Saturday, June 27, 2015

A Necessary Expansion to the Curia?

Pope Francis promulgated on Saturday, 27 June 2015, a Motu Proprio instituting the Secretariat for Communications and nominating Rev. Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò as Prefect of the new Secretariat.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, June 27, 2015

Pope Francis Meets Delegration from Patriarch Bartholomew

Pope Francis on Saturday met with a delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Batholomew I, which is in...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, June 27, 2015

Pope Francis on Saturday met with a delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Batholomew I, which is in Rome for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, which is on Monday

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, June 27, 2015

"Concelebration Tomorrow"

Concelebration Tomorrow - From Dom Alcuin Reid’s Foreword to “The Holy Eucharist - The World’s Salvation”

Interview of Cardinal Siri by Fr. Walter Abbot, S.J.

Rorate Caeli: Online Exclusive: Cardinal Siri's 1963 interview on the ongoing Council -- and the shortcomings of its "pastoral" tone

What comments did he make about the actual documents of the Council after they were approved?

St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Learn about Orthodox communities across the country. This week: St. Nektarios Parish in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

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St. Nicodemus on Frequent Communion

Some wise advice from St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Pistevo

Music and Notation in St. Gregory of Nyssa's Commentary On the Inscriptions of the Psalms

This article by Fr. Matthew Baker is incredible. May his memory be eternal!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, June 26, 2015

Transfiguration Church, Jerusalem

Awad writes: Here are some photos from recent visit to Transfiguration Church on Mount Tabor in Jerusalem. Simply said this church is "Heaven on Earth"

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, June 26, 2015

Photos of Valaam

Holy Virgin Church

Here is a photo of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin in Modricha Republic of Srpska. Just lovely!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Saturday, June 27, 2015

Friday, June 26, 2015

Adam DeVille on Liturgical Calendars and the Dating of Pascha

Pope Francis and the Absurdly Vexed Calendar Question
The notion of going into schism over a calendar is wholly without logic, but we are not in the realm of logic here.

Two by Russell Shaw on Spiritual Direction

Understanding the Place of Spiritual Direction
Why Not Spiritual Direction

City of Man

When the Western Roman Empire was weakening and about to fall through outside pressure, could any of the bishops, or the bishop of Rome, have known about all of the causes of the decline and warned about them, other than some general admonishments against sin? Should we expect our bishops to have that sort of knowledge and circumspection?

Pontifical Eccesiastical Academy

Pope Francis on Thursday met with members of the Pontifical Eccesiastical Academy, the “Accademia” – the Roman...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, June 25, 2015

“The true authority of the Church of Rome is the charity of Christ.” That was the message of Pope Francis to members of...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, June 25, 2015

Meaningful Prayers

How can we transform our prayers so that they are more meaningful?

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, June 25, 2015

Kyrie eleison!

Fr. David's mission parish: Ukiah church robbed of ‘priceless relics’

Thursday, June 25, 2015

His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni Passes

Pope Francis on Thursday sent a telegram of condolences to the Patriarchal Synod of the Patriarchate of Cilicia of the...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, June 25, 2015

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Dr. Robert Fastiggi: The Roman Pontiff and Other Points of Division between Orthodox and Catholics



I haven't watched past the first five minutes but I suspect that Professor Fastiggi's view is more "traditional" or "conservative," even though he probably isn't a Latin traditionalist.

The Holy Eucharist - The World's Salvation

NLM: Book Notice: The Definitive Study of Concelebration by Peter Kwasniewski

Joseph de Sainte-Marie, OCD. The Holy Eucharist—The World’s Salvation. Studies on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, its Celebration, and its Concelebration. With a Foreword by Dom Alcuin Reid, OSB. Leominster: Gracewing, 2015. xxxix + 557 pp.

Maybe Fr. Hunwicke will review the book.

What do Eastern apostolic Christians make of these claims:
(4) because “each Mass pours the redemptive Blood of Christ upon the Church and the whole world,” the Church and the world benefit from a multiplication of Masses and suffer loss from their reduction; (5) it can be demonstrated from documents of Tradition and of the Magisterium that the Church herself greatly desires that Masses be thus multiplied