Thanks to Paulo we have good news from World Youth Day. Excerpts from a Papal address can be found here. Below are excerpts from an article on liturgy.
"The Holy Father has requested that those whom he gives communion to will kneel, and his preference is that they receive communion on the tongue," said Father Mark Podesta, an official World Youth Day spokesman.
However, these preferences will not apply to the crowds at the racecourse, who could be pressed for kneeling space.
"His request is not a mandate for the church, it's merely an indicator," Father Podesta said.
"He is concerned with the question of reverence.
"(Standing and receiving the host in the hand) could be open to irreverence. It's a reminder for those who watch it that this is very special."
The mass will also include a recital in Latin of the Our Father prayer, and a few other words in Latin, Father Podesta added. World Youth Day was an international event, he said, and the language of the church was Latin.
Heavy metal, acid jazz, reggae, rap, Gospel, Afro-Caribbean, Gregorian Chants and Christian rock - hear it all at World Youth Day is the headline at the official WYD08 website. "More than 165 outdoor concerts will take place during WYD08 week, 15 - 20 July, as part of the Youth Festival. Headline acts include the likes of Damien Leith, Guy Sebastian, Paulini, the Tap Dogs, Diesel, Vanessa Amorosi and Australian Idol finalist Joseph Gateau."
This comes from the same pope who said: "Rock music... is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects."
I guess you can have it both ways? You like Gregorian chant? That's cool. You dig acid-jazz-sacred fusion? That's cool, too. It's all part of the new synthesis.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Pray for Us!
[Just in time for Holy Father Friday]
From MSNBC
Benedict issues statement asserting that Jesus established ‘only one church’
LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
Benedict approved a document from his old offices at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that restates church teaching on relations with other Christians. It was the second time in a week the pope has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that modernized the church.
On Saturday, Benedict revisited another key aspect of Vatican II by reviving the old Latin Mass. Traditional Catholics cheered the move, but more liberal ones called it a step back from Vatican II.
Benedict, who attended Vatican II as a young theologian, has long complained about what he considers the erroneous interpretation of the council by liberals, saying it was not a break from the past but rather a renewal of church tradition.
In the latest document — formulated as five questions and answers — the Vatican seeks to set the record straight on Vatican II’s ecumenical intent, saying some contemporary theological interpretation had been “erroneous or ambiguous” and had prompted confusion and doubt.
It restates key sections of a 2000 document the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, “Dominus Iesus,” which set off a firestorm of criticism among Protestant and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the “means of salvation.”
Continue reading "Pope: Other denominations not true churches" »
ZENIT
Interview
"Summorum Pontificum" One Year Later (Part 1)
Father John Zuhlsdorf Analyzes Its Effects
By Annamarie Adkins
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, JULY 6, 2008 (Zenit.org).-
Benedict XVI's letter "Summorum Pontificum" on the
traditional form of the Mass has sparked an increased
interest in the Latin-language liturgy, especially
among priests, says an expert on liturgical
translations.
Father John Zuhlsdorf, a former employee of the
Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, is a noted
authority on both liturgical translations and the 1962
Missal. He also writes the "What Does the Prayer
Really Say?" column in the Wanderer newspaper, and is
the author of a popular blog by the same name.
In Part 1 of this interview with ZENIT, he spoke about
new interest in the traditional Latin Mass and various
concerns raised regarding "Summorum Pontificum."
Part 2 of this interview will appear Monday.
Q: Has there been much of a demand for the traditional
Latin Mass since the release of "Summorum Pontificum"?
Father Zuhlsdorf: No and yes. We have not seen hordes
of the faithful hammering on rectory doors to demand
the older Mass. But there has been a steady increase
of parishes where the traditional Latin Mass is now
celebrated regularly.
The trickle is becoming a stream.
Continue reading "Fr. Zulsdorf Interview with Zenit: "Liturgy is the Tip of the Spear"" »
Thus the holy virgin St. Maria Goretti warned her attacker. Her words ring more loudly today as society has thrown all caution to the wind. In our schools, even so-called Catholic schools, adults molest the minds of young virgins with details of what belongs in marriage, to the end of seducing them to give a nod to pleasure. St. Maria's cries fall on the deaf ears of our bishops.
