A Treasure To Be Shared

https://twitter.com/fatherkenyon Congratulations Fr. Lee! Dear Readers - pray for our priests; pray for our seminarians! A priest is a baptised man who has received the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Through this sacrament, a man enters into the ministerial priesthood which gives him a sacred power to serve (CCC 1592). The ministerial priesthood is given to serve the common priesthood; all the people of God are called to participate in the common priesthood (CCC 1546-1547). A priest is “a means by which Christ unceasingly builds up and leads His Church” ; therefore it is the mission of the Catholic priest “to feed the Church by the word and grace of God”  (LG, 11). As such, a priest is a mediator or ‘bridge-builder’ between God and humanity; he does this by participating in the one priesthood of Jesus Christ, who unites God and humanity in his very being. The priest carries out this ‘bridge-building’ through teaching, divine worship and leading the people (CCC 1592). A...

Christ Our Savior Catholic Church, California Catholic Daily Shopping mall architecture. A  new Catholic church will soon sprout from what was once one of Orange County’s last remaining parcels of undeveloped farmland. Christ Our Savior Catholic Church and new parish buildings are expected to be dedicated in mid-2020 and will be located at Alton Avenue, Bear Street and MacArthur Boulevard in Santa Ana. [...] https://www.santa-ana.org/pb/planning-division/major-planning-projects-and-documents/christ-our-savior-catholic-parish-2000-w  The parish’s new home will be modern, welcoming and inclusive, diocesan officials said. A committee of Christ Our Savior parishioners provided input on the design of the church, which is being designed by San Diego-based domusstudio architecture . The church’s interior is designed so worshippers can see easily sign language interpreters and video monitors. California sycamore, pink trumpet and olive trees will line outdoor walkways and p...

General Instruction of the Roman Missal 44. Among gestures are included also actions and processions, by which the Priest, with the Deacon and ministers, goes to the altar; the Deacon carries the Evangeliary or Book of Gospels to the ambo before the proclamation of the Gospel(.) Divine Worship: Rubrical Directory (p.125) 23. In the celebration of Mass with a congregation, the readings are usually proclaimed from the lectern, or, where it is the custom, the Gospel may be proclaimed from another suitable place in the sanctuary, from the pulpit, or from the midst of the congregation . "The Evangeliary ... is a liturgical book containing only those portions of the four Gospels which are read during Mass or in other public offices of the Church. The corresponding terms in Latin are Evangeliarium and Liber evangeliorum . The Evangeliary developed from marginal notes in manuscripts of the Gospels and from lists of Gospel readings ( capitularia evangeliorum ). Generally inclu...

Among the many precious gems to be found in Divine Worship: the Missal, the Mass of the Personal Ordinariates established under the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, is the Confession in the Penitential Rite. For those unfamiliar with Divine Worship, the Penitential Rite follows the Prayers of the People  after the Credo . The Rite includes a beautiful prayer, one among many in the Missal . ALMIGHTY God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things, judge of all men: We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy divine majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; the remembrance of them is grievous unto us, the burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, fo...

A recent survey lists our excellent Bishop Steven J. Lopes in the upper precincts in which are found those USCCB prelates most orthodox and trustworthy. http://www.complicitclergy.com/2019/06/18/bishop-trust-survey-results/ Eleven respondents. Perhaps the less than perfect score can be attributed to a certain miniature train enthusiast (and constant curmudgeon) merely looking to kick (yet again) someone else's caboose. * While the survey gives a somewhat favourable rating for Bishop Lopes, such surveys can be notoriously biased and wildly stupid. (For context it may be useful to recall  Luke 6:26  in this instant!) Raising Cain? Some might rightly find such Rate-Your-Bishop surveys to be cruel and vindictive. Ask any teacher or public official - police officer, nurse, store clerk - who is routinely subject to the basest forms of human behaviour - i.e., revenge for giving a student a low grade; the rantings an entitled employee passed over for ...

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/06/27/190627c.html from the Vatican: Ordinary Public Consistory for the Vote on various Causes of Canonization On Monday 1 July 2019, at 10.00, in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Francis will preside at the celebration of Terce and the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds: John Henry Newman, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, founder of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in England ; Giuseppina Vannini (born Giuditta Adelaide Agata), founder of the Daughters of Saint Camillus; Maria Teresa Chiramel Mankidiyan, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family; Dulce Lopes Pontes (born Maria Rita), of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God; Margarita Bays, virgin of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Our Lady of The Atonement Ordinariate Roman Catholic Parish In omnibus glorificetur Deus! In all things may God be glorified! Ever wonder what excellence (...and truth and goodness and beauty...) looks like on paper? Our Lady of the Atonement, a real life miracle story , has posted positions including Music Director and Assistant Music Director. Note the Minimum Qualifications section a required expertise is the Ward Method . Amen! May it be said - every parish should strive to be like Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio  Parish, Texas, USA. Ora et labora! https://ourladyoftheatonement.org/career-opportunities Click on Images to Enlarge or Click on Links above.

A timely diagnosis of a condition is necessary to move a patient toward a cure. Old diseases continue to plague the human family; new ailments arise. Patients need reliable doctors (teachers) to provide treatments to enable health. Patients require a diet of truth, goodness and beauty to maintain health. We are witnessing in the Church a seemingly endless parade of clergymen standing trial for criminal and sinful behaviour. How or why is it that shepherds of the Church choose to become poison to the body? Pride? Lust? Addiction to sinful behaviours? Diabolical influence? Pope Benedict XVI said : (T)he Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a...

Church Militant Television  (CM), its founder claims, [...] has been handed documents from personnel in the Archdiocese of Chicago who are fed up with the lies and cover-ups. The papers [...] detail allegations of sexual abuse of a minor by former Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. Church Militant has also learned that Cardinal Blase Cupich is now under scrutiny by state and federal law enforcement agencies for failing to report. When massive evils are exposed, there will be casualties, people whose faith is sorely tested by the enormity of the corruption. Though there are safe harbours that offer protection from the storms , some will leave for awhile; perhaps many will never return. How many will remain? When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth? Luke 18:8 The video . And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32

Here on the Left Coast of Canada, a.k.a. the Banana Belt, we expect kooks of one kind or another who are well positioned in public life to completely misspend the people's hard-earned cash  and/or resort to the frequent distortion of the public record in order to enact one goofy agenda after another. It could be said that if all the crazies left there'd be no one to run the store. By 'crazies' is meant those miscreants who are cognitively impaired only by their egotism, goofball socialism and 1970s-style petulance that afflicts the dwindling percentage of the population that possesses an adequate degree of commonsense and decency. Since the glorious days of the 1970s - read that last phrase in sarcasm font - the Church on Vancouver Island has witnessed the comings and goings of one or more species of liberal-religionist. Liberal-religionist: dissident relativist progressive (i.e., regressive) self proclaimed prophet Thinking themselves Catholic, ev...