On the advice of Josef Ketzer, I investigated the life of St. Edmund Campion SJ (1540-1581). Josef holds a Doctor of Laws, which is the terminal degree in law. copied the story from jesuitinstitute.org. I hope the Jesuits don’t mind. The end of the story is not pretty. “Campion went to the local grammar school and then, age 12, to the new Christ’s Hospital school for orphans and the poor. In August 1553, he was chosen to make a ceremonial address to Queen Mary as she passed through London. “Campion was able academically and went to St John’s College, Oxford, at the age of 15 (which was not unusual in those days). He was awarded his degree in 1564 and became a Fellow of the University. In 1566, he was again chosen to make a formal speech of welcome before the new Queen, Elizabeth I, when she visited Oxford. Much impressed with Campion, Elizabeth ensured he had friends and patrons at Court.” … [things went downhill, and he fled to France] “Campion was persuaded, against his better judgement, to join the new mission to England. On 16th June 1580, Fr Robert Persons SJ landed at Dover as the Superior of the new mission. On 24th June, Campion followed, disguised as a jewel merchant. Campion moved between the houses of Catholics (the Recusants) who practiced their religion in secret. At one such house, Lyford Grange in Oxfordshire, he was betrayed and arrested on 17th July 1581, barely a year after he had set foot in England. “He was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London and tried at Westminster Hall in November 1581. Condemned for treason, he was dragged on a hurdle to Tyburn where he was martyred with Fr Alexander Briant SJ and Fr Ralph Sherwin. He was hanged and then, before he was dead, his genitals cut off, his entrails ripped out and burned before him, his head hacked off and his body quartered.” Age 41. This story coincides with the entry titled, Shakespeare’s Recusancy.
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I trimmed the history of the Latin Mass to make it readable. The summary comes from Wikipedia, a resource I use because the entry on the Catholic Church is accurate and because entries go through a reviewing and editing process. If anyone has a better resource that is not too complicated, please provide a link. “The earliest surviving account of the celebration of the Eucharist or Mass in Rome is that of Saint Justin Martyr (died c. 165), in chapter 67 of his First Apology: … “The descriptions of the Mass liturgy in Rome by Hippolytus (died c. 235) and Novatian (died c. 250) are similar to Justin’s. … “It is unclear when the language of the celebration changed from Greek to Latin. Pope Victor I [pontiff 189-199] may have been the first to use Latin in the liturgy in Rome. Others think Latin was finally adopted nearly a century later. The change was probably gradual, with both languages being used for a while. … “The Roman Missal that Pope Pius V issued at the request of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) gradually established uniformity within the Western Church after a period that had witnessed regional variations in the choice of Epistles, Gospels, and prayers at the Offertory, the Communion, and the beginning and end of Mass. “With the exception of a few dioceses and religious orders, the use of this Missal was made obligatory, giving rise to the 400-year period when the Roman-Rite Mass took the form now known as the Tridentine Mass.” We use the 1962 edition of the Missal. Its 1,850 pages are so good, so comprehensive, so eloquent that they are all I need for daily living. For example, the Morning Prayer contains references to Proverbs, Psalms, Lamentations, and Isaiah. The painting is by Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger, Inside a Church in Italy, 1830. “… he is not just responsible for the souls of his Catholic parishioners, but for every soul that has residence within his diocese.” That’s right. He has a responsibility for every person, Catholic or not, living in his diocese. This was the subject of the sermon today, and Fr. Curtis urged us to pray for all bishops as each must answer individually to Christ when the time comes. The total population of the 20 counties in the Sacramento Diocese is 3,724,273. Bishop Soto governs the Sacramento Diocese, and we, the Latin Mass community, and the bishop sustain one another.
https://catholicexchange.com/the-bishop-as-steward/ Two short stories Altan (13) and I read and discussed. Recommended. “How to Make a Million Dollars” (written 1915-17) nonsense/humor genre by Stephen Leacock (1869-1944). “The Most Dangerous Game” (written 1924) adventure genre by Richard Connell (1893-1949).
