tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20313717704400100462009-11-07T20:03:19.703+11:00זמרו משכיל • zammerû maśkîl • ψάλατε συνετως • psallite intellegenter • canite erudite • sing ye wisely • chantez vous avec intelligence • lobsinget ihm klüglich • sing ye praises with understandingJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070friar.erstwhile@gmail.comBlogger1095125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031371770440010046.post-2493896739251043162009-11-07T19:37:00.006+11:002009-11-07T19:59:40.344+11:00

Unity must be our great desire, as Our Lord Himself taught us by His prayer for all who would follow Him. I was reminded of this by Bp Robarts of the T.A.C., one of Hepworth's auxiliaries and their local minister here in Launceston, who very kindly had me around for afternoon tea to-day. It was enlightening to hear from him of the dastardly goings-on among Anglican liberals here and elsewhere

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As per usual, off to Confession this morning... I quickly and quietly slipt into church, as there was a funeral going on, and popped into the box... on my reëmergence all clean of sin, I noticed that Fr was preaching in Italian, given the ethnicity of the deceased, his family and friends.Then, my usual walk around town, brunch and reading of the weekend newspapers (The Age and The Australian; I

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Here's a nice little bit of mediæval liturgy: the pre-Tridentine Cistercian Breviary included special blessings to be pronounced at the Lessons of the Third Nocturn of Christmas Matins, referring to each of the four Gospel passages read at the head of each Lesson - for, while in the Roman Rite, at Christmas Matins' Third Nocturn three Lessons were read, each with a passage from the one of the

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As Fr Garnet, Provincial of the Jesuits in England, affirmed at the time, the plot to blow up the King, Queen, and the Three Estates of the Realm on the 5th of November 1605 was a most immoral and wicked plan (for one thing, one cannot willy nilly slay the innocent, along with those believed guilty of tyranny and oppression, by committing mass murder); not that that spared poor Father, since not

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Coo-ees alerts me to an excellent and witty put-down of rude modern atheists...

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Pray, please...As mentioned below, I am very much hoping to travel to the UK and Italy in early January 2010.Unfortunately, it is proving incredibly hard to find affordable plane fares for travel at this time of year, and I may well have to give up on this trip.Therefore, please pray for me that my travel agent may turn up an affordable option for my travel to and from Europe: it would be sad to

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Fr John Saward, in an excellent article, discusses what is meant by the legitimate patrimony that Anglicans coming into full communion with the Church bring with them.Read it: it is very rewarding.

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I had the itch to go out for a drive this afternoon, but rather overdid it... having spent close to six hours on the road, and covered over 400 km, I now think a good bushwalk would have been better! For the record, I drove down through the Midlands until I reached the Fingal Valley turnoff, then went up through Avoca, Fingal and St Mary's, turned down Elephant Pass but took the slightly easier

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I had been planning to travel to New Zealand in January, but I've changed my mind for various reasons, and now hope to go there in May.Instead of travelling east, I will go north-west after Christmas: it's the off-peak season in Europe. At this stage, I would be thinking of leaving around New Year, and going initially of course to Rome, then probably the U.K. - Bp Jarrett is forever reminding me

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What a joy to celebrate All Saints with the Mass of all the ages!As usual, I've enjoyed the hospitality of my good friends Ben and Jane; and, as usual, I went over to St Canice a good deal before the Mass, first to pray and then to practice the chant with our choir. Tony does a good job of marshalling our disparate forces, thrown together for the occasion. Luckily, at my last practice with the

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I really enjoyed my drive down the East Coast. Of course, first I went south to Campbell Town (and had an alright lunch there), but then I took the Lake Leake Highway, through the not terribly inspiring bushclad hills, and then out onto the coastal plans, astonishingly verdant for this time of year, north of Swansea. It was great to see the effects of rain in an area drought-stricken for years.

