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Brethren, We cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of God, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might according to the power of His glory, in all patience and long suffering with joy;

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Benedicta es cælorum ReginaEt mundi totius Domina,Et ægris medicina;Tu præclara Maris Stella vocaris,Quæ Solem Iustitiæ paris,A quo illuminaris.Te Deus Pater,Ut Dei MaterFieres, et ipse fraterCuius eras filia,Sanctificavit,Sanctam servavit,Et mittens sic salutavit:"Ave, plena gratia."Per illud Ave prolatumEt tuum responsum datumEst ex te Verbum incarnatumQuo salvantur omnia.Nunc Mater, exora

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Quando la fede, in modo particolare celebrata nella liturgia, incontra l’arte, si crea una sintonia profonda, perché entrambe possono e vogliono parlare di Dio, rendendo visibile l’Invisibile....The Gothic cathedral translates the aspirations of the soul into architectural lines, and is a synthesis between faith, art and beauty which still raises our hearts and minds to God today. When faith

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Our blog has always linked exclusively to other blogs run by Catholics. That is why we have not linked to even very friendly Eastern Orthodox and Anglican blogs. An exception will be opened for a very worthy cause: The Anglo-Catholic, a blog run by a member of the "Anglican Church in America" (the American province of the "Traditional Anglican Communion") in an endeavor to introduce his fellow

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About 26 years ago, Yves Congar (d. 1995), one of the most influential theologians of the last century and a luminary at Vatican II, expressed three wishes at the conclusion of a colloquium on Paul VI (Paul VI et la modernite dans l'Eglise, Rome, 1984). "Paul VI and John Paul II have pronounced words and made gestures of great significance, which call for some follow-up. When Paul VI puts his own

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In August, Rorate noted that the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has made available its own 2-DVD guide to the proper celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. Long excerpts have now been uploaded on Youtube: Pars I: 01 - Praeparatio ad Missam, 02 - Orationes sub infimum gradum altaris, 03 - Pars Didattica. Pars II: 04 - Offertorium, 05 - Canon Missae I Pars III: 06 - Canon Missae II

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FSSP maintains an apostolate in Guadalajara, the Capellania de San Pedro Apostol, which is one of the two places in Mexico where weekly regular and public Traditional Latin Masses that fulfil the Sunday obligation are available under diocesan auspices (according to the list of Una Voce Mexico.) The other place is a parish in the Archdiocese of Monterrey that has an "anticipated" Sunday TLM every

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Dear friends,The Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, while blessed by God with many charisms, is not exactly a model of orthodox Catholic liturgy. The better to advance the Ratzingerian reform of the liturgical reform, several of us in the Diocese's Eastern Deanery (Leon, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties) are collecting signatures for a letter we are soon to send to Rome. We take

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Read the story here.

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From Interfax:Moscow, November 12, Interfax - Relations between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches are improving and a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, may be on the cards, a Russian Orthodox bishop said."Today it can be said that we are moving to a moment when it becomes possible to prepare a meeting between the Pope and the

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Valle Adurni now has a (revised) translation of the lead article of the latest issue of Paix Liturgique. The 'Traditional Reservoir' and the French bishops This is an article from the French Paix Liturgique, today's issue (my rough-and-ready translation).The French bishops met in Lourdes last week under considerable psychological pressure. Even though it was not explicitly on the agenda, they

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The Catholic Church.This will certainly be clearer in a couple of centuries.

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__________________APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONANGLICANORUM COETIBUS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFFBENEDICT XVIProviding for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicansentering into full communion with the Catholic Church__________________[COMPLEMENTARY NORMS][Press release]In recent times the Holy Spirit has moved groups of Anglicans to petition repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion

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[TEXT of the APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION][Press release]Jurisdiction of the Holy SeeArticle 1Each Ordinariate is subject to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It maintains close relations with the other Roman Dicasteries in accordance with their competence.Relations with Episcopal Conferences and Diocesan BishopsArticle 2§1. The Ordinary follows the directives of the national Episcopal

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[Text of the APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION][Text of the COMPLEMENTARY NORMS]Holy See Press Office - Press releaseOn October 20, 2009, Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced a new provision responding to the many requests that have been submitted to the Holy See from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful in different parts of the world who wish to

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"The victory over communism came thanks to the shipyards and thanks to the Holy Father. But now, nobody mentions the Holy Father."Lech WalesaInterview to Der Spiegel (Nov. 6, 2009)The events of 1989 are an example of the success of willingness to negotiate and of the Gospel spirit in the face of an adversary determined not to be bound by moral principles. These events are a warning to those who,

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The website of the St. Willibrord seminary in the Tiltenberg, the Netherlands has announced that it is establishing a course for priests and seminarians on how to offer the Traditional Latin Mass. St. Willibrord's is the major seminary of the Diocese of Haarlem.The following is a translation of the announcement on the seminary website. Emphases mine. (H/t to There was a boy):On 7 July 2007, Pope

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The Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce recently issued a progress report on the second anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The full report extends to 95 pages. FIUV's executive president Leo Darroch personally presented a copy of the report to the Holy Father during a meeting in Rome on Wednesday, Oct. 28. (See FIUV's website for a report on and photographs from

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To update our readers on the Traditional Anglican Communion's progress towards conversion and integration into the Catholic Church, the weblog Signum is reporting the following:The Traditional Anglican Communion in the UK voted last Thursday (October 29th) to request that they form part of the proposed Ordinariate in the UK. During the Forward in Faith conference Archbishop Hepworth of the TAC

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Lautsi v. Italy (application no. 30814/06)CRUCIFIX IN CLASSROOMS:CONTRARY TO PARENTS’ RIGHT TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN IN LINE WITH THEIR CONVICTIONS AND TO CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF RELIGIONViolation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education)examined jointly with Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) of the European Convention on Human RightsUnder Article 41 (just

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Nolite mirari, hoc, quia venit hora, in qua omnes, grave qui in monumentis sunt, audient vocem Filii Dei: et procedent, qui bona fecerunt, in resurrectionem vitæ; qui vero mala egerunt, in resurrectionem judicii. (From the Gospel for the first Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, John v, 28-29: "Wonder not at this, for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the shall hear the

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"You may make the hearing of a blessed Mass treason, or the saying of an Ave Maria treason . . . but I have committed no treason, although, indeed, I suffer the punishment due to treason."Blessed John Bodey, on the day of his martyrdom (Andover, Hampshire, November 2, 1583)________________________________________[C]onsidering that this matter, although already decided, had been by certain persons

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CLARIFICATIONBY THE DIRECTOR OF THE HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE,FR. FEDERICO LOMBARDI, S.I.,ON SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE CELIBACY ISSUEIN THE ANNOUNCED APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONREGARDING PERSONAL ORDINARIATESFOR ANGLICAN ENTERING INTO FULL COMMUNIONWITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCHThere has been widespread speculation, based on supposedly knowledgeable remarks by an Italian correspondent, Andrea Tornielli, that the

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Father Leon Nowakowski graduated from the Theological Seminary in Wloclawek, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 20, 1937. He continued his theological studies in Lublin and at the Pontifical Gregorian University. At the outbreak of World War II, Father Nowakowski was spending his summer vacation in his native Byton, Poland. After the invading Germans arrested the local Parish Priest,

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In recent days there has been much talk about the "impending reunion" of the Orthodox with Rome (especially of the Bulgarians, who don't even want to continue the dialogue with Rome). While I am certain that all true Catholics desire to see the return of the Orthodox to unity with Rome -- a unity that above all should be a unity of faith -- I have to ask if people realize that such misleading

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