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ROME 23/10 – DAY 35: PURGE THEM!
Posted on 4 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Sun up: 06:44
Sun down: 19:03
Ave Maria: 17:30
Days left: 3 full days
The Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, whose heart is in the church San Carlo al
Corso.
Tomorrow it was one year ago that I had my newly re-gilded chalice consecrated
by Card. Pell. How we miss him. During that day I had had a very important
meeting and I prayed to St. Thérèse for help. That evening I received, for the
second time in my life, a sign from Thérèse, the absolutely out of the blue gift
from my florist friend Pippo of a perfect white rose as I walked through the
tumult of a very windy Campo de’ Fiori during its disassembly and clean-up
phase.
I ask you dear readers for the next few days to pray to St. Thérèse for me.
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Heading to church this morning. Very peaceful.
Breakfast today after Mass with The World’s Best Sacristan™. Which is mine?
Yesterday I had a hankerin’ for clams. As you know, I went to the fishmonger,
as one does.
The basis for this is white wine and a little oil in which I had for about 20
minutes warmed a half dozen smashed garlic cloves. Then the heat went UP and
in went the clams. They had been purged in salt water for about 8 hours.
They say they are purged already. “HA!” I purge them. Salt water. Change it
a couple times.
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All but one opened. Really good.
Pull the clams out and finish cooking the half cooked spaghetti in the juice.
Dessert: puntarelle with anchovy. Yum.
In the great church San Carlo al Corso, go around in back of the main altar
where there is a little chapel with altar in the ambulatory. This contains the
heart of St. Charles.
The writing says “humilitas”, which was San Carlo’s motto.
St. Charles is instantly recognizable by his enormous nose…. er um… heart.
Actually, it was St. Philip Neri who had the miraculously enlarged heart.
What a lovely image, no? Offering his heart?
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23RD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST: “STAND FIRM IN THE LORD, MY BELOVED!”
Posted on 4 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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We would have had a first selection from Philippians last week, the last Sunday
of October, but the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost was superseded by the Feast of
Christ the King in the Vetus calendar. Sunday’s reading from Philippians
3:17-21 and 4:1-3 is also used in the Vetus calendar on the Feast of St. Clement
(for an obvious reason). About the issue of the reading being from two
chapters. This is not a case, as is so often happens in the Novus Ordo
lectionary, of snipping out bits and pieces and gluing together the ends. In
this case, the end of the third chapter flows seamlessly into the fourth. Paul
did not write using chapters and verses. Those were added much later.
As always, let’s get some context.
We are drawing to the end of the liturgical year. Therefore, we will more and
more have references to the Second Coming, the end of the world and the
resurrection. Pius Parsch in his The Church’s Year of Grace writes of this
period:
> In the Sunday liturgies of autumn time it is not too difficult to detect a
> progression in three stages. The first stage consists in the Sundays
> transitional from summer to fall (15th to 17th after Pentecost); the second
> stage embraces the four finest formularies in the Church’s Harvest Time
> (19-21); the last stage begins today and brings the season to its conclusion
> (23-24). Nevertheless, the liturgy is at all times concerned primarily with
> the present situation, even when her sights are directed momentarily to the
> end of things. It is no different today.
It is noteworthy that for the Offertory antiphon we sing from Ps 129/130 which
is the De profundis…
> De profúndis clamávi ad te, Dómine: Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam: de
> profúndis clamávi ad te, Dómine. … Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord;
> Lord, hear my prayer! Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord.
Timothy is also a “co-signer” of the Letter to the Philippians. Paul had
visited Philippi with Timothy and Silas during his second missionary journey
(50-52 AD) and also during his third (53-58). Philippi was in north-eastern
Greece in Thrace. Fathers of the Church thought Philippians was written when
Paul was in custody in Rome for the second time. In Acts 16:20 we find they
were accused of creating a disturbance in the city. They were beaten and
imprisoned. This is when there was an earthquake while they were praying and
singing hymns. Their chains fell off and the doors opened, leading to the
conversion of their guard. Philippians has the famous poetic Christological
passage about Christ (2:5-11) where we get the mystery of His “self-emptying”
(Greek kenosis). Though He was equal to the Father, He did not consider being
equal to God something to be “exploited/grasped at” (Greek harpagmón). Instead,
the Son “emptied himself” taking the form of a slave/servant and was obedient to
death on a cross. The hymn-like quality of this passage suggests that Paul
had taught it to the Philippians for use in their local (and maybe elsewhere)
liturgy.
In his letters, Paul usually stressed some characteristic of Christ and his
audiences need to conform themselves to it. In this case, the trait is Christ’s
humility.
There are little personal touches in Philippians, such as his mention of his
background as a Pharisee (1:8), the aforementioned story about being in prison
and the earthquake (1:12:24), the mention of disagreement between collaborators
brought up in our passage for Sunday (4:19).
> 17 Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an
> example in us. 18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you
> even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is
> destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds
> set on earthly things. 20 But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we
> await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will change our lowly body to be
> like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all
> things to himself. 4 Therefore, my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy
> and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. 2 I entreat Eu-o?dia and I
> entreat Syn?tyche to agree in the Lord. 3 And I ask you also, true yokefellow,
> help these women, for they have labored side by side with me in the gospel
> together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in
> the book of life.
Immediately after this is when Paul writes:
> 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let all men know
> your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. 6 Have no anxiety about anything, but
> in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests
> be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding,
> will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Consoling for our own days.
The first verse of our reading for Mass has Paul telling the community to
imitate him. However, he and Timothy are already imitators. At the very
beginning of the Letter Paul and Timothy self-identify also as “servants”, which
is the image presented of the Lord who self-emptied. The Lord is humble, so
his servant leaders must be humble so the people can be humble. Christ is
Paul’s model, Paul is their model: “Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark
those who so live as you have an example in us” (3:17) and “What you have
learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be
with you” (4:9). This isn’t the only time Paul urges this imitation. For
example, in 1 Cor 4:16-17: “I urge you, then, be imitators of me. Therefore I
sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of
my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.” Again, Timothy
is involved. Again, we have an indication of Paul’s programmatic instruction as
he moved about.
The humility that Paul preaches cannot be attained in a day.
Let’s circle back to one thing. Paul, as is often the case, is addressing a
problem in his letter. In Philippi there are, again, false teachers, probably
Judaizers who would impose also Mosaic practices on all Christians, non-Jews
alike. He touches on this saying:
> For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live
> as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the
> belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things (vv.
> 18-19).
I don’t think we should reduce the line about “their god is the belly” to mere
sins of gluttony. It stands for living according to the flesh, according to the
world, rather than the “commonwealth in Heaven” which comes next. Sometimes
“commonwealth” (Greek políteuma) is rendered “conversation”, Latin conversatio,
which is “conduct of life”.
We Christians must look beyond the world-bound to the Heaven-free, our true
patria. In our own day we hear about those who would reduce those means of
freedom for Heaven, including self-control, abnegation, to a relaxed complacency
which ultimate reflects the chains of the flesh. In fact, there are calls by
some to overhaul the Church’s perennial moral teachings according to “lived
experience”. You might recall how, some years ago in matters concerning
marriage and divorce, the concept of continence, chastity, was relegated to an
“ideal” that not all could attain. As if God does not in fact offer sufficient
graces and He lets people struggle under burdens they cannot bear. In other
words, God has set for us impossible goals, “ideals” of comportment. We, on the
other hand, can reinterpret those “ideals” through our “lived experience”.
Taking note that most people don’t live according to the ideal upheld in the
Church’s perennial teaching on morals, therefore we should – while not claiming
to remove the ideal – simply go along with, tolerate those lapses from the
ideal. People can discern for themselves whether the “ideal” is really for
them or not. In effect, they come, with the seeming approbation of their
pastors, to “glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things”.
We must, as discussions about this approach build and multiply, be on our guard
and not be seduced by them. To this end, review your catechism! Know well your
Faith so you will not be confused when the cleverboots get going with their
patter.
The Church’s perennial teachings on faith and morals are solid and dependable.
Anything proposed that would erode the plain meaning of those teachings should
be firmly rejected. Let our imitation of Christ and His humility to submit in
the form of a servant even to the Cross be our model when we are faced with the
temptation to live not for Heaven, but merely for the earthly.
