*The Remnant (traditional): "Motley Assembly" III Update.
*John Vennari (traditional): Religious Indifferentism on Parade; The Hippies' Dream Come True.
*Dici (traditional): Society of St. Pius X: Prayers of reparation for the interreligious meeting in Assisi.*Rorate Cæli (traditional): Assisi III: Papal Address.
*Rorate Cæli (traditional): Editorial Note: Assisi Ignored.
*Sandro Magister (mainstream moderate): Assisi Gives an Encore. But Revised and Corrected.
*Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (mainstream conservative): Pagan chant to the deity Olokun in the Basilica of St. Francis during Assisi III.
*Catholic News Service (mainstream liberal): Among Assisi participants, a sense of deeper crisis in modern society.
*CNA (mainstream conservative, EWTN): Pope: Assisi meeting shows desire for peace is real.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Dear Holy Father... (my commentary on Assisi III)
God said: "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." Why do I have to point this out to the pope?
Sincerely in Christ,
Sincerely in Christ,
TradNews Roundup
*TLM refused in Australia in a blatant disregard for Summorum Pontificum and Universæ Ecclesiæ.
*Ryan Grant attempts to find the Distributionist silver lining to the Occupy Wall Street movement. This is the second attempt, but for all the reasons Mr. Grant points out, the OWS movement is no friend to Distributionists.
*French police brutally attack peaceful Catholic protestors.
*Report on the Angelus Press Conference that was held in Kansas City, Missouri.
*There's nothing to learn here, Damian, because Archbishop Vincent Nichols IS a Modernist bully. I really can't fathom Mr. Thompson's admiration for Nichols who has proven time and time again that he is a Modernist and a liberal devoid of any kindness for those who want to be authentically Catholic.
*How's this for "full and active participation"??
*Every once in a while Tucker and I agree. However, giving credit to the "Austrian" school for the good parts is silly. The Austrian school is still about keeping power centralized in the hands of a few, but in the hands of the corporate elites instead of the socialist government elites.
*Vatican turns its back on subsidiarity and abandons Distributionists. Magister goes so far as to call what the Vatican is asking for a "one world government." Is there any wonder why some believe that the Vatican is ran by Masons?
*Bishop Alexander Sample of the Diocese of Marquette on ad orientem posture.
*SSPX: “May the Lord remove the veil that is covering the hearts of Churchmen, and make them recognise that only one Peace is possible between men: that of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ…” I'm in full support of that statement.
*Sandro Magister salutes a gentleman of gentlemen in his round up of the latest developments in the on-going debate over the traditionalist critique of Vatican II: "In comparison, the tranquility with which Professor de Mattei has endured such affronts has been a lesson in style for everyone".
*Maciel's and JPII's Legion is in complete tatters.
*Jerry Horn sets the record straight concerning Priests for Life.
*Ryan Grant attempts to find the Distributionist silver lining to the Occupy Wall Street movement. This is the second attempt, but for all the reasons Mr. Grant points out, the OWS movement is no friend to Distributionists.
*French police brutally attack peaceful Catholic protestors.
*Report on the Angelus Press Conference that was held in Kansas City, Missouri.
*There's nothing to learn here, Damian, because Archbishop Vincent Nichols IS a Modernist bully. I really can't fathom Mr. Thompson's admiration for Nichols who has proven time and time again that he is a Modernist and a liberal devoid of any kindness for those who want to be authentically Catholic.
*How's this for "full and active participation"??
*Every once in a while Tucker and I agree. However, giving credit to the "Austrian" school for the good parts is silly. The Austrian school is still about keeping power centralized in the hands of a few, but in the hands of the corporate elites instead of the socialist government elites.
*Vatican turns its back on subsidiarity and abandons Distributionists. Magister goes so far as to call what the Vatican is asking for a "one world government." Is there any wonder why some believe that the Vatican is ran by Masons?
*Bishop Alexander Sample of the Diocese of Marquette on ad orientem posture.
*SSPX: “May the Lord remove the veil that is covering the hearts of Churchmen, and make them recognise that only one Peace is possible between men: that of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ…” I'm in full support of that statement.
*Sandro Magister salutes a gentleman of gentlemen in his round up of the latest developments in the on-going debate over the traditionalist critique of Vatican II: "In comparison, the tranquility with which Professor de Mattei has endured such affronts has been a lesson in style for everyone".
