Merry Christmas

Illi quisnam diligo Latin Strues , Volo vos totus a Hilaris Sarcalogos repleo per God's diligo.

Merry Christmas

I wish you the Blessings of Jesus, and His
Father, and the Holy Spirit, our one Triune God, for a very Merry Christmas.
Nam Iesum ut vos amore beatitudinis, pacis et gaudium in adventu novus annus

Build a what...where?

So from what I have read, it seems that OLLMP received back around $20,000.00 from RVCD, which was the % given back to parishes for giving in to the Bishops Appeal. And big pockets Msgr had intentions of erecting a monument of Our Lady of Lourdes on the side facing Carmens Road.
He still doesn't get it. If he were to give that money to the children he shut out of the School when he had closed it, it would do a lot more good than erecting a grotto on the side of the church facing Carmens Road. How about not making any collections for 3 or 4 months? How about giving some of that money to needy people in the area? How about donating it to fighting against abortions? Does he think that the people in the neighborhood do not know that the Church is there? TBSS For someone who doesn't like the Liberals in Washington, he acts just like them,
always looking for ways to spend the people's money.

What happened Harry? Lost your touch?

Don't ask, don't tell' procedural vote fails
By Ed O'Keefe and Paul Kane
Updated 5:41 p.m. ET
A Senate procedural vote to move forward with debate on a bill ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" law failed Thursday to earn the 60 votes necessary to proceed, delivering a significant blow to efforts to allow gays to serve openly.

Despite the setback, senators fighting to end the ban said they would introduce a separate bill to repeal it.

The bill will be cosponsored by Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), who often work together on homeland security and defense issues. They said the bill will have bipartisan support.

President Obama expressed disappointment and urged senators to reconsider the National Defense Authorization Act before the end of the lame-duck session.

"Despite having the bipartisan support of a clear majority of senators, a minority of senators are standing in the way of the funding upon which our troops, veterans and military families depend," Obama said in a statement. "This annual bill has been enacted each of the past 48 years, and our armed forces deserve nothing less this year."

Senators voted 57 to 40 to advance the NDAA, which contained language ending the ban, as all Republicans except Collins held firm on a vow to block any legislation that does not address tax cuts or government spending. One Democrat, Sen. Joseph Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted against.

"We've tried every possible way to do this," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday before the vote. More than a week of negotiations with Collins and Lieberman.

Throughout the first 15 minutes of the vote, Collins repeatedly broke into huddles with Lieberman and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), reading through legislative language on the floor, at times rolling it up into a ball and angrily waving her arms about how the process was handled. Collins voted with Democrats to proceed on the bill, though by then it was clear her vote would not effect the outcome.

Collins, Reid and Lieberman had negotiated for more than week on an agreement that would allow Republicans to introduce up to 10 amendments to the bill, with Democrats adding up to five.

Collins agreed to the amendment count Wednesday, but held firm to a request for at least four days of debate on the bill and amendments. Reid rebuffed her request, citing the need to proceed with the tax and spending measures before the Senate's planned departure next weekend.

"History will hold these senators accountable and so will many of their constituents," said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a group pushing for repeal of the law. "There will be no place for these Senators to hide. The Senate and the president must remain in session and in Washington to find another path for repeal to get done in the lame-duck."

"Leaders of both parties let down the U.S. military and the American people," said Joe Solomonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization with close ties to the White House and Congressional Democrats "Instead of doing what is right, 'the world's greatest deliberative body' devolved into shameful schoolyard spats that put petty partisan politics above the needs of our women and men in uniform."

Thursday's vote saps gay-rights activists of their strongest legislative option for ending the ban; they now plan to pressure Obama to act on his own through executive action. Obama could order the Justice Department to stop appealing federal court cases challenging the constitutionality of the law or use his powers as commander-in-chief to issue a stop-loss order halting military discharges and the removal of any gay troops in violation of the ban.

Executive action by Obama is "imperative in order for him to fulfill his State of the Union promise," Solomonese said. "The only measure of success is an end to the discharges and anything less is unacceptable."

"I think the president strongly believes that one of two things is going to happen: Either Congress is going to solve this legislatively, or the courts are going to solve this," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday before the vote. "The policy is going to come to an end."

A Pentagon spokesman said the Defense Department had no immediate comment. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen support ending the ban through legislation this year, as do some of the military service chiefs. But the heads of the Army and Marine Corps last week expressed reservations about ending the ban this year as combat troops continue to face the pressures of ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Going back to the basics, LATIN

TraditioIlal Latin Mass
Now growth in NY is slow but steady - about 380 Masses in 154 U.S. Dioceses. The Holy Father has expressed a wish that there be at least one Mass in the Extraordinary Form every Sunday in every parish. In spite of this, there are groups of the faithful who cannot find a priest; there are dynamic young priests who are rebuffed by their pastors when they ask to say the Latin Mass.
However, young people are enthusiastic, priests are hopeful. Training programs are offered for interested priests. We .encourage each priest who offers Mass in the Extraordinary form to
teach one other priest, Latin must be taught in every semmary, as Bl. Pope John XXIII insisted.
Those who love the Latin Mass should persevere, with patience, prayer, penance, and above all,
Pray, pray. A recent survey of Catholics in England reports that while 40% of Catholics were aware of Summorum Poniificum, 60% had never heard of it. A further question: "If Mass were celebrated in Latin and Gregorian chant in its Extraordinary Form in your parish , Would you attend It?" Practicing Catholics (defined as
those who attend Mass at least monthly) gave these responses:
43% would attend every week; 23%, once a month; 17% occasionally; 8% never.
What results would such a poll reveal about Catholics in the United States? How can anyone
be expected to want the Extraordinary Form if they haven't ever been told that it is allowed,
much less encouraged by the Holy Father? Those of us who are so informed should redouble
our efforts to spread the word, to educate and encourage priests and faithful

