A Treasure To Be Shared

Prelude Have many or most composers of modern music reduced themselves to producers of mere soundcraft? Is the harmonic series the DNA of tonality (and therefore of music)? The compositional processes or techniques adopted by many contemporary composers of "art music" or music of the academy frequently avoid tonality, a family of relationships configured to and by the harmonic series . Tonality is the system of relationships configured to a tonic, a fundamental tone around which pitches function in a hierarchy of relationships. Function or proximity within that hierarchy enables a highly flexible axial or concentric expansion or compression of those relationships, what Sir Roger Scruton refers to as "intrinsic ways of (musical elements) relating to each other". Expansions can be rapid or extended, micral (contrapuntal) or macral (formal). The compressions can be equally rapid (dissonant/tensive) or extended (cadential). Tension is released, for

Rubens: The Miracles of St Francis Xavier (Patron of Missionaries) His Excellency, the excellent Bishop Robert Barron, has proposed a recipe for bringing back the loose and the lost. Bishop Barron’s five paths for bringing the unaffiliated back to the Church  - articulated by Gretchen R. Crowe, November 11, 2019. In his presentation, Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary of Los Angeles and chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, suggested five paths that he believes would be useful in reaching out to people who are alienated from the Church. First, Bishop Barron recommended that young people become more involved in the work of justice, as young people resonate with the Church’s outreach to the poor and the needy. Bishop Barron said that studies show that the more involved young people are in the work of justice, the closer they stay to the life of the Church. The many college-age people with whom I am acquainted and who s

ACS / AC Conference 2019 ACS has this:  https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2019/11/17/thanksgiving-mass-gets-a-10/ And links to this: Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what? The title of the celebration was ‘Solemn High,’ and its execution did not disappoint. In the traditional fashion of masses celebrated according to the Ordinariate's missal, Divine Worship, the altar party faced east, leading the congregation in prayer. Communion was distributed in both kinds to Catholic communicants kneeling at prayer benches arranged to simulate an altar rail. There were no extraordinary ministers of holy communion. During the Solemn Te Deum, there were two thurifers doing their best to fill the vast space of the cathedral with incense. ...from this:  http://shipoffools.com/mystery-worshipper/st-michaels-cathedral-basilica-toronto-ontario-canada/ Keep checking the ACS website, which reports that they "will have a lot more on this conference, the

An excerpt:  http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pjsmith/ordinariates-bring-forth-the-joyful-englishness-of-catholicism Peter Jesserer Smith : I've really enjoyed and appreciated the Divine Worship Mass. The poetry of the language, to me, really helps the prayers of the Mass stick to your bones. Monsignor Newton : It does. People when they come to it they'll say, “it is very different.” I tell them, well, you have to let liturgy seep in. You can’t judge it on one or two occasions. Somehow it’s got to get into you and become part of your spirituality, where you respond to it. And I must say, I'm mostly celebrating Divine Worship now. I still do the [ordinary] Roman Rite sometimes at some churches I go to, either diocesan churches or not. I mean, on Sunday, I'm going to Liverpool and I'm going to celebrate Mass in the cathedral there and it will be Novus Ordo. Having celebrated it now, I do find it a bit weak in parts and its language. Whereas [in Divine Wor

Fr. Kenyon's blog: Solemn Mass of Requiem (10NOV) If you're in the area, drop by and join us for Mass  (22Trinity), 2pm, worshiping at Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish Church, 851 Old Esquimalt Road , Victoria, BC: Missa Orbis Factor (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei) Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke) Offertory Motet: Out of the Deep (Tallis) Communion Motet: Genitori Genitoque (Victoria) Opening: Joyful, joyful, we adore thee (Hymn to Joy, BCP 403) Offertory: Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth, BCP 510) Final: Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (Cwm Rhondda, NEH 368) The Victoria Ordinariate website:  http://www.victoriaordinariate.com/ And - visit Fr. Kenyon's splendid blog:  http://www.victoriaordinariate.com/blog

https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/11/10/cardinal-urges-ordinariate-to-evangelise-britain-on-its-10th-anniversary/ The Catholic Herald has the story: Cardinal praises ordinariate for promoting knowledge of pre-Reformation saints. Cardinal Vincent Nichols urged members of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham to help with the new evangelisation of Britain, when he preached at a packed Mass to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s Anglicanorum Coetibus .

