FSSP ordinations vid

(via Rorate Caeli)

Related:
Solemn Mass of Superior General of FSSP in Mexican Cathedral

First Mass of a New Young Priest

Sandro Magister, Gregorian Chant - The Revival Announced - NLM
Subdiaconal Ordination at the Russicum

Hugh Laurie with Leno

Part 2

Jerry Douglas - Traveler

his website

PRAYER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO OUR LADY OF SHESHAN ON THE OCCASION OF THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH IN CHINA (24 MAY 2008)


Our Lady of Sheshan
Catholics in China need prayers, pope says at audience
Pope calls on Chinese Catholics to be faithful to church, pope

BEARFOOT - Midnight in Montana - MUSIC VIDEO

KUAC's Alaska Live performance

Zenit: On the Holy Spirit's Prayer in Us: 'Abba! Father!'
"God has inscribed Himself in our hearts"

Tom Piatak recommends For Greater Glory. I don't doubt that it will pull in a lot of Catholic viewers around here. Are there any promotions at OLP?




The Anglo-Catholic
CNS review
Mexican 'Cristero' fight relevant to actor's Cuban heritage

Re: House -- Riding off into the sunset on a motorcycle with my friend used to be a dream; then I got old and no longer wanted to be an organ donor.

There was a German-speaking blonde girl in class today. Didn't expect to meet one in SC.

Fr. Michael Sherwin informs us that Fr. Bedouelle has passed away. May he rest in peace.

L'Inquisition, Dominique et les dominicains
fr. Guy Bedouelle, o.p.

Unexpected 'happy' ending for House. Evidence again that the human heart yearns for friendship and that it is difficult for us to deny this. (No clear resolution of the question of faith/God.) I think Hugh Laurie should stay and do more American television, but I think I read somewhere that he is going back to the UK.

MBC Korean Wave Concert tonight at 7 P.M. PST

Soompi: "Korean Wave in Google" to Livestream on YouTube

"MBC Korean Music Wave in Google" will be streamed live through YouTube Presents Channel to the world."

Wendell Berry discusses life


National Religious Coalition on Creation Care (NRCC) Conference
Wendell Berry accepts NRCC's award, "Steward of God's Creation"
April 22, 2012 at the Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal)

Last day of the school year for CM today. Went to the "graduation" and party -- too much junk food: I had the costco pizza, and even
that wasn't a good choice. (It normally isn't, but today especially so. Maybe it's because of the banh mi I had for lunch.) Will miss the kids, even though they were a noisy bunch. Feel sorry for them; the parents in general should be better parents. Shouldn't comment on the speeches that were made - the speakers were probably sincere but what will they say about their experiences in 10 years time? I believe the young man who is in charge of the high school students was actually a student in the confirmation class with which I helped a long time ago. (Where is Mrs. K now?) How time flies. I'm of little use to the community; we'd be at loggerheads since I think they need a lecture (but not them only) -- who isn't infected with consumerism and the assumption of perpetual growth and cheap energy?

Items of Interest, 19 May 2012

Back to Burke

Defending Strauss by Samuel Goldman

The Spirit of American Constitutionalism: John Dickinson's Fabius Letters by Gregory S. Ahern
Champions of Modern Civilization

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth

The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination by Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr.

The Third Way: Wilhelm Röpke’s Vision of Social Order by Ralph E. Ancil
Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton by Clyde Wilson
James Madison and the Dynamics of the Constitutional Convention by Lance Banning


Tom Piatak, Georgetown Needs An Exorcist
(Dr. Fleming, Re: Georgetown)

The Looming Reversal of Centralization by Gary North

Charting Obama’s Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan
Accurate history? Or spin and lies to make Obama look better after the fact?

New Right vs. Old Right by Greg Johnson
Nationalism: Phenomenology & Critique by Alain de Benoist


SSM:
Effects of Same-Sex Marriage

Sean Collins, Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage

A "New York progressive" gives four reasons for opposing "gay marriage"
Law professor says flawed view of sex threatens religious freedom by Michelle Bauman
Rod Dreher, A Burkean View on SSM
Social Issues Matter
Green is a color in the rainbow
Vatican Diary / That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven

90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide

Economics:
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren't Supposed To See? Here It Is.


Conceptualizing post-capitalist economics by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (EB)

Carson Interviewed on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio (mp3)

Guest Post: Failbook’s Epic Fail: Does Zuckerberg Want Users To Pay?

Congress for New Urbanism 20
Some reports.