*Maciel's and JPII's Legion is in complete tatters.
*Jerry Horn sets the record straight concerning Priests for Life.
Friday, October 21, 2011
TradNews Roundup
*Italian scholars sign a petition to the Pope for a more in depth examination of the Second Vatican Council.
*Sacrilege in the heart of the Rome. How's that dialogue with the world going?
*Bishop Finn indicted.
*There's no excuse, because we traditional Catholics told them so. I know people who call themselves Catholics who were stupid enough to vote for him the first time, and even though they may not vote for him again, the damage has already been done. They should do public penance everyday that the ObamaNation of Desolation persists.
*Sacrilege in the heart of the Rome. How's that dialogue with the world going?
*Bishop Finn indicted.
*There's no excuse, because we traditional Catholics told them so. I know people who call themselves Catholics who were stupid enough to vote for him the first time, and even though they may not vote for him again, the damage has already been done. They should do public penance everyday that the ObamaNation of Desolation persists.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Patrick Buchanan on Vatican II
"Half a century on [after Vatican II], the disaster is manifest. The robust and confident Church of 1958 no longer exists. Catholic colleges and universities remain Catholic in name only. Parochial schools and high schools are closing as rapidly as they opened in the 1950s. The numbers of nuns, priests and seminarians have fallen dramatically. Mass attendance is a third of what it was. From the former Speaker of the House to the Vice President, Catholic politicians openly support abortion on demand."
From Buchanan's new book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
Friday, October 14, 2011
TradNews Roundup
*More concerning the new personal parish for the TLM in Fort Wayne, IN.
*Modest seeds are planted for the TLM in Bismark, North Dakota. Please continue to pray that these efforts across the country will flourish into large and vibrant TLM communities.
*November 3rd Solemn Requiem Mass scheduled for Cleveland.
*SSPX meeting closes, and those present "manifested a profound unity in their will to maintain the Faith in its integrity and its fullness". Bishop Felley, with his two assistants, Fr. Niklaus Pfluger and Fr. Alain Nely to formulate a response in a "reasonable" amount of time.
*Rome Reports concerning the "Lefebvrians". (If you call them "Lefebvrians" you make it sound like they are heretics and schismatics.)
*Pope took aim at liberals and other heretics in Germany and Austria.
*The woes of immigration may have a Catholic solution.
*Fr. Jenkins still hasn't learned his lesson about Obama. How hard is it to understand that Obama and his administration is Planned Parenthood's ilk? Obama, himself, has said as much.
*Another diocese follows Phoenix's lead and restricts Holy Communion under both kinds.
*The Remnant interviews Father Michael Rodriguez. Supporters want Father Rodriguez back in El Paso.
*Modest seeds are planted for the TLM in Bismark, North Dakota. Please continue to pray that these efforts across the country will flourish into large and vibrant TLM communities.
*November 3rd Solemn Requiem Mass scheduled for Cleveland.
*SSPX meeting closes, and those present "manifested a profound unity in their will to maintain the Faith in its integrity and its fullness". Bishop Felley, with his two assistants, Fr. Niklaus Pfluger and Fr. Alain Nely to formulate a response in a "reasonable" amount of time.
*Rome Reports concerning the "Lefebvrians". (If you call them "Lefebvrians" you make it sound like they are heretics and schismatics.)
*Pope took aim at liberals and other heretics in Germany and Austria.
*The woes of immigration may have a Catholic solution.
*Fr. Jenkins still hasn't learned his lesson about Obama. How hard is it to understand that Obama and his administration is Planned Parenthood's ilk? Obama, himself, has said as much.
*Another diocese follows Phoenix's lead and restricts Holy Communion under both kinds.
*The Remnant interviews Father Michael Rodriguez. Supporters want Father Rodriguez back in El Paso.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Difference Between Kitsch and Catholic Art
There is a great article at the Catholic Phoenix about sentimentality and its connection with the Catholic penchant for kitsch. While the article focuses mainly on the art of letters, I think the lessons to be learned from this article can be applied to discerning Catholic art in general.
Here's a sample:
There is, I think, at least a small place for the kind of "sentimentalism" that portrays an ideal, like holy cards of St. Anthony of Padua or the masterpieces of Claudio Coello, but thankfully the greater portion of Catholic art avoids sentimentalism for its own sake. In the vast diversity of sacred art there is both idealism and realism that aims not to evoke an emotional response in the viewer, but to give glory to what the art attempts to point toward. Good Catholic art attempts and achieves transcendence. It is by its very nature a vertical endeavor that merely uses the horizontal to achieve its goal.
