Edit: WOW! He must be really bitter he wasn't appointed to Milan.
Whoever distances themselves from the child holocaust, is a "fundamentalist" according to the Old Liberal Curial Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.
(kreuz.net) The Austrian philosopher Joseph Seifert (67) is a noteworthy thinker and a member of the 'Pontifical Academy for Life'.
At the beginning of May he protested in an open letter against the February General Congregation of the 'Academie'.
There were several speakers who were propagating the immoral artificial insemination. Other praised the early abortion anti-baby pill.
Stridently Anti-Clerical Vocabulary
Cardinal Giancarlo Ravasi -- the President of the Pontifical Council of Culture -- silenced Seifert as if he were a schoolboy.
In the usual tone of anti-clerical slanderers, he denounced the renowned philosopher indirectly as a "fundamentalist".
It is necessary to have a "precise indentity" -- he explained according to reports from US-Website 'catholicculture.org' on the 11th of May.
It was then he proceeded to say the opposite: "This identity is serius and well founded, not simply fundamentalist."
The Fear of the Old Liberals
The Cardinal defended against the opinion of critics, that the Academy should give no forum to the enemies of humanityh.
He supported them with a "fear for dialog".
This stems from the fact that a person can not be in the situation to defend and justify his own principles: "For that reason he will not listen to others".
The Vatican Doesn't Need Any More Enemies of the Church
There was no understanding of the scandalous statements that the Cardinal had for Belgian moral theologian, Prelate Michel Schooyans. He is in any case, a member of the Academy.
Speakers in the Vatican were invited to have an opportunity to spea against Catholic teaching, "to refute the respective Church teaching on human life."
"When one begins compromising at the Vatican, then a process is initiated which confuses public opinion.
Link to kreuz.net....
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Last Minute Sabotage Attempts --- A Few Days Before Benedict's Decision
(Vatican/Menzigen) The scenario is known. There have been attempts of sabotage in the last months as the Society of St. Pius X and the Holy See reconcile. Attempts which have shown themselves to come from both sides. One yesterday from the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung belonged to a public statement by Cardinal Kasper just as much as the deliberate publication of some internal correspondence between the General Superior of the Society, Msgr Fellay, and the other three Bishops of the Society.
The statements of the Curial Cardinal Kasper seem more of a rear-guard action, which coming to the resigned understanding of what can no longer be prevented, but at least to make some signals to the other side of the Church, which is skeptically disinclined to a reconciliation which at least he and probably also other high princes of the Church are of the same opinion.
The indiscretions from the series of letters had brought to understanding that there are some intriguing elements at work, which want as much to damage the Society as they do the Catholic Church. It may be the case that these intentional violations of confidence may be led back to the group which was already criticizing Msgr. Fellay sharply in Autumn of 2011 as he asked Msgr Richard Williamson to cease from abusing him.
The mandate and responsibility for the reconciliation talks with Rome in the Society are the General Superior and his two assistants. They have accorded a decision and in any case immediately sent Msgr Fellay's answer to Pope Benedict XVI on April 17th.
In the mean time there are only a few days till the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith will deliberate on the most recent modified "Doctrinal Preamble" proposed by Msgr Fellay on May 17th . Then Pope Benedict XVI as generally expected will make known his decision within the course of the month.
Then it will be shown who in the Society will turn from the path of schism to reconciliation with Peter, while for the greater majority of the Society the "bigger task and challenge" will then begin, as Msgr Fellay described it. That not a few high members of the Church would not be unhappy, if Msgr Richard Williamson remained "outside", is generally known. It is also known that Pope Benedict XVI, however, doesn't think in political categories.
Link to original katholisches...
The statements of the Curial Cardinal Kasper seem more of a rear-guard action, which coming to the resigned understanding of what can no longer be prevented, but at least to make some signals to the other side of the Church, which is skeptically disinclined to a reconciliation which at least he and probably also other high princes of the Church are of the same opinion.
The indiscretions from the series of letters had brought to understanding that there are some intriguing elements at work, which want as much to damage the Society as they do the Catholic Church. It may be the case that these intentional violations of confidence may be led back to the group which was already criticizing Msgr. Fellay sharply in Autumn of 2011 as he asked Msgr Richard Williamson to cease from abusing him.
The mandate and responsibility for the reconciliation talks with Rome in the Society are the General Superior and his two assistants. They have accorded a decision and in any case immediately sent Msgr Fellay's answer to Pope Benedict XVI on April 17th.
In the mean time there are only a few days till the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith will deliberate on the most recent modified "Doctrinal Preamble" proposed by Msgr Fellay on May 17th . Then Pope Benedict XVI as generally expected will make known his decision within the course of the month.
Then it will be shown who in the Society will turn from the path of schism to reconciliation with Peter, while for the greater majority of the Society the "bigger task and challenge" will then begin, as Msgr Fellay described it. That not a few high members of the Church would not be unhappy, if Msgr Richard Williamson remained "outside", is generally known. It is also known that Pope Benedict XVI, however, doesn't think in political categories.
Link to original katholisches...
Thursday, May 10, 2012
"There Are No Doctrinal Obstacles to Reconciliiation" -- Opus Dei Bishop
Msgr Arrieta, a Spanish Curial Bishop belongs to Opus Dei, and spoke last Monday on the 7th of May in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, according to the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique. Among other themes which Msgr Arrieta were the canon law questions related to the reception of Anglicans into the Catholic Church, who were seeking full union with Rome and the case of the former scandal Bishop Vangluwe of Bruges.
Msgr Arrieta is directly connected to with the reconciliation discussion of the Holy See with the Society. He is personally involved with the canonical regulation and with that the future canonical status of the Society.
The Spanish Bishop has been Secretary of the Papal Council for Legal Texsts since 2008. In February of 2012 he administered the lower orders and that of subdeacon to the Society of St. Peter in Wigratzbad.
Link to katholisches…
Evelyn Waugh on Picasso
18 December 1945
Sir, -- Strong tea with what Mr. Dunlop describes as “a shot” of vodka is indeed a nauseating draught to those who are used to the fine wines of Titian and Velasquez. M. Saurat hs the root of the matter but I think he does not draw the right conclusion: “mankind is disillusioned with itself,” realizes it is incapable of the great feats of its ancestors, but instead of patiently relearning the forgotten lessons turns meanly towards “something new.”
Senor Picasso’s painting cannot be intelligently discussed in the terms used of the civilized masters. Our confusion is due to his admirers’ constant use of an irrelevant aesthetic vocabulary. He can only be treated as crooners are treated by their devotees. In the United States the adolescents, speaking of music, do not ask: “What do you think So-and-so?” They say: “Does So-and-so send you?” Modern art, whether it is Nazi oratory, band leadership, or painting, aims at a mesmeric trick and achieves either total success or total failure. The large number of otherwise cultured and intelligent people who fail victims to Senor Picasso are not posers. They are genuinely ‘sent.’ It may seem preposterous to those of us who are immune, but the process is apparently harmless. They emerge from their ecstasy as cultured and intelligent as ever. We may even envy them their experience. But do not let us confuse it with the sober and elevating happiness which we derive from the great masters.
His letter to the Times was believed to be a hoax by his friend Robin Campbell who wrote to challenge Mr. Waugh and to discover if he were really engaging in, or the party to a clever hoax.
My letter to The Times newspaper was far from being a hoax. It was an attempt to defend friends such as yourself from the charge of depravity and affectation. I believe that we all have a secondarly and impure aesthetic sense. Tennyson delighted in smutty doggerel. Rushkin in Kate Greenaway, Betjeman in chapels and so on. I am keenly excited by 19th century book-illumination. I suggested that Picasso-addicts were similarly moved – that the excitement was harmless. Today I am not so sure. You have no doubt read Mr. Hobson’s letter printed this morning. He claims to have suffered the Aristotelian purge and further says that he emerged from Picasso’s exhibition ‘dazed’ and in a mood in which he could ‘hardly bear to look’ at the masterpieces of the middle ages and the renaissance. An appalling and significant admission. Mr. Hobson’s state is, of course, the very antithesis of purgation which must make all the perceptions sharper, the sense that the grass is greener and the birds singing more sweetly. An experience which dazes and leaves one blind to other beauties must be brutish.
