A Treasure To Be Shared

A PENITENTIAL OFFICE for the BLESSING of ASHES that precedes Divine Worship, the Venerable English Mass of the Ordinariate. EXADUI NOS Psalm 69.17, 1 HEAR me, O Lord, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies. Ps. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in even unto my soul. (Bow) Glory be… (Upright) As it was...   Hear me… The Celebrant now turns to the people and says: BRETHREN, it has been the custom in the Church from ancient times to observe with great devotion the days of our Lord’s Passion and Resurrection, and to prepare for the same by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided also a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for holy Baptism. It was also a time when such persons as had, by reason of notorious sins, been separated from the body of the faithful, were reconciled and restored to the fellowship of the Church by penitence and forgiveness. Thereby the whole Church was...

Fr. Nicola Bux, former consulter to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, weighs in on the Fiducia fiasco and the incremental attempts to insert confused teaching into the Church. Readers should take note of the clarity of Father Bux's challenge. Such precision and faithfulness to Tradition is an example that all Catholic clergy should practice. All clergy - from priests to popes. - - - Excerpt from: http://www.ilpensierocattolico.it/new/nicola-bux-non-esistono-benedizioni-non-liturgiche/ Infine, conviene affermare che la benedizione, in ebraico berakah , quale atto spirituale e sacro, fa memoria, loda la presenza di Dio e intercede, affinché la sua potenza discenda sulla persona o sull’oggetto e li santifichi; presenza e discesa possono essere ricondotte rispettivamente a Cristo e allo Spirito Santo: come, nei sacramenti, l’anamnesi e l’epiclesi. La benedizione nutre ed esprime la fede, attraverso il segno di croce e l’aspersione dell’acqua benedetta. La benedizione è un sa...

Thank God – often and always. Thank Him carefully and wonderingly for your continuing privileges and for every experience of His goodness. Thankfulness is a soil in which pride does not easily grow. - from Five Helps for the New Year by Archbishop Michael Ramsey, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Anglican Bless, O Father, Thy gifts to our use and us to Thy service; for Christ’s sake. Amen. Catholic ( Before a meal ) Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen. ( After ) We give Thee thanks, Almighty God, for all thy benefits, Who live and reign for ever and ever. Amen. ( Before a meal ) In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Benedic, Domine, nos et haec Tua dona, quae de Tua largitate sumus sumpturi. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen. ( At the end of the meal ) Agimus Tibi gratias, omnipotens Deus, pro universis beneficiis Tuis. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Methodist/Wesleyan Be...