St. Dominic by Claudio Coello. An acceptable form of Catholic sentimentalism.
A particularly powerful artist in the history of sacred art was Caravaggio, but his own life was nothing short of near continuous turmoil. He was a man of fiery temper and passion, a brawler and by the accounts of more than one of his contemporaries, a man of debauched character. Nevertheless, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio stands out as one of the greatest masters of sacred art.
Caravaggio's greatness was his ability to capture the dynamic interplay, and note well, not the contradistinction, between the harsh realism of the scene depicted and the divine reality permeating the same scene. For Caravaggio, the anguish or passion or violence or surprise of the material world accompanies the action of God. This interplay is demonstrated by his well thought out use of tenebrism.
In Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ, the violence and anguish fade into shadows caused by the illumination of the Person of Christ from a source off to the left. Christ is washed in the light highlighting His expression of real sorrow, but indicating that He also has transcended the violence and anguish that surrounds Him.
The same thoughtful use of tenebrism can be discerned in Caravaggio's The Entombment of Christ, The Conversion of Saint Paul, and The Crucifixion of Saint Peter. All demonstrate how the transcendent finger of God touches matter and enters history.
The Entombment of Christ
The Conversion of Saint Paul
The Crucifixion of St. Peter
Perhaps it is this interplay between Caravaggio's concupiscence and God's grace that informed his master works, but of even greater influence is the Catholic understanding of original sin, the struggle against temptation and sin, and the action of sanctifying and actual grace. Caravaggio inherited this Catholic understanding from his faith and from those who came before him. It would be a grave misunderstanding to come away from this treatment thinking that Caravaggio held some kind of monopoly on this grasp of Catholic truth in art. Rather, it can be discerned clearly in the early breaking away from the static forms of the Byzantine icon in the Romanesque and Gothic, and in the work of the early Renaissance masters such as Giotto di Bondone. It was carried on long after Caravaggio until the modern era wherein man no longer desired to be directed toward the transcendent, and instead settled on being mired in the dissonance of despair that results from loosing sight of the Divine.
Aside from Catholicism, there is no other religion that articulates with such clarity and fecundity what is known as the spiritual combat, because there is no other religion that understands so completely God's grace and the nature of man. Western Catholic art reflects with the greatest clarity the incarnational and sacramental nature of God's interaction with man.
There is a kind of teleology that distinguishes good Catholic art from kitsch. Man is fallen, but destined for a glorious end that only God's grace can accomplish for him. There is an ideal end, but a reality here and now that involves cooperation with grace, real struggle, in short, the spiritual combat. A sentimentalism that serves no other purpose than to elicit an emotional response fails to reflect this teleological element inherent to all good Catholic art. Such sentimentalism removes the real life of man from the contemplation of God, and fails to transcend the merely human and emotional. The dualism of this kitsch fails to engage us where we are, in the midst of the spiritual combat, and fails to direct our gaze toward God, the only source of grace that can accomplish our true end.
It is for this reason that I'm in complete agreement with Denys Powlett-Jones. It is hard to express it any clearer than this:
Here's a sample:
Both the old lady in California who wants to be uplifted and the Catholic critic who wants novels to be “positive”—the Scylla and Charybdis of the Catholic public, demanding sentiment or utility, but blind to art—, are confused about what a work of literature is in its essence: they expect it to DO something specific for them and are from the beginning uninterested in its representation of any unpleasant realities, which is to be uninterested in at least half of reality. To want only simplistic sentimental stories is really to want to be lied to, and while there is no shortage in our age of those willing to lie to make a buck, the Christian artist, bound by his theology to see the world as it is, and sanctioned by his morality against deceiving anyone, cannot in good conscience join in.
There is, I think, at least a small place for the kind of "sentimentalism" that portrays an ideal, like holy cards of St. Anthony of Padua or the masterpieces of Claudio Coello, but thankfully the greater portion of Catholic art avoids sentimentalism for its own sake. In the vast diversity of sacred art there is both idealism and realism that aims not to evoke an emotional response in the viewer, but to give glory to what the art attempts to point toward. Good Catholic art attempts and achieves transcendence. It is by its very nature a vertical endeavor that merely uses the horizontal to achieve its goal.
