TraditioIlal Latin Mass
Now growth in NY is slow but steady - about 380 Masses in 154 U.S. Dioceses. The Holy Father has expressed a wish that there be at least one Mass in the Extraordinary Form every Sunday in every parish. In spite of this, there are groups of the faithful who cannot find a priest; there are dynamic young priests who are rebuffed by their pastors when they ask to say the Latin Mass.
However, young people are enthusiastic, priests are hopeful. Training programs are offered for interested priests. We .encourage each priest who offers Mass in the Extraordinary form to
teach one other priest, Latin must be taught in every semmary, as Bl. Pope John XXIII insisted.
Those who love the Latin Mass should persevere, with patience, prayer, penance, and above all,
Pray, pray. A recent survey of Catholics in England reports that while 40% of Catholics were aware of Summorum Poniificum, 60% had never heard of it. A further question: "If Mass were celebrated in Latin and Gregorian chant in its Extraordinary Form in your parish , Would you attend It?" Practicing Catholics (defined as
those who attend Mass at least monthly) gave these responses:
43% would attend every week; 23%, once a month; 17% occasionally; 8% never.
What results would such a poll reveal about Catholics in the United States? How can anyone
be expected to want the Extraordinary Form if they haven't ever been told that it is allowed,
much less encouraged by the Holy Father? Those of us who are so informed should redouble
our efforts to spread the word, to educate and encourage priests and faithful
Other news concerns the new English translation for the Ordinary Form of the Mass.
Many years in the making, it is to be used in every parish in the US effective the First Sunday in
Advent,27 November,2010.Some ask, "Whats wrong with the present translation?" "Why do we need a new one?"
But we all need some short, concise talking points to give our Nouus Ordo
friends. Credo means "I believe", not "we". The new translation is so much closer to the Latin. This new translation does not affect the Traditional Latin Mass, the Extraordinary Form .
The changes reflect the true theology of the Holy Sacrifice. Nothing has changed. Could it be that in the future Catholics, exposed to the truths of their Faith better expressed in the new wordings,
would become more open to the traditions as expressed even more fully in the Latin Mass?
In November, 1988, a group- of 16 Catholics met in Chicago to assess the status of our beloved old Mass in Latin. Pope John Paul II's letter, Ecclesia Dei, has given hope to Catholics who felt the loss of something priceless. More and More Catholics are yearning for the Latin Mass, as a truer form of reverence to the celebration of the mass.
"Ecclesia dei"
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
A ‘Profile In Courage’ the TSA Is Not.
Islam
by Susan Dale
After the thankfully unsuccessful terrorist activities of the underwear bomber in an airplane over Detroit last Christmas Day, discussion resumed regarding the use of the full body scanner at American international airports. This is a highly sensitive machine that, when used for security purposes, displays the body in its full naked glory.
It was said, after the actions on December 25th by Mr. Mutallab, that this process would have been the only way to have detected the particular technique of terror the young Nigerian was attempting to import into America. Then along comes the perpetually zany Council of American-Islamic Relations. In its infinite wisdom, this group disclosed their intention to sue the United States of America to prevent the aforementioned body scanner from being used on Muslim men and women.
For religious reasons, don’t you know?
In the parallel universe where reside the left and their radical Islamic friends, it makes perfect sense that the only machine that can detect a certain, and most destructive kind of explosive, that has been used exclusively by Islamic terrorists since 2001, is now able to be used with any traveler using American international airports, except, of course, Muslim persons. These Muslim individuals are, as every sane person acknowledges, the ACTUAL REASON we have to put every air traveler through the excruciating security measures that are now in place.
To prevent the further terrorist actions of Muslim terrorists is, in fact, the whole point of the exercise.
The TSA, when confronted by CAIR in this regard, immediately capitulated, thus giving in in the face of yet another Islamic threat. Simultaneously, the TSA agreed to instruct its security staff, in enforcing the same tortuous security measures for everyone but Muslims, to ‘pat down’ Muslim men and women, with the proviso, of course, that only same gender ‘pat downs’ would be permitted for our Muslim brethren.
So, to be sure you understand, this is the deal.
Every American has to go through a humiliating and time consuming hell every time any one of us has to fly anywhere in the country, or the world. This nightmare is due strictly to the actions of Islamic terrorists. Now, due to the Obama-determined decision of certain of our non-elected bureaucrats, we are now excepting Islamists, and only Islamists – THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SWORN TO ANNIHILATE AMERICA – from being forced to submit the examination of this machine that is the only thing that can detect certain terrorist explosives. In other words, the organization created to protect the American traveling public is now, under the Obama Administration, being prevented from doing so due to reasons of politically correct religious (again, addressed only to the world of Islam) sensitivity.
