The blog Sacred Heart Choir has posted several photos from the recent Silver Jubilee of Rev. Fr. Daniel Couture.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Moscow, August 25, Interfax - The Moscow City Court has sentenced Mikhail Orekhov to 14 years in prison for killing a Jesuit priest.
The sentence was handed out on Tuesday on the basis of the jury's verdict.
Following debates of the consequences of the verdict by the jury, the prosecutor demanded 15 years in jail for Orekhov. By law, the court must follow the jury's verdict and cannot pass any other verdict except "guilty."
The jury found Orekhov guilty of killing Priest Viktor Betancourt of the Independent Russian Jesuit Society.
"An investigation has established that Orekhov killed Betancourt while in a state of alcoholic intoxication, motivated by personal enmity, after the victim attempted to entice him to commit a joint sexual act," the press service of the federal prosecutor's Investigation Committee earlier told Interfax.
Orekhov had been charged with a double murder. Investigators claimed he had also killed Otto Messmer, the Society's Abbot. But the jury cleared Orekhov of those charges.
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=6369
Monday, August 24, 2009
Yesterday was the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, with a commemoration of Saint Philip Benizi, Confessor. Above is a slideshow of images from a Low Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary in Blackfen by Mulier Fortis.
Following the article on Messainlatino.it, there has been rumors that Bishop Slattery of the Diocese of Tulsa will celebrate the "Old Mass". This is simply incorrect. Bishop Slattery is only preparing to say the Novus Ordo ad orientem (whilst facing East). According to a photo on the website of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, Bishop Slattery said the Mass on the Second Sunday of Advent ad orientem but he said it not on the grand high altar present in his diocese's cathedral but on a make-shift wooden altar.
The poster under the name "Christulsa" from Angelqueen.org, had the following to say:
Right, Bishop Slattery IS NOT saying the TLM or "old Mass!" That has been misunderstood by some in my Diocese of Tulsa.
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The poster under the name "Christulsa" from Angelqueen.org, had the following to say:
Right, Bishop Slattery IS NOT saying the TLM or "old Mass!" That has been misunderstood by some in my Diocese of Tulsa.In the recent Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, the traditional-minded Bishop (something of a rariety) wrote about saying Mass Ad Orientem. He did not distinguish between the old and new Mass. I would have preferred to finally hear him say something against pro-abortion Obamacare, he showed some fortitude in this article. He said Mass facing the people was a problem since VII because 1. it is a break with "Apostolic Tradition, 2. focuses on the congregation rather than God, and 3. threatens to make a personality out of the celebrant.With all of these considerations in mind, we must pray for the Restoration of all things in Christ in the Diocese of Tulsa.
I am still trying to understand this bishop, who I pray for at each TLM in the SSPX chapel where I attend, but he is a bit of a negative paradox. He actively invites the FSSP and Clear Creek monks into the diocese in the 1990s, frequents Clear Creek monastery, recently starts a "Liturgical Institute" to foster things like Gregorian chant, and has even supported the TLM mov[e]ment on occasion (he said the TLM in Oxford at a big conference there on the TLM). He wrote about Summorum Pontificum in a positive way, and to my knowledge has never tried to stop a priest from saying the old Mass. Fr. Yew of the diocese has said the TLM every Friday evening, and is now assigned to Holy Cross parish in Wagoner to say the traditional Mass for people who live near Clear Creek monastery but are told they need a parish.
But, this bishop is cooperating all the time, at least on a material level, with modernism. At his Masses, he will actively participate in modernist things like wearing New Age vestments, singing along to New Age "hymns," giving very sentimental sermons on the Eucharist with no mention of Transubstantiation or sacrifice. Before becoming a bishop, Slattery ran the Catholic Extension Society out of Chicago, which was and is responsible for funding the building of one sinfully ugly church after another. Each year he engages in false ecumenism, worshipping in ecumenical services with Hindus, Buddhists, as well as Protestants and Orthodox. He has actively and consciously permitted unspeakable sacriledge in his diocese (a convent of Buddhist-chanting nuns comes to mind), which ultimately God will be the judge of!
THAT SAID, Bishop Slattery seems to have gone through some very fundamental changes since he was made bishop in the early 90s, but especially since he brought the Clear Creek monks to Oklahoma, and since Ratzinger became pope. IF ONLY HE WOULD CELEBRATE THE OLD MASS, ie the MASS OF ALL TIMES, at least on occasion!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Argentinian Catholic website Panorama Católico Internacional published this week the news that the current Rector of the Seminary of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (FSSPX / SSPX) in Argentina, Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, has been named chairman of the SSPX side of the joint Vatican-SSPX commission in charge of the theological discussions.My only comment is that we must pray for that the Lord's will shall be done through these talks. May the Faith be defended and may the Truth prevail.
Panorama adds that sources "close to the SSPX" inform that the Bishop will remain as rector in Argentina for the moment, but may change if his duties in Europe (that is, as part of the commission) deprive him from the time that is deemed necessary for the activities of the seminary.
Via Rorate Caeli
Related Posts:
- SSPX Bishops are Not Excommunicated (January 2009)
- Pray for the Canonization of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (February 2009)
- Sermon by His Excellency Bishop Williamson during a Confirmation Mass (April 2008)
- Priests Ordained in Zaitzkofen near Regensburg, southern Germany for the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) by Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta (June 2009)
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 19, 2009 (Zenit.org).- A priest must be a witness and apostle of the love that is in the hearts of Christ and Mary, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope affirmed this today during the general audience in Castel Gandolfo in which he reflected on St. John Eudes and the priesthood, in the context of the Year for Priests. The feast of the 17th-century French saint is celebrated today.
Noting the difficulties in 17th-century France, the Holy Father said that "the Holy Spirit inspired a fervent spiritual renewal, with prominent personalities. […] This great 'French school' of holiness also had St. John Mary Vianney among its fruits. By a mysterious design of Providence, my venerated predecessor, Pius XI, proclaimed John Eudes and the Curé d'Ars saints at the same time, on May 31, 1925, offering the Church and the whole world two extraordinary examples of priestly holiness."
Speaking about the formation of diocesan priests, the Pontiff recalled how in the 16th century, "the Council of Trent issued norms for the establishment of diocesan seminaries and for the formation of priests, as the council was aware that the whole crisis of the Reformation was also conditioned by the insufficient formation of priests, who were not adequately prepared intellectually and spiritually, in their heart and soul, for the priesthood."
Source: Zenit
Thank you to the reader who sent me this article. Very interesting; maybe I should try to go about ordering these. If you remember, the FSSP came out with an Instructional DVD not long ago.
Rome, Italy, Aug 12, 2009 / 04:03 pm (CNA).- The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which was recently incorporated into the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has announced the publication of two DVDs to help “priests and the community” celebrate Mass according to the extraordinary form of the Latin Rite.
The two DVDs include an entire Mass celebrated by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos—until recently the president of the Commission—at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in 2003.
The discs also feature segments explaining in detail the “gestures and rubrics, from the preparatio ad missam (preparation before Mass) to the act of thanksgiving in the sacristy.”
The video is available in four languages (Italian, English, Spanish and French) and is intended to be the “first concrete contribution of the Holy See for the implementation of the Pope’s wishes contained in Summorum Pontificum.” The Motu Propio “Summorum Pontificum,” which was released in July of 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, granted universal permission to the faithful to celebrate the Tridentine Mass adapted by [...] John XXIII in 1962.
The Commission has not yet announced where or how the DVDs can be purchased.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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