roll!]

Pope Francis concluded his homily holding up Fr Hamel and his example of courage and said we must pray to him to grant us meekness, brotherhood, peace and the courage to tell the truth: “to kill in the name of God is satanic”.

On the altar, a simple photograph of Fr Hamel who was slain by two Islamist fanatics while celebrating Mass in the Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on 26 July 2016.

The liturgy was broadcast live by the Vatican Television Station.

The Roman Pontiff has the highest authority in the Church after Christ Himself. He is Christ’s Vicar. He is the chief teacher and the lawgiver. However, the Pope must exercise his office in a prudent, responsible way lest confusion be sown. If he is sloppy about law and doctrine, people can become confused. “Did he teach X or not?” “Did he change the law about Y or not?” Confusion and doubts harm the whole fabric of the Church. Therefore, even Popes, for the sake of the good ordering of the life of the Church, have to follow the procedures which they (in the persons of their predecessors) have lain down.

Popes have established the Congregation for Saints to study the cases of those who have been killed, possibly as martyrs. They study all the evidence, carefully gathered and verified, in what is very like a court case. Once they make a determination that the person was martyred, they submit their decision to the Holy Father who can confirm it or not. If he confirms it, then he can either announce the decision in a public ceremony for the martyr or allow a delegate to make the announcement in the local church where the person was.

The point is that Pope Francis and his predecessors have an official procedure for these matters. If the Pope wants to change that procedure he’ll make it clear that that is what he is doing. Until then, Francis can call Fr. Hamel a martyr every day until the parenthesis of his pontificate closes, but he will not be officially recognized as a martyr until he makes that clear in the right way.

Meanwhile, it really does seem that Fr. Hamel is a martyr, doesn’t it. It wouldn’t surprise me at all were Francis to accelerate the process.

BTW… Francis wore red vestments for the Mass because it is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, not because Fr. Hamel is being honored liturgically as a martyr.

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Would the young Joseph Ratzinger – or I – have had the same reaction if….

Posted on 13 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As I often write, we are our rites.

In the new interview book with Peter Seewald, Benedict XVI was asked how the son of a Bavarian policeman became a priest. I have a measure of sympathy with Benedict’s answer. I, too, am the son of a cop and I, too, was first moved by Catholic liturgical worship.

BTW… the English won’t be available until November, but it is available to readers in these USA in ITALIAN on Kindle. UK HERE (UK get a Kindle HERE – US get a Kindle HERE)

Benedict wrote:

It was in order to enter more and more into the liturgy. To recognize that that the liturgy was truly the central point and to try to comprehend it, together with the whole historical development undergirding it. . . .Because of this, then, I became generally interested in religious questions. It was the world in which I felt myself at ease.

I wonder if young Joseph Ratzinger would have had the same reaction to…

And in an ugly church?

What I first experienced the first time I walked into a Catholic Church was …

Now, as it appears after its decoration in the 1980’s.

There was never an ironing-board altar in there.

And what you hear inside …

No, wait…. that’s the High School choir!

Here is the Gloria from Haydn’s Paukenmesse, also called the “Mass in Time of War”. This is a recording from St. Agnes Church, by the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale. I am in the choir in this recording.

This is the sort of thing you hear on 30 Sundays of the Year.

Would I have entered into communion in the Catholic Church had my first experience of Catholicism been in some dreadful municipal airport with My Little Pony music and dopey preaching by Father (now Bishop) Fatty McButterpants that wouldn’t have dented my rejected Lutheran catechism? I can’t say for sure, but God brought me to St. Agnes and not to the “Engendering Togetherness Community of Welcome” and “On Eagle’s Wings.” I had been a musician for a while by the time I walked into that church, and a good one. I had Latin and Greek by then. Like I say, I don’t know for sure what a church service with “Joy Is Like The Rain” would have done for me… or “Gather Us In”, but I suspect things would have turned out differently.

We are our rites. How we pray shapes what we believe. What we believe shapes how we pray.

I wonder how many priestly vocations have been annihilated by crappy music, ugly churches, and bad preaching from feckless and dissident priests.

At St. Agnes, during the 33 years that Msgr. Schuler was pastor, there were 30 First Masses.

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Did Pope Francis really write that letter?

Posted on 12 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE:

I have found a “news story” (but not really) at the site of Vatican Radio by Philippa Hitchen saying something about the letter. HERE

Also, in today’s L’Osservatore Romano of 12-13 September there is an unsigned piece on p. 7 which makes reference to the letter. HERE

Does this entirely put the question to bed?

Probably. Unsigned articles in L’Osservatore are usually quasi-demi-semi-hemi official. This is not quite as good as a response directly from the Holy See Press Office, but I think we have to go with it. Yes, the Pope really wrote that letter.

And, yes, the Pope really endorsed the Argentinian document which opens the door to the divorced and remarried who do not use the brother and sister option to both the Sacrament of Penance and, hence, to reception of Communion.

