tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61925612012-01-23T10:09:35.121-08:00The blog is related to an <a href="http://www.geocities.com/roseannesullivan/pundit.html">article</a> I wrote at the peak of the scandals about priests violating their vows of celibacy. Then as now the press always sought out dissident Catholics who seemed glad for the opportunity to promote their own agendas. In reaction I made an immodest proposal, the press should be asking me instead.Roseanne Therese Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17543248569720467264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6192561.post-84158258030488391632012-01-20T23:33:00.000-08:002012-01-21T20:50:33.029-08:00

If you only have a short time or short attention span, try this three-paragraph review (if you have more time or interest, see the longer article that follows below):I recently read Discovering the Camino de Santiago after an autographed copy was sent to me by Mary Rose Garych, one of the parishioners of Fr. Greg Markey, who wrote the book. Mary Rose is a Facebook friend, and she thought I might

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This post includes the wording of three main Catholic Creeds: The Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed, which I referred to in a recent blog called Speaking of Creeds. Apostles' CreedI believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary

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This blog is a branch post from my recent review of Dorothy Sayers's collection of essays called, "Creed or Chaos." I'm pulling this topic out of the original post to make it easier to provide a slightly closer look at Catholic Creeds.[1] The text of each of the Creeds mentioned below is in Main Catholic Creeds: Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian. Over the centuries, the Church has used several

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On Turner Classic Movies Silent Sunday Nights last week, I saw Les Visages d'Enfants (The Faces of Children). I like this movie very much, partly because it is about a family's life in a village whose daily life is permeated with a deep Catholic faith and because the story is portrayed without a hint of the usual movie concupiscence (or condescension for that matter). This article has photos from

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Creed or Chaos: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe) is a collection of essays by Dorothy L. Sayers that was first published in 1949.I first heard of this collection by Sayers at a Sunday dinner at the home of my friends, the Garton-Zavesky family, in 2011. When the conversation came around to the Athanasian creed, and they

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Christmas is a season not a day. In spite of what most people seem to think, the time before Christmas is not the Christmas season. On Christmas Day, the season is actually just beginning.In the culture at large, the weeks before Christmas are a time for celebration, with lots of excitement from the Christmas music, lights, decorations, and parties. In the Church, the four weeks before Christmas

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For about twenty years I have been intrigued by the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a route that pilgrims have been walking for more than 1,000 years to the shrine of St. James the Apostle in Spain. I envied a fellow St. Ann choir member, Kerry McCarthy, a young professor of music at Duke, when I learned that she has walked portions of the camino more than once. Before one choir dinner towards

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Blissful Moment. Eating a breakfast English muffin with chunky peanut butter and Rita Hey's plum jam, drinking Mystic Monk coffee with coconut milk, and reading Dorothy Sayer's introduction to Dante's Hell. Sayers wrote: "We must ... be prepared, while we are reading Dante, to accept the Christian and Catholic view of ourselves as responsible rational beings. We must abandon any idea that we are

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The iMac is lagging about a minute behind in showing my keyboard input as usual. Time to finally get around to buying that new iMac, since the one I spent thousands on in 2004 is now obsolete. Now that the Lion OS is finally released and the new iMac is available, no more excuses. I'm going to buy the new iMac loaded in hope that I won't run out of memory or disk space in my lifetime. Today In

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Today I woke up at 5. Reasonable enough, since I'm still oriented towards East Coast time after my two-week vacation in Massachusetts ended on Saturday. New resolution (old one actually, not actualized yet) is to get to work by 8. I picked up a few things to put away from my suitcase (still unpacking). Then straightaway, I went to the computer, breaking another resolution. Found a photo I

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In the rectory garden at St. Margaret Mary Church in OaklandLast night, I was watching one of the Sherlock Holmes mystery shows from the 1980s that star the marvelous actor Jeremy Brett. To my surprise, right in the middle of investigating a case in a country house drawing room, the Sherlock Holmes character became entralled by a rose, and began for a few minutes to talk about religion (of all

