YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTSPlease use the sharing buttons! Thanks!

Registered or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read?

Continued from THESE.

I get many requests by email asking for prayers. Many requests are heart-achingly grave and urgent.

As long as my blog reaches so many readers in so many places, let’s give each other a hand. We should support each other in works of mercy.

If you have some prayer requests, feel free to post them below. You have to be registered here to be able to post.

Please… pray for G.  Really struggling right now.  Urgent.

Finally, I still have a pressing personal petition. Actually… two.

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Archbp. Sample consecrated Portland to Our Lady

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Archbp. Sample consecrated Portland to Our LadyWhat did I write the other day?

With the rapid degradation of morals, the overturning of common sense and natural law, and the dissolution of civil rule of law in these USA we are seeing – and this is not a surprise – a rise of open invocation of the Enemy of the Soul.

The spiritual war is becoming more open war. The dupes of the Enemy sense that their time is coming and they are emboldened.

It is time for bishops and priests to get out the older, traditional copies of the Rituale Romanum and consider using its powerful and effective rites, including and especially Title XI, ch. 3. Let’s have processions and public recitation of litanies.

My old friend Archbp. Alex Sample, has consecrated the Archdiocese of Portland to Mary, Or Lady of Fatima.  From the NCRegister:

Portland Archdiocese Consecrated to Our Lady of Fatima

PORTLAND, Ore. — Faithful from Portland and the surrounding area filled St. Mary’s Cathedral to overflowing on June 28 for Archbishop Alexander Sample’s Mass consecrating the archdiocese to Our Lady of Fatima.
The Mass and consecration, celebrated on the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were offered particularly for the strengthening of marriage and family life.
“Marriage and family life are in a real crisis. We make this consecration to her to watch over our families and marriages. Families need Our Lady’s love and protection,” the archbishop said during the homily, according to the Catholic Sentinel.
Todd Cooper, special assistant to Archbishop Sample, told CNA that Pope Francis’ consecration of his papacy to Our Lady of Fatima, as well as his consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, spurred Archbishop Sample to do the same for Portland.
Archbp. Sample consecrated Portland to Our Lady[…]
The archbishop also found an urgent spiritual need to offer the archdiocese’s efforts of strengthening marriage and families to Mary for her intercession.
Archbishop Sample is inviting families and the faithful to participate in First Saturday devotions, as Our Lady of Fatima encouraged.
On the first Saturday of the month, the faithful are asked to go to confession (preferably on a first Saturday, but within eight days before or after one), receive holy Communion (in a state of grace), pray five decades of the Rosary (one set of mysteries) and spend 15 additional minutes in meditation (on one or more mysteries of the Rosary).
All of these actions should be offered for the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. According to the Blessed Mother’s promises at Fatima, if this is accomplished on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, she will assist the faithful at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation.
“He has come to the realization that we need to look beyond our own efforts and our own resourcefulness in trying to evangelize the culture and our people,” Cooper said. “We need to look for spiritual support for that, and he thought there would be no better way.”

The Archbishop’s letter to priests HERE.

Fr. Z Kudos to His Excellency. Well done.

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Invasion?

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Are you watching what some people have called the “invasion” taking place across the border from Mexico into these USA (aka “provincias pérdidas”)?

Here is but one of many stories, but this caught my eye because of a good point made:

(CNSNews.com) — The local government of Murrietta, a city in Southern California, is speaking out against the federal government’s forced transfer of illegal immigrants from detainment centers in Texas to their local border patrol facility.

Expressing some consternation, Murrietta City Council member Randon Lane told local affiliate NBC4, “We have money to take them from Texas, fly them to San Diego, bus them up to Murietta, and then turn around and ship them off to some other place – we have the money to do that – we just don’t have the money to secure our borders? So, yes, it seems very odd.”

The transfer is part of the federal government’s response to the massive wave of illegal immigrants who have been crossing the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico since February. The Department of Homeland Security reports that more than 181,000 illegals have crossed since October 2013, far outpacing projections and with so sign of stopping anytime soon.

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And then there is this:

What to do?   This is orchestrated.

Really… what to do?

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RECENT POSTS and THANKS

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
RECENT POSTS and THANKS

Help me get to 25K followers!

First and foremost, help each other:

YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

Some recent posts. They scroll off pretty quickly.