photo courtesy of Michael Ciaglo for The Epoch Times Linked is a story by Alex Newman, a freelance contributor to The Epoch Times. “Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant who co-wrote the book, Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children. “He is the executive director of Public School Exit, serves as CEO of Liberty Sentinel Media, and writes for diverse publications in the United States and abroad.” Erin Lee’s daughter was invited to an after-school art club last year by the Wellington Middle School art teacher, but the club was teaching gender and sexuality awareness topics instead. “The woman in charge, Kimberly Chambers, who works as a ‘health equity initiatives coordinator’ for Larimer County and director of the pro-LGBT organization SPLASH Youth of Northern Colorado, also handed out her personal contact information to the children and urged them to contact her anytime. “Chambers’s organization has boasted of teaching children ages 12 to 16 about “polyamory”—relationships with multiple sexual partners simultaneously—and other controversial ideas.” As a tutor I love my children and would never want them exposed to subversive activities. Please read the story. https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-parents-resisted-transgender-push-teacher-suggested-sending-in-child-services_4443600.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2022-05-14&utm_medium=email&est=a0ChlyQZ7FShtMO6y8uI%2BP%2BVX%2FR%2Fi8ck3dQ2epNtJEB%2BFFUpoL%2Br2T5nIbCe7aY%3D Cardinal Joseph Zen (90) has been arrested by police in Hong Kong for breaking China’s national security law. Latin is feared by the demons. Ask any Catholic priest-exorcist.
TYMES GOE BY TURNES
The loppèd tree in tyme may growe agayne; Most naked plants renewe both frute and floure; The soriest wight may finde release of payne, The dry est soyle sucke in some moystning shoure; Tymes go by turnes and chaunces chang by course, From foule to fayre, from better happ to worse. The sea of Fortune doth not ever floe, She drawes her favours to the lowest ebb; Her tide hath equall tymes to come and goe, Her loome doth weave the fine and coarsest webb; No joy so great but runneth to an ende, No happ so harde but may in fine amende. Not allwayes fall of leafe nor ever springe, No endlesse night yet not eternall daye; The saddest birdes a season finde to singe, The roughest storme a calme may soone alaye; Thus with succeding turnes God tempereth all, That man may hope to rise yet feare to fall. A chaunce may wynne that by mischance was lost; The nett that houldes no greate, takes little fishe; In some thinges all, in all thinges none are croste, Fewe all they neede, but none have all they wishe; Unmedled joyes here to no man befall, Who least hath some, who most hath never all. Robert Southwell, SJ The arrangement of the poem is six lines, six lines, 12 lines: sestet, sestet, two sestets combined. The rhyme scheme of the first sestet is ABABCC. The other sestets follow the same pattern. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Poems_of_Robert_Southwell Southwell influenced at least one contemporary, Shakespeare. Brownlow, pp.93–6, 125. John Klause. Shakespeare, the Earl and the Jesuit. Madison & Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008, passim. I lifted quotes from an online news journal report dated Feb 8, 2022. Wearing a veil at Mass is up to each woman. Choices range in color, fabric, shape, and size. If requested, I can provide the link to the full story. For Magdalena, a 23-year-old Midwestern college student, “the significance behind the white and cream veil is that it is just a constant reminder of who you want to be—pure. You want to be holy; you want to be chaste.” Helena, a 19-year-old college student, said, “When I wear the veil, it is a reminder to be pure and keep pure thoughts and pure actions only and to be chaste.” For 25-year-old Ruth, the veil calls to mind the importance of sexual purity, and how it reminds her of being the bride of Christ, walking up the aisle to receive Christ in the Eucharist. “You are being pure and just reverent and humbling yourself down for that one hour for Christ, to be His bride in that one hour of Mass.” Marisa, 32, explained, “The white color of the veil is viewed as a signal of chastity, purity, and virginity.” Clara, 32, said, “For me, if you wear a white veil, it resembles purity. It resembles virginity. Even if you do not have your virginity still, you can wear that veil to have that significance of virginity and chastity.” For Lily, a 34-year-old, the veil is a symbol of