When Prelates looked like Prelates II

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When Prelates looked like PRELATES...

By Prelate, we understand a dignitary of the Catholic Church, who is entitled to wear a special custom, and whose rank deserves special honors, both in everyday life and in liturgical functions. ~Custome of Prelates of the Catholic Church, p. 12.

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Traditional Masses in NYC This Week

Monday 4/28/08: Sung Mass at the Church of St. Agnes at 6:15pm.

Wednesday 4/30/08: Sung Mass for the Vigil of the Ascension at Our Saviour's Church (38th Street and Park Avenue) at 6:00pm.

Thursday 5/1/08: (Low) Mass of the Ascension at Our Lady of Good Counsel (290 E. 90th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenue) at 7:30pm

(Low) Mass of the Ascension at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in the Bronx at 8:30 AM.

Friday 5/2/08: First Friday Traditional Mass presented by The Oratory of the Sacred Heart at the Church of the Guardian Angel (193 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street) at 6:30pm.

Traditional Mass - First Fridays in NYC

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First Friday Traditional Mass

As part of the 9 first Fridays Devotion to the Sacred Heart

May 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 PM

Presented by
The Oratory of the Sacred Heart
At
The Church of the Guardian Angel
193 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street
Manhattan

C, E trains to 23rd Street Station
M23 Bus to 10th Avenue

For information: (917) 535-2054

“We therefore urge all Our children in Christ, both those who are already accustomed to drink the saving waters flowing from the Heart of the Redeemer and, more especially those who look on from a distance like hesitant spectators, to eagerly embrace this devotion.”

~ Pius XII, Haurietis Aquas
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The Crozier/Ferula

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The Crosier is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on Bishops at their consecration and on mitred Abbots at their investiture, and which is used by these prelates in performing certain solemn functions... According to present-day usage the Roman pontiff does not use the Crosier... The Crosier is symbol of authority and jurisdiction. This idea is clearly expressed in the words of the Roman Pontifical with which the staff is presented to the Bishop-elect: "Accipe baculum pastoralis officii; et sis in corrigendis vitiis pies viens, judicium sine irâ tenens, in fovendis virtutibus auditorum animos mulcens, in tranquillitate severitatis censuram non deserens" (Pont. Rom. 77). ~Online Catholic Encyclopedia

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IL PASTORALE (baculus, sottinteso pastoralis; cambuta, ferula) è un'insegna liturgica propria del vescovo e degli abati nelle funzioni pontificali, eccettuate quelle del Venerdì Santo e dei defunti. Consta di un'asta dell'altezza di un uomo, munita al di sopra di una curvatura a spirale. ~Una Voce Venetia

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Baculus a majoribus nostris receptus est veluti nobile episcoporum insigne et pastoralis sollicitudinis testimonium, etenim episcopus est bonus pastor, idque baculo merito repræsentatur. (Ritus traditionis baculi gallicanam habet originem, sed benedictio ejus est usus recentior seu sæculi XI vel XII. Leroquais, Les Pontificaux Manuscrits, p. xc). ~Mgr. Nabuco

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Summus Ecclesiæ Pontifex ex recepto a sæculis more baculo pastorali non utitur, et quoties baculus neccesarius est Papa adhibet ferulam cum cruce in capite. ~Mgr. Nabuco

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"Et licet Romanus Pontifex non utatur baculo pastorali, tum propter historiam, tum etiam propter mysticam rationem..." ~ Mgr. Nabuco

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Ferula papalis baculus est cum parva cruce in parte superiore [the ferula is a staff with a cross on top - see picture above], eaque utitur Papa quando ad litanias personas seu res benedicere debet, veluti in consecratione episcoporum vel in aperitione concilii œcumenici vel ad alphabeta in ecclesiarum consecratione scribenda. ~Mgr. Nabuco

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FERULA. - Nel medioevo era il pastorale del vescovo, del quale si ha notizia nel sec. X (PL 132, 970; 136, 907). Costituiva il simbolo della potestà spirituale e temporale del papa (signum regiminis et coercitionis, Ordo Romanus, xiv, cap. 44: PL 78, 1143). Gli era consegnato insieme alle chiavi quando, dopo l'incoronazione ed il possesso della Basilica Lateranense, si recava alla chiesa di S. Silvestro. Somigliava agli sceptra imperialia, dovuti ai papi dopo la cosiddetta donazione di Costantino.

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Attualmente è un'asta sormontata da una Croce a braccia uguali, che il papa usa principalmente nella funzione della apertura e chiusura della Porta santa. Filippo Oppenheim (da Enciclopedia Cattolica, V, Città del Vaticano, 1950, col. 1209). Una Voce Venetia

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Gioventù Cristiana - Christian Youth

Gioventù Cristiana (Christian Youth) is an Italian Christian (Catholic) forum that aims to bring young people closer in a Christan way. It also promotes knowledge about and sincere love for the Liturgy in general. It allows young people (and whoever wants to join it) the opportunity to have respectful discussions regarding the Liturgy, the Faith, Morals and all the social teachings, dogmas and practices/traditions of the Church.

