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Some grateful comments
For the
edification of our readers, we would like to share some of the
positive feedback received in response to Fr. Rostand's recent
Easter appeal letter... 5-22-2013 |
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Eddystone's First Communions
On Sunday, May
5th, in the front pew at St. Jude’s, with our pastor Fr. Jordan
Fahnestock, knelt four little children, all clad in white...
This day they were
to receive Jesus for the first time!
5-22-2013 |
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2013
Youth Pilgrimage reports |
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Days
8-9:
If there
was any doubt in the youths’ minds that a pilgrimage requires
pushing through adversity, this years’ 3-day walk would remove
those doubts altogether. Nothing but rain, mud and cold were
our companions for the march from Chartres to Paris...
5-21-2013 |
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58
confirmed in Kansas City
58 confirmands (half from St.
Vincent's, with others coming from the Missouri chapels of
Springfield and Mexico) knelt before Bishop Tissier de Mallerais
to receive the Holy Ghost and become Soldiers of Christ....
5-17-2013 |
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Lumberjack day in upper NY
A wintry Saturday in March saw the parish of St. Therese's
Church in Nicholville, New York return to its north country
roots with a lumberjack work day attended by about 45
men and boys....
5-17-2013 |
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A
rapid reform of the Curia?
Pope Francis,
adopting a suggestion made during the General Congregations that
preceded the conclave, established a group of cardinals to
advise him in the government of the Universal Church...
DICI
5-17-2013 |
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Syria: the long Calvary of Christians
Archbishop
Nassar, Maronite
archbishop of Damascus, reported on April 13 the crucifying
dilemma of the Syrian Christians, "forced to choose between
two bitter chalices: death or exile", which is "another,
[slower] way to die"...
DICI
5-17-2013 |
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Prayers
needed for future of health care
Once upon a time,
health care was all about healing. It was driven by compassion,
faith, and science that combined to meet patients' emotional,
spiritual, and physical needs. Hospitals frequently were
governed by clergy who focused on mission, not margin...
5-16-2013 |
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Fr.
Dominique Lagneau in 2010 |
In memoriam...
It is with great sadness that
the SSPX’s General House announces the sudden death of
Fr. Dominique Lagneau, superior of the Contemplative
House Montgardin, occurred Sunday, May 12 at 5:30pm.
Apparently he died of a heart attack while he prayed at
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Of French nationality, he was
ordained at Econe on June 29, 1981 by Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre, founder of the SSPX. Stationed first in Unieux,
he became the prior a year later and was successively
appointed professor at the seminaries of Econe and
Flavigny. Then he was then rector of the La Reja
seminary in Argentina for 13 years, followed as the
prior at Dijon, France, a collaborator at Meylan and
Gastines and finally the prior for the contemplative
house of Montgardin since its opening in 2011. He was
also chaplain of the Militia of Mary which he ran with a
zeal and communicative enthusiasm.
His funeral will be held on
Friday, May 17 in the Franciscan church at Cours
Ladoucette.** It will be presided by Bishop Fellay, the
SSPX’s Superior General. Fr. Lagneau’s wake will be held
in the in the chapel of the Notre Dame House and buried
in the house’s cemetery. **SSPX.org
has just learned that the local ordinary of the Gap
Diocese, Bishop Jean-Michel Di Falco, visited and prayed
before Fr. Lagneau 's body. Noticing the smallness of
the Franciscan chapel, he offered and authorized the use
of the parish church of Cordeliers in Gap for the
Requiem Mass that Bishop Fellay will offer on May 17th. |
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Plainchant is for every Catholic, not just the elite
The 1908
Graduale Romanum became so popular that it soon became the
only textus receptus of Gregorian chant - and it was
certainly not elitist since on the contrary, it allowed any
average singer to master the liturgical year's repertoire of
chant in about 2 years, whereas in the Middle Ages, it took a
monk about 10 years...
5-14-2013 |
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Southern Sentinel - May 2013
Holy Cross
Seminary; Goulburn, Australia
One difficulty with prayer is our reluctance to work (and
perseveringly) at praying well. We must resolve (even with grim
determination) to actually pray – despite any and all
difficulties encountered in this pursuit...
HOLY CROSS SEMINARY 4-14-2013 |
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Now available
from Holy Cross Seminary:
True Devotion CD instructional course |
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Have you ever read St. Louis de
Montfort's classic True Devotion to Mary and wanted to penetrate
his teaching more deeply? Or has the book of St. Louis been
recommended to you and you have not yet had a chance to pick it
up? This instructional course will unlock for you the secrets of
St. Louis' masterpiece...
more info / purchase > |
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Altar servers get fire house tour
There the altar servers group
received a tour of the station, and were shown all of the
emergency equipment including the inside of an ambulance - they
even got a ride in a fire truck...
5-14-2013 |
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An
open answer to Bishop Williamson by Fr. Laisney
"The same accusations are sometimes made against the Protocol of May 5, 1988, which had been prepared by the future Bishop Tissier de Mallerais and signed by Archbishop Lefebvre. Would you accuse these two the way you accused Bishop Fellay? Certainly not!..."
5-13-2013 |
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First profession for Missionary Sisters in Kenya
On Tuesday, April 30, feast of Our Lady of Africa, the
Missionary Sisters of Jesus and Mary celebrated their very first
religious profession. Sister Irene de Jesus took her first vows
at the congregation’s novitiate in Nairobi, Kenya...
5-10-2013 |
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