Under a bridge somewhere there lives a troll - the Train Man - who belches from his blog numerous cantankerous - some might say cancerous - accusations aimed at people and presbyters, bishops and bystanders. Train Man - because he applies his affection to model trains, which are pretty cool as far as toys go (...ask any kindergartner) - spares little charity for those to whom he applies his wrath. A fair-minded reader of his blog could easily conclude that Train Man has a hate-on for the Ordinariate. As he coughs up one venomous hit-piece after another, ad nauseum one could add, he avoids the possibility that the development of the Personal Ordinariates is a gift of the Holy Spirit, a gift that folds perfectly acceptable liturgical and spiritual practices back into the Church as certain separated brethren bearing true gifts have been received into the Church. Which leads the reasonable person to rhetorically ask: with Catholic friends like Train Man, who needs enemas? D

Attendees of the Ordinariate Mass habitually pray the Nicene Creed during the Sunday Mass. Since becoming a regular at the Ordinariate Mass, I am reminded every week how blessed we in the Ordinariate are by having a beautiful translation of the Creed to pray. While still a diocesan Catholic, I remember with joy and satisfaction the introduction of the revised (some might say a restored) English translation of the Creed for the Ordinary Form of the Mass. When I left diocesan precincts for the Ordinariate, I found the Credo as prayed in Divine Worship (DW), the Mass of the Ordinariate, to be awkward at first, though strangely attractive. The DW version motivated me to slow down and revisit each phrase. Having been exposed to and shaped by the Credo of Divine Worship for a few years now, I cannot imagine returning to even the improved English text of the Ordinary Form Liturgy. The Nicene Creed professed in the Ordinariate, in that older liturgical dialect, is lyrical, confide

Milo Winter (1919) A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten. The next day, dressed in the skin, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep. Soon a little Lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter. That evening the Wolf entered the fold with the flock. But it happened that the Shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold. There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf. The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Aesop Is Fr. James Martin, who markets himself as a faithful herald of the Gospel, exposed by his own Tweets as more a predatory canid camouflaged in ovine attire than a conservationist of orthodoxy? Compare the water from Fr. Martin's trough with that offered by Dr. Eduardo J. Echeverria ( lin

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Portland has a community in formation. Visit their handsome website at: https://www.ordinariatepdx.com/ While you're there, consider offering a donation to help them along.. Anglican Patrimony Society https://www.facebook.com/ordinariatepdx/ Offer a prayer on behalf of the Portland community. Perhaps something like the prayer below: ALMIGHTY AND EVERLASTING GOD, Who dost govern all things in heaven and earth, mercifully hear our prayers, and grant to this Ordinariate all things needful for its spiritual welfare: priests and deacons to labour in this portion of Thy vineyard; holy, learned, and zealous religious; churches complete in the beauty of holiness. Strengthen and confirm the faithful; protect and guide the children. Visit and relieve the sick; turn and soften the wicked. Arouse the careless; recover the fallen. Restore the penitent. Remove all hindrances to the advancement of Thy truth; and bring us all to be of one heart and mind within the fold

Kreeft : bc.edu Why are children important? Because we don’t matter as much as we think we do, but children matter more than we think they do. In fact, if children don’t matter then none of us matter, because none of us came into the world except as children. Dr. Peter Kreeft

Joanna Bogle has a brief article at the Catholic Herald: https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/it-hasnt-been-easy-but-ten-years-on-the-ordinariate-is-a-success-story/ Interested in some current goings on? Check out: https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/our-ordinariate-parish-has-doubled-in-size-heres-the-secret-ingredient/ https://www.acsociety.org/conference https://olwcatholic.org/ Our Lady of Walsingham Cathedral, Houston, TX https://ourladyoftheatonement.org/ Oour Lady of the Atonement Parish and School, San Antonio, TX