A Treasure To Be Shared

An excerpt from an article that recently appeared in the inbox. The excerpt from Dom Alcuin's 2014 presentation affirms the fundamental orientation needed for an effective and authentic renewal in the Church. We are blessed in the Ordinariates, established by the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, to be able to honour with enthusiasm and dedication the renewal sought by the Fathers of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. In Divine Worship, the Mass of the Ordinariate, we are blessed with an abundance of riches, of poetry - signs or gestures and spoken prayers, music - that corroborate the sage perspective expressed in the following excerpt. - - - Elements of the New Liturgical Movement Dom Alcuin Reid St Mary’s Norwalk, CT & Holy Innocents’, New York June 2014 [Highlights and comments added by blog editor] Let us begin with Cardinal Ratzinger’s 1997 assertion that: The Church stands and falls with the Liturgy. When the adoration of the divine Trinity declines, whe

LtoR: Sword of Saint Michael, the Blessed Sacrament, Relic of the True Cross Above | A procession of priests carrying the sword from the statue in the famous shrine of Saint Michael in Gargano, along with the Blessed Sacrament and a relic of the Holy Cross (a gift brought by a Crusader in 1228). We belong to the Church militant ; and she is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator’s supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights. No rank of the clergy is spared ; and the faithful—their number is legion—inspired by the valiant endurance of their shepherds and fathers in Christ, stand firm, ready to suffer and die, as the martyrs of old, for the one true Faith taught by Jesus Christ. Into that militia you seek to be admitted as leaders. | Pope Pius XII Agai

Necessary Questions & Common Sense Responses In a free society governed by the rule of law: Is it wrong to question and reject a nation's (military) actions? No, it is not wrong to judge and to publicly condemn the actions of any nation or government provided the challenge to said actions is conducted in a peaceful and respectful manner. Constructive criticism is essential to the workings of the state. The actions of any government may be questioned and rejected if those actions are found to be unjust by a reasonable moral standard. See:  https://catholicism.org/catholic-teaching-just-war.html No one behaving in a rational and orderly way may be restrained or indicted for engaging in a peaceful and respectful protest. No law-abiding protestor should be compelled to abandon a cause if it be a reasonable and objectively just cause. Given a natural right to promote justice, no government may impede the right of citizens to associate in the exercise of said right. Any inconvenience

The Holy Father Pope Francis desperately needs our prayers. Minds greater than this blogger's have weighed in and have concluded that like earlier documents of this pontificate,  Dignitas Infinita  shows signs of a familiar flaw, namely imprecision. https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2024/05/04/diane-montagna-interviews-edward-feser-on-dignitas-infinita/ The dignity of the human person, a finite creature made in the image and likeness of God, is not to be confused with the dignity that God alone possesses to an infinite degree. We share in that divine dignity by the grace of God. God shares His very life with us so that we may become like Him. God does not act beneath His sublime and eternal dignity. We humans can, indeed, act against our dignity. Some may imagine that by entering into the human condition God surrendered His dignity, and therefore that Being we call God could not be Almighty God. That conclusion would be an untenable and misleading assumption. A muslim and a heretic

Being Eucharist: Becoming the Body of Christ The Eucharist is the "source and summit of the Christian life." Receiving the Eucharist transforms us into the Body and Blood of Christ. The Catechism states: "By the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's Body and Blood, Christ becomes present in this sacrament." For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive.  St. Leo the Great, Office of Readings, Second Week of Easter This transformation is not merely symbolic or metaphorical, but a genuine and substantial change. "The Eucharist makes the Church," as the Second Vatican Council taught. Our participation in the Eucharist unites us with Christ and with one another, constituting the mystical Body of Christ on earth. I heard this Thy voice from on high: “I am the food of grown men, grow, and thou shalt feed upon Me; nor shalt thou convert Me, like the food of thy flesh into thee, but thou shalt be co

Nuptial Mass (Divine Worship) | Nuptial Blessing & Care Cloth MMXXIV Photos from Saint John Henry Newman, Victoria, BC. A quasi-parish of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Edited by Gilbert for a little retro or vintage vibe. The Baptismal Font | Easter Vigil Solemn High Mass (Divine Worship) with Deacon Good Friday Solemn (Sung) Mass (Divine Worship) Said (Low) Mass (Divine Worship)