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I'm reading An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz, which is a collection of essays about the Nobel-prize-winning poet that was edited by Cynthia Haven. I've come to know Cynthia Haven because she has written articles about the St. Ann Choir, and I also consider her one of the "Friends of the St. Ann Choir," which is a casually intersecting set of individuals who attend the Masses where

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See below for my letter this morning (5/22/2011) to the Editor of Vanity Fair, where Christopher Hitchens is an editor and regular columnist.Editors: Even if you don't print this email, will you please forward it to Christopher Hitchens?From what I've read, Christopher Hitchens' take on the massive campaign to pray for his conversion seems to be that those who are praying for him expect that the

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A friend's husband died yesterday at home, the day after a visiting hospice nurse announced that he would die in a day or two. Let's call him Bill.Bill's do-it-yourselver family had decided to bypass the funeral home. His body was washed by his wife and the hospice nurse and is "resting comfortably on a mattress on the dining room table." I don't have a problem with the home viewing. I think

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The failed marriage of virgin Diana to non-virgin, non-faithful Charles is being used as an example of why people should have sex before they marry. In reality, Charles' love for Camilla, which included adultery with her, a married woman, while he was a married man, was the much more likely cause of the failure of his marriage to Diana.The virginity of both parties would have increased the

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The failed marriage of virgin Diana to non-virgin, non-faithful Charles is being used as an example of why people should have sex before they marry. In reality, Charles' love for Camilla, which included adultery with her, a married woman, while he was a married man, was the much more likely cause of the failure of his marriage to Diana.The virginity of both parties would have increased the

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March 28, 2011: Lilacs and Forsythia, Out of Their Element, Like MeOn the green strip between my sidewalk and the street are two lilac bushes and a forsythia bush that are each only about 40" tall after about six years. The lilacs don't thrive in this hostile environment where it just doesn't get cold enough for them, and once again they are putting out just a few small purple blossoms. The

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Today I read a blog from a friend whose son dances in a troupe of Morris dancers. They danced yesterday for May Day in a commemoration of pagan May pole dances, which is held in a small town in Massachusetts every year. Small children come to the town common wearing flowers in their hair and dance with the ribbons tied to the May pole. It must be cute. But.My May day was loaded in a Catholic

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At the St. Ann choir’s post-Vespers New Year’s Eve party, after a couple of glasses of sparkling wine, I started telling the few friends still sitting around after midnight that every time I tried to start my yearly Christmastide letter, I could only think of woeful things. We had buried Joe Scaroni, one of the choir friends, that day with a Requiem Mass and chant at his grave side, so that sad

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Facebook comment on one of my posts:Abortion is at once a failure of science and society to provide simple, affordable, easy to use, and 100% effective birth control and the consequence of of some imposing their notions of sexual morality on others….Roseanne SullivanIsn't that interesting? I used to believe in your religion, Fred..Now my eyes are open about all the deceptions that have led to

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Tonight, I and some members of the St. Ann choir who study Latin together got an email from Cynthia Haven, writer and Stanford blogger. She explained why she is too busy to join the study group at this point, and then she quoted a sonnet written about the St. Ann choir by Vikram Seth, whose novel in Puskinian sonnet form is highly regarded. The exact text that refers the choir is as follows: "He

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I never had an inkling that there was a great Catholic story to be told about the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Japan until I read this article http://tinyurl.com/nagasakiHolocaust">The Story of Takashi Nagai: Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb. The story of the Japanese Catholics at Nagasaki and what many believe to be their sacrificial deaths that helped bring about the end of the

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Here in CaliforniaI miss lightnings and thunderstormsAnd the blessed relief they brought When they arrived on cueWhile I was a little girl lying sunburnt in bed in Boston Hours after the sun set on hot summer days. A wet cool breeze would suddenly rise up And reach through the open windows.The bedroom curtains would start to twitch.And the venetian blinds would clank a little, restively.Then, ah!