marital intimacy--“because hair, a sign of beauty, is reserved specifically for a husband.” For 31-year-old Donna, “You sheath your hair because your hair is a very attractive characteristic.” Amelia, age 28, argues this practice does not hide away the woman as a form of shame but rather reserves part of her for her partner. “It’s not that we want to hide those things, but we want to keep them sacred potentially if you have the vocation of marriage.” For Amelia, the veil hides the hair just as modest clothing hides the body, so a woman can prevent men from being tempted. Pamela, age 24, said, “It makes you feel more feminine. I feel more feminine in church, and that’s really interesting because it sets you apart in a beautiful way.” Clara, age 38, celebrates the veil because it urges women to “respect our own bodies but also dressing and acting in a way that invites others to respect us and to uphold our dignity. With the veil and dressing modestly, it’s like reserving yourself.” As 33-year-old Karen explained, “You don’t veil your body or wear modest clothing to hide anything, but you do it because you recognize that sacredness and that dignity and [that] it’s not for everyone.” Rose, age 22, explained that wearing a veil caused her to dress more modesty overall. Rose connected this idea of modesty and preventing sexual attention: “You dress more modestly when you are wearing a veil, so you can’t be objectified.” For 18-year-old Delilah, it’s part of “how women dress so that we’re not tempting men more.” Twenty-six-year-old Claire said wearing the veil makes women “more attractive” to men. Her boyfriend supports the practice and comments that he likes its “feminine look”, but he never forced her to veil. Notre-Dame is Paris Point Zero. The cathedral is the exact center of Paris, and all distances are measured from a small brass plaque with an engraved compass, a plaque over which one can tiptoe. 48.8530° N, 2.3499° E Tommy, my jokester bro, at Le Petit Trianon. Is he lamenting over Marie-Antoinette? Carved into the exterior of the Milan Cathedral are 135 gargoyles. Tommy isn't one of them … not yet.
https://cragop.org/2022/04/06/george-yang-discusses-his-plan-to-give-educational-power-to-the-parents/ A famous actress says in a movie, "Send me your campaign buttons to hold up my little brother's pants."
I offer a Hemingway story from 1927 on a topic that still divides. Oregon Department of Education
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORED/bulletins/2ee89d6 During this 2021-22 school year, menstrual products must be made available in at least two restrooms per public education building where students of all genders can access, and in all restrooms by the 2022-2023 school year. The Oregon Department of Education and the State Board of Education will be developing temporary rules in September of 2021 and a toolkit for schools to implement these new requirements this school year and beyond. Portland Public Schools https://www.pps.net/ Starting next year (2022-23), products will be available in all restrooms (male, female, and all-gender) in every PPS building where education occurs. To ensure timely compliance, PPS ordered 500 dispensers. Dispensers have been installed in all elementary and middle school girls’ restrooms, and more will be installed in all remaining bathrooms, including boys’ restrooms, next year. Instructions for how to use tampons and pads will be posted in all bathrooms. All K-12 students are receiving a pamphlet, a 26-page Menstrual Dignity for Students Tool Kit. Introduction: Importantly, this law affirms the right to menstrual dignity for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and two spirit students by addressing the challenges that some students have managing menstruation while minimizing negative attention that could put them at risk of harm and navigating experiences of gender dysphoria during menstruation. Research also connects gender-affirming bathroom access to supporting student safety at school. ? U.S. Department of Truth
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Nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gorky said, “Class hatred should be cultivated by an organic revulsion as far as the enemy is concerned. Enemies must be seen as inferior. I believe quite profoundly that the enemy is our inferior and is a degenerate not only in the physical plane but also in the moral sense.” The U.S. national debt is over $28.5 trillion. If every U.S. citizen were to try and help pay that off, every single one of us, even our children, would owe more than $80,000. All lose.
