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Friday, September 30, 2022

FOUR DENOMINATIONS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY, MULTIPLE SCHISM DISORDER

 



The Multiple Religions Coexisting Within the Catholic Church

Thursday, September 29, 2022

WHY THE WAY THE MASS WAS CELEBRATED PRIOR TO VATICAN II NEEDED TO BE REFORMED, A REFORM WELL ON THE WAY EVEN PRIOR TO VATICAN II WITH THE LITURGICAL MOVEMENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY


 We must admit that the way the pre-Vatican II Mass was celebrated during the pre-Vatican II period needed some adjustment, attitude adjustment. Vatican II's document on the liturgy was a great continuation of addressing some of the problems with the Mass that was occurring prior to Vatican II.

With that said, I do not want to negate how horribly the Post Vatican II Roman Missal is celebrated today and needs a New Liturgical Movement and the highest authority of the Church to reform it to make sure it is cleansed of its problems. We need an attitude adjustment with it too more so than with the Mass as it was celebrated prior to Vatican II. 

One of the things that struck me when I started celebrating the 1962 Roman Missal in 2007 was that there was no "Rite of Holy Communion" for the laity. Nothing in the Missal about the Holy Communion of the laity. THAT WAS AND IS A BIG PROBLEM, TO SAY THE LEAST AND IS QUITE TELLING ABOUT THE ORDAINED PRIESTLY MENTALITY ABOUT THE LAITY AND THEIR ROLE AND RIGHTS DURING THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS AND DURING THE BANQUET OF HOLY COMMUNION!

This is a great article on a number of issues concerning how the Pre-Vatican II Mass was celebrated during the pre-Vatican II period. I have some money bytes below the title which you can push for the entire article:

English Hymns at the Latin Mass: Traditional? Permissible? Desired? 

 

Holy Communion was seldom distributed to the faithful during Mass (roughly speaking) before the 1950s. Before your head explodes, remember: The truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes elderly people—attempting to disparage the Missale Vetustum—declare: “I remember Low Masses so rushed they lasted 25 minutes…” But when Low Mass had no sermon and no distribution of Communion to the faithful, this is hardly the ‘death blow’ they think it is! I could provide extensive proof—but it might cause readers to fall asleep from boredom! Therefore, I’ll keep things brief. Father Fortescue wrote in 1917: “On Maundy Thursday there is a distribution of Holy Communion at High Mass. This does not often occur on other days; but any Catholic has normally a right to present himself for Communion at any Mass, on condition that he is in a state of grace and fasting from midnight.”[1] So when exactly did Catholics receive Communion, if doing so along with the Celebrant was rare? They frequently received outside of Mass—very early in the morning—since Catholics in the olden days had to observe the “midnight fast.” For example, a 1943 parish bulletin shows that Saint Agatha’s Church (St. Louis, MO) had the distribution of Communion at 6:15am on Holy Thursday (22 April 1943) followed by a High Mass at 8:30am. The earliness of Mass times would shock many alive today—e.g. at Saint Agatha’s in 1943 the Solemn High Mass on Easter Sunday started at 5:30am! On the other hand, modern practices such as Saturday afternoon “anticipated” Masses which fulfill one’s Sunday obligation would be unthinkable to our grandparent.

 In addition to Communion being distributed outside of Mass, the American Ecclesiastical Review,[2] describes yet another practice—common then, but astonishing to us in the year 2022—in which an assistant priest would begin distribution of Communion immediately after the Consecration. Speaking of practices which might strike us as ‘bonkers,’ we should remember that during Low Mass, the congregation often sang English hymns the entire time (even while the Celebrant was quietly reading the Gospel, Creed, Canon, and Last Gospel). This is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by old Catholic hymnals: “Mass Hymns” (Fr. Thomas Seed, 1906); “Book of Catholic Hymns” (Fr. Gregory Ould, 1910); “Holy Cross Hymnal” (Cardinal O’Connell, 1915); the 1958 “New Saint Basil Hymnal” (cf. numbers 203-210); and so forth.

