A Treasure To Be Shared

Necessary Questions & Common Sense Responses In a free society governed by the rule of law: Is it wrong to question and reject a nation's (military) actions? No, it is not wrong to judge and to publicly condemn the actions of any nation or government provided the challenge to said actions is conducted in a peaceful and respectful manner. Constructive criticism is essential to the workings of the state. The actions of any government may be questioned and rejected if those actions are found to be unjust by a reasonable moral standard. See:  https://catholicism.org/catholic-teaching-just-war.html No one behaving in a rational and orderly way may be restrained or indicted for engaging in a peaceful and respectful protest. No law-abiding protestor should be compelled to abandon a cause if it be a reasonable and objectively just cause. Given a natural right to promote justice, no government may impede the right of citizens to associate in the exercise of said right. Any inconvenience

The Holy Father Pope Francis desperately needs our prayers. Minds greater than this blogger's have weighed in and have concluded that like earlier documents of this pontificate,  Dignitas Infinita  shows signs of a familiar flaw, namely imprecision. https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2024/05/04/diane-montagna-interviews-edward-feser-on-dignitas-infinita/ The dignity of the human person, a finite creature made in the image and likeness of God, is not to be confused with the dignity that God alone possesses to an infinite degree. We share in that divine dignity by the grace of God. God shares His very life with us so that we may become like Him. God cannot act beneath His sublime and eternal dignity. We humans can, indeed, act against our dignity. Some may imagine that by entering into the human condition God surrendered His dignity, and therefore that Being we call God could not be Almighty God. That conclusion would be an untenable and misleading assumption. A muslim and a heretic wo

Being Eucharist: Becoming the Body of Christ The Eucharist is the "source and summit of the Christian life." Receiving the Eucharist transforms us into the Body and Blood of Christ. The Catechism states: "By the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's Body and Blood, Christ becomes present in this sacrament." For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive.  St. Leo the Great, Office of Readings, Second Week of Easter This transformation is not merely symbolic or metaphorical, but a genuine and substantial change. "The Eucharist makes the Church," as the Second Vatican Council taught. Our participation in the Eucharist unites us with Christ and with one another, constituting the mystical Body of Christ on earth. I heard this Thy voice from on high: “I am the food of grown men, grow, and thou shalt feed upon Me; nor shalt thou convert Me, like the food of thy flesh into thee, but thou shalt be co

Nuptial Mass (Divine Worship) | Nuptial Blessing & Care Cloth MMXXIV Photos from Saint John Henry Newman, Victoria, BC. A quasi-parish of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Edited by Gilbert for a little retro or vintage vibe. The Baptismal Font | Easter Vigil Solemn High Mass (Divine Worship) with Deacon Good Friday Solemn (Sung) Mass (Divine Worship) Said (Low) Mass (Divine Worship)

Thuriferobot Mark II Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Gilbert K. Chesterton Ben Hogan Golf-themed Altar Frontal: style and... comfort? AI Confessional: spontaneous and comprehensive composition of penances. Kevlar® Cotta (could come in handy in some countries). Memory Foam Padded Kneelers. La-Z-Boy® Celebrant's Reclinable Sedile. Plasma Processional Torches: good for illuminating the Gospel and for welding. There-And-Back-Again Floor Strip Lighting: to guide communicants to receive communion and then guide them back to their pews (see also: Communion Conveyor Belt). Autonomous Robotic Thurifer (A.R.T.): able to produce copious amounts of smoke and operates in extreme conditions (e.g., Los Angeles Religious Education Congress). Communion Conveyor Belt: for slow moving communicants to board. Heelys Acolyte Skate Shoes: for fleet-footed altar servers. Temperature Controlled Chasuble: for comfort all the livelong day. Spill-proof Chalice: for

  The Church established by Jesus Christ is a church with synods, but not a synodal church as some might imagine or attempt to impose. The Church is not nor has she ever been a democracy nor a mere social club. Can. 342 The synod of bishops is a group of bishops who have been chosen from different regions of the world and meet together at fixed times to foster closer unity between the Roman Pontiff and bishops, to assist the Roman Pontiff with their counsel in the preservation and growth of faith and morals and in the observance and strengthening of ecclesiastical discipline, and to consider questions pertaining to the activity of the Church in the world. A synod is subject to the supreme authority of the Roman Pontiff (Can. 344).  To confine the Church to man's socio-political constructs is to attempt to undermine the authority of Jesus Christ, an authority which He, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, extends to the bishops of His Church. We hope that the bishops are up to