Gerald has an interview with Monsignor Father Georg Gaenswein, the Pope’s personal assistant.
Jeffrey Miller
Catholic Carnival 129 at Living Catholicism
Carnival of Homeschooling at Tami’s Blog
World of Good, People Helping People Style
If saying the Holy Mass was ever a video game…. at Play the Dad.
Dora the Explorer Arrested for DUI, Drugs at Creative Minority Report.
Congratulation to the following Catholic Podcasts for making the nomination cut at the Podcast Awards.
- Fr. Roderick’s Catholic Insider for People’s Choice
- George Leite’s Catholic Rockers for Podsafe Music
- Under Religious Inspiration is Fr. Roderick’s Catholic Insider, Daily Breakfast. Also up for nomination is Meditations from Carmel and The Hands and Feet Show. This category will be difficult for me to choose from since I listen to all of them. The Hands and Feet show is really excellent and quite fun and of course Fr. Roderick’s Daily Breakfast is one of the best podcasts out there. Might have to flip a coin here.
- PrayStation Portable for Best Mobile Phone Formatted Podcast
- Fr. Roderick’s Healthy Catholic for Health/Fitness.
- SQPN’s Secrets of Harry Potter for Cultural/Arts.
I was sad to see that Greg and Jennifer Willit’s Rosary Army didn’t make it this year, and they did win last year. Their video podcast That Catholic Show is really excellent, but there are some very popular and much more secular video podcasts that would make it quite difficult for them to make the cut. All but one of the Catholic podcasts nominated are part of the Star Quest Production Network which has multiple shows that are all worth listening to.
You can vote each day between July 28 and August 11, 2007 for your favorite shows at www.PodcastAwards.com.
Ex-blogger Emily Stimpson has an excellent article reprinted from Our Sunday Visitor called Despite pop works’ claims, Buddhist, Catholic beliefs collide, don’t blend.
Hat tip to the reader who sent it in.
From Fr. Tran at St. Mary’s by the Sea in the Diocese of Orange:
Regarding the Tridentine Mass
at our parish, I
would like to make some clarifications, following the
directives of Bishop Brown in 3 points:
1) “The availability of a priest, in good standing, who
can demonstrate a minimum rubrical and linguistic
Your servant/brother in Christ,
ability to celebrate the extraordinary form”.
For this point we do not have any problems:
Fr. Mackin and I can learn hard to celebrate the
Tridentine Mass with the help of other priests.
2) “The ‘group’ of the faithful (that) exists ‘stably’
needs to be of sufficient number to warrant the
public use of the forma extraordinaria.
Individuals who are not geographically or
intentionally part of a particular parish
community should have recourse to their
proper parish with their request or to the
existing public celebrations that presently are
offered in the Diocese of Orange at Mission
Juan Capistrano and Pope John Paul II Center”.
For this point: I believe that we have a
sufficient number of parishioners to warrant the
public use of the Tridentine Mass. Furthermore,
the directive of the Bishop is very clear: for
those who are not parishioners of St. Mary’s by
the Sea: either geographically not from our parish (visitors are OK),
registered/willing being part of St. Mary’s by the Sea: either geographically not from our
parish (visitors are OK), or intentionally not registered/willing being part of St. Mary’s by
the Sea (but just coming for the Tridentine
Mass), they should go back to their home
parishes to request the Tridentine Mass or they
can go to Mission San Juan Capistrano or Pope
John Paul II Center to attend the Tridentine
Mass celebrated there.
Many will remember the previous problems at St. Mary by the Sea and Fr. Tran where parishioners complaining about not kneeling after the Agnus Dei were told "with the approval of the Bishop, I (very sadly) officially invite you To leave the parish St. Mary’s by the Sea and the diocese of Orange." Fr. Tran has even said that it was a "mortal sin" to kneel after the Agnus Dei. Something that was clarified later by the diocese. The parish at one time held the indult Mass and this stopped, I believe, after the arrival of Fr. Tran causing much friction in the parish.
First off I would like to applaud Fr. Tran for responding to those in his parish who would like the extraordinary form of Mass and his commitment to learn to celebrate it. With all of the bad blood in the parish it would have been so easy to finds reasons not to do so.
I do though wonder about the Bishop’s directives and Fr. Trans’ interpretation. Surely as the Bishop states parishioners should go to their home parish to let them know of their desire for the older form of Mass. But I don’t think the either/or directive meets muster. Under the current code of Canon Law the faithful are not restricted to mainly attend Mass at their own parish. I just don’t see how someone could be restricted from attending their Tridentine Mass. Plus how could such a restriction be carried out in the first place? Will parishioners have to prove parish registry to attend the Mass if they are not visitors? Will there be a secret knock or a password required? (Which would be Swordfish for Marx brother’s fans) Ushers trained to identify non-registered Catholics stationed at the door. Wanted: Ushers with previous training as bouncers with skills to detect non St. Mary’s by the Sea parishioners. Maybe registered parishioners will get their hand inked with some permanent stamp like at some amusement park.
Wouldn’t anybody attending who is not registered technically a visitor anyway? Plus the whole system of parish registry is not something mandated from Canon Law and is really just a tool parishes use.
Kudos to Fr. Tran for making available the Tridentine Mass, but there is a problem with either inviting people to leave or requesting people not to come in the first place.
