Jesus, the New Covenant Priesthood, and the Most Holy Eucharist-UPDATED Link Fixed!

[Originally posted May of 08]
Over the weekend I listened to Dr. Brant Pitre (a Catholic version of N. T. Wright) discussing the above topic. I think it is very powerful and contains some arguments that any self-respecting Protester needs to answer. And if no answer is forthcoming, then, said self-respecting Protester ought to either quit [...]

Archbishop Ranjith says it like it is.

What a priest.

Hey, the Old Mass is only to get SSPXers back, right?

Enter the President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.  What does he say?
This video is from in introduction to an FSSP training video… is the Extraordinary Form only for the schismatics and the old fogies that are pining for when the priest only showed his back side?  Well…

Think again!
Deo gratias!

Only on the tongue…

Summorum Pontificum finally translated from the Latin on the Vatican Website!!

Good thing I read Hungarian perfectly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/index_en.htm
Oh well…. it’s a start.

So, will that PCED clarification ever come?

Just wonderin’.  I mean, it seems that we have been waiting for about 40 years and it just ain’t here yet.  But, peace, be still, my soul.  It shall come…
But I do have these nagging fears that our current Pope will not wake up one morning (perish the thought) and his enemies will go into [...]

So the Pope did change the prayer…

But I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt after going nuts with despair when I first heard about it.  “All he is going to do,” said I, “is make the Jews mad, make the Traditionalists mad, make the liberal/progressives mad, make the conservatives mad, and give the Evangelical Protestants more ammo [...]

Finally, the Pope tells it like it is…

Very funny stuff…

*sniff* *sniff*… I love the smell of liberals whining in the morning

Just in case you missed it…National Catholic Reporter.  This article swerves into an explicit sedevacantism of the opposite kind we are used to when hearing that word… that being that the Chair of St. Peter was empty at least between the years of the Council of Trent and the Second Vatican Council.  It’s very scary folks…Sure [...]

Resistance to the Motu Proprio

There is a eerie feeling one gets when people who have promised their lives to the Church and to the shepherding of Christ’s flock blatantly oppose the Traditional Mass, the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.  I am a personal witness to this and it causes a whole series of emotional, intellectual and spiritual reactions [...]

Cardinal Hoyos says the priests don’t need bishop approval to celebrate the Ex. Form.

For whatever reason, some of the bishops in the US seem to think that they must grant permission to a priest before he can say the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.  The President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission thinks different…
Q: What has changed, really, with this “motu proprio”?
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos: With this “motu proprio,” [...]

The Motu Proprio is all about SSPX… That’s all! wait…

So if it is all about SSPX and not those of us in the younger generation that have found and love the old liturgy (which is ever new), then we have some problems…
1.  If SSPX is “outside the Church” as some say, including my Bishop, then how can the document be working for “internal reconciliaition” [...]

Dossier on Summorum Pontificum

A Dossier on Motu Proprio has just been released. Here is Rorate’s blurb.
The news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Propaganda Fide), Fides, provides a complete historical-documentary dossier (DOC) on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, edited by Don Nicola Bux and Don Salvatore Vitiello.
Summary:
1. THE ANTECEDENTS
Sacrosanctum Concilium
The Constitution Missale Romanum of [...]

On Why Women Ought not to Assist at Mass as (Extra)ordinary Eucharistic Ministers

It seems to follow from SyncContDunce’s illuminating article that women ought not to actively participate in Mass by administering the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist to her peers, the laity (leaving aside the question of whether having Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers was a good idea at this time in the Church- and also leaving aside [...]