Know your faith - The”New Mass”. In 1963, Pope Paul VI decreed that “the liturgical books are to be revised as soon as possible … and translated to the mother tongue.” In 2001, the Vatican issued, Liturgiam authenticam (2001), stating; “in translations of the liturgical texts from the official Latin originals, "the original text, insofar as possible, must be translated integrally and in the most exact manner, without omissions or additions in terms of their content, and without paraphrases or glosses.’ In the light of the new Latin version of the ‘Missal (2002), from which the translation must be made, the most obvious example was: “Dominus vobiscum” (The Lord be with you), and its reply; "Et cum spiritu tuo" (And with your spirit). This was at odds with the ‘73 translation where "And also with you" is used instead: this demonstrates the fundamental deviation from the Latin text. The International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL) oversees the translation and presents these in sections to the bishops for comment (called The Green Book - in several versions) and for vote (The Gray Book). Eventually, this is passed to the pope for ratification. We are The Catholic (Universal) Church, and as English speakers, we are not in synergy with the rest of Catholicism in the Liturgical sense. So far, we are confronted with changes to the order of Holy Mass: in time, The Lectionary, The Breviary, The Ritual & Pontifical, The Martyrology and The Ceremonial of Bishops will follow.
Marius Vögel © 2009
Pope Paul VI Sacrosanctum Concilium, 4th December - Articles 25 & 36.4 (1963) International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc., The English translation of The Roman Missal © (1973)
Jorge A. Card. Medina Estévez, Prefect of The Congregation for Divine Worship and The Discipline of The Sacraments, Liturgiam authenticam (On The Use of Vernacular Languages in the publication of the books of The Roman Liturgy) Fifth Instruction “For the Right Implementation of the Constitution on The Sacred Liturgy of The Second Vatican Council” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, art. 36) 28 March 2001
International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL), Official Website - News Page a Joint Commission of Catholic Bishops Conferences http://www.icelweb.org/news.htm
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The Relics of St Augustine
Augustine died on 28 August 430.
Sometime before the early 8th century, St Augustine’s remains were translated from North Africa to Sardinia for fear of desecration. It is possible that St. Fulgentius of Ruspe took Augustine’s body to Sardinia. Fulgentius had run foul of the Arian Vandals then in North Africa and was driven out.
During the 8th century Augustine’s remains were once more in danger , but this time by the Arabs who swarmed all over the Mediterranean as pirates and brigands in general.
Sometime between 710 and 730 King Liutprand of the Lombards translated St Augustine's relics a second time. On 11 October, Luitprand had the holy relics interred in Pavia in the church of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro.
It is thought that Liutprand had to pay a huge sum to ransom the bones from some Muslim thug. (Hard to believe, I know.)
With the passage of time people simply forgot where the saints bones were actually located were in the church.
Eventually, the Church herself came to be controlled by two different Augustinian groups, the Canons Regular and the Hermits. Let’s just say their relations were strained and leave it at that. Then something happened that set off the war between them.
In 1695 a group of workman excavating under the altar in the crypt of the church found a marble box containing human bones. The box had some charcoal markings spelling the part of the word "Augustine", though those markings later disappeared. Great chaos ensued following the discovery.
The memory of just where St Augustine's relics were placed in the church, had been lost by the passing of time. Finding them again, set off a rather unpleasant battle concerning who had control ver the relics: the Augustinian Hermits and the Canons Regular.
Ultimately, Rome had to step in to resolve things. That’s what Popes do.
Pope Benedict XIII, a Dominican who changed his numbering from XIV to XIII so as to avoid being counting an anti-pope, got personally involved. He was very interested in saints and canonised the huge number of 18! At least that was a huge number before the pontificate of John Paul II.
This was also at the time when the future Pope Benedict XIV, Propsero Lambertini, published his fourth and final volume on the beatification of the servants of God and of the canonization of the blessed. Pope Lambertini would give us the legislation for the canonical processes of canonisations that has lasted with only a few changes to today.
