Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Damian Thompson on his blog, "Holy Smoke," carried by the Telegraph.co.UK, has posted some of the new English changes in the Ordinary that have received the recognitio of the Vatican . He admits that the entire text is already on the USCCB website, but discloses some of the changes to his British readers. I particularly like his summation: Cheer up, guys: if you think the liturgical conservatives have spoiled the ordinary form of the Mass, don't forget that you now have the option of the extraordinary form, where problems of translation don't arise. Here is the entire article .

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

WDTPRS >> Update on WDTPRS (Fr. Zuhlsdorf is considering his many options) WDTPRS >> Another "cheat sheet" for the new translation: for lay people WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: Five-fold scapular WDTPRS >> Your funeral experiences Creative Minority Report >> Profile in Christian Courage: Irena Sendler The Black Biretta >> Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

WDTPRS >> Some cheerful English martyrs The New Liturgical Movement >> From ICEL comes an answer The New Liturgical Movement >> The case of the missing antiphon The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> What we are really doing (His "Hermeneuticalness" divulges all...the master plan... foiled!)

The Recovering Choir Director >> ICEL responds, or not (more in the discussion with ICEL about copyright fees on downloads which adds to the NLM story) The Way of the Fathers >> Pressing for Details (olive 'press,' that is... sigh!)

WDTPRS >> Some movie quotes (this began as a post of some famous movie quotes when Fr. Zuhlsdorf opined that it might be time to end WDTPRS. Is he really considering shutting down? Is he thinking of doing a new blog? Stay tuned...) www.Chiesa: Focus >> Vatican Radio and the Web, a Happy Marriage (Sandro Magister) St. Peter Canisius Apostolate >> Vocation and Mission The New Liturgical Movement >> ICEL, Royalty Question Update (ICEL responds and Jeffrey Tucker writes back...) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Cajetan, Confessor; Saint Donatus, Bishop and Martyr

I've said it before... Some stories just make you smile. This was posted today on the Catholic Review Online by George P. Matysek, Jr . FOURTEEN young men have stepped forward to enter the priesthood. Read the fabulous story here . Praise God! Please pray for them. If we want Shepherds, we must ask Our Lord and His Mother to find us many more!