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Meanwhile, white to move. Mate in 3.
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It’s the 6th Sunday Remaining after Epiphany in the Vetus Ordo and the 33rd Sunday of the Novus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Share the good stuff. Quite a few people are forced to sit through really bad preaching. Even though you can usually find – if you are willing to try – at least one good point in a really bad sermon, that can be a trial. So… SHARE THE GOOD STUFF which you were fortunate enough to receive!
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news? We really need good news.
I have some thoughts about the Sunday Epistle reading posted at One Peter Five.
A taste:
We are both intellective and affective. They come together in the tension of fides quae and fides qua, our willed choice to know and to love. After all, God made us His images, to act like He acts, to know, to will, to love. Catholics who truly love their Faith shouldn’t need weird stuff and controversies to spur them into their catechisms and the constant study of and review of the Faith. We should burn with a desire to know more more more anyway and all the time.
On the other hand, was it Winston Churchill who said “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste”?
We shouldn’t need a crisis to drive us to learn our faith better. BUT! We’ve got one! There’s a faith to learn and love. There’s a Person, to learn and love and give.
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Remember COVID and all the churches being shut down? I live streamed Holy Mass everyday to quite a large viewership. At that time, a tech savvy fellow set up a page called LatinMass.live, where you can STILL find live streams of TLMs. I was on that list until I was driven “underground” as it were. Anyway, he has a YouTube channel and needs some subscriptions so he can live stream. They require at least 1000, I think. You might help him out. HERE. I am not sure where he is going with this, but during COVID he performed a service for which we all should be very grateful. I sure am. Give him a boost.
And another thing… as I was leaving Rome, someone sent me a donation designated for flowers. I didn’t get flowers there, since I was leaving, but I bought some yesterday for the Two Trinities Chapel, which should take me up to Advent and their removal.
In situ…
I do like alstroemeria. They are a type of lily, if I understand rightly. They last a long time. I think that that is why my flower guy at the Campo de’ Fiori doesn’t like them! It’s a running thing between us. He doesn’t often have them and I usually have to ask ahead.
They look nice with the colors of the Murillo and the beautiful green vestments, the gift of a long-time reader and live-streamer follower back in the day.
I think I mentioned while in Rome that I found a copy of this Murillo in San Crisogono. The original is in Room 30 of the National Gallery in London. It is magnificent, a late work and perhaps one of his last before his death. I once got to London fairly often and this painting was a frequent visit, since I greedily haunted the Gallery, usually finishing my museum crawls at a pub at Seven Dials. I digress. The copy in San Crisogono.
Meanwhile, white to move. Mate in FOUR.
1. Rxe6+ Nxe6 2. Qh8+ Nf8 3. Qxf8+ Kxf8 4. Rd8#
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The monks at Norcia have completed their guest house. Benedictines have a strong dimension of hospitality, so guest houses are important. You can help them with this and other projects. And the beer is GREAT.
In St. Louis, Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after winner-take-all game with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. MVL finished second. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Le Quang Liem tied for third. Next, the Sinquefield Cup, the final leg of the 2023 Grand Chess Tour, begins Tuesday 21 November. Last year there was the huge blow up between Magnus and Niemann. That’s settled now. Sort of.
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Yesterday I decided to waste some time experimenting with some video editors in few of future ideas. With my phone I grabbed off the computer screen the fun beginning of one of the 5 minute (fast) blitz rounds in the ongoing St. Louis battle. When they all start to go… whew! The mood changes with the change of audio track. You can see the edge of the head of my little statue of St. Teresa of Avila, Patroness of Chess Players.
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By Palestrina (+1594) a motet for four voices of Ps 41/42 for the blessing of water at the Easter Vigil, published in 1604.
Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,
ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.
Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum:
quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei?
Fuerunt mihi lacrymae meae panes die ac nocte,
dum dicitur mihi quotidie:
Ubi est Deus tuus?
Speaking of lean performances… keeping it simple… on the radio when I was born…
All day I’ve faced a barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear water
The nights are cool and I’m a fool
Each star’s a pool of water, cool water
And with the dawn I’ll wake and yawn
And carry on to water
Cool, clear water
Keep a-movin’, Dan, don’t you listen to him, Dan
He’s a devil, not a man
And he spreads the burnin’ sand with water
Dan, can you see that big, green tree?
Where the water’s runnin’ free
And it’s waitin’ there for you and me?
