August Highlights on EWTN

RALPH MCINERNY’S WHAT WENT WRONG WITH VATICAN II
^{EP 2 THE VATICAN STRIKES}

1st August: 07.30

RALPH MCINERNY’S WHAT WENT WRONG WITH VATICAN II
^{EP 3 A NEW POPE}

6th August: 17.00. 8th August: 07.30

SHRINE OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT TOUR VIDEO

15th August: 19.30. 16th August: 11.00

SOLEMN HIGH MASS ON THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

22nd August: 13.00, 18.00

Latin Masses in Ireland: August 2009

Cork & Ross Diocese:

1 August, Saturday, 10am – Mass, Ss. Peter’s & Paul’s, Paul St., Cork. Celebrant: Rev Father Gabriel Burke, CC. Contact: Maurice O’Brien, e-mail: mauriceandjaneobrien@gmail.com

Down & Connor Diocese:

1 August, Saturday, 1pm – Mass, St. Paul’s Church, Falls Road, Belfast BT12 6AB. Celebrant: Rev Father Martin Graham, C.C.

Diocese of Dromore:

2 August, Sunday, 11am – Mass, Poor Clare Convent, High St., Newry, Co. Down BT35 6PN. Celebrant: Rev Father David Jones, O.Praem.

Meath Diocese:

2 August, Sunday, 1pm – Mass, St. Micheal’s Church, Stahalmog, Co Meath. Celebrant: Very Rev Father Michael Cahill PP

Meath Diocese:

9 August, Sunday, 12pm – Mass, Convent of the Visitation, Stamullen, Co Meath. Celebrant: Rev Father David Jones, O.Praem

Cork & Ross Diocese:

9 August, Sunday, 12pm – Mass, Ss. Peter’s & Paul’s, Paul St., Cork. Celebrant: Rev Patrick McCarthy PP. Contact: Maurice O’Brien, e-mail: mauriceandjaneobrien@gmail.com

Derry Diocese:

15 August, Saturday, – Feast of the Assumption – 12 pm, Mass, St. Columba’s Church (Long Tower), Derry BT48 6TJ. Celebrant: Very Rev Father Roland Colhoun, Adm.

Raphoe Diocese:

15 August, Saturday 4 pm – Mass. Cathedral of Ss Colmcille & Eunan, Letterkenny, Co Donegal. Celebrant: Father Joseph Briody, CC.

Down & Connor Diocese:

15 August, Saturday, 4pm – Solemn High Mass, St. Patrick’s Church, 199 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FL. Celebrant: Rev Father Martin Graham, C.C.

Meath Diocese:

9 August, Sunday, 12pm – Mass, Convent of the Visitation, Stamullen, Co Meath. Celebrant: Rev Father David Jones, O.Praem

Limerick Diocese:

16 August, Sunday, 11.15am – Mass, St. Patrick’s Church, Dublin Road, Limerick. Celebrant: Rev Father Wulfran Lebocq, ICRSS. Contact: Vicky Nestor, Tel.: 061-355120, 

Meath Diocese:

23 August, Sunday, 10.45am – Mass, Convent of the Visitation, Stamullen, Co Meath. Celebrant: Rev Father David Jones, O.Praem

Meath Diocese:

30 August, Sunday, 10.45am – Mass, Convent of the Visitation, Stamullen, Co Meath. Celebrant: Rev Father David Jones, O.Praem

Summer Break

We will be taking a break from posting until 1st August for some well earned rest and relaxation!

Unless there are some major news develops, regular posting will resume on 1st August

We hope that you all have a safe and enjoyable summer!

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APPEAL: Have you attended a Eucharistic Congress?

We have recieved an email looking for assistance this morning from Dundalk, see below for details:

The Dundalk John Paul II Prayer Group & Armagh Diocesan Cursillo are appealing to anyone from Ireland who has attended the 2008 International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec to get in touch with us as soon as possible.

Email: jp2dundalk@hotmail.com or
dundalkcursillo@yahoo.ie

It is our hope to start organising a series of events in preparation for the upcoming 2012 Eucharistic Congress to be held in Dublin. We would like to hear from anyone (living in Ireland) who has attended a Eucharistic Congress, who might be interested in sharing their experiences with us.

