A Treasure To Be Shared

God's Action The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Eternal Word, the Divine Logos, Jesus Christ, the Son of Man,... O Sapientia (O Wisdom) Isaiah 11:2-3 O Adonai (O Lord or Ruler) 11:4-5 and 33:22 O Radix (O Root of Jesse) 11:1 O Clavis (O Key of David) 22:22 O Oriens (O Radiant Dawn) 9:1 O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations) 2:4 O Emmanuel (O God with Us) 7:14 ... was born for our salvation. The Lord God made His home among men.  The Word-Made-Flesh is received in the Holy Eucharist. He makes His home in us. We, the baptized, are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). Jesus lives in us.  That being the case, how do we keep our household, the household of our lives, hospitable for Jesus? The Lord invites us into communion with Him and provides the grace - His very life, His Presence - to facilitate movement into a deepening communion with Him. The Mass The Liturgy of the Word.  The  Word of God purifies our minds and prepares us to receive Jes...

A Family Saying Grace before a Meal | Anthuenis Claeissens (c.1536–1613) [ Read time: 7 minutes ] The emphasis on fellowship in the Personal Ordinariates is a gift of English Benedictine monastics who, through the centuries, gave strong witness to Gospel hospitality, to welcoming the stranger, to fostering a culture of hospitality in parochial life. That spiritual legacy was retained in Anglicanism and has passed into the culture of Ordinariate communities. A lived fellowship is a vital element in the Ordinariate charism. We exist to worship God in the triune majesty of the Blessed Trinity, drawing all men and women into deepest communion with him through his Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and in the power and fellowship of the Holy Spirit. | Saint John Henry Newman, Victoria, BC Fellowship In Christ In the Ordinariate, the fellowship gathering after Mass, for example, is an extension and embodiment of our communion with Christ in the Holy Eucharist. This time of fellowship is...

Originally posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, the following post conveys something of the intelligent witness that Catholics give to the art and practice of science. We are not into scientism nor materialism, the religion of shallow thinkers who pretend to know how things are and who are outraged and who often resort to violence when their baseless theories are challenged. Catholics are into understanding "manifestation(s) of God’s creative genius." The Catholic perspective is focused on reality, truth, what really is, not on some pious imagining or incomplete notion tethered to pride and fashioned in our own image, an idol to which we cling in defiance of evidence to the contrary. We need real proof, and we trust that faith informs and illuminates or elevates reason in a way that allows us to discover the essence of things. The Catholic mind seeks the mind of God in order to be conformed to the will of God, to work with God rather than against the designs God has for man. Wo...

photo: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. / Vatican Media A translation of a section of the Holy Father's latest document, the missionary-minded apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium (Preach the Gospel), that reforms the Roman Curia, published and promulgated on 19MARCH2022. Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Dicastero per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti Art. 88 The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments promotes the sacred liturgy according to the renewal undertaken by the Second Vatican Council. The spheres of its competence concern everything that by law is the responsibility of the Apostolic See regarding the regulation and promotion of the sacred liturgy and the vigilance that the laws of the Church and liturgical norms are faithfully observed everywhere . Art. 89 § 1. It is the duty of the Dicastery to arrange for the drafting or revision and updating of the typical editions of liturgical books. § 2. The D...

Fr. George Rundle Prynne Schneider @LsNews by Paul Smeaton HT/Fr. Hunwicke There is a touching witness from the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church in the 19th century, about the value of the beauty of the liturgy and the zealous administration of the sacraments in the time of the dangerous and highly contagious cholera epidemic in England. The Catholic Church does not recognize these sacraments as valid, but the fact that these ministers placed such importance on pastoral care during an epidemic should be a witness to us now. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/snow/medhist21_32_42_1977.pdf In 1866 pandemic Cholera attacked Britain for the fourth and final time in an epidemic which struck with extreme ferocity in the East End of London. “The ritual innovations of (which) they were accused were entirely rooted in the desperate pastoral needs they encountered. Sisters of Mercy worked with the clergy of St. Peter’s Plymouth in the cholera epidemics of the late 1840s,...

Dr. Robert Schuller delivering his sermon at a drive-in "church" By Phil Lawler Apr 09, 2020 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/silence-closed-churches-and-mixed-messages/ A great silence spreads over the Christian world each year on Good Friday, to be broken by the explosive joy of the Gloria at the Easter vigil. But this year the silence has been with us already for a few weeks, with churches closed and public liturgical celebrations banned. Many zealous pastors have tried to fill the void with drive-in liturgies and livestreamed private Masses. God bless them for those efforts. But they aren’t the same. A car is not a sacred space, and for anyone who believes in the Real Presence ( see Father Pokorsky’s comments on that topic ), pixels on a screen provide a comfort but not a substitute. Yet when some of us have chafed at restrictions and urged bishops to make the liturgy more accessible, we have been chastised, described as “irresponsible,” a...

Peter Jesserer Smith has this at the NCRegister: Ordinariate Becomes 14th U.S. ‘Restored Order’ Diocese Bishop Steven Lopes said the 10-year old diocese has made Confirmation and First Communion at the same celebration for youth the norm going forward. With the recent pastoral letter “Come, Holy Ghost,” Bishop Steven Lopes revealed the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter would now become the 14th Latin-Rite diocese to make the reception of Holy Eucharist normally follow Confirmation, something commonly called “restored order” of the sacraments, with a focus on involving the child’s family in sacramental preparation. “The principle upon which the Ordinariate’s practice must be founded, therefore, is the essential bond between the Sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Communion,” Bishop Lopes said in his pastoral letter on the Holy Spirit. “Ideally, therefore, Confirmation and First Holy Communion are conferred in the same celebration.” Click on the link to rea...