Friday, October 14, 2016

Humility in Seeking Forgiveness

Are Such Gestures Necessary for Ecumenism?

If they were serious about reconciliation, could something else be done?

This may seem too much like one prelate scratching the back of another, for the same in return....



Freedom

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon on St. Anselm's Atonement



But is the presentation of Anselm correct?

Orthodox Shaman?



A Special Jesuit Liturgy



What would St. Ignatius think of the Jesuit branding? Jesuit Swag!


Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

CWR Dispatch: A fiercely intellectual book on the moral complexities of sex by Fiorella Nash
A review of Anthony McCarthy's "Ethical Sex: Sexual Choices and their Nature and Meaning"

Marian Consecration

Are Marian Consecrations, whether the version of St. Louis of Montfort or someone else, have taken a hold in the Latin West if the West had had a better liturgical spirituality and liturgical theology? Shouldn't our consecration to God the Father, initiated through Baptism which makes us adopted sons, and repeated in every Eucharist, be sufficient? What about analogues in the East?

wiki
Total Consecration: Consecration Explained
Consecration Prayer to Mary

Sunday, October 09, 2016

Shemà Israel - Cammino Neocatecumenale

Given what I posted on Saturday... I had to post this, which I found last week. A bit odd... reminds me of 60s guitar Mass music.







The man himself:




What a traditional Jew be scandalized by this?

How long was the Shema Israel retained by the early Christians as a part of their liturgical prayer? (I assume that it was part of Jewish daily liturgical prayer at the coming of Christ.) Why wasn't it kept? Because the Torah was replaced with Christ?

Discern with the Western Dominicans



On the Tree of the Cross

Matthew Baker, Seraphim Danckaert, and Nicholas Marinides, eds., -- Jordanville: Holy Trinity Publications

Saturday, October 08, 2016

Pray Tell: Is Liturgical Reform Possible? by Nicholas Denysenko

Learn the Shema Prayer in Hebrew (Shema Yisrael)

Pray Tell: Viewpoint: On Praying the Psalms on Behalf of the World by Msgr. M. Francis Mannion

Not bad, but where is the Roman Catholic equivalent to Christ in the Psalms by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon?

Found this today: A Psalter for Prayer: An Adaptation of the Classic Miles Coverdale Translation Augmented by Prayers and Instructional Material Drawn From Church Slavonic and Other Orthodox

How is the translation? Sufficiently Anglicanish? What's a good resource for learning (post-)Elizabethan English?

Wiki: Early Modern English

Msgr. Paul McPartlan on the Chieti Document

Catholic and Orthodox find common ground in early Church understanding by John Burger
Member of ecumenical panel explains why the dialogue's latest document is significant

Eastern Catholic Monastics of the West Coast

The Way of Christ

An Introduction to Byzantine Chant

Friday, October 07, 2016

Friendship with Christ

OTSA

More from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Visit



A Lot of Old Faces

Of course, the archbishop of Canterbury shows up with a "priestess"




General Congregation 36 News

CWR Dispatch: The way forward after the Catholic-Orthodox agreement on primacy and synodality

How are we to reconcile the dogmatic fact of Vatican I’s universalizing claims with the now publicly admitted historical fact of regional limitations to the authority of the bishop of Rome in the first millennium?
October 07, 2016 01:38 EST
Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille

Maxim Sheshukov

Christ Our Pascha

St. Josaphat Eparchy

English Edition of CHRIST OUR PASCHA, the Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is now published and available!

Thursday, October 06, 2016

NCReg: Next Synod Will Be on 'Young People, the Faith and Discernment of Vocation' by Edward Pentin
Meeting of bishops from around the world to be held at the Vatican in October 2018.



Will they sneak in clerical celibacy in the discussion about vocations and discernment?

And how sacrifice and prayer offered in the temple in Jerusalem?

Pray Tell: Did the Presider Face East in the Early Church? by Paul Bradshaw

Eastern Christian Books: Vatican II and the Christian East

Eastern Christian Books: Vatican II and the Christian East
Chiesa: The Reform of the Reform “Will Happen.” The Pope Wants It, Too

This is what Francis has said in private to Cardinal Sarah, only to deny the whole thing afterward in a statement. But the prefect of the liturgy is promising it once again, in a book of his that goes on sale today, entitled “The Power of Silence”
Chiesa: Buenos Aires and Rome. For Francis, These Are the Model Dioceses

In the one and the other the pope has made it known what kind of implementation he wants for the eighth chapter of “Amoris Laetitia,” the one about communion for the divorced and remarried. His approved spokesmen: the Argentine bishops and his cardinal vicar
ITI: 20 years ITI: celebratory weekend highlights the universality of the Catholic Church
Over 300 guests from around the world came to Trumau September 30th – October 1st; Cardinal Schönborn calls the founding of the ITI 20 years ago by St. John Paul II visionary

Monday, October 03, 2016

Revealing the Real Music of St. Francis of Assisi

Franciscan University professor Nicholas Will speaks of beloved saint’s transition from troubadour to Tradition, by Trent Beattie, NCReg (via Chant Cafe)
Pravoslavie: On Psalm 50 by Fr. John Whiteford

Is Psalm 50 a Messianic psalm? Why does the psalm culminate in animal sacrifice? How should we incorporate this psalm in our daily prayers? Fr. John Whiteford talks about one of the most often-read psalms.