I am deeply grateful to all of you who have sent feedback, especially your news about having returned to the sacraments or having been helped because of something you read here.  Also, thanks enormously for donations from you benefactors, using the donation button, and things sent from my wishlists, including Kindle books.  I am racing through lots of books these days, also the text-to-speech feature of my Kindle keyboard.  Many of you have subscribed to have a monthly donation sent automatically.  I try to send a thank you note to all of you.  If I have failed to get to you, it was an oversight only.  Sometimes I get behind.

I will say Mass for the intention of my benefactors on Saturday, 5 July.  All of you who have sent donations and items will be included, of course.  This is my pleasure and duty.

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“Brown Shirts” threaten medical workers treating illegal immigrants

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

"Brown Shirts" threaten medical workers treating illegal immigrantsVia Todd Starnes:

Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest

A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.

In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution.

“There were several of us who wanted to talk about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would be arrested,” a psychiatric counselor told me. “We were under orders not to say anything.”

The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the Baptist Family & Children’s Services, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp.

The sources say security forces called themselves the “Brown Shirts.”

“It was a very submissive atmosphere,” the counselor said. “Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”

She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired.

“Everyone was paranoid,” she said. “The children had more rights than the workers.”

She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.

“It was not a good atmosphere in terms of health,” she said. “I would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair.”

A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw.

“We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country,” she said. “We were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base.”

Both the counselor and the nurse said their superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses.

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Sr. Simone Campbell, NETWORK against SCOTUS on Hobby Lobby

Posted on 1 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Earlier today I saw a Tweet from Sr. Simone Campbell’s group NETWORK, the Nuns On The Bus crowd, along with the LCWR types… the Magisterium of Nuns, who place themselves over and against the teaching office of Bishops.

Sr. Simone Campbell, NETWORK against SCOTUS on Hobby Lobby

Are Sr. Simone and NETWORK and all these women pro-abortion? Pro-abortifacients? Against religious liberty?  Against the US Bishops?

That’s what this looks like, doesn’t it.  Let Sr. Campbell tell us.

Or… maybe they retweeted it because the disagree that the SCOTUS decision was wrong?

Yah… right.

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ISIS terrorists call all Muslims next to “conquer Rome”

Posted on 1 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

ISIS terrorists call all Muslims next to "conquer Rome"ISIS leader Abut Bakr Al-Husayni al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi, days after announcing the formation of an Islamic caliphate in Syria-Iraq, announced that Rome must be conquered.

We let him go, by the way.  Guess whose administration did that.

I saw this at The Telegraph:

Rome will be conquered next, says leader of Islamic State
Muslims have been called to flock to the Islamic State to gather for a battle against non-believers throughout the world

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State stretching across Iraq and Syria, has vowed to lead the conquest of Rome as he called on Muslims to immigrate to his new land to fight under its banner around the globe.
Baghdadi, who holds a PhD in Islamic studies, said Muslims were being targetted and killed from China to Indonesia. Speaking as the first Caliph, or commander of the Islamic faithful since the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, he called on Muslims to rally to his pan-Islamic state.
“Those who can immigrate to the Islamic State should immigrate, as immigration to the house of Islam is a duty,” he said in an audio recording released on a website used by the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
“Rush O Muslims to your state. It is your state. Syria is not for Syrians and Iraq is not for Iraqis. The land is for the Muslims, all Muslims.
“This is my advice to you. If you hold to it you will conquer Rome and own the world, if Allah wills.”
Having claimed the title of “caliph”, Baghdadi appealed to “judges and those who have military and managerial and service skills, and doctors and engineers in all fields.”
He also called on jihadi fighters to escalate fighting in the holy month of Ramadan, which began on Sunday. “In this virtuous month or in any other month, there is no deed better than jihad in the path of Allah, so take advantage of this opportunity and walk the path of you righteous predecessors,” he said. “So to arms, to arms, soldiers of the Islamic s, fight, fight.”

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As I read this, it is the Feast of the Precious Blood of the Lord.  The first antiphon for Vespers this evening is:

Ant. Quis est iste * qui venit de Edom, tinctis vestibus de Bosra? iste formosus in stola sua.

Ant. Who is this that * cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra? this, that is glorious in His apparel?