Other news concerns the new English translation for the Ordinary Form of the Mass.
Many years in the making, it is to be used in every parish in the US effective the First Sunday in
Advent,27 November,2010.Some ask, "Whats wrong with the present translation?" "Why do we need a new one?"
But we all need some short, concise talking points to give our Nouus Ordo
friends. Credo means "I believe", not "we". The new translation is so much closer to the Latin. This new translation does not affect the Traditional Latin Mass, the Extraordinary Form .
The changes reflect the true theology of the Holy Sacrifice. Nothing has changed. Could it be that in the future Catholics, exposed to the truths of their Faith better expressed in the new wordings,
would become more open to the traditions as expressed even more fully in the Latin Mass?
In November, 1988, a group- of 16 Catholics met in Chicago to assess the status of our beloved old Mass in Latin. Pope John Paul II's letter, Ecclesia Dei, has given hope to Catholics who felt the loss of something priceless. More and More Catholics are yearning for the Latin Mass, as a truer form of reverence to the celebration of the mass.

"Ecclesia dei"

ECCLESIA DEI

Traditional Latin Mass
Now growth in NY is slow but steady - about 380 Masses in 154 U.S. Dioceses. The Holy Father has expressed a wish that there be at least one Mass in the Extraordinary Form every Sunday in every parish. In spite of this, there are groups of the faithful who cannot find a priest; there are dynamic young priests who are rebuffed by their pastors when they ask to say the Latin Mass.
However, young people are enthusiastic, priests are hopeful. Training programs are offered for interested priests. We .encourage each priest who offers Mass in the Extraordinary form to
teach one other priest, Latin must be taught in every semmary, as Bl. Pope John XXIII insisted.
Those who love the Latin Mass should persevere, with patience, prayer, penance, and above all,
Pray, pray. A recent survey of Catholics in England reports that while 40% of Catholics were aware of Summorum Poniificum, 60% had never heard of it. A further question: "If Mass were celebrated in Latin and Gregorian chant in its Extraordinary Form in your parish , Would you attend It?" Practicing Catholics (defined as
those who attend Mass at least monthly) gave these responses:
43% would attend every week; 23%, once a month; 17% occasionally; 8% never.
What results would such a poll reveal about Catholics in the United States? How can anyone
be expected to want the Extraordinary Form if they haven't ever been told that it is allowed,
much less encouraged by the Holy Father? Those of us who are so informed should redouble
our efforts to spread the word, to educate and encourage priests and faithful

Other news concerns the new English translation for the Ordinary Form of the Mass.
Many years in the making, it is to be used in every parish in the US effective the First Sunday in
Advent,27 November,2010.Some ask, "Whats wrong with the present translation?" "Why do we need a new one?"
But we all need some short, concise talking points to give our Nouus Ordo
friends. Credo means "I believe", not "we". The new translation is so much closer to the Latin. This new translation does not affect the Traditional Latin Mass, the Extraordinary Form .
The changes reflect the true theology of the Holy Sacrifice. Nothing has changed. Could it be that in the future Catholics, exposed to the truths of their Faith better expressed in the new wordings,
would become more open to the traditions as expressed even more fully in the Latin Mass?
In November, 1988, a group- of 16 Catholics met in Chicago to assess the status of our beloved old Mass in Latin. Pope John Paul II's letter, Ecclesia Dei, has given hope to Catholics who felt the loss of something priceless. More and More Catholics are yearning for the Latin Mass, as a truer form of reverence to the celebration of the mass.

"Ecclesia dei"

There is no such thing as a "New Mass".

Lucy E. Carroll has an excellent article in the latest issue of Adoremus Bulletin, a newspaper dedicated to the “reform of the reform”(I wish them luck), titled “What the Novus Ordo is – and Isn’t.” I have posted excerpts from the article below (forgive the length). Emphasis and commentary are mine.

“There is no such thing as the ‘new’ Mass. No, the Mass is not a new Mass. If so, it would be called the ‘Missa nova.’(Are you telling me that no priests or bishops, many of whom were ordained back when Latin was still a mandatory subject in the seminary, caught that in the past 40 years? Hardly. Or did they purposely misinterpreted it for the laity because they had their own agenda?) No, it is the same Mass, trimmed down and slightly re-ordered, hence the new ordering (or Novus Ordo).

“Some practices vary between the two forms. In the extraordinary form, the priest and people always face the tabernacle while in the (plain ol’) ordinary form, the priest almost always faces the people, though the Council never mandated this change in posture, and it not required.

“After the Council, Communion rails were often removed, or were not installed in new churches, though this was an innovation. The rails were not just to keep folks out of the sanctuary. The Communion rail can be seen as kind of an ‘extension’ of the altar, and, like the altar, the railing was often made of marble.

“Contrary to some mistaken ideas, bells and incense have never been forbidden. Indeed, the Novus Ordo allows for a more generous use of incense.

“But even with the variations (or in some cases nonsense and novelties), the ordinary form of the Mass is still the Sacrifice of Calvary prefigured at the Last Supper and completed in the Resurrection.(It is sad that so many people who attend Mass and call themselves Catholic do not know that, much less understand it.) It is not something new."