A Treasure To Be Shared

Time away from the computer is needed. Exercising restraint toward, or stewardship of, or dominion over technology (which is to say, being mindful of the need for self mastery aided by grace through prayer and conformity to God's will to honour first things first) is a good thing. And so, timed with the weather and certain signs that call one to remember that God must be first, this blog goes on recess for a bit.

2 Timothy 4: 1-4 KJV  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (μύθους). RSVCE I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the tru...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Ordinariate_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Southern_Cross https://www.ordinariate.org.au/ https://www.facebook.com/ordinariateolsc/ Reverend Monsignor Carl Reid, PA, Ordinary

https://littlemorefellowsh.wixsite.com/littlemore/post/june-6th-reflection We began the evening's meeting by listening to the following excerpt from John Henry Newman: A Conversion To Die For by David Birch, Professor of Communication, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Associate Editor of The Priest: The Journal of the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy . Reflection on Newman's way of 'simply doing God's will'. READ MORE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

Matt Walsh's recently released documentary is causing certain eyes to role, spinning heads to spin more wildly, stomachs to churn and people's blood pressure to rise (higher than gasoline prices!). His video -  What is a woman? - asks a simple enough question. Walsh's documentary exposes an inability on the part of some members of society to respond to a reasonable question in a concise, civil, rational and honest manner. What should be easily coverable in a thirty second documentary - including title and credits - is understandably prolonged to meet the challenges of our day. Exposing sophistry in an age of intellectual complacency demands a lot from teachers. People nursed on a diet of "my truth", the silliest expression of relativism yet to infect conversations, too often end up with cotton candy for brains. Leaving aside Mr. Walsh's timely exposé, let's ask a question that surely lingers in the minds of Catholics, and perhaps others, who are witnesses ...

His Excellency Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, will be celebrating Mass in the Ordinariate Use and giving a talk on Divine Worship at the June 28 - July 1, 2022 Conference in San Francisco. https://www.sacraliturgiasf.com/schedule In 2021, Bishop Lopes was elected chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Divine Worship. + + + Tuesday, June 28th 6:00 PM - Vespers following by Mass (Usus Antiquior) Wednesday, June 29th 9:00 AM - Paper 2: Professor Michael Foley - “Learned Gaffs: The Impact of Flawed Scholarship on the Liturgical Reforms of the Twentieth Century” 10:00 AM - Paper 3: Fr. Joseph Fessio - “The Reform of the Reform Revisited” 11:00 AM - Coffee Break 11:30 AM - Paper 4: Professor Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka - “Emotion, Intellect, and Will: The Fruits of Sacred Music in the Spiritual Life” 12:30 PM - Lunch Forum: The Sacred Liturgy and Catholic Identity in Education with Archbishop Cordileone 2:30 PM - Paper 5: Metropolitan Gerasim...