IF ONLY I WERE STILL A PASTOR, I WOULD PLACE THIS MISSION STATEMENT IN MY CHURCH NARTHEX AND ALL PUBLIC SPACES:

 PF=POPE FRANCIS: (BY THE WAY, A SHOUT OUT TO PLANET FITNESS, WERE I GO EACH MORNING AT 5 AM, FOR THIS BRILLIANT THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT!)



Tuesday, September 27, 2022

LOW MASS ON SUNDAY, MEANING, NO SINGING--IS IT A GOOD IDEA OR NOT?


As a disclaimer, I can be quite rigid in my progressive liberality. I was taught in the 1970's seminary, that the sung Mass should be the norm, especially on Sunday but even during the week.  I don't think I ever had Mass on a Sunday where there wasn't singing of some sort. 

Now that I am assisting as a "supply priest" here, there and everywhere, I have celebrated what once was called the "Low Mass" on Sundays. In the pre-Vatican II Mass or times, a Low Mass meant that the Mass itself was completely spoken, no parts sung. However, hymns could be sung at the start, Offertory, Communion and Recessional. The Propers, though, were still said by the priest, never omitted. 

However, what I am experiencing is no singing whatsoever. A completely spoken Mass. People who attend it want a short Mass and don't want to sing. I see no problem in accommodating these people if there are multiple Masses on a Sunday.

However, more often than not, the Official Introit and Communion Antiphons are completely omitted. And most unfortunately, the Alleluia and verse prior to the Gospel is omitted too.

I would insist, that in a spoken Mass, the Introit, Offertory and Communion Antiphons should be spoken by the priest and the people together and a worship aid to facilitate this. 

I was taught in the seminary that if the Alleluia and verse were not sung, these should not be spoken. I think that is silly. Say the dang Alleluia and verse. Not doing so is just plain dumb.

Monday, September 26, 2022

PRAY FOR THOSE IN HARMS WAY…


 HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC 
Is it safe to go to the beach when a hurricane is approaching? 

The town of Hilton Head is carefully monitoring the approaching Hurricane Ian in the Gulf of Mexico, but no decision has been made on water safety for residents or vacationers, including whether to close the beaches this weekend. Public Safety Director Bob Bromage said while Hilton Head has the authority to close roads and beach access points, there aren’t any plans to do so ahead of Hurricane Ian. He urged people to stay informed of water hazards like riptides and storm surge this week through the National Weather Service, the news media and social media. 

Beaufort County Spokesperson Chris Ophardt said the county has no real jurisdiction to keep visitors off beaches around Hilton Head, but the state can choose to shut down beaches on state-owned land. There’s really no way to keep people off private beachfront property that runs up to beaches, he said. According to the National Weather Service, Hilton Head Island and surrounding areas are likely to begin seeing the effects of Hurricane Ian, including high winds and sustained rainfall, late Wednesday or early Thursday.

God, our Father, Eternal and Omnipotent, Creator and Lord of the Universe, you have set the earth on its foundation and all elements of nature obey your command. You give food to all flesh, cover the heavens with clouds, and provide rain to the earth ─ We humbly beseech you Lord, Most High, to keep us safe from all dangers and to calm all the storms of life that threaten us: especially the attack of whirlwinds and tornadoes, the calamity and destruction of hurricanes, the din and damage of hail storms, the striking of thunderbolts and lightning, and the devastation of floods and tidal waves.

May we be secure in your loving protection, seek your Will in all our experiences, and serve you always with grateful hearts. We ask this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

WOW! A FIRST FOR ME IN MORE THAN 42 YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD AND DISTRIBUTING HOLY COMMUNION DAILY


I had the 7 AM Mass at St. Gregory the Great Church in Bluffton, South Carolina in the Diocese of Charleston. It is a spoken Mass so that the crowd can get Mass over with and get on with the joys of retirement, like golfing. The church is about 3/4’s full or about 700 people I guess. 

At Communion time one of the women who came up to me received on the tongue. Either her tongue was dry or the Host stuck to my finger, either way, the Host fell off of her tongue and slid to the floor. 