St. Dominic by Claudio Coello. An acceptable form of Catholic sentimentalism.A particularly powerful artist in the history of sacred art was Caravaggio, but his own life was nothing short of near continuous turmoil. He was a man of fiery temper and passion, a brawler and by the accounts of more than one of his contemporaries, a man of debauched character. Nevertheless, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio stands out as one of the greatest masters of sacred art.
Caravaggio's greatness was his ability to capture the dynamic interplay, and note well, not the contradistinction, between the harsh realism of the scene depicted and the divine reality permeating the same scene. For Caravaggio, the anguish or passion or violence or surprise of the material world accompanies the action of God. This interplay is demonstrated by his well thought out use of tenebrism.
In Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ, the violence and anguish fade into shadows caused by the illumination of the Person of Christ from a source off to the left. Christ is washed in the light highlighting His expression of real sorrow, but indicating that He also has transcended the violence and anguish that surrounds Him.
The same thoughtful use of tenebrism can be discerned in Caravaggio's The Entombment of Christ, The Conversion of Saint Paul, and The Crucifixion of Saint Peter. All demonstrate how the transcendent finger of God touches matter and enters history.
The Entombment of ChristThe Conversion of Saint Paul The Crucifixion of St. PeterPerhaps it is this interplay between Caravaggio's concupiscence and God's grace that informed his master works, but of even greater influence is the Catholic understanding of original sin, the struggle against temptation and sin, and the action of sanctifying and actual grace. Caravaggio inherited this Catholic understanding from his faith and from those who came before him. It would be a grave misunderstanding to come away from this treatment thinking that Caravaggio held some kind of monopoly on this grasp of Catholic truth in art. Rather, it can be discerned clearly in the early breaking away from the static forms of the Byzantine icon in the Romanesque and Gothic, and in the work of the early Renaissance masters such as Giotto di Bondone. It was carried on long after Caravaggio until the modern era wherein man no longer desired to be directed toward the transcendent, and instead settled on being mired in the dissonance of despair that results from loosing sight of the Divine.
Aside from Catholicism, there is no other religion that articulates with such clarity and fecundity what is known as the spiritual combat, because there is no other religion that understands so completely God's grace and the nature of man. Western Catholic art reflects with the greatest clarity the incarnational and sacramental nature of God's interaction with man.
There is a kind of teleology that distinguishes good Catholic art from kitsch. Man is fallen, but destined for a glorious end that only God's grace can accomplish for him. There is an ideal end, but a reality here and now that involves cooperation with grace, real struggle, in short, the spiritual combat. A sentimentalism that serves no other purpose than to elicit an emotional response fails to reflect this teleological element inherent to all good Catholic art. Such sentimentalism removes the real life of man from the contemplation of God, and fails to transcend the merely human and emotional. The dualism of this kitsch fails to engage us where we are, in the midst of the spiritual combat, and fails to direct our gaze toward God, the only source of grace that can accomplish our true end.
It is for this reason that I'm in complete agreement with Denys Powlett-Jones. It is hard to express it any clearer than this:
The conscience of the artist requires him to portray the world as he sees it, to be faithful to his vision in the work he creates. True religion clarifies and completes our natural vision, enabling us to see nature AND grace, virtue AND sin, comedy AND tragedy in their proper relationships. It enables us to see man as what he is, neither fully angel nor fully beast, but capable of both the bestial and the angelic by turns. The Christian vision does not require that either the artist or the reader close his eyes to the merely natural, the fallen, or any of the truths of life. It does require us to entertain the possibility that God is active even though he is not obvious—whether in life or in the representations of art. Only the faithless reader demands signs and wonders.
Monday, October 10, 2011
The face of the Democratic Party's electorate
This is not a political blog, but...
As the nation gears up for the 2012 Presidential election, traditionalists are faced once again with an unsavory choice: having to choose between a neo-conservative and a liberal.
However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the liberal choice is definitely the worse.
The resent attack on the "ministerial exception" by Obama's Department of Justice in the Hosanna-Tabor Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case being heard by the supreme court is just one more indication that the Obama administration is taking deadly aim at severely limiting religious freedom in this country. Even by just limiting the ministerial exception in hiring practices there could follow profoundly negative consequences for Catholic institutions. Catholic schools could be forced to keep rabidly anti-Catholic teachers in the classroom, and parishes may be forced to employ tattooed Satanists with hundreds of piercings as parish secretaries!
