Someone spotted Z-Swag “in the wild” and sent me a screenshot. This is from a video, HERE. An interview by Taylor Marshall with a young fellow, Cameron O’Hearn. Apparently he is making a documentary – news to me! – about the Traditional Latin Mass.
Where is it?
What is that?
This is from my “Lex Orandi Lex Credendi” line.
For your car in stickers or magnets.
How to get your own?
My good friend Fr. Tim Finigan has, at his excellent blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity, a sad piece of news about a mutual friend, and a fine priest, Fr. Charles Briggs, P.P. of Chistlehurst. Fr. Briggs is the last days of late stage cancer.
Fr. Briggs asked Fr. Finigan to post his news. I will also post it in solidarity and friendship and with great confidence that all you dear readers will – on your knees – pray for Fr. Briggs.
A personal message from Fr Charles Briggs
Dear friends,
I must let you know that my health has recently taken a turn for the worse. Just over two weeks ago I woke up to find that a tooth had fallen out. After a visit to the hospital, I was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw.
Since then, events have moved quickly. After some investigation, the doctors have told me that there is no effective treatment for my condition and that the tumour is growing fast. Although it is difficult to predict with accuracy how quickly things may develop, it is likely that I may have only months, or weeks, left for this world. My mobility has further decreased since my diagnosis and quite soon I will need to move into nursing care.
Your prayers would naturally be very much appreciated. As a priest, I am well familiar with the truths of our faith concerning the last things of death, judgement, hell, and heaven, but the end of life here below is a trial for which none may presume on being fully prepared to face.
I will offer up my sufferings; for you, my dear family and friends, in reparation for my sins, and in union with our dear Saviour’s redeeming sacrifice on the Cross.
My apologies if I do not get to say “Goodbye” personally, but as St Thomas More said, “Pray for me, as I will for thee, that we may merrily meet in heaven.”
Fr Charles Briggs
This morning I arose to view the launch of the Mars rover Perseverance. It’s on its way to Jezero Crater.
An Atlas V took the rover up.
As I write, we are waiting for the Centaur rocket to burn.
The rover is still “coasting” around your planet. Right now there is a guy explaining the solid oxide electrolysis system – the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment – (MOXIE) which will be tested on Mars. MOXIE will suck in the thin Martian atmosphere, mostly CO2 and convert it to O2. This is important for future missions: can we make what we need there rather than haul it along?
This rover has a laser to shoot at rocks and a little Martian chopper/drone – Ingenuity – that will fly around. The rover will collect samples which eventually can be returned to Earth.
Perseverance should arrive at Mars in 7 months.
UPDATE:
The 2nd burn was successful. There was good separation of Mars 2020 from the Centaur. The deep space net picked up a signal from the vehicle. Things are good.
Meanwhile, as the rover crawls its way through space to Mars, who can say what this critter is?
This is a big deal. Picked up from RealClearPolitics.
Rep. Jim Jordan accused technology and social media companies of attempting to influence voters in the upcoming election on Wednesday at a hearing on antitrust issues with the heads of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
“I’ll just cut to the chase: Big Tech’s out to get conservatives,” Jordan said.
Toward the end, watch the slimy actions of the majority. Disgusting.
I know absolutely that THIS BLOG has been targeted by Google and that I have been shadow-banned on Twitter. I’m small potatoes.
THIS ELECTION is not small potatoes.
And did you see the way that the dems treated AG Barr yesterday in the Judiciary hearing? Perfectly coordinated.
I thought my contempt, my fear for their souls, could not be any stronger than it was before.
This election is so important.
The other say I had a really awful dream, like something from a dystopian prepper novel. I was watching a classroom of students in scarves being taught to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the successful burning of the Portland Federal Building.
Just think, we’ll be able to have festive operas about the Great Turning Point back in 2020 when the freedom fighters against racism and injustice began the liberation of the West from patriarchy and oppression. Just as once there were Revolutionary Operas like Raid on the White Regiment, Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy, and Detachment of Women, children will thrill to perform Burning of the Portland Federal Building. Duets of Biden and Pelosi with large swarming banner waving choruses of dems in the House.
And don’t forget THE SQUAD! With lots of accordians.
When I hear the shrill and openly fraudulent rhetoric of the political and cultural Left, in secular society but also in the ecclesial sphere, I can’t shake the image of the Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution. In the Chinese Cultural Revolution – NB: the rioters in the streets Portland et al. are driven by demons and the Communism they’ve imbibed in public schools – children were taught to sing songs like, “Lin Biao and Confucius are Both Bad Things” and “Study Well and Make Progress Every Day”
Little Red Guards’ hearts are most red,loyal to the people loyal to the party.Study well and make progress every day,carefully reading the revolution.Study well and make progress every day,grow up to become the workers, peasants, and soldiers.Facing the sun to move forward,we must become the successors of communism.Facing the sun to move forward,we must become the successors of communism.
Who – or rather WHO – out there really doesn’t think that the CCP isn’t deeply into what is going on our streets right now.
This has been brewing for a long time.
Here is some CCTV coverage of a pro CCP rally in DC in 2008. I love denunciation of rioters and racism at 1:00 and the praise of CNN at 1:26.