Normally, even when the laity receive on the hand, they won’t pick up the Host but wait for the priest or EMHC to pick up the Host. 

Not so with this devout Catholic woman. Immediately she went to her knees bowed her body to the ground, licked up the Host and kissed the floor and got up and kept moving to her pew. 

I have never had this expression of Eucharistic piety and reverence from a lay person, under these circumstances, until this Sunday morning. 

FABULOUS AND LITURGICALLY CORRECT RENOVATION LEADING TO A NEW SPRINGTIME FOR THE CHURCH

 


Saturday, September 24, 2022

MIDNIGHT MASS: IT ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK!!!

 




Now that I am in active retirement, I have rediscovered television and watching TV shows and movies on TV thanks to a free subscription to Netflix and Apple-TV which comes with my cell phone subscription. 

I’ve gotten hooked on several series, shows and movies and watched them diligently. For the last several decades, I had no favorite TV shows, never went to the movies and only watched TCM but because I went to bed early, I seldom watched full shows. 

I never recorded shows to watch later as there wasn’t anything I wanted to watch now or later.

That has changed with Netflix and the ability to watch what I want and when I want.

Right now I am watching the series “Manifest” which is science fiction and fun to watch, exciting.

I just starting watching a limited series of seven shows on show 3 now, of Midnight Mass.

This is what Wikipedia says about it:

Midnight Mass is an American supernatural horror streaming television miniseriescreated and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Zach GilfordKate SiegelHamish LinklaterSamantha SloyanRahul KohliKristin Lehman, and Henry Thomas. The plot centers on an isolated island community that experiences supernatural events after the arrival of a mysterious priest.[1]

It was released on Netflix on September 24, 2021,[2] and received positive reviews

My comments on Midnight Mass: I have to say, that whoever produced this, has had help from a priest or someone quite knowledgeable about Catholic theology and post-Vatican II liturgy and parish life. The actor who plays the priest does a great job and he’s preached a couple of great homilies that were meaningful, theologically accurate and inspiring as well as short! That is thanks to the writers and his acting ability and can certainly be applied to any good Catholic preacher too who needs to write good, short homilies and act it out well!

In one scene in Ordinary Time, he wears a green chasuble which is exactly as one I have worn for years, exactly. 

The first scene with him celebrating Mass, he uses the old English translation for the consecration. I thought the director/writer simply didn’t know that it had been changed over a decade ago. But later after Mass, a parishioner comes up to the priest and thanks him for the older English translation which he had not heard in over a decade!!!!!!

This is a horror film but very Catholic in theme, but not anti-Catholic, but Catholicism figures greatly into like the Exorcist movie did. Who knows what will happen in subsequent episodes, only 7 all total. But I recommend it highly, from the Catholic point of view as well as from the entertainment and horror point of view especially as we enter the season of Halloween 🎃!

RORATE CAELI PUBLISHES AN INTERVIEW WITH CARDINAL MUELLER WORTH READING

TWO CARDINALS WHO REPRESENT THE SCHISM DEVELOPING IN THE CHURCH, ONE POINT OF VIEW CAN BE FOUND BY ANYONE IN THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE OTHER POINT OF VIEW CAN ONLY BE FOUND BY THE KNOWLEDGE A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE, CLERGY AND LAITY, HAVE:






WE ARE WELL ON THE WAY TO SCHISM AND IT WILL BE AN ACTUAL SCHISM UNLIKE WHAT THE FSSPX ARE DOING WHICH ISN’T A SCHISM BUT A MATTER OF DISCIPLINE AND IRREGULARITY…

 Cardinal Mueller is certainly on the side of the school of theology of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. This distinguishes His Eminence from Pope Francis and those in the Curia who promote the reigning pope’s agenda. 

The two schools of thought, each held by a pope, are diametrically opposed to one another. 

I support the Benedict school as everyone knows. Why? Because you can discover there all the teachings of the Catholic Church which are out in the open for anyone to find if they have time. 

Pope Francis’ school seems neo-gnostic to me. By that I mean new teachings arise by listening to the culture that is opposed to God and Catholicism as it has been understood officially up to and through Pope Benedict’s papacy. 