To return to your letter. One must distinguish between uses of ‘new’. There is the Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art. Every work of art is thus something new. Just as within the moral framework there is space for infinite variations of behavior, so within the aesthetic framework. Most so-called innovators have in fact thought themselves revivalists, appealing to an earlier and purer virtue against what they consider the corruption of their immediate predecessors.
Picasso and his kind are attempting something new in the sense of something different in kind. Titian might have thought Frith intolerably common but he would have recognized that he was practicing the same art as himself. He could not think this of Picasso. Chaucer, Henry James and very humbly, myself are practicing the same art. Miss Stein is not. She is outside the world-order in which words have a precise and ascertainable meaning and sentences a logical structure. She is aesthetically in the same position as, theologically, a mortal-sinner who has put himself outside the world order of God’s mercy.
Picasso fails to be an artist in two essentials. First, in communication. He is hit-or-miss. Nothing is more ludicrous than the posturing of a Svengali who fails to put his Trillby under. The only criticisms valid for him are: ‘Ooh, doesn’t he make you feel funny inside’ or ‘the fellow’s a charlatan’. You do not hear people say: ‘I think the hand is coarsely painted, but what an exquisite angel’s head in the left hand corner. And what a lovely landscape through the window.’
He fails, it seems, in the content. Here I must judge at second hand because he fails entire to put me under, but his addicts tell me his message is one of Chaos and Despair. That is not the message of art. If it were any issue of the Daily Mirror would be a supreme aesthetic achievement. You cannot excuse him by saying it is the message of the age and at the same time deny that the age is decadent. Goya, incidentally, was an exact contemporary of Goethe. [Waugh was responding to Robin Campbell who suggested that Goya’s times were challenging as are our own, and therefore did not create a representational art.]
It is entirely historical to believe that cultures decline and expire. I believe Western culture to be in rapid decay and that Picasso and Stein are glaring symptoms. You have no authority for saying so jauntily that ‘there are a few million years yet’. It is one of the determining conditions of our existence that it may end at any moment, individually or generally but were it true, your assumption would have no bearing on the probability of a new ice-age. Incidentally again, I believe the sin the West is dying of to be Sloth not Wraith as is popularly assumed. It requires constant effort to keep within the world order and our contemporaries are too lazy to make the effort.
Poor Beachcomber, a man of high principle, a poet manqué, whom and impudent marriage has drawn into drudgery. I shall not have his good reason if I devlop his few defects. I would greatly prefer to have his virtues than Peter Watson’s.
Excerpted from: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, Penguin Books, edited by Mark Amory, 1980
Bishop Tells "Catholic" School They Can't Honor Gomorrist Group
Edit: When aren't "school officials" not clueless. Perhaps in earlier times they were more afraid of the clergy that hired them, now they're as absolutely fearless and insufferably proud as they are clueless. Fortunately, Iowa Bishop Martin Amos of Davenport, knows the Catholic Faith better than they do and stepped in.
The way the anti-Catholic Washington Post tells the story, you'd think that the Bishop was evil incarnate. They seem astounded that a Catholic Bishop would do his job. Many don't, but not in Davenport.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Overruling [clueless] school officials, a Catholic bishop in Iowa said Monday he would not let a group that promotes equal rights for gays and lesbians [Gomorrists] present a college scholarship to an openly gay student during an upcoming award ceremony. [Arguably he should have been expelled and the administrators dismissed, but, brick by brick.]
Bishop Martin Amos in Davenport said the Eychaner Foundation would not be allowed to present the Matthew Shepard Scholarship to Keaton Fuller during the May 20 ceremony at Prince of Peace Catholic School in Clinton, saying the group’s support for gay rights [why even concede that such a thing as gay "rights" even exists?] conflicts with church doctrine.
The announcement comes after a school official signed a document last month that promised to let a representative of the foundation’s scholarship committee present the award to Fuller.
In an open letter released Monday, Fuller said he’s never felt so “invalidated and unaccepted” [Then don't go to schools where your behavior is challenged and questioned.] as he did when he heard that news last week. He said he and his family were asking the school to reverse its decision, and he launched an online petition Monday that was signed by hundreds of supporters within its first hours.
Link to Washington Post...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Great Kapellmeister Cardinal Bartolucci is 95
The Liturgical reform of the 60s was accomplished by dry people: "I repeat >>dry people<<. I knew them."
(kreuz.net) Yesterday Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci 95th birthday.
The Cardinal was odained on December of 1939 in the Archdiocese of Florence.
From 1957 to 1997 he Directed the choir of the Sistine Chapel, who were ever younger, singing during the Papal Masses.
In 1997 he was defenestrated as lifetime Director by Pope John Paul II (+2005).
He learned of this during the naming of his successor.
After that, the dissmissed one sank into himself.
He survived John Paul II.
Indeed, the then Monseignor busied himself after that as a composure. His works fill more than forty volumes.
In 2006 he directed in the Sistine Chapel for a choral piece written for Pope Benedict with the latin title, "Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto" -- let us pray for our Benedict.
The Pope raised the church musician to Cardinal in November 2010.
Sentimentalism and Craving for Change
The Cardinal is has never once in his priestly life presided over a new Mass.
He doesn't have a high opinion of the alleged liturgical reform of the 60s in the last century.
It had been made by dry people, he explained in a summer 2009 interview: "I repeat: dry. I knew them."
The liturgical reform had been a "fashion":
"Everyone talked about it, everyone >>renewed<<, everyone wanted to be a little pope in the pursuit of sentimentalism and craving for change.
Circus Instead of Liturgy
Cardinal Bartolucci was a critic of the Liturgical decline during the pontificate of John Paul II.
The papal ceremonies and dances with drums had contributed to the process of disintegration.
Just before once such papal Mass Msgr. Bartolucci left it with the words: "You can call me when the circus is gone."
The Third Eldest Cardinal
Cardinal Bartolucci is numbered among the older than 80 year old honored men, who because of special servicecs to the Church, were raised to the purple.
Currently he is the third eldest Cardinal in the Church.
Older than he are two of his countrymen Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini (95) and Ersilio Cardinal Tonini (97).
Link to kreuz....
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(kreuz.net) Yesterday Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci 95th birthday.
The Cardinal was odained on December of 1939 in the Archdiocese of Florence.
From 1957 to 1997 he Directed the choir of the Sistine Chapel, who were ever younger, singing during the Papal Masses.
In 1997 he was defenestrated as lifetime Director by Pope John Paul II (+2005).
He learned of this during the naming of his successor.
After that, the dissmissed one sank into himself.
He survived John Paul II.
Indeed, the then Monseignor busied himself after that as a composure. His works fill more than forty volumes.
In 2006 he directed in the Sistine Chapel for a choral piece written for Pope Benedict with the latin title, "Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto" -- let us pray for our Benedict.
The Pope raised the church musician to Cardinal in November 2010.
Sentimentalism and Craving for Change
The Cardinal is has never once in his priestly life presided over a new Mass.
He doesn't have a high opinion of the alleged liturgical reform of the 60s in the last century.
It had been made by dry people, he explained in a summer 2009 interview: "I repeat: dry. I knew them."
The liturgical reform had been a "fashion":
"Everyone talked about it, everyone >>renewed<<, everyone wanted to be a little pope in the pursuit of sentimentalism and craving for change.
Circus Instead of Liturgy
Cardinal Bartolucci was a critic of the Liturgical decline during the pontificate of John Paul II.
The papal ceremonies and dances with drums had contributed to the process of disintegration.
Just before once such papal Mass Msgr. Bartolucci left it with the words: "You can call me when the circus is gone."
The Third Eldest Cardinal
Cardinal Bartolucci is numbered among the older than 80 year old honored men, who because of special servicecs to the Church, were raised to the purple.
Currently he is the third eldest Cardinal in the Church.
Older than he are two of his countrymen Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini (95) and Ersilio Cardinal Tonini (97).
Link to kreuz....
