A Treasure To Be Shared

Those of us privileged to attend Divine Worship, the Mass of the Ordinariate, are able to appreciate the necessity of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue. The state of affairs in the wider Church, in diocesan circles for starters, is of a kind that merits the witness of Ordinariate Catholics who kneel to receive communion on the tongue. The Ordinariate can help restore to the wider Church due reverence for the Holy Eucharist. Along with our Extraordinary Form brethren who hold to the same practice, we can help others recover a sense of profound adoration and reverence for the Holy Eucharist. Let us call to mind the (near universally ignored) teaching which sought to uphold, if even in a limp manner, the practice of communion on the tongue. It is a brief document worth quoting in its entirety. - - - MEMORIALE DOMINI Instruction on the Manner of Distributing Holy Communion Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship Issued on May 29, 1969. When the Church cel...

The Catholic Herald has the following article: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/07/27/what-is-it-actually-like-to-be-ordained-a-priest/ What is it actually like to be ordained a priest?  by Fr Michael Ward Fr Michael Ward shares his experience on being ordained as the Ordinariate's 100th priest (Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) [...] We’re to be ordained within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, whose patron is . . . Blessed John Henry Newman. Our Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton, being a married man, isn’t technically a bishop, so he has arranged for Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham to ordain us on his behalf. [...] A young oratorian hastens from a doorway, carrying what the archbishop has agreed to use. Like wildfire the news runs round: it’s Newman’s crozier! My heart lifts. Newman’s crozier. How often is a precious relic actually pressed into present-day use? But here is the very shepherd’s crook N...

7th Nationwide Juried Catholic Arts Competiton and Exhibition Summer/Fall 2018 Elizabeth Lev, Ph.D. Juror http://gallery.stvincent.edu/upcoming_exhibitions

Malebolge Inferno xviii When courts get decisions wrong, time can be a hideous companion. The time it takes, that is, until an unjust decision is reversed or nullified. The suffering visited upon a nation and its people by a court can be a sobering reminder that, without the grace of God to elevate minds to the Truth, evil of a magnitude hardly imaginable can spread like wildfire to practically consume a nation. An unjust decision by a court can poison the minds of an entire nation and render that nation insensitive to the Truth, and because the Truth cannot then be seen nor followed, people are dehumanized and destroyed on an unimaginable scale. One only has to look at the former Soviet Union at its height, that is, at the depth of its depravity to find an example of man's capacity for extreme violence. Socialism, communism and fascism are idolatrous systems which crush the human spirit and consume millions of lives to fuel their power to prop up themselves. The ...

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The NAPA Institute presents http://napa-institute.org/conference/evangelization-through-beauty/ EVANGELIZATION THROUGH BEAUTY Chicago, IL August 29 - September 2, 2018 Join us as we explore the churches and rich Catholic heritage of Chicago, spend a day touring the University of Notre Dame and attend the Notre Dame vs. Michigan game. Through talks and excursions, we will examine the connection between truth, beauty, and goodness; and in particular, how beauty in the liturgy and church architecture is a tool of evangelization. Registration http://www.cvent.com/events/2018-domestic-pilgrimage-to-chicago/event-summary-b793c405c0fc4e72b703a32bc0ce817f.aspx

Click on the link below for Sarum Tones (Modern Notation) For Mass Readings https://atreasuretobeshared.blogspot.com/2018/06/sarum-chant-tones-trinity-5-epistle.html

H/T Deborah Gyapong at Anglicanorum Coetibus Society (ACS) https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2018/07/23/barbara-nicolosi-on-the-ordinariate-in-los-angeles/ Barbara Nicolosi ATTN: Los Angeles Catholics Have you struggled to find a parish where you can worship and receive the sacraments without some combination of outrage and horror, or at least the need to block out the banality in resignation? ... Motorcycle Guy and I were like you - flitting around from parish to parish in the San Gabriel Valley and beyond, trying desperately to find a Sunday Mass that wasn't the hardest thing we had to do all week. We finally found an unlikely home, but a great one. The baby parish of Our Lady of Grace is part of the Anglican Ordinariate . They are a group of Anglicans who petitioned to be reunited to the Catholic Church and have recently had their pastor, Fr. Aaron Bayles ordained as a Catholic priest. The liturgy is lovely - basically follows the Latin Rite but usin...

