CD of ADVENT music by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

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First, even as Advent draws nearer and nearer, fix it in your mind to do your online shopping using my search box on the side bar!   Time flies.  I like to get my shopping done well in advance so I don’t have to think about it during Advent.

And now if you don’t want to play a lot of explicitly Christmasy music before Christmas, try playing Advent music.

There is an album of Advent music available.  The wonderful (and award winning) Benedictine Nuns in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph provide it.

US HERE – UK HERE

Here are a few little samples.

There are zillions of Christmas music offerings out there.  Advent?  Not so much.

This disk can help you keep Advent as Advent.

 

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100th anniversary of “Terror, terror, and more terror”

Be sure to read Sam Gregg’s super piece at CWR on the 100th anniversary of the Communist revolution in Russia… which had the focus of Our Lady at Fatima.

A taste:

Herein we come face-to-face with the true nature of the evil of Marxism which was unleashed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Communism authorizes and even celebrates the suspension and suppression of moral norms that absolutely prohibit certain actions like lying—or theft or killing or being envious. It’s one thing to be, for instance, dishonest but acknowledge you are doing evil. It’s altogether different to say that no such moral absolutes exist: that morality is in effect a fiction, a mere set of customs to be dispensed with, whenever convenient.

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The Sunday massacre at the Texas church

The Sunday massacre at the Texas church should give pause to pastors of souls.

I don’t know if that Texas church had signs at the doors indicating a “No firearms” policy, however, I know that a lot of churches do have those signs.   They strike me, and apparently nut jobs, as an indication that, here, they will find little resistance.

If I am not mistaken, an armed citizen played a role in subduing the perp who shot those innocent people in Texas.  It was a good thing that he was there.  After all, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.  God love ’em, law enforcement officers.  I have the deepest respect and gratitude for them, but they can’t be everywhere.

Once again, I urge everyone to develop strong situational awareness skills.   Watch what is going on around you and think about what you see.  If there is something “wrong” say something.    Look at your surroundings.  Really look.

We are probably going to see more of this sort of thing.  There is also right now a strong up tick in requests for exorcisms.   Coincidence?  I think not.   In addition, watch the tone and the targets of civil unrest.   Watch and ponder the tactics of the Left… even the catholic Left.  All these things are part of an interrelated matrix.

I’ve been on the road and watching much news, but did I really see protests against protestations of prayers for the victims of the shooting?

Si vis pacem para bellum.

 

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Your Good News

I sincerely enjoy hearing about GOOD news.  Especially in the life of grace, but also in the daily hurly burly.

What is your GOOD news?

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Summorum Pontificum: Urgent now more than ever

I have long maintained that one of the most important achievements, indeed, gifts from the pontificate of Benedict XVI was the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, which I like to call the “Emancipation Proclamation”.   It certainly freed the priest and the People of God to engage in an authentic revitalization of the Church’s all-important sacred liturgical worship.

We are our rites.

When are rites were brutally changed in the 60’s and an artificially created form was imposed with little explanation … or, in retrospect… demand… a great wound was inflicted on our collective Catholic identity.

Benedict, understood this wound.  He understood the dangers of an encroaching Dictatorship of Relativism within the Church and without.  Summorum Pontificum serves much like the Marshall Plan served Europe after the devastation of the war: it provided a bulwark against atheistic, materialistic Communism and it rebuilt economies and structures to provide for trade and stability etc.

I saw at the blog of the Benedictine dom Mark Kirkby, of Silverstream Priory, his points about the benefits of Summorum Pontificum over the last ten years.   HERE  The Priory, by the way, has produced beautiful altar cards for Holy Mass, which I am using on my own altar.  HERE They also produced a wonderful Way of the Cross especially for priests.  I have used that myself  HERE   In short, dom Kirby and the guys have got game.   They also have needs… HERE.

Back to the ten points positive fruits of Summorum Pontificum identified by dom Mark a while back.  Here they are in bullet points.  Peter Kwasnieski recently posted about them at NLM.  Go read the whole thing HERE.

1. A clearer manifestation of the sacred liturgy as the work of Christ the Eternal High Priest and Mediator.

2. The opening, for many souls, of a secure bridge between celebration and contemplation.

3. A serene and lucid transmission of the doctrine of the faith.

4. A renewed appreciation for the link between worship and culture.

5. The affirmation of the primacy of latria in the life of the Church, following the principle of Saint Benedict that “nothing is to be preferred to the work of God” (Rule, Ch. XLIII).

