Fr Ray Blake's Blog: My God, my God why have you forsaken me.

http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/my-god-my-god-why-have-you-forsaken-me.html?m=1

The strange future of parish life – CatholicHerald.co.uk

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/july-1st-2016/the-strange-future-of-parish-life/

Britain’s Ordinariate is in peril. Here is how to save it – CatholicHerald.co.uk

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/august-26th-2016/britains-ordinariate-is-in-peril-here-is-how-to-save-it/


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Unto us a child is born

Happy Christmas MMXVI

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Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, ready war. | Fr. Z's Blog

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2016/08/si-vis-pacem-para-bellum-if-you-want-peace-ready-war/

New Liturgical Movement: The Problem of the Dominant Low Mass and the Rare High Mass

Well worth a read in understanding where we are today.

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/06/the-problem-of-dominant-low-mass-and.html?m=1

Scandal

"The greatest scandal the Church can give is not that there are sinners inside Her, [it is that of] ceasing to name the difference between good and evil, making them relative; i.e. ceasing to explain what sin is or claiming to justify it so as to have greater closeness and mercy towards the sinner." 

-- Cardinal Mueller, Prefect of the CDF

Easter 2016

Alleluia! Alleluia! Surrexit Dominus vere Alleluia!

Liberalism: a death wish

"The process of death wishing, in the guise of liberalism, has been eroding the civilization of the West for a century and more, and now would seem to be about to reach its apogee. The Liberal mind, effective everywhere, whether in power or in opposition, has provided the perfect instrument. Systematically, stage by stage, dismantling our Western way of life, depreciating and deprecating all its values so that the whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. And all this, wonderfully enough, in the name of the health, wealth and happiness of all mankind. Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the incursion of barbarian hordes; ours has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of its own intellectual elite. Not Bolshevism, which Stalin liquidated along with all the old Bolsheviks; not Nazism, which perished with Hitler in his Berlin bunker; not Fascism, which was left hanging upside down from a lamp-post along with Mussolini and his mistress - none of these, history will record, was responsible for bringing down the darkness of our civilization, but Liberalism. A solvent rather than a precipitate, a sedative rather than a stimulant, a slough rather than a precipice; blurring the edges of truth, the definition of virtue, the shape of beauty; a cracked bell, a mist, a death wish..."

-Malcolm Muggeridge

Easter 2015

Start  V. O Lord, ✠ open thou my lips. R. And my mouth shall declare thy praise. V. O God, ✝ come to my assistance; R. O Lord, make haste to help me. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.  R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia.
Invitatorium {Antiph. ex Proprio de Tempore}  Ant. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúia. Ant. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúia. Veníte, exsultémus Dómino, iubilémus Deo, salutári nostro: præoccupémus fáciem eius in confessióne, et in psalmis iubilémus ei. Ant. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúia. Quóniam Deus magnus Dóminus, et Rex magnus super omnes deos, quóniam non repéllet Dóminus plebem suam: quia in manu eius sunt omnes fines terræ, et altitúdines móntium ipse cónspicit. Ant. Allelúia. Quóniam ipsíus est mare, et ipse fecit illud, et áridam fundavérunt manus eius (genuflectitur) veníte, adorémus, et procidámus ante Deum: plorémus coram Dómino, qui fecit nos, quia ipse est Dóminus, Deus noster; nos autem pópulus eius, et oves páscuæ eius. Ant. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúia. Hódie, si vocem eius audiéritis, nolíte obduráre corda vestra, sicut in exacerbatióne secúndum diem tentatiónis in desérto: ubi tentavérunt me patres vestri, probavérunt et vidérunt ópera mea. Ant. Allelúia. Quadragínta annis próximus fui generatióni huic, et dixi; Semper hi errant corde, ipsi vero non cognovérunt vias meas: quibus iurávi in ira mea; Si introíbunt in réquiem meam. Ant. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúia. V. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto. R. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen. Ant. Allelúia. Ant. Surréxit Dóminus vere, * Allelúia.	Invitatory {Antiph. from the Proper of the season}  Ant. The Lord is risen, indeed, * Alleluia. Ant. The Lord is risen, indeed, * Alleluia. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.  Ant. The Lord is risen, indeed, * Alleluia. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For the Lord will not cast off his people: for in his hand are all the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his.  Ant. Alleluia. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. (genuflect)Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us: For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.  Ant. The Lord is risen, indeed, * Alleluia. Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.  Ant. Alleluia. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.  Ant. The Lord is risen, indeed, * Alleluia. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.  R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Ant. Alleluia. Ant. The Lord is risen, indeed, * Alleluia.