Thuribles At Dawn…

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Oh dear. The challenge has been issued. The inimitable Fr. Z has suggested that His Hermeneuticalness is notoriously

bad at incensation

, because of the need for

fire drills

among the servers. His Hermeneuticalness has countered by asking Fr. Z to

choose his weapons

… himself opting for a Heckler & Koch MP5.

…I’d have thought an MP3 player would be better for reproducing the clinking sound, but then I’m just a blonde girly so I’ve probably got the wrong end of the stick…

However, I think that Fr. Z has failed to consider the need to train servers in fire-fighting technique. Some of those servers wield a mean thurible. Ever wondered why we don’t have a carpet on the sanctuary at Blackfen…?

I can confirm that Fr. Tim has, on occasion, had to step back rather sharply to avoid concussion.

It might also be noted that Fr. Z is being just a tad disingenuous. He has had first-hand experience of His Hermeneuticalness’ techniques with the thurible…

…as well as demonstrating his own proficiency…

…and, as my photographic evidence confirms, Fr. Z resisted the impulse to “take out” His Hermeneuticalness despite the obvious opportunity offered to the deacon at High Mass. Sadly, I cannot recall whether there was much in the way of clinking. Next time I shall have to video proceedings!

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Fine art of friendship

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Last night I dreamed, repeatedly, of this song: “Fine Art of Friendship”, by King’s X. It came back to me again and again in different guises. In one dream I was explaining to my wife how difficult it is to play on the guitar (not that I would know), and in another we were watching instructional videos showing how to play the chords, pluck the strings, etc. Later in the dream a large group of people were pretending to play the song on “violins”, the violins in question being made of wooden spoons.

I have no idea why this particular song should have been on my mind. It has been months, if not a year or more, since I last heard it. In any case, here it is:

A pretty good song! I can think of worse ways to pass my hours of sleep.

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Quickpost: Spike in pageviews again

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Hi all,

My record got broken again. at 17:00 according to the blogosphere, I got 19 hits! Checking the day stats for the whole dayy (0000h – 2359) 18 of those are from the Netherlands. I am not 100% sure whether this means there are some hungry Catholics there seeking knowledge, or someone’s fishining for information, or some kind of internet bot is spying on me somehow. Hmmmmmm…..

YCRCM.

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Why pro-abortion politicians are Science-Deniers

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

My advice to politicians? Take your fingers out of your ears. Face the facts.

I remember when I was about 7 years old, and didn’t want to hear what my older brother was telling me. I’d try blocking him out, with a finger in each ear, chanting: “Nah, nah, na-na-nah. I can’t hear you!”. It was a childish tactic, with a simple objective: if I could deny hearing the message, I wouldn’t have to accept whatever correction or wisdom he was trying to pass on. I could carry on with my bad behavior and ignorance.

Many Canadian politicians today are using the same childish tactic in order to carry on with ignorant attitudes about abortion, even to the point of denying science.

In February, pro-life MP Stephen Woodworth announced his Motion 312 to set up a parliamentary committee that would study what modern medical science tells us about when a human being first comes into existence. On behalf of Stephen Harper, the Justice Minister Rob Nicholson immediately shot out with: “The Prime Minister has been very clear, our Government will not reopen this debate”.

Translation: “The Prime Minister has been very clear, he wants to avoid all scientific facts about the child in the womb”.

Another example of a politician using my childhood, fingers in the ears trick, was the reaction to Motion 312 by Conservative MP for Simcoe North, Bruce Stanton: “I don’t support the motion… The Supreme Court has given ample position on the rights of moms and I believe we need to keep the law the way it is.” Besides the fact that Stanton is wrong, and the Supreme Court has never declared abortion to be a right, his response screams “I don’t want to be informed by science. Let’s remain in blissful ignorance!”

I don’t get it. What’s so scary about being informed by science?

Woodworth’s motion is tentatively scheduled for first hour of debate on April 26. Another hour will follow in the late spring or early fall. Sadly, the motion is unlikely to pass given the Prime Minister’s stiff opposition to “re-opening the abortion debate”.

If it does pass however, what sort of facts will the committee look at to answer the question of whether the embryo and fetus are human beings?

Of course, it’s already settled science that each person comes into existence at the time of conception (fertilization). That’s the only conclusion this committee could possibly arrive at. The photo below, taken at 12 weeks from conception, is a piece of evidence I’d personally love to set before the committee’s eyes. I’d follow it with the question, “Would a blob of tissue have finger nails?”

My advice to politicians? Take your fingers out of your ears. Face the facts. One day, science-deniers on the humanity of pre-born children will be lumped in with holocaust-deniers. You really don’t want to end up on that side of history.

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Conical Chasubles

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

New Liturgical Movements

has a picture of a thirteenth century chasuble from Toledo. I used to have one in this shape, I gave it away to a priest who liked I it, I must admit I did too.

It was the ancient shape of the cape or over coat worn over the tunic, it should come down to the knees. It is made from a semi-circle of fabric, with orphrey uniting the straight edge and giving a little extra movement so it isn’t exactly 90 degrees.

In the West it was gathered up in the crook of the arms, giving it rather beautiful folds, with more or less an equal amount of fabric front and back, in the East in was worn so the back looked more like a cope and the front had less bulk. But East and West used the same vestment.

This is the vestment that the traditional Roman presumes the priest is wearing, hence he is supposed to be helped with it when his hands drop below the elbow, for example at the incensation. Worse problems are encountered at the elevation of the host and chalice, the server literally has to lift the fabric of the chasuble to enable the priest to raise his hands so the host might appear above his head.

Once the elevation was introduced two developments took place to ease things for the priest, those who thought the conical shape, little hutness, was important cut the sides of the chasuble from the curved edge to the shoulder, hence the Roman or “fiddleback” chasuble.
Those who thought the fullness was important eased the 90 degree angle sometimes to the 180 degree point, where there was a straight edge along the shoulder and the garment became, rather than a semi-circle, a full circle, especially in the late twentieth century when it could be made of cheap polyester. It is what is commonly call the Gothic chasuble.

Though the Gothic shape goes back at least to the 12th century, earlier the the Toledo chasuble, below is the Becket chasuble at Sens. Pugin favoured the Gothic version coming to the elbow joint, made with an angle of approximately 135 degrees, the prohibition of such garments by the Sacred Congregation of Rites was one of the issues that led to his increased neurosis, and eventual madness. Eventually the Comgregation allowed vestments that came either to the shoulder, elbow or wrist, the angle of the cut was not considered.

The 90 degree angle and the circularity was previously significant in so far as it was related to the square, a symbol of the universe, of perfection: the three corneredness to the Trinity.

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Archdiocesan Choir of Philadelphia in Concert this Sunday

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Dr. John Romeri, who for many years ran a spectacular music program at St. Louis Cathedral, had barely landed in Philadelphia when he had already lined up a concert series at the Cathedral-Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul. This past year has seen concerts by the Choir of

Westminster Cathedral

and

Tenebrae

, among others.

This Sunday, the inaugural year of this concert series wraps up with a performance of the Mozart Coronation Mass (K. 317), along with works by Gabrieli, Handel, Beethoven, and Philip Stopford by the Archdiocesan Choir of Philadelphia. The concert will be at 3:30 in the cathedral.

Here’s ticket info.

If you can’t make this weekend’s concert,

a whole new year

is right around the corner, complete with a repeat appearance of Tenebrae. These concerts are an exciting addition to the lively choral scene here in Philadelphia.

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Church and Community

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The church was always intended to be a community of love. But most Catholic parishes are a long ways from there. The church is rightly concerned with doctrine and liturgy. We need the true faith and we need to celebrate it in an authentic way. But at the end of the day it is by our love for one another that people will know we are His disciples. There has been a

lot of talk

about how protestant churches are not as successful as they used to be in building community for young adults.