6. Encouragement given to the recovery and renewal of Benedictine monastic life in the heart of the Church.

7. Joy and beauty brought to Catholic family life.

8. A renewal of true priestly piety.

9. The birth of new expressions of consecrated life that find their source and summit in the traditional liturgy, Holy Mass and Divine Office.

10. An infusion of hope and, for young people, an experience of a beauty that renders holiness of life enchanting and attractive.

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes

Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard during the Mass by which you fulfilled your Sunday obligation?

Let us know.

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ACTION ITEM! Birettas for Seminarians Project – HELP!

action-item-button“¡Hagan lío!”, right?

I had a note last month from John Hastreiter at Leaflet Missal:

About 30 guys on the waiting list.

It’s enough to make you choke up.  THIRTY men waiting… waiting… waiting….

YOU, dear readers, have supplied over 100 birettas to seminarians.  Kudos.  Some thank you notes from seminarians with spiffy new birettas HERE and HERE.

Recently in Rome for the great Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage, I met two seminarians who are recipients of your birettas!

What is this project and how does this work?

RESOLVED: We want to get as many clerics to use birettas (and all that goes with them – fidelity to doctrine, reverent ars celebrandi, good life choices, solid priestly identity, etc.) as possible.

HENCE,…

  • Seminarians should 1) discern their hat size and then 2) contact the biretta supplier and get their names on a NEED list.
  • YOU, dear readers, contact the biretta supplier and PAY FOR the birettas which are then distributed.

You remain anonymous to each other.

Seminarians and potential donors…

Contact John in church goods at Leaflet Missal in St. Paul – 651-209-1951 Ext-331. 

DO NOT WRITE TO ME TO ASK FOR A BIRETTA!  (If a seminarian doesn’t get that straight then… how are your grades?!?)

CONTACT JOHN AT LEAFLET.

If John is away, leave a voicemail with your phone number and he will call you back ASAP.

There is also a SATURNO FOR CLERICS Project.  Ask John about that, too!

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Edward Pentin’s talk at the Catholic Identity Conference 2017

Edward Pentin – at present the best English language Vaticanista in Rome – gave a talk at a conference. There is a video of his talk.

You might give it a shot.

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Pentin, a sharp and reasonable guy, touches on a lot of sore points.

We have to stop blowing happy gas all around, as if everything in the Church was great. It’s not great. Some things are great, but a lot of really important thing aren’t good at all.

Before we can get to being great together, we need to figure out what has to be corrected.

Hence…

GO TO CONFESSION!

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4-5 Nov – USA – CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS – “Fall Back!”

In these USA we drop Daylight Savings Time TONIGHT.

If you are in a region where your clocks fall back tonight then

CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS.

Mass will start on time whether you are there or not….

…. unless you are the priest, of course.

But… that has its problems too.

Okay…

Just CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS.

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Fishwrap & Winters (aka Comrade Coyote) “struggles” Fr. Weinandy, Card. DiNardo

同志 Coyote, Wile E., (aka Michael Sean Winters… indelibly dubbed by Robbie George as the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left) and the National Schismatic Reporter, has fulfilled his duty as a cadre of the New catholic Red Guards today, by piling on with others in a “struggle” against Fr. Thomas Weinandy.

Here is a taste:

Hypocrisy marks DiNardo‘s inadequate response to Weinandy [Translation: Card. DiNaro is a hypocrite because he does hurt Weinandy as much as Comrade Coyote would.]

I am not sure which is worse, the fact that Capuchin Fr. Tom Weinandy, a former director of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, could pen such a ridiculously presumptuous letter to the pope, or that the current leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops could respond in such a thoroughly inadequate way [See? He’s attacking DiNardo.  He has already recently criticized the bishops – because he can criticize in his role as New catholic Red Guards cadre – because he doesn’t like the USCCB fall meeting agenda… as if they asked him.]

Mgsr. John Strynkowski, Weinandy’s predecessor at the doctrinal committee, has already published a striking response to Weinandy’s letter, with a point-by-point rebuttal. I need not repeat Strynkowski’s arguments and I most definitely wish to associate myself with them. [Strynkowski accompanied Chicago’s Archbishop Cupich as a theologian to the Synod on the Family.]

Still, I have some other concerns. Weinandy did not merely object to this or that thing Pope Francis has said or done; the whole tone of his letter, his choice of words, showed a lack of respect and humility that was appalling[And yet here we are reading Comrade Coyote remark that Card. DiNardo is a hypocrite and the USCCB is inadequate. But! The “tone” of Weinandy’s letter was lacking in respect. Go read the letter and see for yourselves.]

