A Treasure To Be Shared

Estne conflictus sola optio? Died-in-the-linen-or-polyester adherents of the Novus Ordo Missae and the Extraordinary Form, locked in a love-hate embrace—mostly hate (of the other) it seems—plug away at their respective polemics in ways that one wonders whether or not they love the very Church they claim to serve. One side brushes off the rubrical precision that supports an authentic  ars celebrandi , while the other rejects the use of the vernacular and an expanded lectionary. One side seems mired in liturgical abuses, the other preoccupied with conspiracy theories—at least, that’s how it appears if you take either set of opposing commentaries at face value. They remain in the uneasy comfort of their own stances, idly picking at a scab that only slows the healing process. Said actors seem to have missed a third way of being a Latin Rite Catholic. While many have been caught up in the pre/post-Vatican II fracas, there has appeared a missal brought together by a dedicated team assign...

Members of the communities established by the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus rely on a multifaceted gift from God that actualizes in the receptive soul a magnificent life in Christ.  That gift through which God's grace, His very life, flows into the lives of men and women, includes a beautiful form of the Mass and the Office, pillars of the legacy that Ordinariate Catholics call the Anglican patrimony.  Among the Seven Sacraments instituted by Christ, one also finds a sublime form of the Sacrament of Matrimony located in the publication called Divine Worship: Occasional Services . The Ordinariate patrimony has received into the Church vital elements of the Catholic Faith preserved in the Anglican experience.  The Anglican patrimony has been assessed by members of the Anglicanae Traditiones Interdicasterial Commission with a mind to orthodoxy. The Commission "reviewed and winnowed centuries of Anglican texts dating back to 1549, then assembled the bes...

Napa Institute Procession, Oct. 10, 2023 | Zach Fiedler According to Catholic Church teachings, virtue is defined as: A stable disposition of the intellect and will that governs our actions, orders our passions, and guides our conduct in accordance with reason and faith. [1,2] Virtues are habitual and firm dispositions to do good. [3] They are not just random good deeds, but a deep-rooted goodness that becomes an integral part of a person's character. [3] Virtues enable us to freely choose the right course of action and have a tendency towards what is good. [3] There are human virtues, such as the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. [1] These virtues order our lives in society. [6] There are also theological virtues, which raise us to a divine life, such as faith, hope, and charity. [5] The goal of virtuous living is to become like God - to grow in holiness and moral perfection. [5] Virtues are not just acquired through human effort, but also by t...

ACS Image A helpful resource from Eastbourne. Authored by Andrew Leach. Edited here by Gilbert. https://eastbourneordinariate.org.uk/divine-worship-daily-office-a-short-guide Divine Worship : Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) — A short guide Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) contains Morning and Evening Prayer from the Anglican prayer book tradition, now approved for use in the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariates. The Commonwealth Edition is principally for use in the Ordinariates of Our Lady of Walsingham (UK) and Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia), although there are prayers which can be used in the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter (USA and Canada) If you’re new to the Daily Office Use Prime in the morning (ideally before 11am) and Compline in the evening (ideally just before retiring). Use the yellow ribbon : start Prime at p397 and simply follow through the Office to the end of page 402. For Compline start at p421 and follow through the...

Overture What is the Patrimony? A chapter in the autobiography of the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost working in and through the English Christian people, before and after the Tudor split, drawing people (back) to unity in the Church that Christ established, that is, the Catholic Church? The Holy Ghost revitalizing the Church by bringing back into the Catholic fold "many elements of sanctification and of truth (...) found outside her visible confines"? The grammar of the Holy Ghost organizing those "elements of sanctification and truth" belonging in and to the Catholic Church? In this unofficial attempt to add something useful to the conversation about Ordinariate Catholic identity, the temptation will be to say too much or too little. At the very least, let us hope that this attempt to witness to a way of being Catholic doesn't deter readers from considering who and what Ordinariate Catholics are, and what they have to say to the rest of the ...

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Servant of God Dorothy Day The Church has an obligation to feed the poor, and we cannot spend all our money on buildings. However, there are many kinds of hunger. There is a hunger for bread, and we must give people food. But there is also a hunger for beauty – and there are very few beautiful places that the poor can get into. (The Cathedral in San Francisco) is a place of transcendent beauty, and it is as accessible to the homeless in the Tenderloin as it is to the mayor of San Francisco. The Cathedral in San Francisco is one of the few places where the poor can go and sit down and be with God in beauty… .— Dorothy Day, in response to Cesar Chavez . Those who describe themselves as Progressive Catholics—a term which most often refers to Catholics who, whether they realize it or not, are more socialist  and more pelagian than they are Catholic, and who more often than not fail to consider the necessity of liturgical prayer to living faithfully as a Catholic Christi...