Baltimore Archdiocese Apparently Makes no Provisions to Protect Spiritual Legacy
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It is legitimately feared that these objects will fall into the hands of those who have no respect for them. Especially since calls to the Diocese reveal that the staff has very little understanding of either the significance of sacred objects or their proper disposal and sale. We'll quote again the appropriate canon: [cf. Western Catholic Reporter]
The law of the Church (canon 1171) indicates that blessed objects and those used for worship should not be put to inappropriate use, even if privately owned. These objects should be transferred to the diocesan offices where they may be given to another parish or otherwise properly disposed of.In the seventies, there was a lot of church building and not so helpful renovation. Now, after years of abortion on demand and a birthrate barely above replacement, Catholic institutions are being closed down and sold off. Of course, the abuse-hoax doesn't help. Also, many churches were denuded of much of their sacral character in this time period, as a new vogue of trendy ritualistic minimalism and a spirit of experimentation and curiosity took over the scene.
It needs to be said that no other institution, religious or otherwise, has had to bear the legal burdens the Catholic Church has. Sex abuse scandals against public schools just don't get the attention, for obvious reasons. Apparently, even the large publicly owned school districts can become targets for such litigation.
Litigation aside, Catholic Diocese are selling their properties and along with them, the sacred objects. Unfortunately, these are not likely to be disposed of properly. They are likely to be sold to secular parties who likely as no are eager to use the objects for disrespectful, indeed, sacrilegious purposes.
This was the case in Baltimore recently, where for the last seven years, a bar called Ale Mary's has appeared which features Catholic sacred objects such as chalices, a monstrance, a holy water font which are used in a kind of faux-church setting where patrons often mock Catholic rituals, objects and personalities.
Monday, May 7, 2012
SSPX Storms Trier: Reconciliation Imminent
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(kreuz.net) On Sunday 2,500 Traditionalists pilgrimaged to the Holy Robe of Trier.
The Old Liberal Diocese refused them Holy Mass in Trier Basilica or in another house of worship.
For that reason the storm of pilgrims had to withdraw to the secularized St. Maximin Abbey church. [Another victim of New Springtime]
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There "was a welcome to the pilgrims and pilgrimesses of this group."
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Unity Doesn't mean Accommodation
The Abbey church was was completely full from the entrance doors to the transepts for the solemn levitical Liturgy.
Father Stefan Frey --- the Rector of the Society Seminary of Zaitzkofen near Regensburg -- preached for the feast.
It just so happened that he spoke about the negotiation of the Society with Rome.
It was there he assured the faithful that it did not mean that unification with the Vatican means that the battle for the Catholic Faith would be given up.
Another Drawer in the Conciliar Dresser
The piety of the faithful present was impressive.
In the sight of the struggle of the Old Liberal hardliners against the Faith, the pilgrims came to doubt in the course of reconciliation with Rome on the pilgrimage.
Many fear that after the Society will be slowed down by an agreement with the Novus Ordo Conciliar Church and the German church-tax apparatus.
By contrast, Father Marc Gensbittel -- the Prior of Saarbrucken -- explained in a lecture on Sunday morning that the Society will have a "reconciliation" with the Vatican, where they will have their own niche and have "freedom of opinion" in the Conciliar Church.
The Fears Remain
On the pilgrimage even academic Catholics showed themselves critical against the reconciliation.
The fear was aired that it could be accompanied with a betrayal of the faith and on the unbroken dogmatic tradition of the Church.
Too Few Places to Eat
The onslaught of the faithful was impressive -- although many Southern Germans and Bavarians were on other May Pilgrimages.
After Holy Mass there were even too few places to eat for the pilgrims in front of the Abbey church.
During lunch they were thanked privately by many of the older missionaries and priests, who were drawn back to the time of their own priestly consecrations or encouraged again to remain true to them.
Linnk to kreuz.net original...
Also, from Cathcon, Liberal paper complains about SSPX taking over Trier. Clearly, all were not welcome:
The arch-conservative SSPX makes a pilgrimage to Trier with about 2,000 followers. For critics, this does not fit the idea of an ecumenical pilgrimage - the SSPX among other things believe that all other religions are simply "wrong."
Blasphemy at Ale Mary's Continues: Diocese Pretends Not a Problem
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Nothing Justifies this Act of Blasphemy
Just: a couple of things on this situation. There has been a lot of coverage and the Archdiocese even got involved, or at least someone who claimed to represent the Archdiocese in this matter. Both the Archdiocese and the perpetrators claim there is a "certificate for sacred use". We'd like to see that and in any case don't believe it exists. Even if it did exist, it doesn't permit the owners to abuse and commit sacrilege, and it doesn't excuse Diocesan officials from trying to ignore the issue as they apparently have for a long time.
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Diocesan Representative Intervenes and Says Nothing
We'll never tire of pointing out that whether or not these items are actually blessed is not important, but since the owners of the bar and certain individuals in the media are using a statement from Catherine Combier-Donovan to justify blasphemy, it's something which needs to be addressed. Despite the fact that the Liberal run Diocesan newspaper made some stunningly interesting comments seemingly supportive of the blasphemy, they actually stopped short of giving an endorsement to "Ale Mary's".
Additionally, there are a few problems with what Ms. Combier-Donovan, the Diocesan representative, is saying, however. First of all, there is no ritual for "deconsecrating" objects that are consecrated as she suggests.
In fact, when she was contacted by phone, she demurred from saying what this "ritual" was.
The truth is, that Sacramental items should be, according to Church law, either respectfully destroyed or buried. Since her expertise is in modern Liturgy, perhaps she might not be aware of the importance of sacred objects, or any canons related to them. Here is a citation for your edification, [Western Catholic Reporter], :
The law of the Church (canon 1171) indicates that blessed objects and those used for worship should not be put to inappropriate use, even if privately owned. These objects should be transferred to the diocesan offices where they may be given to another parish or otherwise properly disposed of.Inappropriate Princess of Randomness
One local reporter named Amy Phillips [late forties], who is not only a self-proclaimed authority on catholicism, but an "Inappropriate Princess of Randomness", went so far as to suggest that she understood that these items were important to Catholics, but go ahead and abuse them anyway, "it doesn't seem like a problem to me". Amy Phillips, who writes for the anti-Catholic 'Washington Times' had a number of factual inaccuracies in her report as well, which ranged from the number of protesters who were ranged before the bar peacefully praying the rosary, to a description of the bar's owner, Tom Rivers, as "personable and friendly" and most egregiously of all that in her professional opinion that so much fun is being had at "Ale Mary's" bar, that there just can't possibly be anything wrong with it.
Even the Diocesan spokesperson, who is not qualified to judge the matter, did not give the endorsement the bar and its supporters seem to be looking for. In the weaselly way of chancery employees who interact for the public, she was sure to attempt to cover herself when she wrote:
“Whether this is appropriate in a city where there is a large Catholic population may be not the best judgment,” Combier-Donovan said. “I think what happens is it’s shocking to people’s sensibilities. When it shocks, I’m not sure that’s a good thing.”
Take note that the spokesman is concerned about the largeness of the Catholic population. Is the being of an object suddenly dependent on a 2/3rds majority?
It shouldn't matter whether there are a large number of Catholics in a city. You'd hope that a chancery official herself would not be guilty of espousing heretical ideas related to epistemology. Yes, empiricist rationalism was condemned by the Catholic Church and just because you're not aware of something real, doesn't mean it doesn't exist or that it doesn't have qualities contingent to it depending on its form and state. In any case, an item's sanctity has nothing to do with how many people there are who believe it to be so. It either is or isn't.
She assures us that things that shock are "bad", but then she doesn't explain what it is that's shocking or why we should be concerned if it is. She is eager not to take a position one way or another.
Another concerning thing is that she says that there is some kind of ritual related to "desanctifying" objects. Actually, there is no such thing. She suggests also, confirming the bar owner's story that there is some kind of "certificate allowing secular use for a de-sanctified sacred object". This is a complete fabrication on the part of this woman and the bar owner. There is no such document. There is no such ritual in the Catholic book of rituals, the rituale. In any case, since the owner by his own admission purchases so many of these items on the internet, can we ask if he received such certificates for all of these items?
In truth, merely selling them, which in itself can be a sinful and sacrilegious act, apparently effects the desanctification, the sullying of the object concerned.
The problem of theft isn't something we here had been concerned with. Although now that it's been brought up by the owner, it's not a ridiculous suggestion, since theft does happen, sadly, not infrequently. Does he know that these e-bay items aren't stolen themselves?
Regardless of whether or not these items were purchased brand new, never having been blessed. Even if they were sold legitimately, they would have to be purchased with the notion that they would be used respectfully.