Catholics have been seeing people leave

for quite some time. The latest study of why they leave does not mention community much but that suggests Catholics don’t even expect community from their church. They see it as a cold institution. They hope it becomes less cold. The idea of it being a place where people feel supernatural love for each other is so far away that it does not make the radar.

So what is going wrong? Why don’t Catholics bond with each other and form friendships that make the whole world want to be Catholic? That is what Jesus wanted for His church. We are His church. What gives? There are likely many reasons. One that comes to mind is that it is too easy to be Catholic today. People bond when they share a struggle. But too many Catholics don’t struggle. If we would all struggle to understand and live out all the teachings of the church we would find ourselves being powerfully bonded together. The culture would be laughing at us and we would be looking for encouragement and support. But many parishes are not that different from the culture. Sure there are some who want to know the faith and live the faith but they are not exactly the majority. A serious Catholic is almost as likely to find his faith being ridiculed inside his parish as he is in the society at large. So you tread very lightly.

People find solutions. There are organizations like Opus Dei that offer that kind of community. Some find it online. But that is not the supernatural love that the world would find amazing. That is just groups of like-minded individuals hanging out together. There is nothing remarkable about that.

1 Peter 2:11 talks about Christians being like aliens in a foreign land. That resonates with me because when I was growing up the church I went to was mostly dutch immigrants. We were close. My dad was a pastor so that helped but most families socialized together a lot. They went to the same school. They had boys and girls clubs as part of the church. The teenagers had a strong community. It was all quite natural.

That broke down a generation later when the church members became less dutch. We were not bonded like aliens in a foreign land because we were living our faith so well. It was because we were actually aliens in a foreign land. When we ceased to literally be that we ceased to live like that. But we should have that dynamic all the time. We should not fit very well in our culture. We should feel strange enough that we should naturally seek to spend time together as Catholics.

That is when the church starts to act as a body animated by the Holy Spirit and the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts. Then her holiness and her beauty will be easier to see. It is often when the church is persecuted that we see this happening. When the people who are there are paying a price or taking a risk to be there. Then the witness becomes even stronger because you not only see the body of Christ but you see the cross as well.

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Seraphic on Stein

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The next two weeks are going to be insane with research and writing, so you won’t be seeing much from me. If you want to find out what I have to say, you’ll have to come to the women’s retreat in Krakow or, if male, hang around outside.

Devoted Male Fan: What did she say?

Retreatant: Niestety nie mówie po angielsku.

However, to tide you over and give you a sliver of what I will be talking about on May 2,

here is my latest in the CR

.

The point I was trying to make about Stein-not-solely-Holocaust-martyr is that Stein is not part of another age. Stein was part of our age, and then the Holocaust broke in on her. I was born in the early 70s, so to me the Holocaust is history whereas Stein’s ideas are current events.

Update: Stein, not Steyn, peeps!

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Fr. robert Barron: Why Catholics leave the Church

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

All considered, an interesting article designed to provoke thinking, as Fr. Barron always does.

Some Comments:

A third eminently correctable problem is one that I will admit I had never thought about before reading this survey. Many of the respondents commented that, after they left the church, no one from the parish contacted them or reached out to them in any way. Now again, I can anticipate and fully understand the objections from pastoral people: many Catholic parishes are huge—upwards of three or four thousand families—and staffs are small. Yet, just as major corporations, serving millions of people, attend carefully to lost customers, so Catholic parishes should prioritize an outreach to those who have drifted (or stormed) away. A phone call, a note, an e-mail, a pastoral visit—anything that would say, “We’ve noticed you’re not coming to Mass anymore. Can we help? Can you tell us what, if anything, we’ve done wrong? We’d love to see you back with us.

This is one that I have noticed. many of the Evangelical churches are like “Cheers” you know, ‘Where Everybody knows your name’.

, while Catholic chuches don’t offer that kind of fellowship among many of the members, especially those on the periphery. are Our Parish here in Belleville

IS making an effort to address this problem. We have started having regular socials right after mass in the new parish center, put on by some of the various groups in the church. It gives people a chance to meet and talk instead of rushing off the minute the last verse of the recessional is sung, and provides parishoners with an opportunity to meet some of the groups in the church who might be the answer they were looking for in terms of how they can be more involved. By knowing your parishoners and getting involved in parish life reduces the desire to leave for greener pastures, and if they do, at least they are known by someone who can give them a call and find out what’s up.

For too long Catholics have relied on the Pastoral team and staff to do all the work, and by getting involved at the parish level we can keep our brethren from falling away through relationship, which is very difficult for even the most dedicated pastor.

As for some of the other things put forth in the article, in many csses they are excuses given, when scratching the surface it is usually easy to find the real reason why people leave… Sin… I am reminded of a story I heard about Archbishop fulton J. Sheen who once got on a plain in full priestly habit, and the man seated next to him started enumerating all the reasons why he had left the church, and hated the church. Archbishop Sheen listened until the man finally ran out of gas, then looked at him and asked “how much did you steal?” the man broke down and confessed that he had stolen thousands from the church while he served there. Quite often when we can’t bring ourselves to read the bible or go to mass, it is because we have unconfessed, unrepented sin getting in the way, and that is where many of the excuses for walking away come from.

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Only Tax Payers Should Vote

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

From Michael Youssef’s blog

According to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, 51 percent of American households pay no federal income tax. They may pay some taxes on gasoline, tobacco, and alcohol—and they pay their Social Security contributions. But the majority of Americans do not pay any of the taxes that fund our national priorities—national defense, homeland security, welfare, education, foreign aid, and so forth.
America is drowning in debt. Taxpayers are demanding fiscal responsibility—but our leaders won’t listen. What’s the solution? This may sound like a radical idea, but our fiscal emergency demands radical intervention: Only those who pay taxes should be allowed to vote. Only those with “skin in the game” should be allowed to choose our representatives.

Some critics would say that this idea is an attack on the poor. Nonsense. I would disallow the non-taxpayingrich from voting as well—and from buying influence through lobbying. There are more non-taxpaying rich Americans than you might suppose—such as L.A. Dodgers owner Frank H. McCourt Jr., a multimillionaire who paid no federal or state income taxes from 2003 to 2008, according to the Los Angeles Times.

There are those who would argue that everyone should have a right to vote—it’s only fair! But is it fair for one group of citizens to vote to take the private property of other citizens? Is it fair for the beggar to vote himself a steak and lobster dinner at his neighbor’s expense?

To those who still think this idea is unfair, let me pose this question: Are you seriously telling me that 51 percent of Americans are poverty-stricken? Almost 90 percent of American households subscribe to cable or dish TV services. If they can afford hundreds of dollars per year for entertainment, they can certainly afford to become shareholders in our republic.

Makes perfect sense to me.