What kind of fantasy world is the Obama Administration living in? Does anyone in his Administration remember what happened on September 11, 2001? Has anyone in this ridiculous excuse for a Presidential Administration heard the repeated assurances from the Muslim world that we will either be converted to Islam by their jihad or die?
‘Explosive-wired Islamofascists’ is not a sensitivity issue – it is an act of war. It is an act of war against the United States of America and its innocent citizenry, no matter what religion. Tender feelings toward our Muslim brethren should not be taken into account when figuring out how best to protect us. The application of their faith when in our country should be very low on the list of what is significant to our nation, and if they don’t like that, they can immediately return to the nations where it is of significance. In America, they should understand, each religion is equal to the other; no particular religion is above another.
A current popular phrase might be applied in this instance: Islam, this is America. The land of the free. Deal with it.
It would be interesting to know whether the Obama Administration has instructed members of his Administration to make any accommodations for members of the Christian religion alert to members of the Obama Administration: the religion that FOUNDED OUR NATION in air travel? Perhaps, for Judaism, second alert to members of the Obama Administration: another very important religion found in the United States of America?
The answer would seem to be no.
It is wondered, therefore, if the Obama Administration and its member leftists ever intend to acknowledge the truth about the world of Islam, the founder of terrorism throughout the world.
Barack Hussein Obama can go on and on about how wonderful is the world of Islam. How magnificent and tolerant is their religion; how beautiful is their handwriting, (a subject not thought to be significant in 21st Century America by Obama Administration educators); how extraordinary is their Algebra, yet another subject of American education considered unimportant by current Obama educators, (African-American Studies; Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies; etc., being of much greater significance in the Obamaworld of educating our children) and how peaceful, and desirous of peace, are their people. And from where, almost verbatim from various Obama speeches, do these lovely words come?
Fantasyland.
Like it or not, the Muslim world of the 21st century has nothing to do with the Magical Mystery Tour that Barack Hussein Obama and his followers have chosen to present as the current Muslim world. Obama and his acolytes can create beautiful and false words around the ‘religion of peace,’ and assume people will believe these lies. Hollywood and whoever can create physical fantasies about how gorgeous and sensitive Muslims were and are; or how brilliant, intellectually, scientifically and politically, Muslims were and are, or what victims they are and have been through the centuries, because, of course, of the actions of the Great Satan, (us) with Obama always on the ready to apologize for whatever of our transgressions of which the aggrieved (Muslims) complain. It is, as you know, always our fault. .
The truth about the world of Islam is the opposite.
The fact is that the Muslim extremist world of the 21st century is a nasty, grubby, illiterate but tech-savvy, hate-filled world of duplicitous and violent men whose minds live in a 12th century mélange of hatred of the Infidel (which is just about all of the rest of the world); misogyny - alert to the American left: this is not just chauvinistic men wanting to keep women home and perennially barefoot and pregnant; this is a world where a teenage girl had her nose and ears lopped off because her mother wouldn’t let her marry their cousin, (which actually happened recently in Pakistan, and when the little girl’s mother saw her baby’s face after this mutilation, she fell dead from a heart attack) (religion of peace); this, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, is the Islam you champion. One will also find homophobia to a degree that these and other ardent feminists, like Barney Frank, could not imagine – no hate crime legislation here – beheading is the answer to that particular problem in Muslim countries. Then there are young men who have had every advantage that the West gives its youth, who would prefer to have their future contain wiring Downs’ Syndrome children with explosives so they can kill that many more innocent Westerners, in whatever country, it doesn’t really matter to them as long as it results in the most casualties.
And why do they do this? Not for anything we have done, despite constant such lamentations by the left, but for what we are. As an Islamic terrorist was quoted in responding to a leftist plea for us to just get along: “We don’t want to reason with you; we want to kill you.” A logical conclusion is to listen to them when they describe what they want to do to us for existing, don’t you think?
This is the Muslim world Barack Hussein Obama embraces.
Isn’t it time that the President of the United States of America stops protecting and defending the murderous medieval world of Islamic terrorism and starts protecting and defending the American people? Sadly, for us, this is not the case for our current Supreme Leader.
by Susan Dale
After the thankfully unsuccessful terrorist activities of the underwear bomber in an airplane over Detroit last Christmas Day, discussion resumed regarding the use of the full body scanner at American international airports. This is a highly sensitive machine that, when used for security purposes, displays the body in its full naked glory.
