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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

ubipetrus — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:58:23 +0000

Due to some rather unexpected changes I’ll be moving this blog en toto to one hosted on my own domain. This will enable, inter alia, my wife to manage her own blog including some plugins she can’t get on wordpress.com. I move from stblogs.com with only good experiences and would recommend the site to anyone wishing to create a Catholic blog. I have been working on this transition for the past several days which has been the reason for the sudden silence here.

I hope you all will follow me there as I have several plans for growing this blog. The first involves the writings of Pope Benedict and the Logos Bible software.

SSPX excommunications lifted

ubipetrus — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:02:03 +0000

While there are many out there who may not understand the rationale behind this move by our Holy Father, I can only say it is in the end a cause for great joy. Yes, there are still many issues on which there is much discussion still to be had, but when other un-orthodox “luminaries” remain in communion with the Church it is only appropriate that those discussions happen within the comunion of the Church. For my part, let me only ask that those with concerns remember that this is not a statement that any and all of the various positions held by each and every member of SSPX (which is far from a homogenous group, it should be recalled) are fully orthodox.

For now, offer up several prayers for the success of this move by the Pope. And check out the commentaries available particularly at Fr. Z’s.

With the voting over the praying must begin anew

ubipetrus — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:00:56 +0000

Don’t let the Rocky music stop you:

H/T to Servant and Steward.

In honor of the day

ubipetrus — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:57:56 +0000

Stretching out his hand over his disciples, the Lord Christ declared: Here are my mother and my brothers, anyone who does the will of my Father who sent me is my brother and my sister and my mother. I would urge you to ponder these words. Did the Virgin Mary, who believed by faith and conceived by faith, who was the chosen one from whom our Savior was born among men, who was created by Christ before Christ was created in her – did she not do the will of the Father? Indeed the blessed Mary certainly did the Father’s will, and so it was for her a greater thing to have been Christ’s disciple than to have been his mother, and she was more blessed in her discipleship than in her motherhood. Hers was the happiness of first bearing in her womb him whom she would obey as her master.

Now listen and see if the words of Scripture do not agree with what I have said. The Lord was passing by and crowds were following him. His miracles gave proof of divine power, and a woman cried out: Happy is the womb that bore you, blessed is that womb! But the Lord, not wishing people to seek happiness in a purely physical relationship, replied: More blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it. Mary heard God’s word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God’s truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb. The truth and the body were both Christ: he was kept in her womb insofar as he is man; but what is kept in the mind is of a higher order than what is carried in the womb.

The Virgin Mary is both holy and blessed, and yet the Church is greater than she. Mary is a part of the Church, a member of the Church, a holy, an eminent – the most eminent – member, but still only a member of the entire body. The body undoubtedly is greater than she, one of its members. This body has the Lord for its head, and head and body together make up the whole Christ. In other words, our head is divine – our head is God.

Now, beloved, give me your whole attention, for you also are members of Christ; you also are the body of Christ. Consider how you yourselves can be among those of whom the Lord said: Here are my mother and my brothers. Do you wonder how you can be the mother of Christ? He himself said: Whoever hears and fulfills the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and my sister and my mother. As for our being the brothers and sisters of Christ, we can understand this because although there is only one inheritance and Christ is the only Son, his mercy would not allow him to remain alone. It was his wish that we too should be heirs of the Father, and co-heirs with himself.

Now having said that all of you are brothers of Christ, shall I not dare to call you his mother? Much less would I dare to deny his own words. Tell me how Mary became the mother of Christ, if it was not by giving birth to the members of Christ? You, to whom I am speaking, are the members of Christ. Of whom were you born? “Of Mother Church,” I hear the reply of your hearts. You became sons of this mother at your baptism, you came to birth then as members of Christ. Now you in your turn must draw to the font of baptism as many as you possibly can. You became sons when you were born there yourselves, and now by bringing others to birth in the same way, you have it in your power to become the mothers of Christ.

– St. Augustine, Sermo 25, 7-8: PL 46, 937-839

Priests of the day 11/20

ubipetrus — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:43:57 +0000

Today we pray for Rev. Fredric Maples SJ and Rev. John Michalowski SJ.

I am unable to find any information on Fr. Maples; should you have any, please leave a note in the combox.

Fr. Michalowski was ordained in 1981 and is pastor of Mary Queen of Peace Parish and St. Joseph’s Parish, both in Salem.

Lord, guide them in their work, inspire them in all they do. Mother Mary, take them by the hand and lead them on the narrow path that leads to your Son.

Priests of the day 11/04

ubipetrus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:20:39 +0000

Today we pray for Rev. Maurice Lampron and Very Rev. Frederick Pennett Jr VF.

Fr. Lampron was ordained in 1963 and is currently retired.

Fr. Pennett was ordained in 1971 and is currently pastor of St. Anne’s Parish in Hampstead.

May they grow in love for the Lord and His Church each and every day. May Mary take them by the hand and lead them on the path to her Son.

Priests of the day 11/01

ubipetrus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:20:09 +0000

Today we pray for all deceased priests and religious.

In their lives on earth the prayed for us, consoled us, brought us the sacraments. Let us now in their deaths pray for them that they might behold the Beatific Vision forever.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Saturday is the day of Mary

ubipetrus — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:54 +0000

In honor of Mary. Mater Misericordiae, ora pro nobis!

Fr. Corapi has something to say to you

ubipetrus — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:58:55 +0000

To all of us, actually, in a three-part video:

Bishop of the day 10/26

ubipetrus — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:47:14 +0000

Today we pray for Bishop Odore Gendron, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Manchester.

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1947 and ordained to the episcopate in 1975. He retired as Bishop of the Diocese in 1990.

May he seek in his retirement new ways of bringing Christ to the people of the Diocese and may he grow ever stronger in his role as sheperd. May Mary shelter him and lead him to her Son.