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AP >> Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies (Douglas Birch, AP; from the book, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" to the "Gulag Archipelago," this giant of literature chronicled the horrors of Stalinism) RORATE CAELI >>Thank you, Aleksandr Isayevich! Thank you for exposing the true face of Socialism ! The Black Biretta >> ad multos annos! (Fr. Robert J. Levis, 60 years a priest!) The Recovering Choir Director >> The introit chant Sitientes, reconsidered (Props to the NLM and Jeffrey Tucker)

The New Liturgical Movement >> Pontifical High Mass, Merton College, Oxford The Catholic Review Online >> In the Syrian Desert, the Language of Jesus Lives On (CNS, Brooke Anderson) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

Okay, here is a quick check on how to make the most out of this blog. Someone was looking for "TLM vocations blog." The Google search engine plopped them here, and away they went. If you look in the right menu , you'll find this title, " Traditional Vocations Blog ." Aha! So, I posted something on this blog at some point and when I do, I usually mention that I have added it to the right menu "Blogroll and Favorite Websites." As Paul Harvey would say, "that's the rest of the story!" Check out the Tradional Vocations Blog. It has a ton of good things including links to every conceivable Traditional religious order. If the original searcher had gone to the upper left where it says, "search" and entered "traditional" and "blog" , I bet the correct link would have shown up in the list of items returned ( like here !) We have everything on this blog someplace (or will eventually, Lord willing)... We eve

Jeffrey Tucker has some fine commentary on the story in the Toronto Globe and Mail that was posted too by Aristotle A. Esguerra in an earlier post (see below). Mr. Tucker goes into a bit more detail in his commentary. It seems that the Vatican Choir is in excellent hands!

Catholic World News is reporting that "Sheik Ahmad Badereddine Hassoun, the grand mufti of Syria, told reporters that he hoped the Pope would visit "in the footsteps of St. Paul." He volunteered to travel to Rome to help the Pontiff prepare for such a trip." Interesting!

INTROIT ¤ Ps. 69. 2, 3 Green, Semi-double Deus, in adjutorium meum intende: Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina: confundantur et revereantur inimici mei, qui quaerunt animam meam. -- Avertantur retrorsum, et erubescant: qui cogitant mihi mala. V.: Gloria Patri . . . Deus, in adjutorium . . . Incline unto my aid, O God: O Lord, make haste to help me: let my enemies be confounded and ashamed, who seek my soul. -- ( Ps. 69. 4). Let them be turned backward and blush for shame, who desire evils to me. V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Incline unto my aid, O God . . . Traditional Latin Rite Missal Project

St. Peter Canisius Apostolate >> The Rosary: School of Contemplation The Recovering Choir Director >> “Women in the choir? A Canadian bucks tradition to please the Pope ” The Catholic Review Online >> Vatican official defends life of Italian woman in vegetative state (CNS by Cindy Wooden) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (this feast day falls a day later in the Traditional Liturgical Calendar)

Standing on My Head >> Reactions to Lambeth (some observations by Fr. Longenecker) Telegraph.co.UK >> Rome's Plans for the Anglicans (Damian Thompson; this is a more detailed analysis and long-term options are considered here. It was cited in the post above.) Summorum Pontificum >> Worry is Wicked: On the SSPX and Divine Providence (Brian Kopp; a detailed look at the SSPX and where it may be headed. It is well worth reading!)

Father Tim Finigan (or "His Hermeneuticalness" as Fr. Zuhlsdorf refers to him) has written an excellent post on the wrap-up of the Liturgical conference at Merton . Don't miss the amiable summary. It is heartening that Bishop McMahon, Bishop of Nottingham, was highly supportive of this conference and came to speak to the attendees. In his speech, Bishop McMahon unequivocally affirmed his support for Summorum Pontificum , for the liturgical "project" of Pope Benedict and for a conference at which priests were learning to celebrate the usus antiquior of the Roman Rite. Excellent! Read the story here .

Musica Sacra offers "The Parish Book of Chant." Visit the Musica Sacra website for full details by clicking the image of the book above. Notice that Communion Antiphons are available in the Communio edition. Go to the site to see which Antiphons are available for PDF download. Courtesy of the Musica Sacra website.

WDTPRS >> Benedict XVI and WYD: pastoral v. intellectual - a look back NCR Cafe.org >> Benedict's vacation spot is significant in his history (John L. Allen, Jr.'s weekly column) The Recovering Choir Director >> Personal Juventutem, WYD and Australia 2008 highlights

WDTPRS >> CDW’s Archbp. Ranjith on Pope Benedict’s plan with the liturgy WDTPRS >> Catholic League response to U of Minnesota's support of publicly anti-Catholic bigot Faith & Family Live! >> Contracepted Priesthood ( this prior post, an EWTN Classic, may have relevance in this regard ) FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Living Between the Now and the Not Yet (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus) St. Peter Canisius Apostolate >> Fridays With the Church Fathers: Beacons of Light