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McGuinty’s bullying bill would enshrine anti-Christian slur, says pro-family leader

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

McGuinty’s bullying bill would enshrine anti-Christian slur, says pro-family leader

Posted onApril 17, 2012by John Laws

</span><br/> </p> <div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 250px" webReader="-23"><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mcguintys-bullying-bill-would-enshrine-anti-christian-slur-says-pro-family"><img title="McGuinty’s bullying bill would enshrine anti-Christian slur, says pro-family leader" src="http://www.lifesitenews.com/images/sized/images/news/Fonseca-240x132.png" alt="" width="240" height="131"/></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Catholics speaks at Queen’s Park on March 29th.</p> </div> <p>If it passes, the anti-bullying bill tabled by Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario government would codify a “propaganda term” that has been used as a battering ram against Christian parents and teachers for decades, says a pro-family leader.</p> <p>Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Catholics, a division of Campaign Life Coalition, is targeting Bill 13’s emphasis on “homophobia,” a term which he says was coined by homosexual activists to label Christian Biblical teaching as hate speech against homosexuals.</p> <p>The term “homophobia” is often used by Christians to condemn unjust criticisms and attacks against the inherent dignity of people with same-sex attractions. But the charge of “homophobia,” <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/e621m03x780l3047/">created in the 1960s</a>, has long been levied against even the perennial Christian belief that homosexual acts are contrary to God’s plan for human sexuality.</p> <p>“Bill 13 will codify in law an anti-Christian slur,” says Fonseca, “because the government’s definition, taken from the Equity & Inclusive Education Strategy, is defined vaguely, without any exception for sincerely held religious beliefs, and can easily be interpreted to cover teachers and students who object to LGBTTIQ curriculum.” (<a title="McGuinty’s bullying bill would enshrine anti-Christian slur, says pro-family leader" href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mcguintys-bullying-bill-would-enshrine-anti-christian-slur-says-pro-family">more</a>…)</p> <h2 style="text-align:center;"><a title="McGuinty’s bullying bill would enshrine anti-Christian slur, says pro-family leader" href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mcguintys-bullying-bill-would-enshrine-anti-christian-slur-says-pro-family"><strong>McGuinty’s bullying bill would enshrine anti-Christian slur, says pro-family leader</strong></a></h2> <div class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled"> <div class="wpl-likebox sd-block sd-like" webReader="5.46666666667"> <h3 class="sd-title">Like this:</h3> <div class="sd-content" webReader="28.3428571429"> <div id="like-885" class="wpl-button "><a href="http://johnlaws.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/mcguintys-bullying-bill-would-enshrine-anti-christian-slur-says-pro-family-leader/?like=1&_wpnonce=6ef24f9bbd" title="I like this post" class="like needs-login sd-button" rel="nofollow"><span>Like</span></a></div> <p>Be the first to like this post.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> <div id="entry-author-info" webReader="29.3869346734"> <div id="author-avatar"><img alt="" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/aceb1ff5ce1cad2b5d5cb414996082ca?s=60&d=identicon&r=G" class="avatar avatar-60" height="60" width="60"/></div> <p> <div id="author-description" webReader="11.2361809045"> <h2>About John Laws</h2> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> Catholic, married, pro-life, pro-family, parent. 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YSN offers its team members regular online workshops in different aspects of journalism and a weekly forum to display their work in the pages of The Catholic Register and this web site. This team has become an important outreach for The Catholic Register and has helped create a greater awareness of youth issues within the church in Canada.<br/><strong/></p> <p><strong><a href="http://youthspeaknews.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ysn-apps1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-887" title="" src="http://youthspeaknews.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ysn-apps1.jpg?w=584&h=435" alt="" width="584" height="435"/></a>Through the YSN program, youth will:</strong></p> <p>• Receive hands-on training in Catholic news media</p> <p>• Monthly newsletters, online discussion groups and internet-based activities will<br/>provide information on news, feature and opinion writing, photography and<br/>newspaper design, as well as the issues of Catholic journalism;</p> <p>• Gain an understanding of news production for newspapers, television and the web</p> <p>• YSN stories will be published both in paper and online. And in collaboration<br/>with Salt + Light Television, Canada’s only Catholic television station, YSN<br/>members may even have the opportunity to assist in the broadcast and editing<br/>process;</p> <p>• Produce high quality articles and opinion pieces suitable for portfolios</p> <p>• With the help of professional coaching, YSN members provide stories (one per<br/>month) and columns (on a rotational basis) based on events, issues, people and<br/>places that affect and influence their faith;</p> <p>• Meet in Toronto for fellowship and fun</p> <p>• A weekend retreat in Toronto offers YSN members a chance to meet fellow<br/>journalists, participate in seminars, pray together and visit the offices of<br/>both The Catholic Register and Salt + Light Television;</p> <p>• Help people in youth ministry by sharing their own stories or ministry<br/>practices, either through the pages of The Register or online discussion groups.</p> <p>• If you are in senior high school or university we invite you to apply for our program.</p> <p><strong>How to apply:</strong></p> <h3>1. Nomination letter</h3> <p>We ask each applicant to submit a nomination letter by a youth minister, pastor,<br/>or teacher who can vouch that the applicant has a demonstrated interest in media<br/>and communications and is a committed Catholic.</p> <h3>2. Resume</h3> <p>Submit a resume indicating journalism experience e.g. school or campus<br/>newspaper, yearbook, photography, relevant courses.</p> <h3>3. Application form</h3> <p><strong><a title="http://bit.ly/HNMUze" href="http://bit.ly/HNMUze">Click here to download our application form.</a></strong></p> <p>Mail, e-mail or fax the completed form along with your resume and nomination letter by June 29, 2012 to:</p> <p><em>Vanessa Santilli, Youth Editor/Reporter:</em><br/><em>1155 Yonge St. Suite 401</em><br/><em>Toronto, Ont. M4T 1W2</em><br/><a href="mailto:vanessa@catholicregister.org?subject=YSN%20website%20application">vanessa@catholicregister.org</a><br/><strong/></p> <p><strong>tel:</strong> (416) 934-3410 ext. 403<br/>fax: (416) 934-3409<br/>Twitter: <a title="http://www.twitter.com/V_Santilli" href="http://www.twitter.com/V_Santilli">V_Santilli</a></p> </div> <p>See original article here - </p> <p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://youthspeaknews.org/2012/04/17/calling-aspiring-writers-to-the-youth-speak-news-team/\" title=\"Calling aspiring writers to the Youth Speak News team\">Calling aspiring writers to the Youth Speak News team</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/calling-aspiring-writers-to-the-youth-speak-news-team/#more-7867" title="Permalink to Calling aspiring writers to the Youth Speak News team" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-2328 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-fr-r-de-sousa tag-archbishop tag-australia tag-canada tag-catholic tag-christ tag-common tag-lord tag-prendergast tag-roman post clearfix" id="post-2328"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/rejoice-in-the-day-the-lord-has-made/" title="Permalink to Rejoice in the day the Lord has made" rel="bookmark">Rejoice in the day the Lord has made</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/rejoice-in-the-day-the-lord-has-made/" title="Permalink to Rejoice in the day the Lord has made" rel="bookmark"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.catholicanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ac6ca5ba713859dbcdfc73b104275d2fecd7_M-150x150.jpg" class="aligncenter featured_image wp-post-image" alt="Thumbnail" /></a> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="http://www.catholicanada.com//wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ac6ca5ba713859dbcdfc73b104275d2fecd7_M-150x150.jpg" /></p> <p> <div class="itemIntroText" webReader="42"> <p>OTTAWA – “I have never been in a church this big,” said one soon-to-be ex-Anglican priest to Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa in the sacristy of St. Patrick’s Basilica on Divine Mercy Sunday.</p> <p>The occasion was a solemn Mass in the “Anglican Use” to receive some 40 members of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada into full communion with the Catholic Church. The several dozen new Catholics will form a quasi-parish that, while fully Catholic, will celebrate the Eucharist according to approved liturgical books which draw upon their Anglican heritage.</p> </div> <div class="itemFullText" webReader="111.596273292"> <p>For this small group of Anglicans, whose cathedral church in Ottawa is tiny, it was a novelty to be in such a large church. And of course there is even a bigger Catholic church a few blocks away — Notre Dame Cathedral. The meaning of course is metaphorical. To belong to the Catholic Church means to belong to a Church that is not 500 years old, but apostolic, and is truly universal, not limited to a few hundred people in structures fashioned a few decades ago.