Another blatant example is the new regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services that severely curtails conscience protection laws, and could force Catholic institutions to provide employee insurance that covers contraception, sterilization and abortion. The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is Kathleen Sebelius, one of many liberal "catholics" employed in the Obama administration, whose intent is to force the Catholic Church into radical change by external, government coercion. By forcing Catholic institutions to provide health insurance plans that provide contraception, sterilizations and abortions either Catholic institutions will have to stop being Catholic or simply disappear. This is a full scale declaration of war on the Catholic Church by the government of the United States under the Obama regime.
Not to mention Obama's overt and wholehearted support for the abortion industry, a very long list of offenses could be penned. There is simply a world of difference between the mindset of the traditional Catholic and Obama and those who support him. There is a wide social, moral and philosophical gulf between the Democrat Party's electorate and traditionalists (and the rest of the sane world for that matter). This wide gulf can be seen clearly in the recent "Occupy Wall Street Protests", which horrifically demonstrate the perverted mentality of the average liberal on the street and the depths of depravity to which our society is sinking.
This is the face of the Democratic Party's electorate:
God help us from this mongrel crowd of revolting miscreants, unwashed delinquents, and debauched degenerates. As traditional Catholics, we probably don't see this sort of mob on a regular basis, but with the Obama administration in power, the irrational and insane mentality of these people will continue to greatly influence the future of the Catholic Church in America.
As the nation gears up for the 2012 Presidential election, traditionalists are faced once again with an unsavory choice: having to choose between a neo-conservative and a liberal.
However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the liberal choice is definitely the worse.
The resent attack on the "ministerial exception" by Obama's Department of Justice in the Hosanna-Tabor Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case being heard by the supreme court is just one more indication that the Obama administration is taking deadly aim at severely limiting religious freedom in this country. Even by just limiting the ministerial exception in hiring practices there could follow profoundly negative consequences for Catholic institutions. Catholic schools could be forced to keep rabidly anti-Catholic teachers in the classroom, and parishes may be forced to employ tattooed Satanists with hundreds of piercings as parish secretaries!
Another blatant example is the new regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services that severely curtails conscience protection laws, and could force Catholic institutions to provide employee insurance that covers contraception, sterilization and abortion. The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is Kathleen Sebelius, one of many liberal "catholics" employed in the Obama administration, whose intent is to force the Catholic Church into radical change by external, government coercion. By forcing Catholic institutions to provide health insurance plans that provide contraception, sterilizations and abortions either Catholic institutions will have to stop being Catholic or simply disappear. This is a full scale declaration of war on the Catholic Church by the government of the United States under the Obama regime.
Not to mention Obama's overt and wholehearted support for the abortion industry, a very long list of offenses could be penned. There is simply a world of difference between the mindset of the traditional Catholic and Obama and those who support him. There is a wide social, moral and philosophical gulf between the Democrat Party's electorate and traditionalists (and the rest of the sane world for that matter). This wide gulf can be seen clearly in the recent "Occupy Wall Street Protests", which horrifically demonstrate the perverted mentality of the average liberal on the street and the depths of depravity to which our society is sinking.
This is the face of the Democratic Party's electorate:
God help us from this mongrel crowd of revolting miscreants, unwashed delinquents, and debauched degenerates. As traditional Catholics, we probably don't see this sort of mob on a regular basis, but with the Obama administration in power, the irrational and insane mentality of these people will continue to greatly influence the future of the Catholic Church in America.
Friday, October 7, 2011
TradNews Roundup
*The Catholic Mass is illegal in parts of Canada? Appears so. Everyday we get closer and closer to the concentration camps, folks.
*Well after all Canada is on the cutting edge of state sponsored anti-Catholicism.
*Public rosary scheduled for October 15th in San Francisco.
*Bishop Kevin Rhoades establishes a personal parish for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
*Fr. Arnaud Rostand, SSPX (District Superior of the SSPX in the United States) and Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, SSPX, First Assistant of the Fraternity, speak out concerning the doctrinal preamble. Kindly posted by our friends at Rorate Cæli
*Interview of Msgr. Pozzo of the PCED. I disagree with most of the substantive remarks regarding the post-Vatican II reforms, however, the material Modernists are flirting with Catholicism, and if they are sincere, then eventually they will conclude what traditionalists have concluded: the novus ordo must be abrogated and that there must be a complete and full restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass and traditional Catholicism.