Water, cool, clear water
The shadows sway and seem to say
“Tonight we pray for water, cool water”
And way up there He’ll hear our prayer
And show us where there’s water
Cool, clear water
Keep a-movin’, Dan, don’t you listen to him, Dan
He’s a devil, not a man
And he spreads the burnin’ sand with water
Dan, can you see that big, green tree?
Where the water’s runnin’ free
And it’s waitin’ there for you and me?
Water, cool, clear water
Cool, clear water
If you don’t know who (permanent) Deacon Keith Fournier is, you ought to. He had a distinguished lay career and then clerical ministry (of some 30 years). About five years ago, he and his wife uprooted and moved from the East to Tyler, Texas to work with Bp. Strickland. (A lot of people moved to Tyler, as a matter of fact.)
The editor of Crisis did a thorough video interview with Dcn Fournier about Bp. Strickland the man, how he was as the bishop, and the factual situation of the diocese. HERE
The first part of the video involves Dcn Fournier covering his own background (an amazing CV). In the video, below, I set the time to just after all that personal background That it not to say that Dcn. Fournier’s background isn’t relevant. It is. This guy has been a stand up guy for a great many years.
As a matter of fact, Fournier has done a heck of a lot more for people and for the Church than the shave-tails who are bloviating in their own videos about Bp. Strickland. Fournier has been there and is the sort of person with the experience who could make serious assessments, rather than the half-assed mean-spirited … I digress.
Listen to this and I think you will have a stronger sense of perhaps why some people wanted Bp. Strickland out of his see. TRANSCRIPT HERE
As we approach the end of another liturgical year, an odd thing happens in the Church’s traditional, pre-Conciliar calendar. The Sundays left over after Epiphany, after Christmas, are finally dusted off and prayed until the liturgical year is concluded. This has to do with the vagaries of your Moon and shifting date of Easter, and therefore Ash Wednesday and Pentecost. In some years the Sundays after Pentecost don’t take us all the way to Advent. Thus, we pray the texts for the Sundays that we didn’t get to before Ash Wednesday. Get it?
This week we use the 6th Sunday after Epiphany. This Collect happened to survive the snipping and cutting of the Consilium under the late Annibale Bugnini to live on in the Novus Ordo editions of the Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time.
Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, semper rationabilia meditantes, quae tibi sunt placita, et dictis exsequamur et factis.
Note the spiffy separation of et dictis…et factis by the verb. Rationabilis is an adjective meaning “reasonable, rational”.
A Biblical source for part of the oration could be John 8:28-29:
So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me. And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him (quae placita sunt ei, facio semper).
SLAVISHLY LITERAL VERSION:
Grant, we beg, Almighty God, that we, meditating always on rational things,
may fulfill those things which are pleasing to You by both words and deeds.
I chose “rational” partly because of an association I made with a prayer attributed to St Thomas Aquinas which we students, trying to be serious and rational beings (cf. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1,13 ), recited before philosophy classes lo those many years ago:
Concede mihi, miséricors Deus, quae tibi sunt plácita, ardenter concupíscere, prudenter investigáre, veráciter agnóscere, et perfecte adimplére ad laudem et gloriam Nominis tui. Amen. …
Grant me, O merciful God, to desire eagerly, to investigate prudently, to acknowledge sincerely, and perfectly to fulfill those things which are pleasing to Thee, to the praise and glory of Thy Name. Amen.
When we submit to God’s will and pursue what is good and true and beautiful, we are as God wants us to be. It’s a lovely prayer before studying. Perhaps you or your students could use it. Great for the class room!
OBSOLETE ICEL (1973):
Father,
keep before us the wisdom and love
you have revealed in your Son.
Help us to be like him
in word and deed.
Dreadful. Good riddance. Can you imagine the damage this stuff did over the years? When I read that Mass attendance is down massively over the last 5 years in a place like the Diocese of Brooklyn, I don’t immediately blame present problems. I also blame this dreck that people had to hear for decades. We ARE our rites. When this becomes part of their Faith foundation, what do we expect?
“Oh God, your Son was nice. Help us to be nice like him.” [VOMIT]
NEW CORRECTED ICEL (2011):
Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that, always pondering spiritual things,
we may carry out in both word and deed
that which is pleasing to you.
I chose “rational things” for rationabilia. The new, corrected ICEL has “spiritual things”, which is certainly defensible. The French language dictionary of liturgical Latin by Albert Blaise revised by Antoine Dumas, for rationabilis, gives us “spirituel”. Blaise/Dumas also cites the ancient version of the very Collect we are looking at today, identifying it for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany in the 8th century Gregorian Sacramentary.