It was said, after the actions on December 25th by Mr. Mutallab, that this process would have been the only way to have detected the particular technique of terror the young Nigerian was attempting to import into America. Then along comes the perpetually zany Council of American-Islamic Relations. In its infinite wisdom, this group disclosed their intention to sue the United States of America to prevent the aforementioned body scanner from being used on Muslim men and women.
For religious reasons, don’t you know?
In the parallel universe where reside the left and their radical Islamic friends, it makes perfect sense that the only machine that can detect a certain, and most destructive kind of explosive, that has been used exclusively by Islamic terrorists since 2001, is now able to be used with any traveler using American international airports, except, of course, Muslim persons. These Muslim individuals are, as every sane person acknowledges, the ACTUAL REASON we have to put every air traveler through the excruciating security measures that are now in place.
To prevent the further terrorist actions of Muslim terrorists is, in fact, the whole point of the exercise.
The TSA, when confronted by CAIR in this regard, immediately capitulated, thus giving in in the face of yet another Islamic threat. Simultaneously, the TSA agreed to instruct its security staff, in enforcing the same tortuous security measures for everyone but Muslims, to ‘pat down’ Muslim men and women, with the proviso, of course, that only same gender ‘pat downs’ would be permitted for our Muslim brethren.
So, to be sure you understand, this is the deal.
Every American has to go through a humiliating and time consuming hell every time any one of us has to fly anywhere in the country, or the world. This nightmare is due strictly to the actions of Islamic terrorists. Now, due to the Obama-determined decision of certain of our non-elected bureaucrats, we are now excepting Islamists, and only Islamists – THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SWORN TO ANNIHILATE AMERICA – from being forced to submit the examination of this machine that is the only thing that can detect certain terrorist explosives. In other words, the organization created to protect the American traveling public is now, under the Obama Administration, being prevented from doing so due to reasons of politically correct religious (again, addressed only to the world of Islam) sensitivity.
What kind of fantasy world is the Obama Administration living in? Does anyone in his Administration remember what happened on September 11, 2001? Has anyone in this ridiculous excuse for a Presidential Administration heard the repeated assurances from the Muslim world that we will either be converted to Islam by their jihad or die?
‘Explosive-wired Islamofascists’ is not a sensitivity issue – it is an act of war. It is an act of war against the United States of America and its innocent citizenry, no matter what religion. Tender feelings toward our Muslim brethren should not be taken into account when figuring out how best to protect us. The application of their faith when in our country should be very low on the list of what is significant to our nation, and if they don’t like that, they can immediately return to the nations where it is of significance. In America, they should understand, each religion is equal to the other; no particular religion is above another.
A current popular phrase might be applied in this instance: Islam, this is America. The land of the free. Deal with it.
It would be interesting to know whether the Obama Administration has instructed members of his Administration to make any accommodations for members of the Christian religion alert to members of the Obama Administration: the religion that FOUNDED OUR NATION in air travel? Perhaps, for Judaism, second alert to members of the Obama Administration: another very important religion found in the United States of America?
The answer would seem to be no.
It is wondered, therefore, if the Obama Administration and its member leftists ever intend to acknowledge the truth about the world of Islam, the founder of terrorism throughout the world.
Barack Hussein Obama can go on and on about how wonderful is the world of Islam. How magnificent and tolerant is their religion; how beautiful is their handwriting, (a subject not thought to be significant in 21st Century America by Obama Administration educators); how extraordinary is their Algebra, yet another subject of American education considered unimportant by current Obama educators, (African-American Studies; Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies; etc., being of much greater significance in the Obamaworld of educating our children) and how peaceful, and desirous of peace, are their people. And from where, almost verbatim from various Obama speeches, do these lovely words come?
Fantasyland.
Like it or not, the Muslim world of the 21st century has nothing to do with the Magical Mystery Tour that Barack Hussein Obama and his followers have chosen to present as the current Muslim world. Obama and his acolytes can create beautiful and false words around the ‘religion of peace,’ and assume people will believe these lies. Hollywood and whoever can create physical fantasies about how gorgeous and sensitive Muslims were and are; or how brilliant, intellectually, scientifically and politically, Muslims were and are, or what victims they are and have been through the centuries, because, of course, of the actions of the Great Satan, (us) with Obama always on the ready to apologize for whatever of our transgressions of which the aggrieved (Muslims) complain. It is, as you know, always our fault. .
The truth about the world of Islam is the opposite.