[Via Roman Catholic Blog]
Are you a Catholic liturgist, musician, parish catechist, etc that was part of the sixties generation? Do you look fondly on change for change sake and the exciting climate that theology had gone gonzo and that anything could happen, yet wonder if that wasn’t right? Do you still feel like you want to "stick it to the man" even though you’re "the man" now? That you love Woodstock and the Woodstock Theological Center though you are starting to think that it is more nostalgia then something rational? Are you starting to doubt that progress is a synonym for change and that it might actually need to be measured by some objective standard? Are you actually finding that the do-it-yourself Mass is not quite as helpful to your prayer life that you would have expected? Finally, you want to leave the sixties philosophy behind you, though you still consider it might be a Haight-Ashbury crime to do so?
These feelings are really scary especially when those you labled as "conservative" Catholic are starting to make sense. But you are not alone! There are others that feel these same anxieties. If you experience these symptoms you might be suffering from Liturgical Sixties Disenchantment (LSD). With LSD you might consider doing things like actually reading the documents of Vatican II or even worse the Church’s liturgical documents, but yet you start to flashback to Masses with people sitting around the altar with guitars singing Kumbaya. When you move in a direction where you begin agreeing with the teaching authority of the Church, but are prevented from moving in that direction because of flashbacks to your previous anti-authority and ageism to anything before 1960 – you just might be experiencing LSD. If you now prefer the pipe organ to several guitarists strumming the same old chords in unison, then no doubt you have LSD. Now you just want to "Turn on" Gregorian Chant, "Tune In" to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass properly celebrated and to "Drop out" of your National Catholic Reporter subscription. You might ask how do you drop LSD and get rid of this condition?
Previously this was a difficult process and those who have tried to go cold turkey have had varying levels of success. Syrupy and banal modern Catholic hymns are like a siren’s call continuing bringing you to liturgical shipwrecks crying "Here I am, Lord!" The good news is that you are not on your own anymore!
Introducing Sixtiesdote the antidote to the sixties? Sixtiesdote is guaranteed to cure your addiction to felt banners or your money back! Latin will no longer give you a rash and you can now say "Long live Pope Benedict XVI" and actually mean it! Just one tablet a day and you will be on your way to finding that rubrics are your friends! You will actually start to be glad to see vestments that actually match the liturgical color of the day and happy to see that stoles do not resemble that stack of tye-dye t-shirts you finally threw out.
While using Sixtiesdote make sure you are under a Doctors of the Church care. Whether Teresa of Avila, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, etc a good diet of spiritual reading from these sources will greatly increase your chance of spiritual health and to throw off those residual sixties influences. Their bedside manner is always great since you can keep their books at your bedside for easy access. Sixtiesdote works best when taken with Humanae Vitaemins as part of your daily allowance.
Sixtiesdote is made up of a patented combination of vitamins and minerals such as Wojtyla Karoltene that best enables you to be open to beauty and objective truth without that sixties reflex against even true authority. Often those who suffer from sixties contamination have too much B3 (Denyasin) in their systems, catechetical deficiencies, and are allergic to anything B4 1960. Those with LSD are already on the road to spiritual health and Sixtiesdote helps you get there without severe withdrawal symptoms such as relapsing back to the St. Louis Jesuits.
In just a few short months you will be able to read Dominus Iesus or even attend the extraordinary form of the Mass when it becomes available without incurring sixties panic and other related reactions. Sixtiesdote helps you to join the true counter-culture and be a real radical by fully following Christ and his Church.
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Do not take Sixtiesdote if you are still enamored of theologians like Hans Küng and theological fads such as liberation theology. Severe theological reactions can occur. The makers of Sixtiesdote is not responsible if lose your job as a DRE, liturgist, etc for suddenly having orthodox opinions or that you stop finding that Franco Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun, Sister Moon is the best movie on St. Francis ever. The makers of Sixtiesdote is not responsible for book bills from Ignatius Press and other reliable publishing companies due to a sudden interest in the spiritual treasures of the Church. Sixtiesdote can be used with a 12 step program as long as those 12 steps are not liturgical dance steps. Do not try dropping Sixtiesdote in your parish liturgist’s coffee. Sixtiesdote only works with an act of the will and will not violate conscience, even a badly formed one. For ex-members of Call To Action and FutureChurch this product will not remove the gray from your hair. |
AirMaria.com has an in depth article on the Motu Proprio titled Exorcising the Spirits of Confusion: Summorum Pontificum and the End of Liturgical Freelancing. The article contrasts Sister Joan Chittister ill informed commentary on the document with the actual documents of Vatican II and previous documents of the Church. This is a very good article.
Daughter of casual sex proponent Erica Jong says she was "sold a bad bill of goods," regrets her own promiscuity.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious of a group of these "New Victorians" launched a class action suit against the author of Fear of Flying…?
I wonder if she was referred to as "Ma Jong."
I do think that for all of the proponents of promiscuity that a "crass action suit" should be pursued.
… was given to Marty Haugen by Oregon Catholic Press. I thought the headline was a joke at first, but there really is a Father Funk and he founded the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. No wonder I am often in a funk when hearing their contributions. This award was given at the latest NPM conference which included a multiple seminars on liturgical dance. Oh and here is a shocker:
A 29 Showcase: Practical Gregorian Chant Selections [CANCELLED]
Anthony Sorgie
In light of renewed interest in the liturgical use of chant, join us for an introduction of practical Gregorian selections to consider for your choir. Sponsored by Peter’s Way Tours Inc.
I guess I am more shocked that they had the seminar scheduled than that it was cancelled.
Fr. Powell, OP has a quiz that I doubt few of my readers will score high on.