We are creatures made in the image and likeness of God. We are made to act like God acts, using the gifts and powers of intellect and will He gave us. These faculties are wounded because of Original Sin, but they still separate us from irrational animals.
Thus, we can distinguish between “acts of humans” (such as breathing and digesting) that are not much different than what brute animals do except that a human does them, and “human acts” (like painting, repairing a car, conversing, choosing to love) which involve the use of the higher faculties.
We must be interiorly engaged and focused with mind and will on the action we, as agents in God’s image, are carrying out.
This is important for understanding “active participation” in the liturgy.
Many people think “active participation” means carrying things around, clapping, singing, etc. We can do all those things and actually be thinking about the grocery list or wondering what the score of the game is. We all have the experience of catching ourselves whistling without realizing we were doing it, reading and not remembering what we just read.
We are doing something, but we are not acting as “humanly” as we ought.
That is not the kind of participation we need at Mass.
We must be actively receptive to what is taking place in the sacred action of the liturgy.
Watching carefully and quietly, actively receptive listening to the spoken Word or to sacred music, can be far more active than carrying things around, and so forth.
Active receptivity requires concentration and desire, mind and will.
It looks passive, but it isn’t.
We actively submit to Christ, the true actor in the Mass, and we actively receive from Christ. He gives us what we need, not as if to passive animals, but as to His actively receptive and engaged images.
Inner participation leads to outward expression. The outward can also spark the inward. The former, however, has logical priority over the latter.
Participation at Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form can help us recover a deeper, fuller, more conscious and proper active participation in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
It has the harder elements of deprivation which lead to that indispensable apophatic encounter with Mystery.
This is also why our priests must always be faithful to tradition in the celebration of our rites.
Oh… one more thing.
The most perfect form of active participation is the reception of Holy Communion in the state of grace.
If you desire to participate at Holy Mass and other liturgical rites with full, conscious and actual, active participation, then…
GO TO CONFESSION!
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Several emails have come about my thoughts on Bp. Strickland and on the USCCB meeting.
Bp. Strickland. It is clear by now that he was given “special treatment”, and not in a good way. The timing of this before the Bishops Meeting was too close to be anything other than a part of the maneuver. This is a manifestation of a growing antinomianism, which will continue to cause confusion and divisions as people who are groping for understanding choose sides. He will weather the storm and his case will be talked about for a very long time. I would not be surprise if, after a rest, he doesn’t wind up speaking at a lot of conferences.
Churchy news, USCCB okay. Yes, I pulled up the video of yesterday’s plenary session and skipped around with a fast setting. I pity those guys having to sit through these meetings, except for those who wanted to be bishops. Interesting to me was the vote on solidarity with the the Church in England and Wales about a petition that John Henry Newman be named Doctor of the Church. Less interesting: shuffling one diocese to another province on the deck, proposals and talking about talking under the guise of “mission”. I was slightly edified by them praying the Our Father, which harked to the Apostles themselves. I saw some men whom I greatly respect (as men). It was nice to see my old friend Archbp. Sample (with a beard!). I didn’t recognize many… which I guess is good. I spotted one in particular who stomped on my heart. Bp. Cozzens gave an update on the “Eucharistic Renewal” efforts (it all seems very complicated). Bp. Paprocki mentioned that during their Eucharistic Congress one of impressive things was the huge number of people who wanted to go to confession, so many that they put out a call for more priests to help. (If they were to ask me, I’d say, get rid of Communion in the hand, turn the altars around, clear the sanctuary, put in Communion rails, preach about the Eucharist, preach about and schedule confessions, see what happens.) There was discussion of catechism and catechists… good. Now we need action, not talk. As I have been saying: know your Faith. Review! Deepen!
Chessy news, yay! In St. Louis 9th seed Roy Robson really outdid himself and won the Rapid part of the Rapid and Blitz. Blitz starts today and the fortunes of many could turn. Yesterday, my guy Wesley struggled in a couple of games and then came back like a champ against the leader Robson, whom he defeated in the last game of the Rapid. Right now, Robson is on top followed by Fabi, MVL, Alireza and Nepo. There is a 5-way tie for 3rd. Only four points separate the top from the bottom of the standings so the Blitz rounds could overturn everything regarding the $40K prize. Live games HERE – the boards, raw, no commentary. Commentary is on YouTube live.
Just an FYI… today I had a quick contact with WB0YLE over AllStarLink and over Echolink.
Yes, the idea is to get things fired up again. I’ll try to leave one of the modes on for awhile during the day. (Note to self… turn on the thing….)
73
Yes, I still need to learn Morse for CW.
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