The fact is that the Muslim extremist world of the 21st century is a nasty, grubby, illiterate but tech-savvy, hate-filled world of duplicitous and violent men whose minds live in a 12th century mélange of hatred of the Infidel (which is just about all of the rest of the world); misogyny - alert to the American left: this is not just chauvinistic men wanting to keep women home and perennially barefoot and pregnant; this is a world where a teenage girl had her nose and ears lopped off because her mother wouldn’t let her marry their cousin, (which actually happened recently in Pakistan, and when the little girl’s mother saw her baby’s face after this mutilation, she fell dead from a heart attack) (religion of peace); this, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, is the Islam you champion. One will also find homophobia to a degree that these and other ardent feminists, like Barney Frank, could not imagine – no hate crime legislation here – beheading is the answer to that particular problem in Muslim countries. Then there are young men who have had every advantage that the West gives its youth, who would prefer to have their future contain wiring Downs’ Syndrome children with explosives so they can kill that many more innocent Westerners, in whatever country, it doesn’t really matter to them as long as it results in the most casualties.
And why do they do this? Not for anything we have done, despite constant such lamentations by the left, but for what we are. As an Islamic terrorist was quoted in responding to a leftist plea for us to just get along: “We don’t want to reason with you; we want to kill you.” A logical conclusion is to listen to them when they describe what they want to do to us for existing, don’t you think?
This is the Muslim world Barack Hussein Obama embraces.
Isn’t it time that the President of the United States of America stops protecting and defending the murderous medieval world of Islamic terrorism and starts protecting and defending the American people? Sadly, for us, this is not the case for our current Supreme Leader.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
ECCLESIA DEI
Traditional Latin Mass
Now growth in NY is slow but steady - about 380 Masses in 154 U.S. Dioceses. The Holy Father has expressed a wish that there be at least one Mass in the Extraordinary Form every Sunday in every parish. In spite of this, there are groups of the faithful who cannot find a priest; there are dynamic young priests who are rebuffed by their pastors when they ask to say the Latin Mass.
However, young people are enthusiastic, priests are hopeful. Training programs are offered for interested priests. We .encourage each priest who offers Mass in the Extraordinary form to
teach one other priest, Latin must be taught in every semmary, as Bl. Pope John XXIII insisted.
Those who love the Latin Mass should persevere, with patience, prayer, penance, and above all,
Pray, pray. A recent survey of Catholics in England reports that while 40% of Catholics were aware of Summorum Poniificum, 60% had never heard of it. A further question: "If Mass were celebrated in Latin and Gregorian chant in its Extraordinary Form in your parish , Would you attend It?" Practicing Catholics (defined as
those who attend Mass at least monthly) gave these responses:
43% would attend every week; 23%, once a month; 17% occasionally; 8% never.
What results would such a poll reveal about Catholics in the United States? How can anyone
be expected to want the Extraordinary Form if they haven't ever been told that it is allowed,
much less encouraged by the Holy Father? Those of us who are so informed should redouble
our efforts to spread the word, to educate and encourage priests and faithful
Other news concerns the new English translation for the Ordinary Form of the Mass.
Many years in the making, it is to be used in every parish in the US effective the First Sunday in
Advent,27 November,2010.Some ask, "Whats wrong with the present translation?" "Why do we need a new one?"
But we all need some short, concise talking points to give our Nouus Ordo
friends. Credo means "I believe", not "we". The new translation is so much closer to the Latin. This new translation does not affect the Traditional Latin Mass, the Extraordinary Form .
The changes reflect the true theology of the Holy Sacrifice. Nothing has changed. Could it be that in the future Catholics, exposed to the truths of their Faith better expressed in the new wordings,
would become more open to the traditions as expressed even more fully in the Latin Mass?
In November, 1988, a group- of 16 Catholics met in Chicago to assess the status of our beloved old Mass in Latin. Pope John Paul II's letter, Ecclesia Dei, has given hope to Catholics who felt the loss of something priceless. More and More Catholics are yearning for the Latin Mass, as a truer form of reverence to the celebration of the mass.
"Ecclesia dei"
Now growth in NY is slow but steady - about 380 Masses in 154 U.S. Dioceses. The Holy Father has expressed a wish that there be at least one Mass in the Extraordinary Form every Sunday in every parish. In spite of this, there are groups of the faithful who cannot find a priest; there are dynamic young priests who are rebuffed by their pastors when they ask to say the Latin Mass.
However, young people are enthusiastic, priests are hopeful. Training programs are offered for interested priests. We .encourage each priest who offers Mass in the Extraordinary form to
teach one other priest, Latin must be taught in every semmary, as Bl. Pope John XXIII insisted.
