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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Because Vatican II is not a Dogmatic Council!
From the Catholic Herald
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The leader of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X has said talks with the Vatican demonstrate that “Rome no longer makes total acceptance” of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council a condition for his group’s full reconciliation with the Church.
Accepting the Council’s teaching is no longer “a prerequisite for the canonical solution” of the status of the society, according to Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the SSPX. [Which keeps the heads of the liberals on a tailspin! hahaha]
In an interview published today on the society’s news site, www.dici.org, Bishop Fellay said it was the Vatican that approached the society, and not the society that went to the Vatican, asking to begin the talks. [Because that is what a true shepherd does. He goes out of his way to bring back the lost sheep. As Fr. Z calls him, Pope Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity! Unlike other bishops who ostracize their own flock just because they either: show devotion to the Latin Tridentine Mass or would want Communion on the tongue either standing or kneeling, or support traditional groups like Opus Dei]
“So the attitude of the official Church is what changed; we did not,” he said. “We were not the ones who asked for an agreement; the Pope is the one who wants to recognise us.” [Because the Pope has shown his genuine concern for the group right back in 1988 when he, then Cardinal-Prefect of the CDF was in direct contact with the Society's founder itself.]
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications that had been incurred by Bishop Fellay and other SSPX bishops when they were ordained without papal permission 11 years earlier. [If the three other bishops of the SSPX continue their "more-Catholic-than-thou" attitude, expect that excommunication to get back at them!] Also in 2009, the Pope established a Vatican committee to hold doctrinal talks with society representatives.
In September 2011, the Vatican gave Bishop Fellay a “doctrinal preamble” outlining “some doctrinal principles and criteria for the interpretation of Catholic doctrine necessary to guarantee fidelity” to the formal teaching of the Church. Neither the Vatican nor the SSPX has made the text public, but the Vatican said it leaves room for “legitimate discussion” about “individual expressions or formulations present in the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the successive magisterium” of the Church.
Bishop Fellay submitted his first response to the document in March, but the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval of Pope Benedict, defined it as “insufficient”. The bishop gave the Vatican his second response in April and, as of June 7, it was still under study at the Vatican.
In the interview on the SSPX website, Bishop Fellay said: “We are still not in agreement doctrinally, and yet the Pope wants to recognise us. Why? The answer is right in front of us: there are terribly important problems in the Church today.” [Hey! The theologians at Belgium and here at MST, SVST, Euntes are not in agreement doctrinally yet they are in GOOD STANDING with the Church?!?! Goodness me!]
The reconciliation talks, he said, are a sign that the Catholic Church has begun to recognise it needs to recover traditions and traditional teaching eclipsed by the Second Vatican Council. If the SSPX were to reconcile fully with the Church, Bishop Fellay said, its members would continue to denounce “doctrinal difficulties” in the Church, but would do so while also providing “tangible signs of the vitality of tradition” in its growing membership and vocation rate. [Doctrinal difficulties, hmmm... Leaves a lot of room for interpretations from both ends of the theological spectrum, eh?]
Speaking to members of the SSPX who are wary of reconciliation, Bishop Fellay said “one of the great dangers is to end up inventing an idea of the Church that appears ideal, but is in fact not found in the real history of the Church”.
“Some claim that in order to work ‘safely’ in the Church, she must first be cleansed of all error. This is what they say when they declare that Rome must convert before any agreement, or that its errors must first be suppressed so that we can work,” he said.
But the reality of the Church’s history shows that “often, and almost always, we see that there are widespread errors” and that God calls holy men and women to work within the Church to correct the errors, Bishop Fellay said.
“We are being asked to come and work just as all the reforming saints of all times did,” he said. [Wonderfully said!]
Bishop Fellay said he did not have a timetable for the conclusion of the talks. “There are even some who say that the Pope will deal with this matter at [the papal summer villa in] Castel Gandolfo in July.”
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Some say it is a done deal but that the announcement is just being delayed.
But these are all conjectures and we still have to wait the official announcement from the Holy See.
As I have said time and again...
The true aim of ecumenism is to bring back the lost sheep into the one fold of Jesus Christ. The brand of ecumenism we had right after Vatican II is to make the Catholic Church more like ALL of the religions of the world.
That is why you have dancers at Mass which was never a part of Catholic heritage....