Above, I mentioned the kenotic dimension of the Christology in Philippians,
whereby Paul describes the self-emptying of the Son, talking the form of a
servant. At His earthly end, He was stripped of every worldly thing and showed
us the perfection of freedom. John in the Prologue of his Gospel says that they
saw His “glory”. Also above, I mention how at Philippi Paul and Silas, were
singing in prison and an earthquake broke their bonds. In the midst of their
nothingness they were freed. I’ll close with a remark by Bl. Ildefonso
Schuster about our attitude toward worldly goods.
> How much easier it is to save one’s soul in the midst of poverty and in a
> humble and obscure condition of life I Not that riches or worldly position are
> in themselves blameworthy; but very often to these advantages are joined
> certain dispositions of one’s mind and one’s surroundings which render the
> service of God very difficult to carry out. Such persons begin by excessive
> preoccupation concerning their material possessions, and end by losing
> altogether the supernatural sense of Christian life and holy mortification,
> becoming at last inimicos crucis Christi, as St Paul sadly remarks.
Finally, now that we are in the month dedicated to prayer for the Poor Souls, I
would be remiss if I did not remind you that you, too, will one day draw your
final breath. No earthly advantage in that moment is going to raise you to the
Beatific Vision. Only your love for and fidelity to Christ will do that.
Practice dying well now by living better now, not according to the flesh and
world, but in humble service of our Lord and Savior, especially in charity
toward others.
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ANOTHER REASON WHY THE TLM CANNOT BE KILLED OFF. BOYS.
Posted on 4 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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At Aleteia, which I also never look at, there is a piece very much worth reading
from top to bottom. I’m glad a friend alerted me to this.
A man with sons set them to a hard task. He muses about how boys will rise to
the challenge.
> Give boys “impossible” challenges and watch them thrive
> […]
>
> The job wasn’t easy. Not at all. I don’t own a chain saw so I sent the boys up
> with a wood saw to operate by hand. Their task was to take turns until the job
> was done. I gave them safety tips, helped them get started, and left them to
> it. After watching for a few minutes, it became clear they didn’t need my
> supervision or micromanagement. Even though the job is a hard one, they
> tackled it with persistence and enthusiasm. This was their chance to
> accomplish a difficult, meaningful, grown-up task.
>
> […]
And then there’s this…
> […]
>
> To take another example, I was talking to a friend the other day about our
> parish altar-serving program. When I first arrived at the parish, I was amazed
> at how many boys there were. (We’re an oratory dedicated to the Traditional
> Latin Mass and only have male altar servers.) We have about 60 boys who all
> know how to serve. They exhibit enthusiasm, dependability, and discipline —
> down to the way they kneel on the stone floor and fold their hands. There are
> no rebellious comments about our no-sneakers-while-serving rule or complaints
> about lining up to pray post-Mass prayers in the sacristy. In fact, the boys
> can’t seem to get enough of it.
>
> I was marveling about this to a friend, who responded, “Do you know how the
> server program became the way it is?” I didn’t, so he filled me in on the
> early days of training the boys. Back when everyone was still learning, the
> boys didn’t yet have the habitual discipline to remain quiet and reverent in
> the sanctuary. A few of them were misbehaving near the altar, so the young man
> in charge of training them paused the entire training session, took all the
> boys outside, and had them do wall-sits to instill some discipline. The boys
> moaned but accepted their fate. After a few minutes, they actually began to
> challenge each other and brag about who could do it longer.
>
> They had risen to the challenge and, even more, had begun to increase the
> difficulty. Today, the boys as a group are the best servers I’ve ever seen.
> The goal was set before them, the expectations were high, and they rose to the
> occasion.
>
> […]
Boys.
They grow up.
TLM families are having lots of boys.
They are treating them like boys, too.
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 34: IMPROVISE – ADAPT – OVERCOME
Posted on 3 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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The Roman rising of the sun was at 06:42. The Roman setting of the same will be
at 19:05.
The Ave Maria bell is still on the 17:30 cycle.
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It is a 1st Friday.
Yesterday was NOT Friday, and I indulged in some meat. Specifically sausage
(savory) and chicken (free range).
Free range pepperoni as well. In Italian these are pepperoni… not to be
confused with American pizza toppings.
I set everything to get some color in separate pans (I only have small, here),
and then combined and readied all for the oven. Just at the end, I added peas.
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I wanted a sauce, so I took everything out of the pan. Suddenly I realized I
didn’t have much of anything as a thickening agent, so as to make a roux, and I
also wanted volume. So, …
IMPROVISE – ADAPT – OVERCOME
I had a little butter and a bottle of white wine and… fiber supplement
capsules. Psillium.
A good slosh of dry white wine, a few caps and… ecco! Gravy. Really good,
too. Great consistency. I’ve gotta remember this. No “floury” taste.
I ate about half of what I prepared and the rest went into the fridge for
tomorrow.
And this is for a friend. Thanks for the apron.
You can get one of those t-shirts, btw, from my swag store. It has the
Memorare in many languages on the back, to be recited daily for the overturning
of a certain cruel act.
Tonight… clams from the fishmonger.
These aren’t clams, but it is at the fishmonger.
I just like writing “fishmonger”
And on the way home from the fishmonger, a truck was stocking a local butcher.
Use FATHERZ10 at checkout
In the Vetus Ordo it is a dies non, so I said a Requiem Mass today and my
intention was for my deceased benefactors, those I know of and those whom I
don’t. When I receive word that someone who was a donor has died, I make a
note of it and remember them in my prayers on their former giving days.
As a matter of fact, the “daily Requiem” Mass formulary, as an optional set of
orations precisely for benefactors. Here is the Postcommunio. Would someone
like to have a crack at it?
Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens et misericors Deus: ut animae fratrum,
propinquorum et benefactorum nostrorum, pro quibus hoc sacrificium laudis tuae
obtulimus maiestati; per huius virtutem sacramenti a peccatis omnibus expiatae,
lucis perpetuae, te miserante, recipiant beatitudinem.
Not just Latin puzzles….
…white to move. Good luck. This is hard.
1. Bc7 Qxc8 2. gxf7+ Kh8 3. Be5 Qc5 4. Bb2 Nc7
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WDTPRS – 31ST ORDINARY SUNDAY: RUN! WATCH FOR STUMBLING BLOCKS… BUT RUN!
Posted on 3 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese
Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after
Pentecost.
Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi a fidelibus tuis
digne et laudabiliter serviatur, tribue, quaesumus, nobis, ut ad promissiones
tuas sine offensione curramus.
Munus means, first, “a service, office, post”. Synonyms are officium and
ministerium.
These are the key words in dispute in the matter of Benedict XVI’s resignation.
Some say that he wanted only to resign the active administration of the Diocese
of Rome and of the universal Church, the ministerium, without resigning
the munus, the office of Vicar of Christ. However, the terms
ministerium and munus, what they mean in relation to each other, is really
murky. On the one hand we can go to our dictionaries and obtain a little
clarity. On the other hand, we also have to go by how they are used in Church
documents. I was at one time pretty sure they were quite specific and meant
obviously different things. Then I read a paper written by a serious canonist
about the problematic meanings of munus, ministerium and officium written back
in 1989, long before 2013 and this controversy. It was written by future
Cardinal Peter Erdõ, considered papabile now. Divine providence? (Cf. ERDÖ,
“Ministerium, munus et officium in Codice iuris canonici”, in Periodica, 1989,
pp. 411-436.) It’s in Latin. Bottom line, between the uses of the three terms
in the 1917 Code, Vatican II, and the 1983 Code, according to Erdõ, there is
confusion. It is hard to fix definitions that don’t overlap to the point that
they are sometimes interchangeable. More work is needed on the problem.
And we are dealing here with a liturgical text, not a canonical text. When we
get into munus, our thoughts turn right away to a Greek equivalent leitourgia, a
needed civic work or service one performs because he ought to for the sake of
society; whence our word “liturgy”.
In the New Testament munus/leitourgia points to concepts such as taking up
collections for the poor (i.e., what man does for man) and religious services
(what man does for God). Munus also means “a present, gift”.
Moreover, munus is a theologically loaded word, indicating among other things
the three offices (tria munera) which Christ passed to His Church, the Apostles
and their successors: to teach, to govern, to sanctify. Prophet – King –
Priest.