</p> <p><strong>RELATED STORY – <a href="/news/canada/item/14278-canadian-anglican-groups-welcomed-into-catholic-church" target="_blank">Canadian Anglican groups welcomed into Catholic Church</a></strong></p> <p>When Pope Benedict XVI promulgated Anglicanorum coetibus a few years ago, making it possible for groups of Anglicans to become Catholic together, preserving their own heritage and governed by their own ordinary, it was a generous act toward a rather small phenomenon — and for that reason a good lesson about the Church.</p> <p>To put the numbers in perspective, when all the former Anglicans who have become Catholic in this way, whether in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada or Australia, are added together, it is significantly less than the annual number of converts received into the Church in Hong Kong or Seoul. A large parish in the Philippines or Mexico would easily baptize more people every month than Archbishop Prendergast received on Sunday.</p> <p>So why the great joy in Ottawa? Because the logic of the Church — the logic of salvation — does not proceed by numbers as the world sees them. Every soul is precious, and every fragment of the body of Christ restored to the fullness of the flock is an occasion, as the Lord Jesus told us, for rejoicing in heaven. And if they rejoice in heaven, why would we not rejoice on Earth? Of course the sheer emotion and happiness of those becoming Catholic on Sunday was deeply moving itself. After the rite of reception, when the congregation burst forth in spontaneous applause, one of the former Anglican priests turned to me with moistened eyes and quietly said, “I never thought I would see this day.” The only response? That which the liturgy gives us during the Easter Octave: This is the day that the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.</p> <p>Realistically, I know that the addition of a few dozen souls from a rather mature congregation is unlikely to have much impact on the life of the Church in Ottawa, let alone across Canada. I fondly hope though that their impact is much greater than their numbers would predict, for I think our newly Catholic brethren have two important lessons to teach us.</p> <p>First, as with all adult converts, they teach us that the faith needs to be chosen, not just assumed, and that one must be willing to make sacrifices for it.</p> <p>“I commend the courage and fortitude of our brothers and sisters of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada; your journey has not been easy,” Archbishop Prendergast preached on Sunday. “I commend your humility and your sacrifice; you have suffered much. I commend your tradition and your zeal; you will bless and strengthen the Roman Catholic Church by your presence.”</p> <p>Second, the Anglican liturgical tradition has something important to offer us — and not just that they sing good hymns with passion! (I found myself wondering how they could sing so well in a small church — their voices demand a grand one!) The Anglican Use liturgy — which I celebrated myself for the first time in January — is roughly a combination of the rubrics of the Tridentine Mass, but with the English of the Book of Common Prayer tradition. Especially with our new translation of the Roman Missal, no Catholic would have difficulty following the Mass, but it would expose him to a new experience of reverence and beauty. The “prayer of humble access” alone, recited before Holy Communion, would reinforce our teaching on the Real Presence.</p> <p>While I have reverence for the Tridentine Mass, there are aspects of it that seem opaquely curious to me and to those who are not already well accustomed to that liturgical form. The Anglican Use is far more accessible, by which I mean that it more clearly teaches at the same time as it sanctifies. My own view is that the Anglican Use may well be of greater help in our liturgical renewal than the more widespread offering of the Tridentine form. Yet all that is for the future. For now, it is enough to rejoice in the day the Lord has made!</p> </div> <p>Link - </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/14287-rejoice-in-the-day-the-lord-has-made" title="Rejoice in the day the Lord has made">Rejoice in the day the Lord has made</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/rejoice-in-the-day-the-lord-has-made/#more-2328" title="Permalink to Rejoice in the day the Lord has made" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-13260 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ang-ordinariate tag-anglican tag-ottawa post clearfix" id="post-13260"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/two-bishops-and-an-ordinary/" title="Permalink to Two bishops and an Ordinary" rel="bookmark">Two bishops and an Ordinary</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6700781978403127786" itemprop="articleBody" webReader="89"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> Our congratulations to those who were received into full communion with the Holy See in Canadian cities this weekend. It has been a long but fulfilling journey for many. </p> <p>Also encouraging is the visit of Msgr. Steenson to Calgary on his first visit to a proto-Ordinariate parish in the proto-deanery of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.<br/></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L0pc2Dtyb4M/T43DgJrWg_I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/99rMVUSHHwE/s1600/ordinarystjohns.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L0pc2Dtyb4M/T43DgJrWg_I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/99rMVUSHHwE/s640/ordinarystjohns.png" width="420"/></a></div> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> Next Sunday in Oshawa members of another sodality will be received into full communion under the guidance of Fr. Eric Rodrigues.</p> <p>They will then join with Calgary, Cambridge, Toronto, Ottawa and Victoria Anglican Use sodalities in the regular celebration of the Anglican Use Mass on Sundays beginning April 22. Details for a regular time and place on Sunday are still being worked out for the Toronto Sodality but should be available soon.</p> <p>D.V. the regular celebration of the AU Mass with patrimonial music and ceremonial will, over time, allow other Anglicans and Christians from various backgrounds to find their way to full communion in the Catholic Church.</p> <p>This is a great step for those in Ottawa and region as well as Victoria, Calgary and other locations very soon. The emerging Deanery of Saint John the Baptist will soon be a reality and so we celebrate with them in patience and hope.</p> <p><b><i>Our Lady Walshingham, St. Peter, St John the Baptist, Blessed John Henry Newman, orate pro nobis</i></b> </p> </div> <p>Continued here: </p> <p><a target=\\\"_blank\\\" href=\\\"http://peregrinus-peregrinus.blogspot.com/2012/04/two-bishops-and-ordinary.html\\\" title=\\\"Two bishops and an Ordinary\\\">Two bishops and an Ordinary</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/two-bishops-and-an-ordinary/#more-13260" title="Permalink to Two bishops and an Ordinary" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-6600 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-michael-coren tag-amnesty tag-anglican tag-christianity tag-english tag-islam tag-ontario tag-ritchie tag-sussex tag-united post clearfix" id="post-6600"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/fashion-over-faith/" title="Permalink to Fashion over faith" rel="bookmark">Fashion over faith</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/fashion-over-faith/" title="Permalink to Fashion over faith" rel="bookmark"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.catholicanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ac9e117f0a66e2aa6dd0c5fe7a65a94b5f81_M-150x150.jpg" class="aligncenter featured_image wp-post-image" alt="Thumbnail" /></a> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="http://www.catholicanada.com//wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ac9e117f0a66e2aa6dd0c5fe7a65a94b5f81_M-150x150.jpg" /></p> <p> <div class="itemIntroText" webReader="41"> <p>You just have to love the English press and the English Church. “This could be one religious commandment that a congregation might find very easy to follow,” explained the Daily Mail shortly before Easter. “Fr. Phil Ritchie from All Saints Church in Hove, East Sussex, has said Easter Sunday is the perfect time for staying in bed, eating chocolate and having sex. The vicar gave the alternative suggestion for a way to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ after admitting that church just isn’t cool and funky.” The poor fellow was lamenting the decline in Anglican attendance, where not only more Catholics attend services than do Anglicans, but now followers of Islam are more numerous than the Church of England.</p> </div> <div class="itemFullText" webReader="117"> <p>It’s a great shame, because the Anglican are, or were, a nice bunch, with lots of lovely buildings and some delightful traditions. Mind you, herein is a problem. I was in Salisbury Cathedral earlier this year, where in place of the Catholic chapels, statues and shrines, the Anglicans have inserted all sorts of things to try to disguise the fact that this and numerous other historic buildings once belonged to Rome.</p> <p>One massive part of the medieval structure contains a window devoted to Amnesty International. This is an example of what is wrong. Amnesty was at one time a reliable, non-partisan organization that campaigned for all prisoners of conscience. </p> <p>But it has become radicalized, supports only certain prisoners and embraces a variety of unsavoury causes. It claims that a country that doesn’t fund abortion is akin to one that arrests dissidents. Baby slaughter, it seems, is a human right.