Somehow, using them as common drinking mugs, candy dishes or vulgar deocrations with Mardis Gras beands draped around them in a kitchy and often vulgar atmosphere, doesn't sound like respectful, and stretches credulity when those who operate the bar say it is.
A Question of Tom Rivers' Character and Temperament
In fact, the owner of the bar, who has been accused by bar patrons of being disrespectful and anything but friendly in the past, has made bigoted comments about Catholics and others.
In fact, when he was addressed respectfully, he was been very nasty. Mr. Rivers says that he's been physically threatened in e-mails. Considering the untruthfulness of his claims to be respectful to Catholics, that also seems difficult to believe. It might also be possible that some of the nastier of his bar patrons are calling him up to give truth to the lie, or perhaps there are others who dislike Tom Rivers for other reasons unrelated to his blasphemy of Catholic objects. That seems more likely than that the belligerent and disrespectful Tom Rivers has been threatened by law abiding and peaceful Catholics who've only asked him to stop abusing these objects and disrespecting them.
Here's the interaction he had with someone who addressed him respectfully, and even said nice things about his bar and posted it on her Catholic forum Fisheaters:
Hi, I'm writing to express my concern and sadness over your using Catholic sacred objects in a secular way. I don't know why it is that Catholic ritual items and themes are OK to use in this way, or why it's deemed okay to even ridicule Catholics in ways that no one would dream of ridiculing Jews or Muslims. While my guess is that you have no intent to insult Catholics, you likely have picked up on this "zeitgeist" and, without thinking, just went along with the style of aesthetics you've chosen for your restaurant (whose menu looks yummy, by the way!). I ask you, though, to please consider how you would expect Jews or Muslims to respond if their religion were used in this way, and why you chose Catholic imagery but not that of another religion, and how you would feel and think if someone were to do this to your religion (or, if you are Catholic, why you would do this to the Lord's Church). Seriously: why Catholics? From Madonna's early work to Nicky MInaj, from "Piss Christs" and dung-spackled Madonnas, from Jay Leno to Bill Maher, from sitcoms to Hollywood movies -- our society routinely picks on Catholics, holds us and our religion up for ridicule, abuses our liturgies and sacred symbols -- all while (rightfully) never doing such things to Jews or Muslims, and even reacting defensively those few times it IS done to those religions. Why is this? Do you really think it's OK? And would you consider stoppping being a part of that sad trend?
With all due respect, and wishing you the love and peace of Christ,
Tracy Tucciarone
Thomas Rivers responds:
Wow you really like to talk.. My god has a sense of humor.. Sorry yours is so closed minded. Have a nice day.
I wrote back:
So does mine. So let's make fun of Jews and Muslims!
He responds with:
I'm not making fun of anyone. And it's has taken over 7 years for someone to start complaining . This has nothing to do with faith... This all started because some thin skinned homophobic girl got her patties in a bunch for calling her out on a lie. You shouldn't believe everything you read. Open your mind!! Think for yourself !!
So I say:
Why do you think I believe everything I read and need to "open my mind"? Because I'm religious?
Are you using ciboria, chalices and holy water fonts in your restaurant for anything other than the Eucharist, the Precious Blood, and holy water? If you are, then what is that I've read that I shouldn't believe?
It sounds like my mind is more open than yours because I think you should have your waitstaff wear Jewish kippot, tefillin, and prayer shawls, and you should have mezuzah holding flowers on each side of your door! And play the Muslim call to prayer once an hour or so, or maybe call a particularly filling menu item "The Jihad" -- and reward the eating of it with a T-shirt bearing the likeness of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)! Come on, man, open your mind!
It may have taken over 7 years for someone to start complaining because, like I said, it's par for the course to make fun of Catholics and Catholicism. That's likely so because we're not known to drive planes into establishments that offend us, or call Abe Foxman or the SPLC to get lawsuits going, charge people with hate crimes, and close restaurants down by yelling something comparable to "antisemite." Instead we write letters, asking nicely, and get accused of needing to "open our minds," of being types who have no sense of humor, and of being people who are so stupid we believe everything we read. Guess we're taking the wrong tactics with stuff like this.Alas.
Happy Easter.
And he says:
Opinions are like assholes everyone has one!!! I just keep mine to myself. I didn't ask to see yours, but you seen to like sticking it in peoples faces. Put on some pants. Gods speed
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Cute, huh? He doesn't answer any of my questions, doesn't take my and other Catholics' concerns seriously, insults Catholics when we complain we're being insulted, and -- the kicker -- is apparently a major pussy who only ridicules people who he knows won't fight back. He seems to be too chicken to do to Muslims and Jews what he does to us. And WE KNOW IT. And so does anyone reading this.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Cardinal Burke Writes Foreword to New Book by Nicola Bux
Whoever reads this book will understand why there is need for a clear and significant seriousness in the area of liturgy. A necessity, which arises from the Ius divinum (Divine Law) in order to restore the correct relationship between God and his creation inclusive of men, in the only part of earthly creation, which he has formed in His image. Cardinal Burke then recalled that the Lord spoke of the Law:
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heavenThe word of God declared the fundamental purpose of the law, to honor and to keep the divine law
and to honor and keep each commandment which God has imposed on the universe.
"All of the provisions aim to the correct relationship on which the salvation of the world depends and so it is God's ordering and it is not to be regarded as an invention of man. After the fall man corrupted the divine law for human purposes", says Cardinal Burke. The latter is certainly the case of functionalism, with with which modern philosophy is saturated, as earlier, then Cardinal Ratzinger once noted. It is so saturated with this that they have reduced the faith itself and even the divine cultus of the Sacraments to a "function".
Unity, truth, the good, beauty and justice are completely inseparable aspects of the holy reality and the Liturgy. In this book of collected articles the problems and solutions, in part from a specifically technical view, is shown in order to rediscover the true and immediate nature of the holy cult, which is a direct application of the divine law. The Liturgy is the cult related to God, which is ordered by the regulations of the Church congruent through the divine law and ordered with art and music. An extraordinary resource, which teaches the liturgical, artistic, architectonic provisions and contains the sacral vestments and objects, is the Rationale Diviniorum Officiorum publiced in the middle ages by Bishop Guillaume Durand (1230-1296) in the south of France, which was the standard work for the study of the Liturgy in use until the 17th century.
St. Charles Borromeo used the same method for his Instuctiones fabricae et supplettillis ecclesiasticae (1577), which appeared only 15 years after the Professio fidei tridentiae (1564) and an exemplar of a great number of similar documents which the Bishops of all of Europe were issued for their Diocese.
It is striking that this legal, liturgical and architectonic unity doesn't exist any longer today. One asks oneself for that reason "if the collapse of the Liturgy and associated arts and previously still the Liturgy itself, is not a part of the consequence of the separation of knowledge".
In the volume "The Empty Dance Around the Golden Calf" the teaching of the ecclesiastical tradition will be collected and represented, under that Council of Trent and the Catechism of Pope St. Pius X. The volume combines principles, forms and uses, which repair that nominal order, where the liturgical subjectivism of the post-Conciliar times were spread with its abuses and serious errors among the clergy and the faithful, in which it developed into a cult which was no longer directed to the Lord, rather to dance about a "Gold Calf" or to express it another way, which is directed to man, who celebrates himself.
Text: Corrispondenza Romana/Cristina Siccardi
Übersetzung: Giuseppe Nardi
5th Column Catholics of the Blogisterium
Edit: You might not be aware that the problem with 5th Column Catholics is a problem in other parts of the world with similar symptoms and etiology, like a ringworm or as one Lefebvrist put it, a "spiritual Aids" infection which afflicts different parts of the body with weeping sores and black spots. These days Catholic 5th Columnists tend to be in one way or another, advocates of the normalization of sodomy.
Last week, we were treated to Mark Shea, who not only wants to canonize apparently active homosexuals, but even wants to anathematize fellow Catholics!
Like ringworm, or Aids spots, homosexual enabling Bishops have infected different parts of their host, the Church. They seem to be primarily a problem in the West. Then there are those who aid them and often defend them at opportune moments in their careers, the left-leaning Bill Donahue, for example.