When the Lord gives us commands (and He does, e.g., love one another as I have
loved you; pick up your Cross and follow me; be perfect as your Father in heaven
is perfect; do this in memory of me, etc.), we can sum them up in the two-fold
commandment of love of God and of neighbor.
All followers of Jesus have been given a two-fold munus to fulfill which
reflects the three munera Christ gave to the Church’s ordained priesthood.
I invite you to try an experiment. See what happens to your perception of the
Collect if you make munus mean “office” rather than “gift.” While reading it,
hearing it, can you keep both concepts simultaneously in mind?
Offensio (related to offendo) concerns “a striking against, a stumbling”. It is
also “an offense” and “that which causes one to offend or sin” as in a lapis
offensionis (a “stumbling-block” cf 1 Pet. 2:8). Offendo, by the way, can also
mean “to meet by chance”.
Servio, “to serve”, is very rarely found in the passive. We must break “that it
be served in reference to You” down into “that You be served”.
LITERAL TRANSLATION:
Almighty and merciful God, from whose gift it comes that You be served by the
faithful worthily and laudably, grant us, we beseech You, that we may run toward
Your promises without stumbling.
This Collect gives me the image of a person hurrying to fulfill a duty or
command given by his master or superior. He is rushing, running. He might
even be carrying a heavy burden. While dashing forward, he strives to be
careful under his burden lest he stumble, fall, lose or ruin what he carries.
Isn’t this how we live our Christian vocations?
God has given us something to do while in this vale of tears.
When we discern God’s will and do our best to live well according to our state
in life, we will experience heavy burdens. Our human nature is wounded and
there is an Enemy who hates and tempts us. When we are faithful to our
vocations, we receive many opportunities to participate in carrying the Cross of
Jesus. We also are offered all the actual graces we need to do so.
The Lord Himself told us, through the Gospels, that if we want to be with Him,
we must participate in His Cross, even daily (Luke 9:23). During His Passion,
our Lord literally carried His (and our) Cross. As He was driven by the
soldiers over the uneven road, as careful as He must have been, He stumbled and
fell.
We stumble and fall, though not like our sinless Lord. We stumble mostly by
choice.
In this Collect do we hear an echo of the petition in the Lord’s Prayer? “Lead
us not into temptation.”
There is a tempter out there who desires us to fall and give offense to the
Lord. The Enemy places obstacles before our feet. That one – the Enemy – we do
not want to meet with, even by chance. Be sure to make good use of sacramentals
and go to confession regularly. Along with those, make good holy Communions and
the Devil will have little to say to you.
It is inconceivable that God would give us something to do and then not give us
the means.
As we draw closer to the end of this liturgical year, during Sunday’s Mass
Father prays that we run, rather than drag along, toward the reward of heaven.
We beg God that we do so without mishap. We beg not to give offense by what we
do. We ask that the road be made free of stumbling blocks for our running feet.
Run! Watch for those stumbling blocks but run!
Don’t drag along, moping, resentful of your lot. Our reward is not here in this
vale of tears. Heaven is our goal.
Help your struggling neighbor.
Our Lord understands the craggy road we travel. He never abandons us, even when
we stumble in sin.
CURRENT ICEL (2011):
Almighty and merciful God, by whose gift your faithful offer you right and
praiseworthy service, grant, we pray, that we may hasten without stumbling to
receive the things you have promised.
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 33: REVELATION OF RELICS AND REPETITION OF REQUIEMS
Posted on 2 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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The sun rose at 06:41 and it will set at 17:06.
The Ave Maria will be silent when it ought to ring at 17:30.
5 full days left.
It is the Commemoration of All Souls.
I mentioned sunrise.
Yesterday, All Saints, a wonderful event took place at the parish. All the
relics of which they have possession were exposed for veneration and were
solemnly “introduced”.
One by one they were carried to the center of the church while they were
described. Then they were placed on the main altar.
Here is the video. At the end I edited it slight to eliminate a pause when the
final relic, of the Cross, was fetched from the side altar in the back of
church.
Here are a few closeups so you can see better what sort of reliquaries were
involved.
Vespers followed. It was lovely.
Today, All Souls, priests have the privilege of saying 3 Masses (without any
other special pastoral circumstances necessitating it). We can keep one
stipend. Christmas is the other day when priests can say three Masses, but we
can keep all three stipends.
I’m cooking up another video for old subscribers, etc.
This morning found me putting on this….
It’s hard to see wear on black and the lighting isn’t great.
I remember that when we had the RED VESTMENT PROJECT we talked also about
BLACK. Some of you who had pledged for Red (or Black) hadn’t been selected at
the time of the Red Project, because we had enough donors.
I posted something about a new SOLEMN set for the parish, but I didn’t receive
quite the enthusiastic response as I did about the Red and Black vestments.
Perhaps it is time to revive the BLACK! While I am in Rome, I could get things
worked out. I’ll watch the combox and email for feedback.
Who knows when this shop went out of business. I’m perhaps the 50’s or 60’s.
Coming into church today, the place looked VERY different!
So, I won’t get to see the magnificent Guido Reni altarpiece again until I
return, hopefully in March for Holy Week.
Pray for the dead, my friends. This is the month of special prayer for the
“Poor” Souls.
Pray for yourselves, as well, that God will preserve us all from a sudden and
unprovided death.
Meanwhile.. DEATH to White’s King in THREE.
Black to move.
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“spoilers” for others.
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 32: IMAGINE THE JOY
Posted on 1 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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We are out of the days of my natal month and the coincidence of calendar and my
length of stay. I enter now into the final stretch of days here, aka crunch
time. I’m disoriented at the prospect of leaving. I feel as if I haven’t
gotten done some of what I came to do. What has happened, however, was a
serious “recharging”, “deep cycle” so to speak.
The Ave Maria bells ought to chime at 17:30. The sun shall set at 17:07. Up
came the sun at 06:40, somewhat obscured.
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It’ll probably rain this afternoon.
It is the Feast of All Saints. Most places are closed today.
I renew my request for prayers for Giancarlo through the intercession of Bl.
Luigi Maria Monti. Ask the Blessed specifically for a sudden, complete and
lasting healing.
Today we begin the month during which we pray in a special way for the souls in
Purgatory. They are called “poor” in that they can do little for themselves in
their time of purgation and they need our assistance. Happily we can do that as
members, still, of the Church Militant.
Try to imagine the heavenly hosts rejoicing at the entry of another soul into
the Beatific Vision, perhaps immediate, perhaps after a time of purification.
We have the more or less famous stories of the officially and traditionally
acknowledged saints in heaven, yet the vast majority of the multitudes in the
beyond are anonymous to us in large part.
We can at times be very confident about the happiness in Heaven of this or that
person, especially those who received the Last Sacraments and Apostolic
Blessing. It is good to continue to pray for them.
Imagine also meeting someone in Heaven and learning that your prayers and
penances. gaining indulgences, were helpful in abbreviating the time of
purification.
On this joyous feast of All Saints, let us contemplate daly of our own path
toward Heaven, which must involve death. Holy Church has us pray in the Litany
of Saints that we be preserved from a sudden and unprovided death, that is, a
death without the chance for a good confession and, if possible, anointing and
Communion. As in everything else in life we need to practice to get good at
something. So, be mindful of death as the way to Heaven.
“State buoni se potete… Be good if you can” (St. Philip Neri)
Take on some penances.
Go to confession.
Yesterday I received a kind donation of RLR via Chase/Zelle (a favorite way of
receiving). RLR, I don’t have any email address for you, or I would send you a
private note. Thank you.
Thank you Roman donors. Today’s Holy Mass is for your intention. You’ve
covered my time here and I will return the favor in the best way I know how.
Speaking of cover, I went by a hat shop I used to frequent… I now have enough
hats, I think, so I was not looking to buy, but just to admire.
It seems they don’t want you to know what they are up to. LOL. I noticed this
after I shot the pic. The irony was too rich.
What’s the deal? They don’t want people to know their prices? What do they
have?
At the place where LifeSite had their conference yesterday, I saw this which
amused me greatly, given that the “Sant’Uffizio” or “Holy Office” was synonymous
with the “Inquisition”. So,… “Inquisition and Spa”… for your “wellness”.
Probably a nice place.
This sight just cheered me up. Everything laid out in an orderly manner for
priests and their Masses.
