You might remember that when the Archbishop of DC refused to allow Card. Castrillon to say a Pontifical Mass at the Shrine in DC, Bp. Slattery of Tulsa stepped into the breach and gave a MIGHTY sermon. HERE
I received a note that Bp. Slattery is not doing well and may be nearing his final time with us in the Church Militant. Please stop and say a decade of the Rosary for him – now – or a whole Rosary if you are able.
The video of that unforgettable Mass.
The other day there was a big storm in Rome with lots of lightning.
The view from the steps of my adoptive parish, Ss. Trinità dei Pelegrini.
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Right now I am looking at a new book published by Angelico Press, which is doing yeoman’s work for the Lord and the Church.
Between Rome and Rebellion: A History of Catholic Traditionalism with Special Attention to France
by Yves Chiron and John Pepino (translator). Originally in French on 2022.
This is not a “breezy” book. The author, who has written also on Paul VI, has looked deeply into what “traditionalism” and – the perennial accusation – “integralism” are. This more a French thing than American or English, I think. But it is real. Saying that people who simply love the traditional Roman Rite are “integralists” are, to my mind, the liturgical equivalent of a lib calling someone who doesn’t cringe and conform a “racist trans phobe”. The first chapter on “From ‘Integrism’ to Romanity” has left me gasping a bit at the thorough coverage of the whos whats wheres whens, etc.
Since France has figured at the core of the renewal of Tradition, in a way that these USA have not, this is an important historical chronicle.
Scripta manent.
White to move and mate in 2.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
In chessy news, something has happened in my brain. When I work with game analysis in the monthly issue of Chess Life or in book I am beginning to visualize positions for several moves after, say, a diagram. Often after a diagram you will get the notation of a few moves with a parenthetical, “better would have been… etc.”. I’m starting to be able to wade into that notation. I don’t know it is affecting my game yet. One thing I’ve noticed about how I used to learn languages. I’d get to a point and then plateau. Then I would stumble around like a moron who had never heard of the language in question. Then, suddenly, things would start to fall into place. I wonder if the analogy of shuffling cards makes any sense. Division, then total chaos, then new order. I know I am getting old and my mind isn’t what it used to be. So I have to find new angles and methods to learn these things. Can I improve my visual memory at this point in my life? That is a key to the success of most chess players beyond analytical skills.
Meanwhile I just read that in Budapest a 9-yr old defeated three Grand Masters in one event. He is the youngest ever 2200 ELO.
And the Chess Olympics are staring up in Budapest. I’ve been casually working on Hungarian for a while. I’d really like to visit there.
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Finally, I am taking some intentions. HERE
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Zicke zacke, zicke zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi!
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Also, there is a blessing for beer in the old Rituale Romanum which a priest can impart.
When you bring beer to the priest, bring this prayer along and ask him to bless it and all the beer you bought for yourself!
V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
R. Qui fecit caelum et terram.
V. Dominus vobiscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.Oremus.
Benedic +, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisiae, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi, et praesta per invocationem nominis tui sancti; ut, quicumque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corpus et animae tutelam percipiant. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
R. Amen.
Or else…
V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made heaven and earth.V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.Let us pray.
Bless, + O Lord, this creature beer, which thou hast deigned to produce from the fat of grain: that it may be a salutary remedy to the human race, and grant through the invocation of thy holy name; that, whoever shall drink it, may gain health in body and peace in soul. Through Christ our Lord.
R. Amen.
And it is sprinkled with holy water…. carefully.
You might remember that I started a Black Vestment Project for my adoptive parish in Rome, Ss. Trinità dei Pelegrini. Seven matching black Roman sets (one with my stemma). Some of you readers almost instantly contributed. Thank you.
Today I received photos of the cutting of the fabric.
I am told that they will be ready by mid-October, which means that they will be ready when I am back in Rome, which means that they will be ready for All Souls and November.
Brick by brick.
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Yesterday in Paris in the Speed Chess Championship Magnus methodically eviscerated “Puer” (aka Alireza) 23½-7½, which gave me deep satisfaction.
The Olympics are coming up.
White to move and mate in 4.
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From The Sacramentary by Bl. Ildefonso Schuster:
As Eve, our first Mother, arose from the side of Adam, dazzling with life and innocence, so Mary came forth, bright and immaculate from the heart of the eternal Word, who, by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, as the Liturgy teaches us, was pleased to form that body and soul which were to be, one day, his Tabernacle and altar. This is the sublime meaning of the feast of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the dawn foretelling the day which already breaks behind the eternal hills, the mystic rod which rises from the venerable root of Jesse; the stream which springs from Paradise; it is the symbolical fleece which is stretched on our dry earth to catch the miraculous dew. This is the new Eve, that is to say the life and the Mother of all the living, who is born to-day for those to whom the first Eve became the Mother of sin and death.