And this whole thing about getting young people all riled up… renaming streets… tearing down old things… and Mao’s famous swim was near Wuhan.
The plural of anecdote is “data”.
COVID-1984 has accelerated a force operating on the Church as inexorably as The Biological Solution works on us all: a huge demographic sinkhole is opening under the Church. Shortly, everything is going to look quite different. We are beyond the tipping point.
One of the results, I foresee, is that, as the “beige” Church drops into the void, Catholics with conviction and identity will be left. These Catholics will find each other and, after some frictions, produce something vibrant. Call it Ratzinger’s “creative minority” if you want. These Catholics will include converts, especially from strong Scripture-based evangelical groups, charismatics with a solid grounding in Marian and Eucharistic devotion and, naturally, Tradition-oriented Catholics.
The Traditional Latin Mass is going to be a key to any positive future for Catholicism in these USA.
Back to the anecdotes.
A former Protestant pastor, Keith Nester, talks about the Traditional Latin Mass and Gregorian chant. It is remarkable how similar to mine was his reaction to chant and traditional Catholic worship affected him in his first encounter.
Also, over at LifeSite, convert and pro-life activist Abby Johnson explains why she attends the Traditional Latin Mass.
Try 10:10. She talks about the 1st Mass of a newly ordained priest (TLM!).
Our Lady of China, intercede for our brethren.
This just in from The Hill.
Group says China hackers infiltrated Vatican ahead of expected talks
A cybersecurity firm has concluded that Chinese hackers penetrated the Vatican’s computer networks in recent months during the lead-up to negotiations between the Catholic Church and Beijing.
The attack, reported Tuesday by the Massachusetts-based firm Recorded Future, comes as the Chinese government works to strengthen its control over religious groups in the country. It also comes before September negotiations regarding control over the appointment of bishops and the status of churches in China.
The infiltration targeted the Vatican and the Holy See’s Study Mission to China, a group of informal Vatican diplomats based in Hong Kong who have been negotiating the Church’s status in China, and began in early May.
One attack during the campaign was hidden in a fake letter from the Vatican to a Hong Kong chaplain in a particularly sophisticated attempt to replicate a letter from the official stationery of Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra. Recorded Future determined the attack was in all likelihood tied to the upcoming negotiations over the 2018 agreement. [Just recently I had reason to question the legitimacy of a nonsensical letter from an official of the CDF shown to me by a canonist. This happens in all sorts of contexts today.]
The details of the bargain reached two years ago are still largely unknown, but it is believed to have allowed Beijing to name bishop candidates to churches but allowed the pope the final say in the selections.
Recorded Future concluded that the hacking campaign was spearheaded by RedDelta, a state-sponsored Chinese group, and that the tactics mirrored those of other Chinese-approved hacking operations in recent years. However, new techniques and computer code used in the infiltrations made it difficult to discern the source of the hack with 100 percent certainty.
[…]
China hacked the Vatican.
Of COURSE. In other news: WATER STILL WET!
I suspect that there is hardly a computer attached to any network controlled by APSA that China doesn’t live in on a daily basis.
The big story would be if China had NOT hacked the Holy See.
China is going to do what its going to do, just like the Scorpion which asked the Frog for a lift across the stream.
A Scorpion, which cannot swim, asks a Frog to carry it across a river on the Frog’s back. The Frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the Scorpion, but the Scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The Frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the Scorpion. Midway across the river, the Scorpion stings the Frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying Frog asks the Scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the Scorpion replies: “I couldn’t help it. It’s in my nature.”
The flaw in the analogy is that, in the real world scenario the Frog gets all the way to other bank before the Scorpion stings and there are no consequences for the Scorpion.
Sometimes I forget for days at a time that the stinky Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) even exists. Happy days, those. Then something comes into view, like road-kill, and I go to look at it.
This week we learn that …
AOC is the future of the Catholic Church. Be comforted. This is from the always-wrong Heidi Schlumpf.
Also, Madame Defarge, Tricoteuse of the New catholic Red Guard, is still freaking out about Archbishop Viganò, who apparently is living inside the casement above un-severed Madame’s neck.
Heidi has simply accepted what I suppose is either a lie or really bad mistake on the part of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, namely that Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida called her something I’d rather not write. AOC had a blatantly cynical, political spittle-flecked nutty on the floor of the House which Heidi thinks was packed with “Catholic values”. I’m unsure how rash judgment and then defaming another person in public in the way she did reflects Catholic values. Again, I think that AOC, seeing a chance to make some political hay while her seat is being challenged, made this up so she could make some hay from it. Heidi wants to believe AOC uncritically because, after all: Rep. Yoho, “describes himself as “pro-life” and has received an “A” rating from the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, which notes that he “has voted consistently to protect the lives of the unborn” and “defended the Trump administration’s pro-life regulatory efforts from pro-abortion attacks to prohibit their implementation.” He also has received an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association.” Morever, AOC is “a member of the Democratic Socialists of America” and “a young Latina”. That settles it.