Communion in the Hand....
Nature or Eco-friendly liturgy....
Priests and Nuns fighting to save the planet instead of our immortal souls...
Thank the Lord for Pope Benedict XVI.
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The leader of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X has said talks with the Vatican demonstrate that “Rome no longer makes total acceptance” of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council a condition for his group’s full reconciliation with the Church.
Accepting the Council’s teaching is no longer “a prerequisite for the canonical solution” of the status of the society, according to Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the SSPX. [Which keeps the heads of the liberals on a tailspin! hahaha]
In an interview published today on the society’s news site, www.dici.org, Bishop Fellay said it was the Vatican that approached the society, and not the society that went to the Vatican, asking to begin the talks. [Because that is what a true shepherd does. He goes out of his way to bring back the lost sheep. As Fr. Z calls him, Pope Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity! Unlike other bishops who ostracize their own flock just because they either: show devotion to the Latin Tridentine Mass or would want Communion on the tongue either standing or kneeling, or support traditional groups like Opus Dei]
“So the attitude of the official Church is what changed; we did not,” he said. “We were not the ones who asked for an agreement; the Pope is the one who wants to recognise us.” [Because the Pope has shown his genuine concern for the group right back in 1988 when he, then Cardinal-Prefect of the CDF was in direct contact with the Society's founder itself.]
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications that had been incurred by Bishop Fellay and other SSPX bishops when they were ordained without papal permission 11 years earlier. [If the three other bishops of the SSPX continue their "more-Catholic-than-thou" attitude, expect that excommunication to get back at them!] Also in 2009, the Pope established a Vatican committee to hold doctrinal talks with society representatives.
In September 2011, the Vatican gave Bishop Fellay a “doctrinal preamble” outlining “some doctrinal principles and criteria for the interpretation of Catholic doctrine necessary to guarantee fidelity” to the formal teaching of the Church. Neither the Vatican nor the SSPX has made the text public, but the Vatican said it leaves room for “legitimate discussion” about “individual expressions or formulations present in the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the successive magisterium” of the Church.
Bishop Fellay submitted his first response to the document in March, but the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval of Pope Benedict, defined it as “insufficient”. The bishop gave the Vatican his second response in April and, as of June 7, it was still under study at the Vatican.
In the interview on the SSPX website, Bishop Fellay said: “We are still not in agreement doctrinally, and yet the Pope wants to recognise us. Why? The answer is right in front of us: there are terribly important problems in the Church today.” [Hey! The theologians at Belgium and here at MST, SVST, Euntes are not in agreement doctrinally yet they are in GOOD STANDING with the Church?!?! Goodness me!]
The reconciliation talks, he said, are a sign that the Catholic Church has begun to recognise it needs to recover traditions and traditional teaching eclipsed by the Second Vatican Council. If the SSPX were to reconcile fully with the Church, Bishop Fellay said, its members would continue to denounce “doctrinal difficulties” in the Church, but would do so while also providing “tangible signs of the vitality of tradition” in its growing membership and vocation rate. [Doctrinal difficulties, hmmm... Leaves a lot of room for interpretations from both ends of the theological spectrum, eh?]
Speaking to members of the SSPX who are wary of reconciliation, Bishop Fellay said “one of the great dangers is to end up inventing an idea of the Church that appears ideal, but is in fact not found in the real history of the Church”.
“Some claim that in order to work ‘safely’ in the Church, she must first be cleansed of all error. This is what they say when they declare that Rome must convert before any agreement, or that its errors must first be suppressed so that we can work,” he said.
But the reality of the Church’s history shows that “often, and almost always, we see that there are widespread errors” and that God calls holy men and women to work within the Church to correct the errors, Bishop Fellay said.
“We are being asked to come and work just as all the reforming saints of all times did,” he said. [Wonderfully said!]
Bishop Fellay said he did not have a timetable for the conclusion of the talks. “There are even some who say that the Pope will deal with this matter at [the papal summer villa in] Castel Gandolfo in July.”
***
Some say it is a done deal but that the announcement is just being delayed.
But these are all conjectures and we still have to wait the official announcement from the Holy See.
As I have said time and again...
The true aim of ecumenism is to bring back the lost sheep into the one fold of Jesus Christ. The brand of ecumenism we had right after Vatican II is to make the Catholic Church more like ALL of the religions of the world.
