Redundant Headline

From The Blaze:

The Conditions at This MI Abortion Clinic Were So ‘Dangerous’ & ‘Disgusting’ It Was Shut Down

Funny, aren't all abortion clinics 'dangerous' and 'disgusting' by definition and design?

Our Lady of Guadelupe

Prayer to the Madonna of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mystical Rose, make intercession for the Holy Church, protect our Sovereign Pontiff, help all those who invoke thee in their necessities, and since thou art the ever Virgin Mary, and Mother of the true God, obtain for us from thy most holy Son, the grace of keeping our Faith. You are our sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life, burning charity, and the precious gift of final perseverance. Amen.

La Oración a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Santa María de Guadalupe, Mística Rosa, intercede por la Iglesia, protege al Soberano Pontífice, oye a todos los que te invocan en sus necesidades. Así como pudiste aparecer en el Tepeyac y decirnos: "Soy la siempre Virgen María, Madre del verdadero Dios", alcánzanos de tu Divino Hijo la conservación de la Fe. Tu eres nuestra dulce esperanza en las amarguras de esta vida. Danos un amor ardiente y la gracia de la perseverancia final. Amén.

"Not In My Diocese" Gratitude

While I am always extremely hurt and saddened to see all forms of abuse by religious, I have of late been increasingly grateful for what does not happen in my own diocese.  More and more the grass is greener on the inside of this diocese's fence.  In my own experience, we have been very mercifully free from the horrendeous abuse know as "liturgical dance."

Coming to light is one Fr. Joachim Andrade in Brazil performing profane acts in immodest dress. This apparently happened only earlier this year (see photo above).  It's hard to say which is more disturbing and scandalous: the priest displaying this blasphemey or the silence and allowance of the local bishop and clergy as it transpires.  Apparently, it's been happening and ignored for some time.  While the latest incident was a mere few months ago, it's been happening for years as evidenced by this 2009 video of Fr. Andrade strutting his pagan stuff:

I honestly cannot understand why this blatantly happens when it has been quite clear it should not be so!  The Vatican Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship issued the still authoritive 1975 Dance in the Liturgy which stated:

"...it [dance] cannot be introduced into liturgical celebrations of any kind whatever: that would be to inject into the liturgy one of the most desacralized and desacralizing elements; and so it would be equivalent to creating an atmosphere of profaneness which would easily recall to those present and to the participants in the celebration worldly places and situations."  (emphasis mine.)

Note that while the above forbids any liturgical use, the following excerpt fully excludes the participation by priests outside the liturgy as well!

"If the proposal of the religious dance in the West is really to be made welcome, care will have to be taken that in its regard a place be found outside of the liturgy, in assembly areas which are not strictly liturgical. Moreover, the priest must always be excluded from the dance." (emphasis original, bold is mine.)

Most importantly, let's remember the priest is taking it upon himself to insert something into the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that is not part of the Roman Missal. If we go right to the church instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum (On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist) available on the Vatican website we read concerning priests plainly in Chapter I, 3 (paragraph 31):

They ought not to detract from the profound meaning of their own ministry by corrupting the liturgical celebration either through alteration or omission, or through arbitrary additions. For as St. Ambrose said, 'It is not in herself . . . but in us that the Church is injured. Let us take care so that our own failure may not cause injury to the Church'.

What can be done?

Pray for the conversion of Fr. Andrade and other religious!

Proofs that Our Religious Liberty Is Threatened

As today marks the beginning of the Fortnight for Freedom, here is a great article from the Campus Notes Blog of the Cadinal Newman Society offering six proofs of current threats to U.S. religious liberty.

The Catholic University of America President John Garvey addressed the General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Atlanta, Ga., last week and offered six reasons to believe that religious liberty is under attack.

Garvey compared the current situation with regard to religious liberty in the U.S. to that of Tudor England, a time and place synonymous with religious persecution. “We are not the kind of violent and intolerant society Tudor England was,” he said. “But in recent years the landscape of religious freedom has changed. Its purview has narrowed considerably. Let me give six examples.”

Read the complete six examples from the article here.

Starts Tomorrow!

Lingering Thoughts

Sisters and nuns are not the same.

Pro-life is inextribly integrated in Catholic social teaching.

Receiving the Eucharist is always a privilidge and never a right.

Schizmatics are never right.

The (Church) Fathers are never wrong.
 
It's never too late to be orthodox.

Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, Part II

We go back 99 years for a slight "Dominican slant" on today's Feast of the Most Sacred Heart.  Here is commentary and an atonement prayer to the Sacred Heart from "The Dominican Manual, a Selection of Prayers and Devotions" published 1913 by Browne and Nolan in Dublin .

The Heart of our adorable Redeemer is the seat of love—the source of perfect charity! In it we shall find arms against temptation. Consolation in trouble.  Strength in weakness.  The particular object of this devotion is to make reparation for the outrages committed against the Heart of Jesus during his mortal life; outrages which continue to be committed against him in the adorable Eucharist, which is the Sacrament of His love.

An Act of Atonement

To the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, which may be made In common or in private.

O Adorable Heart of my Savior and my God, penetrated with a lively sorrow at the sight of the outrages which thou hast received, and which thou daily dost receive in the Sacrament of thy love, behold me prostrate at the foot of thy altar, to make an acceptable atonement. Oh, that I were able, by my homage and veneration, to make satisfaction to thine injured honor, and efface, with my tears and with my blood, so many irreverences, profanations, and sacrileges, which outrage thine infinite greatness. How well should my life be disposed of, could it be sacrificed for so worthy an object! Pardon, divine Savior, my ingratitude, and all the infidelities and indignities which I myself have committed against thy Sovereign Majesty. Remember that thy adorable Heart, bearing the weight of my sins in the days of its mortal life, was sorrowful even unto death;  do not suffer thy agony and thy blood to be unprofitable tome. Annihilate within me my criminal heart, and give me one according to thine—a heart contrite and humble, a heart pure and spotless, a heart which may be henceforth a victim consecrated to thy glory, and inflamed with the sacred fire of thy love: O Lord, I deplore in the bitterness of my heart my former irreverences and sacrileges, which I wish in future to repair, by my pious deportment in the churches, my assiduity in visiting, and my devotion and fervor in receiving, the most holy Sacrament of the Altar.

But in order to render my respect and my adoration more grateful to thee, I unite them with those which are rendered to thee in our temples, by those blessed spirits who are at the foot of thy sacred tabernacles. Hear their vows, O my God, and accept the homage of a heart which returns to thee with the solo view of loving only thee, that I may merit loving thee eternally. Amen.