The German Synodal way wants to change the Church into a different Church. This is what Cardinal Grech has very recently said about the Universal synod, and Pope Francis has said the same thing, both confirm that the Synodal Way’s purpose is to create not a new Church but a different Church. By the way, we have hundreds if not thousands of Protestant sects, especially the new non-denominational ones, that are different churches. You can read Cardinal Grech’s recent interview published by America by pressing HERE. 

When you read Cardinal Mueller’s commentary based upon the Deposit of Faith and the perennial Magisterium of the Church and then you read Pope Francis’ agenda which Cardinal Grech recently enunciated you see a position of clarity from Cardinal Mueller and then you read Cardinal Grech, representing Pope Francis’ theology which makes you scratch your head and realize that anything is possible even a different Church unlike the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. 

You can read Rorate Caeli’s publication of Cardinal Mueller’s interview by pressing the title below. A money byte of what the cardinal answered is below:

Cardinal Müller reveals Consistory speech on “unlimited power of the papacy,” says this view “contradicts the entire Catholic tradition”

The whole Church has followed with attention and concern the steps of the German Synodal Way. What do you think of the decisions of the IV Assembly of the German Synodal Way?

In theatrical language, one would not know exactly whether to speak of tragedy or comedy with regard to this event. All the texts, very abundant but not very profound, do not deal with the renewal of Catholics in Christ, but with a surrender to a world without God. The only theme among all the themes is sexuality. However, it is not understood as God’s gift given to human beings as created persons in our male and female nature, from which derives the responsibility to participate as father and mother in the work of God’s creation and the universal will of salvation for one’s offspring, but as a kind of drug to numb a basic nihilistic feeling with the maximum satisfaction of pleasure.

Both Cardinal Marx and Georg Bätzing supported the texts that asked the pope for a change in sexual morality, the ordination of women, and the evaluation of homosexuality. What do you think?

There are two errors in this regard that only theological ignoramuses can make. First, the pope has no authority to change the teaching of the Church, which is rooted in God’s revelation. In trying to do so, he would exalt himself as a man above God. Second, the apostles can only teach and ordain what Jesus commanded them to teach (Mt 28:19). It is precisely the bishops, as well as their ongoing successors, who are called to the “apostles’ teaching” (Acts 2:42) in Sacred Scripture, Apostolic Tradition, and the irreformable doctrinal definitions of previous papal ex cathedra decisions or of ecumenical councils. “The Roman Pontiff and the Bishops…do not accept any new public revelation as belonging to the divine deposit of faith” (Lumen gentium 25; cf. Dei verbum 10).

Friday, September 23, 2022

KOOL KOINCIDENCE!

 Small world and no coincidence? I just came back from the Piggly Wiggly and as I drove to my condo, I noticed someone had taken my parking spot, although there are no assigned parking places here. So I parked next to him and as I got out of the car, a woman came from behind and yelled “Father Allan!” It is the Lubbeck’s from Augusta and my former parishioners at Most Holy Trinity there. Micky was one of our cantors! The second photo are of them and me as I baptized one of their children, not sure which one, but that child is now in his/her mid 20’s! They have rented a unit here for a couple of days! And yes I go grocery shopping at the Piggly Wiggly wearing a t-shirt, bathing suit and cap. Doesn’t get any better than that!




SPAM!

 I just discovered about 30 comments that went to spam within my blogspot blogger apparatus! Some dating to May of 2021!

If I did not publish a comment of yours it is published now. I had no idea!

Sorry!

POLARIZATION LEADING TO SCHISM: WHO AND WHAT IS THE BLAME?


Ever since Vatican II, there has been serious polarization and politicization of the Church and her Magisterium. It all had to do with the proper interpretation of the Vatican II documents. And like Scripture, there were and are many interpretations.

And these interpretations are now to be classified into two distinct camps and the camps are now headed by two living popes, but the actual reigning pope is responsible for this new polarization, not those who are on either side of the great polarization. 

