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The pure joy of the Visitation
July 04, 2019
In our traditional Roman liturgical calendar, July 2 (the conclusion of the long-suppressed Octave of John the Baptist) is the feast of the Visitation. In the Novus Ordo calendar, the Visitation falls on May 31, between the Annunciation and the Nativity of St John the Baptist. We reflect on the visit of the Blessed Virgin
Be still and listen to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
June 27, 2019
As this number of the weekly magazine you now peruse was issued, we celebrate the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the Church’s post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo calendar, the day after Sacred Heart is generally the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This year, that day, June 29, is the Feast of Ss Peter and
Little devotions help us become better Catholics
June 20, 2019
In the 13th century a priest on pilgrimage to Rome was suffering doubts about the Eucharist. During a Mass his Host become flesh and bled upon the linen corporal. Hearing about this, Pope Urban IV desired that a feast of the Body and Blood of Christ should be celebrated everywhere to honour this Eucharistic miracle.
A brief guide to the Holy Trinity
June 13, 2019
If you are challenged to explain the Trinity, consider this. From all eternity, before material creation and time, God desired a communion of love. He therefore expressed Himself in a perfect Word. The Word God uttered beyond and outside of time was and remains His perfect self-expression, containing all that God is, perfectly possessing every
The Holy Spirit is our link to the early Church
June 06, 2019
On the Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, 50 days after the Exodus. Fifty days after Our Lord’s Resurrection, and 10 days after His Ascension (10 symbolising perfection), the fiery Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and first disciples to breathe life
The absurdity of ‘Ascension Thursday Sunday’
May 30, 2019
On this complicated Sunday people in many churches will observe in the Ordinary Form what we might call, for its absurdity, Ascension Thursday Sunday, the transferral of the biblically attested moment, 40 days after the Resurrection, of the Lord’s transit to heaven on a Thursday, with our humanity in an indestructible bond with His divinity.
Mass is more than remembrance: it makes the Resurrection present now
May 23, 2019
Here is the Collect for the Sixth Sunday of Easter in the Ordinary Form, which was glued together from bits of prayers from ancient sacramentaries. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t a good prayer. Fac nos, omnipotens Deus, hos laetitiae dies, quos in honorem Domini resurgentis exsequimur, affectu sedulo celebrare, ut quod recordatione percurrimus semper
Why I warn people before I bless cars
May 16, 2019
The Collect for the Fifth Sunday of Easter was not in a previous edition of the Roman Missal. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, semper in nobis paschale perfice sacramentum ut, quos sacro baptismate dignatus es renovare, sub tuae protectionis auxilio multos fructus afferant, et ad aeternae vitae gaudia pervenire concedas. Current ICEL translation (2011): “Almighty ever-living God,
Like a mosaic, the Church needs a great Artist to arrange it
May 09, 2019
Last week, those who frequent Holy Mass with the traditional Roman Rite heard the Gospel about the Good Shepherd. In the Novus Ordo, that Gospel is read this week, for the Fourth Sunday of Easter. The disconnect is unfortunate. The experts of the Consilium thought it was important to break the continuity of centuries just
Beehives and the meaning of baptism
May 02, 2019
Last week, I was inspired by both the Exsultet, sung by the deacon during the Vigil of Easter with its imagery of bees, and the survival of the beehives atop the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral’s sacristy. These orderly little creatures, which have sparked the imaginations of Holy Church’s best writers through the centuries, supply
Catholics should strive to imitate the bees of Notre-Dame
April 25, 2019
One blessing from the suppression of the old English translation of the Roman Missal and the introduction of the new, was the return of the bees to the Exsultet. The Exsultet, since the 9th century sung during the Easter Vigil, is a poem packed with images, including of bees. Elements of the text go back
Easter: a season for singing and dancing
April 18, 2019
The Sacred Triduum is behind us, with its shadows, deprivation and purifying lamentation. Renewed, we now enter a liturgical season of light and joy. Our Easter Sunday celebration changes from the usual sprinkling rite with penitential hyssop in the Asperges to reveling in the newly blessed Easter water. In the Vidi aquam we are washed
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