Summorum Pontificum - 1 year old today!

[ReConverted]

**God be praised, Summorum Pontificum has it’s 1st birthday today! **

:extrahappy: :clapping: :tiphat: :getholy:

LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT THE GREAT!!!

 

[I_Believe]

Indeed

And it is bearing fruit

 

[Like]

**God be praised, Summorum Pontificum has it’s 1st birthday today! **

LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT THE GREAT!!!

Nope, not till tomorrow here.

 

[Like]

Indeed

And it is bearing fruit

My last post was a joke but seriously, it’s not showing any fruit here.
:crying: :crying: :crying:

 

[ReConverted]

My last post was a joke but seriously, it’s not showing any fruit here.
:crying: :crying: :crying:

I live in the diocese of San Bernardino, CA and it’s a modernist wasteland…

God will bring change. He knows how to deal with errant folks, be they laity or clergy.

Pray for me, I’ll pray for you.

 

[SJP]

How will you celebrate the first anniversary of Summorum Pontificum?

I have some big plans involving a certain Cuban export, some fine wine, spontaneous outbursts of joy and most importantly… giving thanks.

Deo Gratias!

 

[sneakers]

My last post was a joke but seriously, it’s not showing any fruit here.
:crying: :crying: :crying:

No changes here either (other than the Catholic College 45 miles away has a Gregorian Mass every Friday). The bishop might have mentioned it once, and our parish priest has never mentioned it at all. I am still not sure how many in our parish even know about it.

I’m very very happy for the dioceses where the EF has taken hold though! Hopefully it will influence dioceses like mine!

sneakers

 

[KingAlfred]

I find Benedict’s written work almost impossible to read. His thinking might parallel JP2’s, but his prose is very different – tight, technical, dull to the max, and hard to digest. I’ve never been able to get past the first ten pages of anything of his I’ve tried to read.

 

[HelenRose]

I find Benedict’s written work almost impossible to read. His thinking might parallel JP2’s, but his prose is very different – tight, technical, dull to the max, and hard to digest. I’ve never been able to get past the first ten pages of anything of his I’ve tried to read.

Isn’t that strange. I am a 62 year old woman, rasied a Protestant, mother and grandma, not to well educated (two years of business college) but I find his writings fasinating and readable.

I guess it is simply a matter of interest.

 

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I live in the diocese of San Bernardino, CA and it’s a modernist wasteland…

God will bring change. He knows how to deal with errant folks, be they laity or clergy.

Pray for me, I’ll pray for you.

You got it, ReConverted! It seems anything So. CA does or doesn’t do, HI follows suit.

Prayers coming you way.

 

[Fitswimmer]

Isn’t that strange. I am a 62 year old woman, rasied a Protestant, mother and grandma, not to well educated (two years of business college) but I find his writings fasinating and readable.

I guess it is simply a matter of interest.

I’m enjoying his writing as well. It is very theological though, reminds me of my college and graduate studies.

 

[saint_rafael]

I find Benedict’s written work almost impossible to read. His thinking might parallel JP2’s, but his prose is very different – tight, technical, dull to the max, and hard to digest. I’ve never been able to get past the first ten pages of anything of his I’ve tried to read.

Well, he is German.

An American could write a book, but it would take a German six volumes to do the same.

Try getting through any German philosophy or theology.

Ratzinger’s books are a hard technical and dense read, but his two encyclicals are great and accesible.

 

[scylla]

I live in the diocese of San Bernardino, CA and it’s a modernist wasteland…

God will bring change. He knows how to deal with errant folks, be they laity or clergy.

Pray for me, I’ll pray for you.

Me too, I understand your pain. I am out here in the wastelands of California also. There are some good Priests out here and a couple good parishes which are holding on no matter how poor of shape the diocese is in.

Hey with Summorum Pontificum we now have a Gregorian Mass in Palm Desert each Sunday.

It was pretty comical to see a parish coordinator here almost in tears of anger saying that Vatican II was over and we have gone back.

Things are looking up, I agree we are in terrible shape but things are looking up.

God Bless
Scylla

 

[eelpis]

In my parish we now have a Gregorian mass every Sunday and at the convent nearby they have one each Sunday as well.

Thanks be to God and to pope Benedict.

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.

 

[KingAlfred]

Isn’t that strange. I am a 62 year old woman, rasied a Protestant, mother and grandma, not to well educated (two years of business college) but I find his writings fasinating and readable.

I guess it is simply a matter of interest.

I bought a commentary of his on my favorite part of the Catechism. It sedated me completely within ten minutes. I went back and tried to re-read it two or three times, to no avail. Then I bought his book on the Historical Jesus versus the Biblical Jesus. It was a little more readable, but very redundant. I got the main point within a handful of pages and didn’t finish it. No more books by the Pope, for me.

 

[KingAlfred]

Well, he is German.

An American could write a book, but it would take a German six volumes to do the same.

Try getting through any German philosophy or theology.

Ratzinger’s books are a hard technical and dense read, but his two encyclicals are great and accesible.

Man, is that ever true. I tried reading Hegel’s work, years ago, and literally passed out and hit the floor, in deep somber, face-first. Never again. Never again.

I thought Nietzche’s work was highly readable, however, despite my fundamental disagreement with it.