Bishop Marini, what’s going on here and no crucifix facing you! Oh, the agony of it all:
This afternoon the Bishop of Tortona, Mons. Guido Marini went to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tortona Guardia where he presided over the Eucharistic Celebration in which he consecrated the Crypt and the Altar
This is a low Mass thus only two candles are lighted. But look closely at the six tall candles.
Low Mass at Baclaran Shrine during the 1950's
Please note the sunbeam directed at yours truly:
Please note the perfect height to lift the chasuble!!!
People now love my homilies, not so much because they are good, but because my homilies are short.
If you are a priest or deacon and want compliments about your homilies after Mass, keep them to six minutes!
Here is what the good Cardinal Arinze has to say, press the title:
I can’t stop laughing!
A small clericalism caste and cadre of bishops and theologians from their on-high position and by manipulating the work of the Holy Spirit for their own narcissistic privileges, were able to cancel the manner in which the Church had existed since the major reforms of the Council of Trent.
The spirit of Vatican II clericalists, canceled the manner in which the Mass had been celebrated for over 1,500 years, but codified or standardized by the Council of Trent. They canceled the manner of living religious life and tried to cancel the sacramental aspect of the clergy turning them from worship and prayer to being social workers for the poor, something proper for religious who are not clergy and certainly for the laity.
The spirit of Vatican II tried to cancel the hierarchical nature of the Church and authority of the college of bishops in union with the pope.
What Vatican II’s poor implementation did was to cancel what had previously been understood as constituent to Catholic identity and proposed and then dictatorially imposed it on laity who accepted this imposition solely on the pre-Vatican II appreciation they had for Church authority, especially the pope and bishops. They didn’t like it but they were obedient pray, pay and obey Catholics.
St. Pope John Paul II and especially Pope Benedict XVI tried heroically to end the cancel culture of the Church in the post-Vatican II era. They did it slowly with non-dictatorial edicts. They proposed and enabled the ending of the cancel culture but they did not impose it on all.
The apex of the genius of Pope Benedict XVI was and is Summorum Pontificum, that enabled a return to liturgical tradition of the pre-Vatican II era while encouraging the reforms of the Liturgies but now within continuity with the past not in a breach of the past or worse yet, canceling that past.
With the dismal and unfortunate abdication of Pope Benedict, a 1970’s ideologue was elected to the See of Peter as the new pope. We have seen since 2013 a return to the spirit of Vatican II’s cancel culture, the one most blatant was and is the canceling of the two papacies of St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. The apex of this cancelation was the dictatorial canceling of Pope Benedict’s centerpiece of his papacy, Summorum Pontificum and the resulting resentment of the current papacy and its 1970’s agenda.
The next pope will have to be a redeemed Donald Trump who will restore the papacies of the previous two popes but in continuity. Pope Benedict’s reform in continuity is the way forward and that must be revived!
The Democrat operatives masquerading under the guise of the National Not Catholic Reporter just can’t believe how our Catholic people voted President Trump back into office. Crocodile tears there are, let me say that again, crocodile tears, tears I say. Your can read the Democrat’s meltdown over this intereview HERE.
To view this video, do not press the center arrow but go to the bottom left corner and press “watch on you-tube”:
This graphic really shows how deep in do-do the Democrat Party is. And this a party that once upheld political and religious values of our Judeo Christian nation and refused to cater to atheists and agnostics and immoral, amoral ideologies. It is sad indeed, but it is the rise and fall of a once great political party:
The Democratic Party has a choice. It can change or it can find a different country. When you can't beat a convicted felon, lose really excellent public servants like Senators Bob Casey and Jon Tester, and watch your margins shrink in virtually every demographic, you need to do some serious soul-searching.
Currently, the Democrats are engaged in a round of finger-pointing and counterfactuals. What if Joe Biden had not dropped out? Can't know for sure, but my bet is the country would have tired of the anxiety that swept the nation every time he went to a microphone. What if he had dropped out earlier and the Dems had found a different candidate? Looking at the losses in down-ballot races, it is hard not to conclude that the problem is the brand.
