Topics: Third Sunday of Advent: The Coming of Jesus Approaches...Father Jarrod Lies: Not Goodbye, See Ya Later!....Once Upon a Time: Men Wore The Pants...Bishop Fulton J. Sheen:Possible Sainthood
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_With sadness we bid so long (for now) to Father Lies as he transitions back to St. John, Clonmel to tend to his parish there. I'm sure we will see him soon enough (I believe he will sit in at mass and fill in when needed), but I for one am saddened to see him go.
That being said let us open our hearts and offer prayers for Father Eric Weldon as he, for the first time, celebrates mass in The Extraordinary Form this Sunday December 13, 2009 at St. Anthony, Wichita.
_I can't believe that anyone in Kansas has not been reading about Father Emil Kapaun in the special section of the Wichita Eagle. If you've been in a foreign prison or hiding under a rock but are interested in reading about this extraordinary man, soldier and Priest go to kansas.com , the website of The Wichita Eagle newspaper.
...and now the Necessaries
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is the only local church celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (EFLR) in the Wichita area. Though this blog is loosely centered around this parish and it's members, Venite Missa Est! is by no means, in any way an official voice of, or for, St. Anthony Parish or the Diocese of Wichita. Venite Missa Est is strictly a private layman's endeavor.
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Third Sunday of Advent
On this day the Church urges us to gladness in the middle of this time of expectation and penitence; the coming of Jesus approaches more and more.
St. John, the holy precursor, announces to the Jews the coming of the Saviour. "The Saviour" he says to them, "lives already among us, though unknown. He will soon appear openly." Now is the time for fervent prayers an for imploring Jesus to remain with us by His mercy. Let us prepare the way for Him by repentance and penitence and by a worthy reception of the sacraments. All the prayers of this Mass are filled with that which the Church wishes our souls to be possessed at the approach of the Saviour._The New Marian Missal
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Father Jarrod Lies: Not Goodbye, See Ya Later!
"It should of been louder.........". Those were the words that Father Jarrod Lies once started a homily with, proclaiming the birth of Christ. He was speaking about the sheer magnitude and meaning of the birth of The Messiah on that certain night some 2000 years ago there in the humblest of settings amongst the lowliest of creatures. Indeed such a universe jarring phenomena should of been louder, it should of reverberated around the world in an instant, trumpets blaring, voices rejoicing but it didn't...God chose to slip into this human realm quietly and humbly.
It should of been louder. Our love, appreciation and fondness for Father Jarrod Lies, at his last mass at St. Anthony, should have been proclaimed louder with more handshakes, fervor, cheers and thanks but alas in those awkward and emotional moments when one loses something dear, we are at a loss for words.
Father Lies' said his goodbyes and thanks on Tuesday December 8th, The Feast of the Immaculate Conception....and that mortal man, that dear priest, slipped away quietly and humbly.
Father Lies,
Thank you for your leadership, thank you for your Priesthood and thank you for your manhood. You are one heckuva instrument in God's hands.
Father Lies will be around and we'll see him soon so lets not say goodbye but rather: "See ya later!"
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Once Upon a Time, Men Wore The Pants
Blogger's note: This appeared on The Remnant website. It is a Levis dockers ad. They're trying to sell pants but it sure does strike a cord. As an older"untraditional student" I often reflect , with bemusement and sadness, on young men with matching earrings, purses (ok "men's bags") letting doors slam into young ladies faces, and wonder what lessons they will teach their sons.
Now I know that this is only the product of an ad agencies' copy writer....but I bet I would like this guy.
ONCE UPON A TIME, MEN WORE THE PANTS, AND WORE THEM WELL. WOMEN RARELY HAD TO OPEN DOORS AND LITTLE OLD LADIES NEVER CROSSED THE STREET ALONE.MEN TOOK CHARGE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY DID. BUT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, THE WORLD DECIDED IT NO LONGER NEEDED MEN.DISCO BY DISCO, LATTE BY FOAMY NON-FAT LATTE, MEN WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR KHAKIS AND LEFT STRANDED ON THE ROAD BETWEEN BOYHOOD AND ANDROGYNY.BUT TODAY, THERE ARE QUESTIONS OUR GENDERLESS SOCIETY HAS NO ANSWERS FOR.THE WORLD SITS IDLY BY AS CITIES CRUMBLE, CHILDREN MISBEHAVE AND THOSE LITTLE OLD LADIES REMAIN ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET.FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE BAD GUYS, WE NEED HEROES.WE NEED GROWN-UPS.WE NEED MEN TO PUT DOWN THE PLASTIC FORK, STEP AWAY FROM THE SALAD BAR AND UNTIE THE WORLD FROM THE TRACKS OF COMPLACENCY.IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY.IT’S TIME TO ANSWER THE CALL OF MANHOOD.IT'S TIME TO WEAR THE PANTS.
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Remembrance, and Maybe Sainthood, for Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
By Paul Vitello
The New York Times
To a Catholic boy like Tim Dolan, growing up in the heartland when Protestant neighbors still made casual jokes about the “papists” next door, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen rode into town in the 1950s on the new main street of the United States, the television set, like a true-blue American hero.
