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Amy Wellborn reported tonight that her husband, Michael Dubruiel, collapsed and died this morning . Mr. Dubruiel was only 50 years old. Please pray for Amy, her children and their entire family. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord. And may the perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. And, may his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in eternal peace! Amen+

Amy Wellborn's blog, Charlotte was Both , has a magnificent essay today . It is a delight! Don't miss it!

Amy Wellborn has a very insightful post today called "Juxtapositions ." Don't miss it!

Amy Wellborn has the link here for the livestream from the Eucharistic Congress . At first, I thought she was linking to the US Congress (kind of a Catholic version of C-Span)!

This blog's favorite "search string" is for the Catholic Lifetime Reading list published by Fr. McCloskey . I am very happy that Amy Wellborn of Charlotte was Both has posted a link to the Catholic Summer Reading list . The list is excellent! I am a bibliophile. I have stacks of books yet unread and still find that I cannot pass up more orders to Amazon. Walking past a bookstore without a purchase seems almost inconceivable to me. The ten best bets on Amy's list are great "summer reads ." The entire list of 64 has some incredible books to consider . Amy has done a great service for all of us by calling attention to this program. Please check out this list of great reading and sign up for future editions.

AmericanPapist >> CNA and (Arch. of DC) Director of Communications Susan Gibbs at loggerheads Charlotte was Both >> On the laicization of bishops (discussion of John Allen commentary on Bishop Lugo of Paraguay) Charlotte was Both >> Bibles for Chinese Catholics RORATE CAELI >> Politics - Papal Reminders: Subsidiarity and Limits to Government Power - I Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> The Finding of the Holy Cross

The New Liturgical Movement : Gregor Kollmorgen ponders " A New Development in Papal Liturgy - Mayb e " (fascinating, if true) WDTPRS : You HAVE to see this photo from The Holy Whapping The Recovering Choir Director: More on the Colloquium 2007 Mass videos per Aristotle A. Esguerra The New Liturgical Movement : Dominican Rite Announcements (and a new blog added to my Blogroll !) The New Liturgical Movement : Liturgical Images from Spain Charlotte Was Both : Thinking about the Pope

Charlotte Was Both : Amy Wellborn's "Open Liturgy Thread" from Nationals Stadium First Things: On the Square >> Benedict in America: As of Thursday (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus) WDTPRS : Petrus: Archbp. of Lima (Peru) on Communion in the Hand - NO ! WDTPRS : Good TLM News in Georgia (USA): 18 People Expected, 117 Came

Charlotte Was Both : Music in the WaPo (the liturgical music featured at Masses - something initially brought up by Jeffrey Tucker often - gets a major story!) The New Liturgical Movement : Washington Post on the Music Wars The New Liturgical Movement : Requiem Mass (Usus Antiquior) at the Cathedral in Siena The Black Biretta : Vatican Soil: the Embassy of the Holy See (a.k.a. Apostolic Nunciature) First Things: On the Square - Who Will Save Catholic Schools?

AmericanPapist : Day 1 - The Vatican's Papal Itinerary (and already a typo) Charlotte Was Both : Greeting the Pope the Right Way The New Liturgical Movement : The Music for the Papal Masses WDTPRS : NAC Training for Seminarians in the TLM (the Pontifical North American Academy gets it !) WDTPRS : from the papal airplane: "Pedophile priests will be completely excluded from the priesthood "

Charlotte Was Both : Where Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix spent part of Easter Sunday Charlotte Was Both : New Evangelization (Young people interested in Pope Benedict) First Things: On the Square : Watch EWTN--and This Space--for the Papal Visit WDTPRS : Poll in Florida about sacred music for Mass

Charlotte Was Both : Thanks, Carl (in reference to Carl Olson) The New Liturgical Movement : Update on Papal Reservations regarding Large Concelebrations Traditional Latin Propers In English : Saint Julia Billiart

Traditional Latin Propers in English, Easter Thursday The New Liturgical Movement: Church for Juventutem Celebrations during World Youth Day in Sydney announced RORATE CAELI : Brussels--From Merovingian to Mohammedan Charlotte Was Both : Is the Easter Vigil too long ? (Amy doesn't think it is up for a vote!) WDTPRS : How do Americans view the Pope and the Church ?

I saw this story on the New Liturgical Movement and Jeffrey Tucker, in turn, noted it on Amy Wellborn's blog . The press release is from Wake Forest University : March 13, 2008 Samuel Weber, associate professor of early Christianity and spiritual formation at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, was invited to compose original chant settings that will be performed during the Pope’s visit to Washington, D.C., April 15 – 20. The chants will be sung during Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m. April 16 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with Pope Benedict XVI presiding, and during a private mass with the Holy Father at the Apostolic Nunciature (Papal Embassy) the following morning. "I am deeply honored to have a small part to play in the preparation of this vesper service,” says Weber. He composed original chant melodies for the antiphons, which are scriptural verses sung before and after the Psalms and Canticles of Vespers. Peter Latona, Ba

Numerous blogs are carrying this, but here is the report from Amy Wellborn of Charlotte Was Both : Chaldean Archbishop Rahho of Mosul, Iraq has been found dead WDTPRS : Changes to the structure of the Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” - what this means WDTPRS : Card. Castrillon Hoyos to pontificate at Westminster Cathedral Rorate Caeli : "Caritas in veritate", the title of the new encyclical

I am indebted to that delightful curmudgeon, Diogenes , who posts the Off the Record column on Catholic World News for pointing me to this beautiful essay by Amy Wellborn . She begins by recounting the story that appeared recently on the habit of the Holy Father of speaking extemporaneously to the faithful gathered for his General Audiences . She then ties this in beautifully with his coming trip to the United States: Here is what is important to me about this. It is not the Pope’s intelligence, or even the still-lively and absorbing mind of a man in his 80’s. It is that what Benedict is moved to break from the text and emphasize is the reality of Jesus Christ for you and me, today, in this moment. Over the next two months, before the Pope arrives in our country, there is going to be a constant battle, it seems to me, to communicate clearly and authentically what this man is all about. There are a great number of commentors - even Catholic commentors - who are taking the stage wi