Read the whole dang thing there by pressing HERE!
Boy was I wrong! To be honest with you, I never thought an Electoral College landslide victory would ever be possible again. But the Democrat Party of abortion and anti-science, anti-DNA far left ideology when it comes to boys/men becoming girls/women and frequenting girl and women’s bathrooms and locker rooms and competing on their teams, MADE IT POSSIBLE!
To be honest with you the “before” plain look isn’t that bad. I don’t think the church needed to be duded up as much as it is. It is too much and too eye-disorienting. The “after” ceiling approach should have been the approach to the walls.
And then you have that busy red carpet runner adding to the seasickness!
While I like the attached altar, it should have had the ability for the Mass to be celebrated toward the nave too. The reason I say this is because that diocese might get a bishop who will demand that the Mass be celebrated toward the nave. Then they’ll have to put another altar out in front of the current one and you once again have the two back to back altars that so many places have and even with new construction. It makes no sense to me!
Before:
My comments: Recently, the Bishop of Jefferson, issued a very good, direct and much needed censoring of songs at Mass that contain lyrics that are less than Catholic in their theology.
Then, after the uproar of a number of progressive liturgists and their fans, he rescinded his decree to a certain extent and has decided to approach his mission as the primary liturgists of his diocese through a synodal process.
Let me say that I endorse consultation with clergy and laity in a diocese. Under Bishop Raymond Lessard, a very Vatican II prelate, in terms of its proper implementation, he modeled what he expected pastors to do in their parishes. We had/have pastoral councils and various committees as well as canonically required finance councils. Stewardship Councils were encouraged.
Priests need to consult with the their parishioners before making major decisions that change something and have a large expenditure of monies. Autocratic decisions that have nothing to do with doctrines and dogmas of our Faith or go against canon law, should be tempered through consultation.
Bishop Lessard had a Diocesan Pastoral Council consisting of two lay Catholics from each deanery in our diocese. He met with them at least twice a year although it might have been quarterly.
But when it comes to the liturgy, we need experts in liturgy and theology to make decisions as well as in Canon Law and the rubrics of the Mass.
Music is a major problem for the Reformed Mass and it has been so since 1964 and the first minor revision of the 1962 Roman Missal. Junk is and was allowed and by junk, not just that sacred words are set to secular notes and genres of music, but that the words of many songs are heterodox.
We need dogmatic theologians to critique the words of hymns and what is or isn’t appropriate for the Mass. We don’t need those who base their statements only on opinion and what they like making those decisions.
Hopefully, Bishop McKnight’s synodal approach will not dumb down the Church or her liturgy, but shore it up with those making decisions based upon sound doctrine and liturgy.
Bishops are the primary liturgists for their diocese. However, they must follow the Doctrines and dogmas of the Church. They must follow Canon Law and they must make decisions in line with the rubrics of the Mass and the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
They can make unilateral decisions that upholds the Catholic Faith, its doctrines and morals and how the liturgy is to be celebrated without consulting with those who know very little to nothing about these teachings and canon laws.
These smarty pants Democrats have betrayed Catholics and the Catholic Church in general. They pandered more to the “nones” that those engaged in their Catholic Faith and have made abortion their sacrament.
Vice President Harris has a track record of anti-Catholic sentiments. I bet she now regrets not going to the New York Catholic Gala and sent a stupid, insulting to Catholics video! I bet she regrets telling a Christian who shouted “Jesus is Lord” at one of her rallies, that he was at the wrong rally!
The elitists of the smarty pants cabal of leaders in the Democrat party are:
1. Celebrities who think people love their ideas and political opinions, Oprah being the biggest problem
2. Aging democrats from another era, like the two Obamas, Pelosi, the Clintons. Did I say Pelosi? Talk about someone who is out of touch and did more in the last two days of the Harris’ campaign to do her in.
