Breviarium Romanum

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Look what arrived yesterday!

I have been using the Baronius version for a while now, but it is very big. It’s not the kind of book you want to travel with. So, I just got the one published by Nova & Vetera. The Baronius version of the Roman Breviary is very beautiful. It comes in three volumes. The one drawback is that each of the three volumes measures in at about 4-3/4″ x 7-1/4″ x 1-7/8″. The Nova & Vetera is in two volumes and measures in at about 4-1/2″ x 7-1/16″ x 1-1/8″. That is a difference of 3/4″. That extra 3/4″ in thickness and an extra volume account to the English text along with the Latin typical. Both beautiful Breviaries. Have a look at the Nova & Vetera.

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The Nova & Vetera on top of the Baronius

iPadre #333 – Good priests, bad priests and everything in between

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We are living in difficult time. Since the 1960’s many priests have abandoned their vocations and some have even betrayed it. Pray for priests!

– Prayer for Priests
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The correct formula for absolution

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penanceSomeone asked me a question on Facebook today regarding the form of absolution. The important part of the question he wrote:

When he gave me absolution he stuttered somewhat and said may our Lord Jesus Christ absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I was told in the past that the priest must say I absolve you of your sins etc. My question is was the absolution valid or am I being scrupulous?

I have had similar experiences. Priests either make up their own formula of absolution, or maybe they forgot (which is not an excuse). There are two specific confessions that I still remember the absolution being off. On priest said: “Be absolved, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.” And another priest said: “I absolve you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”

The Rite of Penance states that the priest “pronounces the formula of absolution, in which the essential (fundamental to the sacrament, or necessary for the sacrament to take place) words are: “I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.””

Listen, the priest has an obligation to follow the proscribed rites of the Church. This is not something that we priests can make up as we go along. We have a very serious obligation. A priest is playing with salvation of souls. And God is going to hold him liable.

I would consider this serious matter. That if a priest changes the words of absolution, he commits a mortal sin or the worst kind. If he repents and changes his ways, he will be forgiven, but his purgatory will be long and harsh.n

iPadre 332 – Homily for 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, b

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In this episode, I share my homily from this past weekend in which I talk about my response to same-sex marriage.


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iPadre #331 – Walk through the Mass – part 3

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ipadre-331-mass-03In this episode, we finish our series on the Mass. We have feedback. There is a question about gambling and another about vocations.

– Loving and Living the Mass by Fr. Thomas Kocik


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Erasing history is not a good precedent

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It seem as if the social unrest of the 1960’s is returning. However, this time it is with a lack of reverence for God and for our fellow man. In the 60’s churches of all denominations were overflowing. The Civil Rights Movement was lead and guided by people of faith in Jesus Christ. Martin Luther King did not march alone. He was standing side-by-side and walking hand-in-hand with  Protestant ministers of many confessions and also Catholic Priests. They marched on their religious convictions and fought for the dignity of the African Americans who were treated as non citizens.

We are living in dangerous times. It is not good to try to erase history. “He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.” Better to leave our history in full view to remind us and future generations from where we came, and where we never wish to return. No one of right mind wants to return to slavery. It is an evil that has been overcome. But removing a stained glass window with the Confederate Flag would be like raising the Nazi prison camps. Let them remain as a stark and to some painful remind of past evils, so that no one will every allow them to return.

The National Cathedral in Washington, DC has stained glass windows commemorating the Civil War. One of the windows contains a Confederate Flag. The window was probably view thousands of times since it was first placed in the cathedral. Yet now that we are in the midst of cultural upheaval there is a call for it’s removal. Would it not be better to have a plaque explaining the window and it’s original intent? I fear we are rewriting our history in many ways because we wish to be politically correct. But a people who knows not it’s history not only makes the same mistakes, they forget who they are and where they are going.

National Cathedral: Confederate Flag windows Should Come Down