Don’t forget, it’s not over. It is the Octave of Easter – we celebrate for eight days. With over 2 billion Christians in the world, that’s a pretty big celebration.
Check out this video below!
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A Boy and his Dog
This is cute. What loyalty! What love! What patience!
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=d_EZDBVuOk4
Poll Alert!
From Fr. Z’s blog:
The dreadful TIME Magazine (dreadful when it comes to anything about the Catholic Church) is having a poll and you should participate
From their site:
The 2012 TIME 100 Poll
Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are themost influential people in the world. Official voting ends on Friday, April 6, and the poll winner will be included in the TIME 100 issue. The complete TIME 100 list will be chosen by our editors and revealed on TIME.com on Tuesday, April 17.
Note well the language: “influential”.
It does NOT say “whom you like” or “whom you agree with”.
It says “influential”.
Given what is going on in the USA right now, Timothy Card. Dolan, as President of the USCCB engagedon our behalf in a battle with the White House over the religious liberty and civil rights of all Americans… and making headway… is nothing if not “influential”.
Card. Dolan should be on that list. If he is on that list, he’ll get some “street kred”, though the newsies will ignore it. Will it make huge difference? Perhaps not. But when pundits and talking heads prattle about this our battle in the news, they could say, “Hey! Keep in mind that Card. Dolan is considered in the top 100 by TIME…”, or, if you are an enemy, “Why should the White House listen to Card. Dolan? Nancy Pelosi, Lady Gaga and Kathleen Sebelius are on the TIME list and Dolan isn’t! Theeeyyyy support the PREZ-i-dent!” Yes, newsies and talking heads can be that shallow. But this is the world we live in. You know that what I am saying is true.
Read more here!
I hate Latin!
In my parish, we have the Sanctus (Holy), Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) and the Acclamation of Faith (Mortem Tuam) in Latin at all of our sung Masses, and on Solemnities and Feasts, we sing the Gloria in Latin. Our choir also sings some of the hymns in Latin. It took a number of years for us to get to this point and along the way it was a struggle. Even today, I someone will occasionally say, “I don’t like Latin. Why are all of the Masses in Latin”. I try to explain that the majority of the Mass is always in the vernacular (English). The introductory rites, collects, readings, responses, prefaces, Eucharistic Prayer, Communion Rite, dismissal and all of the sung propers are in the vernacular for all of our Masses, except for the monthly Mass in the Extraordinary Form. That is a far cry from the whole Mass being in Latin. For years, I have taught how the Second Vatican Council, a number of other Church documents and all of the Popes since Vatican II, including both Blessed John XXIII and Paul VI have consistently taught that “care must be taken to insure that the faithful may also be able to say or sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them.” The response is usually, “I don’t care, I don’t understand Latin.”
Today, my music director’s 8 year old son served the Latin Mass for the first time. Tommy has been preparing for the past month and knows all of the prayers at the foot of the altar by heart. It is funny to see how unbiased young people and children are to learning and attending Mass in Latin. Just reminds me of Our Lord’s worlds: “to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 19:14)
iPadre #253 – Interview with Father Z
In this episode, we have an interview with my good friend Fr. John Zuhlsdorf. We chat about his journey to the Catholic Faith and the Priesthood and Summorum Pontificum. We also have another Mary Moment with Sarah Reinhard.
– Music: “Grace” by Rebecca Loebe
– Fr. Z’s Blog
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Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – for who?
So Nancy Pelosi said that Obamacare gurantees “Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness”. Isn’t that wonderful! But for who? Obamacare will be responsible for more abortions. There will be selective treatment divvied out by a government board. Death squads that “terminate” those who want to be “end their lives” like in the Netherlands will soon appear on our shores. Yes Nancy, it does guarantee “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” but the unborn, special needs and the elderly NEED NOT APPLY.
a New iPadre Promo
For any of you podcasters out there. Here is a new promo for the podcast.
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Cristiada
A new movie about Mexico in 1926. Will this be the America of tomorrow? It looks like a great movie.
UPDATE: In the US, the movie will be called “For Greater Glory”
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=6pu4gst3FmI
iPadre #252 – Confession
By the Lord’s own preaching, we are called to conversion in our daily lives. Conversion comes hard, but Christ gives us the ability to convert daily as He offers us forgiveness and healing through the Sacrament of Penance.
– Music: “Prodigal” by Abi Grace
– Download the Guide to the Sacrament of Penance
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Church of England still reject the monarch marrying Catholics
It’s hard to believe that the Church of England is still in the dark ages of bigotry! An article in The Telegraph states that a group of Bishops are going to fight Government plans to allow the monarch to marry a Catholic. Part of the article is below.
The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, who leads the 26 bishops who sit in the House of Lords, tells The Sunday Telegraph that David Cameron’s policy to end Britain’s 300-year-old succession laws risks overturning the Church’s constitutional role.
Bishop Stevens also defended the bishops’ recent political opposition to several Government reforms and said that they were watching draft legislation carefully for measures that could disadvantage particularly poor or vulnerable people.
He argued that the Prime Minister’s plans to repeal the ban on the monarch being married to a Catholic posed a serious potential risk. Currently the Queen is required to take on the role of Supreme Governor of the Church of England — making it the established Church. But the bishops said that it would be impossible for a Catholic monarch to have that role.
If Mr Cameron’s reforms were passed it would be possible for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s firstborn child to marry a Catholic and still ascend the throne. If that monarch had a child, he or she would have to be brought up as a Catholic under the rules of the Roman Catholic Church. [Note: the Catholic Church should change her rules.]
Bishop Stevens, convener of the Lords Spiritual, said that they would vote against Mr Cameron’s measure to amend the Act of Settlement if Rome did not relax its rules. There is no sign of Rome doing so.
The Anglican Church has opened wide the doors for the ordination of women and gays, to the chagrin of many of their members, but are unwilling to allow the monarch to marry a Catholic. In fact, they are even willing to perform weddings between people of the same sex, but unwilling to allow a natural marriage of the monarch to a Catholic. I think the Bishops of England need to look at their history. Roman Catholic until they broke with Rome over a King who wanted to live in sin.
Read the whole Telegraph story here.