“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
In Boston we send up our sighs, our mourning, and our weeping in this valley of tears. Great suffering compels us to move towards Christ, and Christ in turn embraces us lovingly in his comforting embrace. Therefore, the sacred liturgy is essential at the time, more than ever.
High Drama
The longer the hermeneutic of rupture and its expressions are allowed to continue, the longer a “Great Schism” between the preconciliar and postconciliar periods will be perpetuated. There is a real, pressing, desperate need for healing, reconciliation, and reunification.
“They Could Not Withstand the Wisdom & Spirit with Which He Spoke”
Short and sweet regarding composing.
His first birthday as Pope Emeritus. This is a really nice video honoring His Holiness.
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”
“Attractively, even elegantly, produced, the appearance of this Missal and Hymnal is appropriate to the high quality of the contents . . .” — Rev. George William Rutler
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?
Suffering for the Sake of the Name
“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.”
The liturgy there is beautiful. Sunday Mass usually begins with a rousing organ prelude. Then the priest intones the Asperges . . .
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.
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.
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.