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Facebook presents a little box on your Home page that asks "What's on your mind?"Today I had to answer: Mary, the Mother of God, and our mother too.Madonna del Parto (Pregnant Madonna) Portrayed as Ark of the CovenantWho is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? Douay Rheims Bible, Canticle of Canticles 6:10After I came

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One of God's Glorious Names: Ancient of Days [Painting by Damian]We Catholics recite and receive this blessing all the time: "In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." ("In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritu Sancti" in Latin.)Do you ever wonder as I sometimes do, "What does in the name actually mean?" This post is an exploration of some of the spiritually weighty meanings attached

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Shockingly, the ABC Australia website under "The Drum Unleashed Robust Community Debate" published an article by writer Bob Ellis, who compared our response to Al Quida to our response the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandals. In his article, Ellis suggested that to be consistent we should shoot the pope and bomb the Vatican. When a reader commented that he would pray for, love and forgive

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Left: Photo of Fr. James J. Bretzke from when he taught at University of San Francisco and San Jose's Institute of Leadership in MinistryAuthorial Self-Indulgence in a "Latin Theological Dictionary"Quite some time ago I chanced upon a very odd example of authorial self-indulgence on the topic of Mass celebrated ad orientem in the book Consecrated Phrases: A Latin Theological Dictionary, by Jesuit

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What do you think? When a priest is facing ad orientem (towards the East) during Mass is he "standing with his back to the people"? Or is he facing along with the congregation towards Christ, who is the Dayspring from on high? Critics always refer to the posture of the priest when he says Mass facing towards the East as "standing with his back to the people," with the implication that the

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Pope John Paul II called Dietrich von Hildebrand "one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century." Pope Benedict XVI said this about von Hildebrand, "When the intellectual history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is written, the name of Dietrich von Hildebrand will be most prominent among the figures of our time." Von Hildebrand's philosophy of personalism influenced the

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I finally located a copy of Dietrich Von Hildebrandt's The Devastated Vineyard. I started to try to find the book about three years ago after Prof. Mahrt mentioned it it one Sunday morning over coffee after Lauds at his home. I had posed to Prof. Mahrt this question that nagged me. What could account for the radical changes that happened between when I left the Church in 1964 and when I

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I was flabbergasted and thrilled to see this article in the Valley Catholic, San Jose diocesan paper! It presents the San Jose Latin Mass community and our love of the Latin Mass from the community's own perspective, and the journalist gets out of the way and lets the priests' words speak eloquently about the reasons for the appeal of the traditional Mass.Left: Father Jean-Marie Moreau and Abbe

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A few comments in response to this http://tinyurl.com/differencesEF-NO">article from the Valley Catholic, quoted from Catholic News Service, which seems a bit biased against the Tridentine Mass:Full participationMany people who attend the Tridentine Mass feel they are more-fully participating in the Mass in the Extraordinary Form by following the prayers of the Mass in the Missal in a reverent

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Anyone who opposes abortion should address the root causes: the deification of sexual license and the use of contraception. The god of sexual freedom demands human sacrifice and is getting millions of these hideous offerings in the form of aborted children. If, as many people believe, sexual pleasure is the greatest good, then anything that limits it is evil.The values taught by the Church,

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This is a reprint of an essay I wrote in May 2002 at the crux of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. In it, I refute the politically motivated claim that states that the child sexual abuse was caused by celibacy. The root causes go a lot deeper than that.Roseanne T. SullivanAnswering Scandal with Personal HolinessFrom: "Mary N."To: "Roseanne Sullivan"Subject: I added my name to

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Mary Immaculate ...This one work has to doLet all God's glory through ...Photo: Madonnina* on a Roman wall 2000The Blessed VirginCompared to the Air We Breathe- Gerard Manley HopkinsWild air, world-mothering air,Nestling me everywhere,That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixtThe fleeciest, frailest-fixedSnowflake; that's fairly mixedWith riddles, and is rifeIn every least thing's life;

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Me by me, signed by grand-niece Jadis on my behalf :-)Thoughts About Celebrating the "Holiday Season"It seems to me that the "holiday season" is celebrated almost in a frenzy. Besides the frantic "holiday" shopping (which usually includes many personal purchases--retailers count on them!) we engage in the constant creation of, purchase of, and indulgence in "holiday foods and beverages,"

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Why do people make up sappy Catholic-related emails and send them around the Internet? One of the annoying forwards that keeps showing up in my Inbox claims that it contains a prayer by Mother Theresa or St. Theresa. The purported prayer is always the same, a new agey blurb that affirms that we are all just where we are supposed to be... The manipulation used by the writer of this prayer email is