In other words, we should not blame the victims, as the institutional Church seems to have an inclination to do, but rather the sources of it, Vatican II and its various interpretations and Pope Francis who has become the pope who most clearly shows his rupture with an authentic interpretation of Vatican II as well as a rupture with his two immediate predecessor’s  long reigns. 

We all know that Pope Benedict, but without being a dictator, set the proper agenda for interpreting Vatican II, “renewal or reform in continuity with what preceded.” 

Pope Benedict was and is against “rupture” with the Church prior to Vatican II.

This is not true with Pope Francis, the now reigning Pope. From day one, the moment he set foot on the loggia of St. Peter’s with the look of “pathology” in his eyes (that was my first reaction to seeing him, NOT to the fact he did not wear the “proper clothing” of a newly named pope). Pope Francis was making clear his rupture with Benedict and the school of theology that Benedict supported, renewal in continuity. 

Every since that fateful day to the current day, Pope Francis’ ideology of rupture, returning to the 1960’s and early 70’s with His Holiness’ ambiguities and incoherence in speaking and writings, we have a Church more polarized now then it was in the late 60’s and 70’s prior to Pope John Paul II strivings to restore the great discipline of the Church. 

We can blame no one but Pope Francis for the state of affairs in the Church today. We need not blame the victims, those polarized political realities of left and right, progressive and conservative, all of which is a result of Vatican II. Diverging interpretations of Vatican II should be blamed as well as the current pontiff who has placed this polarization on steroids and which will surely lead to a major Schism. 

Read the Pillar’s commentary on this:

The News

We have been tracking this week the publication by Belgium’s Flemish bishops of a new document on the pastoral care of Catholics who identify as LGBT, which includes the outline of a ritual of blessing for same-sex couples.

Belgium’s French-speaking bishops have signaled that their own version is coming soon, so it seems that church blessings for same-sex unions are to be part of the national ecclesiastical landscape in that country, despite the Vatican having explicitly ruled out the possibility of such blessings just over a year ago.

This is likely to be a topic of conversation when the Belgians head upriver to Rome for their upcoming ad limina visit, during which they will meet with the pope and heads of the various curial departments. That was supposed to happen next week, but the visit was postponed until November.

You can read all about it here.

You might ask how the Belgian bishops could possibly get away with adopting an idea that the Vatican’s doctrinal office so recently terminated, with extreme prejudice. Surely this is a recipe for a serious breach of communion with Rome?

I asked the same questions of all the friends in the Vatican I could get a hold of this week, and the answer I came away with was this — maybe forcing a breach is the whole point.

For the last several years now, Rome has been issuing “no” after “no” to various “progressive” plans coming out of different European bishops’ conferences, most often the German one.

But with the pope usually disinclined to settle matters directly, things have settled into a kind of a punt — a frosty “Whatever. We’ll talk about it at the synod next year.”

But it seems that some bishops are no longer prepared to wait that long. Why?

The answer, most Vatican sources suggested, is the pope.

In the standoff between the Vatican’s doctrinal department and the Belgians, both sides have invoked Francis’ own teaching to support their positions, even quoting from the same documents. And the two sides of that argument represent a broader split between rival camps, which both support the pope’s reforming agenda and see themselves as natural heirs to it, but interpret it very differently.

On the one hand, there are what we can call the “pastoral institutionalists,” who see Francis’ great work as setting the Church’s unchanging teachings to new, more welcoming music. On the other are the arch-progressive reformers who, like the Belgian and German bishops, want to see real, substantive change on issues like the ordination of women and same-sex relationships.

The arch-prog camp does seem to be getting bolder. Some suggested their strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. But a more compelling theory, to me at least, is that they are growing impatient and increasingly doubt that Francis will deliver for them after the 2023 synod, if his pontificate lasts that long.

Instead, it was suggested to me, they are looking to provoke a confrontation now — setting the stage for a conclave that will (so the theory goes) have to elect a pope prepared to stop a schism at the expense of universal teaching authority. And candidates for this role are already being quietly floated around Rome.

