Daily Rome Shot 37

Posted on 1 January 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

And there’s this. Rome. New Year’s Eve. And be careful in the streets at the stroke of midnight!

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Dates of Movable Sundays and Feasts for 2021

Posted on 1 January 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Dates of Movable Sundays and Feasts for 2021

Jan. 31 – Septuagesima Sunday
Feb. 17 – Ash Wednesday
March 28 – Palm Sunday
April 2 – Good Friday
April 4 – Easter Sunday
May 13 – Ascension Thursday
May 23 – Pentecost
June 3 – Corpus Christi Thursday
June 11 – Sacred Heart

Save The Liturgy – Save The World

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ACTION ITEM! 31 DEC & 1 JAN – Plenary INDULGENCES Alert!

Posted on 31 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Catholics can gain a Plenary Indulgence on New Year’s EVE, 31 December (EnchInd. 26) by the recitation or the singing of the Te Deum.

To gain the indulgence the usual following conditions must be met.

1. Sacramental confession and Communion within a brief time (about 20 days)
2. The prescribed good work (for 31 Dec. the recital of the Te Deum)
3. Prayers for the Pope’s designated intentions (1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary)
5. Detestation of and detachment from even venial sins (without which only a partial indulgence can be gained), at the time of the indulgenced work.

Catholics can gain a Plenary Indulgence on New Year’s DAY, 1 January (EnchInd. 26) be the recitation or the singing of the Veni Creator Spiritus.

Same conditions.

For the sake of those legitimately impeded, confessors can commute both the work prescribed and the conditions required (except, obviously, detachment from even venial sins).

Indulgences can be applied either to oneself or to the souls of the deceased, but they cannot be applied to other persons living on earth.

For the Te Deum – HERE

For the Veni Creator Spiritus – HERE

For your edification you might listen to some musical settings of the Te Deum.  In Gregorian chant there are Solemn and Simple tones.  There are numerous orchestral and choral settings.

Perhaps you have a favorite setting?

This is kinda fun.  When the French get it right, it’s pretty awesome.  With the great organ of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.  From Les Grandes heures liturgiques à Notre-Dame de Paris.  US HERE – UK HERE –  and check today’s OLDIE CHRISTMASCAzT!

Be CAREFUL with the volume!

Indulgences… don’t leave life without them.

Did you know that there is a partial indulgence attached to recitation of your customary prayer after a meal?  “Agimus tibi gratias… We give Thee thanks, o Lord,…”.

Think about it.

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Wikileaks just dumped all their files online – Happy New Year!

Posted on 31 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Wikileaks just dumped all their files online.

Wanna see Hillary’s emails?  HERE

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI

 

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ACTION ITEM! Last day for 2020 DONATIONS to Tridentine Mass Society

Posted on 31 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Folks, I know you have good charities in mind for your giving.

On this last day of the year, I put before your eyes one last time, the

Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison.

This is a 501(c)(3) organization.  Donations are tax deductible.

Over the years the TMSM has been supporting the spread of the Traditional Mass in this Diocese.  Also, we have, through the visibility of this blog, inspired others to form up and get to work.

One of the ongoing projects here is the development of a treasury of beautiful vestments for every level of Holy Mass, from Low to Pontifical Masses at the Throne.

Years ago the cathedral burned down here (arson).  One of these days it will be rebuilt and the TMSM will be there with stunning vestments for the sacred rites to add decorum and gravitas to all that is done.

Here is a shot of something from the last set we had made, a Solemn Mass set in violet, a dalmatic.

We would like to create a new set – Pontifical – in gold with blue and silver.  And we have need for some Low Mass.  Why?

Over the last 6 months 3 additional parishes here now have the TLM.  We are going to give support to them as well, depending on donations.  Proper vestments are sorely needed.   I was at one place not long ago to fill in and… oh dear.  Vestments are needed.

You can donate with PayPal (below) or without any service fees extracted by mailing a check to:

Tridentine Mass Society of Madison
733 Struck St.
P.O. Box 44603
Madison, WI 53744-4603

 

 

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Chilling video of abandoned St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve Day

Posted on 31 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This video from my friend Bree says a lot.

As I look at that… I wonder where the DAMNED BOWL is.

WHERE’S THE BOWL?

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Daily Rome Shot 36

Posted on 31 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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31 December: St. Melania the Younger

Posted on 31 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Happy Feast of St. Melania the Younger.