Pope Pius XII, at the canonization of St. Maria, amplified the struggle of the great virgin saint to those of his time, what we recall as the happy 1950's. His words are even more prescient 58 years later:
Continue reading ""No! It is a Sin! You Will Go to Hell!"" »
From Fox News-
HONOLULU — The path to sainthood has grown shorter for a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who ministered to exiled leprosy patients in Hawaii in the 19th century.
Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday was to be presented a document confirming that a modern miracle has been attributed to Father Damien de Veuster.
"At that point we will have to wait, with patience and prudence for the Vatican's communication about the Holy Father's action with regard to this document," the Rev. Ed Popish, treasurer of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts in Rome, said in an e-mail Wednesday.
The congregation, comprised of bishops and cardinals, recently approved the miracle that was previously signed off by a panel of theologians and a five-doctor Vatican commission, which determined a Honolulu woman's healing of terminal lung cancer defied medical explanation.
The woman, Audrey Toguchi, was cured in 1999 after she made a pilgrimage to Damien's mission and prayed to the priest. She attributed the healing to the intercession of Damien.
Continue reading "Fr. Damien, One Step Closer to Sainthood" »
One word could have saved a million souls, but the men wouldn't say it. One man, Bartholomew, patriarch of the schismatic Orthodox confession, could have said the word and saved a multitude. The other man, Pope Benedict XVI, chose to omit the saving word.
On June 28 and 29, Bartholomew joined Pope Benedict at the inauguration of a year dedicated to St. Paul. They prayed together, preached, and professed the faith together. But they left out one word, filioque, because the Orthodox do not profess that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son but only from the Father. Because of this, the Orthodox are heretics; they need this word in order to be saved.
The irony of the affair was underscored by Pope Benedict. According to a Catholic World News article, the pope observed that St. Paul "did not shrink from controversy in his approach to preaching the Gospel. `He did not seek superficial harmony.'" Also, "Pope Benedict encouraged the faithful to keep in mind the words of St. Paul to Timothy: `Join with me in suffering for the Gospel.' He said: `In a world where lies are so powerful, truth is paid with suffering.'" But on Sunday the 29th, the truth did not include filioque, and no suffering was paid. The harmony was superficial and the Faith was compromised.
St. Paul, pray for us!
by Clement
In America today obedience has become a lost virtue. In fact obedience has nearly become despised. If you don't believe me try this, obey the speed limit for an entire day. You will be despised. The same is true in other area as well. Society despises and rejects God's moral laws against killing, immorality and perversions of all kinds. Society promotes, defends, in law, and even celebrates practices which could not even be named 60 years ago. Of course celebrating vice, won't make it virtue. So in a society that rejects obedience to God, is it any surprise that there is little obedience to man's laws?
Continue reading "Mary as a Model of Obedience" »
PRELUDE
The return of Catholic Family worship to the 2000 year old Liturgy of the Catholic Church, hopefully means a return to the stable family unit that forms the basis of our Culture and society. This change of lifestyle alone, merits songs of thanksgiving and praise, "Holy God we praise Thy Name!"
In today's secular, materialistic atmosphere, a college educated young woman is apt to postpone or accommodate her marriage plans to pursue a career, develop her individualism, and enjoy the perks of the marketplace. But consider how fully her education can be used in the exalted role of motherhood! It is the mother who primarily shapes the souls, minds and hearts, not only of the future citizens of our earthy abode, but more importantly the future citizens of our heavenly home!
Continue reading "The Musical Sequence of Rearing a Catholic Family" »
Here is a translation I received of great news from Pope Benedict, published by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday, June 15, 2008. I'd appreciate a verification of the translation from any of our French-speaking readers. (Thanks D.B.)
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After the rehabilitation of the 'tridentine' Latin Mass and the reappearance of lace albs, Benedict XVI on Sunday went a step further in bringing back former liturgical practices by distributing communion to the faithful who knelt on a prie-dieu.
This return to a practice which fell into disuse over the past forty years occurred during an outdoor Mass celebrated by the Pope at Brindisi with some 60,000 people in attendance.
Continue reading "Benedict XVI Calls for the Return of Kneeling for Communion" »
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