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I love Saturdays. To-day in particular bodes well: I've been to Confession as usual, and am about to leave for Hobart, since to-morrow, the first Sunday of the month, we have a Missa cantata there; so I've packed the Liber Usualis, and will motor down south - but this time, I'm going to drive the long way round, via the East Coast, which should be fun. Better still, Monday is a public holiday (

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Apparently, since 1998, a special prayer is added to the Catholic ordination rite administered to Anglican convert clergy, by order of the CDF; it is said before the Litany, and does not replace the ordination prayer itself. I found this quoted over at Damian Thompson's blog by one of his commenters:Oratio ad gratias agendas pro ministerio ab electo in Communione anglicana expleto [Prayer for

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I've been thinking idly about what hymns would be good to sing to God at what one hopes may be joyful occasions soon to be seen: the reception of many Anglicans into full communion with the Holy See, in the unity of the Holy Catholic Church:"Firmly I believe and truly";"The Church's one foundation";"Thou, Who at Thy first Eucharist didst pray" (but to Gibbons' tune); and"Faith of our fathers".I

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It is important to note that news of the forthcoming Apostolic Constitution to provide for corporate reunion of such Anglicans as may accept it, was published on the 20th of October, which is the day after the modern Calendar's feast of St Paul of the Cross, who ever prayed for the conversion of England and passed this devotion on to his sons the Passionists, especially Bl Dominic Barberi, whose

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Catholic reactions - and indeed Anglican reactions - to Pope Benedict's fostering of corporate reunion may be said to fall into two types: transports of joy or murmurings of suspicion.On the Anglican side, amongst Anglo-Catholics, especially within the Traditional Anglican Communion (which has already broken with Canterbury, and has been edging toward Rome for years), there has been rejoicing at

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Pray for corporate reunion - now, on the eve of this hoped-for day, prayers are needed more than ever. It will not have escaped Satan's notice that his enemy, the Pope, is busy about the work of Christ - so the enemy of mankind will be redoubling his efforts to sow doubt and mistrust and fear, as once so successfully he deceived our First Parents.I suggest the three following Psalms are highly

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Since the 1980 Pastoral Provision, and the subsequent drawing-up of the Anglican Use Book of Divine Worship (published only in 2003), various Anglican prayers have been admitted, along with their pray-ers, into full communion with the Catholic Church. Especially considering the impending Apostolic Constitution on corporate reunion, it is good to consider some classic Anglican Use formulæ, and by

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I have been listening to podcasts of speeches at the recent Forward in Faith National Assembly in England - an assembly of Anglo-Catholic Anglicans who hold to what were but yesterday the unquestioned beliefs of mainstream orthodox Christianity, not too far from the Catholic Faith - and have been interested in the attitudes of the speakers to the recent announcement of an Apostolic Constitution

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To-day is the feast of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude; the Anglicans have a most pertinent prayer for this day (based on Eph. ii, 20-21 & iv, 3; I Pet. ii, 5 & iii, 8), which I suggest should be prayed for the coming reception of their faithful remnant into communion with the Apostolic See:O ALMIGHTY God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ

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To-night, our little new schola met again for its usual Tuesday session: first, practice; secondly, Compline chanted, then Benediction.Tomight, we learnt the Introits for All Saints (Gaudeamus omnes in Domino) and All Souls (Requiem æternam), together with the Kyrie for Requiems; we sang them in the course of our Eucharistic Adoration.After it all, I had a chat outside with some of my fellow

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To borrow Fr Longenecker's expression, "just for nice" I've bought online (at a rather steep price) a matching Pars Altera for the Breviarium Monasticum, Pars Prima, I obtained so cheaply just last week. The clue was that the volume first obtained was printed by Desclée in 1953, was denotated the fourth edition, and was in handsome hardback octavo size (47 by 145 by 210 mm, or about 1.9 by 5.6

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I am severely underqualified to write about Christus Rex - after all, there are those like Fr Tattersall et al. who have been involved since the beginning, nineteen years ago; and this year, I have just calculated, I scarcely walked half of it (about 45km as opposed to the full 91 or so).I do look forward to doing the whole thing next year!But as Simon, our Tasmanian organizer, tent-provider and

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Having lathered my face with pawpaw ointment (a dubious sunburn remedy I've invented), now at last I'm tucked up back in my own bed, after an incredibly action-packed two days.Christus Rex - I almost didn't go after all. Having hurriedly packed after work and shot off to the airport, my plane was delayed. This meant that I missed the train I was to catch from Melbourne to Ballarat by ten

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Pray for me...To-morrow, after a full day at work, I must quickly collect my bits and pieces and rush off to the airport. Then, arriving at Tullamarine, I have to get the shuttle bus to Southern Cross Station, where I'll meet Justin. We then catch the train to Ballarat, arriving at a quarter to ten. Finally, we're to be met by some kindly volunteer who'll drive us to the pilgrim encampment at

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