A priest friend wrote about what smudging means.
Different tribes think different things. However ALL involve DEMONS (cfr. Paul).
I understand some bishops want to approve certain “indigenous” rites like smudging.
This needs widespread attention and help.
Can you post INTELLIGENT thing about this.
UPDATE 2 March – 15:11: Since I posted this on 24 Feb at 21:11 EST until I posted this update
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amazing people have written to me. I forwarded their emails.
ORIGINALLY Published on: Feb 24, 2025 at 21:11
I make a personal appeal.
A priest friend has been dealt a very bad hand. He needs support. He is in good canonical standing. He is in very bad health. His bishop is … not helpful.
He can take Mass intentions. His financial situation is such that he needs generous stipends.
He cannot take Gregorian Masses (because he is in and out of the hospital and does some prison ministry). He can take individual stipends – even quite a few – so long as they don’t have to be consecutive… because of hospital stays and some parish Masses.
He says celebrates the Novus Ordo and the Traditional Latin Mass. If you want ONLY the TLM, he can do it.
This works like what I do for the Gregorian Mass requests.
He is in a bad place. Also, please say NOW a prayer for his health.
Many dioceses have set stipends which are quite low. If you can, I ask that you would be generous with your stipends.
Please write to me HERE and I will forward your email to him. YOU – entirely between yourselves – can work out the details. PAY ATTENTION! In the subject line put
I WANT TO HELP THE PRIEST
Don’t put anything else. Just that. Simple instructions.
Help a priest who really needs help.
Madonna and Child between St. Peter Nolasco and St. Peter Pascasio by Pompeo Batoni.
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There is an IMPORTANT article at First Things – HERE
“Who’s Really Calling the Shots at U.S. Diocesan Chanceries?”
The article by Michael Mazza – a reliable, knowledgeable, experienced canonist whom I’ve known for a couple of decades at least – exposes something that most priests came to realize years ago, namely, that diocesan chanceries are in a fundamental way being steered by lawyers and insurance companies and that the rights of priests to due process (or human decency for that matter) are often ignored.
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
It is the 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo and Sexagesima Sunday in the Vetus Ordo. The Roman Station is St. Paul’s outside-the-walls. We are back in purple for Sunday while the new-fangled Novus gets green.
We are now in pre-Lent. Those who attend the Vetus Ordo are never surprised by Lent.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have a few thoughts about the orations in the Vetus Ordo for this Sunday: HERE
A taste:
Our Mass formularies for pre-Lent and Lent go back to at least the time of St. Gregory the Great (+604), and certainly before. What was going on back in the day? Plague and famine had ravaged the population. The invading Lombards threatened Rome itself with sword and fire. Both for Septuagesima and this Sexagesima Sunday we hear the cry of the Church to God for help and mercy.
Our historical context also includes the fact of the Roman Station Churches. Last week, we were at St. Lawrence outside-the-walls, near the tomb of the holy deacon burned alive on an iron grate. Today the Station is St. Paul’s outside-the-walls, the place of Paul’s execution and burial. It is as if the Church is asking the catechumens, aspiring to baptism, “Are you sure you want to take this on?” The catechumens and baptized alike with the Pope and cortege made their way from the heart of the City under the long covered walkway that stretched from the great defense walls to the Ostian Basilica, St. Paul’s.
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Hey libs of CNS! The word you are looking for is “MEN”.
Women cannot be ordained. It is impossible.
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The priest took a nap soon after the Mass ??? pic.twitter.com/crMUnn89II
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However, its radio signal can be seen. This is how VLBA saw it exactly 12 years ago Today. pic.twitter.com/ktUFjraa4T
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Congratulations to all those who belong to the Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter a fine feast day.
Today is an opportunity to reflect of the will of the Savior about a necessary element for His Church: the Petrine Ministry.
Once upon a time, there were two feasts of Peter’s cathedra, chair, his official role as teacher who strengthens the brethren, etc.
On 18 January we would celebrate Peter’s cathedra in Rome.
On 22 February we would celebrated Peter’s cathedra in Antioch.
Peter went to Antioch, a key city in the East, and there had a disagreement with Paul. Peter spent about 7 years in Antioch, guiding the church as its bishop, before he pulled up stakes, and… I guess… cathedra… and went to Rome. He wouldn’t have taken a literal chair, but he did take his office and authority, given to him by Christ. He had this office and authority before he went to Antioch, while he was at Antioch, when he left Antioch, when he got to Rome and when he died in Rome.
