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Evening Roundup - St. Peter Celestine, Pope & Confessor - Missa 'Si Diligis Me' - May 19th, 2010

Creative Minority Report >> The "Pro-Life Dem" Lie Still Works First Things >> Desires Run Not Before Honor (Anthony Esolen) Insight Scoop >> Rep. Slaughter: It's imperative that Kagan support the right to slaughter the unborn ! Insight Scoop >> A fraternal (if rather rebuking) response to Fr. James Martin, S.J . New Liturgical Movement >> St. Augustine on Restricting Texts and Knowledge The Curt Jester >> Knights of Moloch ? WDTPRS >> A brief comment about the stories concerning the author Alcuin Reid Whispers in the Loggia >> In Twins' Country, Ireland's Sextuplets

Late Morning -Tuesday of the Third Week in Lent - Missa 'Ego Clamavi' - March 9th, 2010

Anna Arco's Diary >> Lombardi addresses German abuse scandal A Priest Life >> "Do not join in their feasting " ADW Blog >> Nihilism Reaches the Suburbs Ars orandi >> Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent Catholic Spiritual Direction >> His Grace for My Sin – A Prayer of St. Augustine Domine da mihi hanc aquam >> The sacrifice of forgiveness Insight Scoop >> Now available: "Loser Letters A Comic Tale of Life, Death and Atheism " Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Tuesday, Lent Wk 3: "how often must I forgive? " RORATE CÆLI >> "The number of the faithful who are attached to the old Mass is forever on the increase " RORATE CÆLI >> "Union with the Catholic Church is the goal of ecumenism " Standing on My Head >> What are We Tolkien About ? The Divine Life >> The three-bar Cross Vultus Christi >> Benedictine Oblates Vultus Christi >> Saint Frances...

Afternoon - St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church - August 28th, 2009

American Papist >> Breaking: Bp. Joseph Martino to resign from diocese for health reasons FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Confessions of a Health Care Rationer (Eric Chevlen, M.D.) Insight Scoop >> The Scriptural Roots of St. Augustine's Spirituality New Liturgical Movement >> ICEL Giveth, ICEL Taketh Away OSV Daily Take >> OSV health care analysis in New York Times Secondhand Smoke >> Obamacare: The Reason the Bioethicists Are Important in the Debate The Catholic Thing >> Head Chef in the Cafeteria (Brad Miner) WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: use of a microphone during a TLM Canon WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: priest adds words to the consecration WDTPRS >> Consecration of a chalice in the traditional Roman manner WDTPRS >> The bones of St. Augustine Whispers in the Loggia >> In Scranton, the curtain falls

Evening Roundup - St. Stanislaus (EF) - May 7th, 2009

American Papist >> Coverage of the Pope's trip to the Holy Land American Papist >> Video: Fr. Corapi on Notre Dame Scandal In the Light of the Law >> A response to Abp. Wuerl's claims that canon law supports his inaction in regard to Nancy Pelosi Standing on My Head >> St Augustine on Love The Alphonsianum >> The Two Great Means for Becoming Holy--Desire and Resolution The Anchoress >> Catholic talkin' sex New Liturgical Movement >> The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 1

Evening Roundup - Easter Saturday - April 18th, 2009

Preacher and Big Daddy >> 264th Successor RORATE CÆLI >> Terms fixed for Rome-SSPX discussions RORATE CÆLI >> Paschal Greetings The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> Blogging news for Low Week New Liturgical Movement >> Monastic Retreat in County Waterford: Thoughts on Fostering the Monastic and Liturgical Life New Liturgical Movement >> The 2009 Chartres Pilgrimage of Pentecost: It's Coming New Liturgical Movement >> Another Sevillian Cofradía Recuperating the EF WDTPRS >> PODCAzT 83: St. Augustine on the challenge of remaining faithful

Evening Roundup - December 11th, 2008

FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Conservatism and the Culture Wars (R.R. Reno) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> One Soul (Bravo!) The Black Biretta >> Gaudete AND Bambinelli Sunday ( ROSE !!!) The New Liturgical Movement >> More from Legnano, Italy: The Ambrosian Rite on the Immaculate Conception WDTPRS >> Check out a new composer of Sacred Music WDTPRS >> Legnano: Ambrosian Rite Mass for Immaculate Conception WDTPRS >> A note from Augustine for your consideration

Evening Roundup - Thursday, August 28th, 2008

WDTPRS >> Archbp. Chaput on Fox News about Speaker Pelosi (Podcast) WDTPRS >> A Seminary teaching men to "Say the Black, Do the Red " (hope it is in Maryland...) WDTPRS >> The bones of St. Augustine of Hippo WDTPRS >> Bp. Murphy of Rockville Centre on Nancy Pelosi’s errors about human life The New Liturgical Movement >> The Spirit of Summorum

Afternoon Roundup - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

www.Chiesa.com >> Obama's Pick for Vice President Is Catholic. But the Bishops Deny Him Communion (Sandro Magister) St. Peter Canisius Apostolate >> Negative Theology The New Liturgical Movement >> Recordings from Mater Ecclesiae's Assumption Mass WDTPRS >> What Does Augustine Really Say? (What does Pelosi not understand?) WDTPRS >> Newspaper of Archd. of SanFran on Speaker Pelosi

Early Roundup - Friday, August 8th, 2008 - Feast of Saint Dominic

WDTPRS >> Quad Cities: regular TLMs in Davenport and Iowa City WDTPRS >> John Allen on Benedict XVI's recent conference with priests FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Drawing the Line (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus) RORATE CAELI >> The "Ratzinger" Formula St. Peter Canisius Apostolate >> Friday With the Church Fathers: St. Augustine with Happiness The New Liturgical Movement >> The Sociology of the Chant Movement The Recovering Choir Director >> Media vita in morte sumus

Noon Roundup - Sunday, July 27th, 2008, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

The Black Biretta >> Class, Real Class (R.N., Fr. Trigilio) WDTPRS >> Oldie PODCAzT 39: Augustine on Christ the Mediator; “for all” or “for many” ? The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> English Catholic History blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> Fr George Pell at Oxford (1979) The New Liturgical Movement >> Catholics come home Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost

St. Augustine and Pelagianism

Stephen N. Filippo has a marvelous essay on Pelagianism on Ignatius Insight . This article originally appeared in a slightly different form in the November 1997 issue of Catholic Dossier. Here are just a few paragraphs to give you a peek: Although Pelagianism promoted moral fervor, there was an inherent danger in it: self-reliance, not God-reliance, based upon an inadequate understanding of human nature. Pelagianism stressed complete human autonomy and freedom of the will before God. Pelagius posited three elements to any moral action: 1. that we must be able to do it, 2. that we must be willing to do it, and 3. that the action must be carried out. Or the three elements can be described as possibility, will, and action. Possibility is a natural gift from God alone, but the other two, since they arise from man's choice, are from man. For instance, God has freely given us the gifts of speech, sight, hearing, etc., and the power to speak, see hear, etc., yet whether or not thes...