Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

In his weekly column in the Catholic Review , "Thoughts on Our Church," Archbishop O'Brien offers a meditation on the Eucharist . Some days ago, I treated myself to a day of prayer centered on the sacrifice of the Mass and the Holy Eucharist. In particular, I have over the years been struck by the profundity of recent papal meditations on this Mystery of Faith. This Holy Thursday I would like to offer you, without scholarly references, a sample of the sublimity of those meditations in the hope and prayer that this Lord’s Supper and every Mass in your future will draw you more deeply into this greatest mystery of all mysteries of God’s love. In a much overlooked letter to all the bishops of the world, Pope John Paul II noted that, “Beginning with the Upper Room and Holy Thursday, the celebration of the Eucharist has a long history, a history as long as that of the Church … in the course of this history … there has been no change in ‘mysteries’ instituted by the Redeemer o...

Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata >> St. Louis de Montfort on the Little Crown of the Blessed Virgin Mary Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Liturgy is "Given" The Catholic Thing >> Dead Girls and Live Boys Reconsidered (Austin Ruse) The New Liturgical Movement >> Three Important Upcoming Masses in the Usus Antiquior ( Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke, Fr Stefano Maria Manelli, Cardinal Cañizares, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship) WDTPRS >> Bp. Martino instructs Sen. Casey on the Mexico City Policy WDTPRS >> Archbp. Vlazny (Portland, OR) on the lifting of the excommunications

Breviarium Romanum >> The Wagner Affair: A Letter from the Austrian Bishops Telegraph.co.uk (Damian Thompson) >> Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor 'refuses permission for Archbishop Burke to celebrate old Rite at Westminster' RORATE CAELI >> Austrian Bishops in open revolt The New Liturgical Movement >> The Rebellion Against the Self-Evident

Standing on My Head >> Belmont Abbey College (Adoration Chapel) The Black Biretta >> 'Profound sadness' regarding Maciel scandal The New Liturgical Movement >> IBP News: Seminaire Saint Vincent de Paul WDTPRS >> What happens when we get out of the way Whispers in the Loggia >> Bertone's Rules of Order

Summorum Pontificum >> Williamson Unfairly Attacked The Way of the Fathers >> Indian Patristics: Rather Huge News The Way of the Fathers >> De-Classifying the Secret History WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: Easter Sunday Mass during two weeks early WDTPRS >> Preparing for a yearly Triduum controversy ( " The Church clearly … crystal clearly… states that in the optional Mandatum ceremony of the washing of feet on Holy Thursday, only men should be chosen ." NB: My italics and underscore emphasis! ) WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: young people, music, Mass and entertainment WDTPRS >> CUA: Lecture on liturgy - Thursday 12 Feb (Msgr. Kevin W. Irwin)

RORATE CAELI >> A surprise - for tomorrow ? (possible HUGE SSPX news for tomorrow) The Black Biretta >> Lest We Fool Ourselves (Fr. John Trigilio) The New Liturgical Movement >> Personal Parish for the FSSP in Nigeria WDTPRS >> Again, priest teaches his flock about liturgy - this guy gets it! (Part II) WDTPRS >> 21 January: St. Agnes, virgin and martyr

NCRCafe.org >> An unpublished interview with Avery Dulles (John L. Allen, Jr.) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> The request of your prayers The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> The value of Humanae Vitae and frequent confession The New Liturgical Movement >> Pope: "Liturgy is Truly the Apex of the Church's Life " The New Liturgical Movement >> Clear Creek Benedictines (YouTube) The New Liturgical Movement >> Traditional Carillon (YouTube)

Standing on My Head >> Christ the King The New Liturgical Movement >> Beauty, the Liturgy and Liturgical Practice: It's Centrality and Teaching Value (And Why it is Not Aestheticism) WDTPRS >> WDTPRS: Solemnity of Christ the King - Last Sunday of the Year in Ordinary Time

Deborah Morlani posts an important commentary on the link between belief as reflected in the Liturgy and belief in the Magisterial teachings of the Church . She posits: The Church teaches us that the sacred liturgy is the centre, or font, from which all else flows within the Church; it refers to it as her source and summit. ( Sacrosanctum Concilium para. 10 ) It is this tenet which allowed Pope Benedict XVI, while still a Cardinal, to note that “the Church stands and falls with the liturgy” for when one understands and accepts the central place which the liturgy holds within the life of the Church and her faithful, this clearly follows and should hopefully help us to appreciate the foundational place and importance of the liturgy in a variety of questions. She then continues on with this analysis: I would propose, particularly to those actively involved within the pro-life movement (of which all Catholics, clergy, laity, and religious, should consider themselves involved to some exte...