Pope Francis, in his letter to the Argentinian bishop, the seeming chairman of the bishops who composed the document, confirms that the document “nella sua pienezza… in its entirety” shows “il senso del capitolo VIII dell’esortazione apostolica … the intent of chapter VIII of the Apostolic Exhortation”.

Here is the deal. Again, we do NOT have here the doors thrown open to official approval of Communion for anyone in any circumstance whatsoever. This is not carte blanche.

As a matter of fact, if we want to be fair to what has been written (rather clumsily and unclearly), were someone, some couple, to read and take seriously – with the help of a good, faithful priest – what Amoris said, and what the Argentinian thing said, not many people would be able to discern that they can honestly receive Communion.

I’ll also repeat that, those who are rightly disposed toward the Church’s teaching and laws will work with all of this in continuity with the Church’s entire body of teaching, in obedience and fidelity. Those who are not inclined to obedience and fidelity will continue to do whatever the heck they want, no matter what any Pope writes.

However, it seems to me that the way that this has all been handled, and the way this all will surely be reported, will open the door to abuses, abuses which I – for one – cannot fathom that any Pope would intend!

Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Address: 10 years later

Posted on 12 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Has it been 10 years already? Job 7:6! John Allen at Crux reminded me of the anniversary.

Ten years ago Benedict XVI delivered his famous Regensburg Address which sparked huge controversy over his inclusion of the example of Islam and their view of Allah in regard to reason and will.

You will want to review the essay by Sam Gregg of ACTON INSTITUTE about the Regensburg Address. HERE

Here is a slice of Gregg’s article:

One of the basic theses presented by Benedict at Regensburg was that how we understand God’s nature has implications for whether we can judge particular human choices and actions to be unreasonable. Thus, if reason is simply not part of Islam’s conception of the Divinity’s nature, then Allah can command his followers to make unreasonable choices, and all his followers can do is submit to a Divine Will that operates beyond the categories of reason.

Most commentators on the Regensburg Address did not, however, observe that the Pope declined to proceed to engage in a detailed analysis of why and how such a conception of God may have affected Islamic theology and Islamic practice. Nor did he explore the mindset of those Muslims who invoke Allah to justify jihadist violence. Instead, Benedict immediately pivoted to discussing the place of reason in Christianity and Western culture more generally. In fact, in the speech’s very last paragraph, Benedict called upon his audience “to rediscover” the “great logos”: “this breadth of reason” which, he maintained, orthodox Christianity has always regarded as a prominent feature of God’s nature. The pope’s use of the word “rediscover” indicated that something had been lost and that much of the West and the Christian world had themselves fallen into the grip of other forms of un-reason. Irrationality can, after all, manifest itself in expressions other than mindless violence.

That irrationality is loose and ravaging much of the West—especially in those institutions which are supposed to be temples of reason, i.e., universities—is hard to deny. Take, for instance, those presently trying to turn Western educational institutions into one gigantic “safe space.” [cf. precious snowflakes] In this cocoon, those who maintain, for instance, that gender theory fails basic tests of logic, or that the welfare state has negative cultural effects, or that not all forms of inequality are in fact unjust (to name just some propositions which many today consider offensive), are regularly designated as “haters” or some word to which the suffix “phobe” is attached. [cf. democrats and their candidates]

You also want to read about Benedict XVI’s amazing Regensburg Address with the help of James Schall.

US HERE – UK HERE

Here is the audio of the talk.

I haven’t been able to find a full video of the Address. Odd.

With Italian voice over:

Another with Italian voice over, but decent video.

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Would Millard Fillmore’s VP pick be preferable to Tim Kaine?

Posted on 11 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As I have often said and written, I would vote for the corpse of Millard Filmore (the last Whig President and an anti-Catholic No Nothing) to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. And now, with Tim Kaine (can. 915 NOW!) on the dem ticket, I would extend my preference for Fillmore’s cadaver also to Fillmore’s VP’s cadaver… except that Fillmore didn’t have one, that is, he didn’t have a VP.

Fillmore ascended (descended?) to the presidency upon the untimely death of Zachary Taylor (+1850) from a nasty gastric malady after eating, they say, iced milk and raw fruit. (Be wary of milkshakes!) There was a theory that he was assassinated with arsenic or some such. As a matter of fact, in 1991 they would dig him up, Taylor, that is, to test his remains for arsenic. They determined that it wasn’t arsenic. It was probably the gastroenteritis that got him after all. Gastroenteritis got him with the help of his doctors, of course. They bled and blistered him and gave him massive doses of an emetic to induce vomiting called ipecac (I’ll bet that’s as nasty as it sounds), opium, quinine and calomel (aka mercury chloride) which was used as both a laxative and a horticultural fungicide. What could go wrong?

Yes… that paragraph, with its emetics and laxatives and gastric problems, the bitterness of the quinine and the delirium of opiates, surely sets the tone for what follows.

And now to Tim Caine, or, No. 2 (on the ticket).

Spotted at The Stream:

Catholic Church Will Change on Marriage, Kaine Tells Radical LGBT Group

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is predicting that the Roman Catholic Church may eventually change its opposition to gay marriage. [Can’t be done.]

