Terrible things happen to people through natural disasters or attacks or human error. We now see the images virtually in real time splashed on our screens.Misery, loss, pain come in the blink of an eye to people who, the day before… even hours or minutes before… were going about their daily lives.Now and then I post here about the need to have a plan for when or if something really bad happens.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder – Adam and EveOne of the interesting things about conducing a parish mission is how many people stay behind to ask really probing questions. Last evening here in Indianapolis a man named Frank asked me if it was wrong not to believe certain things the church teaches
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OLDIE PODCAzT 119: The Holy Name and BlasphemyPosted on20 May 2013byFr. John ZuhlsdorfFrom 2011:Today is the feast of St.
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WDTPRS POLL: All-male sanctuary/altar service and vocations to the priesthood.Posted on20 May 2013byFr.
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WDTPRS POLL: All-male sanctuary/altar service and vocations to the priesthood.
I have now posted the two longest versions of my conversion story to read free of charge. They can be accessed through the Archived Articles tab of the blog
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One of the tabs at the top of the blog is for my Archived Articles. I have posted a number of my articles written for other periodicals, websites and papers.Does anyone use this facility?
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From a reader:Is there any significance between altar boys who wear black cassocks as opposed to those who wear red ones in the TLM?No, there is no significance. This is a matter of aesthetics
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Poem for PentecostThe boy kneels as the Father prods the coalsthat glower in the thurible. The grayash sticks, then crumbles, shifts and falls away.The embers surge orange before the granules,like tiny jewels, are spooned onto the fire.It is a simple ritual—almost quaint–done with ancient courtesy and restraint.In the burnt brass bowl, like a little pyre,the fire and fuel co-mingle and producea waft of smoke that lifts to curl and cling,and break the chains of human suffering.It’s a burnt offering; Pentecost– A bushblazing in the desert where I roam.It’s the smoke on Sinai; the still, small voiceand the sweet, cloudy pillar that leads me home.This poem is from my published collection, A Sudden Certainty–Priest Poems
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Remembering that the New Testament is hidden in the old and the old is made manifest in the New, yesterday’s feast provides three powerful images from the past that converge at Pentecost: Wind, Fire and Witness.The mighty rushing wind connects back to the first day of creation where in the first verses of the Bible we are told that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The Hebrew for “Spirit of God” is ruach Elohim which means “Wind of the Mighty One” or “Mighty Wind” or “Breath of God” or “Spirit of God”. Because Hebrew has a small vocabulary single words often carry a multiplicity of meanings
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Who’da thunk it?Sant’Anselmo, the Roman liturgical institute (which hasn’t always been a bastion of tradition), is going to offer a Masters degree in GREGORIAN CHANT.From CNA:Rome university launches course on liturgical musicBy Estefania Aguirre Rome, Italy, May 20, 2013 / 09:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A pontifical university in Rome has launched a master’s program in Gregorian chant and the use of the organ at Mass so as to build unity among Catholics world-wide. [I just about fell off my chair.] “The most important thing is that music, when it is truly liturgical, creates community,” Father Jordi Piqué, dean of the Pontifical University of Saint Anselmo’s liturgical institute, said May 20.
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Quilisma by Quilisma! ROME: A Masters Degree in Gregorian Chant!
I’m in Indianapolis Indiana leading a parish mission this week, and in the meet and greet session afterwards, the most common conversation I have is with middle aged women who say, “Father, what can I do, my children have stopped practicing the faith!” or they tell me how their children have married Mormons or Methodists or Baptists and left the Catholic Church.What’s the problem?
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From a reader:Over Mother’s Day weekend I attended mass at a church I do not usually attend.
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Computer RAM questionPosted on18 May 2013byFr. John ZuhlsdorfI am trying to revive the old “mothership”
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COLLECT (1962MR):Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut claritatis tuae super nos splendor effulgeat; et lux tuae lucis corda eorum, qui per gratiam tuam renati sunt, Sancti Spiritus illustratione confirmet.Splendor and claritas are related to the concept of glory and of light. Illustratio is a technical term from ancient rhetoric.
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I was really angry when I first saw this.Mr. President.
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Need a review of what’s up with the LCWR?Posted on18 May 2013byFr. John ZuhlsdorfIf some of you are wondering what is going on with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, there is a good summary piece at the National Catholic Register
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Guest Post:Posted on17 May 2013byFr. John ZuhlsdorfFrom a reader:I thought you may be interested to know that our priest, for certain Daily Masses in the Ordinary Form, is using Latin for the majority of the Mass
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