I was prompted to note this when I took into consideration Damian Thompson's adoption of the Mitre in his attempt to use his 4th Estate to enjoin the abuse hoax as a means of continuing an attack against the Irish Church when he demands the resignation of Cardinal Brady. Someone should demand ferret face's resignation.
It may be interesting to discuss the Damian Thompson thing in light of the Soho Sodom Mass being advocated by the troubled Archbishop Nichols, which to be fair, Thompson has criticized in the past.
This frankly blasphemous "Mass" was formerly condemned by the Catholic Herald, but not any more. +Vincent Nichols' Mass for sodomy which he reaffirmed last February according to the Herald's almost joyous commentary, provides grist for conspiracy theory speculation about what kind of people are running the Herald now. It's interesting to take note of a fifth column which continues to worm its way if not into the hearts, at least into the minds of a more traditional, less trendy, Catholic readership. Marching victoriously from Tablet blogs like Holy Smoke.
Damian Thompson is currently, the editor and chief of the Catholic Herald, so then it's hardly surprising that its tone changed from William Oddie's story of shock and scandal that a Catholic prelate could be so indifferent to propriety and Catholic thinking to an article practically praising.
But it's more than just conspiracy theories. When the Editor isn't complaining about the new Left, he's wringing his hands on behalf of marriage equality, striving at least for a little respect for "gays". This morning on Twitter, he was even recommending the outing of a Tory MP he believes is living in a secret homosexual marriage "solemnized" abroad. He twits:
Apparently, he's hoping to cleanse the hypocritical Tories and is fretting that Cameron will be changing his position on gay marriage. Or is he letting his twitter-crowd fret over it, frankly it's not easy to tell.
But there are other tells besides this. Like American counterparts, Thompson engages in sly or not so sly points of advocacy between the conservative and neo-conservative, Austrian School soundbytes complete with tips of the hat to the reigning political correctness.
Whether he's advising the Church that it will lose a battle against marriage equality, perhaps it is as he says, for the glee of watching the Liberal Bishops adopt a reactionary position, but even when Thompson appears to be defending Catholic positions, he insists on inserting this or that marginal cultural or political fetish, for example, commenting on the presumably chaste but tantalizingly youthful "homosexual" Catholic in-crowd and distinguishing them from those ageing, tacky Lefties in rainbow velour track suits like +Nicholoson's Sodom "Mass" . His apologetical circus of attempting to keep within the bounds of modern political correctness and yet belong to the theologically korrekt, chic, lacy, Gothic, Anglo-Catholic world of dark and Romantic chapels is almost painful to watch, rather like watching an elderly homosexual try to fit into an old pair of patent leather motorcycle pants. From the Catholic Action Blog, which had some of the same concerns I do, he is quoted thusly:
Actually, he sounds a lot like German Scholastic Theologian and authority on St. Thomas Aquinas, David Berger, who now claims to be an authority on the sex lives of the high clergy. But then, as far as we know, Damian Thompson is at least cleverer than Berger, and is living a blamelessly chaste life, despite the scandalous ambiguity of his language.
Last week, we were treated to Mark Shea, who not only wants to canonize apparently active homosexuals, but even wants to anathematize fellow Catholics!
Like ringworm, or Aids spots, homosexual enabling Bishops have infected different parts of their host, the Church. They seem to be primarily a problem in the West. Then there are those who aid them and often defend them at opportune moments in their careers, the left-leaning Bill Donahue, for example.
I was prompted to note this when I took into consideration Damian Thompson's adoption of the Mitre in his attempt to use his 4th Estate to enjoin the abuse hoax as a means of continuing an attack against the Irish Church when he demands the resignation of Cardinal Brady. Someone should demand ferret face's resignation.
It may be interesting to discuss the Damian Thompson thing in light of the Soho Sodom Mass being advocated by the troubled Archbishop Nichols, which to be fair, Thompson has criticized in the past.
This frankly blasphemous "Mass" was formerly condemned by the Catholic Herald, but not any more. +Vincent Nichols' Mass for sodomy which he reaffirmed last February according to the Herald's almost joyous commentary, provides grist for conspiracy theory speculation about what kind of people are running the Herald now. It's interesting to take note of a fifth column which continues to worm its way if not into the hearts, at least into the minds of a more traditional, less trendy, Catholic readership. Marching victoriously from Tablet blogs like Holy Smoke.
Damian Thompson is currently, the editor and chief of the Catholic Herald, so then it's hardly surprising that its tone changed from William Oddie's story of shock and scandal that a Catholic prelate could be so indifferent to propriety and Catholic thinking to an article practically praising.
But it's more than just conspiracy theories. When the Editor isn't complaining about the new Left, he's wringing his hands on behalf of marriage equality, striving at least for a little respect for "gays". This morning on Twitter, he was even recommending the outing of a Tory MP he believes is living in a secret homosexual marriage "solemnized" abroad. He twits:
Someody should find out whether any Tory MPs are in gay marriages contracted in other countries that recognise them.
Apparently, he's hoping to cleanse the hypocritical Tories and is fretting that Cameron will be changing his position on gay marriage. Or is he letting his twitter-crowd fret over it, frankly it's not easy to tell.
But there are other tells besides this. Like American counterparts, Thompson engages in sly or not so sly points of advocacy between the conservative and neo-conservative, Austrian School soundbytes complete with tips of the hat to the reigning political correctness.
Whether he's advising the Church that it will lose a battle against marriage equality, perhaps it is as he says, for the glee of watching the Liberal Bishops adopt a reactionary position, but even when Thompson appears to be defending Catholic positions, he insists on inserting this or that marginal cultural or political fetish, for example, commenting on the presumably chaste but tantalizingly youthful "homosexual" Catholic in-crowd and distinguishing them from those ageing, tacky Lefties in rainbow velour track suits like +Nicholoson's Sodom "Mass" . His apologetical circus of attempting to keep within the bounds of modern political correctness and yet belong to the theologically korrekt, chic, lacy, Gothic, Anglo-Catholic world of dark and Romantic chapels is almost painful to watch, rather like watching an elderly homosexual try to fit into an old pair of patent leather motorcycle pants. From the Catholic Action Blog, which had some of the same concerns I do, he is quoted thusly:
And as for young homosexual Catholics, [There's no such thing as homosexual and Catholic] well, some of them are Lefty activists but many are traddies who wouldn't be seen dead in Warwick Street unless Mass was celebrated in the Extraordinary Form. And this is just a guess, but I reckon most of them are pretty impressively celibate. I don't judge them, or gay couple friends of mine whose intimate life is none of my bloody business.[Sound familiar?]
Actually, he sounds a lot like German Scholastic Theologian and authority on St. Thomas Aquinas, David Berger, who now claims to be an authority on the sex lives of the high clergy. But then, as far as we know, Damian Thompson is at least cleverer than Berger, and is living a blamelessly chaste life, despite the scandalous ambiguity of his language.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Parisian Auxiliary Bishop Celebrates Pontifical High Mass in Honor of St. Joan
Auxiliary Bishop Dinechin will be there to confer the Sacrament of Confirmation, among whom are a number of adults, as reported by Riposte Catholique.
In the Parish of Eugène und Sainte-Cécil, the former Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris granted the celebration of the Immemorial Mass in 1989 according to the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei of Pope John Paul II.
Link ...
This Sunday the SSPX Overwhelms the Holy City of Trier
Whoever can't begin with the middle-left pilgrimage motto "Fair sharing inistead of social division", is left behind with the Lefebvists.
(kreuz.net) The preparations for the traditional Holy-Robe Pilgrimage to Trier is running at full speed.
The great even is being organized by the Saarbruck Priory of St. Mary of the Angels.
This comes from the website 'pius.info' today.
From Three Countries
Almost twenty tour buses from Germany, France and Switzerland were ordered.
In addition there were 130 youth of the 'Catholic Youth Movement'.
They will conclude their German meeting on Saturday and Sunday in Trier and will take part in the Pilgrimage in any case.
The Church-haters Are Also Coming
The Society's German seminary in Zaitzkofen will come.
The schools in Schonenberg, Saarbrucken and Wangs in Switzerland have reported with the largest number of participants.
For this Sunday, according to the current count, more than an additional 1,000 faithful are expected. They are traveling by bus, train and private automobile.
Even the anti-Church media will report this great event. The slanderous "Sudwestrundfunk' has promised to be there.