Today’s feast, the Nativity of Mary, is older than the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was precisely nine months ago. I’ve always been puzzled that in the Vetus Ordo the Nativity of Mary is a feast of lesser weight (2nd class) than the Nativity of John the Baptist (1st class).
Stop for a moment. Consider what our eternal prospects were before the birth not only of Our Lord, but also before the birth of His Mother, from whom He took our human nature, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ponder the state of slavery to sin in which we were bound and, after death, the strong possibility of everlasting separation from God.
Given what our prospects were, celebrating the birth of our fallen humanity’s solitary boast is a really good idea.
Holy Church, in celebrating liturgically her holy birth for a long time, ultimately reasoned back to Mary’s holy conception. As St. Thomas Aquinas argued,
“The Church celebrates the feast of our Lady’s Nativity. Now the Church does not celebrate feasts except of those who are holy. Therefore, even in her birth the Blessed Virgin was holy. Therefore, she was sanctified in the womb.” (STh III, q. 27, a. 1)
As we worship, so do we believe.
As we believe, so do we worship.
Change our worship you change belief, and vice versa.
We are our rites.
The ancient Roman observance of the Feast started around the time of Pope Honorius I (+638), though it was celebrated earlier in the Greek East. The station church for the feast was, of course, St. Mary Major and the Collect church was St. Adrian in the Roman Forum, which was originally the Curia or Senate House built by Julius Caesar. In the 13th c. 18 images of Mary from the different diaconal tituli (early parishes) were carried in procession. The Pope would change from shoes to slippers for the procession to St. Mary Major. He took off his slippers at the threshold of the basilica and as the Te Deum was sung his feet were washed with warm water before the Mass began.
As Blessed Ildefonso says:
Mary became Mother of the Divine Word Incarnate for the sake of sinful man. Will she not be to us also a loving Mother?
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In chessy news, in the Paris Spped Chess Championship semifinals , the match we’ve been waiting for. Not Hikaru v. Puer (Puer won). But Magnus Carlsen v. Hans Niemann. HERE Apart from the bad blood, tension and Niemann’s bluster and trash talk, Magnus cleaned the floor with him. And it probably would have been even worse if Magnus hadn’t lost some interest in pounding Niemann into the floor. Niemann several times made extended whiny technical protests which dragged the match waaaaaay longer than it should have been… in front of a live audience too, thus annoying their entire world. That’s what Hans is champ of: being annoying. There is an extended interview of Hans Niemann by Levy Rozmen (aka Gotham Chess – super popular chess content creator on YouTube – 5.35 MILLION subscribers!) Here’s the link to the interview – HERE. It is not dull. It gives a real insight into Niemann. Next, Niemann v. Hikaru for 3rd. HERE There’s even worse rapport between them. Hans has really attacked Hikaru. Hikaru slaughtered Hans. Sunday is Puer (aka Alireza) v. Magnus for the enchilada.
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White to move. Find the zwischenzug (intermezzo):
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
My 1st class relic of St. Leo the Great
From today’s Matins. Magnificent….
Sacraméntum reconcilatiónis nostræ, ante témpora ætérna dispósitum, nullæ implébant figúræ; quia nondum supervénerat Spíritus Sanctus in Vírginem nec virtus Altíssimi obumbráverat ei, ut, et intra intemeráta víscera, ædificánte sibi Sapiéntia domum, Verbum caro fíeret, et, forma Dei ac forma servi in unam conveniénte persónam, Creátor témporum nascerétur in témpore, et, per quem facta sunt ómnia, ipse inter ómnia gignerétur. Nisi enim novus homo, factus in similitúdinem carnis peccáti, nostram suscíperet vetustátem, et, consubstantiális Patri, consubstantiális esse dignarétur et matri, naturámque sibi nostram solus a peccáto liber uníret; sub iugo diáboli generáliter tenerétur humána captívas.
I sought out the longer passage from Letter 31 to Pulcheria. She was the younger sister of the Emperor Thedosius, who played a major role in ruling the Empire. She was also involved in the success of sounds, Catholic doctrine concerning Christ at the Council of Calcedon in 451. The Latin above is in italics below.
