OLDIE PODCAzT: Augustine on Prayer; how to treat newcomers to Traditional Latin Masses

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am digging out of the archive an old PODCAzT.

These days in the Liturgy of the Hours we have had readings from St. Augustine’s Letter 130 to the wealthy widow Proba, who had fled to North Africa after Alaric the Visigoth sacked Rome.  Since I talked about Augustine and Proba in an old PODCAzT I thought I could just trot it out again.  There are some interesting things in that little project.

Also, I make some remarks about how to treat newcomers at celebrations of the older form of Mass.  Since Summorum Pontificum is now in force, people who haven’t been to the older Mass will be getting first impressions. 

Let’s make sure they are good impressions.

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Fr. Z in NYC

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I will be in New York City from 4-9 November.  

One of the things I will be doing is acting as celebrant for a Solemn TLM on 6 November, a First Friday, at 6:30 PM at the Church of the Guardian Angel in Manhattan (10th Ave. and 21st St.).  This link should take you to some pictures of the Church.

However, perhaps in advance we might give some thought to a Big Apple Blognic?

First, is anyone interested?

Maybe a Saturday morning thing?

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POLL ALERT! Is The Catholic Church “a force for good in the world”?

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A reader told me about a POLL.

The proposition is:

Can you imagine such a question?

VOTE!

At the time of this writing… AGAINST is winning!

Can WDTPRSers stand by?

UPDATE 2225 GMT

UPDATE 19 Oct 1818 GMT

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Philadelphia/Camden area upcoming TLM news

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:

Special choral TLMs will be celebrated at St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, 43 W. Maple Ave., Merchantville, NJ 08109 on the Feast of Christ the King and the Feast of All Saints. Each Mass will be sung by a four-voice professional chorus, the money for which was donated by generous parishioners. The Reverend Anthony J. Manupella, Pastor of St. Peter, is the Celebrant. LLA member Michael Lawrence is the Organist and Master of the Schola Cantorum. Here is the program for the Masses:

October 25 at noon, Feast of Christ the King:
G.P. da Palestrina: Missa Brevis
William Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus
On the organ:
Louis Vierne:  Berceuse (from the Pieces de Fantasie)
Samuel Adler:  Festive Proclamation

November 1 at noon, Feast of All Saints:
William Byrd:  Mass for Three Voices
Hans Leo Hassler:  Cantate Domino
On the organ:
Dietrich Buxtehude:  Prelude in D Major
Olivier Messiaen:  Le Banquet Celeste

As many of you know, St. Peter in Merchantville (Diocese of Camden) has a weekly TLM at noon on Sunday. The TLM is a High Mass from September through June. The special choral High Masses are new. Rev. Anthony J. Manuppella, Pastor of the church, has already conducted an instructional program on “Getting Ready for the Traditional Latin Mass”. The website of the church  (www.stpeterrcc.com) also contains informative material on the Traditional Latin Mass. The telephone number of the church is 856 663 1373.

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WDTPRSer positive project proposal

Posted on 18 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

 

Under the entry about Marquette’s Bishop Alex Sample and the flack he is taking for acting like a Catholic bishop, a reader made a comment that struck home.

If WDTPRSers can move polls, surely we can support bishops who know how to bish.

 

May I make a suggestion?

Perhaps you might take a few minutes to:

  • think of some really good thing that your local bishop has done (if the diocese has no bishop some other bishop or priest)
  • use some search engine to look up the complete name and address of he bishop, the diocesan chancery
  • write a short note to that bishop to thank him, and say that you will pray or fast for him, mentioning what you will do.

Even if you are not all that positive about your bishop, there are surely good things he has done. 

 

If you want to share something of what you wrote, I am sure the other readers would be edified.

Please do this?

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Hard times and your faith

Posted on 18 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I think a lot of people are experiencing harder economic times.

Questions.

What adjustments have you made materially?

What adjustments have you made spiritually?

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Spanish Bishop: Europe is “a continent of death… terminally ill” from abortion

Posted on 15 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

What’s up with bishops these days?

From CNA with my emphases…

Europe is terminally ill because of abortion, warns Spanish bishop

Madrid, Spain, Oct 15, 2009 / 04:11 pm (CNA).- Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Tarazona, Spain voiced his support this week for the October 17 March for Life in Madrid and warned that with the legalization of abortion, “a true ecological disaster” has been unleashed in Europe and will turn it into “a continent of death.”
 
