A Treasure To Be Shared

A reasonable person would be right to assert that, though God may be mentioned here and there in secular constitutions and charters, without lively Christian populations national charters alone are not capable of effecting the civilisation of societies. Constitutions require people of faith - Christian Faith - to realize the grand ideas rehearsed in documents heralding the supremacy of Almighty God. Secularists - among them social radicals and the indifferent - engage only to the degree that their own self interests are able to dominate. By contrast, people of conscience model charity and justice. Without a lived Christian Faith to sustain and vivify a country, the body politic withers. Australia An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia WHEREAS the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God , have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of...

Attendees of the Ordinariate Mass habitually pray the Nicene Creed during the Sunday Mass. Since becoming a regular at the Ordinariate Mass, I am reminded every week how blessed we in the Ordinariate are by having a beautiful translation of the Creed to pray. While still a diocesan Catholic, I remember with joy and satisfaction the introduction of the revised (some might say a restored) English translation of the Creed for the Ordinary Form of the Mass. When I left diocesan precincts for the Ordinariate, I found the Credo as prayed in Divine Worship (DW), the Mass of the Ordinariate, to be awkward at first, though strangely attractive. The DW version motivated me to slow down and revisit each phrase. Having been exposed to and shaped by the Credo of Divine Worship for a few years now, I cannot imagine returning to even the improved English text of the Ordinary Form Liturgy. The Nicene Creed professed in the Ordinariate, in that older liturgical dialect, is lyrical, confide...