A Catholic Program
High Mass will be celebrated on Sunday at 9:30 am in the Church of the secularized Abbey of St. Maximin.
The church is being used today as sports hall for the (in name only) Catholic private school St. Maxim and for concerts.
At 12:30 the masses of Pilgrims will enter Trier Cathedral and venerate the Holy Robe.
The day of grace closes at 4pm with Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
All Welcome?
In the official program of the Old Liberal Holy Robe events there is not a word mentioned about the great Catholic Pilgrimage.
The motto over the Sunday's events reads: "Today especially: everyone is invited and welcome!"
It remains to be seen if that's the case.
Novus Ordo Superficialities
The official pilgrimage web site informs us that the members from native language communities and from the pastoral concern of the police will set a "special accent".
The 'Catholic Employees Movement' will pilgrimage in the shadows of the pilgrimage to Trier with a some very pointed political propaganda "Fair share instead of social divisions".
Otherwise, the Old Liberal Diocese of Osnabruck and Munster are present.
The Dress of a Concentration Camp Survivor
Among the numerous little events there is this example: '>>Rock Bottom<< of the dress of a Concentration Camp Survivor'.
It has been organized by the 'Catholic Youth Study Group'.
Otherwise there is the immaturely inspired event "Way of Mature Faith".
Link to original...
(kreuz.net) The preparations for the traditional Holy-Robe Pilgrimage to Trier is running at full speed.
The great even is being organized by the Saarbruck Priory of St. Mary of the Angels.
This comes from the website 'pius.info' today.
From Three Countries
Almost twenty tour buses from Germany, France and Switzerland were ordered.
In addition there were 130 youth of the 'Catholic Youth Movement'.
They will conclude their German meeting on Saturday and Sunday in Trier and will take part in the Pilgrimage in any case.
The Church-haters Are Also Coming
The Society's German seminary in Zaitzkofen will come.
The schools in Schonenberg, Saarbrucken and Wangs in Switzerland have reported with the largest number of participants.
For this Sunday, according to the current count, more than an additional 1,000 faithful are expected. They are traveling by bus, train and private automobile.
Even the anti-Church media will report this great event. The slanderous "Sudwestrundfunk' has promised to be there.
A Catholic Program
High Mass will be celebrated on Sunday at 9:30 am in the Church of the secularized Abbey of St. Maximin.
The church is being used today as sports hall for the (in name only) Catholic private school St. Maxim and for concerts.
At 12:30 the masses of Pilgrims will enter Trier Cathedral and venerate the Holy Robe.
The day of grace closes at 4pm with Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
All Welcome?
In the official program of the Old Liberal Holy Robe events there is not a word mentioned about the great Catholic Pilgrimage.
The motto over the Sunday's events reads: "Today especially: everyone is invited and welcome!"
It remains to be seen if that's the case.
Novus Ordo Superficialities
The official pilgrimage web site informs us that the members from native language communities and from the pastoral concern of the police will set a "special accent".
The 'Catholic Employees Movement' will pilgrimage in the shadows of the pilgrimage to Trier with a some very pointed political propaganda "Fair share instead of social divisions".
Otherwise, the Old Liberal Diocese of Osnabruck and Munster are present.
The Dress of a Concentration Camp Survivor
Among the numerous little events there is this example: '>>Rock Bottom<< of the dress of a Concentration Camp Survivor'.
It has been organized by the 'Catholic Youth Study Group'.
Otherwise there is the immaturely inspired event "Way of Mature Faith".
Link to original...
Tradition: Solemn Vows in Mariawald
Edit: such a great feast for a profession as St. Pius V. Mariawald is the only Trappist monastery in all of Germany.
The powerful Schola of the Gregorian Chorale, the Mass of Angels, of incense, the candles and not least of all the language of the Church transforming the church into the forecourt of Heaven.
(kreuz.net) On April 29th Brother Maria Johannes OCSO made his solemn vows at the Traditional Abbey of Mariawald.
The contemplative cloister is located in the vicinity of the 4,400 population city of Heimbach in the Diocese of Aachen.
Many faithful gathered for the solemn liturgy.
A Forecourt of Heaven
Only for such a joyful feast does the rarely used organ sound out in Mariawald.
The powerful Schola of the Gregorian Chorale, the Mass of Angels, of incense, candles and not least of all the language of the Church transformed the church into a forecourt of Heaven.
Commitment instead of Lust
The profession itself began after the Gospel.
Abbot Josef Vollberg addressed the candidates.
He noted then that the profession is a contradiction to the decadent society, that it is calculated to be of commitment from beginning to end.
Indeed the monk forsakes the lust of the world for riches.
The Profession
Then Brother Johannes sang his Profession, which he had previously been written on parchment.
He then signed it.
The document was laid at teh altar and then presented to the Abbot.
Humbly Prostrated
The newly professed knelt down before the Abbot and his brothers.
Then the Schola sang many verses of the Miserere-Psalms.
Brother Johannes laid himself down as a sign of his humility before the steps of the altar.
In four solemnly intoned prayers the Abbot bid the grace of God for the monk.
The Holy Ghost Rises on High
Finally the monk takes up his mantle and receives the blessed cucullus
It effects, with a distinctive bag formed cowl -- Cucullus -- a striking white monastic robe.
During the vestiture the hymn "Veni Creator" was sung.
The Crown of Life
Additionally, Brother Johannes had received the rite of tonsure in the form of a corona.
It is a sign of conforming, to subjugation to the will of Christ.
The corona symbolizes the hope, from Christ himself, who promises "the crown of life".
Foremost is Prayer
The Pontifical Mass and the solemn Profession were concluded after more than two hours.
Whereupon immediately began the mid-day prayer in choir.
It underscores love and the monks' consciousness of duty, which does not allow that the Liturgy is something to be put off.
The Reception Must Wait
The reception for the celebrating friends and guests had to wait.
The women of the Cloister restaurant provided a vegetarian buffet.
In the future Brother Johannes will be preparing himself for priestly ordination.
In the Dark of Night
The life of the Trappist is completely defined by prayer in choir.
In the deep of night they arise at 3 am and sing in the first of the eight liturgical hours.
The last takes place at 7:15 pm.
Link to original...
The powerful Schola of the Gregorian Chorale, the Mass of Angels, of incense, the candles and not least of all the language of the Church transforming the church into the forecourt of Heaven.
(kreuz.net) On April 29th Brother Maria Johannes OCSO made his solemn vows at the Traditional Abbey of Mariawald.
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| From the Website of the Trappist Abbey Mariawald With Photos of Solemn Profession of Vows |
Many faithful gathered for the solemn liturgy.
A Forecourt of Heaven
Only for such a joyful feast does the rarely used organ sound out in Mariawald.
The powerful Schola of the Gregorian Chorale, the Mass of Angels, of incense, candles and not least of all the language of the Church transformed the church into a forecourt of Heaven.
Commitment instead of Lust
The profession itself began after the Gospel.
Abbot Josef Vollberg addressed the candidates.
He noted then that the profession is a contradiction to the decadent society, that it is calculated to be of commitment from beginning to end.
Indeed the monk forsakes the lust of the world for riches.
The Profession
Then Brother Johannes sang his Profession, which he had previously been written on parchment.
He then signed it.
The document was laid at teh altar and then presented to the Abbot.
Humbly Prostrated
The newly professed knelt down before the Abbot and his brothers.
Then the Schola sang many verses of the Miserere-Psalms.
Brother Johannes laid himself down as a sign of his humility before the steps of the altar.
In four solemnly intoned prayers the Abbot bid the grace of God for the monk.
The Holy Ghost Rises on High
Finally the monk takes up his mantle and receives the blessed cucullus
It effects, with a distinctive bag formed cowl -- Cucullus -- a striking white monastic robe.
During the vestiture the hymn "Veni Creator" was sung.
The Crown of Life
Additionally, Brother Johannes had received the rite of tonsure in the form of a corona.
It is a sign of conforming, to subjugation to the will of Christ.
The corona symbolizes the hope, from Christ himself, who promises "the crown of life".
Foremost is Prayer
The Pontifical Mass and the solemn Profession were concluded after more than two hours.
Whereupon immediately began the mid-day prayer in choir.