Continuity in Caritas in Veritate

12. The link between Populorum Progressio and the Second Vatican Council does not mean that Paul VI’s social magisterium marked a break with that of previous Popes, because the Council constitutes a deeper exploration of this magisterium within the continuity of the Church’s life [19]. In this sense, clarity is not served by certain abstract subdivisions of the Church’s social doctrine, which apply categories to Papal social teaching that are extraneous to it. It is not a case of two typologies of social doctrine, one pre-conciliar and one post-conciliar, differing from one another: on the contrary, there is a single teaching, consistent and at the same time ever new[20]. It is one thing to draw attention to the particular characteristics of one Encyclical or another, of the teaching of one Pope or another, but quite another to lose sight of the coherence of the overall doctrinal corpus[21]. Coherence does not mean a closed system: on the contrary, it means dynamic faithfulness to a light received. The Church’s social doctrine illuminates with an unchanging light the new problems that are constantly emerging[22]. This safeguards the permanent and historical character of the doctrinal “patrimony”[23] which, with its specific characteristics, is part and parcel of the Church’s ever-living Tradition[24]. Social doctrine is built on the foundation handed on by the Apostles to the Fathers of the Church, and then received and further explored by the great Christian doctors. This doctrine points definitively to the New Man, to the “last Adam [who] became a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor 15:45), the principle of the charity that “never ends” (1 Cor 13:8). It is attested by the saints and by those who gave their lives for Christ our Saviour in the field of justice and peace. It is an expression of the prophetic task of the Supreme Pontiffs to give apostolic guidance to the Church of Christ and to discern the new demands of evangelization. For these reasons, Populorum Progressio, situated within the great current of Tradition, can still speak to us today.

MOTU PROPRIO ECCLESIAE UNITATEM

1. The duty to safeguard the unity of the Church, with the solicitude to offer everyone help in responding appropriately to this vocation and divine grace, is the particular responsibility of the Successor of the Apostle Peter, who is the perpetual and visible principle and foundation of the unity of both bishops and faithful. The supreme and fundamental priority of the Church in all times – to lead mankind to the meeting with God – must be supported by the commitment to achieve a shared witness of faith among all Christians.

2. Faithful to this mandate, following the act of 30 June 1988 by which Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre illicitly conferred episcopal ordination upon four priests, on 2 July 1988 Pope John Paul II of venerable memory established the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” whose task it is “to collaborate with the bishops, with the departments of the Roman Curia and with the circles concerned, for the purpose of facilitating full ecclesial communion of priests, seminarians, religious communities or individuals until now linked in various ways to the Society founded by Msgr. Lefebvre, who may wish to remain united to the Successor Peter in the Catholic Church, while preserving their spiritual and liturgical traditions, in the light of the Protocol signed on 5 May last by Cardinal Ratzinger and Msgr. Lefebvre”.

3. In keeping with this, faithfully adhering to that duty to serve the universal communion of the Church, also in her visible manifestation, and making every effort to ensure that those who truly desire unity have the possibility to remain in it or to rediscover it, I decided, with the Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, to expand and update through more precise and detailed norms the general indications already contained in the Motu Proprio “Ecclesia Dei” concerning the possibility of using the 1962″Missale Romanum”.

4. In the same spirit, and with the same commitment to favouring the repair of all fractures and divisions within the Church, and to healing a wound that is ever more painfully felt within the ecclesiastical structure, I decided to remit the excommunication of the four bishops illicitly ordained by Msgr. Lefebvre. In making that decision my intention was to remove an impediment that could hinder the opening of a door to dialogue and thus invite the four bishops and the Society of Saint Pius X to rediscover the path to full communion with the Church. As I explained in my Letter to Catholic bishops of 10 March this year, the remission of the excommunication was a measure taken in the field of ecclesiastical discipline, to free individuals from the burden of conscience constituted by the most serious of ecclesiastical penalties. However it is clear that the doctrinal questions remain, and until they are clarified the Society has no canonical status in the Church, and its ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry in the Church.

