8/28/09
Rumors and murmmurs
well It seems the rumor mill is at it again and it looks like things may be happening. The Bishop of Scranton has been rumored to be resigning as the ordinary. Now I hate rumors and such but this is big the rocking traddy is more up to date then I am. so check his blog for more information.
7/4/09
Busy
well I have done it again. I lost track of what I was doing, and forgot to update the blog. Well since the announcements have been made for the parishes my parish was a casualty. As well as my pastor who will remain nameless for a few reasons. I have been helping out as much as I can with the closing up until I leave for the Institute. I can say only that things are getting busier by the minute. I will try to keep this blog updated more often .
6/7/09
Some news
Well as the RockinTraddy says I have been accepted to the ICKSP. But to the candidacy which means I live the life of the Institute for a year. Then after that year I meet with the superiors and If it is beneficial for me to enter then I will. So I am going to pre seminary. I ask for your prayers.
5/5/09
A big Congrats!
I just want to congratulate the rockintraddyhttp://rockintraddy.blogspot.com/2009/05/news-from-homestead.html on his joyous news of becoming a dad for the second time. May God bless him and his family.
Frequenting Holy Communion and the fear of regularity
Quite recently I was in a conversation with a few people about receiving Holy Communion on a daily basis. Some thought it creates regularity and thus losing the awe that is Our Lord. I of course was not really in agreement with this position. In the Early years of Our Holy Father Pius X encouraged the frequent of Holy Communion. Back then many people would only receive once a year. Many people had thought that they were far to unworthy to receive Our Lord, and thus only made Holy Communion once or twice at most in a year. Pius X wanted this to change he wanted the faithful to receive Our Lord and receive the Graces that accompany Him. Some people feel that receiving Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament daily will lead to familiarity and cause scandal for them selves. This can be avoided very easily, now mind you I am not a theologian nor a Cannon lawyer. Ever Pope from Pius X on down to our current Holy Father has placed emphasis on the Holy Eucharist (as well as the other sacraments) In the book "God is near us" written by the then Cardinal Ratzinger gives us some insight, "Whenever we hold it, we should be filled with reverence in the face of this mystery, with awe in the face of this mysterious death that becomes a present reality in our midst."1 God gave us Himself so that we would not be left alone. We must receive the Lord when possible being properly disposed. Meaning having gone to confession and free from Mortal sin. We should receive Our Lord as if we are receiving Him for the first time. and As chanted in the Byzantine Liturgy before the reception of Holy Communion "Approach with the Fear of God and with Faith".
1 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,God Is Near Us, Ch3 pg 44:par 2
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5/2/09
oh ya
I forgot to mention that I have been nominated for the Cannonball award. Voting starts Monday so vote for me those of you read this blog....http://thecrescat.blogspot.com/
Some good Info
Some good insight on the new Hater Movie Angels and Demons by John Wright http://johncwright.livejournal.com/245025.html
"Angels and DemonsGolly. I thought ANGELS AND DEMONS by Dan Brown would turn out to be just an ordinary run-of-the-mill Catholic-bashing hate-fest. But, no, the whoppers told strain credulity. Do people actually know that little about history? It seems that they do. Here is what I picked up here and here.
Brown claims: Copernicus was murdered by the Catholic Church.Fact: Copernicus died quietly in bed at age 70 from a stroke, and his research was supported by Church officials; he even dedicated his masterwork to the Pope.
Brown claims: “Antimatter is the ultimate energy source. It releases energy with 100% efficiency.”Fact: CERN, the lab which plays an important role in his story, actually debunked this claim on their website: “The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion of the invested energy back.”
Brown claims: Churchill was a “staunch Catholic.”Fact: Any history buff could tell you that Churchill wasn’t Catholic, he was Anglican; nor was he particularly religious. The only things Churchill was staunch about were cigars, whiskey, and defending the British Empire.
Brown claims: Pope Urban VII banished Bernini’s famous statue The Ecstasy of St. Teresa “to some obscure chapel across town” because it was too racy for the Vatican.Fact: The statue was actually commissioned by Cardinal Cornaro specifically for the Cornaro Chapel (Brown’s “obscure chapel”). Moreover, the sculpture was completed in 1652 — eight years after Urban’s death.