Because the Petrine Ministry is necessary for the Church, Christ made it obviously a “hereditary” office, just as the Davidic stewards enjoyed with the conferral of keys. After Peter, another man held the Petrine Ministry and so on down to our day. That would have happened whether Peter had stayed in Jerusalem, stayed in Antioch, or had gone to Luoyang in China of the Han Dynasty.
ASIDE: Based on Peter’s move from Antioch to Rome, there are those who say that there is nothing which absolutely connects being the Successor of Peter with being Bishop of Rome. He was, after all, The Rock, when he was in Antioch. He was Vicar of Christ before he went to Antioch. He was Vicar of Christ when he was between Antioch and Rome. For all practical purposes Petrine Ministry and office of Bishop of Rome now seem to be fused together. Most authors think they are inseparable. But… they weren’t, unless one thinks that Christ gave Peter His authority in view of Peter’s future in Rome. Possible, but there’s no Biblical evidence for that. On the surface, it looks like one could be Successor of Peter (who can be anywhere) and someone else Bishop of Rome (who should be in Rome). The majority of theologians would, today, say that the Petrine Ministry, being Vicar of Christ, and being Bishop of Rome are now inseparable by the fact that Peter died in Rome. It is not entirely clear to me how his death “sealed the deal”, as it were.
However, were we to consider the implications of Peter being Vicar of Christ before getting either to Antioch or Rome, one supposes that, in time of need, some Successor of Peter could move his see to, say, Texas.
In any event, that’s an interesting thing to reflect on today when we have Antioch and Rome together on one day instead of two.
Let’s see the Novus and Vetus Ordo Collect for the feast.
COLLECT (NOVUS):
Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus,
ut nullis nos permittas perturbationibus concuti,
quos in apostolicae confessionis petra solidasti.
There is nothing especially difficult about the grammar and vocabulary of this prayer, though it is theologically profound. NB: the solidasti is really solidavisti, a “syncopated” form.
I’m sure some of you can come up with your smooth but accurate versions.
COLLECT (VETUS):
Deus, qui beato Petro Apostolo tuo, collatis clavibus regni coelestis, ligandi atque solvendi pontificium traditisti: concede; ut, intercessionis eius auxilio, a peccatorum nostrorum nexibus liberemur.
O God, who, having committed to Your Apostle blessed Peter the keys of the heavenly kingdom, bestowed the pontifical office of binding and loosing; grant that, by the help of his intercession, we may be delivered from the bonds of our sins.
Whereas the Novus emphasizes we don’t have to worry about the solidity of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith because of the graces given to Peter and His successors … though is sure doesn’t see that way occasionally … the older prayer concerns the power of bishops and priests to forgive sins. Come to think of it, even if we didn’t pay a lot of attention to what certain pontiffs said and did, we would be hard pressed to be at ease without the ability to make a good confession. If there were a choice between knowing all the stuff that goes on with popes and prelates, and the opportunity of having a good and available confessor around… I know which I would choose.
As a bonus… here are a few photos of St. Peter’s shot some years ago on this Feast of the Cathedra of St. Peter.
It is pretty dark in the Basilica, so steady is the name of the game. Here is a shot through the columns over the main altar toward the apse, where you can see the candles arrayed around the magnificent bronze by Bernini.
A closer view.
The bronze Cathedra is decorated with lighted candles only once a year, today.
The black bronze statue of St. Peter attributed to the marvelous Arnulfo di Cambio was always dressed up in his cope and tiara, with a ring on his finger and pectoral Cross on two days, 29 June and today. Then the modernists in the Fabrica started fooling around. Too triumphalistic. They started cutting out elements. But all of them were back the day I shot these except for the griccia alb, which I can live without I guess. I don’t know if it is back this year or not.
And ….
GO TO CONFESSION!
This got my attention. I wonder what the implications are for texting apps like Whats App and Signal.
If I remember correctly (correct me if I am wrong) WhatsApp is already being mined by AI because it is part of Fakebook.
Signal is more secure.
Tech knowledgeable people should chime in. I mean” “people who know what they are talking about”.
But… if you use it on an Apple device…. ?
? Apple just allowed a back door for the United Kingdom.
They ended cloud encryption.
This is BAD.
It’s exactly what JD Vance was warning about. Europe is straying from free speech.
The UK authorities can use this to target people with wrongspeak and wrongthink. pic.twitter.com/n2z7BX1xJP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 21, 2025
I renew also my invitation for people who use SaaS to look into Federated.
They have replacements for many expensive services which also mine your data. With Federated, your data is yours.
Federated has an app called Element which is for group chat and for video chat. I have a (not very active) chat group for live Mass streams and I’ve used the video chat a couple times because I will not use Zoom (which is mined by Fakebook).
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