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Benedict XVI Turns 86 Years Old
His first birthday as Pope Emeritus. This is a really nice video honoring His Holiness.
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #14
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
Fr. George Rutler Weighs In On The Campion Missal
“Attractively, even elegantly, produced, the appearance of this Missal and Hymnal is appropriate to the high quality of the contents . . .” — Rev. George William Rutler
Not a movie. This was real.
This attack happened within my parish. St. Cecilia Parish in the Back Bay section of Boston, is around the block from the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Several historic churches literally surround the finish line. So where is God in all of this?
Shouting Our Faith from the Rooftops
Suffering for the Sake of the Name
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (1890-1979)
“The rite of Holy Mass should not be treated as if it were a piece of cloth to be refashioned according to the whim of each generation.”
Maternal Heart of Mary Chapel (Sydney, Australia)
The liturgy there is beautiful. Sunday Mass usually begins with a rousing organ prelude. Then the priest intones the Asperges . . .
Does Having Children Make Us Better at Our Jobs?
Working for the Church is often not conducive to family life. But, in my children, I found God. Children have helped me focus on what and who is important.
PDF Download • Instruction on Sacred Music (“De Musica Sacra”) • Issued by Pope Pius XII in 1958
Don’t you hate it when you think you know the answer to something . . . and then you find out you were dead wrong? This happened to me regarding the congregation reciting Mass Propers in the Extraordinary Form.
Why Liturgical Bad Habits Must Be Broken
The Church is not built up and strengthened when her pastors ignore her conciliar teaching, repudiate her tradition, violate her rubrics and instructions, and merrily accept the status quo in all its mediocrity.
Participating Actively despite all of that Active Participation
Isn’t this what is meant by the “active participation” that is one of the liturgical goals of the Second Vatican Council?
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #13
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
The Latin Mass Has Come Such A Long Way!
“The greatest problem of the new missal, at least in English-speaking countries, lay in the miserable translation that was imposed upon priests and people. Many prayers were so mistranslated that a student of first-year Latin would have done better.” — Msgr. Richard Schuler, 1984
Jesus Returns
Peace Be with You