It underscores love and the monks' consciousness of duty, which does not allow that the Liturgy is something to be put off.
The Reception Must Wait
The reception for the celebrating friends and guests had to wait.
The women of the Cloister restaurant provided a vegetarian buffet.
In the future Brother Johannes will be preparing himself for priestly ordination.
In the Dark of Night
The life of the Trappist is completely defined by prayer in choir.
In the deep of night they arise at 3 am and sing in the first of the eight liturgical hours.
The last takes place at 7:15 pm.
Link to original...
Cardinal Burke Urges Catholics to Pray for the Reconciliation of the SSPX
Germany. [Kreuz] Last Tuesday the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Cardinal Raymond Burke, celebrated a Traditional High Mass in the town of Santa Maria di Leuca -- in the south Italian Province of Lecce. This was reported by the French website, 'Forum Catholique'. The Cardinal called upon Catholics to pray for the reconciliation with the Society of Saint Pius X. Cardinal Burke sees the current renewal of the Liturgy not till the beginning of development.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Holy Father Ready to Concede Society's Points on Vatican II and Liturgy
Edit: the Society is ready to humbly submit, but the Holy Father is also generous to his sheep.
(Stuttgart/Trier) The formalization of the union between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, which has organized a pilgrimage to Trier and with that also wants to make a visible demonstration, comes ever closer. Meanwhile, Budestag Vice President Wolfgang Thierse, who dared to receive hand Communion from Pope Benedict XVI in Berlin, said in a KNA-interview taking the position of Cardinal Kurt Koch, that the "Vatican will not take back the Society of Saint Pius X". In the first place, this suggestion is solely an initiative of Thierses, who is repeating his own opinion Recently Father Franz Schmidberger, the Superior of the German District of the Society as also Father Niklaus Pfluger, the first assistant to the Superior General of the Society have shown themselves as positive toward the posibillity of a reconciliation with Rome.
Father Pfluger spoke on April 29th at a meeting of Actio Spes Unica in the German town of Hattersheim about this. "Unexpectedly Father Pfluger began to discuss the happenings of the last months till today. And he otherwise made known that this event had convinced Bishop Fellay to distance himself from the previous principles that distanced the Society from Rome," as it stated in the participant's report and how it will respond in the reconciliation offer of Pope Benedict XVI.
"There can be no practical agreement without doctrinal agreement", said Father Pflugger, expressing himself with the original negotiation maxim of the Society. It should become clear, however, "that Pope Benedict XVI. is so very interested in a canonical solution for the Society, that he is ready to conclude an agreement even if the controversial texts of the Vatican Council II and the New Mass are not recoginzed." Should the Society itself "however, with these new stipulations still refuse reunion, then they would face the prospect of possible excommunication", said Father Pfluger in recounting the meeting between Cardinal William Levada and the General Superior Fellay on March 16th 2012 in Rome.
"With this understand the General Superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, did not consider that it would be possible, to hold back from the Pope's offer. It would mean a descent into sedevacantism matter should be closed to the desire of the Holy Father even then, if this was not linked to the recognition of false beliefs," as the first assistant pointed out in Hattersheim.
Pfluger then recalled that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the Society, had been offered " a very far reaching proposal for an agreement" in 1987 and 1988, "with which he wanted a mediation, which would have been completely to the advantage of the Church." The proposal which Archbishop Lefebvre then "had been prepared to sign", would have conceded "very far reaching concessions" to the Society.
It is noteworthy that "false doctrines" today would also disappear today "upon the Pope's [not] command throughout the world overnight", said Pfluger, who recalled for clarification of historical examples, that Arianism after still influenced for decades after its condemnation, and 50 years after the end of the Council of Trent, yet abuses continued, whose removal is only gradually takes hold.
"The recognition of the Society is finally an official endorsement of the importance of Tradition, which would become especially influential throughout the entire Church. And it would redress the injustice and stigmatization," said Pfluger. "The movement back to Tradition, is above all the desire of young priests, who say the Old Mass, is so strong that despite intimidation and pressure can not be held back any longer. They are in the meantime strong enough that the the Society can defend against the foreseeable efforts of the Modernist Bishops."
The German District Superior, Father Franz Schmidberger, stressed in the forward of the May edition of the Bulletin of the District of the "unbreakable bond" with "eternal Rome". One may "not expect that after conciliar and post-conciliar breaks of today that tomorrow morning everything will be again perfect in the militant Church on earth." "To their human immperfections are counted also even errors, if they do not speak directly against the revealed truth", said Schmidberger. "Let us not forget in the mean time our struggle for the principles of Archbishop Lefebvre: The Church is founded by Christ on Peter. He entrusted to him the keys to the kingdom of Heaven and commanded him, to shepherd the entire flock. Let the fields of the Church be so much more overgrown by weeds, that it's impossible to see the wheat - the Church has the promise of eternal life, the Lord is with you always until the end of time. It is His church, not ours. We have no right to dispose of it. We must not view the Church as too human, too political and diplomatic."
"If Rome is now recalling us from exile, in which we in 1975 with the withdrawal of approval, and even more in 1988 when we have been expelled by the decree of excommunication, then this is an act of justice and no doubt also truly an act of pastoral care from Pope Benedict XVI. and we are grateful, " said Schmidberger.
The same passage from Rorate which differs
Link to katholisches...
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| Fathers Pfluger and Schmidberger |
(Stuttgart/Trier) The formalization of the union between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, which has organized a pilgrimage to Trier and with that also wants to make a visible demonstration, comes ever closer. Meanwhile, Budestag Vice President Wolfgang Thierse, who dared to receive hand Communion from Pope Benedict XVI in Berlin, said in a KNA-interview taking the position of Cardinal Kurt Koch, that the "Vatican will not take back the Society of Saint Pius X". In the first place, this suggestion is solely an initiative of Thierses, who is repeating his own opinion Recently Father Franz Schmidberger, the Superior of the German District of the Society as also Father Niklaus Pfluger, the first assistant to the Superior General of the Society have shown themselves as positive toward the posibillity of a reconciliation with Rome.
Father Pfluger spoke on April 29th at a meeting of Actio Spes Unica in the German town of Hattersheim about this. "Unexpectedly Father Pfluger began to discuss the happenings of the last months till today. And he otherwise made known that this event had convinced Bishop Fellay to distance himself from the previous principles that distanced the Society from Rome," as it stated in the participant's report and how it will respond in the reconciliation offer of Pope Benedict XVI.
"There can be no practical agreement without doctrinal agreement", said Father Pflugger, expressing himself with the original negotiation maxim of the Society. It should become clear, however, "that Pope Benedict XVI. is so very interested in a canonical solution for the Society, that he is ready to conclude an agreement even if the controversial texts of the Vatican Council II and the New Mass are not recoginzed." Should the Society itself "however, with these new stipulations still refuse reunion, then they would face the prospect of possible excommunication", said Father Pfluger in recounting the meeting between Cardinal William Levada and the General Superior Fellay on March 16th 2012 in Rome.
"With this understand the General Superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, did not consider that it would be possible, to hold back from the Pope's offer. It would mean a descent into sedevacantism matter should be closed to the desire of the Holy Father even then, if this was not linked to the recognition of false beliefs," as the first assistant pointed out in Hattersheim.
Pfluger then recalled that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the Society, had been offered " a very far reaching proposal for an agreement" in 1987 and 1988, "with which he wanted a mediation, which would have been completely to the advantage of the Church." The proposal which Archbishop Lefebvre then "had been prepared to sign", would have conceded "very far reaching concessions" to the Society.
It is noteworthy that "false doctrines" today would also disappear today "upon the Pope's [not] command throughout the world overnight", said Pfluger, who recalled for clarification of historical examples, that Arianism after still influenced for decades after its condemnation, and 50 years after the end of the Council of Trent, yet abuses continued, whose removal is only gradually takes hold.
"The recognition of the Society is finally an official endorsement of the importance of Tradition, which would become especially influential throughout the entire Church. And it would redress the injustice and stigmatization," said Pfluger. "The movement back to Tradition, is above all the desire of young priests, who say the Old Mass, is so strong that despite intimidation and pressure can not be held back any longer. They are in the meantime strong enough that the the Society can defend against the foreseeable efforts of the Modernist Bishops."