Kaine is a Roman Catholic [catholic] as well as a U.S. senator from Virginia and a former governor of that state. He told the Human Rights Campaign during its national dinner Saturday in Washington that he had changed his mind about gay marriage and that his church may follow suit one day. [Quisling.]

[Watch this! You may need to squint in the sight of his theological brilliance.] “I think it’s going to change because my church also teaches me about a creator who, in the first chapter of Genesis, surveyed the entire world, including mankind, and said, ‘It is very good,’” Kaine said. He then recalled Pope Francis’ remark that “who am I to judge?” in reference to gay priests. [This is little better than word salad. Wasn’t it in Genesis that we read that God created man male and female? Genesis 1 says: “And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply”, Right? God seems to have had a reason for the two sexes thing: increase and multiply. What’s the old phrase? God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. No “increase and multiply” that way. Kaine seems to have fallen into the trap that God made people homosexual and that the homosexuality is one of the things God said was good.]

“I want to add: Who am I to challenge God for the beautiful diversity of the human family? I think we’re supposed to celebrate it, not challenge it,” Kaine said. [As an aside: Kaine was educated by Jesuits. I’m just sayin’.]

While he pledged to fight for increased rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans, Kaine admitted that he had opposed gay marriage until 2005. [What a guy.]

“For a long time while I was battling for LGBT equality, I believed that marriage was something different,” he said. Virginia’s lieutenant governor when state lawmakers pushed for a constitutional amendment to keep marriage between one man and one woman, he recalled speaking to amendment supporters who said they hoped LGBT people would feel so unwelcome that they would move out of Virginia.

“When I heard the proponents describe their motivations, it became clearer to me where I should stand on this,” he said. [THAT’s a reason to change your mind about sodomy?]

[…]

Brilliant.

At the urging of Daniel Webster, Fillmore the Whig appointed the only Whig Supreme Court Justice: Benjamin Robbins Curtis. If you are not a Whig, you might not have know that. Don’t infer from this that I am a Whig, which would be Kaine/Jesuit/Fishwrap reasoning (= fallacious). Here’s another interesting factoid. Curtis, the first on the SCOTUS bench to have a degree from a law school, was one of only two Justices who dissented from SCOTUS Dred Scott v Sanford in 1857. He was so put off by that decision that he resigned from the Court.

Fillmore’s pick for SCOTUS turned out to be not too bad!

Speaking of the SCOTUS and really bad decisions, I am convinced in my marrow that Hillary Clinton, if given the chance, would appoint disastrous Justices who will set the compass of the SCOTUS for a generation and more to the accelerated ruin of these USA.

Fillmore’s corpse would surely choose better Justices than either Hillary or Kaine.

And, in answer to the question I facetiously posed, Fillmore’s VP choice would also probably be better than Hillary’s.

Again… I’m all in!

FILLMORE CORPSE
AND
[….]
2016!

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes

Posted on 11 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Was there a good point in the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday obligation? Let us know!

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My View For Awhile: 11 Sept Edition

Posted on 11 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I’m on my way to the deepest south for a maternal visit.

Cutting a bit closer than usual today I went from door to seat in about 45 minutes.

This isn’t a day I would have chosen as my best day for travel. Mass was reeeeally early and, well, there’s the date. But I get an additional day this way.

UPDATE:

As part of my playlist today I will include something to remind me of another 11 September. Something to think about during this season of electioneering.

UPDATE:

Next leg.

Another option in the playlist.

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Posted on 10 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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An interesting Sunday Mass on 11 September – Mass in Time of War

Posted on 10 September 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Bp. Morlino blesses new shrine of St. Cecilia in the Wisconsin Dells. Vestments lent by the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison.

Something a little unusual. In the Diocese of Madison, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino (aka The Extraordinary Ordinary) has given permission to use, for the Novus Ordo, one of the “Masses for Various Needs and Occasions” on Sunday 11 September, such as the Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice (no. 30) or the Mass In Time of War or Civil Disturbance (no. 31). Violet vestments would be used and the readings for the 24th Ordinary Sunday can be used. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal no. 374 allows the diocesan bishop to permit or direct the use of one of the “Masses for Various Needs and Occasions” on a Sunday in Ordinary Time.

For the Extraordinary Form, however, can this be done? YES!

According to the 1962 rubrics, a votive Mass for a matters of public concern can be celebrated on a 2nd Class Sunday using violet vestments, without a Gloria but with a Creed (by reason of it being Sunday cf. 343). Take a look at Rubrics 366-368 (De Missa votiva pr re gravi et publica simul causa) in the 1962 Missale Romanum. The rule about Sundays is implicit in 341 where it says that Masses for Bride and Bridegroom and the 25th or the 50th Anniversaries of Marriage cannot be on a Sunday (meaning that the others can be).

So, at St. Mary’s in Pine Bluff (and I hope at other places in the diocese where the TLM is regularly celebrated), we will have the Mass in Time of War, with violet vestments, a Creed and no Gloria with commemorations of the 17th Sunday after Pentecost.

The schola will be prepared with the votive Propers: