tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98313952012-02-16T17:17:33.053-08:00To encourage the use of the Tridentine Latin Mass in the bay area and San Francisco. To be a resouce and discussion area for Catholic thought, culture and liturgy. To encourage and help in sacred music and liturgy the preservation of the rich history and customs of the Roman Catholic Church.A Curious Catholichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02095189855961582640noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9831395.post-58854711635181592912007-03-18T13:55:00.000-07:002007-03-18T14:08:47.034-07:00

Read Entire LetterAs a part of this letter, the Holy Father, as is no surprise to anyone, encouraged Latin and Gregorian Chant. This letter also represents the thoughts of a synod of bishops. He also tries to correct some mistaken ideas about the mass and what "active participation" means. This later being one of the most misunderstood ideas in the Church since the Second Vatican Council and

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From Inside the VaticanAll who are interested in the Church's liturgy are wondering if the Pope will soon issue a motu proprio allowing the celebration of the 'Old Mass,' and (if he does), what it will say. One of the Vatican’s liturgists sheds light on the Pope’s plansTuesday, February 27, 2007By Anthony ValleANTHONY VALLE: Your Excellency, you have been generous in giving several interviews to

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Read Full Story POPE BENEDICT XVI plans to bring back the celebration of mass in Latin, overriding a rare show of protest from senior cardinals.With a papal decree said to be imminent, Catholic publishers in Rome are preparing new editions of the Latin missal. They have sent proofs to Vatican authorities for approval, the Rome newspaper La Repubblica reported yesterday.Vatican sources said

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See articleVatican, Jun. 23 (CWNews.com) Vatican, Jun. 23 (CWNews.com) - The secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship has conceded some "negative results" of liturgical changes since Vatican II, and voiced his support for reform of the post-conciliar liturgy, in an interview with the I Media news agency. Archbishop Albert Malcom Ranjith Patabendige Don told I Media that the Council

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The new Secretary for the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, gave this first public speech since his appointment. (This comes from Sandro Magister) It is a speech on the occasion of the publication in Italian of Father Lang's book, "Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer."The Ignatius

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"On Friday, March 31, 2006, ChurchWerks.com hosted an online chat session with Cardinal Roger Mahony from the main Exhibit Hall at the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, Calif. Here is an excerpt:See conversationJoe: Hello Cardinal. With the growing interest in traditional worship of the Catholic Church are we going to see a more generous use of the Traditional Latin Mass?Cardinal

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This was an original commentary on the ConferenceProvidence brings Bishop Rifan to Una Voce conferenceBrian MershonNovember 30, 2005From the December 1, 2005, edition of The WandererPROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amidst buzz in Catholic circles about the possibility of an imminent freeing of the classical Roman rite of Mass, Bishop Fernando Rifan offered a Solemn Pontifical Mass from the throne and delivered

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I am really sorry I missed the Una Voce Conference in Providence. Here are two articles that talk about the conference. Here are Bishop Bruskowitz and Bishop Corrada talking about the Tridentine mass and the way in which the Novus Ordo mass can be improved over time. (note: this does not constitute an endorsement of the site "renewamerica" I am only referring to these articles) Bishops

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The Rainbow Sash movement distributed a press release saying it wants to disrupt the mass again and use the Holy Eucharist as a tool to gain attention. I think they have a right to their own opinions but it is wrong to impose themselves on others at holy mass and create a sacrilege by misusing the most holy gift and possession of the church for their own political use. I thought it might be fun

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Here was a great post about the8 Habits of Highly Effective Bishops1. A bishop must be personally holy.2. A bishop must promote and defend the authentic Catholic Faith.3. A bishop must be committed to Catholic education.4. A bishop must work to strengthen the Catholic family.5. A bishop must foster vocations.6. A bishop must love the Mass.7. A bishop must be willing and able to start from scratch

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See Article"According to the Official Catholic Directory of 2005, the authoritative guide to the Catholic Church in the U.S., there are 121 active diocesan priests in Lincoln and 89,236 Catholics.Those numbers indicate there is one priest for every 737 Catholics, which is far greater than the total national statistic of one priest for every 4,723 Catholics. The New York Times reported Oct. 7 that

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Propositions from the Synod"Proposition 36 suggests that in international celebrations the Mass be said in Latin, apart from the readings, the homily, and the Prayers of the Faithful, and that priests be trained from the seminary to use Latin prayers as well as Gregorian Chant. It also recommends that the faithful be educated to do so as well.John Allen's originalThis reminds me of a conversation

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Bishop in Fargo says he will deny Funeral rites to Catholics who attend St. Pius X Latin MassIn contrast, this is how our current Pope Benedict XVI viewed these people:The Holy Father (then Cardinal Ratzinger) wrote in 2002:"For fostering a true consciousness in liturgical matters, it is also important that the proscription against the form of liturgy in valid use up to 1970 should be lifted.

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Two things to keep in mind when reading this articleThe Melkite Patriarch is right and wrong. Communion in the hand existed but it was the exception not the rule. St. Basil admitted it for times of persecution but there is no evidence that it was a universal custom in the church. The use and abuse of ancient history as it relates to the liturgy is amusing. People with no real evidence imagine

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...but new music? Attn: Peter, Paul and Mary: The idea is to remove profane musicWorking Paper Suggests Return to More Prayerful HymnsVATICAN CITY, JULY 22, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The working paper of the next Synod of Bishops suggests that "songs used at present" in the liturgy should "be reconsidered."The proposal appears in No. 60 of the working document for the assembly of bishops from all over

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Cardinal Keeler will boycott the Loyola University Graduation because Rudolf Guliani is the commencement speaker. I am not sure I agree with this. Rudolf Guliani maybe pro-choice but he is not against people holding pro-life views. I think that is what is most important. Mother Theresa was booed at Harvard but she was allowed to speak. Here is an excerpt from an interview with her and Time

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Archbishop Levada has been appointed the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This is good news. I am sure he is glad to go even though I am sure he will miss San Francisco. We wish him well in his new endeavor. I have only met him twice. But both times he seemed somewhat distant and more than anything diplomatic. But always seemed like he was in a hurry to get

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How Does Your Church Baptize? Archbishop John Bathersby of Brisbane, Australia commented to the press that baptisms performed at St. Mary's Church for the past 10 years were invalid and re-baptism would be needed. This was according to canonical advice he received. The Archbishop said, "The words of scripture can't be adjusted to suit our own taste. The next thing we'll be getting rid of is

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This nice prayer for the Voice of the Faithful seems to have been answered. That was a quick election in which a pope was elected with what reports to be 80% of the Cardinal's votes. The Holy Spirit gave the church the leader we need to bring us all closer to Christ. Thank You VOTFA Litany for the FaithfulAt the time of the ConclaveR: God of Wisdom, God of Mercy, God of Justice, hear our

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This is a review Cardinal Ratzinger wrote Versus Deum per Iesum Christum. Versus Deum per Iesum Christum“The latest direction of liturgical action, never expressed to such an extent in the outer forms, is the same for the priest and for the people: towards the Lord”. The introduction of the dean of the Sacred College to the book of Uwe Michael Langby Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Now Pope Benedict

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I think it is generally unfair to characterize opposing viewpoints by their most extreme adherents or the most absurd end of their spectrum. Therefore, the following should be read in jest, even though the authors are quite serious. This is from the "Open Conclave" movement of feminists called Woman Church Convergence" Press Release of Women-Church ConvergenceApril 19, 2005 Women-Church

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See original article"En route to Rome, Clinton told reporters the pope “centralized authority in the papacy again and enforced a very conservative theological doctrine. There will be debates about that. The number of Catholics increased by 250 million on his watch. But the numbers of priests didn't. He's like all of us - he may have a mixed legacy.”I wonder if Clinton realizes that the growth in

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Looking at the news and the millions of people around the globe mourning the Pope and the encomiums filing in from everyone, I can't help but to think that maybe the Nobel Prize committee made a mistake when they did not give the Holy Father the Nobel Peace Prize this past time. See storyWhat struck me was Senator Dodd's statement that he met the Pope in 1983 and gave him a message from Lech

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last week had disrupted the flow of stuff. more tommorrow. Let us Pray for the Holy Father who is deathly ill at this point. Latest News from Bloomberg.

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As heard on the NewsHourJudicial or political interventionJIM LEHRER: In other words, the judge in Florida should not be resolving this; there should be a federal law of some kind that would resolve this?DAVID BROOKS: Right. And I would say building off the abortion example, I mean, I personally believe if we had settled the abortion issue politically rather than judicially, we would have

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See ArticleNot surprising since they have created a situation in which millions children have died since 1973 in their mother's womb. Not that it is all their fault for they have done what many people have wanted and each adult mother made her own choice. But what is the life of one woman to them. It is different with God. So we must pray for them. Some of the Democrat leadership have

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articleBy Jessica FargenWednesday, March 23, 2005 - Updated: 04:47 AM EST"Defying the wishes of the archbishop, a shuttered Quincy church is holding a Catholic Easter Mass in a Protestant church and a married priest will preside. The pain of a first Christmas without their neighborhood church was too much to bear for Star of the Sea parishioners in Quincy, said Sean Glennon, one of the

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But the outrageous nature of the Schiavo case and the very idea that a mother could be arrested for exercising her legal right over her 14 year old daughter, while a woman would kidnap a girl her son got pregnant and take her to an abortion clinic. Now this goes a little too far. This is not the scenario that the predictors of the perfect society had when they told us that abortion was to

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Original storyTuesday, March 22, 2005"By Joyce Morrison, Southern IL News CorrespondentFor legal reasons, the names of the family and the 14-year old girl that are the subject of this story have been withheld at this time.GRANITE CITY - A Sothern Illinois woman was arrested last week (March 17) after trying to intervene on behalf of her 14-year old daughter's effort to have an abortion. The girl

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For many years I have attended Holy Thursday services where the feet of women and children were washed, instead of men only, which is the rule of the church as stated in Paschales Solemnitatis ."51. The washing of the feet of chosen men which, according to tradition, is performed on this day, represents the service and charity of Christ, who came "not to be served, but to serve.[58] This

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One of the things I have noticed in happening at a couple of churches in the Bay area is the habit of diminishing elevation of the host and chalice during the mass. The rules call for the priest elevate the host for adoration after the consecration of the bread and then the wine, and at the per ipsum "through Him, with Him and in Him..." and the great "Amen." I can see why there is a temptation

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Holy Thursday LetterThis is such a beautiful letter. Reiterating many Eucharistic truths of the faith - transubstantiation, sacrifice, in persona christe, Eucharistic adoration, etc... "I will take as my inspiration the words of Eucharistic consecration, which we say every day "in persona Christi" in order to make present on our altars the sacrifice made once and for all on Calvary. These

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Pope Appeals to Priests to Respect LiturgyCardinal Comments on Holy Thursday LetterVATICAN CITY, MARCH 18, 2005 (Zenit.org).- In his annual letter to priests, John Paul II appealed for respect of liturgical norms in the celebration of the Eucharist.When presenting the letter to the press today, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, commented that the use

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Today the reading at mass was about the relationship between Jesus and the Father. This is told within the context of Jesus' about to be stoned for blasphemy because he said "I am the son of God."John 10: 31 - 42The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?" The Jews answered him, "It is not

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From the writers of Gather Us In comes a new song just in time for the scism of the Anglican Church over the issue of homosexuality. A song that explicitly refers to sexual orientation in a opening mass song. Now I know when God created us in his image, 'male and female He created them.' My Bible is missing the 'gay and straight He created them.' "Not that it matters." It is just sad to see

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Get LA Conference Handbook here

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LA Diocese Sponsored Conference seeks to understand "Blessing" of Gay PriestsI dislike this topic in general and avoid it like the plague. But it is amazing that these people still do not get that the "scandal" was about gays in the Priesthood, more than pedophilia. See Article on John Jay Study" Mr. Bennett, a review board member, blamed seminary officials and bishops for not flagging

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Fill in this online form This will help us collect names so that we can eventually submitt them to the Bishop to get a Indult Tridentine Latin Mass in San Francisco.Cheers

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See Card

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See Buffalo News articleInteresting that the Diocese of Buffalo would sponsor a speaker who believes that the visible structure of the Church is wrong or worse:" The main problem affecting the contemporary church, Lakeland said, is that it operates out of a structure of oppression. "One thing that's clear is that the laity has no official role in leadership or governance," Lakeland said. "I'm not

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See article on Kneeling and genuflectAt St. Ignatius this weekend I was gratified that the priest invited people to kneel before the Holy and Blessed Eucharist at the Ecce Agnus Dei. This is a change and I think it may be an implementation of the new regulations in the Diocese. I remember a conversation with the Pastor, who is a great Priest, regarding this topic and he told me that the Diocese

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St. Francis on Eucharistic AdorationSt. Francis of Assisi was a great example to the Church today on the witness of Eucharistic Adoration and the necessity of kneeling before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Here is a man who was one of the greatest saints in the history of the Church as well as a great contributor to Western Society in general. He wrote a poem:Priest with Chalice Let

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BY KIRK KRAMER Northwest Arkansas Times Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 Original ArticleRalph Stanley singing "Angel Band," the strains of "Amazing Grace" and "Just as I am," often sung at the altar call, are the sort of sacred music most often heard in Northwest Arkansas, given the region’s deep associations with evangelical Protestantism.But for some people in the area, the ancient form of

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OC Bishop Doesn't Want Tridentine Mass AnymoreThe Catholic Church's great divideBy STEVEN GREENHUT Senior editorial writer and columnist,The Orange County Registersgreenhut@ocregister.comEven readers without a trace of interest in Roman Catholic liturgical and theological debates might want to follow an ongoing controversy in the Diocese of Orange surrounding the future of the Tridentine

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Original Article at Chiesa.com The former is a theologian and cardinal, the latter is superior general of the Jesuits; both have the reputation of being progressivist. But their most recent declarations are a cold shower for the Church's left wing. The effect of the conclave by Sandro Magister ROMA, March 8, 2005 – Within the Vatican curia, only one

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15-September-2000 -- Catholic World News Brief ST. PETERSBURG DIOCESE ENDS PERPETUAL EXPOSITION OF EUCHARIST ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, (CWNews.com) - The Diocese of St. Petersburg has issued new guidelines which, on September 1, ended the practice of perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in

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Bishop Olmstead of Phoenix - who just allowed an indult mass to be said. See first post.Knees to love ChristPart One of TwoKnees symbolize both strength and humility. Athletes use strong knees to run for touchdowns in football and to block shots and to slam-dunk in basketball. Knees also bend in adoration of the Eucharistic King and in recognition of the grandeur and majesty of the Most High

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I am no one to judge but it doesn't mke sense to me that a guy can abuse his wife and take another girlfriend and have two kids and then the bishop says that his in-laws are the problem not him.

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Father Demetrios Serfes -St. John (Maximovitch) of San Francisco This is a great San Franciscan. An Orthodox Bishop who was a saint with great love for the Holy Divine Liturgy and the care of the sick and orphans.

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If I am not mistaken that looks like a beer picher and a big basket. ...and I quote:Redemptionis Sacramentum states:[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. The Bishops’ Conferences have the faculty to decide whether it is appropriate, once their decisions have been given the

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Catholic L.A. An interesting blog with our neighbor parish down the coast. I generally agree with some of their thoughts although I am unconfortable saying anything about it because 1. it is not my dioceses; 2. I am not Card. Mahoney's boss.

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Los Angeles Religious Education Congress It could be worse we could have this!

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Return to Main PageAs much as do not share most of the opinions of M. Matt's The Remnant, this is a fine article is about a Catholic who's last wish was to have a Indult TLM for his funeral. Something well within his rights as a Catholic.The bishop of New Ulm said that to allow the man's last wish to be buried using the Funeral Mass of 1962 would constitute an act of personal devotion, which is

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www.chiesa

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CruxNews.com This is an old article but it shows that these things work

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San Francisco Faith | April 1998 News: "YOUNG CATHOLICS SHOULD NOT ATTEND THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS, according to Bishop DuMaine. In a letter to San Jose Catholics rejecting a petition for a weekly Traditional Latin Mass, DuMaine wrote that the Latin Mass indult is intended only for a dying generation: 'the Holy Father's intent was to give comfort to those who grew up with the old forms (as I

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HAMPTON ROADS News (Printable Version): "Latin Mass attracting a younger generation of parishionersBy STEVEN G. VEGH, The Virginian-PilotDecember 21, 2003 Last updated: 7:41 PMYet Sunday mornings find youthful faces throughout the church. A steady trickle of newcomers in their 20s, 30s and early 40s has boosted St. Benedicts membership to about 200, leading it to add a second Sunday service and

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Yahoo! News - Last of Children to See Fatima Virgin Dies at 97 She lived long and inspired many people. One reason that it is important is that those who use Vatican II and the Novus Ordo against the Church try to use Lucia and Fatima. Now they can no longer do this.

