IN French (video):
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ottawa/2013/03/31/001-eglise-ste-anne-cloches.shtml
IN English (audio only):
http://www.cbc.ca/intownandout/2013/03/30/sat-mar-30-info-and-links/
IN English (video):
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2366609024/
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Rome Quotes
"First the Church and then I will take into consideration its ingenious ruiners or constructors."
-Padre Pio
-Padre Pio
Dominica Resurrectionis: Happy Easter!
Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluja!
I am risen and am still with thee, alleluia!
RESVRREXIT TERTIA DIE SECVNDVM SCRIPTVRAS!
OMNIBVS AMICIS ET PROPINQVIS VT COR IMPLEATVR GAVDIO PASCHALI EXOPTO.
RESVRREXIT TERTIA DIE SECVNDVM SCRIPTVRAS!
OMNIBVS AMICIS ET PROPINQVIS VT COR IMPLEATVR GAVDIO PASCHALI EXOPTO.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Historic Priestly Ordination Video of Future Pope Benedict
29 June 1951 in Freising, Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFcx2mX_-c
" ...at the moment the elderly Archbishop laid his hands on me, a little bird – perhaps a lark – flew up from the altar in the high cathedral and trilled a little joyful song."
-Cardinal Ratzinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFcx2mX_-c
" ...at the moment the elderly Archbishop laid his hands on me, a little bird – perhaps a lark – flew up from the altar in the high cathedral and trilled a little joyful song."
-Cardinal Ratzinger
Annual Good Friday Procession at Canadian Parliament
Prayers for our government and leaders.
From the Good Friday Liturgy:
FOR RULERS OF STATES
And let us pray for all who govern states, and all their ministers and officials; that our Lord and God may direct their hearts and minds according to his will and for our lasting peace.
Let us pray. Let us kneel. Rise.
Almighty eternal God, in whose hand rest all government and all rights of nations, graciously look on those who have power to rule us, so that everywhere on earth, under the protection of thy right hand, religion and the safety of each country may remain intact: through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, who is God, living and reigning with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Amen.
Popes: Cleaning Up Corruption in the Vatican
The Holy Spirit's plan in action.
Lord knows it needs to happen - each in his own gentle way.
http://www.johnthavis.com/the-popes-reform-project-has-already-begun#.UVcusldheUm
Lord knows it needs to happen - each in his own gentle way.
http://www.johnthavis.com/the-popes-reform-project-has-already-begun#.UVcusldheUm
Friday, March 29, 2013
Tenebrae Factae Sunt.
-From the Good Friday Bugnini Liturgy (my translation).
Monday, March 25, 2013
Many Thanks for the New Computer!
The last one, Betsy, died in a mad fit last January.
Baby says thanks, too.
Many thanks to the four benefactors who made this huge miracle happen in a big way:
Ann B, Dieter P, Bao D., Fr. Paul V, Theodore F.
You guys rock. Prayers to you'all! And eternal gratitude. You all are a big part of this blog. To all who support this effort: grazie, voi!
Life is beautiful and there is much work to be done.
The Palm Sunday liturgy sums everything up.
Procedamus in pace!
Dominica in Palmis in Canada
Aldergrove, British Columbia.
A sweet, little, country parish in the valley.
Catholic culture lives.
Thanks, Fr. Ashley!
Handpainted Icons For Sale
Always interesting finds on eBay.
A dear friend has asked me to post this.
Religious art for your home.
See here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-10-x12-Handpainted-Religious-Icon-of-our-Lady-of-Kazan-/281065557898?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item4170d00f8a
A dear friend has asked me to post this.
Religious art for your home.
See here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-10-x12-Handpainted-Religious-Icon-of-our-Lady-of-Kazan-/281065557898?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item4170d00f8a
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Quick Question: What Does "In fidem etc." Stand For?
Anybody know what it means?
Tanks!
Rome Quotes
"The
Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe
truth it is this, and Protestantism has ever felt it so; to be deep in
history is to cease to be a Protestant".
-John Henry Newman
-John Henry Newman
Article I Wrote Some Weeks Ago for the LifeCanada Journal
Two Modern Tragedies: Abortion Cataclysm and School Shootings
By JPSonnen
It’s a good week to be a pro-lifer, I told a friend last
December over dinner, my eyes filling up.
She knew exactly what I meant, and nearly burst into tears.
What happened just before Christmas at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Conn., was and remains terrible on every level, but for
pro-life activists it is also in some ways akin to what has become normal since
the awful 1969 abortioneering law in Canada – taking the life of innocent kids.
When Dawn Hochsprung, Natalie Hammond and Mary Sherlach,
respectively the Sandy Hook principal, vice-principal and psychologist, heard
the sounds of Adam Lanza shooting his way through the locked front doors of
their school, they ran to attempt to stop the killing.