Peak Oil and Energy:
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
By: Jeremy Wakeford

Fukushima Disaster: One Year Later

Shannon Hayes:



(alt)
Shannon Hayes archive at Yes! (Her website and Radical Homemakers and Grassfed Cooking)

She has a new book coming out in September, Long Way on a Little.

Five Questions for Florence Williams
May 18, 2012, by Kristen Hewitt

In Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, journalist Florence Williams delves into the biology, culture, and evolutionary history of this life-giving organ. In her witty and wide-ranging account, she explores where breasts come from, why we see them the way we do, and what they reveal as bellwethers for human health in a compromised environment.

Get Ready for the Breastaurant

Feminism:
Early Feminists: Moderate or Radical?
The Land of The Free and Home of The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women
Revisiting The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women

Gamer advice, some good, some bad: 66 Things On Life, Men and Women, and America

The Biggest Financial Decision a Young Man Will Ever Make

Even Miranda Lambert, supposed "Strong woman" tweeted publicly that she is reading the book Fifty Shades of Grey. SNL skit.


*warning* It is a rather bawdy skit.

How many women admit on Facebook or Twitter to reading this book. How many of them are self-proclaimed feminists? I'm not going to check search results.

The audience for ASCII porn
Women are Always Concerned with their Sexual Value


Catholic:
TAC: News from Two Alumni Priests in Minesota
The 2012 Baccalaureate Mass Homily by Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J. (mp3)
2012 Senior Address by James W. Thompson (’12) (mp3)
The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long (mp3)

Gregory B. Sadler, Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 1 of 2)
Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 2 of 2)

Evangelization and human contact

Mass in the Vernacular, Yes. But at Least It Should Be Translated Well

I suspect the video of the FSSP ordinations will eventually be made available.

10 Fascinating Facts About Hildegard von Bingen

Michael Coren interview: Why he believes Christianity is the most abused faith on earth

What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe


Russian Orthodox:
Celebrations on the occasion of 5th anniversary of reunification of Russian Church Abroad with Moscow Patriarchate to take place in Moscow
Five Years of the Reunified Russian Church: Reflections of Fr. Nikolai Balashov

Five Years Together (mp3)

Patriach Kirill Gets Facebook Page

Diet and Health:
MF trains with Erwan Le Corre


Movnat Helps 65-year-old win Warrior Dash

The Real Deal on Adrenal Fatigue (full article)

Balanced Bites Podcast: Episode #21 with Karen Pendergrass of Paleo Approved (mp3)

HealthWatch: NorCal Olympic Athlete Credits Paleo Diet For Healing

444: Daniel ‘The Barefoot Professor’ Howell Says Shoes Destroy Your Feet (mp3)

Modern-Day Primal Living

Esther Gokhale had a TEDxStanford talk today. If it becomes available on YouTube I will post it.

Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 13): ‘Low-Carbing Women & Weight Lifting’ | Dr. Cassandra Forsythe (mp3)


Music:
On the occasion of the passing of Donna Summer
Welmer, Goodbye, Donna
In Defense of Dance Music

Cappella Musicale Pontificia "Sistina"


Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas - Bowl Of Bula


Mark O'Connor - "Tom and Jerry"


Misc:
Cannes 2012: Lily Rabe to Play Silent Film Star Mary Pickford on Screen

Preview – Travis Haley – Climbing the Ladder
Article by Recoil Staff

A Day in the Life of Tim Ferris


The Origins of the Tuxedo, Explored (via Tea at Trianon)

More on the Korean Dr. Jin

Official poster for drama ‘Time Slip Dr. Jin’ released
Park Min Young Looks Beautiful in a Hanbok for "Time Slip, Dr. Jin"

PMY's had surgery done (eyelid, not sure what else), but I'll watch the drama.

This won't inpire confidence in the Catholic Church

among nativists/WNs, paleos. These three groups should not be lumped together but to the unthinking liberal they're all prejudiced bigots. For them, there can be no reasonable principled opposition to immigration of those not willing to assimilate to Anglo-American culture, multiculturalism, or demographic replacement.

Pope Lauds Welcome of Immigrants Given by Church in US
Pope tells U.S. bishops to build church unity
Pope says immigrants could revitalize US Church
Pope praises U.S. bishops’ fight for immigration reforms by alessandro speciale


The text of the address:
Zenit: Papal Address to US Bishops
Pope: Eastern Churches embody "spiritual richness"

I greet all of you with fraternal affection in the Lord. Our meeting today concludes the series of quinquennial visits of the Bishops of the United States of America ad limina Apostolorum. As you know, over these past six months I have wished to reflect with you and your Brother Bishops on a number of pressing spiritual and cultural challenges facing the Church in your country as it takes up the task of the new evangelization.