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Thanks, Michael and all,for all your hard work in pulling the singing together. It is a great thing that we are able to now sing the Traditional Latin Mass every week in the beautiful setting of Five Wounds Church. Thanks to Fr. Moreau and all for making it happen.All: as Mike knows, I firmly believe that we should stick to the official definition of chant, which is "unaccompanied." Here is a

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Theology of Gym Killer George SodiniFollowing is a quote from the blog of George Sodini, who killed four people (including himself) and wounded nine others in a Pittsburgh gym on August 4, 2009. The mind of the about-to-be killer mulled over the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone and pushed it to its logical absurdity (reductio ad absurdum[1]). Maybe soon, I will see God and

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Photo: Julia Child's Cambridge kitchen, on display at the Smithsonian.. In the movie, the Julie/Julia Project, the richness of Julia Child's life experience, relationships, and accomplishments (especially in Paris) contrasts sharply with the poverty of blogger Julie Powell's life, friendships, and ambitions in Queens and Manhattan. The plot: Julie Powell creates a blog describing her

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This blog contains quotes from two email Newsflash letters from Robert Moynihan, Inside the Vatican editor and journalist http://www.insidethevatican.com. In these excerpts, Moynihan describes some of the controversy around Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, a prominent figure behind the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms. From my own readings of the council document on the liturgy, I have been amazed

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It is amazing now to think back on the fact that Fulton J. Sheen, a Catholic archbishop, had a weekly TV show that was vastly popular in the 50s and 60s, in which he defended the Catholic faith. We used to watch it every week when my grandma could convince my uncle to give up watching equally popular comedian Milton Berle on another channel. According to Wikipedia, when Sheen won an Emmy, Berle

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In 1984 or so,when I was a graduate student, writing instructor, and divorced mother of two small children, I wrote a pro-life opinion piece that was published in the Minnesota Daily. In the article, I described waiting for a bus with my children one frigid day in downtown Minneapolis and seeing protesters parading with bloody photos of battered baby seals. They didn't seem to be attracting any

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THIS PHOTO SHOWS: Schwabmunchen 2 after the Allies liberated Germany. German civilians were forced by the Third Army soldiers to dig up bodies, make coffins, and give the victims more-decent burials. The photo shows about 500 Germans attending burial services for the victims. The German pastor conducting the services said local residents were unaware of the atrocity.In Germany during Nazi rule,

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[Y]ou have to search far and wide to find out about the fact that embryonic stem cells have already been proven to be too undifferentiated to be useful. They morph unpredictably when injected into another person, not changing into the desired sort of cells but often becoming cancer cells. ...Obama doesn’t realize that the fallacy of "free sex" and the fallacious idea that we cannot control

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Conservatives are more likely to be older, married and religious, all of which increases happiness [quote from "How Our Unconscious Votes," Newsweek May 26, 2008]I found the above quote in an old Newsweek in a break area at work. I know this is almost a year old, but I've been out of touch. :-) Below is more of the context from the article.In a 2006 survey by Pew Research Center, 47 percent of

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Father Richard John Neuhaus, the late editor of First Things wrote the following in 1999 about pro-abortion commencement speakers: It is exceedingly tiresome when college and university administrators protest that they don’t do what they so obviously do do. While effusively affirming their devotion to their ‘Catholic identity,’ they deny it by the most egregious of actions. One university

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Musings Prompted by Bits from Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua,As you may know, John Cardinal Henry Newman was a famous convert to Anglicanism in 1845, and he is being considered for canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. The first time I tried to read Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Defense of One's Life), I found it dull. Praise I'd previously seen for Newman's writing style was always of

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O Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor,obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously,putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations,to work with gratitude and joy,in a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins,considering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor the gifts received from God,to work with order, peace, moderation and patience,

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Graham Greene was one of many, many, intellectuals who were appalled at the prohibition of the Latin Mass in the Traditional form after Vatican II. "Historically, lay intellectuals were actually those to realize more and better the disaster, the actual cultural destruction, represented by the "prohibition" of the liturgy of Saint Pius V and the disappearance of Latin as sacred language of the

