Ad orientem… in Korea

Posted on 21 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is a real brick by brick story from to warm the heart all the way from Korea.

This comes by by of the Totus Tuus blog with a biretta tip to The Western Confucian.

Note the date.

The First Latin Novus Ordo Mass with ad Orientem in Korea

December, 2008

October, 2008

October, 2008 (Images from Dong-Won Kim’s blog: here)

On April 14, 2008, Fr. Thomas Aquinas Woong-Yeol Kim offered a Latin Novus Ordo Mass with ad Orientim following the example of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. This was the first ad Orientem Mass in a parish setting in Korea after the reform of liturgy. Since then, Fr. Kim has occasionally celebrated the Latin Novus Ordo Mass at the Catholic Church of Gam-Gok in Cheong-Ju diocese, Korea.

The clip here shows the Mass offered on June 16, 2008. It may take time for buffering in the areas outside of Korea.

The congregation seems to follow the Latin responses quite well. It is said that the handout for Korean pronunciation of Latin was provided at the Mass. It is a huge progress for the Church in Korea, considering Mass in Latin language got so rare, to say nothing of ad orientem.

The Catholic Church of Gam-Gok in Cheong-Ju diocese, Korea. It was built in 1896 by Camilo Im, a French priest of Missions étrangères de Paris (Paris Foreign Missions Society). "Im" is one of the Korean last names. I could not find his French last name and I used his Korean last name. Foreign missionaries in Korea usually adopted Korean name to be easily pronounced by Koreans. For example, bishop Gustave-Charles-Marie Mutel (1854~1933) had a Korean name, ??? (???).

Fr. Im came to Korea right after his priestly ordination in 1893. He prayed for the special intercession of Blessed Virgin Mary to build the Church. And he dedicated the Church to the Our Lady of Rosary on October 7, 1896.

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What Catholic speakers influenced your life the most?

Posted on 19 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

With the help of a reader, I found an interesting entry on Fallible Blogma about Catholic speakers.

This is a poll about "what Catholic speaker has influenced your life the most?  Each individual gets ten picks when they vote  (because it’s too hard to choose just one)".

This is an iinteresting project!  Go take a look!

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QUAERITUR: Can a seminarian use an amice?

Posted on 19 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a seminarian:

Just a question: Is it permissible for those candidates to be installed as acolytes during their seminary formation, in addition to the alb and cincture, allowed to wear an amice?

 

Of course it is.  And it really must be used when the alb is designed in such a manner that your street clothes are visible.  Street clothes need to be covered.  Aside from the traditional theological meaning of the amice, as the "helm of salvation", it is a practical garment as well: it hides street clothes and it helps to keep vestments clean.

This is a non-issue when serving in a cassock and surplice.

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Just Too Cool: College kids build space camera for $148

Posted on 18 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Watching the destruction of education in the US and elsewhere should be sufficient to prove that throwing lots of money at a project doesn’t always produce results.

Here is a great story.

The $150 Edge-of-Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer-Money Budget

Meet the $150 (almost to) Space Camera.

Bespoke is old hat. Off-the-shelf is in. Even Google runs the world’s biggest and scariest server farms on computers home-made from commodity parts. DIY is cheaper and often better, as Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh found out when they decided to send a camera into space.

The two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a cheap Canon A470 compact camera. Instant hand warmers kept things from freezing up and made sure the batteries stayed warm enough to work.  [This will now be every model rock kid’s dream.]

Of course, all this would be pointless if the guys couldn’t find the rig when it landed, so they dropped a prepaid GPS-equipped cellphone inside the box for tracking. Total cost, including duct tape? $148. [LOL]

Launch

Two weeks ago, on Sept. 2, at the leisurely post-breakfast hour of 11:45 a.m., the balloon was launched from Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Lee and Yeh took a road trip in order to compensate for the prevailing winds, which could have otherwise taken the balloon out onto the Atlantic, and checked in on the University of Wyoming’s balloon trajectory website to estimate the landing site.