[…]

Weinandy and his ilk fret about all those faithful Catholics who are scandalized by Francis. Bosh. Francis is probably the most popular pope in history, [Jesus said it’s all about “popularity”] maybe not at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, [the cadre whistles and points at yet another place for the Left to attack] but in most areas where loyal Catholics [“loyal”… no, you don’t want to go against Mao Thought… believe me!] warm to the pope’s refreshing pleas for more mercy and less judgment. [Just like the mercy and lack of judgment Comrade Coyote is now showing to Fr. Weinandy.] Most conservative Catholics love this pope. There are opponents, to be sure, and they are well-funded and very noisy, but they are a sliver of the population.  [See Fr. Hunwicke’s reaction to this.  Priceless!]

[…]

Not once does DiNardo distinguish between Weinandy’s malicious ranting and the Holy Father’s magisterial teaching. [He’s already accused DiNardo of being a hypocrite.  Now comes the implication if not being “loyal” enough.] Indeed, the word magisterium does not appear even once in the statement. [COMRADE COYOTE ladies and gents!  From that perennial defender of the MAGISTERIUM the National Schismatic Reporter.] A Jewish friend, upon reading DiNardo’s statement, observed, “I thought your church was hierarchical.”  [Because the Fishwrap, which used to want popular election of bishops when JP2 and B16 were Popes, is not all about being “hierarchical”.  ]

Don’t get me wrong. I am all for civility and dialogue.  [This from Mr. Venom himself!  HERE.  Be sure to go to that link!]

[…]

It almost writes itself as self-parody.

Some time ago I was given a poster from the Cultural Revolution in 1966, when it was really getting underway.   Given the times we are now living in, I just had it framed and I’ve put it on a wall, to remind me of the violence that Catholics are up against from the liberal Left.

In the Cultural Revolution, when someone was identified for disloyalty to Mao Thought, cadres would point them out and their troops of zealots would then “struggle” against them. A “struggle session” involved public humiliation and torture to humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and, thus, to shape public opinion.

That’s what the catholic Left is now doing at Amerika, Fishwrap, on Twitter, etc.

They – the New catholic Red Guards are engaging in cyber “struggle sessions”.

In Comrade Coyote’s piece, there is even a hint that Card. DiNardo and the US Bishops aren’t “loyal” enough to the New Thought.

Sometime read through the Sixteen Points which were the 1966 guidelines of the Cultural Revolution.  A taste:

Although the bourgeoisie has been overthrown, it is still trying to use the old ideas, culture, and customs, and habits [the “Four Olds” that must be “smashed”, literally] of the exploiting classes to corrupt the masses, capture their minds, and endeavor to stage a comeback. The proletariat must do just the opposite: it must meet head?on every challenge of the bourgeoisie in the ideological field and use the new ideas, culture, customs, and habits of the proletariat to change the mental outlook of the whole of society. At present our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road, [the magisterium of John Paul II, etc.] to criticize and repudiate the reactionary bourgeois academic “authorities” [like Fr. Weinandy] and the ideology of the bourgeoisie and all other exploiting classes and transform education, literature, and art and all other parts of the superstructure that do not correspond to the socialist economic base, [INVADE Franciscan U!] so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the socialist system. The masses of the workers, peasants, soldiers, revolutionary intellectuals, and revolutionary cadres form the main force in this Great Cultural Revolution. Large numbers of revolutionary young people, previously unknown, have become courageous and daring pathbreakers. …

Sounds like Comrade Coyote.

How about…

The masses of the workers, peasants, soldiers, revolutionary intellectuals, and revolutionary cadres form the main force in this Great Cultural Revolution. Large numbers of revolutionary young people, previously unknown, have become courageous and daring pathbreakers. They are vigorous in action and intelligent. Through the media of big character posters [tweets… some get 280 characters, btw] and great debates, they argue things out, expose and criticize thoroughly, and launch resolute attacks on the open and hidden representatives of the bourgeoisie. … Since the Cultural Revolution is a revolution, it inevitably meets with resistance. This resistance comes chiefly from those in authority who have wormed their way into the party and are taking the capitalist road. It also comes from the old force of habit in society. [again, the Four Olds] At present, this resistance is still fairly strong and stubborn. However, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is, after all, an irresistible general trend. There is abundant evidence that such resistance will crumble fast once the masses become fully aroused. …

If you want to read more about that desperate time try Mao’s Last Revolution – US HERE – UK HERE.

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