I’m not sure this is the explanation for what’s going on in the Church right now, but I’m absolutely convinced that the pastoral-institutional/arch-progressive split is going to be the most important dynamic in the next conclave. Absolutely more so than the hackneyed conservatives vs. liberals stuff we are bound to see.

In the meantime, the Belgian proposal seems sure to be adopted by bishops’ conferences in some places, and condemned by others. As these dominoes start to fall, the divisions in the Church will only become more intractable and — it seems to me — the possibility of schism that much more likely.

You can read the whole analysis here.

LORD HAVE MERCY, OR KYRIE ELISON, IF YOU PREFER GOD’S LANGUAGE, BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD THIS WORD BEFORE UNTIL THIS MORNING!


I saw a Fox News alert on my iPhone this morning. It went like this: “The Air Force will not allow those in the Air Force academy to self-identify as “Cisgender”! 

I have never heard that word and I was relieved but confused as Fox said the “woke” Air Force was doing this. 

At first I wondered what kind of madness was the cisgender identity that even the woke Air Force would not allow as self identification? What could it mean.

Thus I had to look it up and this was so shocking to me:

cis·​gen·​der |  \ (ËŒ)sis-ˈjen-dÉ™r   \
variants:  or less commonly cisgendered  \ (ËŒ)sis-​ˈjen-​dÉ™rd   \

Definition of cisgender

of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identitycorresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birthI grew up in a family with a cisgender and heterosexually identified mother and father of the same race (White) who had 2 children when they were well into their late 20s and early 30s and after they legally married with the full support of both their families.— Carla A. PfefferIn a very real and measurable way, cisgender identity is no longer unmarked, universal, or assumed. It is denoted, limited, and in conversation with trans identities—or at least we're moving in that direction.— Hugh Ryan

Thursday, September 22, 2022

THE METAPHOR AND THE REALITY OF HOLY MOTHER CHURCH AS A FIELD HOSPITAL IS A JOKE IF THAT HOSPTIAL DOES NOT PERFOM MAJOR SURGERY, AMPUTATIONS AND CHEMOTHEREAPY



 We hear so much talk about the Church being inclusive. Back in the day, that usually meant that parishes needed to integrate blacks, Hispanics and all races into one happy place to be where everyone, no matter the color of their skin, was welcomed.

It was presumed that all Catholics were poor, miserable sinners in need of God’s healing and forgiveness and thus the Church was seen as a hospital with Christ the Divine Physician. 

Today, when you hear Catholics bloviating about inclusivity, it usually means welcoming LGBTQ++++++++ people to parishes. They forget to tell us, though, that Church Law, one of the six precepts of the Church, is that all Catholics are obligated under the pain of mortal sin to attend Mass each and every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation and must make their Easter Duty each year by going to Confession, at least once a year and receiving Holy Communion once a year! 

Sinful Homosexuals  and heterosexuals are welcomed in all Catholic Churches and to Mass if they are in prison. They are not allowed to wear T-shirts with slogans glorifying their  particular sin or telling someone to F off. If they are known to be a man but come to Mass in drag or white with blackface because they say their race is not white but black, they may well be turned away until they wash their face or wear clothing proper to the gender assigned them by God at conception and easily confirmed by science, biology and DNA proof.

Social mores while ever changing don’t always change if the common good is dangerously diminished. For example, proper dress is expected for some occasions and most churches would turn away some one who decided to wear a speedo, g-string or skimpy bikini to Mass. Nudity would not be welcomed or Halloween costumes that were of the horror variety or licentious.

We would say, get rid of those, dress properly and then you can enter. They do this in Italy when tourists try to enter churches in shorts and tank tops, How unwelcoming!

In the early Church public sinners were publicly excommunicated and not allowed to enter the church for Mass until they decided to repent of their sin, enter a penitential season, like Lent, wear sackcloth and ashes and then be publicly welcomed and reconciled to the Church, normally at Easter. 

Exclusion and labeling them as sinners in need of change, repentance and forgiveness marked their public experience. These sinners were not “snowflakes” outraged at being called out and excluded, but took steps to renounce what excluded them. 