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The following quote about Greene's preference for the Latin Mass is from Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination by Mark Bosco, S.J., Oxford University Press 2005:Though he welcomed the ecumenical spirit of the Council and its consequent stress on faith and justice, his Catholic identity was much tested by his personal distaste for the vernacular liturgy. Greene felt there was a diminishment of the

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I just came across this interesting 2001 Atlantic article, Graham Green's Vatican Dossier, which is an account of the censure of Greene's The Power and The Glory by the Vatican. The article gives unexpected insights into two popes' intellectual qualities: Pope Paul VI and currently-reigning Pope Benedict XVI.The Atlantic article's author, Peter Godman, was intrigued by a brief mention in Greene's

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An early draft of Obama’s inaugural speechPosted using ShareThis

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Above: The Roman Missal of 1962If you would like to see at a glance the differences between the two forms of the Mass that are currently allowed in the Roman rite, the words and actions that make up both forms are given side by side on this page from The Latin Mass society of England and Wales. Every time I think I am getting a grasp of the nuances of the recent history and usage of the Roman

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Gretchen Bohl, the wife of my first cousin once removed, whom I've never met (1), tagged me on Facebook in her note "25 Random Things About Me." Once you are taggged, you are supposed to write your own list of 25 random things then choose 25 people to be tagged. I did that already. Just for the record, and for anyone who chances onto this blog and wants to know more about me, here is my list.1.

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Greetings on the 14th Day of ChristmasThe arrangement of Church year changed a lot after the Vatican Council II. The main change in the liturgical cycle between the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms was the insertion of two periods of "ordinary time" into the year, which are assigned the liturgical color green. The pre-Lenten season called Shrovetide was dropped, and Ember days were removed, for a

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You are a newcomer, you might wonder how to follow the Mass. In the old days, the churches had missals in every pew. Now at the extraordinary form Masses, they sometimes have booklets, but they aren't nearly as helpful.I would recommend that people buy the Daily Roman missal of 1962. I bought St. Joseph's and another missal on Ebay, but was disappointed that they didn't have the Latin and English

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The Church Music Association of America website (musicasacra.com) has a wealth of information for priests and lay people on the use of chant and polyphony in the Mass. They publish the Sacred Music magazine, which is edited by Prof. William Mahrt from Stanford. And they have a huge number of books in PDF format for download, including books on how to sing Gregorian chant, music, and such

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The Roman Breviary site is lovely. What you find there a beautifully colorful and well designed site with lots of great art. The texts are from the pre-1962 breviary with very nice translations into English. They call their version the "real Breviary." Incidentally, they are definitely hostile to what they call the pseudo-traditional 1962 liturgy. An example of their prose (which you don't see

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If you know some Latin, but would like to have help with translating the words of the Mass or the chants, you might be interested in a wonderful Latin Words program that I use all the time,which is downloadable for free. You can paste into it a complete sentence or more, and it will show you the options for translating each word in the sentence. Here's http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/

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As I wrote in the title to this blog, I have seen it written that Pope Benedict XVI, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, called for a new liturgical movement. This quote from his preface to the 1992 French translation of Reform of the Roman Liturgy by Monsignor Klaus Gamber. is the only instance I've found in which Cardinal Ratzinger used the term, and he was quoting a young priest. But his points

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At the Oratory of Our Mother of Perpetual Help where I sing chant in the Diocese of San Jose, our rector, Fr. Moreau, is from the pontifical Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. They are an amiable group of priests dedicated to the usus antiquor. They also have the Oakland bishop's blessing to lead a similar community at beautiful St. Margaret Mary Church in Oakland.The Institute of

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I have been part of the tiny schola at an oratory dedicated to the extraordinary form Masses for about a year. This form of the Mass is not anything new to me because I was raised in it before the changeover to the Novus Ordo Mass occurred during the 60s. In parochial grammar school, the music sister taught us the Ordinary Gregorian chants Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, and the