Defarge (Michael Sean Winters), who once wrote – I am not making this up – that he wants to watch conservatives be killed, guillotined (HERE) is still grinding away at Archbp. Viganò’s “Testimony”. It was was released two years ago. Yes, Viganò has issued other things since then. Defarge leads with the fact that the two-year old testimony coincided with Francis’ visit to Ireland and it “was designed to gain maximum exposure”. That from a guy who has a column which he would like to see maximally exposed. I’m helping him out. Of course people write things and released them publicly with a view that very few people will read them. Right?
Defarge is deeply concerned that Viganò violated canon law. This may be a first for someone who writes for the Fishwrap. He is concerned that there is “schism in the air”. He wasn’t so concerned when John Paul II and Benedict XVI were in charge and his lot repeatedly scorned them and violated all manner of ecclesial laws. And the very publication he writes for is guilty of scorning and violating ecclesial law by retaining “Catholic” in their title against the express command of the Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
Defarge’s attitude is on display in his vocabulary: “profoundly disturbed… spewing… skunk…”. At least he has moved on from “venomous“. Here’s a choice bit at the end: “It is an awful thing to look at another human being and speculate about whether they are mentally disturbed or simply evil, but Viganò’s behavior has invited the question.” Yes, it is an awful thing. And there Winters does exactly that awful thing, not privately, but for all to see.
I’m reminded of…
RULE 13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Defarge notes that some of the people he says he wants to watch die (conservatives) have recently criticized Viganò’s latest comments. Like a good little aspirant to the New catholic Red Guards, he used the opportunity to snitch on people who haven’t adequately denounced Viganò. Namely Raymond Arroyo, Robert Royal and Fr. Gerry Murray, all three of whom I am happy to call good friends. They need to be hauled to their “struggle sessions” before they get the razor.
Defarge concludes:
“It is time for those bishops who testified to his integrity to speak up now and distance themselves from him, and to do so as publicly as they once attested to his character. … Who stands with Viganò still? And who with Pope Francis?”
For those of you who are perhaps young or have less knowledge of the Cultural Revolution which so inspires the New catholic Red Guards, a “struggle session“:
The aim of a struggle session was to shape public opinion and humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and those deemed class enemies…. In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed.
Fishwrap, ladies and gentlemen.
UPDATE 31 July:
Please, NY-14, I implore you. Vote for an expired Metro card before of this one!
. @AOC calls the statue in the US capitol building of Father Damien, a canonized saint in the Catholic Church, a part of “white supremacist culture.”
Father Damien died of leprosy after spending his life serving others who had the disease. pic.twitter.com/NVnfCN7EVK
— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) July 31, 2020
UPDATE 1 August:
In truth, @AOC is not the future of the Church but the perfect face of progressive “Catholicism”: arrogant, shameless, scolding, preening, theologically vacuous, historically illiterate, morally incoherent, ideologically driven, and politically obsessed. https://t.co/o3t1MImZgR
— Carl E. Olson (@carleolson) August 1, 2020
From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I’m an usher at my parish. Because of the scamdemic, the bishop wants spacing enforced. For Sunday Mass, I’m being asked to sit “overflow” in the parish hall, though in reality, there is plenty of space. While Mass is being streamed in there, if people can’t physically hear or see the priest, are they really attending Mass? I’m coming to the point where I’m thinking of refusing to sit people outside the chapel.
I think the layout of the place makes a difference.
For example, if the overflow space is continuous with the church space, and there are screens, I think that is attendance. Even if the people are outside because of the overflow, surely they are present even though they are inside. They are morally present in the church.
However, if the overflow space is not continuous with the church space, if the hall or place where overflow is expected to be is in a different part of the building or in another building, I think those people are not attending Mass. They are attending the transmission of a Mass. They are not morally present in the place where Mass is being said.
From a Jesuit priest…
QUAERITUR:
I have a question regarding purification: In the Vetus Ordo, it is customary to purify the paten with the thumb and index finger. What is the correct way to purify a ciborium? In the Novus Ordo, the ciboria (as well as the paten) are usually purified with the purificator. I have done this since my ordination, but since I started celebrating the old rite, I have been wondering if this is correct (and if it is correct to purify the ciborium with the purificator in the old rite) since there will inevitably be particles that get stuck or remain on the purificator. Many thanks in advance!
Father, I commend you for asking. Thank you. You are right to wonder about the use of the purificator for particles of the Eucharist in a ciboria. For the life of me I cannot figure out how any priest could think it is a good idea to use a purificator to wipe out a ciborium… unless they don’t believe that those particles are Eucharist.
No. Do not use the purificator. Use your index finger to move as much as you can out of the ciborium into the chalice. Then, when you purify your fingers, purify them over the ciborium and then pour the contents from the ciborium into the chalice.
Here is a helpful little video, in which I go through the procedure with some incidental remarks.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass for your Sunday, either live or on the internet? Let us know what it was.
Also, are you churches opening up? What was attendance like?
For my part, I was not on the schedule at the parish today (the Diocese’s Vocation Director with two new deacons had a Solemn Mass! The future of the TLM is bright here!), so I said Mass privately and live-streamed it. Here’s what I had to say (You might have to wait a bit while the video is processed):
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