</p> <p>In other words, once we root ourselves in fashion rather than faith, in journeys rather than Jesus, we’re bound for trouble. It could be windows devoted to extremism, having chocolate sex or even thinking that Jesus was a social democrat who guaranteed salvation if we campaign for inflation-linked pensions for school teachers. It’s all nonsense.</p> <p>C.S. Lewis had it right — as he did with almost everything — when he warned us about embracing the “Christianity and” idol. Christianity and revolution, Christianity and capitalism, Christianity and whatever is on your mind at any given time. The almost universal demise of liberal Protestantism is because those churches — Anglican, United, Presbyterian, etc. — have abandoned orthodox Christianity for fad, and then wonder why churches are empty.</p> <p>Evangelicals face a different dilemma. They rest their often admirable religion on a personal relationship with Christ, with no interference from Church or Pope. But what tends to happen in the relationship is that Christ comes to resemble them, rather than they resembling Christ. It’s why evangelical churches divide over issues as cosmetic as music. “I want Him and His Church to be like me, me, me.”</p> <p>Fr. Ritchie says that sex, sleep and confectionary might be a fun way to celebrate Easter, when in fact he means that sex, sleep and confectionary are fun things to do. They are. But have nothing to do with Easter, and the good minister and his comrades have confused fun and self-devotion with praise and worship. Yet it’s not always about fun, but it’s always about faith.</p> <p>The largest and most successful evangelical churches boast good coffee. “We serve Starbucks,” was how one Ontario church promoted itself. Fair enough, but what if I prefer Second Cup? Or infant to believer’s baptism, female ordination, dancing around an altar? It’s not about what we want but what we need, and if it were easy and instantly gratifying the churches would always be full. Not, however, heaven. Filling paradise requires something a little more demanding. Namely, a belief in Christ, revealed and clarified to us by the Church He left us, the branches of which can be clearly seen all over the place because they have the name “Roman Catholic” above them. </p> <p>Those who scream about their interpretation, their version, their understanding are not offering an addition but an alternative to truth, and that’s as wrong and dangerous as spending the entire day in bed eating candy. As for the sex, let’s leave that for another column.</p> </div> <p>See the original post:</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/14286-fashion-over-faith" title="Fashion over faith">Fashion over faith</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/fashion-over-faith/#more-6600" title="Permalink to Fashion over faith" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-5717 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-seraphic tag-christian tag-christianity tag-edith-stein tag-europe tag-german tag-holocaust tag-netherlands tag-polish tag-woman tag-women-2 post clearfix" id="post-5717"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/edith-stein-modern-catholic-woman/" title="Permalink to Edith Stein, modern Catholic woman" rel="bookmark">Edith Stein, modern Catholic woman</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/edith-stein-modern-catholic-woman/" title="Permalink to Edith Stein, modern Catholic woman" rel="bookmark"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.catholicanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ab5694c48d8f62a29726ef2379021149030b_M-150x150.jpg" class="aligncenter featured_image wp-post-image" alt="Thumbnail" /></a> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="http://www.catholicanada.com//wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ab5694c48d8f62a29726ef2379021149030b_M-150x150.jpg" /></p> <p> <div class="itemIntroText" webReader="40"> <p>As a German philosophy student, Edith Stein (1891-1942) was passionate about feminism. Her interest waned, however, as she concentrated on her philosophical work and explored Christianity. It was not until she had been baptized and had given up her academic career to teach in a convent school that she revisited the “Woman Question.” Her speculations formed part of a series of lectures that she gave to Catholic groups around Germany in 1931 and 1932 and decades later influenced the thought of a Polish philosophy professor named Karol Wojtyła. As Pope John Paul II, he promulgated an encyclical called Muleris Dignitatem, “On the Dignity of Women.”</p> </div> <div class="itemFullText" webReader="117"> <p>Edith Stein is of interest to any Catholic woman wanting to be true to her faith, family and calling in modern society, for these were issues that faced Stein all her life. First, Stein’s embrace of the Catholic faith disappointed her non-Catholic family. Second, Stein lived to see tremendous changes in the position of women in her society. Third, she was one of the most brilliant students of the philosopher Edmund Husserl, and called to a traditionally “male” intellectual path. Fourth, the influence of family and her confessors led her to delay her ultimate vocation as a contemplative Carmelite nun. Her own dreams came second — for a time — to the wishes of those she loved and respected. Fifth, Stein was ultimately murdered by the state — Nazi-occupied Europe — when the Netherlands’ Catholic bishops spoke out against persecution of the Jews and, to teach them a lesson, the Nazis arrested the nation’s Jewish-Catholic converts, including the refugee nun. </p> <p>The controversy around Stein’s Jewishness, conversion to Christianity, murder and subsequent canonization is unfortunate because it sidelines Stein’s thoughts about women and makes her seem solely a hotly contested victim of the Holocaust as opposed to a woman of our times. Like women today, Stein faced competing arguments about who women are and what our roles in society should be.</p> <p>When Stein was born, German women had few adult rights. Suffragettes fought for woman’s emancipation until 1919 when German women became full citizens. The two competing views were that men and women were the same, and therefore women should be equal to men, and that women and men were different, and therefore women were not equal to men. Stein, however, argues that men and women are equal and different from each other. </p> <p>This makes Stein the first important Catholic thinker to address the subject of women in the modern world. She approaches the subject as a trained philosopher who believes that experience can be studied and truth can be known. Before she addresses how men and women are different, she underscores that men and women share a common human nature and that every human person is unique: “No woman is only woman,” she writes. As a Christian, she uses biblical texts as resource material and even struggles with St. Paul where he seemed not to have fully understood how Christ has ended Adam’s post-fall tyranny over Eve.</p> <p>Stein is no absolutist. She writes about “masculine” and “feminine” natures, saying not that men are this and women are that, but that men tend towards the masculine and women tend towards the feminine. The feminine nature has an orientation towards the personal and the whole, whereas the masculine nature was content with objectivity and compartmentalization. In short, the feminine nature is concerned with people and a holistic approach to life, whereas the masculine nature tends to focus one-sidedly on one idea or task. </p> <p>Both natures complement each other, including in the professions. Stein argues that men and women should not be barred from any profession. She feels strongly that each person is uniquely suited to a particular profession, depending on his or her gifts. </p> <p>Thus, although women in general are more likely to be suited to caring, holistic professions like medicine, certain men are also called to such professions. Likewise, certain women are called to male-dominated technical trades. She suggests, too, that professions could be improved by being approached in both feminine and masculine ways.</p> <p>For Stein it is never a question of superiority. Both natures are good although, like all creation, in need of redemption. She finds in both certain harmful tendencies. And she argues that each person should develop the ideals of both feminine and masculine natures:</p> <p>“Christ embodies the ideal of human perfection: in Him all bias and defects are removed, and the masculine and feminine virtues are united and their weaknesses redeemed; therefore, His true followers will be progressively exalted over their natural limitations. That is why we see in holy men a womanly tenderness and a truly maternal solicitude for the souls entrusted to them while in holy women there is manly boldness, proficiency and determination.”</p> <p>Stein’s ideas are so sensible and suited to our times that she deserves widespread reading among Catholics looking for guidance about who men and women are called to be today.