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Axios! Dear readers, a very joyful occasion! A few screenshots of the ordination to the sacred priesthood of Father Kent Grealy. I have known Fr. Grealy for the better part of a decade, beginning during our shared time as altar servers for our college Mass, and throughout his journey into the FSSP, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. In addition to serving in the Latin Mass (1962 Missal), Fr. Grealy also attended the Ordinariate Mass while completing his undergraduate degree. This month of June, Fr. Grealy will be offering public Masses at Our Lady Queen of Peace , his home parish during his undergraduate days and the host parish for the Ordinariate in Victoria, BC, once his required period of quarantine is lifted. Please keep him in your prayers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuvRNkaZ4U
The Collect of the Day - from Divine Worship: The Missal GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that like as we do believe thy Only Begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens; so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with him continually dwell; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Hail The Day That Sees Him Rise by Charles Wesley (1739) https://archive.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/11/08/17/19-27-39_0.pdf Hail the day that sees him rise, Alleluia! to his throne beyond the skies. Alleluia! Christ, the Lamb for sinners given, Alleluia! enters now the highest heaven. Alleluia! There for him high triumph waits; Alleluia! lift your heads, eternal gates. Alleluia! He has conquered death and sin; Alleluia! take the King of glory in. Alleluia! Highest heaven its Lord receives; Alleluia! yet he loves the earth he leaves. Alleluia! Though returning to his throne, Alleluia! still he calls u...
After a Said Mass offering prayers for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee, a full house was treated to tea (of course!), delicious goodies, a children's choir presentation, two quizzes (for prizes!) about the Royal Family and the Commonwealth, and a singalong before Choral Evensong featuring the Magnificat by Farrant, and psalm settings by Amner, Aldrich, Nicholson and Davies. The anthem was Diffusa est gratia (Psalm 45:3) by Palestrina. The evening concluded with two verses of the Royal Anthem. Tea-timers were gifted a Jubilee pin! Many thanks to Father Kenyon and wife Elizabeth, all organizers, contributors and attendees for a lovely and fitting celebration! Click on Images to Enlarge Fr. Kenyon and parishioner Roy National Anthem (O Canada) The Blessing offered by Fr. Domotor of our host parish. Resident Beefeater
Many of the brethren have been prodding bishops to call out self declared "devout" Catholic politicians who routinely and openly defy Church teaching. The actions of said public officials are a scandal to faithful Catholics sincerely trying to live the Faith without compromise in a culture that is often marred by bigotry and open hostility to anyone who challenges the twisted ideologies that savagely rob people of their dignity and unborn children of their lives. The days of "personally opposed (to abortion) but publicly pro-choice (pro-abortion)" are, at least in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and - given the support shown by bishops to the Archbishop of SF - in the Diocese of Oakland and Archdiocese of Denver , at an end. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251320/list-of-bishops-who-support-cordileones-nancy-pelosi-ban-on-holy-communion By now, avid followers of the Communion wars are well aware of Archbishop Cordileone's letter to Speaker Pelosi. Despi...
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PSALM 37
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
POPE LEO XIV
The right to freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, religious freedom, and even the right to life are being restricted in the name of other so-called new rights, with the result that the very framework of human rights is losing its vitality and creating space for force and oppression. This occurs when each right becomes self-referential, and especially when it becomes disconnected from reality, nature, and truth.
ST AUGUSTINE
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
SAINT PHILIP NERI
The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.
ANTONIN SCALIA
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility. Liberal Education makes the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life. These are the natural qualities of a large knowledge, they are the objects of a university. But they are no guarantee for sanctity of even for conscientiousness; they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless.
MARCUS AURELIUS
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
MARK TWAIN
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