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I started jotting down some notes and references about the traditional form of the Mass in response to a young friend of mine, Dana Cash, who I met as a fellow Israel pilgrim in 2004. Dana is somehow connected to a group called Una Voce and somehow involved in the creation of a website for the Tridentine Mass. DefinitionsThe correct term for this type of Mass is the extraordinary form. Pope

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This little statue of the Christ Child is carried in procession on Christmas Eve to the cave under the Basilica of the Nativity where Christ was born. I took this blurry photo in the adjacent church of St. Catherine of Alexandria, where the figure is kept behind glass under an altar.I have been touched more and more during these past few Christmastides with the stunning paradox that God became a

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I don't like horror movies. I don't dream horrifying dreams. But election night after the results were in, I had a horror-movie type dream.As the dream started, I was in a run down house that I own only in my dreams. (Come to think of it, I do have horrifying dreams of a sort. The horror is in their futility. They are generally about vainly looking for a place to live or about wandering around a

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No other issue, not all other issues taken together, can constitute a proportionate reason for voting for candidates that intend to preserve and defend this holocaust of innocent human life that is abortion.Fr. John Corapi (see his article included at the bottom of this post). On the Democratic ticket, we have Joe Biden, a Catholic for abortion (against the teachings of the Church) running for

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It all started when M- (a woman) posted a humorous comparison between Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Barack Obama on my Northside Neighborhood yahoo group.--------- initial post from M --------------------Since we're takling about the candidates...Got this from a good friend and found it to be quite interesting. It's all about spin I guess. I'll try not to send anything else political, but just

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Subtitle: Riling up the Opposition at The California Democratic Party Line BlogAt The CA Dem Party Line Blog, a video of Sarah Palin's vist to CA shows only Obama supporters. They talk a lot about how women need to protect their rights to control their own bodies, which prompted the following comment from me:Women need the right to be in charge of their own bodies. The truth is that we have been

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If you separate your labor from the day of rest and from doing your will on my holy day, and call yourself the delicate, holy, and glorious Lord's day of rest, and if you glorify him by not doing your own ways and not fulfilling your own will, then you will delight in the Lord, and I will extol you above the heights of the earth and feed you with the inheritance of Jacob[Isaiah 58: 12-14]. This

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Sarah Palin's sudden emergence out of the North as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate was shocking at the very least. Many many people are very very upset about her candidacy. In the article, "Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin," Time magazine called her Queen of YouTube and the clips are mostly mocking. Hatred for Sarah Palin is strong in many circles.In the face of all this vitriol, I am

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Jeffrey Tucker, who is an actuary, family man (he told me he has four children!), Sacred Music managing editor, CMAA organizer, and very active contributor to multiple blogs about sacred music, who must simply never sleep, wrote a tribute to Wilko Browers, Horst Bucholtz, William Mahrt, and Scott Turkington at The New Liturgical Movement blog. The four musicians and teachers he lauds were just a

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Left: Cartoon on canvas for a painting of mine in progress, "Notre Dame des Vignerons""This blog contains answers to the following question that was posted on LinkedIn Answers forum in April: "Is anyone an expert on religion who is willing to interview on religious art?" Menachem Weckeer published my answers in his blog, Iconia.The answers were prepared thoughtfully, but they are somewhat

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The St. Thomas Aquinas Catechism Study Group is suspended.The leader, Fr. Wiener, starts a new assignment in Sept. in St. Louis. The priest who replaces him may be willing to continue with this group, but we'll have to see.

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From an email I sent a few weeks ago to the San Jose Mercury News:I am a freelance journalist and photographer, and I hope you can take a look at a story about what might be the last public St. Joseph's Table (La Tavola di San Giuseppe) put on in San José.It will be held March 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the Italian American Heritage Foundation on 425 North 4th St., San José.La Tavola di San Giuseppe is

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This past weekend, I attended a Carmelite retreat at San Damiano retreat center on top of a big hill outside the upscale town of Danville. The Franciscans who run the retreat center refer to the place as "Holy Hill" in their newsletter.It's warmer there than here where I live in San Jose, and though I see a few harbingers of Spring in my yard at home, with the forsythia putting out tentative