St. Melania was a Roman saint, and “Desert Mother” who died in Jerusalem on this day in 439.

She is the grandaughter of St. Melania the Elder.

Melania married young.  After their children died, she and her husband embraced a ascetic and chaste life.  She inherited amazing wealth, which she used to support the Church.  She and her husband visited St. Augustine of Hippo in N. Africa and founded there a convent of which Melania was the superior as well as a another for men which her husband guided.

They eventually went to Jerusalem, and founded another convent on the Mouth of Olives.  When her husband died, she built another church and a convent for men.  And so she passed her days.

St. Melania the Younger.  Pray for us.

More about Melania in Jerusalem HERE  She is much venerated by the Easterners and Orthodox.

The saint’s tomb in Jerusalem.

 

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ACTION ITEM! Seven Sister Apostolate – THURSDAY

Posted on 30 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE 31 Dec 2020:

I received this note:

Father, four women have come forward to pray for you on Thursdays!
One new “sister” is from Luxembourg.
I suggest you post that your request has been fulfilled and that you will post again when there is a need.

I am so very grateful.

Also, I received this note:

Message:
Just wanted to let you know the incredible fruit, in our diocese, of one of your seven sisters shout-out posts about a year ago. As a direct result of that post, we now have five parish groups and one for our Archbishop (which takes 21 ladies!), plus at least five that I’m aware of that are in active formation right now. Over half this activity has come about in past month, with incredible response to a novena we prayed for the Immaculate Conception. Our priests are so grateful, and especially our Archbishop. There are ripple effects of the things you post! Keep it up, and thank you so much! Also, I hope your back is better, that’s miserable – will continue prayers for you as well.

Merry Christmas!

Originally Published on: Dec 30, 2020

Do you know the Seven Sisters Apostolate? It is truly terrific.

I received this note:

Hello Father, we have need for a Sister for you on Thursdays. Could you just post a short request, something like:

My Seven Sisters prayer group is in need of someone to do my Thursday Holy Hour. If anyone can accommodate, please send email to sevensistersapostolate@gmail.com The commitment is for one year, renewable.

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ASK FATHER: Penance on Friday, Octave of Christmas

Posted on 30 December 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I had a note from a reader about the need to do penance on this coming Friday, which is the Octave of Christmas.

The short answer is NO.

Why?  Because according to Canon Law, Catholics are bound to do penance on Fridays of the year except when the Friday is of the liturgical rank of a “Solemnity” (a new-fangled post-Conciliar rank).  Even if you prefer the traditional calendar, wherein 1 January is the Octave of Christmas (olim Circumcision), you can avail yourself of the law as it is here and now in the 1983 Code.  In the new-fangled calendar, 1 January is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.  As a Solemnity it takes away the obligation of penance on Friday.

HOWEVER… that will not be the case for every Friday in the Octave of Christmas.  THIS YEAR, the Friday is the Octave and it is 1 January.  This year.

NB: The Octave of Christmas does not have the liturgical “weight” of the Octave of Easter.  Easter Friday outweighs the penance thing, but Christmas Friday does not.

Note can. 1251 in the 1983 Code.

Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

Friday in the Octave of Christmas is not a liturgical solemnity as it is in the Easter Octave.  Hence, we are usually obliged to do penance today, Friday in the Octave.  Not in 2020.

Remember, you can ask your parish priest to dispense you or commute acts of penance.

Can. 1245 Without prejudice to the right of diocesan bishops mentioned in can. 87, for a just cause and according to the prescripts of the diocesan bishop, a pastor [parish priest] can grant in individual cases a dispensation from the obligation of observing a feast day or a day of penance or can grant a commutation of the obligation into other pious works. A superior of a religious institute or society of apostolic life, if they are clerical and of pontifical right, can also do this in regard to his own subjects and others living in the house day and night.

Members of religious communities and third orders should consult their own regulations and review to whom they turn for dispensations.

Also, you can substitute another form of penance for abstaining from meat.  Make it penitential, however.  Abstinence from meat has good reasoning behind it.  For some, however, there abstinence from other things can be of greater spiritual effect.

Also, it may be that some local places have exceptions in their calendars.   For example, if some year Friday falls on Holy Innocents, or St. Thomas Becket, and you belong to Holy Innocents parish or St. Thomas Becket parish, then Friday will be your patronal feast.

Also, perhaps your conference of bishops made another ruling.  I believe that is the case for England and Wales.

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