</p> </div> <p>Link: </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/14283-edith-stein-modern-catholic-woman" title="Edith Stein, modern Catholic woman">Edith Stein, modern Catholic woman</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/edith-stein-modern-catholic-woman/#more-5717" title="Permalink to Edith Stein, modern Catholic woman" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-3890 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-other-men tag-bridge tag-christians tag-constantine tag-council tag-easter tag-historical tag-lord tag-saturday tag-state tag-university tag-vatican post clearfix" id="post-3890"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/catholic-news-world-tues-april-17-2012/" title="Permalink to CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : TUES. APRIL 17, 2012" rel="bookmark">CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : TUES. APRIL 17, 2012</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/catholic-news-world-tues-april-17-2012/" title="Permalink to CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : TUES. APRIL 17, 2012" rel="bookmark"><img width="150" height="95" src="http://www.catholicanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/06c51_0_580192-150x95.jpg" class="aligncenter featured_image wp-post-image" alt="Thumbnail" /></a> <div class="entry"> </p> <p> <div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" webReader="154"><span style="color: #282828; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"></span> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">HOLY FATHER’S HOMILY<br /> ON HIS BIRTHDAY Vatican City, 17 April 2012 (VIS) – Yesterday morning in the<br /> Pauline Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, a Mass of thanksgiving was<br /> celebrated to mark two anniversaries the Pope is celebrating this week: his<br /> eighty-fifth birthday on 16 April, and the seventh anniversary of his election<br /> on 19 April. The Mass was attended by members of the College of Cardinals and by<br /> a group of bishops from the Pope’s native region of Bavaria. (IMAGE SOURCE:<br /> RADIO VATICANA)</p> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">In his homily the Pope recalled how on the day he was born<br /> and baptised the liturgy “erected three signposts showing me where the road led<br /> and helping me find it”: the feast of St. Bernardette of Lourdes, the feast of<br /> St. Benedict Joseph Labre, and Easter Saturday which in the year of the Pope’s<br /> birth fell on 16 April.</p> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">St. Bernardette grew up in “a poverty we find<br /> difficult to imagine”, he said. But “she could see with a pure and genuine<br /> heart, and Mary showed her a source … of pure, living uncontaminated water,<br /> water which is life, water which gives purity and health. … I believe we can<br /> see this water as an image of the truth which comes to us in the faith;<br /> unsimulated and uncontaminated truth. … This little saint has always been a<br /> sign for me, showing me where the living water we need comes from, the water<br /> which purifies and gives life. She has been a sign showing me how we should be.<br /> With all our knowledge and abilities, which are of course necessary, we must not<br /> lose … the simple gaze of the heart, which is capable of discerning the<br /> essential. And we must always pray to the Lord to help us retain the humility<br /> which allows the heart … to see the simple and essential beauty and goodness<br /> of God, and to find the source from which the life-givingpurifying water<br /> comes”.</p> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">The Pope then turned his attention to St. Benedict Joseph Labre, who<br /> lived in the eighteenth century. “He was a rather particular saint who wandered<br /> as a mendicant from one shrine to another, wishing to do nothing but pray and so<br /> bear witness to what is important in this life: God. … He shows us that, …<br /> over and above what may exist in this world, over and above our needs and<br /> abilities, … what is essential is to know God. He alone is enough”. The life<br /> of the saint, who travelled to shrines all over Europe, “shows that the person<br /> who opens himself to God is not a stranger to the world of men, rather he finds<br /> brothers. … Only God can eliminate frontiers, because thanks to Him we are all<br /> brothers”.</p> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">“Finally there is the Paschal Mystery. On the day I was born,<br /> thanks to my parents, I was also reborn with the water of the Spirit. …<br /> Biological life is in itself a gift, yet it begs an important question. It<br /> becomes a true gift only if, together with that life, we are given a promise<br /> stronger than any misfortune that may threaten us, if life is immersed in a<br /> power which guarantees that it is a good thing to be a man, and that the person<br /> is a benefit whatever the future may bring. In this way rebirth is associated<br /> with birth, the certainty that it is good to exist because the promise is<br /> greater than the threat. This is what it means to be reborn from water and from<br /> the Spirit. … This rebirth is given to us in Baptism, but we must continually<br /> grow therein, we must ever and anew allow God to immerse us in His promise, in<br /> order to be truly reborn into the great new family of the Lord, which is<br /> stronger than all our weaknesses and all the negative powersthat threaten us.<br /> That is why today is a day of thanksgiving.</p> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">“The day I was baptised … was<br /> Easter Saturday. At the time it was still customary to hold the Easter vigil in<br /> the morning, followed by the darkness of Easter Saturday without a Hallelujah.<br /> This singular paradox, this anticipation of light in a day of darkness, can<br /> almost be seen as an image of the history of our own times. On the one hand<br /> there is the silence of God and His absence, yet the resurrection of Christ<br /> contains an anticipation of God’s ‘yes’. We live in this anticipation, through<br /> the silence of God we hear His words, and through the darkness of His absence we<br /> glimpse His light. The anticipation of the resurrection in the midst of evolving<br /> history indicates the path we must follow and helps us to continue the<br /> journey”.</p> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">“I am in the final stage of my life journey and I do not know what<br /> awaits me. However, I do know that the light of God exists, that He rose again,<br /> that His light is stronger than all darkness, that the goodness of God is<br /> stronger than all the evil in this world. This helps me to continue with<br /> confidence. This helps us to continue, and I would like to thank everyone who,<br /> through their faith, continually makes me aware of God’s<br /> ‘yes’”.</p> <p>CONSTANTINE THE GREAT: RELIGION AND THE STATE AT<br /> THE DAWN OF EUROPE <br />Vatican City, 17 April 2012 (VIS) – “Constantine the<br /> Great. The Roots of Europe” is the title of an international academic congress<br /> to be held in the Vatican from 18 to 21 April. The event has been organised by<br /> the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences to mark the 1700th anniversary<br /> of the battle of the Milvian Bridge and the conversion of the Emperor<br /> Constantine.<br />The congress was presented this morning at a press conference<br /> held in the Holy See Press Office, by Fr. Bernard Ardura O. Praem., president of<br /> the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences; Claire Sotinel, professor of<br /> Roman history at the University of Paris-Creteil and a member of the Ecole<br /> Francaise in Rome, and Giovanni Maria Vian, director of the “Osservatore Romano”<br /> newspaper.<br />“The conference”, Fr. Ardura explained, “is the outcome of<br /> effective academic cooperation with important cultural institutions such as the<br /> Vatican Secret Archives, the Vatican Apostolic Library, the Italian National<br /> Research Council, the Ambrosian Library and the Sacred Heart Catholic University<br /> in Milan”. It is also taking place “with the cooperation and contribution of the<br /> European Union delegation to the Holy See, the Lazio Regional Council and the<br /> Pontifical Lateran University”.<br />This congress is the first of two, the second<br /> of which will be held in Milan in 2013 for the 1700th anniversary of the<br /> promulgation of the Edict of Milan, which established freedom of religion in the<br /> Roman empire and put an end to the persecution of certain religious groups,<br /> particularly Christians. While the 2013 congress will concern itself with what<br /> is known as the “Constantinian revolution”, tomorrow’s event will focus on the<br /> environment in which Constantine lived and on relations between Christians and<br /> the Roman empire prior to the year 313. Participants will “examine the<br /> relationship between religion and the State, the idea of religious freedom in<br /> the empire, and religion from the point of view of the emperor and the senate”,<br /> Fr. Ardura said.<br />One key area will be the conversion and baptism of<br /> Constantine himself, and his attitude towards Christians following the battle of<br /> the Milvian Bridge, which took place on 28 October 312 and led to the death of<br /> his rival Maxentius. Contemporary and later Christian historians, influenced by<br /> the narrative of Eusebius of Cesarea, saw Constantine’s victory as the result of<br /> divine intervention.<br />Fr. Ardura pointed out that “from a purely<br /> strategic-military viewpoint the battle was not very important, but it soon<br /> became the founding symbol of the new world which came into being when<br /> Constantine found Christianity. Indeed, … the era of imperial persecution<br /> against Christians was about to come to an end, giving way to the evangelisation<br /> of the entire empire and moulding the profile of western Europe and the Balkans;<br /> a Europe which gave rise to the values of human dignity, distinction and<br /> cooperation between religion and the State, and freedom of conscience, religion<br /> and worship. Of course these things would need many centuries to come to<br /> maturity, but they all existed ‘in nuce’ in the ‘Constantinian revolution’ and<br /> therefore in the battle of the Milvian Bridge”.