In any event, Benedict XIII sent a letter to the Bishop of Pavia telling him to get their act together and figure out the questions of authenticity and control.
Additional studies were made under someone appointed by Benedict and by 19 September of 1729 things were wrapped up.
Processions were held, solemn proclamations made about the authenticity of the relics, a great Te Deum was sung and there was a fireworks display. Anyone who wanted to disagree and start the bickering again would be excommunicated. The good ol’ days.
The next year under Pope Clement XII the Cardinal Secretary of State (and a patron of the Canons Regular) commissioned the carving of the large main altar with its reliefs, completed in 1738, and which you can see today in the church where Augustine’s tomb is even now.
So, when you travel to northern Italy, be sure to stop in the interesting city of Pavia, south of Milan. There you will find the bones of the mighty north African Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine of Hippo.
Sometime before the early 8th century, St Augustine’s remains were translated from North Africa to Sardinia for fear of desecration. It is possible that St. Fulgentius of Ruspe took Augustine’s body to Sardinia. Fulgentius had run foul of the Arian Vandals then in North Africa and was driven out.
During the 8th century Augustine’s remains were once more in danger , but this time by the Arabs who swarmed all over the Mediterranean as pirates and brigands in general.
Sometime between 710 and 730 King Liutprand of the Lombards translated St Augustine's relics a second time. On 11 October, Luitprand had the holy relics interred in Pavia in the church of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro.
It is thought that Liutprand had to pay a huge sum to ransom the bones from some Muslim thug. (Hard to believe, I know.)
With the passage of time people simply forgot where the saints bones were actually located were in the church.
Eventually, the Church herself came to be controlled by two different Augustinian groups, the Canons Regular and the Hermits. Let’s just say their relations were strained and leave it at that. Then something happened that set off the war between them.
In 1695 a group of workman excavating under the altar in the crypt of the church found a marble box containing human bones. The box had some charcoal markings spelling the part of the word "Augustine", though those markings later disappeared. Great chaos ensued following the discovery.
The memory of just where St Augustine's relics were placed in the church, had been lost by the passing of time. Finding them again, set off a rather unpleasant battle concerning who had control ver the relics: the Augustinian Hermits and the Canons Regular.
Ultimately, Rome had to step in to resolve things. That’s what Popes do.
Pope Benedict XIII, a Dominican who changed his numbering from XIV to XIII so as to avoid being counting an anti-pope, got personally involved. He was very interested in saints and canonised the huge number of 18! At least that was a huge number before the pontificate of John Paul II.
This was also at the time when the future Pope Benedict XIV, Propsero Lambertini, published his fourth and final volume on the beatification of the servants of God and of the canonization of the blessed. Pope Lambertini would give us the legislation for the canonical processes of canonisations that has lasted with only a few changes to today.
In any event, Benedict XIII sent a letter to the Bishop of Pavia telling him to get their act together and figure out the questions of authenticity and control.
Additional studies were made under someone appointed by Benedict and by 19 September of 1729 things were wrapped up.
Processions were held, solemn proclamations made about the authenticity of the relics, a great Te Deum was sung and there was a fireworks display. Anyone who wanted to disagree and start the bickering again would be excommunicated. The good ol’ days.
The next year under Pope Clement XII the Cardinal Secretary of State (and a patron of the Canons Regular) commissioned the carving of the large main altar with its reliefs, completed in 1738, and which you can see today in the church where Augustine’s tomb is even now.
So, when you travel to northern Italy, be sure to stop in the interesting city of Pavia, south of Milan. There you will find the bones of the mighty north African Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine of Hippo.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
How can parents help children stay strong in their faith?
From http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/07/how-can-parents-help-children-stay.html
One of the tough things about being a convert to a religious belief system is that you don't have personal experience with raising children in that particular faith. I was recently talking to some fellow atheist-to-Catholic moms, and we all agreed that we feel like we're fumbling around in the dark sometimes; it's surprisingly hard to be a Christian parent and have no frame of reference for what a Christian childhood looks like.
