A Treasure To Be Shared

Thursday, July 21, 2022 CNA Beauty, truth, and unity: Why Pope Francis is so concerned with the liturgy Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on May 4, 2022 by Hannah Brockhaus Pope Francis, on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, issued a letter to Catholics on the liturgy and the celebration of the Mass. The letter was published just before the July 16 anniversary of his controversial motu proprio Traditionis Custodes , which introduced new rules restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. In Desiderio Desideravi , Pope Francis did not change Church law, but said he wanted “to invite the whole Church to rediscover, to safeguard, and to live the truth and power of the Christian celebration.” “I want,” he wrote, “the beauty of the Christian celebration and its necessary consequences for the life of the Church not to be spoiled by a superficial and foreshortened understanding of its value or, worse yet, by its being exploited in service of some ideol...

It's not enough to speak, but to speak true. - Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream : Act V, scene 1 - - - It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. - Epictetus - - - https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2022/07/16/we-are-the-front-lines/ So, in this cultural, moral, and physical battle, this battle for the soul of humanity in which we are now engaged, can we turn to anyone in Scripture, or in the Lives of the Saints, for guidance? Yes.  Matthew tells us in his Gospel: “An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.  ‘Get up,’ he said, ‘take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.  Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.’” (Matthew 2:13) King Herod, in his many modern forms, is seeking the Christ-child yet today.  And Mary and Joseph were told to flee into Egypt.  Into a pagan land!  How out of place Mary and Joseph must have felt as they walked past the temples of the g...

Nearest Neighbor Model | Albrecht The image above, a visual representation of the interconnectedness of the galaxies according to spatial relation, affirms what is still for explorers an exciting mystery to observe and search into. The stars, the galaxies, are not detached elements in an ever expanding universe, some believe . The apparent interconnectedness of these powerful entities in such a vast cosmic array elicits wonder that Catholics can readily acknowledge as the hand of God manifesting His elegant design. One might be forgiven for seeing in such a web a semantic network, a network of meaning. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him. - St. James 1:5 What are the workings of wisdom? Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 54. How did God create the universe? 295-301 317-320 God created the universe freely with wisdom and love . The world is not the result of any necessity, nor of ...

We all need to be loved and to give love. to belong and to be accepted. community, and to be at home. meaning, purpose, identity. truth, reality. hope, goodness. ritual, ceremony. How Divine Worship, the Mass of the Ordinariate, provides authentic orientation to God while sustaining the disciple in truth, goodness and beauty. To be loved and to give love; the source of all true love is God. We are reminded in the Offertory of the Mass that Christ gave all to save us, to lift us up in love to the Father. When we offer our gift of self, our joys and sorrows, our gratitude for life's blessings from God, and for the times when we are handed challenges almost too great to bear, those gifts placed upon the altar - symbolized by the bread and wine - are received at the hands of the priest and offered to God Who, in return, transforms them into His very Body and Blood. God loves us. He comes to meet us in the Mass; He is ever-Present to us. To belong and to be accepted. Contrary to the r...

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MICHAEL KUREK, COMPOSER MY AESTHETIC PHILOSOPHY https://michaelkurek.com/ Excerpt We are on life’s journey and seem to be wired to desire a series of goals, even a spiritual purpose. Likewise, we are endlessly engaged by the elements of drama in a narrative: Exposition, Inciting incidents, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, and Resolution. Storytelling has always been, and will arguably always be, universal in all cultures. Conversely, music that sounds random, unpredictable, with little or no feeling of narrative or goal, for me, symbolizes aimlessness and purposelessness or even nihilism in life . However, I am not talking about doing a skillful forgery of Bach or Chopin, which would of course sound derivative. I am talking about the same process used by the great composers, an assimilation and synthesis of many influences to create a uniquely personal voice. I believe you do have to somehow tell your story in your own “uniquely personal voice,” that is, through your own eyes, ju...

The Ordinariate: Diocese of Unity The call to the beauty and goodness of the Ordinariate Catholic experience is the rather obvious invitation offered to all - the invitation of Christ. That is, to 'come and see' (St. John 1:39-41). Let's start with a poke in the eye of the idol of ecumenism, or a jab in the eye of some facsimile of the call to unity to the followers of Jesus Christ. Mr. Joseph Pearce wrote at the NCRegister that (o)nce we understand the new-fangled word ecumenism for the relativist and modernist thing that it is, we will see it as nothing less than the abandonment of the Faith in favor of the false gods of fashion. And once we see the thing for what it is, we will respond to the falsehoods of ecumenism with ecumenical truth. In this sense, we can see that being ecumenical is being evangelical, whereas ecumenism is the failure to evangelize. And in this sense, we can see and say that being truly ecumenical is to substitute ecumenism for you-come-in-ism. Mr. ...