While Gioventù Cristiana does not claim to be or favor traditionalists, many of its members are open traditionalists or open to the true traditionalism of the Church in many ways and forms. For those of you who would like to check the forum out, go to the links provided at the very end of this post.

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Following is the message written by the founder of the group and the main administrator of the forum.

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Written by Pietro Serra

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Una buona notizia, specialmente per i ragazzi che amano Cristo, sta girando in questi giorni in rete. E’ nato infatti “Gioventù Cristiana” il primo forum giovanile cattolico d’Italia, con un portale tutto suo da cui si può accedere direttamente al forum. Promotore dell’iniziativa è Pietro Serra che tenta con questo progetto di unire le “pecorelle smarrite” all’interno di un forum nella quale i giovani (anche se non necessariamente credenti), possano confrontarsi sui vari argomenti che dominano l’attualità, sia cristiana che mondana. Basta infatti un semplice clic dopo la registrazione e la convalida dell’amministratore per immergersi in un mondo nuovo, in cui dai giovani ai meno giovani, ci si scambiano le idee chi in chiave cristiana e chi meno, anche grazie all’ausilio di 4 sacerdoti che compongono tale forum e l’aiuto di non poco conto di 3 seminaristi in particolare nella Liturgia. Dall’apertura del forum è stato riscosso un vero e proprio successo raggiungendo la soglia di più di 100 iscritti, per la maggior parte ragazzi intorno ai 20 anni che nelle varie sezioni discutono da un proprio punto di vista le notizie relative all’argomento trattato.

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Il forum è stato consacrato martedì 25 marzo alla Vergine Santissima “Noli Me Tollere” da cui i ragazzi invocano la protezione con una particolare intenzione verso il Santo Padre, Benedetto XVI. Gioventù Cristiana si propone dunque come punto di partenza per una maturazione a livello religioso di tanti ragazzi che oggi in un contesto di “relativismo sociale” pare abbiano perso i valori e qualcosa su cui credere per mettere delle solide basi alla loro vita.

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Per entrare sul forum http://gioventucristiana-forum.135.it/

Per entrare nel portale clicca su http://gioventucristiana.135.it/

Ego sum Resurréctio et Vita

Agnus redemit oves; Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores.

Easter Sunday

Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere; tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere. Amen. Alleluia.

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Christ is risen! This good news that concerns everyone who comes into the world must be announced incessantly by word and by pen, by telegraph, telephone, and radio, through books and through the theater, from the heights of the pulpit and through the microphones of popular assemblies, in the cities and on the highways, by television and in the darkened halls of the cinema, on the eight continents and in all languages, in verse and in prose, through didactic teaching and the evocative medium of poetry, in all varieties of literature and in all forms of uproar of this news: Christ is risen! ~The History of Jesus Christ

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Consummátum Est

PASCHA NOSTRUM, IMMOLATUS EST CHRISTUS

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For a younger generation which, as recent investigations show, is fascinated by comfort, money, security, investment, cars, television, refrigerators, and washing machines, for these young people, who admittedly believe neither in love nor in politics (they barely believe in pleasure, certainly not in passion), who still take an idolatrous attitude toward science and for the most part accept indifference in matters of religion as good as mental hygiene and economy of the heart, for such young people what can the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ still represent?

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Never in the whole history of Christianity has there been a more appropriate time to meditate on the burial of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have seen God die, we have seen Him placed in the ground, we have seen the great stone rolled against His tomb, we have seen the supercilious legalists place seals on the sepulcher. And is it in This tormented Body, now heaped with aromatics, that we are asked to keep our faith?

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Why deny it, why not see things as they are? We have against us the appearances, prejudices, myths, propagandas, concupiscences of this world, time seems to be working against us, and the festivals that are openly celebrated are no longer ours. One after another we have retired all our banners. Laws and customs are no longer Christian. Art and architecture are no longer Christian. The exceptions prove the rule, and very often we have to blush at the sight of what officially bears the name of Christian. The architecture of our modern churches is the ugliest in the world. To us belong mourning, solitude, scorn, shame, prayer, faith, and love offered up, through the rock, to the wounded Body of the Fairest of the children of men.

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...The Passion of Jesus Christ has reconciled the universe, and within the universe man, to God, in the way a mirror is reconciled to the light by opening wide the windows and cleansing the mirror of all impurity. This is what redeption from sin is, this is the restoration, the recreation of the universe in the Blood of Jesus. Thanks to This purifying Blood, the universe again finds in itself traces of the divine, and man, looking at himself, recognizes his profoundest sonship.

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STAT CRUX, DUM VOLVITUR ORBIS

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~ Fr. Bruckberger, The History of Jesus Christ