5. Precisely because the problems that now have to be examined with the Society are essentially doctrinal in nature, I have decided – twenty-one years after the Motu Proprio “Ecclesia Dei” and in keeping with what I had intended to do – to reconsider the structure of the Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, joining it closely to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

6. The Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” will, then, have the following configuration:

(a) The president of the Commission is the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

(b) The Commission has its own staff, composed of the secretary and officials.

(c) It will be the task of the president, with the assistance of the secretary, to submit the principal cases and questions of a doctrinal nature for study and discernment according to the ordinary requirements of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and to submit the results thereof to the superior dispositions of the Supreme Pontiff.

7. With this decision I wish in particular to show paternal solicitude towards the Society of Saint Pius X, with the aim of rediscovering the full communion of the Church.

To everyone I address a pressing invitation to pray ceaselessly to the Lord, by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “ut unum sint”.

From Rome, at St. Peter’s, 2 July 2009, fifth year of Our Pontificate.

Pope speaks about the Precious Blood

DEVOTION TO BLOOD OF CHRIST

VATICAN CITY, 5 JUL 2009 (VIS) – At midday today, before praying the Angelus, Benedict XVI recalled how the first Sunday of July was once dedicated to devotion to the Most Precious Blood of Christ, a tradition confirmed “by Blessed John XXIII who, in his Apostolic Letter ‘Inde a primis’ of 30 June 1960, explained its significance and approved its litanies“.

Addressing the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope pointed out that “the theme of blood, associated with that of the Pascal Lamb, is of primary importance in Sacred Scripture”, and he recalled Christ’s words at the Last Supper: “this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”.

“It is written in Genesis that the blood of Abel killed by his brother Cain calls to God from the earth. Unfortunately, today as yesterday, this cry has not ceased as human blood continues to flow because of violence, injustice and hatred. When will men learn that life is sacred and belongs only to God? When will they understand that we are all brothers? To the cry for spilt blood which rises from so many parts of the earth, God responds with the blood of His Son Who gave His life for us. Christ did not respond to evil with evil, but with good, with His infinite love.

“The Blood of Christ is the pledge of God’s faithful love for humankind. By gazing at the wounds of the crucified Christ each man, even in conditions of abject moral poverty, can say: ‘God has not abandoned me, He loves me, He gave his life for me’, and thus rediscover hope“.

After praying the Angelus, the Holy Father spoke of the recent train accident in the Italian city of Viareggio which killed twenty-two people and injured many others. “I join the suffering of those who have lost loved ones, of the injured and of poeple who have suffered material loss”, he said. “While raising heartfelt prayers to God for everyone involved in this tragedy, I express the hope that such incidents may not be repeated and that safety in the workplace and in daily life may be guaranteed”.

The Pope concluded by deploring “this morning’s attack in Cotabato, Philippines, where the explosion of a bomb in front of the cathedral during the celebration of Sunday Mass left a number of dead and many injured, including women and children. As I pray to God for the victims of this ignoble act, I once again raise my voice to condemn the use of violence, which is never a just solution to problems”.

Cardinal Pell to say Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form in Cork

His Eminence Cardinal Pell will say a Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form at St.Peter & Paul’s Church in Cork on Sunday 12th July at 11.00 a.m. The Mass is forming part of the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of St.Peter & Pauls, which took place in August 1859. This will be the first celebration of the Latin Mass by a Cardinal in Ireland since the Liturgical changes of the late 1960’s.

St.Peter & Paul’s is a church eminently suitable for this celebration and some very recent changes to the sanctuary lay out will contribute even more to the Rite.

For further information, contact Maurice O’Brien, LMSI Convenor for Cork: mauriceandjaneobrien@gmail.com

Fr Cassian Folsom on both forms of Mass

The ordinary form stresses such elements as the participation of the faithful, the use of the vernacular, the ongoing development of the liturgy by the addition of new saints to the calendar, etc.: these are all very important. At the risk of oversimplifying, I would say that the ordinary form stresses rational understanding, speaking in prose, as it were. The extraordinary form provides rich food for the intellect also, but relies heavily on gesture, symbolism, intuition, silence, ritual action without words, speaking in poetry, you might say. Man knows both rationally and intuitively. He needs both prose and poetry. If the two usages, like two different cultures, can patiently live with each other over time, they can become friends.

Fr Cassian Folsom

Pope opens Pauline Chapel with Vespers

New Liturgical Movement