Bishop Earl Fernandes broke out a 200 year-old set of vestments out of the Columbus Museum for Catholic Art and History for the opening mass of SEEK 26.
Bravo! Just look at all those jugs of soon to be Holy exorcism water. Nice job. Now give me a moment, In the Ethiopian Orthodox, three priests pray over the water for quite some time, in an all day event. In Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany (Timket) celebrations, priests perform elaborate, lengthy blessings over the waters, often involving all-night prayers, chants, and hymns leading up to the main blessing on January 19th, where a patriarch dips a cross into the water, symbolizing Christ's baptism, with the entire ritual and community participation lasting hours, even as the sun rises. The solemn blessing itself involves specific litanies, exorcism prayers, and the Te Deum, making it a significant, extended liturgical event. Key Aspects of the Blessing Ceremony: All-Night Vigil: The main festivities begin the eve (Ketera) with night-long prayers and hymns before the blessing. Procession: The tabot (replica of the Ark of the Covenant) is brought to a body of water (lake, river, or pool). …Mehr
Questa mattina il Santo Padre ha ricevuto in udienza l’Em mo Card. Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M., Arcivescovo di Santiago del Estero (Argentina) e l’Em mo Card. Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B., Vescovo emerito di Hong Kong (Cina). da pagina facebook di SilereNonPossum
A Full Training in Sacred Art Wall Painting Suitable for Catholics Writing the Light’s 2-year Certificate, Starts Fall 2026, Applications Open Now. If we want to see a genuine and widespread flourishing of sacred art in our churches, artists must learn to paint church interiors. To participate authentically in the sacred liturgy, the environment in which we worship must foster an encounter with Christ in the Eucharist. This requires beautifully celebrated liturgies, as well as music, art, and architecture that harmonise with the actions of the celebrants and the congregation. The frescoes at St Francis of Assisi, Baddesley Clinton, England, painted by contemporary English Catholic artist Martin Earle. See here for more infomation. If the sacred art is to play its part in this, we need artists who can paint well and on a large scale, directly onto the walls and ceilings of our places of worship, creating sacred spaces that draw us powerfully into the encounter with Christ. The Writing …
Because she understood: everything she has today grew out of those garden beds. “But you’re only talking about material things,” she objected softly. “There’s also spirituality, trust, love…” “It’s easy to talk about spirituality when your fridge is full,” I replied. “It’s much harder when it’s empty. Your mother gave you everything she could. And it worked—you now have choices. How to live. What to believe in. And now—it’s your turn.”
— “My mom is living her life all wrong. I really want to help her…” — “Help her how, exactly?” — “Teach her how to live the right way.” — “And you?” — “What about me?” — “Are you living the right way?” — “Why are we talking about me? I’m talking about my mom!” That’s how this story began—an ordinary one, yet deeply revealing. Sitting across from me was a young, beautiful woman in a bright dress, wrists full of shiny bracelets. Confident. Modern. Put together. Her mother, she said, lived “the wrong way.” Because despite having an apartment and even a voucher for a wellness resort, she stubbornly refused to relax. Instead, she wanted her garden, her vegetable beds, her potatoes. “I’ve told her a hundred times—just buy the potatoes, I’ll pay!” the daughter complained. “All she and her friends talk about are their grandkids.” “And what do you think they should be talking about?” I asked. “Spiritual growth,” she said without hesitation. “And you?” I smiled. “Me again?” …Mehr
Na Troch kráľov kardinál Raymond Burke celebroval svätú omšu rímskeho obradu v Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini v Ríme, ktorá bola zverená Kňazskému bratstvu sv. Počas homílie sa zamýšľal nad tým, že podobne ako mudrci môžeme niekedy stratiť z dohľadu svoju hviezdu a zažívať pocit neistoty. Verí, že je Božou vôľou, aby sme sa obrátili k Cirkvi a k tým, ktorí ho medzi nami zastupujú. Dodal, že Kristus k nám prichádza prostredníctvom svojich kňazov, ktorí sú mu sviatostne prispôsobení ako hlava a pastier stáda v každom čase a na každom mieste. Pokračoval: "Napriek svojej nehodnosti dostávajú milosť uskutočňovať jeho pastoračnú lásku, ktorá neustále pôsobí pre našu večnú spásu."
No dia da Epifania, o Cardeal Raymond Burke celebrou a Missa em rito romano na Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, em Roma, confiada à Fraternidade Sacerdotal de São Pedro. Durante a sua homilia, reflectiu sobre o facto de, tal como os Magos, podermos por vezes perder de vista a nossa estrela e experimentar um sentimento de incerteza. Acredita que é a vontade de Deus que nos voltemos para a Igreja e para aqueles que O representam entre nós. Acrescentou que Cristo vem até nós através dos seus sacerdotes, que estão sacramentalmente configurados a Ele como cabeça e pastor do rebanho em todos os tempos e lugares. E prosseguiu: "Apesar da sua indignidade, eles recebem a graça de exercer a Sua caridade pastoral, que está sempre a trabalhar para a nossa salvação eterna."