That is why you have dancers at Mass which was never a part of Catholic heritage....
Communion in the Hand....
Nature or Eco-friendly liturgy....
Priests and Nuns fighting to save the planet instead of our immortal souls...
Thank the Lord for Pope Benedict XVI.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
A new book to watch out for
These kinds of books are not claimed by the Church as divinely inspired but can be a source of inspiration for the ordinary Christian who wishes to deepen his faith.
Funny, that most of our nuns and priests nowadays would either scoff at the mention of such books or would not have any idea at all that such books exists.
Even funnier is how "Catholic" bookstores like St. Paul's, Libreria and Catholic Trade do not carry these kinds of books or those written by the saints or of contemporary Catholic authors like GK Chesteron.
Instead, you'd find books published by Evangelicals and Born-against Catholics occupying the shelves.
But there is Totus Bookstore!
Thank God for Henry Siy!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Episcopal Mass in Latin celebrated ad Deum
Which some would call 'ad orientem'. But I'd rather call it Ad Deum, or towards the Lord. We all face the same direction and in this case towards the crucifix and the Tabernacle where the Lord is being kept.
Thanks to a dear friend for sending and sharing the photos. And once again a very very big kudos to Bishop Antonio Tobias of Novaliches!
I hope this becomes the norm in the entire diocese, no?
Last time I was in the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd was during the funeral of Cardinal Sanchez.
Here are the wonderful photos
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The altar arrangement. From how it looks, the 7th candle looks like it is in front of the altar crucifix. (?) You can also see reliquaries on the altar.
The entrance procession
The incensation of the altar. You can see Bishop Tobias wearing a Roman chasuble, which is a rare sight in OF Masses across the country.
The elevation of the chalice. Notice the concelebrant lifting the helm of the bishop's chasuble, and he is kneeling and his position and that of the thurifer and incense boat carrier. These are obvious influences of the EF Mass. This is the enrichment of the OF that the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI wishes!
Communion of the servers. Kneeling and on the tongue only!
Communion of the faithful, well some of them as you can see at the back, kneeling and on the tongue. I am not sure if the others received on the hand.
Thanks to a dear friend for sending and sharing the photos. And once again a very very big kudos to Bishop Antonio Tobias of Novaliches!
I hope this becomes the norm in the entire diocese, no?
Last time I was in the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd was during the funeral of Cardinal Sanchez.
Here are the wonderful photos
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The recessional. You can see the MC of the bishop wearing the distinctive amaranth cassock. I guess the MC is a layman as he is not wearing the clerical rabat.
MEGA KUDOS to Bishop Tobias, the Diocese of Novaliches and the altar servers of the Good Shepherd Cathedral!
We hope and pray the this liturgical orientation becomes the norm in the entire Diocese!
And don't let that diminutive liturgist harass you Bishop Tobias! You are the bishop of your own diocese! He is just an appointee! He cannot tell you what to do! You answer only to the Pope and to God Himself!
A desperate call for help...
from a friend, Chris is his cousin.
The plea below is from the sister of Chris.
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To all the beloved relatives, friends and acquaintances
The person in the picture is my older brother Christopher Medidas. He is studying in MAPUA and has a promising talent in music and arts .He is now diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome or Landry's paralysis, a rare disorder that affected his nervous system, rendering him unable to talk, move or breathe properly. Chris is currently confined at the ICU of Philippine General Hospital. He needs to undergo treatment by intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) which costs Php 100,000+ and add to that, his other medical expenses keep on escalating.
In these difficult times, we ask for your generosity and assistance for his medical needs.
You could send your donations under our mother's name LILITH T. MEDIDAS with the BDO account number of 2500026546. Our mobile #: 09209056354. Any amount or contribution will surely help Chris with his medication and recover back into his old, lively self and continue on reaching his dreams. We thank you so much in advance for all of your help and prayers. God bless us all.
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Do whatever you can to help, please!
Pray!
Ask the help of our Mother and of Padre Pio to heal Chris.
Ask also the help of the Blesseds. They need to prove a miracle in order that they be canonized. They will pray harder. Fr. Z once advised this and I believe him.
Schedule of Latin Masses in Metro Manila
Click on the image for a larger view
And at Holy Family Parish Church in Roxas District, Quezon City every Sunday at 2:00PM.
I heard that the TLM there is getting more attendees and most of them are the YOUTH!
Latin dead language.........Bah!
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By the way, here is a note that came with the schedule.
After a period of recuperation from their illness, the Most Rev. Archbishop Pedro R. Dean, Bishop Emeritus of Palo, Leyte, and Rev. Msgr. Cesar Salomon, Vice Rector of the Shrine of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, will resume celebrating the Traditional Latin
Mass on the month of June, 2012. Let us pray for their continuous recovery and good health.
Archbishop Dean will resume being our priest celebrant for the 1st Saturdays of each month at Christ the King Parish-Greenmeadows, while Msgr. Salomon will share in the rotation of priest celebrants for our Sunday Holy Mass at the Chapel of the St. Therese Columbarium at Villamor Air Base.
Rev. Fr. Dominic Maria Lim, OFM Conv., Rector of St. Maximilian Seminary, is on leave for his annual visit to his family in Canada for the whole month of June. Rev. Fr. Felix Maria Duenas, FI, JCL,, Superior of the FI Mission House in Novaliches, will be taking on the schedule of Fr. Dominic in addition to his regular schedule in June.
Attached is our Traditional Latin Mass Schedule for the month of June.
Please continue to pray for our apostolate on the Traditional Latin Mass -- its continuity in celebration, promotion and propagation.
We continue to receive requests for training on how to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass among priests in different parts of the country. Let's pray that we're able to accommodate their needs -- even if slowly, but surely!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
An article about the new translation
In the Philippine Daily Inquirer!
Surprising but true!
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Last Friday, before Mass ended at Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in downtown Cebu City, a lay minister announced that Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma has green-lighted the Catholic faithful’s gradual adoption of the new English translation of the words of Holy Mass starting today, the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity.
I have been reading stories about this translation of the Mass from its original Latin text since early in the last decade, when the work began under our last pope, now Blessed John Paul II and ended towards the close of that decade under Pope Benedict XVI.
The translation process was meticulous, involving primarily the popes, bishops of the English-speaking Catholics, Vatican departments like the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Disicipline of the Sacraments, the church commission called International Committee for English in the Liturgy and lay liturgical experts. [Except two Benedictine monks, one American and one Filipino.]
In a nutshell, the members of the Catholic hierarchy saw the need for a new English translation of the Roman Missal because the one we have been using since soon after the Second Vatican Council are more translations of the thought behind rather than literal English renderings of the Latin texts. [And it counts a lot when you change the original meaning of the Latin texts by using a dynamic equivalence which leaves the rendering of the thought of the text to the translator and not the original intent of the text. There are a lot of cases like this in the currently and soon to be old translation of the Missal. It is also not true that this is just the work of Pope Benedict XVI. This was already set in motion by Blessed John Paul during his pontificate with the release of Liturgiam Authenticam.]
This does not mean that the hierarchy is nitpicking, [ows?] imposing on believers the use of an English version of a text in language considered dead. [Oh brother.] Rather it shows that our popes, the bishops and the rest of the hierarchy care to teach us to use words that elicit greater reverence for the Mass and highlight the content of our faith.
Further, in this era of what the pope calls the “dictatorship of relativism,” a translation of the words that we pray at Mass needs to be faithful to the original to be more effective in helping us elevate our lives to God.
Let us go through some of the new responsory prayers we will make in Holy Mass.
First and most obvious, we will say “And with your spirit” instead of “and also with you” every time the priest says “The Lord be with you.” (That is four times throughout the Mass.) Notice that “And with your spirit” creates mindfulness about the spiritual setting of the Holy Mass. This is not a banal meet and greet session for exchanges of pleasantries in the mold of “Good morning” and “same to you.” At Mass, God is with us not in a fluffy mushy mumbo jumbo manner but in the reality of our eternal spirit. The Mass is not an occasion for socializing but the occasion par excellence for being touched and filled by God. [This has been explained by a lot of Catholic bloggers. You can Google it. Just stay away from that hideous booklet.]
In the Confiteor, we will pray, “that I have sinned greatly in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault,” instead of “that I have sinned through my own fault in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.” These words remind us that there is nothing trivial about sin, which is saying “no” to God and to love. Being in sin is not being “perfectly bad and perfectly good at it.” It is rebellion against goodness. We cannot afford to just mouth words when we accuse ourselves in God’s presence. The lines of the ages put us in our rightful place, pleading for forgiveness before the throne of mercy and grace. [Or to put it in the right context, the Jews repeat the words three times to put emphasis into it. Remember "Holy, holy, holy Lord..." Repeating the word "fault" gives emphasis on our public acknowledgment of our sinfulness.]
The new English version of the Gloria reads: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only-begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.”
Notice that the peace of the Incarnation first sung of by angels is given to “people of good will,” not just to any person. (The God-touched conscience certainly does not bring peace to a person of bad will but discomfitures him towards the road to conversion.) In the Gloria, we do not generically worship God our Father with a nebulous blob of catharsis but praise, bless, adore, glorify and thank him for all that He is. Jesus Christ is particularly confessed as begotten eternally of the Father and that is most necessary in this age when people speak of him as if He were just another great ancient philosopher. Christ, Son of the Father is God.
I have mentioned only some of the changes in the English words of the Mass and a few ways our sense of faith grows with their help. I encourage you read resources that abound on the Internet about the new English version of the Roman Missal. More importantly, pay attention to your pastors when they catechize you about these changes. [Hopefully they do. My parish hasn't done anything yet. Ugh.]
***
All in all a good read about the new translation and surprisingly would come from the Inquirer.
A breath of fresh air?
Who knows!
For more informative catechesis about the new translation, visit this.
Surprising but true!
***
Last Friday, before Mass ended at Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in downtown Cebu City, a lay minister announced that Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma has green-lighted the Catholic faithful’s gradual adoption of the new English translation of the words of Holy Mass starting today, the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity.
I have been reading stories about this translation of the Mass from its original Latin text since early in the last decade, when the work began under our last pope, now Blessed John Paul II and ended towards the close of that decade under Pope Benedict XVI.
The translation process was meticulous, involving primarily the popes, bishops of the English-speaking Catholics, Vatican departments like the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Disicipline of the Sacraments, the church commission called International Committee for English in the Liturgy and lay liturgical experts. [Except two Benedictine monks, one American and one Filipino.]
In a nutshell, the members of the Catholic hierarchy saw the need for a new English translation of the Roman Missal because the one we have been using since soon after the Second Vatican Council are more translations of the thought behind rather than literal English renderings of the Latin texts. [And it counts a lot when you change the original meaning of the Latin texts by using a dynamic equivalence which leaves the rendering of the thought of the text to the translator and not the original intent of the text. There are a lot of cases like this in the currently and soon to be old translation of the Missal. It is also not true that this is just the work of Pope Benedict XVI. This was already set in motion by Blessed John Paul during his pontificate with the release of Liturgiam Authenticam.]
This does not mean that the hierarchy is nitpicking, [ows?] imposing on believers the use of an English version of a text in language considered dead. [Oh brother.] Rather it shows that our popes, the bishops and the rest of the hierarchy care to teach us to use words that elicit greater reverence for the Mass and highlight the content of our faith.
Further, in this era of what the pope calls the “dictatorship of relativism,” a translation of the words that we pray at Mass needs to be faithful to the original to be more effective in helping us elevate our lives to God.
Let us go through some of the new responsory prayers we will make in Holy Mass.
First and most obvious, we will say “And with your spirit” instead of “and also with you” every time the priest says “The Lord be with you.” (That is four times throughout the Mass.) Notice that “And with your spirit” creates mindfulness about the spiritual setting of the Holy Mass. This is not a banal meet and greet session for exchanges of pleasantries in the mold of “Good morning” and “same to you.” At Mass, God is with us not in a fluffy mushy mumbo jumbo manner but in the reality of our eternal spirit. The Mass is not an occasion for socializing but the occasion par excellence for being touched and filled by God. [This has been explained by a lot of Catholic bloggers. You can Google it. Just stay away from that hideous booklet.]