And the second antiphon:

Ant. Ego * qui loquor iustitiam, et propugnator sum ad salvandum.

Ant. I * that speak righteousness, and a warrior am I, for to save.

Festivis resonent compita vocibus

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Archbp. Coakley (Oklahoma) reacts to planned Black Mass at Civic Center

Posted on 1 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

With the rapid degradation of morals, the overturning of common sense and natural law, and the dissolution of civil rule of law in these USA we are seeing – and this is not a surprise – a rise of open invocation of the Enemy of the Soul.

The spiritual war is becoming more open war.  The dupes of the Enemy sense that their time is coming and they are emboldened.

It is time for bishops and priests to get out the older, traditional copies of the Rituale Romanum and consider using its powerful and effective rites, including and especially Title XI, ch. 3.  Let’s have processions and public recitation of litanies.

Let’s get back to the traditional ways of making reparation and asking for God’s blessings.

And to prepare… let’s GO TO CONFESSION.

Let’s stop fooling around.  Let’s dust off the serious spiritual tools of our Catholic Faith.

I saw this, from Archbp. Coakley of Oklahoma City. HERE

Archbishop Coakley on planned “Black Mass” at Civic Center:

“We are astonished and grieved by this proposed sacrilegious event”

OKLAHOMA CITY (July 1, 2014) –A ticketed “Black Mass” is slated to occur Sept. 21 at the Oklahoma City Civic Center, according to the Civic Center website.

Today, Archbishop Paul Coakley expressed his astonishment and disappointment at this event and called on community leaders to reconsider whether it is an appropriate use of public space.

“For more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide and more than 200,000 Catholics in Oklahoma, the Mass is the most sacred of religious rituals,” the archbishop said. “It is the center of Catholic worship and celebrates Jesus Christ’s redemption of the world by his death and resurrection. In particular, the Eucharist – which we believe to be the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ – is the source and summit of our faith.

“That’s why we’re astonished and grieved that the Civic Center would promote as entertainment and sell tickets for an event that is very transparently a blasphemous mockery of the Mass,” he continued. “The ‘Black Mass’ that is scheduled for the Civic Center in September is a satanic inversion and distortion of the most sacred beliefs not only of Catholics, but of all Christians.

“In a spirit of hope, I ask those who are allowing this event to reconsider whether this is an appropriate use of public space. We trust that community leaders – and, in particular, the board members of the Oklahoma City Civic Center – do not actually wish to enable or encourage such a flagrantly inflammatory event and can surely remedy this situation.

“If the event does move forward, we will have to consider other peaceful, prayerful and respectful options to demonstrate our opposition to this publicly supported sacrilegious act.

“In the meantime, I call on all Catholics in central and western Oklahoma – as well as all men and women of good will – to pray for a renewed sense of the sacred and, in particular, to pray that the Lord might change the hearts and minds of the organizers of this event.”

I do not think that outrage and holy anger need to be restricted to the people of Oklahoma.

Today, on this Feast of the Precious Blood, dear readers, please consider what acts of reparation you might engage in for even the consideration of such an event.

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Your Fishwrap Roundup today

Posted on 1 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Your Fishwrap Roundup todayYour Fishwrap Roundup today.

Over at the National Schismatic Reporter today we find the inimitable Sr. Maureen Fiedler. She chooses to wax about exploration of the T in LBGT. HERE

Meanwhile, there is an editorial which attacks San Francisco’s Archbp. Salvatore Cordileone for his defense of marriage. HERE

If that wasn’t enough, NSR seems to lament the treatment being dealt out to retired Archbp. Rembert Weakland. It seems that Weakland, who started out as a Benedictine monk at Latrobe in Pennsylvania, is not welcome at his home abbey. HERE

 

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QUAERITUR: The washing of altar linens

Posted on 1 July 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

QUAERITUR: The washing of altar linensFrom a reader…

QUAERITUR:

My mother is an Extraordinary Minister of Communion and has to wash the altar linen used during the various Masses. Out of curiosity, and preventing possible sacrilege, what is the best and most respectful way to wash corporals and purificators?

The ideal, classic, way is for the priest to do the first rinsing. That water should go down the sacrarium or poured onto the ground.

There is a good booklet on the care of linens.

Handbook for Laundering Liturgical Linens.

Very useful!

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