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The burden of Catholic sanity…
A child enters the world through the struggle of pregnancy and the pains of labor. Health is preserved and perfected through the efforts of a balanced diet and physical fitness. True intellectual prowess is achieved after years of intensive study, reflection, … Continue reading
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Tagged liturgy, Second Vatican Conch Shell, sentire cum Ecclesia, Tradition
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Who knew?
4:09: “It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from Her public worship any ceremony, object, or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.” — Fulton J. Sheen, narrator
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“Just give ’em what they want already…” #NovusOrdo #liturgy
“The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ch. iv, “Nature” “[T]he decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of … Continue reading
We walk by faith and not by sight…
In much the same way, we worship actively and not hyperactively. As the life of Elijah shows us, the true and living God is not found in the screams and gyrations of pagan priests summoning their demonic mentors (I Kings … Continue reading
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Who needs a few apocryphal clown masses…
…when you’ve got a host of in-your-face clownish masses? Just take the recent bonanza of liturgical excess in–where else?–Los(t) Angeles? As if right on cue, the smallness of a mind matched only by the bigness of its mouth would have … Continue reading
March 13: A day to celebrate!
“God has given the world a holy Church in whose safe harbor the lovers of truth seek refuge, as well as all those who desire to be saved and to escape the dreadful wrath of God.” –– St. Theophilus of … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Ents, exile, Lent, liturgy, Philosophy, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
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Beware sustained exposure to ambiguidium…
“Vatican II was a re-reading of the Gospel in light of contemporary culture…. Vatican II produced a renewal movement that simply comes from the same Gospel. Its fruits are enormous. Just recall the liturgy. The work of liturgical reform has … Continue reading
A caveat on traditionalist revanchism…
“Tradition is to be distinguished from the various theological, disciplinary, liturgical or devotional traditions, born in the local churches over time. These are the particular forms, adapted to different places and times, in which the great Tradition is expressed. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Arinze, doctrinal development, Eucharist, hylemorphism, liturgy, piety, Pius XII, sensus fidelium, Tradition, traditionalist revanchism
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The crimethought dragnet widens…
Shake Up the Church, Just Don’t Step Out of Line Historian Roberto de Mattei has been fired from his broadcast at Radio Maria for being critical of aspects of this pontificate. This follows on the heels of Radio Maria firing … Continue reading
One hell of a prayer…
…and a novel argument against the Balthasarian thesis (BT) that it is consonant with the Catholic faith that, in a word, “Hell is empty.” Unam Sanctam has recently provided extensive evidence–biblical/theological, pietistical, magisterial, and exegetical–that such a hope is, at … Continue reading
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