In the Confiteor, we will pray, “that I have sinned greatly in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault,” instead of “that I have sinned through my own fault in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.” These words remind us that there is nothing trivial about sin, which is saying “no” to God and to love. Being in sin is not being “perfectly bad and perfectly good at it.” It is rebellion against goodness. We cannot afford to just mouth words when we accuse ourselves in God’s presence. The lines of the ages put us in our rightful place, pleading for forgiveness before the throne of mercy and grace. [Or to put it in the right context, the Jews repeat the words three times to put emphasis into it. Remember "Holy, holy, holy Lord..." Repeating the word "fault" gives emphasis on our public acknowledgment of our sinfulness.]
The new English version of the Gloria reads: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only-begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.”
Notice that the peace of the Incarnation first sung of by angels is given to “people of good will,” not just to any person. (The God-touched conscience certainly does not bring peace to a person of bad will but discomfitures him towards the road to conversion.) In the Gloria, we do not generically worship God our Father with a nebulous blob of catharsis but praise, bless, adore, glorify and thank him for all that He is. Jesus Christ is particularly confessed as begotten eternally of the Father and that is most necessary in this age when people speak of him as if He were just another great ancient philosopher. Christ, Son of the Father is God.
I have mentioned only some of the changes in the English words of the Mass and a few ways our sense of faith grows with their help. I encourage you read resources that abound on the Internet about the new English version of the Roman Missal. More importantly, pay attention to your pastors when they catechize you about these changes. [Hopefully they do. My parish hasn't done anything yet. Ugh.]
***
All in all a good read about the new translation and surprisingly would come from the Inquirer.
A breath of fresh air?
Who knows!
For more informative catechesis about the new translation, visit this.
Monday, June 4, 2012
GULP Alert: What the?!
No, he is no wine connoisseur nor is he just testing his wine.
He is consecrating wine.....on a glass.....glass.
He is violating a lot of liturgical laws here. From Redemptionis Sacramentum:
PS: Who is this priest?
He is consecrating wine.....on a glass.....glass.
He is violating a lot of liturgical laws here. From Redemptionis Sacramentum:
3. Sacred Vessels
[117.] Sacred vessels for containing the Body and Blood of the Lord must be made in strict conformity with the norms of tradition and of the liturgical books.[205]The Bishops’ Conferences have the faculty to decide whether it is appropriate, once their decisions have been given the recognitio by the Apostolic See, for sacred vessels to be made of other solid materials as well. It is strictly required, however, that such materials be truly noble in the common estimation within a given region,[206]so that honour will be given to the Lord by their use, and all risk of diminishing the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharistic species in the eyes of the faithful will be avoided. Reprobated, therefore, is any practice of using for the celebration of Mass common vessels, or others lacking in quality, or devoid of all artistic merit or which are mere containers, as also other vessels made from glass, earthenware, clay, or other materials that break easily. This norm is to be applied even as regards metals and other materials that easily rust or deteriorate.[207]
PS: Who is this priest?
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Communion in the Hand is just so wrong!
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| Bishop Schneider distributing Holy Communion...........the right and reverent way! |
From kreuz.net - here is the English translation from one of my fave bishops who deserves the RED HAT more than those who actually have them now.
I have mentioned some names here.
Imagine if that bishop I criticized here before were a cardinal, and then........
Imagine the wacko reaction of the looney tune from down South
Well...he needs a shrink.
Moving on!
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"The more committees, the more proceedings, the more fear of public opinion and the politically correct, the less there will be real reforms in the Church." [Can I hear a very big and long AAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNN!!!]
This is what Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider from Astana in Kazakhstan said on Pentecost Sunday at the Swabian pilgrimage Maria Vesperbild.
For Msgr Schneider it is "more than clear that the Church has experienced a great crisis." [Oooooo....The bishop is also a SECRET SSPX? Ha!]
Communion is Handed out Like Bread
The crisis shows itself in its most gripping in the declining Liturgy, for the prelate: "Today's manner of receiving Communion spread throughout the world is a great wound." [As I said before, it brought more harm than good to the Church.]
The body of Christ has been received "without recognizable sacral gestures of worship".
Hand communion leaves one with the impression as if one is taking a regular meal, which "one puts in ones' own mouth".
The Bible gives a different example of reverence
Msgr Schneider recalled that the angel and prophets in Holy Scripture knelt before Jesus Christ:
"How great is the contrast between today's widely spread form of hand communion with the minimalistic signs of reverence on the one side and the glorious examples in Holy Scripture and the examples of Catholics from the past two thousand years, and also the edifying examples of our own associates, parents, grandparents on the other side."
