“Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob;
tell the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians
and how I bore you up on eagle wings
and brought you here to Myself.
Therefore, if you hearken to My voice and keep My covenant, you shall be My special possession, dearer to Me than all other people, though all the earth is Mine.
You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.”
6/18/23, 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, A (sign/voice)
- Pastoral Letter on Racial Healing: “We Are One Body” (Archbishop Pérez, Corpus Christi 2023)
- "Our American bishops, rightly concerned about the widespread loss of faith in the Most Holy Eucharist, have launched a three-year 'Eucharistic revival.' All the teaching, preaching, & programs in the world, however, will avail little to nothing if we don’t address the root causes of the unbelief, namely, that the signs and symbols of the Sacred Liturgy no longer support the teaching. So herewith is a 'modest proposal' to reverse this problem....
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Loss of Latin:....Every major religion retains a place of honor for a sacral language, lest the pedestrian override the sacred. Banishing Latin has also contributed to the “balkanization” of parishes as various ethnic groups split off into their separate communities.
Movement of the tabernacle: ....why the relegation of the tabernacle to a side altar, separate chapel (or closet), resulting in the replacement of Christ at the center, usually by an enthroned priest? With the tabernacle off the central axis, should we be surprised by people chatting as they enter the church as if they were in a movie theater?
Removal of altar rails: Ripping out altar rails obscured the necessary distinction between the sacred and the profane....
Communion fast:....The purpose of the Eucharistic fast is to make us feel physical hunger, the better to know spiritual hunger for the Bread of Life.
Standing for Holy Communion:....The problem is not so much with standing as such but with the lack of any sign of reverence....
Mass facing the people: ....Ironically, the versus populum position is far more clericalist than the ad Orientem posture because, perforce, it makes the priest the center of attention.
Extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion: .... Lay distribution of the Holy Sacrament diminishes two sacraments: the august nature of the Eucharist (if anyone can distribute It, what’s the big deal?) and the unique identity of the ordained minister....
Communion in the hand: .... What is certainly incontestable is that for over a millennium, reception on the tongue was universal. The call for its abandonment occurred at the time of the Protestant Reformation. We should not be surprised, then, that 70 percent of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence (the very statistic that precipitated episcopal alarm) and have a truncated understanding of the Sacred Priesthood (and a concomitant decline in priestly vocations) since the introduction of Communion in the hand more than four decades ago....
- French 'backpack hero' says his faith gave him strength to fight knifeman (Reuters, 6/9/23)
- Fr. James Martin’s ‘Outreach’: A Closer Look (CatholicVote org, 6/9/23)
- Church of St Paul the Apostle in NYC (Catholic Stand, 6/9/23)
- Priest Returning from Pastoral Duties in Nigeria Shot Dead, Archdiocese in “great shock” (aciafrica, 6/8/23)
- "90% of ALL CHRISTIANS KILLED for their faith are in one nation – Nigeria" (ACLJ email, 5/30/23)
- Don’t Just Blame the Dodgers: Blame the Collapse of Catholic Fidelity (Anne Hendershott, 6/8/23)
"It is time to admit that until faithful Catholics are willing to risk everything to tell the truth about the idolatrous aims of the left-wing LGBTQ movement and its enablers — replete with its demonic transgender ideology — groups like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will continue to be celebrated as heroes." - MLB’s Cultural Revolutionaries (Paul Kengor, 6/1/23)
- re: "Boycott ALL of Major League Baseball!" (5/30/23)
- Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' former teammate speaks out (Christian Post, 6/7/23)
- Abortifacients, Contraception, and Emergency "so called" Contraception (Catholic365, 6/5/23)
- P.S. (Catholic365, 6/7/23)
- Pro-Life Man, 73, 'Viciously' Assaulted Outside Planned Parenthood Clinic (DailySignal, 5/30/23)
- Bp. Strickland: Catholics should charitably correct error, even if it comes from Pope Francis (5/28/2023)
- What is a Catholic’s obligation to democratically enacted pro-death laws? (Catholic World Report, 5/15/23)
- Obtaining the bishop's approval to separate (Catholic365, 5/12/23)
Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality
(6/8/23 update: Tobiah and his wife, Sarah)
(6/8/23 update: Tobiah and his wife, Sarah)
Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)
Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)
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