The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, is publishing a complete set of all his works including some which have not been published. Shawn Tribe has written a thoughtful essay based on an article in Zenit dealing with the liturgy and orientation of the priest and people during worship . It is an excellent synopsis and a MUST read!

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The Curt Jester >> Top Catholic Seminary sees spike in enrollment (61 new seminarians at the Pontifical North American!) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Benedict: "Liturgy...can never be too beautiful for God " RORATE CAELI >> Sin divides; the Holy Mother unites Standing on My Head >> The Triumph of the Cross The New Liturgical Movement >> The Official Launch of the Journal Usus Antiquior: Opening Remarks, Letter of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos The New Liturgical Movement >> Anniversary of the Coming into Effect of Summorum Pontificum

Gregor Kollmorgen of the NLM has posted an excellent find from H.E. Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In an interview with Die Tagepost , H.E. made some interesting comments . Go to the NLM to see what they have posted.

This is a second article of interest today. It is detailed enough that I placed it as a separate link . The questioner has an excellent comment. Fr. John then tries to get to the details of the matter which are not simple. It is worthy of note as a starting point for a LONG discussion.

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

WDTPRS >> Bp. Trautman doesn’t think you are smart enough to understand the proposed new translation of Mass (a very "red" commentary if you will) WDTPRS >> Big move coming up in Rome : Card. Ruini will move on LatinMassNetwork >> The Marian Devotion of St. Anthony of Padua Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Anthony of Padua, Confessor and Doctor of the Church RORATE CAELI >> The President in Rome Whispers in the Loggia >> The Red Roster, '08 Edition (Appointments to Curial posts and more)

Ars Catholica follows up an earlier post on its mediation on art, beauty and God with some troubling news from secular atheists . The summation holds a key: But let’s think here - can art really point to a better, nobler life without belief in God? What is to define beauty, if truth has no meaning other than what humans decide? What is there to lift us up to, if there is no example beyond ourselves? And isn’t the concentration of today’s ‘art’ on shock and surprise directly related to a decline in faith? This is precisely why a loss of Catholic traditions in art, music, liturgy, and architecture and the influence of contemporary theories of art in the mass is so poisonous. Just as contemporary art chooses only to offer us veneration of ourselves with no possibility of transcendence, modern church architecture and ‘mass in the round’ wreakovation attempts to bring the focus on the congregation, that group of “morally troubling fellow human beings” rather than pointing us to Christ. ...

WDTPRS >> Archd. of Canberra and Goulburn: Pastoral Letter on Liturgy WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: priest drops Host, does nothing, what do I do? First Things: On the Square >> The Emerging Church and Its Critics (Kristen Scharold) RORATE CAELI >> Online course on St. Thomas (Aquinas) Standing on My Head >> Incorruptible - So What?

You can log in to the EWTN site for live coverage! Catholic Register has this great site with blogging and live feed! This blog has both the Radio and TV feeds linked in the lower right menu . Please expect to find a huge volume, however. The radio site or the Catholic Register site may be better for live coverage. I'm sure Catholic Register has its own server so it can handle the volume The New Liturgical Movement has a nice post by Fr. Mitch Pacwa on the Liturgy !

Creative Minority Report has a post entitled "No Latin Mass Without SSPX? " WDTPRS : America Magazine: Bp. Trautman reviews “A Challenging Reform” of Piero Marini (NB: red commentary is a major feature of this post by Fr. Zuhlsdorf!) Rocco Palmo of Whispers in the Loggi a has an interesting take on the preparations for the Holy Father's trip to the US