Christ as the Divine Physician and the Church as His field hospital require the person who needs the Doctor and the hospital to submit to a regime of medicine. For the Church, it is mediating God’s healing and forgiving grace that moves a person to repent of their sin, feel sorrow and shame and to be forgiven and reconciled through the Ministry of Christ mediated in the field hospital.

Grave or mortal sin can be likened to gangrene and needs serious antibiotics or even amputation if not chemotherapy. 

To say to anyone, let alone LBGT++++++++++, that there is no need to repent and return to the baptismal garment rather than the sullied costumes of public sinners reticules the Church as a field hospital and Christ and the Divine Physician. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer had it right during the time of Hitler when he said the following:

"Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."




Wednesday, September 21, 2022

WOW! I LIKE IT; I LIKE IT…

 Before:


After:




GOD WILLING, THIS IS BUT A MINOR BLIP AND IRRITATING FLEA IN THE OINTMENT OF PAPAL HISTORY AND SANITY WILL BE RESTORED TO THE CHURCH IN THE NEXT PONTIFICATE…

 


All of this is the ethos for the papacy and the Church that radical post Vatican II Theologians want for the Church beginning in the late 1960’s! I was taught this in my 1970’s seminary….

Press title for astute commentary:

The substitution of radical social politics for doctrine spells doom for millions of Catholic faithful.


In a recent interview with the Neapolitan newspaper Il Mattino, Pope Francis offered an expansive prescription for the human race. “Planetary injustice,” centered around climate change and Third World debt, must be the focus of the Church, he explained, adding that politics is the “highest form of charity.” Saying that “everything is connected,” the Pope sounded like he was channeling the latest New Age woo-woo philosophy—which in a sense, he is.

The Catholic church was once the greatest conservative institution in the West, and not in any narrow sense of the term. In her self-understanding she was the guardian of the apostolic inheritance, the natural moral law, and an understanding of conscience and right reason that had nothing to do with debilitating rationalism or an enervating moral subjectivism.

Monday, September 19, 2022

ABOUT 1% OF THE USA’S 67 MILLION CATHOLICS PARTICIPATED IN THE SYNODAL PROCESS—WHAT DOES SUCH A SCANDALOUSLY LOW PERCENTAGE TELL THE POPE AND BISHOPS IN UNION WITH HIM ABOUT THE SYNODAL PROCESS, THE SENSUUM FIDELIS?


 On the bright side, a significant number of the 1% of those who participated decry the banning of the 1962 Roman Missal as being cruel and completely unnecessary especially as they see what the pope is allowing in Germany including cardinals and bishops going off the rails with the mentality of the anti-Christ. 

“Divisiveness and polarization in the church was a concern expressed in multiple regional reports. The Region 9 report covering four Midwestern states said division over the celebration of the Eucharist is disconcerting, particularly when it comes to the pre-Vatican II Mass.

"The limited access to the 1962 missal was lamented; many felt that the difference over how to celebrate the liturgy 'sometimes reach the level of animosity. People on each side of the issue reported feeling judged by those who differ from them,'" the national synthesis report said quoting the Region 9 submission.”

US synod report finds participants share common hopes, lingering pain


IS IT KOSHER TO USED ANGLICAN CHANT IN THE MODERN ROMAN RITE?

 


Perhaps John Nolan can speak to this. When I was in the seminary in the mid 70’s one of my professors told me that Gregorian Chant translated into English did not work well and it was for this reason we were losing our patrimony of Gregorian Chant as Latin was no longer deemed to be useful, the vernacular was.

Thus new idioms of music, hymnody and other forms of chant, were necessary for the English Mass.

I have always loved Anglican Chant. It seems to me that it developed in an organic way when the Church of England went to an English form of the Liturgy. Now that our Roman Mass is in English, it seems to me that Anglican Chant would be ideal for the Introit, Gradual/Alleluia, offertory and Communion antiphons. 

I presume the Ordinariate Mass as an Anglican Gradual that could easily be used in a very traditional Roman Liturgy.

Why not use Anglican Chant? Should we?

ANCIENT REQUIEM, MODERN REQUIEM, CONTINUITY…