I am particularly pleased that this, our final meeting, takes place in the presence of the Bishops of the various Eastern Churches present in the United States, since you and your faithful embody in a unique way the ethnic, cultural and spiritual richness of the American Catholic community, past and present. Historically, the Church in America has struggled to recognize and incorporate this diversity, and has succeeded, not without difficulty, in forging a communion in Christ and in the apostolic faith which mirrors the catholicity which is an indefectible mark of the Church. In this communion, which finds its source and model in the mystery of the Triune God (cf. Lumen Gentium, 4), unity and diversity are constantly reconciled and enhanced, as a sign and sacrament of the ultimate vocation and destiny of the entire human family.


Throughout our meetings, you and your Brother Bishops have spoken insistently of the importance of preserving, fostering and advancing this gift of Catholic unity as an essential condition for the fulfilment of the Church’s mission in your country. In this concluding talk, I would like simply to touch on two specific points which have recurred in our discussions and which, with you, I consider crucial for the exercise of your ministry of guiding Christ’s flock forward amid the difficulties and opportunities of the present moment.

I would begin by praising your unremitting efforts, in the best traditions of the Church in America, to respond to the ongoing phenomenon of immigration in your country. The Catholic community in the United States continues, with great generosity, to welcome waves of new immigrants, to provide them with pastoral care and charitable assistance, and to support ways of regularizing their situation, especially with regard to the unification of families. A particular sign of this is the long-standing commitment of the American Bishops to immigration reform. This is clearly a difficult and complex issue from the civil and political, as well as the social and economic, but above all from the human point of view. It is thus of profound concern to the Church, since it involves ensuring the just treatment and the defence of the human dignity of immigrants.


In our day too, the Church in America is called to embrace, incorporate and cultivate the rich patrimony of faith and culture present in America’s many immigrant groups, including not only those of your own rites, but also the swelling numbers of Hispanic, Asian and African Catholics. The demanding pastoral task of fostering a communion of cultures within your local Churches must be considered of particular importance in the exercise of your ministry at the service of unity (cf. Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops, 63). This diaconia of communion entails more than simply respecting linguistic diversity, promoting sound traditions, and providing much-needed social programs and services. It also calls for a commitment to ongoing preaching, catechesis and pastoral activity aimed at inspiring in all the faithful a deeper sense of their communion in the apostolic faith and their responsibility for the Church’s mission in the United States. Nor can the significance of this challenge be underestimated: the immense promise and the vibrant energies of a new generation of Catholics are waiting to be tapped for the renewal of the Church’s life and the rebuilding of the fabric of American society.


This commitment to fostering Catholic unity is necessary not only for meeting the positive challenges of the new evangelization but also countering the forces of disgregation within the Church which increasingly represent a grave obstacle to her mission in the United States. I appreciate the efforts being made to encourage the faithful, individually and in the variety of ecclesial associations, to move forward together, speaking with one voice in addressing the urgent problems of the present moment. Here I would repeat the heartfelt plea that I made to America’s Catholics during my Pastoral Visit: “We can only move forward if we turn our gaze together to Christ” and thus embrace “that true spiritual renewal desired by the Council, a renewal which can only strengthen the Church in that holiness and unity indispensable for the effective proclamation of the Gospel in today’s world” (Homily in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, 19 April 2008).

The pope would use the diversity of liturgical rites in the United States to show the way to multicultural society? But liturgical culture pertains to God, not to civil society directly. Arguably, in the past one could have a diversity of liturgical cultures while preserving one popular culture (the political culture of a people), even if that was Yankee Uhmerican culture. Can one have a plurality of popular cultures, and still maintain unity of community or a people? I don't think so -- grace builds on nature, it does not destroy it, and being part of the one Church of Christ will not take away the distinctions that exist between peoples (who choose to be distinct). It has not done so in the world at large, and one should not suppose that it will do so within a "polity." If there is a socio-political problem, then it must be addressed at that level. What then, of assimilating immigrants to the native people?

One way to interpolate this text charitably with regards to assimilation: There is no traditional culture any more (or in the big cities), just a culture of death propagated through the mass media, and so culture must be rebuilt as people discover one another and form new civic friendships and bonds.
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Do the pope and the American bishops over-estimate the quality of immigrant Catholics? How many of them are as poorly catechized as Uhmericans? I think they would err to put their hopes for a renewal of the Church in "new blood" coming from elsewhere.