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pay for insurance, groceries, everything. Please remember me when shopping
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Meanwhile, is it BLACK’s move. Can you find mate in 4?
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be
“spoilers” for others.
The Summit Dominicans also make candles. Think: ADVENT WREATH.
Remote Chess Academy has a new price for their beginning package.
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1 NOVEMBER 2023 – ALL SAINTS – HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION: WE ARE ALL IN THIS
TOGETHER.
Posted on 1 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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While some bishop might obliterate the obligation by transferring it to a Sunday
(what’s the point of that?), as All Saints falls on a Wednesday this year, it is
a Holy Day of Obligation.
The Church can determine our obligations in regard to Mass attendance. It is a
Commandment of the Church that we are to fulfill our obligation on Sundays and
other Holy Days of obligation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains our
obligation in the section about the Third Commandment of the Decalogue:
> 2180 The precept of the Church specifies the law of the Lord more precisely:
> “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to
> participate in the Mass.” “The precept of participating in the Mass is
> satisfied by assistance at a Mass which is celebrated anywhere in a Catholic
> rite either on the holy day or on the evening of the preceding day.”
>
> 2181 The Sunday Eucharist is the foundation and confirmation of all Christian
> practice. For this reason the faithful are obliged to participate in the
> Eucharist on days of obligation, unless excused for a serious reason (for
> example, illness, the care of infants) or dispensed by their own pastor. Those
> who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin.
Canon Law
The Collect for today’s Mass for All Saints is the same in both forms of the
Roman Rite. It it found already in the 8th century Liber sacramentorum
Engolismensis. It was also, with variations in the Gelasian Sacramentary, among
the prayers for Sts. Peter and Paul.
Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui nos ómnium Sanctórum tuórum mérita sub una
tribuísti celebritáte venerári: quaésumus; ut desiderátam nobis tuæ
propitiatiónis abundántiam, multiplicátis intercessóribus, largiáris.
I like the separations of nos from venerari and, in the next section,
desideratam from abundantiam. Note the assonance on “o” in the second line and
“i” in the second. The third has strong alliteration and that whole second
section hums with “m” and “n”. That last line has some thumping fine rhythms,
and the final largiaris gives us a splendid clausula, or rhythmic closing:
íntercessóribus lárgi-ÁH-REES. Wonderful to sing.
Our L&S says that celebritas, which looks an awful lot like an English word, is
in the first place “a great number, a multitude, a large assembly, a numerous
concourse or gathering, a crowd”. However, Cicero and Livy use it for “festal
celebration, a solemnity” as in c. supremi diei, “a solemn procession for the
dead”, appropriate for this time of year, for All Saints and All Souls. In the
third place celebritas is “fame, renown”. But you might be able to hear how
celebritas, while most naturally is in our prayer in the second sense of
“solemnity”, can also bear that echo of “multitude” or even “throng” in our
Latin ears and minds. Veneror is a deponent verb, and therefore has passive
forms but active meanings. It means, “to reverence with religious awe, to
worship, adore, revere, venerate” and “to ask reverently for any thing, to
beseech, implore, beg, entreat, supplicate”.
Propitiatio, in our liturgical prayer, reflects propitiation in the sense of
atonement, to be sure, but it is often rendered as “pardon, mercy, merciful
indulgence”.
LITERAL REWORKING:
> Almighty, eternal God, who granted us to venerate the merits of all Your
> saints under a single solemn festal celebration: we beseech You; that, our
> intercessors having been multiplied, You bestow upon us the longed for
> abundance of Your atoning mercy.
I like that image of the multiplication of intercessors.
Each saint before the throne of God – in love for us and desire for us to join
them – intercedes and and glorifies. God’s glory and how we receive
intercessory help are both greatly increased with every soul that enters
heaven. Each soul entering heaven massively increases joy by orders of
magnitude.
Remember the great scene in the movie Fantasia when Mickey Mouse is trying to
stop the brooms from multiplying? They redouble and redouble and redouble,
their numbers compounding. Or, sticking to pop culture and magicky stuff, that
time in the Harry Potter movie when touching something made it reduplicate until
you were overwhelmed by the volume.
We, however, cannot for a moment think that we can be mere passive recipients of
their loving intercession, any more than we can commit the errors of Lutherans
and think that we are strictly passive in the reception of graces. We have to
do our part.
Concerning our brethren in the Church Triumphant, we of the Church Militant must
beg for intercession from on high and pray and intercede for the Poor Souls in
Purgatory.
We are all in this together.
We are together because of our common humanity and our baptism into Christ, from
whom come and to whom go all things.
This perspective can help us get through all the vicissitudes of this life, the
duties and challenges of our respective vocations… no matter what.
Are you frustrated in your life or what you see going on around you? Anxious?
Angry or sad?
Let’s hear this prayer through the lens of the Imitation of Christ (3, 47):
> THE VOICE OF CHRIST:
>
> My child, do not let the labors which you have taken up for My sake break you,
> and do not let troubles, from whatever source, cast you down; but in
> everything let My promise strengthen and console you. I am able to reward you
> beyond all means and measure.
>
> You will not labor here long, nor will you always be oppressed by sorrows.
> Wait a little while and you will see a speedy end of evils. The hour will come
> when all labor and trouble shall be no more. All that passes away with time is
> trivial.
>
> What you do, do well. Work faithfully in My vineyard. I will be your reward.
> Write, read, sing, mourn, keep silence, pray, and bear hardships like a man.
> Eternal life is worth all these and greater battles. Peace will come on a day
> which is known to the Lord, and then there shall be no day or night as at
> present but perpetual light, infinite brightness, lasting peace, and safe
> repose. Then you will not say: “Who shall deliver me from the body of this
> death?” nor will you cry: “Woe is me, because my sojourn is prolonged.” For
> then death will be banished, and there will be health unfailing. There will be
> no anxiety then, but blessed joy and sweet, noble companionship.
>
> If you could see the everlasting crowns of the saints in heaven, and the great
> glory wherein they now rejoice – they who were once considered contemptible in
> this world and, as it were, unworthy of life itself – you would certainly
> humble yourself at once to the very earth, and seek to be subject to all
> rather than to command even one. Nor would you desire the pleasant days of
> this life, but rather be glad to suffer for God, considering it your greatest
> gain to be counted as nothing among men.
>
> Oh, if these things appealed to you and penetrated deeply into your heart, how
> could you dare to complain even once? Ought not all trials be borne for the
> sake of everlasting life? In truth, the loss or gain of God’s kingdom is no
> small matter.
>
> Lift up your countenance to heaven, then. Behold Me, and with Me all My
> saints. They had great trials in this life, but now they rejoice. They are
> consoled. Now they are safe and at rest. And they shall abide with Me for all
> eternity in the kingdom of My Father.
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THE PRESENT NEEDS THE PAST
Posted on 1 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Right now some clamor for everything in the Church, all her doctrine, liturgy
(which is doctrine), law, structures… everything… to be “reinterpreted” in light
of the “spirit” of Vatican II and the “spirit” of ongoing “synodality” (“walking
togetherity”).
From the indominable Laudator. My emphases…
Linking Up the Present With the Past
Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957), Occasional Sermons (New York: Sheed & Ward Inc.,
1960), pp. 47-48: (A different edition HERE)
> [E]very new thing in human history is built against the background of some
> older thing which went before it. As the picture gallery of some great house
> preserves the memory of its ancestry, tracing down to the latest instance the
> persistence of the same characteristics, and linking up the present with the
> past; so the greatest institutions of the world are those which combine
> something ancient with something new. And among these, even the Catholic
> Church.
>
> It is a human weakness of ours to be always crying out for complete novelty,
> an entire disseverance from our past. Our old traditions have become so dusty
> with neglect, so rusted with abuse, that we are for casting them on the
> scrap-heap and forgetting that they ever existed. The Church conserves; she
> bears traces still of the Jewish atmosphere in which she was cradled; traces,
> too, of the old heathen civilization which she conquered. And in her own
> history it is the same; nothing is altogether forgotten; every age of
> Christianity recalls the lineaments of an earlier time. People think of her as
> if she kept a lumber-room; it is not so; hers is a treasure-house from which
> she can bring forth when they are needed things old as well as new.
And again… for those who think that one mustn’t, can’t, dassent ever disagree
with “Peter”.
Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957), The Pastoral Sermons (New York: Sheed & Ward Inc.,
1960), pp. 430-431:
> No, there is nothing distressing to the Christian conscience, either in the
> fact that St Paul should have disagreed with St Peter, or in the fact that St
> Peter should have been on the wrong side. Nor is it historically accurate to
> think of St Peter as a man wedded to old ways of thought, over-anxious about
> what other people would think; the account given of him in the Acts of the
> Apostles is enough to prove the contrary. But we may, if we will, concentrate
> our attention upon this particular scene in the lives of two great princes of
> the Church, and trace in it the age-long conflict between two forces in the
> history of the Church. Let us not call them two contrary, rather two
> complementary forces, the resultant of which is the well-being of the Catholic
> community. One is the tendency to strike out on new lines, try new
> experiments, assert, wherever it may be lawfully asserted, the principle of
> freedom. The other is a jealous regard for tradition, for established
> precedent; a reluctance to be stampeded by the fashion of the moment, to
> barter away, for some momentary advantage, a long inheritance of accumulated
> wisdom. Call them, if you will, the Liberal and the Conservative tendency; but
> do not forget that those words have modern associations which will confuse our
> thought, if we are not careful in the use of them.
>
> I shall be told that the Catholic Church is not alone in feeling, century
> after century, the strain of that conflict. It is all around us; in a changing
> world, all our debates can easily be summed up under the formula, “Is it wiser
> to go forward, or to protect what we have?” But we Catholics, it must be
> remembered, cannot approach these questions so lightly, or with such free
> hands, as our neighbours. It is the first business of the Church to safeguard
> a deposit of revealed truth handed down to her, for all time, by a divine
> Founder; let her prove false to that trust, and the Church unchurches herself.
Abandon the past, let go or – quod Deus avertat – reject a divinely revealed
deposit, and the Church is unchurched.
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 31: LIFESITE ROME FORUM MEETING
Posted on 31 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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On this last day of my natal month, the sun rose at 06:39 and it set at 17:08.
The Ave Maria – 17:30.
It is the Feast of Alfonso Rodriguez, SJ (+1617), and the Vigil of All Saints.
Does that name seem familiar to anyone? Yes, but no.
Hence, some relics are covered for tonight. TOMORROW… wow!
I went to Day 1 of the Rome Life Forum held by LifeSite.
Bp. Strickland spoke. I had a nice chat with him ahead of time. I like him.
Card. Müller spoke. He is getting better and better.
These two chatted after… I heard about it. Heh.
Liz Yore gave a forceful speech.
Michael Matt is really pissed off, but there was in the end a positive message.
After all… we’re Catholic, right?
I ran a couple quick errands tonight. I needed flowers and more aceto d’alcool…
and dish sponges… and a toothbrush. At St. Bridget I prayed for the A’s, who
have stayed there many times, kind donors and supporters for years.
I’m tired.
White to move. Just DO IT.
Buy wine from monks. Just do it… please.
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 30: PROMISED VIDEOS
Posted on 30 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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The Roman sun came up at 06:38 (now that we are off the “ora legale”) and it
will leave Rome’s sight at 17:10.
The Ave Maria Bell should ring at 17:30.
Welcome registrants:
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I offered Holy Mass (Votive of the Holy Trinity) today for the intention of all
my monthly donor benefactors. How grateful I am to you all. Thank you. It is
my duty and pleasure to pray for you on a daily basis and to offer Mass for your
intention frequently.
In the last couple of days, I promised a little video. My poor laptop
processes this rather slowly, *sigh*.
Here is a taste of the Procession last Saturday to St. Peter’s Basilica for the
oh boy how wonderful celebration of Sext so generously permitted by the powers
that be in their magnificent largess and charity.
Here is a taste of the Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool for Christ The King.
Bishop Pozzo, formerly of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” is the
celebrant. BTW… in the video of Benedict’s resignation, you see Bp. Pozzo
sitting near the papal throne with a look of shock on his face, since he
understood the Latin he was hearing.
Meanwhile, black to move and win. There is a forcing line.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be
“spoilers” for others.
Until 2 November, Igor is offering 50% off on courses along with a BOGO deal. It
seems that he and I share the same birthday (28 Oct) and this is how he is
celebrating. Fine with me! You might take a moment just to check it out.
In chessy news, there is a battle going on in the Grand Swiss on the Isle of Man
for spots in the Candidates Tournament which will decide who challenges Ding
Liren for the World Champion title. Several spots are still open, but four
have already qualified: Ian Nepomniachtchi (the last challenger), Magnus Carlsen
(World Cup winner but who knows), Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (2nd World Cup) and
Fabiano Caruana 3rd World Cup). In the Swiss, Hikaru Nakamura is leading in
the Open section.
Finally, there’s this from a priestly reader.
1. … Rxd7 2. Rxd7 Qf3! 3. Rxf7+ Kg8 4. Rd7 Re2+ 5. Qxe2 Qxe2+
3. Kg1 Re2 eventually white can try for perpetual check but will soon run out of
checks
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“MORAL INJURY” REVISITED
Posted on 30 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Some time ago, I wrote about moral injury and priests who are compelled by
authorities to do things that are against their consciences.
Today I read that Archbp. Broglio of the Military Services had a series of
convocations with active duty priest chaplains and the topic was “Warrior Ethos
and Moral Injury” presented by Dr. Mark Moitoza, who wrote his thesis on the
issue.
In this case moral injury is defined as:
> “damage to a person resulting from a violent contradiction of deeply held
> moral expectations. Those impacted by moral injury find that it disrupts their
> confidence and affects their ability to make ethical and moral decisions. When
> this happens trust of self, trust of others, trust of the command, and even
> trust in God is broken and becomes difficult to bear.”
Going on…
> “While moral injury can be a potential invisible injury of war it may also
> occur in the high-stakes situation of military training, disaster relief
> efforts, military sexual trauma, or unhealthy command structures. One’s sense
> of self-worth becomes diminished and inhibits seeking help from God or the
> community of faith.”
Does this sound familiar?
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ASK FATHER: “ACTIVE PARTICIPATION” IN THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS
Posted on 30 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
> I have a question about “active participation”.
>
> The priest that used to service my SSPX chapel was very adamant about is using
> a missal to follow and pray the Mass. He added that it wouldn’t be necessary
> if you were fluent in Latin.
>
> When I mentioned this in a Trad Facebook group, a couple people mentioned the
> old school “say the Rosary” during Mass and expressed respectful disagreement
> with Father.
>
> We all know the line about “active participation” concerning the vernacular of
> the Novus Ordo. But this is the first time I heard it applied as such to the
> Vetus Ordo.
>
> In your opinion, is Father correct in his insistence on using the missal to
> pray the VO?
The concept of “full, conscious and actual/active” participation expressed in
Sacrosanctum Concilium did not leap full-grown like Athena from the heads of the
Council Fathers. The call for deeper participation grew up all through the
time of the 20th century’s “Liturgical Movement” and before. Long before the
Council and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, Pius X and Pius XI were urging people
to more outward participation as an aid to their interior engagement. Pius XII
also had his crack at it, although late in his pontificate in a document on
music we were instructed that the highest form of active participation at Mass
is the reception of Communion in the state of grace. Reception… sounds passive,
right? It isn’t! When the mind is engaged and the heart is straining forward
toward the moment you are actively receptive. There’s nothing passive about it!
The use of a “hand missal” is really helpful, particularly for those who have a
hard time remembering something for more than a quarter hour. This is why I
constantly suggest that people start looking at the readings and other texts of
Mass with a good hand missal or other source on THURSDAY, refreshing every day
till Sunday. On Sunday, you will be able to hear what you learned over the
last few days even as the Latin is being sung. Sure, the reading is being said
or sung in Latin. So? You’ve familiarized yourself with it for days before
hand. Sure, take the missal along. Then, review what you heard on Sunday
each day through Wednesday and start over. Vernacular is being read? Okay…
repetita iuvant. Fluent in Latin or not… prepare.
One thing we have to remember about the readings at Mass, which is especially
evident in the Vetus. The readings are also sacrifices being raised on high to
the Father. The Word is being raised upward. This is why the priest has to
read them and why they are read at the altar even if they are sung by subdeacon
and deacon or read in the vernacular. This is also why they should be read in a
sacral language, for us in the Latin Church – Latin. This sacrificial sense is
stripped from the Novus Ordo, which, along with the multiplication of readings,
gives the whole first part of Mass, the “liturgy of the Word” a
didactic feeling. While there is certainly room for and an element of
didacticism in liturgy it is not by any stretch of the imagination the primary
element.
