I can’t resist. This is from my friend Greg DiPippo:
A scene from the soon-to-be-released film “Alien: New Covenant.” (An early press release from the studio accidentally omitted the word “new” from the title.) The xenomorphs have mated with the T-1000 from the 2nd Terminator movie, and their offspring has captured the Lord.
This is, of course, the monster-ance used at Fatima for the anniversary.
My first thought was, “propeller”?
Really?
INDULGENCE OPPORTUNITIES DURING THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
OF THE APPARITIONS OF OUR LADY IN FATIMA, PORTUGAL
Pope Francis has granted a plenary indulgence opportunity for the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions throughout the centennial year, from the 27th of November 2016 till the 26th of November 2017. There are three ways to obtain the indulgence, detailed in a statement from the Fatima Shrine in Portugal (see below).
To obtain the plenary indulgence, the faithful must also fulfill the ordinary conditions: go to Confession and Communion, be interiorly detached from sin, and pray for the intentions of the Holy Father.
To the faithful who make a pilgrimage to the Fatima Shrine in Portugal and participate in a celebration of prayer dedicated to the Virgin. In addition, the faithful must pray the Our Father, recite the Creed and invoke the Mother of God.
2. Pray before any statue of Our Lady of Fatima
To the faithful who visit with devotion a statue of Our Lady of Fatima solemnly exposed for public veneration in any church, oratory or proper place during the days of the anniversary of the apparitions, the 13th of each month from May to October 2017, and there devoutly participate in some celebration or prayer in honor of the Virgin Mary. In addition, the faithful must pray the Our Father, recite the Creed and invoke Our Lady of Fatima.
3. The elderly and infirm
To the faithful who, because of age, illness or other serious cause, are unable to get around, may pray in front of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and must spiritually unite themselves to the jubilee celebrations on the days of the apparitions, the 13th of each month, between May and October 2017. They must also “offer to merciful God with confidence, through Mary, their prayers and sufferings or the sacrifices they make in their own lives.”
From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I am blessed to attend an OF parish where the teaching is orthodox and the liturgy reverent and beautiful (including parts of the mass sung in Latin). Several families have begun expressing an interest in an EF mass as an option. What would you suggest as the best ways to start a wider discussion to gauge interest?
Even though this is the “ASK FATHER Question Box”, I’ll open this to the readership.
Let’s have some great, thoughtful ideas. Consider the possibility that the priest isn’t entirely on board … yet.
The moderation queue is ON.
I’m off again to give a talk at a parish to kick off their series for the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima.
A choice parking spot! When you travel a lot, it’s the small things.
One connection today. I’ll ask a prayer for smooth travels without glitches so that I get there on schedule: the event is tonight.
UPDATE
The other day I posted about the … difficult child on the 10 hour flight from Rome. By way of contrast, in the gate area today a young dad was walking about with his little stupor munro, whom I had seen a few minutes before just walking with lot’s of concentration and unsure feet (age?). Anyway dad walked with child at high port, as the kid’s limbs and head bounced with absolute relaxation. Then he? she? began to laugh. It cracked up the entire gate area. Laugh laugh laugh in all possible modulations. Bounce laugh bounce laugh.
UPDATE
I wonder if the pilot or corporate decides what music is played as we board. This morning it’s “Goooood bye, Ruuuuby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you?”. A bit unusual.
UPDATE
Tools of travel.
UPDATE
I’m reading Saverio Gaeta’s book about Fatima. He carefully picks apart all the existing data about the publication of the “Third Secret”, lays it all out. Inter alia, Card. Bertone doesn’t come out of this looking very good – so far. But we knew that already, didn’t we.
An example of how Gaeta presents data:
Engrossing.
I think that what happened at Fatima is an event that is ongoing, with urgent ramifications for us today.
Taken all together, the central message of Our Lady in her apparitions at Fatima is the urgent need to pray, do penance, and make reparation for sins, our own and those of others.