3. And their rhetoric, by calling supporters of President Trump and Trump himself, fascists, Nazis, trash, baskets of deplorables, threats to democracy, unfit, and so on and so on.
4. Taking jobs away from blue collar workers and expecting them to do dainty jobs that require educational and personal skills they do not have, thus leaving them in danger of going homeless and not able to support their families
5. Thinking that solar panels, windmills and only electric cars will change the climate.
6. Democrats call practicing pro-life Catholics who are pro-life, abortion phobic. They continue to call everyone out as being phobic on every stupid ideology they support, from LGBTQ+++++ stupidity to masculinity, which they call toxic and pro-life people who they call backwards and a threat to women’s freedom! They want men in girl’s bathrooms, locker rooms and on their teams.
One Democrat commenters on my blog is a prime example of Democrat condescension. This is what he wrote: “ The pope did not frame the election as you suggest. Your reading skills, as you often exhibit, are poor and tend to be self-serving. 2. "Half the nation" would be 165 million. Only 138 million voted, so "half the nation" is more than a slight exaggeration. 21% of the nation voted Trump. Poor math skills to go with the reading problems...” That commenter departed America before the election for an exotic vacation, not realizing that the America he will soon return to has completely changed and his party is in complete meltdown because of themselves. There is no one else to blame!
Tea and crumpet democrats who look down their noses at those who disagree with them both in their own party and those who are of other parties, especially those who support President Trump.
God and what He has created will not be mocked and Divine retribution is always a possibility especially at the Final Consummation of the world and the Last Judgement which climate change may well be a harbinger!
President Trump’s landslide victory over Democrat stupidity and clericalism can be seen as a sign of God’s Divine Retribution, no?
Bishop Baron’s critique of the movie “Conclave”? I am sure Pope Francis Jesuit pal, Fr. James Martin, gives all of this a 👍’s up!
And the Proper Entrance Chant was chanted in Latin. But, but, but, the synodal church would have wanted On Eagle’s Wings or Be Not Afraid or How Great Thou Art or Amazing Grace. But the penultimate song for purgatory is All Are Welcome!
But isn't that one of the main problems with the Modern Mass which everyone wants to adjust or fix because no one is actually thrilled with it and we are always finding ways to fix it?
Recently I, and the synodal congregation in front of me, celebrated Sunday Mass at St. Francis by the Sea here on Hilton Head Island. I was thrilled that the Processional Chant was actually the English version of the Entrance Chant but sung in a responsorial fashion. One did not even need the words and music in front of them. The cantor, chanted the refrain and everyone repeated and then the verses were chanted to organ accompaniment. In other words it was done as the Responsorial Psalm is done. The setting was very nice and singable.
It was completed with the Gloria Patri and final refrain. It was great and I was able to bow at the words, Glory be to the Father...
There is no need for the liturgy planner to pick some kind of hymn for any sung Mass. Sing what is prescribed. The official Entrance Chant, the offertory and Communion antiphons should never be changed to something else, like "All are Welcome" "Ashes" and the "You Who" Song--aka, Eagle's Wings!
These are Scripture passages as important to the Liturgy as the Scriptures in the Liturgy of the Word! The danger, for the Liturgy of the Word, is the synodal "church" that would want people not to listen to God's Word but rather to heterodox Catholics bloviating about things they want to change. Perhpas the synodal church will remove the Gospel from the Liturgy of the Word and read on-going segments of the Synod on Synod's final document which Pope Francis adopted as a part of His Holiness' synodal magisterium.
In the spoken or sung TLM, never, ever, was it permitted to omit chanting or saying the Introit, Offertory and Communion Chants! Never!
Reform the MVM by restoring the sanity of the the TLM as it concerns these chants and stop using made-up hymns of whatever type. I don't have much more hair to pull out!
Does anyone know the official reason why this popular ditty would be banned?