<br />For her part, Claire Sotinel<br /> explained that attentive and critical historical analysis “facilitates our<br /> understanding of what happened following the victory at the Milvian Bridge,<br /> helping us in the twenty-first century to reflect on important issues such as<br /> the interaction between religions and political power, the creation of religious<br /> pluralism, and the possibility of coexistence among different religions”. </p> </div> <p>Visit source: </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://jesuscaritasest.blogspot.com/2012/04/catholic-news-world-tues-april-17-2012.html" title="CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : TUES. APRIL 17, 2012">CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : TUES. APRIL 17, 2012</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/catholic-news-world-tues-april-17-2012/#more-3890" title="Permalink to CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : TUES. APRIL 17, 2012" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-2659 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-life-issues tag-anonymous tag-been-published tag-during-the-past tag-group tag-made-by-persons tag-named-anonymous tag-not-publish tag-order-maintain tag-policy tag-ppropriate-or-attack tag-using-the-name post clearfix" id="post-2659"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/i-do-not-publish-anonymous-comments/" title="Permalink to I do not publish Anonymous comments." rel="bookmark">I do not publish Anonymous comments.</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <div class="entry"> </p> <p> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3460799060243717393" itemprop="articleBody" webReader="74"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> In case you are wondering why your comments haven’t been published, I will restate my policy. I do not publish Anonymous comments.</p> <p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FFf_927_1Ik/T424FVDByXI/AAAAAAAADiI/YVLzk5U2gjw/s1600/Anonymous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FFf_927_1Ik/T424FVDByXI/AAAAAAAADiI/YVLzk5U2gjw/s200/Anonymous.jpg" width="200"/></a>During the past few years there have been comments that were inappropriate and personally attacking that were made by persons using the name – Anonymous.</p> <p>I am not referring to the group that is named Anonymous either. </p> <p>Not all of the Anonymous comments are inappropriate or attack individuals, but in order maintain a fair and equitable policy, I do not publish Anonymous comments. </p> <p>I have my name and contact information connected to my blog. Therefore anyone who wants to have their comments published by me need to at least provide their name. By the way, this has been my policy for more than one year already.</p> <p>Alex Schadenberg </p> </div> <p>Source: </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-do-not-publish-anonymous-comments.html" title="I do not publish Anonymous comments.">I do not publish Anonymous comments.</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/i-do-not-publish-anonymous-comments/#more-2659" title="Permalink to I do not publish Anonymous comments." rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-6848 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-priests-uk tag-carthusian tag-carthusians tag-church tag-french tag-isle tag-king tag-life tag-modern tag-norwegians tag-orthodox tag-pope tag-revolution post clearfix" id="post-6848"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/on-the-clinking-of-chains-and-a-possible-duel/" title="Permalink to On the clinking of chains and a possible duel" rel="bookmark">On the clinking of chains and a possible duel</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/on-the-clinking-of-chains-and-a-possible-duel/" title="Permalink to On the clinking of chains and a possible duel" rel="bookmark"><img width="150" height="99" src="http://www.catholicanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/90f7benedictincense-150x99.jpg" class="aligncenter featured_image wp-post-image" alt="Thumbnail" /></a> <div class="entry"> </p> <p> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3381337692296059768" itemprop="articleBody" webReader="113.648872395"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cs-4yF5SS9c/T422Q0af3II/AAAAAAAAHns/6EtOs2xG41o/s1600/benedict+incense.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cs-4yF5SS9c/T422Q0af3II/AAAAAAAAHns/6EtOs2xG41o/s400/benedict+incense.jpg" width="400"/></a></div> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> Tomorrow I will be travelling to the Isle of Wight to give a lecture to some holy and fearsomely learned nuns on the subject of efficacious and sufficient grace. I considered that their knowledge of the Fathers would humiliate me and therefore a post-Tridentine controversy which is part of a course I gave to the Carthusians would at least enable me to hold my head above water.</p> <p>At the last minute, I am wondering whether I should have chosen a weightier subject which has arisen on Fr Zuhlsdrof’s blog regarding the us of the thurible: <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/04/quaeritur-to-clink-or-not-to-clink-wdtprs-poll/">To clink or not to clink.</a> There is a poll attached to the post and at the time of writing the clinkers are in a massive majority of 91% which goes to show how Fr Z attracts sound readers to his blog.</p> <p>I am certainly a clinker. Not only a double-tap for each incensing of the cross, but often a weaker clink when the pot is lowered in between – possibly misleading people into thinking that I have broken even more 1962 rubrics by giving three swings. At our solemn Masses we now have extra clinks because I have finally got round to housing some fine relics that were recovered during the time of the French Revolution. The chaps clubbed together to get some good reliquaries which now adorn the altar.</p> <p>Mind you, we must not be extreme and intransigent in our support for clinking. The Carthusians who have not changed much since the 11th century, retain a single handed thurible swing in which there is no clinking at all but an expert swoosh for each monk in choir, in turn. So far I have not seen any black eyes or bleeding noses, but the guys there are physically robust so it would probably just be a matter to laugh about on the next walk. (I think that the Carthusian style is similar to how the Orthodox incense people, except that they have bells on the thurible which seems just silly.)</p> <p>Fr Z has impugned me by asking in reference to our occasional <a href="http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/fire-extinguisher-training.html">Fire extinguisher training</a> with the altar servers: “Is H.H. a notoriously bad at incensation?” There is only one possible resolution to this attack on my honour. I shall tweet a gauntlet across the Atlantic pending Father’s visit to Blighty in June.</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ugY66g0mBs/T422X5hMwoI/AAAAAAAAHn0/RWfV7p0CDwU/s1600/HKMP5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="95" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ugY66g0mBs/T422X5hMwoI/AAAAAAAAHn0/RWfV7p0CDwU/s200/HKMP5.jpg" width="200"/></a></div> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">For the duel, I shall choose a </p> <p><a href="http://www.heckler-koch.com/en/products/submachine-guns/mp5/mp5/overview.html">Heckler and Koch MP5</a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> on the advice of one of my adult servers who was loaned one by the Norwegians on a tour of duty some years back, and swears by it. I fear that Fr Z will have more experience at shooting, living in a country where you can have guns if you want, even if you are not a criminal, but you never know what might happen on these occasions.</p> <p>I wonder if the excommunications for duelling are still in force or whether they were abolished by Pope Paul VI sometime between 1968 and 1972, like everything else. Liberals ought to consider that the Church was completely out of touch in its approximately 200 year fight against the practice when all reasonable people thought that duelling was a necessary evil and that they could ignore the authority of the Pope. On the other hand, Pope Benedict might now maintain that the excommunications were in principle never abrogated and are still in force.</p> <p>Perhaps I should calm down on the duelling issue. Admittedly I have from time to time struck the altar during the return bit of the incensation when you have to swing the thurible over the front edge. Needing glasses for reading, I usually leave them on at the offertory incensation, making for a dangerous miscalculation of distance.