This major theme was prepared before Our Lady started to appear in May 1917.
In the late September or early October of 1916 an angel appeared to the three children of Fatima to whom Our Blessed Mother would later appear 100 years ago today.
The angel taught them a prayer, an act of reparation.
The angel calling himself the Angel of Peace held a chalice over which was suspended a Host. Drops of the Precious Blood fell from the Host into the chalice. The angel prostrated himself on the ground before the Host and Chalice, and repeated the act of reparation three times. He then administered Holy Communion to the children saying, “Eat and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console Our Lord.”
An Act of Reparation From the Angel of of Peace at Fatima:
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore You profoundly and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He Himself is offended. And by the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners.
ORIGINALLY Published on: Apr 5, 2017
I received from the offices of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” the following DECREE.
This decree says that on 13 May 2017, the 100th Anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, it is granted and permitted using the Extraordinary Form to celebrate a Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (from 22 August) as 2nd Class and to use the pertinent commemorations.
From a reader… a question about birettaquette.
QUAERITUR:
I am an avid reader of your blog and has been inspired by it. For my vacation from the seminary, I am planning to help my parish priest know how to celebrate TLM starting with the low mass. I wonder if it is necessary for the celebrant to wear a biretta in the low mass.
The use of the biretta was and is prescribed (i.e., Father must use it) for the celebration of Holy Mass in the older, traditional form. Of course no one is held to the impossible. If there is no biretta, then it can’t be used. That doesn’t mean that the priest shouldn’t say Mass.
For a Low Mass, the use of the biretta is simple. The priest puts it on in the sacristy before he goes to the sanctuary to say Mass. Upon arriving at the foot of the altar, he removes the biretta with his right hand (he is holding the chalice in his left hand), and he hold the biretta our to the server standing on his right who takes it. Father won’t need the biretta again until Mass is over.
When Mass is over, the priest descends from the Gospel side (where he concluded the Last Gospel) to the floor at the center of the steps. He turns to the altar and he kneels on the lowest step for the “Leonine Prayers”. When those prayers are concluded, he rises, goes up the steps, gets the chalice and descends the steps again. He turns to the altar, standing at the center. He genuflects, rises, and receives the biretta from the server at his right in his right hand. He covers and then returns to the sacristy.
So, at Low Mass the priest essentially uses the biretta to go from the sacristy to the altar and from the altar to the sacristy.
I believe the only other time he might use a biretta at Low Mass, is if he should choose to preach (no need to) and he should choose to wear the biretta (no obligation to).
A few days ago I mentioned the Fatima anniversary procession that will be at St. John Cantius in Chicago. That’s be great. Also, I will be speaking in Grand Rapids, MI.
I just learned that in Minneapolis (my native place), a new Una Voce group has been formed. They will have a Rosary procession at 9 AM tomorrow, Saturday 13 May followed by a Traditional Latin Mass at All Saints Church. There will also be a conference in the parish hall. HERE
If you are in or near the Twin Cities, you might attend… and remember their new UNA VOCE group.
Fr. Hunwicke was kind enough to remind us all that 28 May is the anniversary of the election to the See of Peter of the great Pope Clement XIV, Papa Ganganelli.
I noted in a comment there that one person obtained a stein because the mugs didn’t hold enough tea. “Well!”, quoth I, “he doesn’t know about the MEGA MUG!”
Yes, there is now a 20 oz version.
There are now mugs in 10, 15, and 20 oz., and the 22 oz. stein.
There are other items as well.
>>HERE<<
And speaking of Papa Ganganelli, before I left Rome I visited the Pope’s tomb in Ss. Dodici Apostoli.
He is, of course, conferring his blessing on the mugs.
As you can see.
This is really the monument for him. His tomb is tucked into the corner to the left of the monument, which frames the sacristy door.
The Pope is pleased.
I’m having a really hard day, but this lifted my spirits.
From a priest friend:
That settles it.
No more excuses!
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