A beautiful hymn!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
I just updated my wish list and am looking for several books for this Fall 2009 Semester - all of which are either Accounting, Management, or Microeconomics texts. I will gladly accept used books if anyone has any available.
This FSSP Mass again illustrates the beauty of Liturgy, as the highest form of worship. Not only is Latin - now a dead language - set aside solely for the glorification of our Lord, but all of the movements, garments, and objects in use at the Mass are reserved solely for the worship of God.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Today is the Double of the II Class Feast of the Queenship of our Blessed Lady. "Alleluia, alleluia. Hail, Queen of mercy! Do thou protect us from the enemy, and at the hour of death receive us. Alleluia" (Source: 1962 Missal)
Prayer:
Grant, O Lord, we beseech Thee, to those who are celebrating this solemnity of the blessed Virgin Mary our Queen: that safe in her protection we may deserve to enjoy present peace and future glory. Through our Lord.
Prayer Source: 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Today I sat down and had the opportunity to read through "The Mass" by Father Louis A. Gales, a booklet, which I believe to be at least 50 years old judging by the condition of the document as well as the photographs inside.
The booklet begins with an enumeration of the Eight Wonders of the Mass and then immediately enters the the component of the text which explains the Mass section by section. But rather than simply providing a translation of the Tridentine Mass, Fr. Gales explains the spiritual significance and offers a meditative approach in addition to providing a translation of the prayers. This booklet is not a missal but rather offers beautiful commentary on the rubrics of the Mass of the Ages
Here is a short excerpt from the text:"Now the priest reads one or ore prayers in a low voice. He asks God to accept our gift of bread and wine. We may pause here to realize that hte Mass is not something being done for us; rather it is being done by us in union with Christ.
The Secret Prayer changes from day to day. Here is one we pray on the Feast of All Saints..."
The book is composed of Fr. Gales' writings along with a series of photographs by Father Robert E. Southard, from the set of Eighty Mass Photos published and copyrighted by the Catechetical Guild. The Catechetical Guild Educational Society, at the time of this document's publication, was located in my city: St. Paul, Minnesota.
Today I updated all of my "Music Reviews" posts, most of which are CDs from Jade Music. Feel free to pursue my Music Reviews at your leisure.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
In another post relating to updating the blog, I would like to announce that the Book Review Page on A Catholic Life, which lists some of the books that I have reviewed, has been updated. I am very pleased with the many updates to the site in recent weeks, chief among them the website design that was created by the blogger at Sons of Lepanto.In this recent change, I have updated some of the organizational structure and made it evident which books that I have read I also recommend to readers. So, if you enjoy reading, please see if there are any books on this list that you have not yet read.
With Pentecost Sunday approaching, I will be serving the Tridentine Mass on Pentecost Sunday for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). Please pray for a holy, reverent Mass.
I am also working on networking meetings, as part of a continuation of my pursuit of a business major, so I ask for your prayers that I be able to find more people with whom to network.
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I am also working on networking meetings, as part of a continuation of my pursuit of a business major, so I ask for your prayers that I be able to find more people with whom to network.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
I have just finished editing the individual saint pages listed under Roman Catholic Feastdays, so as to include a prayer for each saint. The majority of the prayers are from the Collects in the 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal, translation as from the Angelus Press Missal, though some other prayers are used at times.
I pray that this will allow many of you to bookmark my page and visit often. Each saint page not only includes a short biography written by me of the saint but also now features a prayer for your spiritual growth.
I will try to post updates on the main page each day for the saint whose feastday is that day, if I have written a page dedicated to him/her. I have not written a page on each saint yet, but as for each saint that I have written a page on, prayers are now listed for your spiritual life.
And, in addition to visiting the homepage, you may simply bookmark the page entitled Roman Catholic Feastdays.
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I pray that this will allow many of you to bookmark my page and visit often. Each saint page not only includes a short biography written by me of the saint but also now features a prayer for your spiritual growth.
I will try to post updates on the main page each day for the saint whose feastday is that day, if I have written a page dedicated to him/her. I have not written a page on each saint yet, but as for each saint that I have written a page on, prayers are now listed for your spiritual life.
And, in addition to visiting the homepage, you may simply bookmark the page entitled Roman Catholic Feastdays.
Sermon by St. John Vianney:We can only find our happiness on earth in loving God, and we can only love Him in prayer to Him. We see that Jesus Christ, to encourage us often to have recourse to Him through prayer, promises never to refuse us anything if we pray for it as we should. But there is no need to go looking for elaborate and roundabout ways of showing you that we should pray often, for you have only to open your catechism and you will see there that the duty of every good Christian is to pray morning and evening and often during the day -- that is to say, always.
Which of us, my dear brethren, could, without tears of compassion, listen to those poor Christians who dare to say that they have not time to pray? You have not the time! Poor blind creatures, which is the more precious action: to strive to please God and to save your soul, or to go out to feed your animals in the stable or to call your children or your servants in order to send them out to till the earth or to tidy up the stable? Dear God! How blind man is!
You have not the time! But tell me, ungrateful creatures, if God had called you to die that night, would you have exerted yourselves? If He had sent you three or four months of illness, would you have exerted yourselves? Go away, you miserable creatures; you deserve to have God abandon you in your blindness and leave you thus to perish. We find that it is too much to give Him a few minutes to thank Him for the graces which He is giving us at every instant!
You must get on with your work, you say.
That, my dear people, is where you are greatly mistaken. You have no other work to do except to please God and to save your souls. All the rest is not your work. If you do not do it, others will, but if you lose your soul, who will save it?
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