Brown claims: Bernini and famed scientist Galileo were members of the Illuminati.Fact: The Illuminati was founded in Bavaria in 1776. Bernini died in 1680, while Galileo died in 1642 — more than a century before the Illuminati were first formed.The idea that Copernicus was murdered by the Church is just too stupid for words. I mean, I have a pretty low threshold when it comes to Illuminati fiction. I love that 'secret-history' stuff. I am not a hard sell. If you want to put in your book that Atlantis was a superhightech civilization destroyed by the extra-dimensional Eddorians in order to thwart Arisian attempts to breed mankind to create the Kwisatz Haderach, child of the Lens and the father of the race that will rule the Sevagram, I will suspend my disbelief like it was bouyant with helium. You want to establish that a race of robots hidden in a secret base in Mount Ararat has been guiding human history since the time of Enoch, I am your man. You want to say the Freemasons (who built the temple of Solomon) are the archenemies of the Slavemasons (who build the Great Pyramid of Cheops) have been fighting a duel to place or remove feng-shui-significant stonehenge, monuments, and Cathedrals at goethermal accupuncture points across Europe, Asia and the New World since the Bronze Age, and that all major wars and architectural firms are under their control, and involved in a secret aeons-old Cold War to prevent the telluric current from destroying this world as unwise abuses of the geomancy of the canals of Mars did that remote, dying world? Sure! Shiwan Khan is actually a time-travelling alien from planet Mongo, granted eternal youth by the powers of alchemy, and he long ago replaced the royal family of England with Life-Model-Decoys which he controls with the ten magic rings he found in the wreckage of a spaceship from planet Maklu IV? Why not? Lord Byron was a vampire? You would have to pay me money not to believe that. Queen Elizabeth ran of coven of witches whose stormcrafty drowned the Aramda of Philip of Spain, after he had secretly adopted the practice of mass human sacrifice from his wife who was secretly an Aztec princess in order to gain magical control of an entire hemisphere's worth of demon-cursed Mexican gold? Not only possible, but likely! The entire Middle Ages is an elaborate fraud perpetrated by the Roman Empire, which never fell but simply went into hiding once Virgil the Magician discovered the tunnels leading to Pellucidar in the Hollow Earth? Seems reasonable to me!! The US Congress killed and replaced by shape-changing seals from the Dreamlands who talk like movie pirates? Brother, I wrote it!But the Catholic Church MURDERED Copurnicus? Oh, my aching back. He was a churchman himself: why not simply order him to recant his findings? "
"Angels and DemonsGolly. I thought ANGELS AND DEMONS by Dan Brown would turn out to be just an ordinary run-of-the-mill Catholic-bashing hate-fest. But, no, the whoppers told strain credulity. Do people actually know that little about history? It seems that they do. Here is what I picked up here and here.
Brown claims: Copernicus was murdered by the Catholic Church.Fact: Copernicus died quietly in bed at age 70 from a stroke, and his research was supported by Church officials; he even dedicated his masterwork to the Pope.
Brown claims: “Antimatter is the ultimate energy source. It releases energy with 100% efficiency.”Fact: CERN, the lab which plays an important role in his story, actually debunked this claim on their website: “The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion of the invested energy back.”
Brown claims: Churchill was a “staunch Catholic.”Fact: Any history buff could tell you that Churchill wasn’t Catholic, he was Anglican; nor was he particularly religious. The only things Churchill was staunch about were cigars, whiskey, and defending the British Empire.
Brown claims: Pope Urban VII banished Bernini’s famous statue The Ecstasy of St. Teresa “to some obscure chapel across town” because it was too racy for the Vatican.Fact: The statue was actually commissioned by Cardinal Cornaro specifically for the Cornaro Chapel (Brown’s “obscure chapel”). Moreover, the sculpture was completed in 1652 — eight years after Urban’s death.
