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Once named: What Does The Prayer Really Say? - Commentary on Catholic issues & slavishly accurate liturgical translations - by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf o{]:¬)

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Once named: What Does The Prayer Really Say? - Commentary on Catholic issues & slavishly accurate liturgical translations - by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf o{]:¬)

    STATIONS OF THE CROSS – Audio from Fr. Z

    STATIONS OF THE CROSS – Audio from Fr. Z

    Here also are my audio projects of the Way of the Cross.



    On 1st Fridays, do please pray the Act of Reparation.



    What we need right now is PRAYER, especially now.



    And remember to GO TO CONFESSION!



    For priests, especially, try The Way Of The Cross For Priests from the Benedictines of Silverstream Priory.  HERE.  Would you consider getting copies of this for your priests where you are?  Lay people: pray it for priests.



    Below are readings of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, composed by



    Joseph Card. Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at the Colosseum in Rome

    St. Alphonsus Liguori

    Bl. John Henry Newman

    St. Francis of Assisi (according to the method of...)

    Silverstream Priory - The Way Of The Cross For Priests



    There are two versions of the Way by St. Alphonsus Liguori. One is plain with just my voice. The other is the same voice recording but with the Gregorian chant Sequence Stabat Mater interlaced between the stations.







    You can gain a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions of confession and Communion within a few days of the work and detachment even from venial sin.  From the Handbook of Indulgences:



    63. Exercise of the Way of the Cross (Viae Crucis exercitium)

    A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful, who make the pious exercise of the Way of the Cross.



    The gaining of the plenary indulgence is regulated by the following norms:





    The pious exercise must be made before stations of the Way of the Cross legitimately erected.





    For the erection of the Way of the Cross fourteen crosses are required, to which it is customary to add fourteen pictures or images, which represent the stations of Jerusalem.





    According to the more common practice, the pious exercise consists of fourteen pious readings, to which some vocal prayers are added. However, nothing more is required than a pious meditation on the Passion and Death of the Lord, which need not be a particular consideration of the individual mysteries of the stations.





    A movement from one station to the next is required.





    If the pious exercise is made publicly and if it is not possible for all taking part to go in an orderly way from station to station, it suffices if at least the one conducting the exercise goes from station to station, the others remaining in their place.



    Those who are "impeded" can gain the same indulgence, if they spend at least one half an hour in pious reading and meditation on the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.



    For those belonging to Eastern Rites, among whom this pious exercise is not practiced, the respective Patriarchs can determine some other pious exercise in memory of the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ for the gaining of this indulgence.



    If these recordings are helpful to you, please say a prayer for me, especially if you use the Way Of The Cross For Priests.



    St. Alphonsus de Liguori with chant



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/080314_stations_liguori_chant.mp3



    Joseph Ratzinger - 2005 Good Friday at the Colosseum



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/080318_stations_ratzinger.mp3



    St. John Henry Newman



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/12_03_30_Newman_stations.mp3



    Via Crucis For Priests from Silverstream Priory



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/17_03_03_Silverstream_Via_Crucis.mp3

    AUDIO: Way of the Cross in different versions read by Fr. Z

    AUDIO: Way of the Cross in different versions read by Fr. Z

    Here are my audio projects of the Way of the Cross.



    Remember...



    On 1st Fridays, please pray the Act of Reparation.

    GO TO CONFESSION!



    For priests, especially, try The Way Of The Cross For Priests from the Benedictines of Silverstream Priory.  HERE.  Would you consider getting copies of this for your priests where you are?  Lay people: pray it for priests.



    Below are readings of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, composed by



    Joseph Card. Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at the Colosseum in Rome

    St. Alphonus Liguori

    Bl. John Henry Newman

    Silverstream Priory – The Way Of The Cross For Priests



    There are two versions of the Way by St. Alphonsus Liguori. One is plain with just my voice. The other is the same voice recording but with the Gregorian chant Sequence Stabat Mater interlaced between the stations.



    In times past, before updating the blog software, I could post these all in one post with multiple players. But that ability is gone. The most popular of these was the version by Joseph Ratzinger. It was downloaded some 24000 times.  Now my stats are limited to the plugin player (top).



    St. Alphonsus de Liguori without chant







    St. Alphonsus de Liguori without chant



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/080314_stations_liguori_chant.mp3



    Joseph Ratzinger - 2005 Good Friday at the Colosseum



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/080318_stations_ratzinger.mp3



    St. John Henry Newman



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/12_03_30_Newman_stations.mp3



    Via Crucis For Priests from Silverstream Priory



    https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/17_03_03_Silverstream_Via_Crucis.mp3

    • 34 min
    OLDIE PODCAzT 36: St. Augustine on John the Baptist; The Vespers hymn “Ut queant laxis”

    OLDIE PODCAzT 36: St. Augustine on John the Baptist; The Vespers hymn “Ut queant laxis”

    New word for the day: hexachord



    I think my production skills have improved a bit since then!







