Nationwide Campaign to Promote Islamic Propaganda in Churches

Nationwide Campaign to Promote Islamic Propaganda in Churches:  This travesty that will be occurring in Christian churches across the country on June 26...  more here or go to http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/06/10/and-so-it-begins-nation-wide-campaign-to-promote-islamic-propaganda-in-churches/


Thank God Redemptionis Sacramentum Prevents Qur’an Reading at Catholic Mass
Thank God for Redemptionis Sacramentum. The particular rule cited is from Chapter III on The Proper Celebration of Mass (4: 79):
Finally, it is strictly to be considered an abuse to introduce into the celebration of Holy Mass elements that are contrary to the prescriptions of the liturgical books and taken from the rites of other religions.,, more here or go to http://lisagraas.com/2011/06/11/redemptionis-sacramentum-prevents-quran-reading-at-catholic-mass/

How we pray what we believe (video)

If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-we-pray-what-we-believe-video.html

Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi from Leo McDowell on Vimeo.

Ascension Thurday Tomorrow. Mass Obligation? It depends.

Are you obligated, under penalty of sin, to attend Mass tomorrow because of Ascension Thursday?

"Only the ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, and Omaha (the state of Nebraska) continue to celebrate the Ascension of Our Lord on Thursday. The faithful in those provinces (an ecclesiastical province is basically one large archdiocese and the dioceses that are historically associated with it) are required, under the Precepts of the Church, to attend Mass on Ascension Thursday" source:  http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/f/Ascension_Holy.htm

Rite of Beatification of Bl. Pope John Paul II (video)

If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/05/rite-of-beatification-of-bl-pope-john.html

Over a million people jammed St. Peter's Square and surrounding streets Sunday for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, a celebration to honor one of the most adored popes as he moves a step closer to possible sainthood. (May 1)

Good Friday Commemoration

If you're in DC, there's an 8 pm commemoration of the Lord's Burial
If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-friday-commemoration.html



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A Happy Ash Wednesday! Huh?

If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-ash-wednesday-huh.html

Liturgical Abuse: Congregation Mesmerized; Petitions Rome for Regulations

From BadVestments

Did he lose a bet or a dare?

Perhaps this weed psychadelic theme is for a parish in San Francisco. 

If this guy was presiding in that cult of peace, he might have been sodomized then beaten to a pulp for pulling a stunt like this.

I mean, "Just what is his fashion statement here?  I am the primordial goo from whence life began?
Perhaps the cleaners switched the packages from the Aloha Mu-mu club.

Liturgical Technology - The Chasuble 1.0

From BadVestments


(1) Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the only chasuble with its own IP address.
(2) You don't put this on this garment, you hack into it.
(3) Most vestments get cleaned.  This one gets a new hard drive.
(4) Old concept: liturgical colors.  New concept: PC versus Mac.
(5) For the time being, don't run Windows 7 while wearing this or the liturgy will constantly freeze up and you'll have to reboot and start over from the beginning.  Microsoft's working on the patch.
(6) This chasuble also serves as a wi/fi hotspot.
(7) If you want to order one, the name of this product is iGarbage.

My dollar store Advent wreath

It is too late to order online and too difficult to find a Catholic store open after work. But the dollar stores have everything needed to make an Advent wreath – for a buck. I got a wreath, candle stands and candles. I didn’t even use pliers to twist the wires around the candle stands and there you have it.

An Advent wreath sets the tone for the weeks before Christmas. It is a way for us to take back our season from the vendors, to overcome commercialization with spirituality. And coming closer to home, it forms our children to value not the presents under the tree but The Present from the Heavenly Father.

Advent is all about preparation and anticipation as St. John the Baptist exhorted the people to fill the valleys and level the mountains. The wreath itself is an educational tool. The circle has no beginning or end – just like eternity or God. The evergreen leaves in the wreath in the dead of Winter is life – just as Jesus Who is the Life. The four candles are the four weeks. Every week, we light one and the place is brighter. Since Jesus is the Light, the place gets brighter the closer He gets. The candles should be purple – a color of penance and royalty: penance for our sins, royalty for the King of kings. So, this little thing stresses preparing and anticipating the comings of Jesus.
Fr. Z mentions the ways that Jesus has come as, “He came historically at Bethlehem in the fullness of time. In the liturgical year he comes to us sacramentally. He will come again at the end of the world as Judge of the living and the dead. Christ comes to us also in the two-fold consecration of the Body and Blood of Christ by the priest at Holy Mass and, in a special way in a good Holy Communion. He comes in the person of the priest, who is alter Christus, another Christ. He comes in the words of Holy Scripture. He also comes in the person of our neighbor, especially those who are in need of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.

During Advent, John the Baptist has been reminding us in the liturgy to "make straight His paths". When we come to the Lord in death, or He comes to us in His Second Coming, He will make straight the path whether we have during our earthly lives done our best to straighten it ahead of time or not.”

Here's a video about Advent - as a time to slow down, prepare and anticipate.
If video fails, go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-dollar-store-advent-wreath.html

Dec. 8 is a holy day of obligation - USCCB ruling.

Reminder only. 
Canon 1246

§1: Sunday is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated in light of the apostolic tradition and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church. Also to be observed are the day of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Epiphany, the Ascension and the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Holy Mary Mother of God and her Immaculate Conception and Assumption, Saint Joseph, the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and finally, All Saints.

§2: However, the conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See.

Complementary Norm: In accord with canon 1246, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops decrees that the holy days of obligation to be observed in the United States are the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God; the Solemnity of the Ascension; the Solemnity of the Assumption; the Solemnity of All Saints; the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception; the Solemnity of Christmas. The Solemnity of the Epiphany shall be transferred to the first Sunday following January 1; the Solemnity of Corpus Christi shall be observed on the second Sunday following Pentecost.

SUBSEQUENT ACTION: Canon 1246§2


DECREE OF PROMULGATION
On December 13, 1991 the members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of American made the following general decree concerning holy days of obligation for Latin rite Catholics:

In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of obligation in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of America, in conformity with canon 1246, are as follows:

January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension

August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

November 1, the solemnity of All Saints

December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.

This decree of the Conference of Bishops was approved and confirmed by the Apostolic See by a decree of the Congregation for Bishops (Prot. N. 296/84), signed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, prefect of the Congregation, and dated July 4, 1992.
SUBSEQUENT ACTION: Canon 1246§2

In accord with the provisions of canon 1246§2 of the Code of Canon Law, which states: "... the conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See," the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States decrees that the Ecclesiastical Provinces of the United States may transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter to the Seventh Sunday of Easter according to the following procedure.

The decision of each Ecclesiastical Province to transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension is to be made by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the bishops of the respective Ecclesiastical Province. The decision of the Ecclesiastical Province should be communicated to the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and to the President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

WMDs found in Catholic Churches!

more like weapons of Mass distraction

Liturgical Vestment Recommendation

Good flames e.g. tongues of fire during Pentecost come from above.

If this one has already been purchased and there are no returns, then you might do the "3 men in the fiery furnance bit" but that would really be a stretch.

Better resell or donate it to womyn priests.

H/T Cath. Vote Action.org