Die Kirche ist in die Hand linker Ideologen geraten. Es nützt nichts, die Augen zu verschließen. Was die deutschen Kirchensteuerkirchen ihrem Publikum vorsetzen, enthält nur noch Spurenelemente des Christentums. Von Ausnahmen natürlich abgesehen. Längst organisieren säkulare Kulturkämpfer den Marsch in die Bedeutungslosigkeit.
Typisch für die nachkonziliaren, muttersprachlichen Gottesdienste ist, daß die Texte des AT und NT nur noch als Stichwortgeber fungieren. Damit ist der Weg frei für das Austoben von gefühlsduseligen Dilettanten.
Der Verlust christlicher Identität zeigt sich besonders deutlich am Weihnachtsfest. (Krämer ist letztverantwortlicher für den Schleim-Alien in der Krippe)
Hrvati Stuttgarts Beitrag Eine größere Gruppe kroatischer Katholiken aus Deutschland hat einen offenen Brief an Dr.Klaus Krämer, den Bischof der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, sowie an die Mitglieder der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz gerichtet, in dem sie ihre „Besorgnis um die Einheit, Glaubwürdigkeit und Zukunft der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland“ zum Ausdruck gebracht haben. Anlass für den o.g. offenen Brief war die TV Übertragung (ARD) der Weihnachtsmesse aus Stuttgart, bei der die Darstellung der Weihnachtskrippe mit einem „schleimigen Jesus“ bei den Gläubigen Empörung auslöste. Anbei der offene Brief der unserer Redaktion zugesandt wurde: „Die Sorge um die Einheit, Glaubwürdigkeit und Zukunft der Katholischen Kirche in Deutschland“ Seine Exzellenz, Hochwürdigster Herr Bischof Dr. Klaus Krämer, sowie die Mitglieder der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, in jedem Gottesdienst beten wir für unseren Heiligen Vater, den Papst, sowie für Sie, unsere Bischöfe. Wir beten für unsere …Mehr
Pictures by Matthew Keeny: On January 2, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Reed of Boston offered a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Roman Rite assisted by the priests and seminarians of the North American Province of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Nearly 400 college students attended. The Mass was part of the SEEK conference in the St Patrick’s Dominican Church in downtown Columbus.
Monsignore Robert Reed, Weihbischof von Boston, zelebrierte ein feierliches Pontifikalamt im römischen Ritus während SEEK 2026 in der St. Patrick Church (Dominikaner) in Columbus, mit liturgischer Unterstützung durch die Priesterbruderschaft St. Peter (FSSP). Fast 400 Studenten nahmen daran teil. SEEK 2026, eine neokonservative katholische Konferenz, zog mehr als 26.000 Teilnehmer an.
Monsignor Robert Reed, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, celebrated a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Roman rite during SEEK 2026 at St. Patrick Church (Dominican) in Columbus, with liturgical assistance from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP). Nearly 400 students attended. SEEK 2026, a neoconservative Catholic conference, drew more than 26,000 participants.
«There is a form of liturgical reductionism that the most zealous defenders of contemporary Catholicism often fall into. “It is still valid,” they assert, while ignoring that with each detail of the Church’s worship carried out sloppily or without care, a disease spreads among the faithful. The liturgy is not a sacrament machine, and the Mass is not a meal. For generations of medieval Catholics, who often received the Eucharist only once a year yet commonly and voluntarily attended Mass daily, this was clear. Every rubric of this most sacred worship mattered, consecration and communication alike. God deserves our very best. More than those in our romantic lives. More than those in our family lives. Certainly more than those in our professional lives. These loves are not in competition, nor are they opposed to love of God, and they deserve sincere devotion. But one love stands above all others, surpassing and enlivening them.... The rail slows us down. It stills the body. It grants the …Mehr
La Croix journalists attended a Sunday Mass in Lyon, at the Church of Saint-Georges. Upon leaving, they observed: numerous families with young children; only a handful of older people; some foreigners passing through; and, above all, many young adults.
By Paix Liturgique (Christian Marquant) Nicola Spuntoni, in an article published in Il Giornale on December 16, reveals that the Pope, who has convened an extraordinary consistory for January 7 and 8, will be sending the cardinals a letter before Christmas outlining the three-point agenda for this consistory: their participation in the governance of the Church, synodality, and the liturgical question. It goes without saying that, on this last point, the status of the Traditional Latin Mass after Traditionis Custodes will not be the only topic of discussion, but it is clear that it will be an important one, if not the only raising a debate among the cardinal. This is the opinion of Spuntoni, who is particularly well-informed. It is easy to imagine Cardinals Müller and Burke, and probably Cardinal Brandmüller as well, and others too—Zuppi? Aveline?—advocating for calm. In fact, the media frenzy surrounding that event, not significant in itself but of symbolic importance, as the …
Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller in homily in English at Mass in memory of Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of the Third Anniversary of his death, says of the late Pope: “Both as a professor of theology and a mass sought-after preacher, he consistently put himself in the service of the word. As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he set standards of the highest diligence, intellectual precision and incorruptibility for the Roman magisterium. During his pontificate, he was one of the greatest theologians on the Kathedra Petri.”