Because of spotty cellphone coverage in central Massachusetts,[ROFL!] it was important to keep the rig in the center of the state so it could be found upon landing. Light winds meant the guys got lucky and, although the cellphone’s external antenna was buried upon landing, the fix they got as the balloon was coming down was close enough.

The Photographs

The balloon and camera made it up high enough to see the black sky curling around our blue planet. [Is this cool or what!?] The Canon was hacked with the CHDK (Canon Hacker’s Development Kit) open-source firmware, [Oooo… gotta learn more about this…] which adds many features to Canon’s cameras. The intervalometer (interval timer) was set to shoot a picture every five seconds, and the 8-GB memory card was enough to hold pictures for the five-hour duration of the flight.

The picture you see above was shot from around 93,000 feet, just shy of 18 miles high. It’s short of the widely-accepted Kármán line, which is at 100km (62 miles) up, but it’s in the stratosphere, and it’s still impressive. To give you an idea of how high that is, when the balloon burst, the beer-cooler took 40 minutes to come back to Earth.

What is most astonishing about this launch, named Project Icarus, is that anyone could do it. The budget is so small as to be almost nonexistent (the guys slept in their car the night before the launch to save money), so that even if everything went wrong, a second, third or fourth attempt would be easy. All it took was a grand idea and an afternoon poking around the hardware store.

The project website has few details on how the balloon was put together — but the students say they will be posting the step-by-step instructions soon. UPDATE: The instructions will be available for free, not $150, as earlier reported.

Project Icarus page [1337 Arts]

Photo credit: 1337 Arts/Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh

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Time lapse actually doesn’t look that great because the cooler was not stabilized.

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Caption

Posted on 18 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I picked this up from the young Papist.  It is a photo screaming for a good caption.

"OHHHHK-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain…"

Karaoke Night at the Synod.

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C-FAM: Euro-Parliament Raps Lithuania for Curbing Homosexual Advocacy

Posted on 17 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the indispensible C-FAM:

 

Volume 12, Number 40

September 17, 2009
European Parliament Raps Lithuania for Curbing Homosexual Advocacy

By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D.

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM)  The European Parliament voted 349 to 218 today to condemn Lithuania for its "law on the protection of minors" which prohibits promotion of "homosexual, bisexual or polygamous relations" among children under 18 in the Baltic nation. Conservative critics contend that the measure, crafted in reaction to the domestic legislation of a sovereign member state pertaining to the family, oversteps the Parliament’s authority.

…

     While "progressive" parliamentarians lined up to charge Lithuania with promoting "homophobia," several EPP and conservative members spoke in opposition to the measure and in support of the country’s sovereign right to pass laws protecting families and children, including Lithuania’s first post-Soviet head of state Vytautas Landsbergis and Slovakian parliamentarian Anna Záborksá.

…

Read the rest there.

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nvlddmkm.sys delenda est

Posted on 17 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am in the grip of a techno nightmare, the stuff of man-made purgatory.

My main computer, the big one, which was giving me so many problems, which I had thought I had repaired, threw a nutty again yesterday in the midst of my writing a column. 

I got it going again with the radical choice of a complete system restore only to have it wig out once more with the same problem.

This morning I was up early and finally got the file off the box and moved to a USB drive so I could complete it on my laptop.

And so I am sitting here, preparing to slit my wrists right after I put down the sledge hammer.

I need help to resolved this problem with the video card driver, a problem lots of people seem to have with

nvlddmkm.sys delenda est.

I have googled and searched and even tried some of the solutions suggested.

However, there are so many putative "fixes" which seem not effectively to resolve the problem that it is hard to know what to do next.

Anyone who mentions "get a Mac" will be eternally banned from the blog.

I am considering options. 

First, I am guessing that replacing the card with a card that has nothing whatsoever to do with Nvidia might do the trick.  I would need something with a dual digital output.

Second, do any of you have any experience with this problem, understand what I am talking about, and know what to do?  I could use your experienced help.

Folks, I am not exactly a newbie… so let’s try to avoid suggestions about spyware, etc.