(I’ll wager that quite a few priests trained in more recent times who say the
Vetus Ordo don’ realize that the readings are also sacrifice.)
It is right that we should be urged to engage with our minds and hearts, focused
and commanded by our wills, in the words and gestures of Holy Mass, either in
the Novus Ordo or in the Vetus Ordo. Frankly, the Vetus Ordo is in many
ways even richer than the Novus, even though there isn’t the legendary variety
of Scripture in the Vetus as the Novus. If you can do this without the aid of
a book or sheet, great! If the book helps, great! If you want to pray the
Rosary, great! Maybe a little less great, but… prayer is prayer. It’s just
that the Mass is for us Catholics the “fons et culmen… source and summit” of our
Catholic identity.
Every word and gesture of the sacred liturgy, especially Holy Mass, is CHRIST
acting and speaking. As Head, He speaks in the person of the priest. As Body
He speaks through the congregation. When they speak and act together, such as
the moment of Communion, Head and Body are manifestly one, Christus Totus, in
that sublime, mysterious moment.
The rites are our rites. We are our rites. They shape us. We have our
identity also from them.
As a baptized person you have a real share in Christ’s priesthood. That share
isn’t like that of the ordained priest, but it is real. It enables you to offer
pleasing sacrifice to God.
Knowing that you share in the priesthood of Christ, knowing that every word is
Christ, knowing what you are going to be presented on Sunday, prepare well so
that you can with your whole mind and heart under the guidance of your will
actively receive everything that Christ wants to give you through the sacred
rites of His Church.
I will never say that it is a bad thing to say the Rosary during Mass. As a
matter of fact, sometimes that is just the right thing to do. However, most of
the time we are offered the opportunity for a fuller engagement, not just with
the Lord at Communion (or maybe not if you are not in the state of grace), but
in the whole beautiful formulary of Mass for the day, part of a seasonal cycle
or a saint’s day.
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ASK FATHER: HOW MUCH PRAYER IS ENOUGH?
Posted on 30 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
> I have seen several Examination of Conscience guides mention neglecting prayer
> as a sin. Could you unpack this a bit? Failing to pray at all for a week, for
> example, seems like it would be a mortal sin, but what about saying only 3
> Hail Marys before bed on a particular day? Is this such light prayer that it
> also constitutes sinful neglect?
St Teresa of Avila says: “no prayer, no salvation. No mental prayer, no
holiness.”
Turning to Scripture, I am reminded of 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18:
> 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray constantly, 18 give thanks in all circumstances;
> for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
“Pray always”. How’s that?
It isn’t a suggestion, by the way. Paul was serious.
Okay, we are not going to be doing that explicitly. Not even those who are
like Carthusians are going to get that that point unless …
…unless in their relationship with God their will – their intention – is
oriented to God such that all that they do has a prayerful component. Their
desire is to pray. They want that all that they do be also offered to God.
Therefore, in all that they do their actions are intentionally prayerful. That
takes a lot of practice, I think and a lot of grace. It’s a matter of
relationship with God.
It is important that we don’t reduce our relationship with God to a contractual
relationship.
For example, the ancient pagan Romans thought they had a contractual
relationship with the gods expressed in the phrase “Do ut des… I give (something
to you) in order that you give (something to me)”. Hence, if the Romans offered
their sacrifices according to the proper form, the contract was maintained,
peace with the gods – the pax deorum – was maintained. The ancient pagans
thought Christians were interrupting that contractual arrangement, which made
them a danger to the pax deorum, which made the enemies of the “state”.
As an aside, the ancient pagan sacrifices had to be precise for the contract to
be maintained. So, if anyone screwed up anything, they had to start over. No
state business could be done without the necessary sacrifices blah blah by the
consul whose turn it was, etc. There was one period of internal political
warfare between factions when one side manage to ram into the consulship a guy
with a stutter. Get my point? I digress.
Let’s not reduce our relationship with God to a contract. “I’ll pray this
amount.”
We want to have a good, strong healthy deepening relationship with God.
Asking, “how much is enough” is sort like asking “How often should I talk to my
wife so she won’t leave me?” That’s not a healthy marriage.
An examen list will address the issue of lack of prayer. However, sins are not
so much breaking of rules as they are breaking of the Sacred Heart, a violation
of a relationship.
That said, rules can be helpful if the relationship isn’t yet strong.
If one’s heart has all sorts of disordered attachments, “pray always” becomes
difficult if not impossible. In that case rules guide us.
For example, clergy and religious have a rule to pray the Office.
Our Lady insists on the daily prayer of the Rosary (15 or 20 minutes). Perhaps,
for a layman, that would be enough to maintain the relationship.
No matter what, when we do what we do with great love, Our Lord will be better
pleased than if what we do is just for following the rules. For example,
almsgiving is more pleasing to Our Lord when given with love. Full, conscious,
actual participation at Holy Mass is more pleasing that simple fulfillment of a
precept.
Perhaps we can see prayer and all the other good things we can do as being like
the talents in the parable. God has made a great investment in each one of us.
How can we repay and also overpay in loving gratitude for His investment in us?
Formal prayer can be like that. Formal prayer is a kind of tithing of one’s
time determined by one’s state in life.
Formal and loving with enduring intention are not mutually exclusive, of
course. And the one -the formal – can, over time, lead to the other.
We should all have a solid regimen of good devotions and prayers. Classic
devotions and prayers were crafted in prayer and then polished over time into
beautiful jewels.
The beautiful thing about such a regimen is that it deepens with time. Maybe it
begins more in the category of a “rule”, but it nevertheless affects and effects
a relationship. Time and experience (regularity and quality) make it ever more
meritorious.
After that longish ramble, I’ll try to be concrete, provided we don’t make the
mistake of reducing our relationship with God to a contract.
What might be “enough”? It seems to me that:
* a morning offering
* prayers before and after meals
* the Angelus/Regina caeli
* the Rosary (15-20 minutes of your day?)
* an evening offering with your examination of conscience
Our Lady insists on the Rosary… doesn’t she. That, at least, should be your
practice, if nothing else.
Of course we can add all sorts of other wonderful things, such as visits to the
Blessed Sacrament. However, for a layman that might be enough to establish a
good daily prayer relationship with God provided that we are also on the road to
more rather than just remaining in the status quo ante.
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FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING AND THE ACT OF CONSECRATION OF THE HUMAN RACE TO THE
SACRED HEART OF JESUS
Posted on 29 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Sunday, in the Church’s Vetus Ordo calendar, is the Feast of Christ the King,
there fixed on the last Sunday of October.
It is customary on the Feast of Christ the King publicly to recite the Act of
Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This can bring a
plenary indulgence.
GET ON YOUR KNEES RIGHT NOW AND RECITE THIS PRAYER ALOUD. JUST DO IT.
Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Most Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate
before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but to be more surely
united to Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates ourselves today to Thy
Most Sacred Heart.
Many indeed have never known Thee; Many too, despising Thy precepts, have
rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy
Sacred Heart. Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful children, who have
never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children, who have abandoned Thee;
Grant that they may quickly return to their Father’s house lest they die of
wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord
keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so
that there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or
of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them into the light and kingdom of God. Turn
Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of the race, once Thy chosen people: of
old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend
upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give
peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole
with one cry; praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; To it be
glory and honor forever.