The example of the Pope
Msgr Schneider recalled then that Pope Benedict XVI has been distributing Holy Communion in the mouth since Corpus Christi of 2008 to the faithful on their knees:
"A true Catholic, and even more a Catholic Bishop, can not ignore the Pope's gestures." [Well unfortunately, the modernists think they need to change and make the Church adapt to the times to make it more Catholic. Right Fr. Percy Bacani and Fr. Genilo?]
That would be a true renewal
For the Auxiliary Bishop it would be a poignant sign of Faith if all the Masses world-wide "were brought back to clear signs of reverence, silence, the holiness of the music". [Can I hear another very big and long AAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNN!!!]
He criticized the supper table very carefully: priests and people should interiorly and exteriorly look together upon Christ -- he said. [That is why we should not be looking at each other across the table like what we do in dinner tables. We should be looking toward the same direction, like in an ALTAR.]
All faithful should "receive the body of Christ self-evidently in the state of sanctifying grace, having gone too confession, and to receive it directly in the mouth with the piety of a child."
In this Msgr Schneider sees "powerful sings of a true renewal in the Church".
In such Masses a God fearing man should fall on his knees and say: "Verily, God is among you" [1Cor 14 24-25]
A Church of Believers -- not of Church-tax payers
The Auxiliary Bishop explained in his sermon an example of reform from Kazakhstan.
In the city of Karaganda the Catholics built one Church every 35 years under the Communists.
The authorities allowed only a lowly, utilitarian building without towers or a cross. [And without bells. Hmmm... that is some modernist nuns and priests do that. When you see your church still missing a bell, you bet a dollar and a dime that whoever is in there hates anything traditional.]
For two years the faithful -- also the elderly and the children --- were occupied with the building.
They dug even in the earth, in order to put the church deeper in order to allow for a larger interior space.
Without Discussions or Commissions
After the completion of construction there was no Bishop far and wide who could have blessed the church.
Actually the parish priest -- he was called Pater Alexander Chira by everyone -- promised the faithful that God would send a Bishop.
On the day of the blessing he appeared himself with a mitre and shepherd's staff in the church. He was a secret Bishop.
According to a woman who witnessed the event, there were even more tears flowing than holy water.
The church blessing is an example for Msgr Schneider "of true reform of the Church without a lot of commissions and discussions." [Take that BEC and PPC! Ha! The Church grew rapidly without these two before!]
I hate to sound like a broken record but it is true: When we lost the Sense of the Sacred that everything in life becomes too mundane, instant noodles - microwaveable type of thing.
Contraception, divorce, abortion, same-sex marriage....there is this thing called SPOILED BRAT ATTITUDE.
You whine when you do not get what you want. You CHANGE THE RULES if it does not suit to your liking and your caprices, even if it were the laws of nature and of God Himself.
That is what is all about Communion in the Hand. Lose the sense of the sacred and you lose the sense of anything right or wrong in the world. It should not come as a surprise then that we have a rise of cases of liturgical abuse in our Church, of priests committing horrible.....good God! Of priests and nuns openly supporting the homosexual agenda, of defying Humane Vitae, Summorum Pontificum, Redemptionis Sacramentum....of being their own church because, well, hey, they say that WE ARE CHURCH. No need for the Pope, the bishops and what the Faith that we received from the Apostles meant. They are OLD, they need to be revised according to the signs of the times. This is the fruit that we are harvesting for having Communion in the Hand.
It was never a practice of the ancient Church contrary to what these liturgists keep on referring to.
How could thousands of years of receiving Communion on the tongue and kneeling both in the Western and Eastern Liturgical Traditions be so wrong? Both the East and West NEVER EVER HAD Communion done on the hand and standing.
I dare the supporters of this method of Holy Communion to cite me the benefits of this type of reception of Holy Communion and I will cite an actual BAD and EVIL instance why it should be stopped, ASAP!
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PS: It is just so frustrating to see so-called traditionalists and apologists receive Holy Communion on the Hand. So frustrating! Put your money where your mouth is! Be the example of how it is to be FAITHFUL. You do not win souls by just winning an apologetics debate!
Friday, June 1, 2012
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