The OS is Vista Ultimate.  The card is an NVidia Geforce 8800.  The driver causing the problem is the hated nvlddmkm.sys.  This time, after the screen freaks out, I have gotten the message "Display Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding, has successfully recovered".  It would happen a few more times, quickly, and then either BSD with the hated driver indicated or simply reboot.

Right now it managed to boot up in safe mode with networking, which is how things stand at the moment.

If any of you truly understand what is going on and know what to do, I would be happy to give you a call if you have time.

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QUAERITUR: When can I say a Requiem TLM?

Posted on 15 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From priest reader:

I just started praying the usus antiquior low mass after a year of preparation (of latin and the rubrics).

Question:  When may I opt to say a missae defunctorum?  When may I not?  In other words, may a missae defunctorm be chosen over a 3rd class feast, etc.?

First and foremost, thank you for learning the older form, traditional form of Mass.  I am always happy to learn that another priest is not ignorant of our common Latin Rite.  Kudos to you.  I am also hoping that you are young, so that you can say this form of Mass for many many years for many many people.

There are those special occasions as in, for example, when people die or it is the anniversary of their death.  However, I think what you are aiming at is really the daily Requiem Mass.

The rules for these daily Requiem Masses are along the lines of the rubrics for votive Masses.

A Requiem is of the 2nd class on the day of death (or getting news of the death) or on the day of burial.  That’s the Missa in die obitus seu depositionis defunctorum. It is of the 3rd class on the third, seventh, and thirtieth day after the death or burial.

A "daily" Requiem is 4th class and can be used on ferial days of the 4th class.

So… tomorrow 16 September is the Feast of Ss. Cornelius and Cyprian.  It is a 3rd class feast.  But the day after tomorrow, 17 September, is a "dies non", a 4th class feria.  You can say the "daily" Mass for the Dead, the Missa quotidiana defunctorum.

I hope that helps.

And remember that there are some differences in the Requiem Mass.  You exclude the Iudica me at the beginning, and do not bless the water.  Kiss the altar at the end, but don’t give the final blessing before the Last Gospel.  Leave off the gloria after washing your fingers and exclude the first of the three private prayers before your Communion.  The Agnus Dei is a little different and your say Requiescat in pace for the dismissal.

So, Father, put on those nice black vestments.  Put those unbleached candles on the altar and fire ’em up!

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QUAERITUR: may a permanent deacon be a deacon for a TLM?

Posted on 15 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:

As part of the changes recommended by the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI brought back the permanent diaconate in 1967.  For centuries prior to this change, the role of deacon was a transitional period for those preparing to become priests.  Since TLM Masses and parishes are normally working according to the 1962 Missal, what role does the permanent diaconate have in a TLM?  Is this considered a reform-of-the-reform issue (ie. emphasizing the role of deacon as transitional period for aspiring priests), or is it a non-issue?

 

This is a non-issue.

A deacon is a deacon is a deacon.

Permanent deacons or transitional deacons, either way, may fulfill the role of deacon or subdeacon during a solemn TLM.

Some will say they can’t or shouldn’t.  They are simply wrong.

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QUAERITUR: Solemn Pontifical Mass… proper terminology

Posted on 14 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader in Japan…

Dear Father Z,

[I am] from Japan (therefore, I am sorry for my poor English).
I thank God for your great blog. My faith grows up everyday by reading your blog.

I have a question regarding "Solemn Pontifical Mass"… in OF.

In my diocese, once a year a Cardinal celebrates OF in Latin and Gregorian Chant, and this Mass is entitled "Solemn Pontifical Mass in Latin".

But Wikipedia says that "Solemn Pontifical Mass/ Pontifical High Mass" is for the Tridentine Mass. After the liturgical reform, categories (Low Mass, High Mass, Pontifical High Mass) were abandoned.

If there is no more "Solemn Pontifical Mass" in the reformed liturgy(OF), is the title of this annual "Solemn Pontifical Mass" inaccurate?
Or can we still use the category "Solemn Pontifical Mass" for OF as a sort of custom?

Who wants to help our friend in Japan with the terminology?

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