Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage, Rome 2013

Rorate Caeli: Summorum Pontificum finally made available in major languages in Vatican website!

The Latin has been available, but for other documents it may still be missing.

Confirmation of What Has Been Suspected All Along?

Many have speculated that this is the direction in which Pope Benedict wants the Roman rite to be reformed.

CNS: Pope's 'reform of the reform' in liturgy to continue, cardinal says

The pope's long-term aim is not simply to allow the old and new rites to coexist, but to move toward a "common rite" that is shaped by the mutual enrichment of the two Mass forms, Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said May 14.

In effect, the pope is launching a new liturgical reform movement, the cardinal said. Those who resist it, including "rigid" progressives, mistakenly view the Second Vatican Council as a rupture with the church's liturgical tradition, he said.

Will there be resistance among traditionalists? Or will they be allowed to keep the EF as long as necessary?Will the 3-year lectionary be discarded in favor of a modified traditional one-year lectionary that incorporates a third reading, a lesson from the OT? Many agree that the traditional Roman rite would be enriched by the addition of more prefaces and other prayers, as well as new saints on the Roman calendar. Will the calendar itself be reformed, so that it is more like the old calendar? (Dates of various feasts were changed for one reason or another.)

Cardinal Koch said "Summorum Pontificum" is "only the beginning of this new liturgical movement."

"In fact, Pope Benedict knows well that, in the long term, we cannot stop at a coexistence between the ordinary form and the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, but that in the future the church naturally will once again need a common rite," he said.

"However, because a new liturgical reform cannot be decided theoretically, but requires a process of growth and purification, the pope for the moment is underlining above all that the two forms of the Roman rite can and should enrich each other," he said.

Cardinal Koch said those who oppose this new reform movement and see it as a step back from Vatican II lack a proper understanding of the post-Vatican II liturgical changes. As the pope has emphasized, Vatican II was not a break or rupture with tradition but part of an organic process of growth, he said.

One single form of the Roman rite, to be developed "organically" rather than be legislative fiat through the work of a committee? It will be difficult for this mutual enrichment to occur if Summorum Pontificum is not really being observed in Roman-rite churches.

EF Liturgy for the Napa Institute Conference

From NLM: Napa Institute Conference: Pontifical Mass, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

Fr. B is subdeacon.

What will Bishop Cordileone, once he becomes bishop of San Francisco, do to observe Summorum Pontificum?

Napa Institute
The bishop's letter to his flock regarding his appointment.

Rorate Caeli: Summorum advances in Moscow and San Francisco, under the banner of the Immaculate Conception

Items of Interest, 3 October 2011

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Pope Benedict XVI

Transition: BBC2′s ‘Town’ programme about Totnes now online!


Shifting the Suburban Paradigm by Allison Arieff

Three strikes and you are out? - commentary [on Daniel Yergin's latest]
by Jeffrey J. Brown (EB)

Mark Mitchell, On Power (the subject of the post - On Power: The Natural History of its Growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel)

MARSHALL AUERBACK, Are Trade Deficits Really That Bad?

Has he looked at the problem of unmployment in connection to the supply of cheap energy and its displacement of human energy?

The new recession by Barath Raghavan (EB)

The real recession never ended
Anthony Mirhaydari, MSN Money

We're well into a recovery, so why does it still feel so bleak? Here's why: The crunch we’re in is rooted in stagnant paychecks and payrolls, and it’s more than a decade old.

Why an understanding of money creation is essential to financial reform by Josh Ryan-Collins

Redesigning business by Justin Ritchie (EB)

VIJAY PRASHAD, De-Colonize Wall Street

99% Wrong by Jim Goad

Jeffrey Polet, Plutonomics (he links to this article in Atlantic: "Can the Middle Class Be Saved?"

Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited by Robert P. George

The importance of the Fourteenth Amendment for Robert George.

Fr. Z: Video interview with the Secretary of the Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei”. Link to the video.



PATRICK COCKBURN, The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism

Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China

Sacrament of Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite at Holy Cross Cathedral

How is Summorum Pontificum being observed in the Archdiocese of Boston? Where is the EF being celebrated regularly now, besides Mary Immaculate? Una Voce Boston has a list. (I think it is occasionally celebrated St. Mary's Chapel at BC during the school year.) I don't see a daily (low) Mass listed yet. How does the situation in Boston compare to that of New York?

(See also the Rorate Caeli post)

Una Voce at Boston College
Una Voce Boston
Schola Amicorum

From Rorate Caeli: The Church Must Endure this Anger - Martin Mosebach on Universae Ecclesiae

Ensemble Cinquecento - via the comments to a post by Fr. Z.

Here, Sarge, an excuse for you to go to Rome

Op-StJoseph: Hope for the Entire Church
Third Annual Conference on the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum

Fr. Z: The Instruction for SP is Coming

The Instruction concerning Summorum Pontificum

Here in San Jose at least, the EF is restricted to the Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Sunday sung Mass was  celebrated at Five Wounds but it was discontinued because of opposition among some at the parish. So now the EF "community" is back to having 4 very packed Masses at the Oratory. (Or so I imagine.) I am thinking that having more Masses leads to a loss of community, even if people regularly attend one Mass rather than another and may socialize with other regulars after Mass. Hence, some friendships may be formed, but it will be difficult to promote life of the community as a whole.

The current policy may also strengthen the service station mentality of some Catholics with regards to the liturgy and the reception of the sacraments, as well as the lack of integration with OF Catholics. (Though it is clear that the use of an OF parish does not mean that there will be no conflict.) Making the liturgy and  the sacraments available in the EF is not enough -- a bishop should be concerned with strengthening the local Church through the building of community. It seems to me that it may be better for there to be EF communities spread out in the diocese, ideally served by the local parish priest (in accordance with SP). (Though I imagine someone could appeal to the low level of interest in parishes as evidence of the absence of a stable group.)