The German District Superior, Father Franz Schmidberger, stressed in the forward of the May edition of the Bulletin of the District of the "unbreakable bond" with "eternal Rome". One may "not expect that after conciliar and post-conciliar breaks of today that tomorrow morning everything will be again perfect in the militant Church on earth." "To their human immperfections are counted also even errors, if they do not speak directly against the revealed truth", said Schmidberger. "Let us not forget in the mean time our struggle for the principles of Archbishop Lefebvre: The Church is founded by Christ on Peter. He entrusted to him the keys to the kingdom of Heaven and commanded him, to shepherd the entire flock. Let the fields of the Church be so much more overgrown by weeds, that it's impossible to see the wheat - the Church has the promise of eternal life, the Lord is with you always until the end of time. It is His church, not ours. We have no right to dispose of it. We must not view the Church as too human, too political and diplomatic."
"If Rome is now recalling us from exile, in which we in 1975 with the withdrawal of approval, and even more in 1988 when we have been expelled by the decree of excommunication, then this is an act of justice and no doubt also truly an act of pastoral care from Pope Benedict XVI. and we are grateful, " said Schmidberger.
The same passage from Rorate which differs
If Rome now calls us back from the exile to which it expelled us in 1975 with the abrogation of the [canonical] approval [of the Society], and even more in 1988 with the decree of excommunication, then that is an act of justice and without doubt also an act of authentic pastoral care of Pope Benedict XVI. And for that we are grateful.
Link to katholisches...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Neo-Cath Blogisterium Attacks Voris and E. Micheal Jones With Empty Words
How sad that people can't rely on the Church's catalog of sins and must instead impose private judgment and allege our brothers' guilt on the basis of politically correct victimology instead. Where would we be without the Lay Apostolic Magisterium™?
There's currently a storm of controversy going on amid the patheos blogs as the internet gurus level their rusty apologetic canon, not against error (or the Turk) as you might hope, but against fellow Catholics. Even Paul Sumo at Americanist Catholic has to get into the fray to cast out, expurgate and revile the anti-Semite! Would it be too much to ask that if you're going to call someone's work into question that you at least be accurate and truthful?
These neo-Catholic wardens do this service not so much out of a desire for truth or even love of neighbor, but to demand conformity to some vague standards of political correctness when it comes to anti-Semitism, a term which has not only destroyed careers but has ended friendships and even gone so far as to cause unnecessary schisms among people who are allegedly on the same side. But since when has Shea done anything other than defend Old Catholic Bishops and attack those who expose or challenge their agendas? While a catalog of sins is listed, courtesy of Shea, it doesn't really amount to much more than guilt by association and eisogesis:
How is it that a major Catholic news source like Americanist Catholic can produce these schoolyard taunts and expect them to have any currency at all?
Mark Shea maintains that he doesn't like internet trials, but that hasn't stopped him from attacking E. Micheal Jones and Micheal Voris. He's never had much time for Micheal Voris, except to level irrelevant criticisms alleging a lack of respect for the hierarchy and uncharity. This time, however, Shea now has another weapon to use, the claim of anti-Semitism.
Shea might be willing to wage an internet Jihad against Judaism, but he's incapable of seeing anything except that as he commits errors in Catholic teaching to overly generous with things which don't really belong to him, and to assume an office upon himself he doesn't legitimately possess. As Fifth Column notes, would-be Pastor Shea, frequently an unofficial mouth of America's Magic Circle Bishops, falls far from Catholic truth when it comes to his obligations to Christian charity and judgment.
Maybe it's none of your business if a devoted Catholic who for all appearances leads a blameless life, since you're as eager to be generous with other's sins as you are to be stingy about the alleged sins of others?
Using the criteria with which many of the participants in this discussion are electronically lynching Voris and E. Micheal Jones, you'd expect them to declare almost immediately that they can't be Catholic any longer.
Many of the critics are often eager to give absolution and blessings to avowed gomorrists and strike a blow for the zeitgeist, but are they willing to direct their ire at the Church they claim to belong to?
E. Micheal Jones' comments about the Jews pale in comparison to what Saints, even recently promoted ones like Blessed Cardinal Newman, have said about them.
Ultimately, it's really none of Shea's business. If he's willing to look past sins of omission and active cohabitation on the part of a homosexual activist, he should be able to look past the dirty rose colored lenses he wears and the injudicious and outrageous claims of anti-semitism on the part of E. Micheal Jones, no?
There's currently a storm of controversy going on amid the patheos blogs as the internet gurus level their rusty apologetic canon, not against error (or the Turk) as you might hope, but against fellow Catholics. Even Paul Sumo at Americanist Catholic has to get into the fray to cast out, expurgate and revile the anti-Semite! Would it be too much to ask that if you're going to call someone's work into question that you at least be accurate and truthful?
These neo-Catholic wardens do this service not so much out of a desire for truth or even love of neighbor, but to demand conformity to some vague standards of political correctness when it comes to anti-Semitism, a term which has not only destroyed careers but has ended friendships and even gone so far as to cause unnecessary schisms among people who are allegedly on the same side. But since when has Shea done anything other than defend Old Catholic Bishops and attack those who expose or challenge their agendas? While a catalog of sins is listed, courtesy of Shea, it doesn't really amount to much more than guilt by association and eisogesis:
How is it that a major Catholic news source like Americanist Catholic can produce these schoolyard taunts and expect them to have any currency at all?
Mark Shea maintains that he doesn't like internet trials, but that hasn't stopped him from attacking E. Micheal Jones and Micheal Voris. He's never had much time for Micheal Voris, except to level irrelevant criticisms alleging a lack of respect for the hierarchy and uncharity. This time, however, Shea now has another weapon to use, the claim of anti-Semitism.
Shea might be willing to wage an internet Jihad against Judaism, but he's incapable of seeing anything except that as he commits errors in Catholic teaching to overly generous with things which don't really belong to him, and to assume an office upon himself he doesn't legitimately possess. As Fifth Column notes, would-be Pastor Shea, frequently an unofficial mouth of America's Magic Circle Bishops, falls far from Catholic truth when it comes to his obligations to Christian charity and judgment.
So, Mark mistakes charism for sanctification, he mistakes judgement of soul for judgement of action, and he (ironically) canonizes someone who the Church herself has not got around to canonizing. I say that last bit is ironical, because he actually does judge this poor sodomite's soul - he judges it sound enough to enter Heaven immediately, even though he himself says that the man's sins are Not. His. Business. I believe that's called "willful blindness."
Maybe it's none of your business if a devoted Catholic who for all appearances leads a blameless life, since you're as eager to be generous with other's sins as you are to be stingy about the alleged sins of others?
Using the criteria with which many of the participants in this discussion are electronically lynching Voris and E. Micheal Jones, you'd expect them to declare almost immediately that they can't be Catholic any longer.
Many of the critics are often eager to give absolution and blessings to avowed gomorrists and strike a blow for the zeitgeist, but are they willing to direct their ire at the Church they claim to belong to?
E. Micheal Jones' comments about the Jews pale in comparison to what Saints, even recently promoted ones like Blessed Cardinal Newman, have said about them.
"Let us pray for the Jewish People, that they will return to the Lord their God, whom they have crucified". From Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Ultimately, it's really none of Shea's business. If he's willing to look past sins of omission and active cohabitation on the part of a homosexual activist, he should be able to look past the dirty rose colored lenses he wears and the injudicious and outrageous claims of anti-semitism on the part of E. Micheal Jones, no?
Pilgrimage for Restoration 2012
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Argentine War Hero: Do Penance and Go to Mass
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| Commander Carbello and Aviation Student |
One Air Commander Pablo Carballo, former A-4B pilot (Argentinian Air Force) who flew the mission which destroyed HMS Coventry [Thanks to reader for correction] with Commander Carlos Rinke on May 4th in 1982, was one of those threats.
This accomplishment, whatever one's national sympathies are, is a tribute to the professionalism and dedication of Argentine aviators and ground crew. It is especially a tribute to those who flew those dangerous missions in the face of death. Yet what is most impressive about the man who dealt the British task force a terrible blow, Commander Carballo, who is something of a war hero in Argentina, is his dedication to the Catholic Faith.
What does he say to the young men who look up to him?
Man, you want to truly honour me? Go to a church, look for a priest, confess your sins, and attend Mass
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