UPDATE
From the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary, the concession of the plenary
indulgence, in Latin, with the prayer, in Latin:
Plenaria indulgentiaconceditur christifideli qui, in sollemnitate D.N. Iesu
Christi Universorum Regis, actum dedicationis humani generis eidem Iesu Christo
Regi (Iesu dulcissime, Redemptor) publice recitaverit; in aliis rerum
adiunctis indulgentia erit partialis.5
Iesu dulcissime, Redemptor humani generis, respice nos ante conspectum tuum
humillime provolutos. Tui sumus, tui esse volumus; quo autem tibi coniuncti
firmius esse possimus, en hodie sacratissimo Cordi tuo se quisque nostrum sponte
dedicat. Te quidem multi novere nunquam; te, spretis mandatis tuis, multi
repudiarunt. Miserere utrorumque, benignissime Iesu, atque ad sanctuum Cor tuum
rape universos. Rex esto, Domine, nec fidelium tantum qui nullo tempore
discessere a te, sed etiam prodigorum filiorum qui te reliquerunt: fac ut domum
paternam cito repetant, ne miseria et fame pereant. Rex esto eorum, quos aut
opinionum error deceptos habet, aut discordia separatos, eosque ad portum
veritatis atque ad unitatem fidei revoca, ut brevi fiat unum ovile et unus
pastor. Largire, Domine, Ecclesiae tuae securam cum incolumitate libertatem;
largire cunctis gentibus tranquillitatem ordinis; perfice, ut ab utroque terrae
vertice una resonet vox: Sit laus divino Cordi, per quod nobis parta salus: ipsi
gloria et honor in saecula. Amen.
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YOUR SUNDAY SERMON NOTES – CHRIST THE KING (N.O.: 30TH) 2023
Posted on 29 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Share the good stuff.
It’s the Feast of Christ the King in the Vetus Ordo and the 30th Sunday of the
Novus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of
obligation?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it
is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have some thoughts about the Sunday Epistle reading posted at One Peter Five.
> Sometimes we speak loosely about the “head of the Church.” Most of the time
> that’s tolerable, since we are speaking somewhat casually. Very often people
> say that “the Pope is the head of the Church.” No. Christ is the head of the
> Church. The Pope, Successor of Peter, is Christ’s Vicar on earth. Vicar is
> from the Latin vicarius, “a substitute, deputy, proxy, a locum tenens.” The
> Successor of Peter is the visible, substitute “head” of the earthly Church. He
> is the visible figure of unity, one of the Church’s marks or attributes along
> with holiness, catholicity and apostolicity. The Petrine (having to do with
> Peter) ministry of the figure whom we call the “Pope” (papacy is an
> institution that over time developed around the office of the Bishop of Rome,
> Peter’s Successor) is a constitutive element of the Church that solidifies
> Christ’s gifts to the Church of indefectibility and infallibility.
>
> Ultimately, however, the Pope is not the “head of the Church.” The head of the
> Church is Christ.
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 29: THIS IS DAY 302 OF THIS YEAR OF GRACE
Posted on 29 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Okay… let’s do this. “Daylight savings” is over.
06:36
17:11
17:30 is the Ave Maria
This is day 302 of this year of grace. There were/are 64 to go as I write and
this day ends soon.
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In the Vetus calendar, it being the last Sunday in October, it is the Feast of
Christ the King.
Again, I had this pesky video problem. I have some lovely audio. Will you be
patient and let me get to it later?
Today…
That archpriest shouldn’t be looking around!
It was a feast for the eyes and ears. There was a visiting choir from England.
Ahhhhhh…..
I wanted to give you a sense of the textures. Imagine this with strong choral
music and incense heavy with frankincense wafting.
Why not just a humble clay thing and some strips of whatever. Sure, when
nothing else is possible, with joy!
This… this… speaks to decorum and decorum speaks to what is aptum et pulcrum
which speak to bonum et verum which point to DEUM UNUM TRINUM.
There was a moment in the Mass when the choir was singing and the sacred
ministers were doing their ballet and I was reading Lauds and I went into a kind
of tunnel, like StarGate with less whoosy woozy. It was a perfect moment of
clarity in the Roman Rite, in Rome, in this church and at this moment with all
these people from every where in the world so focused and happy.
Here’s a nice shot of some members of the Archconfraternity that was founded by
St. Philip Neri. I especially want to post this for a friend whose induction in
the confrat is pending his return to Rome.
This week they are conducting another food drive for the poor of the area.
People will bring food stuffs and give donation. If only they had a world-wide
donate button on a dedicated site… hmmm.
Folks. I need income so I keep posting this. I like getting income when you
also can benefit. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance.
US HERE – UK HERE These links take you to a generic “catholic” search in
Amazon, but, once in and browsing or searching, Amazon remembers that you used
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Black to move. Mate in 3. Yes, BLACK to move.
Isn’t chess great?
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be
“spoilers” for others.
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I mentioned before that there could be a project for a white solemn set which
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altar frontal, and tabernacle canopy. There is also hanging in the air a fund
drive BLACK VESTMENTS (how nice it would be to have them this week… and all the
priests LOVE the red sets!) From the parish the priest in charge of vestments
wrote:
> The idea is to make something in the style of our existing green solemn,
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CARD. MÜLLER MAKES SOME TERRIFIC POINTS ABOUT WHAT A SYNOD (“WALKING TOGTHER”)
IS AND MUST NEVER BE
Posted on 29 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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At First Things there is a really helpful piece by Gerhard Card. Müller, former
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and a present
participant in “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity”.
Card. Müller gives some background to the history and theological placement of
what a “synod” is and he identifies modern dangers if misapplied.
Toward the top, I found these paragraphs of great interest.
> […]
>
> Many observers think that Pope Francis wants to correct what might be called
> the hierarchical, or “primacy” element, of church leadership by appealing to
> the synodal element of leadership allegedly preserved in the East. Since
> Vatican I, so-called “Rome-critical” theologians have described the Church’s
> emphasis on primacy as excessive. It would be good, here, to be guided by Pope
> Francis’s predecessor Leo the Great. His pontificate shows that, theologically
> and pastorally, the principles of primacy and synodality do not oppose each
> other, but rather mutually condition and support each other.
>
> Leo often gathered the bishops and the Roman presbyters for joint
> consultations. Calling such a synod was not for the purpose of distilling a
> majority opinion or establishing a party line. In Leo’s time, a synod served
> to orient all to the normative apostolic tradition, with the bishops
> exercising their co-responsibility to ensure that the Church abides in the
> truth of Christ.
>
> […]
Leo the Great (+461) was one of the first Bishops of Rome to give shape to what
is now the modern “papacy”. Note the direction of the “direction”. From Leo
to the bishops. Why? “To orient all to the normative apostolic tradition.”
There is a huge difference between the situation of bishops in the 5th century
and today. For example, we have had seminaries for centuries. We have over a
millennium of theological reflection on the nature of the Church. We have basic
catechisms which you would think that today’s bishops would have been steeped in
from childhood. There is far deeper and more precise theological information
for bishops today than ever there was in the 5th century.
However, I am mindful of something that Benedict XVI wrote in his forward to his
first book on Jesus of Nazareth. HERE. He wrote about Biblical scholarship
that many have forgotten how to read Scripture properly. They are technocrats
who applied modern tools of investigation which pretty much dissects without
truly understanding. Instead, Benedict said that we ought to return to reading
the Fathers of the Church and see how they read Scripture, and strive also to
read like they did without abandoning modern tools of scholarship. We have to
recover from antiquity was had been obscured.
Another pair of paragraph from Müller and then I will let you go… my emphases…
> […]
>
> As is well known, theoretical reflection on the principles of being, knowing,
> and acting is considerably more difficult than talking about concrete things.
> Thus there is a danger that an assembly of almost 400 people of different
> origins, education, and competence, engaged in unstructured back-and-forth
> discussion, will produce only vague and blurred results. Faith can easily be
> instrumentalized for political agendas, or blurred into a universal religion
> of the brotherhood of man that ignores the God revealed in Jesus Christ. In
> the place of Christ, technocrats can present themselves as saviors of
> humanity. If the Synod is to keep the Catholic faith as its guide, it must not
> become a meeting for post-Christian ideologues and their anti-Catholic agenda.
>
> Any attempt to transform the Church founded by God into a worldly NGO will be
> thwarted by millions of Catholics. They will resist to the death the
> transformation of the house of God into a market of the spirit of the age, for
> the whole of the faithful, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in
> “matters of belief” (Lumen Gentium). We face a globalist program of a world
> without God, in which a power elite proclaims itself the creator of a new
> world and ruler of the disenfranchised masses. That program and power elite
> cannot be countered by a “Church without Christ,” one that abandons the Word
> of God in Scripture and Tradition as the guiding principle of Christian
> action, thought, and prayer (Dei Verbum).
>
> […]
I agree with His Eminence on that point about the faithful. The FAITHFUL will
because of the sensus fidei fidelium. However, not all the “faithful” are
FAITHFUL. Sensus fidei is not automatic. It is fostered, maintained, enriched
for a lifetime. Do all the “faithful” do that? Not by any stretch of the
imagination.