Litanies

I believe Fr. Bouyer supported the idea of adding litanies into the Roman rite liturgy. Where would be the appropriate places for this to be done? After the Kyrie? Or should the Kyrie be expanded? Replaced? (But then what would happen to that part of the treasury of the Kyriale?) One can keep the Kyrie, but it may have to be sung more quickly, so that one can proceed with the litany?

The intercessory prayers of the OF of the Roman rite should definitely be reformed and unchangeable as much as possible. (What should the proper response in Latin be?) Some have argued that the Roman canon itself has intercessory prayers and so additional intercessory prayers are unnecessary. But, it seems that this is true of the anaphora of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and yet having two separate sets of petitions before the anaphora is not deemed to be repetitive.

Paper tiger?

I thought I had posted a link to this article by Sandro Magister - South Korea, the Asian Tiger of the Church.

Has the Church in Korea already lost? The Church in Korea is noted for its growing numbers (while the Protestant ecclesial communities are holding steady or in decline) and it is a respectable political force. It also has great social prestige because of its social work? But what is the average number of children per Catholic couple? Is there a problem with the use of artificial contraception? How many converts stay with the Church beyond their initial fervor and enthusiasm? How have Catholic youth fared against the assault by popular culture against traditional morals and roles? Is it doing enough to address the spiritual crisis of metropolitan Koreans? How has it countered Korean feminism? The Church has vocations to the priesthood and the religious life, but does it have enough priests for a better, more intensely local form of evangelization in the megapolis? Are the laity being encouraged to adopt a greater witness to evangelical "simplicity" (poverty)? With the decline in the morality of Korean mass media, are Korean Catholics slowly giving up [most of] television, movies, and pop music?


"Explosive" growth in S. Korean Catholics may be world's fastest
Committed to integration, South Korean bishops meet 46 NK exiles

Related:
The Catholic University of Korea (another)
Sogang University - 서강대학교

American Religious Liberty

Does religious libery trump other rights in liberal thinking? Probably not. Should the Church be framing the argument in terms of religious liberty? (Is that the one that is most likely to persuade?) Fighting for tolerance of organizations with different viewpoints on "private morality"?

If separatism is inevitable, why fight it?

Whispers in the Loggia: "Now We Must Be Loyal Americans By Being Bold and Courageous Catholics"

HOMILY OF THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM E. LORI, DD, STD
SIXTEENTH ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE

SOLEMN MASS OF INSTALLATION
CATHEDRAL OF MARY OUR QUEEN
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
16 MAY 2012

KofC
Archdiocese of Baltimore

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, First Things First



MoJ: Paulsen's Theory of Religious Liberty: "The Priority of God" (the paper)


Related:
Archdiocese of Baltimore

Some news pertaining to Our Lady of Fatima: Archbishop appoints 3 pastors, 6 administrators (the old pastor and the new administrator)

I did visit the new location last Sunday (which coincided with the anniversary of Our Lady's first apparition to the three children in Fatima). The new chapel looks smaller than the old one; there wasn't much of a screen. There were also a lot of Asians (Chinese?) in attendance. I couldn't stay for the agape meal after the divine liturgy, but if I lived in San Francisco I think I would go there regularly. What other options would I have? Probably not St. Dominic's.

I found out about the Contemplatives of St. Joseph through Fr. Vito. (Catholic SF)

(I decided not to visit Holy Virgin Cathedral - I thought it would be too awkward this time around; maybe next time.)

Is the Opus Dei Information Center in SF open to the public?
Hang Ah Hillside Cultural Center: In the Heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown
Eastwood Study Center
Peninsula Foundation

Hung Fa Wing Chun

Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Siu Nim Tao 1, 2, 3


Hung Fa Kwoon
Hung Fa Blog

CBS preview for Elementary

The Uhmerican updating of Sherlock Holmes, in which a woman (Lucy Liu, no less) plays Watson. The video. Johnny Lee Miller may be good eye candy for women, but will he suffice to keep the show on the air? I tend to think that it will not survive beyond the first season. How will the producers be able to keep Lucy Liu's Watson obtuse, even though Watson is suppsoed to be the stand-in for the reader/viewer, to whom Sherlock explains everything? But keeping Watson a male while making Holmes a female would probably go too far.


Johnny Lee Miller's Elementary gets full series

Last day of school today for AM, who leaves for India with her two brothers next Tuesday.

Young [Southeast?] Asian male at WF, with painted blue toe nails and sandals... ?