“This is a true ecological disaster, which affects the unborn child, the mother who has conceived him, the different people involved in the issue (the baby’s father, the grandparents, health care workers, etc.) and all of society that will suffer from the negative impact of this ecological disaster,” the bishop said in a pastoral letter.
 
He pointed out that since the legalization of abortion, “some 50 million children were not born, who would today be 50 million young people,” which Europe needs desperately as the population “is prematurely aging and is dying of sadness and despair.”
 
The bishop warned that the Spanish government’s new law on abortion would “multiply the number of those who are not going to be born,” since it would make abortion a right protected by a false freedom and would lead to women doing “violence against their own bodies.”
 
“Psychologically, each one of these mothers will be wounded for life. They will succeed in removing ‘something’ from their wombs that today they find bothersome, but will not remove the crime they commit from their minds and hearts.  I know many women who cannot forgive themselves for having committed such an atrocity in their lives and who need to be consoled with the mercy of God,” Bishop Fernandez said.
 
He warned that with the new law women would pay the price for situations in which perhaps they are the least to blame.  “Once again, the feminist cry for freedom for the dignity of women is drowned out by dispositions to turn them into simple objects of passing and irresponsible pleasure.”
 
For this reason, the bishop encouraged Spaniards to participate in the October 17 march for life.  “Let us fight for life. Life is the future of man, never death. Let us support women in difficulty, giving them the means to assume the precious task of new motherhood,” he said.

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Holy See/SSPX talks begin on 26 October

Posted on 15 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the site of the Holy See Press Office, the papal spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ has announced that the talks between the Holy See and the SSPX will begin on 26 October.  They will take place at the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, which houses the CDF and the Pont. Comm. Ecclesia Dei.

DICHIARAZIONE DEL DIRETTORE DELLA SALA STAMPA DELLA SANTA SEDE, P. FEDERICO LOMBARDI, S.I.

Il prossimo lunedì 26 ottobre, nella mattinata, avrà luogo il primo incontro dei previsti colloqui con la Fraternità San Pio X.

Vi parteciperanno, per parte della Commissione Ecclesia Dei, oltre al Segretario della stessa Commissione, Mons. Guido Pozzo, il Segretario della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, S.E. Mons. Luis F. Ladaria Ferrer, S.I., e gli esperti già nominati: il Rev. P. Charles Morerod, O.P., Segretario della Commissione teologica internazionale, Consultore della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, il Rev. Mons. Fernando Ocáriz, Vicario Generale dell’Opus Dei, Consultore della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, il Rev. P. Karl Josef Becker, S.I., Consultore della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede.

L’incontro avrà luogo presso il Palazzo del Sant’Ufficio. I contenuti delle conversazioni, che riguarderanno le questioni dottrinali aperte, rimarranno strettamente riservati.

Al termine dell’incontro verrà rilasciato un comunicato.

 

A good initial news report about these talks would be a great birthday present!

Folks, start praying to your favorite saints and the guardian angels of those involved in the talks.  Start NOW and keep praying everyday until they start.

Mary, Seat of Wisdom….
Mary, Mother of the Church….
St. Peter….
St. Paul….

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St. Louis, MO: Traditional Roman Confirmations

Posted on 15 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A great brick by brick item from St. Louis Catholic:

Archbishop Carlson to Celebrate Confirmations in the Traditional Form

Great news– His Grace Archbishop Robert J. Carlson will celebrate the sacrament of confirmation in the classical rite of the Church at St. Francis de Sales Oratory on May 15, 2010, at 9:30.  After the confirmations, His Grace will assist at a Solemn High Mass celebrated by Monsignor R. Michael Schmitz, Vicar General and U.S. Provincial Superior of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.

God bless Archbishop Carlson!  Please keep him in your prayers.

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4-9 Nov NYC (Solemn TLM 6 Nov) – BLOGNIC?

Posted on 14 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I will be in New York City from 4-9 November.   One of the things I will be doing is acting as celebrant for a Solemn TLM on 6 November.   More details about this to follow.

However, perhaps in advance we might give some thought to a Big Apple Blognic. 

Maybe a Saturday morning thing?

The Solemn Mass will be for First Friday, 6 November at 6:30 PM at the Church of the Guardian Angel in Manhattan (10th Ave. and 21st St.).  This link should take you to some pictures of the Church.

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