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- on Here we go again! Comments on forcing table altars and forbidding Mass “ad orientem”.: “What was the quote from St Jerome? ” the floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops”. I…”
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- on “O vos omnes sordidi mementote retrorsi…!” More joy in Detroit.: “It’s like the 13th century all over again. “No! Don’t give the money to those friars give it to meeee!…”
- on Why reverent, traditionally-oriented Novus Ordo Masses may soon come under attack.: “1. Thank God I live in the Arlington Diocese. We chanted all the antiphons at a worthy NO Mass this…”
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- on “O vos omnes sordidi mementote retrorsi…!” More joy in Detroit.: “In other news, Msgr. Weisenheimer has just announced his new episcopal motto: “Unitas per Crudelitatem” which translates to “The beatings…”
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Tag Archives: Patristics
At long last! Inspectis dierum nostrorum!
At the blog of The Chairman of the LMS there is great news. For a while I lamented that the Congregation for Catholic Education’s 1990 Instruction on the Study of the Fathers of the Church in the Formation of Priests … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged bene calleant, can. 249, Cong. Catholic Education, Latin, Latin Mass Society, LMS, Patristic theology, Patristics, St. Thomas Aquinas
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NSR: Making Church history up as they go!
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, the journal of record for heretics and schismatics everywhere (aka Fishwrap), there is an article by one Richard Gaillardetz, the “Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College”, ostensibly about women, ordination and … Read More
How’s the preaching where you are?
I was informed that recently His Eminence Daniel Card. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston delivered the annual Carl J. Peter Lecture at the Pontifical North American College. His topic: “Preaching With The Fathers Of The Church”. This, of course, is of great … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged Card. DiNardo, Fathers of the Church, homiletics, Patristic Institute "Augustinianum", Patristics, preaching, sermons
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Did you know about the requirement for Patristics in seminary formation? No! Really!
I have in the past posted about this shameful problem. I actually changed my field because of this document. I am glad that Joseph Shaw of the LMS picked this up: In 1989 the Congregation for Catholic Education, under the American Cardinal William … Read More
The Patristic angle of the new Ordinariate
Today in Houston there was a presser with Card. DiNardo of Houston-Galveston and Msgr. Steenson the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter. Both men has good Patristic credentials. Card. DiNardo is an alumus of my school, … Read More
On the priesthood by St. John Chrysostom
Today, looking for things about the Sanctus, I ran across this, which priests could incorporate into an examination of conscience: From Book VI On the priesthood by St. John Chrysostom. My emphases: 4. […] What manner of man ought [the … Read More
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My school, the Augustinianum, has a new web site! http://www.patristicum.org
USCCB: Patristics in the formation of seminarians
The USCCB issued a program for formation for US seminaries. Inter alia the conference has codified that Patristics (study of the theology of the Fathers of the Church) is to be included. Here are the relevant paragraphs: 201. Patristic studies … Read More
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