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Thanks again to Fr. Hay for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We really (really!) are blessed to have you.
Some day I will tell you all about how Dog and Shake brought me to the Traditional Mass.
Next Sunday, Feast of Christ the King, Msgr. Gilsenen will celebrate with us, however, there will be no incense used. Msgr. suffers from the smoke and since incense is optional anyway, we will accommodate him.
My story on Bernie Dette, (St. Anthony Choir Director and he of huge lung capacity) is still being written. Unfortunately, I write every week for class so it is hard to write for pleasure. Look for it coming soon. Bernie is an interesting fellow.
An idea of renting a car to take a group of us to Holy Day masses outside of St. Anthony was brought up at coffee this morning. I suggested the Unified Party Bus. Yay! Disco ball included. (LOL)
An idea of renting a car to take a group of us to Holy Day masses outside of St. Anthony was brought up at coffee this morning. I suggested the Unified Party Bus. Yay! Disco ball included. (LOL)
...and now the Necessaries
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is one of two local churches 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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Historic Bell Tolls Again at Assumption Church
By Monica Wolfson, The Windsor Star October 20, 2010Read more: http://www.windsorstar.com/Historic+bell+tolls+again+Assumption+Church/3701745/story.html#ixzz13Iu8q4Gg
A 260-year-old bell - probably brought to Windsor by the Jesuits in 1750 - was recently discovered in the Assumption Church belfries.
On Wednesday, Jason Grossi, the principal architect working on the $9.6 million reconstruction of the 170-year-old church, climbed up two rickety 20-foot ladders and squeezed through a dirt encrusted opening to ring the three-foot tall bell that sits on the north wall of the belfries. Then he rang the church's main bell, which trilled so loud it could be heard halfway across the University of Windsor campus.
The main bell hasn't been rung in at least 30 years, but Grossi and his colleagues at Design Studio g & G decided to shovel 1,500 pounds of bird guano from the belfries and get the bells trilling to help jump start the restoration and fundraising for Assumption Church, which has so far collected $1.6 million.
The Jesuit bell was discovered by Steven Ball, a University of Michigan musical instruments professor. Last summer Ball, who is also an organist, was substituting at an Assumption mass and decided to climb into the belfries. As a campanologist, he studies bells and bell ringing. He informed officials about the second bell, but it wasn't investigated for a year.
Ball couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday but Grossi said the bell probably came to Canada with the Jesuits from France sometime after 1701. It was common for Jesuits to bring their own bells because there weren't any foundries here at the time.
"Ball's still doing an investigation on the little bell," Grossi said. "He said the bell shouldn't be in a church but in a museum We are sure it hasn't been rung since the 1890s.."
Assumption Church, which is the oldest building west of Montreal, is undergoing a massive renovation that will probably take 10 years to complete. Once done, the church complex will include a heritage educational centre, an amphitheatre, a labyrinth and three distinct gardens dedicated to peace, children and mothers.
There are about 300 people working on the project, mostly raising the funds needed.
"There's the bricks and mortar but also the human history that needs to be celebrated," said Jo-Anne Mancini, philanthropic counsel.
The Assumption Heritage Trust national foundation, which is organizing the project, has 40 members including president John LaFramboise.
"We have the best of the best who are very passionate about seeing this become a reality," LaFramboise said. "We are ecstatic. That's why we are making the announcement that fundraising is moving forward."
Last winter the city of Windsor gave the church $250,000 over five years to help pay for the reconstruction of the east wall. The Diocese of London committed the revenues from the adjoining parking lot, mostly used by university students, to pay for the renovations.
Assumption has challenges. It's recognized under the Ontario Heritage Act since 1975 and is also on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. Any exterior excavation could trigger an anthropologist dig because of possible artifacts and graves buried nearby. An earth sciences class at the university is scanning the grounds with radar devices as a term project. There might be graves under the church, Grossi said.
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“Tepid in our beliefs and naive about the world”
California Catholic Daily
It’s our fault that young people today have lost their ‘moral vocabulary,’ says Archbishop Chaput
Victoria, Canada (CNA/EWTN News) -- Addressing a conference in British Columbia, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver asserted that Catholics today have failed to transmit the faith to the next generation, which has resulted in young people losing their “moral vocabulary.”
