If we are to live lives that enable us to hear more clearly who we really are, then we will have to learn to move to a rhythm that is superior to the ones we have fashioned for ourselves, or the ones a consumer society has foisted upon us. We will have to discover the [...]
Happy Name Day! (St. Bartholomew, pray for us.) Pax et bonum.
Gregor Kollmorgen today posted photos at The New Liturgical Movement, (as that blog is wont to do), of an abbatial blessing at Rein Abbey (Cistercian) in Austria. The photos are quite nice; it looks to have been a splendid, joyous occasion both for the abbey and the Church. The comments at the end of the article, [...]
This just in from Jerry Galipeau: This morning Cardinal Francis George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago and USCCB President, announced to the body of bishops that we have received the final text of the Roman Missal. Implementation of the new text will take place, as anticipated, on the First Sunday of Advent, 2011 (November 27, 2011). [...]
Father Ruff strikes gold yet again. The mind of the Church on the ‘Novus ordo’ At Catholic Culture, Jeff Mirus makes a very good point about the reformed liturgy of Paul VI: in the mind of the Church, it is the normal, ordinary form of the Catholic liturgy. The ‘extraordinary’ form is permitted and one [...]
Oh Presbyterians. You have really outdone yourselves. [219th General Assembly, Opening Worship Procession] Authenticity in worship is, in part, bringing the best of what one has, of what a community holds, forward as an expression of sacrifice for the Greater. Unless a community values, well, giant puppets, and fake “ethnic” music that expresses not their [...]
Last month I posed a rhetorical question: If one is ordained a priest, and supposing reincarnation does actually happen, would one still be a priest, even if unknowingly, in one’s next incarnation? A reader commented this in reply: Abbot N. Costello says: June 17, 2010 at 11:22 am Re-incarnation aside, what if a Catholic priest [...]
Fr. Anthony Ruff, O.S.B., wrote a post that I almost could have, and should have. You’ve probably heard that Christians in Italy and elsewhere are trying to defend crucifixes in public classrooms before Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Human Rights. “This is a great battle for the freedom and identity of our Christian values,” [...]
A wrap-up. Let’s dish. Were you subjected to “America, the Beautiful” at Mass? A flag procession, perhaps? Red, white, and blue flower arrangements? Loony petitions? Share in the comments, if you would. (I, for one, escaped ALL of it. Thank God for Our Lady of Fatima Church, Huntington.)
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