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Dec. 25, 2007, is long past. Just as I thought I'd get a chance to jot down my yearly reminiscences early this time, a series of unfortunate events occurred. The first event was a small fire on my dining room table on the 4th Sunday of Advent, three days before Christmas. I lit the four candles on my Advent wreath, said a few prayers, and then left the wreath unattended when I went off to sing

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Why I missed the Latin class last night.A saintly woman at Holy Cross Church, Dolores Spada, died last Sunday at 75, and I attended her wake last night. I told Kevin (our Latin class teacher) that I would stay for the rosary and then come to Susan W's 1/2 hour late for the class, but then it seemed rude to get up and walk out in the middle of the tributes that followed the rosary. Besides, my

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I found some interesting quotations about essential qualities of a theologian this morning when cleaning out my bathroom. Really! In a basket of steam-wrinkled reading material that I decided to purge, I found a handout that one of my lay Carmelite brothers gave me, which he had received I believe during a month-long vocation-discerning retreat in a Cistercian monastery. I don't know much about

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Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic FeminismDonna Steichen Second printing, 1992. 1991 Ignatius Press, San FranciscoIt may be hard to believe if you haven't come across this information before, but this book describes rage-filled feminists, some gone madly into witchcraft, among some Catholic women in religious orders and in leadership roles in schools, parishes, and dioceses after Vatican

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In this blog is an assortment of information about the front page SFChronicle article yesterday about Prof. Mahrt and the St. Ann choir.The attachment is one of the photos you can see at sfgate.com (link further down). Nice photo. It's a bit odd, though, that Susan Altstatt got included as one of the tenors!You can listen to the podcast, including more quotes from the interview that didn't get

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This coming Wednesday, December 12, CMAA President and St. Ann Choir Director, Prof. William Mahrt is scheduled to appear on EWTN TV and radio on the subject of "Sacred Music and Liturgy." He will be on the "EWTN Live" show with host Fr. Mitch Pacwa at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. (The show encores: Thur. 12/13. at 1 a.m., Thur. 12/13 at 9 a.m. and Sun. 12/ 16 4 a.m. Eastern time. You can also find

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A photographer and a writer from San Francisco Chronicle showed up at the St. Ann choir rehearsal and Mass last Sunday (Feast of Christ the King). The writer asked me a few questions outside the church, and she gave me her card and said she would call me. I sent her the following email on Tuesday.-----Original Message-----Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:24 PMTo: Sturrock, CarrieSubject: What

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This interview was published in an edited form in "Gregorian Champ," National Catholic Register Nov. 18 -24.Above: Prof. Mahrt led the women's chant schola at the June 2007 Sacred Music ColloquiumIn 1963, William Mahrt was a Stanford graduate student when he joined a new choir just starting at St. Ann Chapel in Palo Alto, California. Today, Mahrt is a professor of music at Stanford and director

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Q: For people who may not know your first book, please explain the title: Salvation is From the Jews: The Role of Judaism In Salvation History From Abraham to the Second Coming.A: The book examines the role of Judaism in salvation history as illumined by the Catholic faith. If the second person of the Most Holy Trinity was to incarnate, it would be among a particular people at a particular point

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Roy Schoeman and the Return of the JewsFrom a Jewish Perspective Within the Catholic FaithAfter Roy Schoeman's first book, Salvation is from the Jews, was published in late 2003 by Ignatius Press, the book became one of the press's top sellers. Then another one of their notable authors, Cardinal Ratzinger, became Pope Benedict XVI—at which point the Ratzinger titles started flying off the shelves

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I found a valuable site browsing for a translation of Super Flumina (more precisely of "in sallicibus . . . suspendimus organa nostra") this morning. (Don't you do stuff like that at 6 am?)I am overjoyed to find that the Breviary is online with Latin and English side by side. It is now set to be my default browser page.This is from the website:-------------------The Confraternity of Ss. Peter &

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Last month, I published an article about Roy Schoeman at National Catholic Register. The text of the article follows. I took the above photo at his home in Gloucester, Mass. when I interviewed him on Memorial Day, 2006. He is wearing a cap he bought in Jerusalem during the same trip on which I met him. Sweetness and LightRoy Schoeman on What Drives Some Jews to ChristBY Roseanne Therese