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Cardinal Alfons Stickler

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Cardinal Stickler's Tridentine Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY

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Changing the Catholic Mass Pope Pius XII on the "Suicide of altering the faith in her liturgy" Msgr. Eugene Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, made the astonishing prophecy on the future upheavel in the Church: "I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering

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On Active Participation in the Liturgy This is a wonderful statement by the Holy Father to the American Bishops. "Conscious participation calls for the entire community to be properly instructed in the mysteries of the liturgy, lest the experience of worship degenerate into a form of ritualism. But it does not mean a constant attempt within the liturgy itself to make the implicit explicit,

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The History of the Roman Catholic Mass This is a good history of the Roman Mass from Wikopedia.

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Why I returned to the Latin Mass: a personal account (A paper delivered at the Annual Conference of the Campion Fellowship of Australia, "Caritas Cristi", Sydney, 28-30 December 1990.) by Gary Scarrabelotti * WHY have you gone back to the old latin Mass? That is a question which I have been asked many times recently by many a puzzled inquirer. Not infrequently the most perplexed have been

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Return to the East? Online Edition - Vol. V, No. 8: November 1999 [Re]Turn to the East? A young priest asks if it is time to consider a change in practice by Father Thomas Kocik In her book The Desolate City, Anne Roche Muggeridge offers this trenchant proposal: If an angel allowed me one suggestion as to what more than anything else would most quickly restore the sense of the sacred to

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Ad Orientum et Versus Populum Ad Orientem et Versus Populum Not only Westwards but also Eastwards A friendly word from a high-church Evangelical to Anglo- Catholics & Evangelicals Before Vatican II most if not all celebration of the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church involved both the celebrant and congregation facing the East. Since Vatican II much but not all celebration of the Mass in the

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- Welcome to the Tablet The vanishing Catholic intellectual Alain Woodrow The French, ever proud of their great thinkers, complain they have all but disappeared today. In Church circles it is the same. But are those fine minds out there, simply biding their time, waiting for the right moment? IN ENGLAND, “intellectual” is a dirty word; in France, being described as such is akin to

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This was written in 1978 in the San Francisco Examiner. Interesting that it is the year of the three Popes and before I knew anything really about the mass. Yearning for the Latin Mass by Kevin Starr Courtesy of the San Francisco "Examiner" A goodly number of pseudo-reformist movements these days consists of powerful elites telling the majority of people what to do. Elites grab control of

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FT January 2005: Opinion Bob Casey’s Revenge William McGurn Copyright (c) 2004 First Things 149 (January 2005): 6-8. I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot. So said John Kerry during the presidential campaign. Judging from the news stories following the election, many of his supporters appear to have had the same reaction—with no sense that the condescension inherent in their candidate’s

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cavendish This is an interesting article, here is a selection from the last paragraph, "Pius V's short-lived missal and Quo primum were the first instance of a pope excercising authority over local bishops with regard to the liturgy for a major section of the Church. Before this time each diocesan bishop was responsible for what went on in his own territory. Quo primum was aimed at bishops, not

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ZENIT News Agency 1946 Document on Jewish Children Tells a Different Story Undercuts Tale That Vatican Tried to Keep Them From Their Families ROME, JAN. 12, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The latest in a series of accusations about Pope Pius XII's behavior vis-à-vis the Jews and Nazi persecution seems to have little basis in fact. The latest round began Dec. 28 when an Italian newspaper published

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Thoughts on the New Rite of Mass

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Oneness-English: "Who would have thought that the Archdiocese of san francisco would have this on their site. BLESSING OUR ONENESS We greet you Spirit of the North. Teach us to plant our feet securely on the earth and to see things as they really are, that the coming of your Spirit may find us standing firm in integrity. Teach us, Spirit of the North, in the solitude of winter, to wait in

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Traditional Latin Mass

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Top Israel Rabbi, Indian Catholic Bishop, Anglican and Muslim Leaders Agree Tsunami is Warning from God

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I have noticed for many years the practice of gathering people around the altar during the entire Eucharistic consecration. At St. Ignatius, in San Francisco, they gather all of the children around the altar. I know that they believe they are doing this for a good reason. The kids can see what is going on better than if they were in the pews with their parents. However, it is very

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Mass in Latin is back

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It was great. There were many people there. The music was wonderful Gregorian Chant. The only thing I would change is to have more than one priest distributing communion. Also, becuase there are no altar rails, there were a limited number of pridues used that were lined up, about eight of them. They seem to have a well organized community of people. There were plenty of missals for people to use

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The Mass of All Ages 

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