But the American bishops really seem unaware that the urban/suburban model of the large parish is inadequate as a locus for the practice of charity among Catholics. But I could be wrong--there may be a USCCB document somewhere discussing this problem.

NLM: Cardinal Cañizares Interview on Three Years of Summorum Pontificum: Full Text

Rorate Caeli: Summorum Pontificum: A real application of Sacrosanctum Concilium

A translation of a report published in Rinascimento Sacro on the talk on the sacred liturgy given by Antonio Cardinal Canizares Llovera on November 28, 2009.

Fr. Z: Instruction on Summorum Pontificum “imminent”?

The struggles within the Church continue...

Rorate Caeli: Wagner Affair over -- The Holy Father has relieved the Rev. Mons. Gerhard Wagner from accepting the office of Auxiliary Bishop of Linz (Austria).

Both Rorate Caeli and Fr. Z link to the Der Spiegel interview with Bishop Fellay.


Fr. Z also posts this tidbit: Vatican Radio: Prof. at Pontifical school criticizes Summorum Pontificum.

I had heard that Bishop Williamson had a blog, but never really paid much attention to it--Fr. Z mentions it in this post. Does the blog show that the bishop is crazy in his opinions?

NLM: Official "Summorum Pontificum" Website of the Ecclesia Dei Commission Online

The website.

See also Fr U.M. Lang on Cardinal Giuseppe Siri: The Splendour of Liturgical Ceremonial and its Relationship to the Faith and Fr. Scott Haynes reflects on the 50th Anniversary of De Musica Sacra.

It appears that the FSSP apostolate in Phoenix is doing well. (Photos.)

Brian Mershon interviews Fr. John Berg, FSSP

Summorum Pontificum One Year Later

B. Mershon: Because Latin is the norm for the liturgical language of the Latin Church, even if the readings are in the vernacular, doesn’t it make perfect sense to have the priest say the prayers in Latin simultaneously, or even better, have him read them from the ambo in the vernacular (outside of the liturgy) during the sermon? And a related question, since the ideal liturgy is the Solemn High Mass, or at least the Missa Cantata, it certainly makes sense for the readings to be sung in Latin, right?

Fr. Berg: True. To me, that goes back to jumping on that clause of the motu proprio. As far as the Fraternity of St. Peter goes, the general norm in those places where we have been serving in English-speaking countries for 20 years is to pray the readings at the outset in Latin and then to read them in the vernacular prior to the sermon.

I think you have to be careful of falling into that tendency, which has been very prevalent in the liturgy for the past 30 years, where priests come into a church and think they know what the faithful need, or they know what they want.

For me personally, I went to Thomas Aquinas College and that was the first time I ever experienced the liturgy in Latin. And after that, I started to go to the Mass in Latin.

So I think it would be a real mistake to think that just because the readings are read in Latin, they are less followed or somehow more difficult to follow. My personal experience both as a pastor at a church in California and attending the Mass as a layman, is that even children before their first Communion can quite easily follow along from a hand missal.

I think it is a mistake to just walk in and think, “Oh this group is not used to the Latin Mass, so we should do the readings in the vernacular.” I just don’t think that is necessarily true—that you’re going to get a greater following of the Gospel texts.

I think I'd still follow Fr. Bouyer on the question of the use of the vernacular in the liturgy. For the High Mass or Missa Cantata, what is required is that chanting/singing should be the norm, not that everything should be in Latin, no? Still, if I were a traditionalist, my opinion would probably be in the minority... unless a community already had this custom of substitute the vernacular for chanting of the epistle and Gospel, I don't see how it would be introduced. The 'traditionalist' communities tend to favor the custom of presenting the readings a second time, but in the vernacular, before the sermon. Perhaps a personal parish administered by a priest of the diocese would be more open to the use of the vernacular.

Zenit: "Summorum Pontificum" One Year Later (Part 2)

Fr. Dimock, O.P. to speak on Summorum Pontificum

From Mere Comments:

A Dominican on Summorium pontificium

On Tuesday evening at 7:00, the Domincan theologian Father Giles Dimock will be speaking on Pope Benedict's Summorium pontificium, which expanded permission for priests to celebrate the Latin Mass. The talk is being sponsored by the Youngstown, Ohio, chapter of the Society of St. John Chrysostom, a society dedicated to improving the fellowship of Catholics and Orthodox, and being given at St. Dominic Catholic Church in Youngstown.

101 Questions & Answers on the Eucharist By Fr. Giles Dimock, OP.
Dominican Idaho: A Reflection by Fr. Giles Dimock, OP, STD
Fr. Giles Dimock, O.P. « Podcasting Priest
Giles Dimock: Reconciliation: Rite and Life

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Apostolic Letter "Summorum Pontificum" issued Motu Proprio
Summorum Pontificum

EWTN roundtable discussion of Summorum Pontificum

mp3

Thanks to NLM. I didn't get a chance to watch the program, but I'll definitely listen to the audio.

Oh wow! Fr. Joseph Lee was on the panel. My mom should have watched this.

September 14 celebrations

Fr. Finigan tells us what is going on at his parish. As far as I know, there is nothing happening in San Jose, not that it matters, since I will still be in Boston on the 14th. But, there is nothing going on here either? Perhaps something is going on at Mary Immaculate of Lourdes. Maybe something in Stillwater? (I'll find out what the situation is like there this weekend.) What's going on over at ND?

The 14th is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (also in the Byzantine rite)... too bad I don't have a car.

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