inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu! Summorum advances in Moscow and San Francisco,
under the banner of the Immaculate Conception
As of January 1, 2012 a weekly diocesan traditional Latin mass is available at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. The previously bi-monthly Traditional Mass will now be a Sunday Mass - every Sunday, at 5 PM, in the lower Chapel of the Cathedral.
2. In the city of Saint Francis in California, the Sunday TLM will now be in a stable location:
In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, each Sunday of the month, the traditional Mass would be at a different parish. On the first Sundays, it would be at Mater Dolorosa, in South San Francisco, second Sundays it would be at St. Finn Barr in San Francisco, third Sundays at Holy Name, also in San Francisco, and fourth Sundays at St. Catherine's in San Mateo. From Sunday, January 8, onward, the Mass will be said each Sunday without exception or change at Immaculate Conception Chapel in San Francisco. The changing Masses of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sundays are now cancelled, but the one on the 4th Sunday at Saint Catherine's, as far as I know, will continue. Also, the Archdiocese also officially published Fr. William Young's private Mass, said daily (usually not on Wed.) at 9:30 AM at Most Holy Redeemer in San Francisco.
Sources: UV Russia and readers.
(Rorate first announced Fr. Young's daily TLM in Most Holy Redeemer more than two years ago.)
(Rorate first announced Fr. Young's daily TLM in Most Holy Redeemer more than two years ago.)
Vatican II at 50: Note on the "Year of Faith", in "continuity with the whole Tradition"
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
Note with pastoral recommendations for the Year of Faith
Introduction
With the Apostolic Letter of 11 October 2011, Porta fidei, Pope Benedict XVI declared a Year of Faith. This year will begin on 11 October 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council, and will conclude on 24 November 2013, the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King.
This year will be a propitious occasion for the faithful to understand more profoundly that the foundation of Christian faith is "the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction."1 Founded on the encounter with the Risen Christ, faith can be rediscovered in its wholeness and all its splendor. "In our days too faith is a gift to rediscover, to cultivate and to bear witness to" because the Lord "grants each one of us to live the beauty and joy of being Christians."2
The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops 3 - the Bishop of Antwerp on celibacy and the ordination of women
In an interview published very recently on Knack.be, the Bishop of Antwerp Johan Bonny made the following statement regarding the movement that produced the heretical Gelovigen nemen het woord manifesto (Rorate posted about that movement here):I fully understand it. The Church can not avoid the debate about the criteria for ordination. Personally, I strongly believe in the value of the unmarried priesthood and a full availability for Christ and the Church community. But I also think that the ordination of a number of married men or deacons to the priesthood can be an enrichment for the Church. In the eastern Catholic Churches married priests are more the rule than the exception. That fact is therefore not unfamiliar for the Catholic Church. The ordination of women to priests is theologically far more difficult. In the west that concern is present in broad layers of society, but worldwide the support is extremely small. But I do think that there needs to be more discussion about the place and role of the woman in the Church. Women must be allowed to take on responsible duties in the Church, on all levels.
(Translation by In Caelo.)
Many of our readers will certainly recall that another recently-appointed Belgian bishop, Jozef De Kesel of Bruges, expressed similar sentiments last year albeit more bluntly. Although the Bishop of Antwerp is careful not to openly question the teaching of the Church against the ordination of women, his lack of any reference to the definitive status of this teaching combined with the manner that he segues from the question of women's ordination to the need for women to take "responsible duties in the Church, on all levels", is extremely telling.
In the same interview, the bishop notes that the average age of active priests in his diocese ranges from 75 to 80 years.
Bishop Johan Bonny (b. 1955) served as an official of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1997 to 2008, the relationship with the dissident Eastern Churches being one of his main responsibilities. He was elevated to the episcopate and appointed Bishop of Antwerp by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.
Keeping the Rite
The Traditional Latin Mass is well known, loved and cherished throughout the great land of China. Unfortunately, public records of it in the mainland are not as common as we would like them to be - which is why these images of Christmas Day Mass in Shanghai published by our friend Shawn Tribe of The New Liturgical Movement are so moving.
Congratulations and thanks to those countless priests and lay faithful in that glorious nation who are keeping the liturgical traditions received from their forefathers in the faith. The peoples of China have always loved beauty and appreciated tradition - that we can find in the Traditional Mass of the Lord of Heaven more than in almost anything else on this Earth.