Those who love the Latin Mass should persevere, with patience, prayer, penance, and above all,
Pray, pray. A recent survey of Catholics in England reports that while 40% of Catholics were aware of Summorum Poniificum, 60% had never heard of it. A further question: "If Mass were celebrated in Latin and Gregorian chant in its Extraordinary Form in your parish , Would you attend It?" Practicing Catholics (defined as
those who attend Mass at least monthly) gave these responses:
43% would attend every week; 23%, once a month; 17% occasionally; 8% never.
What results would such a poll reveal about Catholics in the United States? How can anyone
be expected to want the Extraordinary Form if they haven't ever been told that it is allowed,
much less encouraged by the Holy Father? Those of us who are so informed should redouble
our efforts to spread the word, to educate and encourage priests and faithful
Other news concerns the new English translation for the Ordinary Form of the Mass.
Many years in the making, it is to be used in every parish in the US effective the First Sunday in
Advent,27 November,2010.Some ask, "Whats wrong with the present translation?" "Why do we need a new one?"
But we all need some short, concise talking points to give our Nouus Ordo
friends. Credo means "I believe", not "we". The new translation is so much closer to the Latin. This new translation does not affect the Traditional Latin Mass, the Extraordinary Form .
The changes reflect the true theology of the Holy Sacrifice. Nothing has changed. Could it be that in the future Catholics, exposed to the truths of their Faith better expressed in the new wordings,
would become more open to the traditions as expressed even more fully in the Latin Mass?
In November, 1988, a group- of 16 Catholics met in Chicago to assess the status of our beloved old Mass in Latin. Pope John Paul II's letter, Ecclesia Dei, has given hope to Catholics who felt the loss of something priceless. More and More Catholics are yearning for the Latin Mass, as a truer form of reverence to the celebration of the mass.
"Ecclesia dei"
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
There is no such thing as a "New Mass".
Lucy E. Carroll has an excellent article in the latest issue of Adoremus Bulletin, a newspaper dedicated to the “reform of the reform”(I wish them luck), titled “What the Novus Ordo is – and Isn’t.” I have posted excerpts from the article below (forgive the length). Emphasis and commentary are mine.
“There is no such thing as the ‘new’ Mass. No, the Mass is not a new Mass. If so, it would be called the ‘Missa nova.’(Are you telling me that no priests or bishops, many of whom were ordained back when Latin was still a mandatory subject in the seminary, caught that in the past 40 years? Hardly. Or did they purposely misinterpreted it for the laity because they had their own agenda?) No, it is the same Mass, trimmed down and slightly re-ordered, hence the new ordering (or Novus Ordo).
“Some practices vary between the two forms. In the extraordinary form, the priest and people always face the tabernacle while in the (plain ol’) ordinary form, the priest almost always faces the people, though the Council never mandated this change in posture, and it not required.
“After the Council, Communion rails were often removed, or were not installed in new churches, though this was an innovation. The rails were not just to keep folks out of the sanctuary. The Communion rail can be seen as kind of an ‘extension’ of the altar, and, like the altar, the railing was often made of marble.
“Contrary to some mistaken ideas, bells and incense have never been forbidden. Indeed, the Novus Ordo allows for a more generous use of incense.
“But even with the variations (or in some cases nonsense and novelties), the ordinary form of the Mass is still the Sacrifice of Calvary prefigured at the Last Supper and completed in the Resurrection.(It is sad that so many people who attend Mass and call themselves Catholic do not know that, much less understand it.) It is not something new."
“There is no such thing as the ‘new’ Mass. No, the Mass is not a new Mass. If so, it would be called the ‘Missa nova.’(Are you telling me that no priests or bishops, many of whom were ordained back when Latin was still a mandatory subject in the seminary, caught that in the past 40 years? Hardly. Or did they purposely misinterpreted it for the laity because they had their own agenda?) No, it is the same Mass, trimmed down and slightly re-ordered, hence the new ordering (or Novus Ordo).
“Some practices vary between the two forms. In the extraordinary form, the priest and people always face the tabernacle while in the (plain ol’) ordinary form, the priest almost always faces the people, though the Council never mandated this change in posture, and it not required.
“After the Council, Communion rails were often removed, or were not installed in new churches, though this was an innovation. The rails were not just to keep folks out of the sanctuary. The Communion rail can be seen as kind of an ‘extension’ of the altar, and, like the altar, the railing was often made of marble.
“Contrary to some mistaken ideas, bells and incense have never been forbidden. Indeed, the Novus Ordo allows for a more generous use of incense.
“But even with the variations (or in some cases nonsense and novelties), the ordinary form of the Mass is still the Sacrifice of Calvary prefigured at the Last Supper and completed in the Resurrection.(It is sad that so many people who attend Mass and call themselves Catholic do not know that, much less understand it.) It is not something new."
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