Therefore, I think we have to make a serious commitment to know our FAITH well
and be, as Peter, says, “always ready”.
What do you do to foster, enrich and maintain? For yourself and others?
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ROME 23/10 – DAY 28: DIES NATALIS, SOME OBSERVATIONS, SOME PRAYER
Posted on 28 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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Sunrise today seems a loooong time ago at 07:35 and it set quite a while ago at
18:12. The Ave Maria bell didn’t ring at 18:30.
It is the Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude. It is my 64th birthday.
Almighty God, thank you for knowing me before the creation of the cosmos. Thank
you for calling me into existence here and now because you wanted me to be
active here and now as part of your chosen “corps”. Through the intercession of
your Apostles, take me in Your hands even more tightly, for the days are hard
there is so much to do.
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It is late and I am frustrated trying to upload videos that I haven’t
processed. My laptop, which is making odd noises which I don’t like, can’t
process them fast enough to allow me to post today, it already after 9pm and I
am just now preparing my first meal of the day. I’ll get to them.
I want to give you at least, my dear dear readers, a taste of the day. Last
night too.
Last night Vespers were celebrated in Pantheon as part of the Summorum
Pontificum Pilgrimage. So many good people and such good will. The musicians
were good, but the planning was bad because the acoustics in there are
IMPOSSBILE. You would think that, by now, the organizers would know that.
As I said, I have videos but… sheesh… they won’t upload until I do things to
them.
Today was the procession to St. Peter’s. It was surely an act of hopeful
resistance. I have in mind the march to the sea to make salt in Ghandi’s time.
Soldiers beat them and they still went forward.
This year, they permitted NO MASS. Instead, the hour of Sext. Wow. Sext.
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The procession arrived at St. Peters and they sequestered the clergy to stand in
the sun and send the participants through ONE dedicated security post… ONE
though there were more personnel for others. They did this, I suspect, I don’t
know for sure, on purpose. We stood in the sun, a few clouds and breezes to
help, well over 45 minutes. People were still being cattle processed when they
let us go in with what we had. My heart went to the people STILL WAITING who
had travelled so far to be there.
At the confession of St. Peters there was a cobbled up rite for veneration of
the tomb of Peter. Not bad. I asked the organizers, however, a serious
question. If you weren’t going to have the reading from the Gospel about Peter
and the keys in Latin (which all would have recognized) why on earth did you
choose to pick a reader for the English version who was not a native speaker?
Look to the left and the right… there’s a WELL-KNOWN BRIT… there’s a WELL-KNOWN
American! What’s with the Eurocentric BS we have seen for so long? If it
weren’t for the traditional Catholics in the Anglophone world…. heh… let’s just
see what would happen, Europe. I digress.
Sext was at the Altar of the Chair. There was zero coordination between the
musicians, who were good, and the ceremony crew. The MC seemed completely
bumfuzzled. The choir skipped the hymn and then changed tempi every few minutes
for the singing of the psalms and then completely forget the prayers after the
Marian antiphon. The clergy were bemused and resigned. I was irritated. WE
HAVE TO DO BETTER.
For example… for the conference on Saturday, for which they advertised that
people would be fed, they ran out of food. That meant that many people
scattered to not too close places to eat and they didn’t return for the second
half. Really?
I digress.
I think these people are wonderful, these organizers, but I feel like they
mailed it in. That’s what “they” want.
I spent time venerating the tomb of the Apostles.
It was uncanny. I went waaaay up to the altar (where I used to say Mass often
back in the day) and knelt to pray. On cue, one of the nasties of the basilica
showed up to change candles blah blah.
After Mass in the evening some of the guys practiced for the Pontifical Mass at
the Faldstool tomorrow. THEY are not going to mail it in. No, I am not on the
crew. Eurocentrism reigns here.
I, weary, slid out the side door and went…
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WDTPRS – 30TH ORDINARY SUNDAY: “E ‘N LA SUA VOLONTADE È NOSTRA PACE… IN HIS WILL
IS OUR PEACE.”
Posted on 28 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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In the Novus Ordo this Sunday it is the 30th Sunday of what an old friend of
mine (rest in peace) called “Greater Meatloaf Season”.
Let’s look at upcoming Sunday’s Novus Ordo Collect. This prayer has a precedent
in the 1962MR as the Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. It was also in
the Veronese and Gelasian, ancient sacramentaries both.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei spei et caritatis augmentum, et ut
mereamur assequi quod promittis, fac nos amare quod praecipis.
OBSOLETE ICEL (1973 translation of the 1970MR):
Almighty and ever-living God,
strengthen our faith, hope, and love.
May we do with loving hearts
what you ask of us
and come to share the life you promise.
SUPER LITERAL TRANSLATION:
Almighty eternal God, grant us an increase of faith, hope and charity, and cause
us to love what You command so that we may merit to obtain what You promise.
CURRENT TRANSLATION:
Almighty ever-living God,
increase our faith, hope and charity,
and make us love what you command,
so that we may merit what you promise.
Today we pray to God the Father for an increase of the theological virtues:
faith, hope and charity.
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By baptism we were endowed with a supernatural life. As the German writer Josef
Pieper (+1997) wrote, a supernatural life can be described as having three main
currents.
First, we have some knowledge of God surpassing what we can know about Him
naturally because He reveals it to us (faith).
Second, we live by the patient expectation that what we learn and believe God
promises will indeed be fulfilled (hope).
Third, comes our affirmative response of love of God, whom we have come to know
by faith, and also love of our neighbor (charity).
While natural human virtues are acquired through education and discipline, the
three theological virtues faith, hope and charity are given to us by God. They
are infused into us with grace at baptism.
Looking at the positive development of the theological virtues, we can say that
faith logically precedes hope and charity, and hope precedes charity.
From the negative point of view, considering their unraveling and loss, we lose
charity first of all, and then hope and, last of all, our faith. Charity is the
greatest of the three, followed by hope and then faith.
As an aside… there are many believers out there who have fallen away. They need
your help to return. Faith is the last thing to go. Many who lead quite
dissolute lives still believe. A tiny coal preserved in the ash of a dead fire
can be fanned to life with exposure and a little TLC, a few puffs of reviving
air. But I digress…
The theological virtues perfect and elevate everything virtuous thing man can do
naturally. They can be considered logically, one at a time, but are all three
intimately woven together. St. Augustine (+430) says, “There is no love without
hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith” (enchir 8).
The goal of the virtuous life, as we read in the Catechism of the Catholic
Church (1803), is to become like God. Living the theological virtues concretely
reveals God’s image in us as well as the grace He gives to His adopted children.
Today we pray for their increase.
This Sunday we also pray to love what God commands.
Doing what another commands is not always pleasant. Our wills and passions rebel
and we prefer to command rather than be commanded.
It is easy, from the worldly point of view, to think that by being the
commander, rather than the commanded, we can find peace. Surely each one of us
desires peace and happiness and we seek after the means to attain them. If we
attach our hopes to the created, passing things of this world to find peace and
happiness we are inevitably disappointed.
All created things, including people, can be lost. They cannot be the foundation
of lasting peace. Even the fear of their loss lessens our peace in this world.
God alone gives the peace and happiness we seek. He alone is eternal,
unchanging, forever trustworthy. We cannot lose God unless we ourselves reject
Him. And, in the end, God, the source of peace, remains in command.
Esolen’s translation is very good.
In Canto III of the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy the poet Dante is in the
Heaven of the Moon. He encounters the soul of Piccarda. Dante queries her about
the happiness of the blessed in heaven wondering if somehow, even in heaven,
souls might be disappointed that they do not have a higher place in celestial
realm.
In response Piccarda utters one of the greatest phrases ever penned or recited
(l. 85):
> In His will is our peace.
> It is that sea to which all things move,
> both what it creates and what nature makes…
We are all made in God’s image and likeness, made to act as God acts. He reveals
something of His will to us. When we obey Him we act in accordance with the way
He made us and what He intended for us. In obedience we find happiness and
peace, even amidst the vicissitudes of this troubling and passing world.
Our Collect prays that we “love what you command”. This is a prayer for
happiness. The theological virtues provide the key.
E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace.
In His will is our peace.
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