A tweet went out this past weekend, saying, “We will burn your Eucharist.” Everyone at St. Stephen the First Martyr stands firm, and they are well-educated, industrious, and discerning. I have spoken to many St. Stephen girls and boys, and all are homeschooled but for one who is in a charter high school, and Rory told me that the school is half Catholic and half Mormon. So how to react to that kind of tweet? God expects me to act, not sit on my donkey. Jesus said, “But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil. [38] You have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. [39] But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other: [40] And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.” Matthew. [39] "Not to resist evil": What is here commanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18 and Acts 23. Douay-Rheims Wait for Him to chastise the evildoers with the Ten Plagues of Egypt? drawings courtesy of IMDb (no copyright infringement intended) Every piano student plays a lot of Bach and Mozart. Here is one from Mozart. I think I was at this rate of speed by 15, filling a strong desire for order that is in my nature. That might be one reason I am back at the Latin Mass. It is well-ordered, which permits me to feel emotion. Facile [FAH-sul]: directive, play in a light, easy style. This 2012 video witnesses three generations of Catholics: 1920-present, 1945-present, 1980-present. The third one is rediscovering tradition, and the pace is accelerating. Our three FSSP priests are in the third, as are most of our parishioners. I can confirm this anecdotally. A 22-year-old was received into the Church at St. Stephen at the Easter Octave Mass, and he drives 70 miles (140 miles round trip) to get to Mass on Sunday.
The Donkey
BY G. K. CHESTERTON When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb, I keep my secret still. Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my ears, And palms before my feet. Brian Williams June 19, 2017, for https://onepeterfive.com/ (solving the Catholic chaplain shortage in the Archdiocese for the Military Services - USA) “We have…been visited by another seminarian from Houston who served eight years in the US Army Special Forces and has the…desire for Traditional formation and Army chaplaincy. We have a seminarian who will be ordained next month for the Priestly Society of St. Peter (FSSP)…His parents are regulars at our TLM. Typical of Traditional communities, we have many young men in attendance and also young couples with children. We have several altar boys who diligently practice the Latin responses and perform their liturgical actions with precision and reverence.” … “According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), the average age of a Priest in the USA is 64. In the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), it is 37. The FSSP and the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) have almost 500 priests with over a hundred in formation now [2017 stats]…Priest-chaplains for the future may be available from these traditional priestly societies if we actively recruit them and permit them to serve in their charism of exclusively using the 1962 liturgical books.” I have read Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets and about three-quarters of his plays - had to.
Joseph Pearce (1961-) gave textual evidence in his documentary on Shakespeare’s recusancy (2009): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quest_for_Shakespeare. Clare Asquith (1951-) wrote about it. The Countess of Oxford and Asquith is an English independent scholar and author of Shadowplay: the Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, (2005). It was the first book to claim that a subtext contains coded language used by the Catholic underground. I find this plausible because Shakespeare’s mother remained a recusant in the face of grave danger and, facing the same risks, he would have maintained a cover to publish. From Wikipedia – “Asquith also detects in Shakespeare’s work a code used by the Jesuit underground in England which took the form of a mercantile terminology wherein priests were ‘merchants’ and souls were ‘jewels’, those pursuing them were ‘creditors’, and the Tyburn gallows, where the members of the underground died, was called ‘the place of much trading’. The Jesuit underground used this code so their correspondences looked like innocuous commercial letters, and Asquith believed that Shakespeare also used this code….” More from Wikipedia – “John Finnis and Patrick Martin have argued more recently that Catholic martyr Anne Line is the eponymous phoenix of The Phoenix and the Turtle and her husband Roger is the eponymous turtle. They believe, with Asquith, that the poem’s ‘bird of loudest lay’ represents the composer William Byrd and that the crow is the Jesuit Henry Garnet.” Lady Oxford is the eldest of five children of the architect Francis Pollen (1926–1987) and Marie Therese Sheridan (later Viscountess Sidmouth, wife of the 7th peer). She lives in Somerset with her husband, former diplomat Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Sorry, William. To this day, I would rather read other poetry. “I could teach you the entire Catholic faith based on the texts of the Mass you attended last Sunday.” music source for the post that was titled My People
Wikipedia - The Liber Usualis is a book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France. According to Willi Apel, the chants in the Liber Usualis originated in the 11th century. The first Gregorian chant record I ever bought was recorded at Solesmes. I was 16 and bought it at Tower Records in San Francisco with my own work money. I thought Gregorian chant was weird on the first listen. By the second or third listen, my ear had inexplicably developed. Without my knowing, the record placed the first step toward vocation, which developed a year later. These things lay deep. I have never visited Solesmes or Fontgombault! As I told James (22), companionship with Jesus and men who understand this is long-term and unchanging. Aerial view of Solesmes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Saint-Pierre_de_Solesmes.webm |
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