The Denver prelate made his remarks on Oct. 15 at the “Faith in the Public Square” seminar sponsored by the Diocese of Victoria. He opened his speech with a reference to Shirley Jackson’s famed short story “The Lottery.”
Jackson’s story – set in rural 1940s America – features the tale of a small town that gathers every year to implore an unnamed force to grant a good corn harvest the people. Each year, town members draw a piece of paper from a wooden box to see who will be chosen for human sacrifice. A young mother ends up drawing the ominous black slip and is stoned to death by the community as part of the annual ritual.
Reflecting on Jackson’s piece, Archbishop Chaput cited professor Kay Haugaard’s analysis on how young people in academia in decades past would react passionately to the tale with intense classroom debate and discussion.
“She said that in the early 1970s, students who read the story voiced shock and indignation,” Archbishop Chaput noted. “The tale led to vivid conversations on big topics – the meaning of sacrifice and tradition; the dangers of group-think and blind allegiance to leaders; the demands of conscience and the consequences of cowardice.”
“Sometime in the mid-1990s, however, reactions began to change,” he said. “Haugaard described one classroom discussion that – to me – was more disturbing than the story itself. The students had nothing to say except that the story bored them. So Haugaard asked them what they thought about the villagers ritually sacrificing one of their own for the sake of the harvest.”
“One student, speaking in quite rational tones, argued that many cultures have traditions of human sacrifice,” the archbishop continued. “Another said that the stoning might have been part of ‘a religion of long standing,’ and therefore acceptable and understandable.”
Another student brought up the idea of “multicultural sensitivity,” saying she learned in school that if “it’s a part of a person’s culture, we are taught not to judge.”
“I thought of Haugaard’s experience with 'The Lottery' as I got ready for this brief talk,” the prelate explained.
“Our culture is doing catechesis every day. It works like water dripping on a stone, eroding people’s moral and religious sensibilities, and leaving a hole where their convictions used to be.”
“Haugaard’s experience,” he added, “teaches us that it took less than a generation for this catechesis to produce a group of young adults who were unable to take a moral stand against the ritual murder of a young woman.”
“Not because they were cowards. But because they lost their moral vocabulary.”
“Christians in my country and yours – and throughout the West, generally – have done a terrible job of transmitting our faith to our own children and to the culture at large,” Archbishop Chaput remarked.
“Instead of changing the culture around us, we Christians have allowed ourselves to be changed by the culture. We’ve compromised too cheaply. We’ve hungered after assimilating and fitting in. And in the process, we’ve been bleached out and absorbed by the culture we were sent to make holy.”
“We need to confess that, and we need to fix it,” he asserted. “For too many of us, Christianity is not a filial relationship with the living God, but a habit and an inheritance. We’ve become tepid in our beliefs and naive about the world. We’ve lost our evangelical zeal. And we’ve failed in passing on our faith to the next generation.”
Renewing Catholic catechesis then, Archbishop Chaput added, “has little to do with techniques, or theories, or programs, or resources. The central issue is whether we ourselves really do believe. Catechesis is not a profession. It’s a dimension of discipleship. If we’re Christians, we’re each of us called to be teachers and missionaries.”
However, the Denver prelate noted, “We can’t share what we don’t have.”
“If we’re embarrassed about Church teachings, or if we disagree with them, or if we’ve decided that they’re just too hard to live by, or too hard to explain, then we’ve already defeated ourselves.”
“We need to really believe what we claim to believe,” he stressed. “We need to stop calling ourselves ‘Catholic’ if we don’t stand with the Church in her teachings – all of them.”
In his concluding remarks, Archbishop Chaput added that “if we really are Catholic, or at least if we want to be, then we need to act like it with obedience and zeal and a fire for Jesus Christ in our hearts.”
“God gave us the faith in order to share it. This takes courage. It takes a deliberate dismantling of our own vanity. When we do that, the Church is strong. When we don’t, she grows weak. It’s that simple.”
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Handbook of Indulgences Online
Third Edition, 1986
Preface to the Third Edition (1986)
Introduction, including an explanation of what indulgences are.
The Three General Types of Indulgences
Norms for Indulgences: The rules about gaining indulgences.
The Grants: The specific actions with an associated indulgence.
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