A Treasure To Be Shared

"Blessed John Henry Newman could be canonized as early as next year after a second miracle was approved, the Catholic Herald has learned." https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/11/28/second-newman-miracle-confirmed/ While they're at it, perhaps they/the Holy Father will recognize him as a Doctor of the Church. https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/zcardnewmdoc.htm

Excitement is building, certainly in our local scene, at the mention of the development of an Ordinariate Kyriale , a book containing the Ordinary Chants of the Mass ( Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus/Benedictus, Agnus Dei ) in English and Latin, for use in/with Divine Worship. Fr. Carl, the General Editor of the recently published Saint Peter Gradual , is compiling the Kyriale in keeping with an ethos entirely faithful to the Patrimony. The book-in-progress, rendered in modern notation, has yet to be named. The Merbecke (Communion Service) will certainly be included. Stay tuned!

American bishops embroiled in several searing controversies, the underwhelming witness of bishops in Canada and the United Kingdom, to say nothing about the limp role demonstrated by other European bodies, save the Poles—is the Church really collapsing? Of course not, but, given the massive complaint coming from faithful Catholics—not the ever-complaining liberal religionists in our midst who lobby for faux-ordination, faux-communion, faux-etc.—it does seem that the observation Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Ratzinger) made in 1969 is coming true. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, ente

The young auditors addressed a concluding message to the Holy Father. It sounded a lot less like the Acts of the Apostles than it did promotional material from the Dicastery of Integral Human Development. “New ideas need space and you gave it to us,” they wrote to Pope Francis. “We share your dream: an outgoing Church, open to all, especially the weakest, a field hospital Church. We are already an active part of this Church and we want to continue to make a concrete commitment to improve our cities and schools, and the social and political world and working environments, by spreading a culture of peace and solidarity and by putting the poor at the centre, in whom Jesus himself is recognised.” Jesus just barely made it into the message , which meant the auditors were not listening very carefully to the bishops. The synod fathers themselves had decided to write a message to the youth of the world, and the first draft was soundly rejected for not clearly beginning with Jesus.

After Mass this past Sunday, the children's catechism class gave a brief presentation on the lives of the saints. Among the troupe were Saint Clare, Saint John Bosco, Saint Helena, St. Joseph, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Saint Agnus, and the Archangel Michael. Adults were quizzed to identify which saints the children were representing. Click on Image to Enlarge