A blurb from Francis Cardinal Arinze on liturgy and evangelization. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-arinze-discusses-hallmarks-of-an-evangelizing-parish What place does the liturgy — both Holy Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours — have in the parish’s evangelization efforts? Essential; important; foundational. The Vatican Council, in the document on the liturgy, Paragraph 10 , speaks of liturgical celebration, especially the Holy Eucharist, as profound and the apex of the whole Christian life. From the Liturgy, we get spiritual energy to do the apostolate. In the liturgy, we give honor to God. In the celebration of Holy Mass, the Church has the highest expression of religion, the highest expression of adoration. What is it that the Church has that is as important as Mass? It is only another Mass. The Church has nothing bigger than the Mass . So the liturgy gives us strength; it gives us Holy Scripture, proclaimed and explained. It gives us the grace of Ch...

Dorothy Day with Grandchildren / Hawaii Catholic Herald Catherine (Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine) de Hueck Doherty, CM, better known as Catherine Doherty (August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985), was a Catholic social worker and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate. A pioneer of social justice and a renowned national speaker, Doherty was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, best-selling author of dozens of books, and a dedicated wife and mother. Her cause for canonization as a saint is under consideration by the Catholic Church.— Wikipedia — Edited from articles at Wikipedia and  Madonna House — I considered Nazareth to be the centre of my vocation. Only by being hidden would I be a light to my neighbor’s feet in the slums (.)—Catherine Doherty Catherine Doherty believed that " activism should be rooted in prayer and that faith should be brought to every aspect of daily life". Doherty's spirituality is summarized in  The Little Mandate , w...

The official website of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter has posted a video of the ordination: https://www.facebook.com/CSPOrdinariate/videos/1747452055343634/

Servant of God Dorothy Day The Church has an obligation to feed the poor, and we cannot spend all our money on buildings. However, there are many kinds of hunger. There is a hunger for bread, and we must give people food. But there is also a hunger for beauty – and there are very few beautiful places that the poor can get into. (The Cathedral in San Francisco) is a place of transcendent beauty, and it is as accessible to the homeless in the Tenderloin as it is to the mayor of San Francisco. The Cathedral in San Francisco is one of the few places where the poor can go and sit down and be with God in beauty… .— Dorothy Day, in response to Cesar Chavez . Those who describe themselves as Progressive Catholics—a term which most often refers to Catholics who, whether they realize it or not, are more socialist  and more pelagian than they are Catholic, and who more often than not fail to consider the necessity of liturgical prayer to living faithfully as a Catholic Christi...

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Holy Baptism | St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Calgary. Human souls are risk when they are subject to erroneous teaching. Thus, to encourage someone to abandon error, it is entirely justifiable—and a christian duty—to identify for him those doctrines which hinder him from apprehending the Truth as taught by Jesus Christ and preserved in its fullness by His Church, the Catholic Church. It is a spiritual work of mercy to instruct the ignorant. It is important, of course, that dialogue be grounded in charity. Browbeating someone with the facts, for example, and it is vitally important to know and share the facts, is not an effective means whereby the Truth is shared and embraced. Rather, we invite a person earnestly seeking the Truth to consider seriously the data of the Faith. We invite him to consider the teaching of Jesus Christ handed down by the Apostles and preserved by the Church Jesus Himself founded upon the Apostles, the Catholic Church. We invite the seeker t...

An individualism and subjectivism that divorce us from nature and make each of us the measure of all things make human nature and natural human goods vanish in favour of the arbitrary choices of individuals.  — definition adapted from an article by James Kalb at Catholic World Report . When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. — G.K. Chesterton Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. ― Fulton J. Sheen Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. —  William F. Buckley, Jr. We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant. —  Alveda King Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith . — ...

Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia: In a lecture at Queen’s College, Canada, in 2010, Cardinal William Levada, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noted: "Twenty-eight years ago, the great historian of ecumenism, Fr. Yves Congar, wrote that if we take seriously that the Holy Spirit has been working among our fellow Christians, we have to take seriously the ways they express their beliefs. When their particular expression of faith adds harmony to ours, and ours add harmony to theirs, the logical step is to pass from talking longingly about unity to living in unity, a unity whose essence is revealed in harmonious diversity." Divine Worship and the Personal Ordinariates represent, in many ways, a realized ecumenism. Here, the unity of faith allows for a rich diversity in the expression of that faith, creating a space wherein the cadences of the Coverdale Psalter and the sobriety and disarming frankness of the Prayer Book will continue...