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Dear Liturgy and Romance Columnist, While I was walking on Drake's Beach in Marin County, CA, with a very attractive devout Catholic of the opposite sex in July, the subject of sacred music naturally (:-)) came up in the conversation. Fresh from the June 2007 Church Music Assocation colloquium, I ventured to articulate enthusiastically some of the ideas that I had been reading and hearing, which

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Witchcraft is one of our society's accepted options. Admittedly, the following news is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and it is about an event held in Oakland, which is right next to Bezerkley, so the people involved welter on the bleeding edge of liberal activism, but still, the matter of factness of the presentation is telling. From the San Francisco Chronicle Friday, September 28, 2007, in

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The following two letters surfaced when I was cleaning out my folders on my computer. THe .doc file is dated in 2003. I don't even know if I mailed these, but they do say what I think, so I'm recording them here.Dear Senator Santorum,As a fellow Catholic, I want to give you my support for speaking out against overthrowing laws against sodomy. I know that you have gotten a lot of bad press,

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Above: Halloween 2006: Marketing and Techical Publications Groups Present 'The Filming of Star Wars' (I'm the Senator/Announcer second from right)This year, I'm not going to participate in the Halloween extravaganza at work again. BTW I cannot think of better word than extravaganza to express the elaborate extent people go to for the yearly competition. It goes way beyond mere dress up. Teams

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Below is an email I sent to the University of Minnesota Alumni Association after reading in the alumni magazine a proud report of the UoM's support for stem cell research. I just found it while cleaning out my mailbox, and I want to save it, because it says pretty clearly what I think of stem cell research, not to mention test tube impregnation.________________________________________From:

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The St. Ann Choir website has reposted Susan Altstatt's chant pages for the first Mass of Christmas, which are shown here. I copied them because the images are not linkable directly (you have to go to www.stannchoir.org and click on Music to see them, I think because the site uses frames).NOTE: Copied with permission. Can be displayed online but not printed without permission. For how to obtain

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Some of you might remember the poster I did for The Feast of St. Ann on July 26 this year, It was based on a beautiful illuminated chant page for the Introit for the feast--so any credit for the beauty of the poster should go to the artist, Susan Altstatt who illuminated the chant page and did the calligraphy. Susan is a professional artist. She and her husband John are St. Ann Choir members

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There are signs of hope for those of us who miss the beauty that was effaced in many church remodelings in misguided attempts to follow the "spirit" of the Second Vatican Council. At the Sacred Music Colloquium in DC in June, I met Linda Spicer, a choir member from St. Patrick's in Kokomo Indiana. The story she told me about her church's restoration is one of those signs. I have never heard the

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Above: Pope Gregory the Great dictating what the Holy Spirit puts into his mouth -- from the Golden Legend, image from Antiphonary of Hartker of Sankt-Gallen (Cod. Sang. 390, p. 13) Date: ca. 1000Today, Labor Day 2007, is the Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the Catholic Church. And for those who follow the old church calendar, it is the Memorial of St. Pius X, pope. Both of

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This article was published in the Fall 2005 issue of the Northside Newsletter and in two installments in the Valley Catholic newspaper of the Diocese of San José, on September 20 and October 18, 2005, with some edits in each publication. It is a companion piece to SS Sagradischimo Crucifisci to Holy Cross: Northside San Jose Church History Click here for more photos.Rosalia Villegas, parishioner

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This article was published in the Fall 2005 issue of the Northside Newsletter and in two installments in the Valley Catholic newspaper of the Diocese of San José, on September 20 and October 18, 2005, with some edits in each publication.Holy Cross Parish on East Jackson and North 13th streets, in the Northside neighborhood of San José, began celebrating its 100th anniversary this past September [

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You might enjoy these photos of a Baptism August 25 in the Traditional Rite by ICKSP priest Fr. Michael Wiener. The baptism shown in these photos took place at St. Margaret Mary Church, Oakland, CA., using the traditional rite. As it happened, I witnessed another Baptism the next day at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto, where I was singing the usual Sunday Noon Novus Ordo Latin Mass with

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