Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, more commonly known as Corpus Christi, the day set aside by the Church in honor of the Eucharist. Traditionally, the celebration of Corpus Christi includes the Lauda Sion sequence, which I was fortunate enough to hear sung in Latin at Mass today. [...]
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Corpus Christi (Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)
Posted in Jesus, Liturgy, Sacred Music, The Real Presence on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shawn Tribe on Beauty and the Liturgy
Posted in Liturgy, The Real Presence on December 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Shawn Tribe over at The New Liturgical Movement has posted a brief but excellent piece on the need for beauty in liturgical settings. Here’s an excerpt:
Beauty is a problem only if it is distorted in such a way as to make it narcissistic; even then, the problem is not with beauty itself, which exists as [...]
The Religion of Catholics the Worship of Jesus (3)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Jesus, Mary and the Saints, The Real Presence on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
But Protestants will say perhaps that they also meditate, and that it is an easy thing to do so, especially for gentle and thoughtful minds, and at particular times when they are in a humour for it. This, however, is mere natural meditation; meditation as the Church would have it is a very different thing. [...]
The Religion of Catholics the Worship of Jesus (2)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Jesus, Mary and the Saints, The Real Presence on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Consider again, what is the one great act of Catholic worship, which surpasses all others in dignity, and in the frequency of its celebration, and in which all Catholics are bound to join, at least on Sundays and great festivals, on pain of mortal sin. It is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Protestants, rejecting [...]
The Religion of Catholics the Worship of Jesus (1)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Jesus, Mary and the Saints, The Real Presence on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Among other strange ideas entertained by Protestants respecting the religion of Catholics, there is a very general belief that we have well nigh given up the worship of our Blessed Lord. The idolatrous worship of saints and angels and “graven images” is supposed to have long since taken its place; trust in our own merits [...]