The Wisdom of the World...

A New Mitre

Pray Tell





Kyrie Eleison.

From Svetitskhoveli Cathedral







aleteia article

(via Byz, TX)

Not Again

CWR/CNA: Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight press conference from Azerbaijan
Topics discussed include the papal visit to Georgia, religions and human rights, marriage and "Amoris laetitia", gender ideology, future trips, and the U.S. presidential election.



CWR: Cardinal Robert Sarah on "The Strength of Silence" and the Dictatorship of Noise
In a wide-ranging interview with "La Nef", Cardinal Sarah discusses his new book, published in France, saying, "By living with the silent God, and in Him, we ourselves become silent."
By CWR Staff

In the current liturgical context of the Latin-rite world, how can we overcome the mistrust that remains between some devotees of the two liturgical forms of the same Roman rite who refuse to celebrate the other form and consider it sometimes with a certain disdain?

Cdl. Sarah: To damage the liturgy is to damage our relationship to God and the expression of our Christian faith. Cardinal Charles Journet declared: “Liturgy and catechesis are the two jaws of the pincers with which the devil wants to steal the faith away from the Christian people and seize the Church so as to crush, annihilate and destroy it definitively. Even today the great dragon is keeping watch on the woman, the Church, ready to devour her child.” Yes, the devil wants us to be opposed to each other at the very heart of the sacrament of unity and fraternal communion. It is time for this mistrust, contempt and suspicion to cease. It is time to rediscover a Catholic heart. It is time to rediscover together the beauty of the liturgy, as the Holy Father Francis recommends to us, for, he says, “the beauty of the liturgy reflects the presence of the glory of our God resplendent in His people who are alive and consoled” (Homily for the Chrism Mass, March 28, 2013).

And then we have this post and the subsequent comments... False Nostalgia: The Culture of the Latin Mass from a Millennial’s Perspective -- the author does not address the revision of the liturgical calendar or the lectionary, the translations, the creation of new Eucharistic prayers for the Roman rite, the non-use of the propers of the Mass.

Sunday, October 02, 2016

Saturday, October 01, 2016

Shema Israel

Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic

Again, About Women

How about the importance of men?





Posting for the Icons

No Raven This Time

Not Patronizing to the Orthodox?



NLM: Participatio Actuosa in the Current Magisterium: Guest Article by Fr Peter Stravinskas (Part 2)
Gregory DiPippo

The Church of the Protection of the Theotokos

The Five Tasks of a Theologian

And There Be Dragons

On the Charlemagne Prize Speech

Christian Order: Francis Accepts His Prize by HUGH FITZGERALD

Photos of Francis with Ilia II



The Theotokos: The God-Bearer

St. Thérèse Wasn't a Pelagian!

St. Thérèse’s “Little Way” to Sainthood through Divine Mercy

Friday, September 30, 2016

Dr. Jude Dougherty on Aristotle



1P5: Another Catholic Scholar Raises Objections to Amoris Laetitia - "Deliberate Ambiguity"

Wearing an Eastern Epitrachelion







Edit.

More on the church, which is rather Latinized.

Francis Meets Ilia II



Are you kidding?



The Orthodox already believe they are the one true Church! The same Neocatechumenal Way whose liturgies would be scandalous to the Orthodox. The hubris.

The Catholic Register: Brampton's St. Elias rises out of the ashes by Jean Ko Din

There is No Mean...

Between the Latin traditionalists and those who would seek to remake the Roman Church in accordance with their ideas. The mean used to be occupied, perhaps, by those in the Ressourcement movement, but what influence do they or their successors have now?

Benedict XVI Admits Qualms of Conscience about Vatican II

They think the old ways of thinking and praxis would restore the patriarchate of Rome.

The Kerygma



And his version of the Jesus prayer...

Georgia's Expectations for the Papal Visit



Benedict XVI

Thanks Be to God!

NLM: Consecration of St. Elias Church This Weekend

The Election

of a new superior general...

Divine Liturgy

Thursday, September 29, 2016

And what new things did he have to say about migration?



What are the economics behind married priests in the Roman rite?

1P5: Tosatti & Magister See Married Priests on the Horizon

Only possible where there is a financial base to support priests with families (large parishes) or parishes that have a "full-time" celibate priest and pastor and one "part-time" married priest who has a regular day job; or perhaps older men who have already served deacons will be ordained to the priesthood.

William Cavanaugh, "What Do I Want? Augustine and Milton Friedman on Freedom of Choice"

A Definitely Rome-Centric Viw of the Church

Crisis needs to reconsider what sort of Catholicism they want to offer if they want to remain relevant: Putting the “Roman” Back in “Roman Catholic” by Michael De Sapio
Ecumenical Patriarchate: SYNODALITY AND PRIMACY DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM: TOWARDS A COMMON UNDERSTANDING IN SERVICE TO THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH (via Byz, TX)

The New Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Eastern America