Brown claims: Bernini and famed scientist Galileo were members of the Illuminati.Fact: The Illuminati was founded in Bavaria in 1776. Bernini died in 1680, while Galileo died in 1642 — more than a century before the Illuminati were first formed.The idea that Copernicus was murdered by the Church is just too stupid for words. I mean, I have a pretty low threshold when it comes to Illuminati fiction. I love that 'secret-history' stuff. I am not a hard sell. If you want to put in your book that Atlantis was a superhightech civilization destroyed by the extra-dimensional Eddorians in order to thwart Arisian attempts to breed mankind to create the Kwisatz Haderach, child of the Lens and the father of the race that will rule the Sevagram, I will suspend my disbelief like it was bouyant with helium. You want to establish that a race of robots hidden in a secret base in Mount Ararat has been guiding human history since the time of Enoch, I am your man. You want to say the Freemasons (who built the temple of Solomon) are the archenemies of the Slavemasons (who build the Great Pyramid of Cheops) have been fighting a duel to place or remove feng-shui-significant stonehenge, monuments, and Cathedrals at goethermal accupuncture points across Europe, Asia and the New World since the Bronze Age, and that all major wars and architectural firms are under their control, and involved in a secret aeons-old Cold War to prevent the telluric current from destroying this world as unwise abuses of the geomancy of the canals of Mars did that remote, dying world? Sure! Shiwan Khan is actually a time-travelling alien from planet Mongo, granted eternal youth by the powers of alchemy, and he long ago replaced the royal family of England with Life-Model-Decoys which he controls with the ten magic rings he found in the wreckage of a spaceship from planet Maklu IV? Why not? Lord Byron was a vampire? You would have to pay me money not to believe that. Queen Elizabeth ran of coven of witches whose stormcrafty drowned the Aramda of Philip of Spain, after he had secretly adopted the practice of mass human sacrifice from his wife who was secretly an Aztec princess in order to gain magical control of an entire hemisphere's worth of demon-cursed Mexican gold? Not only possible, but likely! The entire Middle Ages is an elaborate fraud perpetrated by the Roman Empire, which never fell but simply went into hiding once Virgil the Magician discovered the tunnels leading to Pellucidar in the Hollow Earth? Seems reasonable to me!! The US Congress killed and replaced by shape-changing seals from the Dreamlands who talk like movie pirates? Brother, I wrote it!But the Catholic Church MURDERED Copurnicus? Oh, my aching back. He was a churchman himself: why not simply order him to recant his findings? "
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5/1/09
Dan's Rant
In most churches today in my area we find the most common church goer. That is the talker coming in only second to the Gossip lady(that is a different rant entirely). On many occasions people have the insatiable urge to talk during or before mass. Now you may say oh well if the whisper than that is ok. well fine but, I'm talking about outright talking. I cannot believe the fact that people would just sit there and talk. I had the misfortune to end up in front of a couple who were having a conversation in the middle of mass. I turned a round to tell them because It was nonsense ans they were indignant as if I was bothering them. Well I really think that talking should stop....now i attend an OF mass regularly which the problem is the most evident. Talking is ok : 1) if you whisper 2) keep the talking to a minimum 3)do not talk about what u will have for dinner. I find it useless to talk about such things in Church. The ushers do that constantly with sports. I do not recommend going to those who are talking and correct them yourself. Simply tell your priest that there were some people who were being disruptive. If more people confront him then he can do something about it. But if he comes back to you and says they will not listen to him. Then feel free to correct them. Being mindful of where you are and how you correct them.
4/23/09
4/22/09
Blessed just blessed
I have to say that I have been an Altar server for close to 13 yrs. I have seen the horrors of the creativity and the law of tradition. I have gone through the ranks of servers from "pew sitter" to "server" to "MC",and all the in between. I can say without a doubt that I have never once regret becoming an altar server. After these many years it has been a lot of fun and at times sad. Being an Altar Server has been a great joy to me and it should be to those who will come after me and they who came before me. As you know My parish is closing, I would have liked to do many things for the Altar servers such as start a guild. But that will come when the time is right. To parents encourage your boys to become servers, I have never stopped thanking God for All his graces he has given me in serving .
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4/21/09
where are the others?
Ok I'm back after a long period of no posting. I have come up with a question as to where the other movies on the life of the 20th century popes are? We have a total of three.
- the most recent Pope John Paul II
- Pope John Paul I
- John XXIII
so why not make one with Paul VI(he went through a lot),Pius XII, Pius XI, Benedict XV, Pius X, and Leo XIII. I mean It would be nice to see the lives of these men on film. It would seem like a good idea don't you think?
3/31/09
Sorry
I have to apologize for my non-posting I was going to surprise every one with the audio commentary but to my dismay the ceremonies are that of the pre-Pius XII and are of no use. so that will not happen ...I will be posting some after Easter so hopefully i can get back to things soon...
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