</p> <p>As the modern Lourdes hymn has it: “Problems of life, you ‘elp us to face…” </p> </div> <p>Taken from:</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-clinking-of-chains-and-possible-duel.html" title="On the clinking of chains and a possible duel">On the clinking of chains and a possible duel</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/on-the-clinking-of-chains-and-a-possible-duel/#more-6848" title="Permalink to On the clinking of chains and a possible duel" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-wrap"> <div class="post-13287 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-home-school tag-dragon tag-sacrament post clearfix" id="post-13287"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/awesome-catholic-products-ncea-2012-links-of-lightbulbs-13/" title="Permalink to Awesome Catholic Products NCEA 2012: Links of LightBulbs {13}" rel="bookmark">Awesome Catholic Products NCEA 2012: Links of LightBulbs {13}</a></h2> <div class="postmeta-primary"> <span class="meta_date">Tuesday, April 17, 2012</span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3119180348261715799" webReader="77.1987820792"> <div style="text-align: justify;" webReader="9.88764044944"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> We just returned from the </p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ncea.org/events/NCEABostonCentral.asp">NCEA 2012</a></span></strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">…the </p> <p><strong>National Catholic Education Association</strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> conference in Boston last week! As always, I discovered some </p> <p><strong>great products and awesome Catholic initiatives</strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> and wanted to add them to my list of </p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/2011/11/cool-stuff-about-catholic-conferences.html">Fabulous Finds at Catholic Conferences</a></strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">.</p> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bYh7FerRZaw/T4zbeu5HMFI/AAAAAAAACcE/htaQV5rVjAQ/s1600/coatsofmanycolors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271px" nda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bYh7FerRZaw/T4zbeu5HMFI/AAAAAAAACcE/htaQV5rVjAQ/s400/coatsofmanycolors.jpg" width="400px"/></a></div> <p><br/> <div style="text-align: justify;" webReader="7.09004739336"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> (1) </p> <p><a href="http://www.ourcoatsofmanycolors.com/"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Our Coats of Many Colors</span></strong></a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">: meticulously-sewn and surprisingly affordable Saints Religious Order Costumes for kids and adults. Quite a variety of costumes and sizing…</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">and trust me, these are beautifully made!</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YUomqD9zmFg/T4zp2IVaw0I/AAAAAAAACcc/J5KZUkCdYyU/s1600/celebration+banners.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YUomqD9zmFg/T4zp2IVaw0I/AAAAAAAACcc/J5KZUkCdYyU/s200/celebration+banners.jpg" width="146px"/></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> (2) </p> <p><a href="http://www.celebration-banners.com/"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Celebration Banners</span></strong></a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">: a new approach to </p> <p><br/><strong>Sacrament Banners</strong></div> <p> …they even lead workshops in the New Jersey area. Great Sacrament and Catholic-themed precut stickers and a quality burlap / embroidery material backing with a fringe. They were also giving away <strong><span style="font-size: large;">Holy Communion cookie cutters</span></strong>!</p> <div style="text-align: justify;" webReader="10.8157894737"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> …Not to be confused with </p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.illuminatedink.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Illuminated Ink</span></a></strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">…also friends of ours who have awesome </p> <p><strong>Sacrament banners</strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> with beautiful designs and pre-cut, quality pieces. </p> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RSW-W3_zn3M/T4zZ9BRplLI/AAAAAAAACb8/uSlUDYaZTFE/s1600/dragon+slayers.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RSW-W3_zn3M/T4zZ9BRplLI/AAAAAAAACb8/uSlUDYaZTFE/s1600/dragon+slayers.gif"/></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> (3) </p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><a href="http://www.paracletepress.com/dragon-slayers.html"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Dragon Slayers</span></strong></a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> by </p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Paraclete Press</span></strong></div> <p> … not specifically Catholic (had to mention that!)…</p> <div style="text-align: justify;" webReader="16.3974683544"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> I am so excited to review </p> <p><a href="http://www.paracletepress.com/dragon-slayers.html"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Dragon Slayers</span></strong></a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">! If you have an 11-year old </p> <p><strike>knight</strike> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> child, fascinated with Medieval times (as I do)…this is a beautifully designed, fun-to-read book, challenging us to fight dragons…a.k.a. SINS. The irresistable writing style will teach them even more than they realize…and challenge them to the most honorable of quests! I’m hooked! I wish I had written this book! </p> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> Watch for my </p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/2011/09/consoling-heart-of-jesus-book-review.html">Book Badge Review</a></strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> of this book </p> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> and </p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/2011/09/handbook-for-catholic-moms-book-review.html">Doodle Summary</a></strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">!</p> </div> <p> <strong>I will review this book SOON!…as long as I can get the book away from my son long enough for me to read it!</strong> </p> <div style="text-align: justify;" webReader="5.35606060606"><strong><a href="http://www.paracletepress.com/new-releases.html">Paraclete Press</a></strong> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> also has neat books to help us approach prayer in new and creative ways. (I have already mentioned </p> <p><a href="http://www.paracletepress.com/praying-in-color.html">Praying in Color</a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">)</p> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;" webReader="14.7942973523"> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled"> (4) </p> <p><a href="http://www.armadei.blogspot.ca/"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><strong>Arma Dei: Equipping Catholic Families</strong></span></a> <p style="display: inline;" class="webReader-styled">….OK, after a number of conferences in the last couple weeks (NCEA, MAC, LJH and a few vicariously through some of our friends (thank you, JPToo Bookstore!) flogging our Catholic books, quizzing cards and craft kits…I think it’s OK that I sneak our company in this list. Here is a sneak peek at our newest product: The Cathletics Club Quiet Bag to keep little ones busy, focused and quiet at Mass…starting with my own 2 year old and 6 year old!</p> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mNg67aSIt3o/T4zoPm-7XrI/AAAAAAAACcU/xKAMkr6stkE/s1600/quiet+bag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mNg67aSIt3o/T4zoPm-7XrI/AAAAAAAACcU/xKAMkr6stkE/s400/quiet+bag.jpg" width="400px"/></a></div> <p> . </p> <p> <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><strong>More about this popular gift </strong></span><span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #660000;">as I release it at </span></strong></span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/">Equipping Catholic Families</a> <span style="color: #660000;">very soon!</span></strong></span></div> </div> <p>Credit:</p> <p><a target=\\\"_blank\\\" href=\\\"http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/2012/04/awesome-catholic-products-at-ncea-2012.html\\\" title=\\\"Awesome Catholic Products NCEA 2012: Links of LightBulbs 13\\\">Awesome Catholic Products NCEA 2012: Links of LightBulbs 13</a></p> </div> <div class="readmore-wrap"> <a class="readmore" href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/awesome-catholic-products-ncea-2012-links-of-lightbulbs-13/#more-13287" title="Permalink to Awesome Catholic Products NCEA 2012: Links of LightBulbs {13}" rel="bookmark">Read More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="navigation clearfix"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="http://www.catholicanada.com/2012/04/17/page/2/" ><span>«</span> Older posts</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="primary-sidebar-wrap" class="span-7"> <div class="sidebar-primary"> <ul class="widget-wrap"><li id="text-11" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"></div> </li></ul><ul class="widget-wrap"><li id="categories-2" class="widget widget_categories"><h3 class="widgettitle">What did I miss ???</h3><select name='cat' id='cat' class='postform' > <option value='-1'>Select Category</option> <option class="level-0" value="43">CC BISHOPS</option> <option class="level-1" value="12355">   ARCHBISHOPS</option> <option class="level-2" value="11594">      Abp P-A Durocher</option> <option class="level-2" value="47">      Abp Prendergast</option> <option class="level-2" value="11593">      Abp Richard Smith</option> <option class="level-1" value="12354">   BISHOPS</option> <option class="level-2" value="12152">      Bp Gary Gordon</option> <option class="level-2" value="48">      Bp Thomas Dowd</option> <option class="level-2" value="45">      Other Bishops</option> <option class="level-1" value="46">   Évêques</option> <option class="level-1" value="44">   The C.C.C.B.</option> <option class="level-0" value="13128">CC CHOICE VIDEOS</option> <option class="level-0" value="54">CC DIOCESES</option> <option class="level-1" value="11755">   Ang. 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