Observing Saints' Feast Days

Fr. Michael Monshau, O.P.: Keeping Saints' Days: Formation for Christian Life

Fr. Phillips, Some Thoughts about the Ordinariate Liturgy

The Anglo-Catholic

Items of Interest, 14 September 2011

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Atonement Online: Litany of the Holy Cross




FSSPX News:
Catholic News
Rorate Caeli: COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE HOLY SEE: MEETING BETWEEN THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH AND THE FRATERNITY OF SAINT PIUS X
[Vatican] FSSPX : Communiqué de la Congrégation pour la Doctrine de la Foi
Rorate Caeli: Official Interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay (DICI)
Insight Scoop

Christianity:
Fr. Christopher Colven Reflects on Anglican Patrimony

Hieromonk Maximos: We all have work to do

Jeffrey Tucker, Sing the Liturgy of the Hours

To Be Free or Not to Be. Welsh Christianity at the Crossroads

Fr. Anthony Ho: CACCLC 2011

Truth, Goodness, Beauty: The Revolutionary Traditionalist
FB Page

The Spearhead: A Father Cannot Be a Mother And He Should Not Try

Distributist Review:
Distributism and Marxism
The Restoration

Transition Voice: Peak Oil Explained Graphically
Lester Brown, Learning from China: Why the Existing Model Will Fail (EB)
Small farms create more jobs by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Health and Diet:
Karen De Coster on the Lew Rockwell Show: 223. Government Hates Good Health (mp3)
Fast Plaeo: Bacon Jam
Paleo enthusiasts turn the "caveman diet" into a lifestyle
Paleo Diet, Part 1
CrossFit – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Kettlebell Swing…
The Internet's Low Carb Standard Setter, Jimmy Moore
Grassfed Fat, the Lost Delicacy

Barefoot Running and Minimalist Footwear:



DASH RunAmocs

TV:
Interview with Julian Fellowes
Inspector Lewis: Laurence Fox Takes Fan Questions

Musings during the drive yesterday

1. Catholic religious orders, institutions, and organizations are used to a national base for soliciting financial contributions. This is understandable, in so far as with a larger pool of potential donors there is potentially more money available. And it seems likely that fervent Catholics are more likely to contribute than lukewarm Catholics. The potential donor base is probably smaller for orthodox groups, as they are unlikely to appeal to those who are not orthodox in belief. Unfortunately, this also adds to an increase in junk mail, as their campaigns rely heavily on mailings for solicitations.

Orthodox groups must compete with other orthodox groups for support from the same core of orthodox Catholics. Is such a national support base too diffuse for many Catholic groups to be supported financially, especially in bad economic times? Those groups that are tied to service to a local community should see themselves as being part of a local economy and therefore dependent upon it, instead of reaching out for help beyond the community?

Sustainability is a problem that Catholic organizations will have to face -- can they do anything about it? Those monasteries that seek to be somewhat self-sufficient may be better off, though they may have to scale back their plans for construction. What about mendicants and others who rely on surplus wealth?

I do not that we should be praying for God to create more oil to keep us going.

(Do the problems of scale affect the spirituality of the members of these groups, and the observance of the order of charity? Should religious especially be praying for a particular community, being familiar its members? This can be done with the "nation" in the abstract, just as one can pray for all of mankind, but is there something missing with regards to human affections? There is something to be said for a fixed litany or intercessory prayers of the faithful, like in the Byzantine rite.)



2. Someone advanced the claim a while back that there were no charismatics in the Eastern churches because the liturgy provided an outlet that rendered the charismatic movement unnecessary. (I can't remember if this was at Christendom, with the claim being made by one of the theology professors there, or if it happened somewhere else.) The liturgy becomes a channel for the emotions (and can inspire them).

Or, one can look at it with respect to active participation instead of the emotional benefit. There are the gestures used and the litanies present in the Byzantine rite. The texts of the Roman rite are noted as being sober and restrained, but should this be an apt description of the way Latins pray as well? Liturgical worship should engage the senses and Christians should worship not just with the mind and the heart, but with the body as well. Is the Byzantine rite (and its worship culture) better able to satisfy the desire on the part of the laity for greater participation in the liturgy?

BBC: A mass from the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, marking the introduction this year of the new English translation of the Roman Missal. (available until Sunday)
Some comments on this over at NLM and The Chant Cafe.