*If you ask me this is the fox guarding the hen house.
*Christopher Ferrara weighs in on the Fr. Frank Pavone scandal. I'm torn on this one, however, Ferrara hits the nail on the head when it comes to that charlatan, Jeff Mirus. Meanwhile, Bishop Zurek announces that he will "dialogue" with Fr. Pavone. Maybe Zurek will explain the strange coincidence that his accusations against Fr. Pavone are coming so close to another election year.
*Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Peoria will drop the "label" "Catholic" in order to put kids in the hands of perverts. Maybe they should replace that label with something else... How about "Judas Charities"?? This just goes to prove that it really is nothing more than a label for the neo-Catholics.
*You could have re-written this headline to read: "Bishops warn that church leaders are cowards". My question is why do the bishops want to make Pro-Life Catholics "feel uncomfortable"?
*Well after all Canada is on the cutting edge of state sponsored anti-Catholicism.
*Public rosary scheduled for October 15th in San Francisco.
*Bishop Kevin Rhoades establishes a personal parish for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
*Fr. Arnaud Rostand, SSPX (District Superior of the SSPX in the United States) and Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, SSPX, First Assistant of the Fraternity, speak out concerning the doctrinal preamble. Kindly posted by our friends at Rorate Cæli
*Interview of Msgr. Pozzo of the PCED. I disagree with most of the substantive remarks regarding the post-Vatican II reforms, however, the material Modernists are flirting with Catholicism, and if they are sincere, then eventually they will conclude what traditionalists have concluded: the novus ordo must be abrogated and that there must be a complete and full restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass and traditional Catholicism.
*If you ask me this is the fox guarding the hen house.
*Christopher Ferrara weighs in on the Fr. Frank Pavone scandal. I'm torn on this one, however, Ferrara hits the nail on the head when it comes to that charlatan, Jeff Mirus. Meanwhile, Bishop Zurek announces that he will "dialogue" with Fr. Pavone. Maybe Zurek will explain the strange coincidence that his accusations against Fr. Pavone are coming so close to another election year.
*Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Peoria will drop the "label" "Catholic" in order to put kids in the hands of perverts. Maybe they should replace that label with something else... How about "Judas Charities"?? This just goes to prove that it really is nothing more than a label for the neo-Catholics.
*You could have re-written this headline to read: "Bishops warn that church leaders are cowards". My question is why do the bishops want to make Pro-Life Catholics "feel uncomfortable"?
Don Juan de Austria, Catholic Hero
Don John of Austria was the leader of the naval forces that saved Europe from a hellish fate at the hands of the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto, October 7, 1571. His holy death is recorded here.
The tomb of Don John of Austria in San Lorenzo de El EscorialThursday, October 6, 2011
Using Your Rosary at Mass
The feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, now fixed on October 7th, seems like a great opportunity to remind those who venture here that not only is the rosary a powerful traditional devotion in and of itself, but the rosary is also a very effective aid for hearing the Mass. If you haven't had a chance to check out the Using Your Rosary at Mass series, here are the links:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Regína sacratíssimi Rosárii, ora pro nobis!
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Regína sacratíssimi Rosárii, ora pro nobis!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Critique of the Novus Ordo by Dr. Lauren Pristas
Every year or so I re-post these links to three excellent essays written by Dr. Lauren Pristas, Professor of Theology at Caldwell College. These essays are extremely important contributions to a critical study of the liturgical changes of the 20th Century, and they provide important insights as to how the new order of the Mass attempted to change what the Church had always taught.While on many points Dr. Pristas stops short of a thorough critique of the novus ordo (she isn't a traditionalist), these essays are, nonetheless, as factually accurate and as well researched and reasoned as they can come. Her insights and conclusions ought to spark wider discussions in your own circles regarding the radical differences in theological perspective between the two orders of the Mass, and the radical ideologies of those who were responsible for the creation of the novus ordo. They are great reading before or after you tackle the the Ottaviani Intervention (link in the sidebar).
The Orations of the Vatican II Missal: Policies for Revision
The Collects at Sunday Mass: An Examination of the Revisions of Vatican II
The Pre- and Post-Vatican II Collects of the Dominican Doctors of the Church
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