Because of this, I've spent a lot of time soaking up wisdom from strong Christian families. For example, when I met a mother of 10 at a baby shower recently and heard that all 10 of her children (most of them grown) are devout Christians, I asked her a bunch of questions about faith and family life over plates of pastel-colored cake. When I overheard a woman at a social event remark that she and all three of her siblings have always had strong, vibrant relationships with Jesus, I struck up a conversation about how their religion played a role in their home growing up.
It's been fascinating. As I've had all these discussions, I've been looking for trends: Are there any universal themes among the families with children who have maintained a strong faith live into adulthood? Any things that stand out as being bigger factors than others?
Let me rush in with the caveats here and say that I realize that raising faith-filled kids isn't about doing this or not doing that. I don't think that I can just ape everything these other Christian parents have done and -- voila! -- all my kids will be saints. If I've learned one thing in my time as a Christian, it's that faith is about having a relationship with God, and relationships aren't about formulas and checklists. I also believe that, when children fall away from faith, in most cases it's not because their parents did something "wrong," but rather because of some confluence of forces at work in each individual person's psychological makeup and environment.
That said, I do think it would be helpful to those of us who still have young children (and especially to those of us who are also converts) to have a discussion about what the most important things are that parents can do to pave the road for their children to have a deep, lasting relationship with God. Again, there are no magic formulas, and whether each child chooses to follow the road that's been paved for him is up to him and God alone. But what can parents do to set their children up as well as possible in that department?
In my little informal study, I found three factors that almost every single family had in common:
- The parents prayed for their children to have faith
- The children saw the parents rely on God in real, concrete ways (e.g. if the father didn't get a big promotion at work he'd pray about what God wanted him to do next, express trust that God would bring good out of the situation, etc.)
- The parents and children prayed together at least occasionally
The families I talked to were surprisingly diverse in terms of the parents' outward holiness, faithfulness to church attendance, type of schools the kids went to, amount of time spent in group prayer, etc. -- yet all of them had those three factors in common. (And I should note that I'm using the plural "parents" as shorthand: I did talk to some single-parent families and families where only one parent was a believer.)
That data has given me a lot of great food for thought as I set out into this strange new territory of Christian motherhood, but I undoubtedly have a lot left to learn. I'd be interested to hear from you: What do you think are the most important things parents can do to help children stay strong in their faith?
Volunteers from hell
This appeared in the Southern Cross in July 2010 - all credit to the Souther Cross
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Message of Fatima in its Sorrowful Fulfilment
The Message of Fatima in its Sorrowful Fulfilment
Behold, as we stand before you, Mother of Christ, before your Immaculate Heart, we desire, together with the whole Church, to unite ourselves with the consecration which, for love of us, your Son made of himself to the Father: 'For their sake', he said, 'I consecrate myself that they also may be consecrated in the truth' (Jn 17:19). We wish to unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this his consecration for the world and for the human race, which, in his divine Heart, has the power to obtain pardon and to secure reparation. (...)
O Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future!
From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against the life of man from its very beginning, deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.
From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us, deliver us.
Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings, laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the 'sin of the world,' sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption: the power of merciful Love! May it put a stop to evil! May it transform consciences! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of Hope!"
Excerpt from the Entrustment by John Paul II of Individuals and Nations to Our Lady
Jublilee of Families, October 15, 2000. (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
Behold, as we stand before you, Mother of Christ, before your Immaculate Heart, we desire, together with the whole Church, to unite ourselves with the consecration which, for love of us, your Son made of himself to the Father: 'For their sake', he said, 'I consecrate myself that they also may be consecrated in the truth' (Jn 17:19). We wish to unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this his consecration for the world and for the human race, which, in his divine Heart, has the power to obtain pardon and to secure reparation. (...)
O Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future!
From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against the life of man from its very beginning, deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.
From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us, deliver us.
Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings, laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the 'sin of the world,' sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption: the power of merciful Love! May it put a stop to evil! May it transform consciences! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of Hope!"
Excerpt from the Entrustment by John Paul II of Individuals and Nations to Our Lady
Jublilee of Families, October 15, 2000. (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
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