I have to say that the improvement in the English translation did not solve the other issues I had with the liturgy. It is a start, but it may not be enough, given how prominent the other issues are to the senses.

2011 Anglican Use Conference

AtonementOnline has archived videos from the recent Anglican Use conference.

Items of Interest, 13 July 2011

Discussion of Msgr. Burnham's paper on Anglican patrimony.

The Link Between Peak Oil and Peak Debt – Part 1
Posted by Gail the Actuary

A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Parts One and Two by Philip Bess

Peter Hitchens on Northern Ireland: A Different Sort of Bonfire Night. (The ‘Anti-Depressant’ Controversy again)

What not to wear, Farmer Edition
Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY SOCOM II .308

Ordinariate Portal: Mgr Andrew Burnham: What is Anglican Liturgical Patrimony?

The paper he delivered this week at the Anglican Use Conference.

Anglican Use Society
The Anglican Use of the Roman Rite

Ordinariate Portal: Mgr Andrew Burnham: Paper on Anglican Patrimony

Anglican Patrimony

We have already had plenty of fun with Anglican Patrimony. There was the occasion when the Principal of Pusey House met an Oratorian on Oxford Station. ‘I’m waiting for my wife’, said Fr Baker. ‘Ah, your Anglican Patrimony’, said the Oratorian. ‘Don’t you mean my Anglican Matrimony?’ said Fr Baker. And then there was the Music List for St George-by-the-Gasworks with San Juan de Fagondez and Our Lady of Fatima, Dalston’, published in New Directions in April of this year. What better for Palm Sunday Mass than Hummel, Schűtz, Allegri and Gesualdo? Other examples of Anglican Patrimony in the week’s Music List were a Bruckner Mass, a Cherubini motet, the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, and Duruflé’s Ubi caritas. One loses count of the number of times someone has quipped ‘Anglican Patrimony’ in various exotic circumstances of the kind found usually only in Anglo-catholic circles, the processing of the Christmas bambino on the humeral veil, the grating noise of the rattle on Good Friday. But, as with any joke, there is always an underlying truth. Anglican Patrimony has preserved things that continental aggiornamento perhaps prematurely discarded.

Live Stream of the Anglican Use Conference

Ordinariate Portal


Video streaming by Ustream

Parts 2 and 3 of Fr. Nichols talk, "The Ordinariates, the Pope, and the Liturgy"

Aidan Nichols: The Ordinariates, the Pope, and the Liturgy (Parts II and III)

Ordinariate Portal has posted links to videos from Solemn Evensong and Benediction at Oxford:  Magnificat, Beati quorum vita, O Salutaris Hostia.

Tracey Rowland, The Anglican Patrimony

Ordinariate Portal

William Oddie, Curiouser and curiouser: the Pope has now turned the Book of Common Prayer (well, quite a bit of it) into a Catholic liturgy (via the Ordinariate Portal)

Sandro Magister: "Lectio Divina." The Pope Takes Everyone Back to School
Benedict XVI has taught the clergy of Rome how to read the Sacred Scriptures. And also the seminarians. But his lesson is for all. And he has put it into practice in his book on Jesus

William Oddie references Stephen Hough's essay

William Oddie: ‘The Anglican Catholic patrimony which the ordinariate will bring has been enriching us for years’

(I posted a link to Stephen Hough's essay here.)

Eric Lionel Mascall

William Tighe, Eric Lionel Mascall As Anglican Patrimony

A piece by Fr. Rutler (also here).

Gifford lecture bio

Questions about Anglo-Catholic identity

Br. Stephen Treat, O.Cist, The Other Anglican Patrimony: Anglo-Papalism and the Ecclesiae Anglicanae that Remained Within the Catholic Church (also posted at NLM)

Br. Stephen's blog, Sub Tuum
Our Lady of Spring Bank
yt channel

CalCatholicDaily: “United, but not absorbed”
Traditional Anglicans in California a step closer to full communion with Rome

NLM, The Future Liturgy of an Anglican Ordinariate: Why not Sarum?

I don't think it will happen, but people can dream...

NLM: Cardinal Caffara on the Priesthood and the Hermeneutic of Continuity
The Future Liturgy of an Anglican Ordinariate: Considerations by Bishop Peter Elliott (scribd)