     











    OLDIE TEXT Originally: 24 June 2007



    Our PODCAzT for this Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist presents a selection from sermon (s. 288) preached by St. Augustine of Hippo (+430) in Carthage in 401. 



    This is not the same selection as you find in the Novus Ordo Office of Readings today (from s. 293).



    Then we get into the wonderful hymn for Vespers as well as a very hot

    blessing for the day from the pre-Conciliar Rituale Romanum.

    • 29 min
    OLDIE PODCAzT 084: Quo Primum of St. Pius V (1570) and the Missale Romanum – “henceforth, now, and forever”

    OLDIE PODCAzT 084: Quo Primum of St. Pius V (1570) and the Missale Romanum – “henceforth, now, and forever”

    I've been getting questions about the infamous "survey" sent out to bishops about Summorum Pontificum and its implementation (or more likely NOT!) in their dioceses.  I wrote about it HERE.   The important thing is not to panic and act like a loon about this.



    However, my real point is that some people are raising the question of Pius V's Quo primum.  Given that the "survey" is under discussion, and given that the Feast of St. Pius V is coming up on 5 May (in the traditional calendar), I've dredged up an old PODCAzT in which I talk about and read Quo primum.  This is from 2009... !  Tempus fugit.







    On this feast of St. Pope Pius V (+1572) I drill into one of his most famous acts as Roman Pontiff.  Today we look into and listen to his Apostolic Constitution Quo primum, by which he promulgated the editio princeps of the Missale Romanum.   



    Of course there was an somewhat different version in an edition prior to the 1570 edition, in 1474, but for all our purposes, the 1570 is the first.



    This history changing document came out of turbulent times.  The Council of Trent had just closed and Pius, as Pope, was tasked with the standardization of the Church's liturgy as a bulwark against attacks on the Catholic Faith on many fronts.   Catholic identity was shaken by the theological revolt in the north, uncertain teachings, lack of unity in the expression of worship and even the menace of invasion by Islamic armies.



    Because there is a reciprocal relation between what we believe and how we pray, our worship plays a key role in the shaping and maintaining of our Catholic identity in a difficult world.



    However, centuries after the editio princeps of the "Tridentine" Roman Missal, decades after Paul VI issued his own Apostolic Constitution for the promulgation of the so-called Novus Ordo of the Roman Rite, confusing claims remain about the juridical force of Pius V's Quo primum.



    Some people maintained that Paul VI absolutely abolished the older, traditional "Tridentine" form of Mass with his own Constitution Missale Romanum.



    Some people maintain that Pius V's Quo primum can never be abrogated or abolished or modified even by other Popes and that it still has force of law.



    While not trying to get too canonical, we drill into the questions, draw some conclusions, and hear the words of Pius V in their 16th century splendor.



    You may surprised at how modern some of the saintly Pope's actions sound.







    UPDATE:



    No sooner did I post but I get a text saying that Taylor Marshall and Tim Flanders were talking about QUO PRIMUM live on YouTube, which explains why I was getting questions.



    I'll listen to their comments later.

    • 44 min
    PODCAzT 181: The Latin of “A Prayer In Times of Epidemics” from the Rituale Romanum – PRAYERCAzT

    PODCAzT 181: The Latin of “A Prayer In Times of Epidemics” from the Rituale Romanum – PRAYERCAzT

    In this PODCAzT I read for you the Latin version of the extract from the traditional Rituale Romanum of A Prayer In Times of Epidemics (RR Tit. IX. Ch. X).



    It really should be done in Latin.







    These devotions and the use of Latin slipped away.  I can’t help but think that this was systematically and purposely stripped out of the church’s life to weaken our Catholic identity and to make us more susceptible to the winds of the world with its shifting fads and mores.   It won’t be easy to recover ourselves and our sense of ourselves.  That’s why I try to help by reading the Latin of some of these rites, such as traditional baptism or exorcism and blessings of holy water and the like.  If you need help with something, Fathers, let me know.



    Meanwhile, let’s beat this damned virus down into the dust with self-discipline and mighty prayers.



    We hear some music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Music For San Rocco.  San Rocco is a great patron of the sick and an intercessor in time of plague.   And, for music, there's a surprise at the end.







    US HERE - UK HERE

    • 11 min
    OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter

    OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter

    As a favor to a friend, I'll repost this old podcast.  It is the Eve of the Feast of St. Agnes, which of course reminds us of the famous poem by Keats.



    I, fan of poetry that I am, read out Keat's poem, 42 Spencerian stanzas.  It is torrid and lush, with marvelous moments and imagery, imbued with the revival of romantic, courtly love which was coming back into vogue in the early 19th century.



    The poem takes inspiration from a superstition, which I explain in an introduction.



    The Eve of St Agnes would inspire the Pre-Raphaelites, as a matter of fact.



    Speaking of Pre-Raphaelites, one of their circle, was Christina Rossetti, a poet in her own right.



    Christina Rossetti wrote a poem which later was made into a Christmas carol: In the Bleak Midwinter.  We are still within the Christmas cycle until Candlemas.











     

    • 37 min

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