All were women. Six
staff – four teachers as well as Ms. Hochsprung and Ms. Sherlach – were killed
alongside twenty of their young charges.
Others were luckier. All
demonstrated remarkable grit and presence of mind.
Parents have had trouble sleeping – all of us thinking about
the massacre that took place in Newtown.
Twitter and Facebook were full of messages of the type: “Gave my kids
extra hugs tonight. Save our kids! Love them more than ever. Protect our children!”
My sizeable contingent of pro-life friends have all been
saying the same thing: Terrible indeed, but what about abortion?
Human life is being destroyed on an unimaginably vast scale. And it is legal. How many kids are killed by the
heart-stopping abortionist’s curette? And
where does the money go? Meanwhile the
mega-press straddle and dither about “one theory of when life begins” while
never addressing the politically neutral scientific data which supports the
concept of prenatality as one of the many passages in our lives. The unborn infant cannot be heard; it cannot
be read; it cannot demonstrate or parade through the streets. It cannot even be arrested and thrown in jail
for civil disorder. When will we count
the preborn kids?
Perhaps we might consider giving careful scrutiny to this
moral absolute: that the destruction of any living being, whether a child
student, embryo, defective fetus, or neonate, is an act of irretrievable
finality; that one life is not fungible with another; and that the value of
each human life transcends ordinary mensuration. Today we live in an age of acute dichotomy: prenatality,
molecular genetics, fetal medicine, fetal surgery, and human abortion – all are
carried out – on the same premises.
Abortion is hideously politicized by board, government and
union in North America. None of us are
so naïve as to think the case of abortion will be decided as it should be,
purely on its bio-ethical merits, anytime soon.
Nevertheless, the increasing weight of the scientific data indisputably
confirming the humanity of the unborn continues to ever push in one
direction. At the same time, we might
compare the crystalline selflessness of the pro-life advocate to the shabby greed
and materialism of the abortion industry and the ruthless self-gratification of
the abortion business.
It seems that we are attempting to traverse a pool of
quicksand on ballet slippers when we instruct our teenage boys that it is not
okay to kill children, but okay to kill preborn children. Canadian physicians ought to declare an
immediate moratorium on the destruction of life until we have explored every
feasible alternative and until we more fully comprehend the inexpressible
divinity of existence.
And one final word, if I may, to pro-life advocates. Our movement has – especially in Canada - been tragically hobbled by factionalism and
disunity. No social revolution, or even
counter-revolution, can succeed without the public appearance of unity and
harmony within the ranks. It may be time
to sort out the factional differences in the pro-life ranks and resolve the
dissidence in this movement so that we
may finally begin to achieve some legislative victories. I fear that without unity we will condemn
ourselves repeatedly to the bitter dregs of disappointment and defeat.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Catholic Culture: Veiling of Statues
Last Saturday night we veiled our statues in church.
A wonderful Catholic tradition in the Latin rite.
"Coeremoniale Episcoporum", liber secundus, caput XX, nn. 3 et 4 :
"Ad primas autem Vesperas Dominicae, quae de Passione dicitur, cooperiantur, antequam Officium inchoetur, omnes Cruces et imagines Saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi per Ecclesiam; et super altare nullae ponantur imagines Sanctorum.
"Cantores uero ab hac Dominica quinta Quadragesimae usque ad Pascha, excepta feria quinta in Coena Domini, non utantur cantu figurato, sed Gregoriano".
A wonderful Catholic tradition in the Latin rite.
"Coeremoniale Episcoporum", liber secundus, caput XX, nn. 3 et 4 :
"Ad primas autem Vesperas Dominicae, quae de Passione dicitur, cooperiantur, antequam Officium inchoetur, omnes Cruces et imagines Saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi per Ecclesiam; et super altare nullae ponantur imagines Sanctorum.
"Cantores uero ab hac Dominica quinta Quadragesimae usque ad Pascha, excepta feria quinta in Coena Domini, non utantur cantu figurato, sed Gregoriano".
Version of Papal Arms with Mitre
From Italian artist, Marco Foppoli.
"In effetti anche io sono rimasto attonito nel vedere il modello ufficiale dello stemma di Papa Francesco; credo che si sia toccato un livello di decadimento grafico formale inimmaginabile sino a qualche anno fa."
-Anonymous
"In effetti anche io sono rimasto attonito nel vedere il modello ufficiale dello stemma di Papa Francesco; credo che si sia toccato un livello di decadimento grafico formale inimmaginabile sino a qualche anno fa."
-Anonymous
Miss Me Yet?
Thanks, Rodolfo!
Epistolae et Evangelia
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