“He showed the broad American public that the truths of our faith were consonant with the highest values of the society: patriotism, God, family and the struggle against Communism,” said that boy, now known as Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York.
Archbishop Dolan led a memorial Mass on Wednesday evening at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Bishop Sheen. An auxiliary bishop of the New York Archdiocese from 1951 to 1965, the man whom the Rev. Billy Graham called “the greatest communicator of the 20th century” is buried in a crypt under the cathedral altar, which was open for public viewing before the Mass.
In a way, the event — which attracted Roman Catholic dignitaries, parishioners from across the country and two great-great nieces of the bishop — served unofficially as promotion for a little-noticed campaign to make Bishop Sheen, the first and greatest Catholic televangelist, a saint of the church.
After 20 years in radio, Bishop Sheen scored a hit with his first weekly TV show, “Life is Worth Living,” on the DuMont network. The program drew tens of millions of viewers on Tuesday nights from 1951 to 1957, though it appeared opposite giants of early television likeLucille Ball and Milton Berle (who once quipped that the bishop was pretty good for a guy who “uses old material”).
In those broadcasts, and a similar show syndicated from 1961 to 1968, the bishop, an Illinois farmer’s son who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Marxism, used a polished extemporaneous style to comment on topics of the day, whether movies, Broadway plays or international politics. Among his most famous half-hour commentaries was a 1953 denunciation of Joseph Stalin.
“When he came upon the scene, there was still wavering doubt about whether Catholics were truly American,” said John L. Allen Jr., an author of books about Catholicism and senior correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper. “Sheen clinched the deal with the general public, showing that you could be completely Catholic and completely American.”
Some scholars credit the popularity of his broadcast with making possible the 1960 election of the country’s first and only Catholic president, John F. Kennedy.
Unlike the other famous Catholic broadcaster of the 20th century, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, who blended harsh attacks on PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt with anti-Semitism, Bishop Sheen combined his vigorous anti-Communism with an almost equally strong anti-racist message that placed him well ahead of the curve as an advocate for civil rights in the 1950s. In 1967, he also became a vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam.
For Archbishop Dolan, 59, who grew up in suburban St. Louis, the unabashed Catholicism of the red cape and crucifix worn by Bishop Sheen during all his broadcasts — though risky in its time — proved that the core beliefs of a Catholic “could be expressed by a person who was well-educated, down to earth and not threatening in the least,” he said.
Bishop Sheen’s great crossover appeal was made evident one night when the future archbishop’s father walked in the door and recounted what had just happened while he was taking out the garbage.
“We had a neighbor named Norm who used to always kid my dad about being Catholic,” Archbishop Dolan said in an interview on Tuesday. “And one evening he meets my dad at the curb and says: ‘Bob, I was watching that bishop of yours. Sheen. He’s not a bad guy. He makes a lot of sense.’ ”
The neighbor’s gibes were never particularly mean-spirited, and Bob Dolan was not a particularly observant Catholic. But the father’s response to the neighbor’s comment was memorable. “He came into the house, beaming, bursting with pride,” the archbishop said. “ ‘You’ll never guess what Norm just said,’ he tells us all.”
Since 2002, the effort to canonize Bishop Sheen has been led by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., where the Sheen family raised their four sons and where Bishop Sheen was ordained in 1919.
The Rev. Andrew Apostoli, a Franciscan friar who is gathering evidence of miracles attributed to Bishop Sheen’s intercession since his death in 1979, said the bishop had been designated by the Vatican as a “Servant of God,” the first step toward sainthood.
Two months ago, Father Apostoli said, evidence of two miracles, including affidavits signed by doctors and witnesses to medical recoveries “unexplainable by science,” were submitted to the Vatican for verification. If accepted, the bishop would be beatified, or made a “Blessed Person,” and after verification of a third miracle, made a saint.
It is customary, he said, for the bishops in the places where saints are born to seek the return of their remains. In Bishop Sheen’s case, that would mean removal from the crypt at St. Patrick’s and reburial at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria.
Really? he was asked.
“Well, yes, but it is a very sensitive point, so I don’t want to say anything further about that,” Father Apostoli said.
Archbishop Dolan said he knew about the custom. “Bishop Jenky is a good friend of mine, and I appreciate that he would dream that someday the remains of Bishop Sheen would be returned to Peoria,” he said. “He even kids me about it: ‘You know, Tim, when he becomes a saint, we’re going to try and get him.’ ”
He paused. “But, you know, Bishop Sheen only spent a few years in Peoria.”
He paused again, as if searching for words. “And he loved New York.”
Bishop Jenky, who attended Wednesday’s Mass, could not be reached for comment.
Ravi Somaiya contributed reporting.
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And Joseph Slept
What we can learn from Joseph's holy slumber
Columbia
The Magazine of the Knights of Columbus
by Brian Caulfield
We were in the Holy family Chapel at the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council headquarters in New Haven, Conn., looking at the colorful mosaic that depicts Mary tending to her newborn son while Joseph nods off in the radiant presence of the redeemer.
Continue to article in this online presentation of Columbia by clicking on the image below. Page 9.
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