But it is of no avail to say that our Lord, the Son of the blessed Virgin Mary, was true and perfect man, if He is not believed to be Man of that stock which is attributed to Him in the Gospel. For Matthew says, “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:” and follows the order of His human origin, so as to bring the lines of His ancestry down to Joseph to whom the Lord’s mother was espoused. Whereas Luke going backwards step by step traces His succession to the first of the human race himself, to show that the first Adam and the last Adam were of the same nature. No doubt the Almighty Son of God could have appeared for the purpose of teaching, and justifying men in exactly the same way that He appeared both to patriarchs and prophets in the semblance of flesh; for instance, when He engaged in a struggle, and entered into conversation (with Jacob), or when He refused not hospitable entertainment, and even partook of the food set before Him. But these appearances were indications of that Man whose reality it was announced by mystic predictions would be assumed from the stock of preceding patriarchs. And the fulfilment of the mystery of our atonement, which was ordained from all eternity, was not assisted by any figures because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon the Virgin, and the power of the Most High had not over-shadowed her: so that “Wisdom building herself a house” within her undefiled body, “the Word became flesh;” and the form of God and the form of a slave coming together into one person, the Creator of times was born in time; and He Himself through whom all things were made, was brought forth in the midst of all things. For if the New Man had not been made in the likeness of sinful flesh, and taken on Him our old nature, and being consubstantial with the Father, had deigned to be consubstantial with His mother also, and being alone free from sin, had united our nature to Him the whole human race would be held in bondage beneath the Devil’s yoke, and we should not be able to make use of the Conqueror’s victory, if it had been won outside our nature.
But from Christ’s marvelous sharing of the two natures, the mystery of regeneration shone upon us that through the self-same spirit, through whom Christ was conceived and born, we too, who were born through the desire of the flesh, might be born again from a spiritual source: and consequently, the Evangelist speaks of believers as those “who were born not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” And of this unutterable grace no one is a partaker, nor can be reckoned among the adopted sons of God, who excludes from his faith that which is the chief means of our salvation.
In that last paragraph, I note with interest Leo’s use of the Prologue of John, which I and other priests recite at the end of (almost) every Mass in the Vetus Ordo. Such readings apply more layers upon already acquired layers for what we hear in the Last Gospel as we speak it. Over the years, it accumulates and it is all “in there”.
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In chessy news, as I write the Speed Chess Championship semifinals are underway in Paris, Hikaru v. “Puer” and then the long-awaited Magnus v. Niemann. The players are present to each other but playing on computers with screens between them. I think this fosters really fast play in time crunches. There is a live audience. I tuned in for a moment, but I’ll save the video for supper-time viewing before another episode of Endeavour.
White to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
I received a note from the monks of Norcia which showed a liturgy with their new Abbot. What grabbed my attention were the vestments. The last pontifical set I had made for the TMSM was precisely of this fabric. I have a chasuble of my own.
I’m set up for a Requiem later, but here is a quick view.
The monks of Norcia make GREAT beer. Try some! Perhaps your priests would like some.
Today is the Feast of St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta. Here is her poetic entry in the 2004 Roman Martyrology with a translation:
10* Calcuttae in India, beatae Teresiae (Agnetis) Gonhxa Bojaxhiu, virginis, quae, ex Epiro nata, sitim Christi in cruce derelicti eximia caritate in pauperrimos fratres restinxit et Congregationes Missionariarum et Missionariorum a Caritate in plenum servitium aegrotorum drelictorumque instituit.
At Calcutta in India, [the commemoration] of blessed Teresa (Agnes) Gonhxa Bojaxhiu, virgin, who, born at Epirus, quenched the thirst of Christ, abandoned on the Cross, by means of outstanding charity towards the most poor brethren and founded the Congregations of Missionaries (women) and Missionaries (men) of Charity in total service to the sick and abandoned.
St. Teresa was at my ordination.
For those who say the Vetus Ordo, it is possible to celebrate her according to Cum sanctissima. We could insert the proper prayers in the Common of Virgins. These are used by the Missionaries for Mother’s feast, which they observe as a Novus Ordo solemnity. I edited that part in the Super Oblata, which would be used as a Secret with the proper ending.
COLLECTA
Deus, qui beátam Terésiam, vírginem, vocásti,ut amóri Fílii tui in cruce sitiéntis exímia caritáte in paupérrimos respondéret, da nobis, quaesumus, eius intercessióne, in afflíctis frátribus Christo ministráre. Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus,
per ómnia saecula sæculórum.
SUPER OBLATA
Súscipe, Dómine, obséquium humilitátis nostræ,quod tibi in festivitate/commemoratione beátæ Terésiæ exhibémus,ut, ex huius participatióne mystérii,nos caritáte flagráre et sollicitúdine salútis animárum concédas combúri. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. [V.O.: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia saecula sæculórum.]
POST COMMUNIONEM
Sacra mystéria quae súmpsimus, Dómino Deus noster, caritátis ardórem in nobis fóveant, quo beata Terésia laeto ánimo in paupéribus Iesum Christum Fílium tuum diléxit eíque servívit. Qui vivit et regnat in saecula saeculórum.
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The monks of Le Barroux in France are making good wine. Their rose was recently recognized and awarded. The only roses I ever pay any attention to are from S. France, Provence.
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In chessy news, for the 45th Chess Olympiad there are 197 teams registered! FIDE has 201 national federations. USA! USA! USA!
The Speed Chess Championship is coming up tomorrow in Paris. There we shall see a match up between Carlsen and Niemann.
BLACK to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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