Important local notes for this week December 30, 2014
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Some important notes for local folks. Most of you are already likely aware that there will be a midnight TLM at the Dallas Carmel on New Year’s Eve (that is night of Dec 31-Jan 1). This Mass 5’lbsis especially a Mass of reparations for the Mount Everest of sins accumulated by ourselves and especially the culture over the past year. It also has obvious implications for the direction of the Church at present.
The First Friday All Night Adoration has been moved from the Carmel to Mater Dei parish in Irving. . The Adoration begins with Sacred Heart devotions at 6:30p. TLMs at 8p, 3a, and 8a Sat. If you plan to attend please sign up at the Mater Dei website (http://www.materdeiparish.com)
Do remember that New Year’s Day – much more importantly, the Octave of Christmas – is a Holy Day of Obligation. Get thee to Mass!
Holy Face devotions will be held at 3:30p at the Carmel on Sunday as per usual.
Of more general note, from the Saint Vincent Ferrer Foundation (svfonline.org)
Dec 31: An indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who pray in a recitation or solemn chant the Te Deum hymn on the last day of the year, in thanksgiving to God for the favors received in the course of the entire year. If done in a church or oratory it is a plenary indulgence (in accordance with the other usual conditions)
Jan 1: An indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who pray in a recitation or chant the Veni Creator hymn on the first day of the year, imploring divine assistance for the whole of the coming year. If done in a church or oratory it is a plenary indulgence (in accordance with the other usual conditions).
Even George Weigel is starting to come around December 30, 2014
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I’ll admit I was mildly surprised when I read that even the usually hyper-montanist George Weigel is publicly expressing grave concern over the direction of this pontificate, (http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/12/all-concerned-catholics-together-in.html?m=1) and especially the dire matter of the upcoming Synod, which might be subtitled “vanguard of the revolution. ”
And I appreciate Rotate saying much better what I tried to say a few weeks ago: while we may disagree profoundly with George Weigel or Jeff Mirus or even certain blogging priests at times, who are perhaps less fervent on certain issues or take different emphases from some of us at times, in the present crisis, quite possibly the most dangerous in history, the Church needs the services of all souls of good will who more or less get it, who oppose the final and permanent installation of the leftist revolution in the Church. This is not to say we must be BFFs, but perhaps allies of convenience. Prayer, reflection, and a providential encounter with a persecuted traditional priest (much more on that later) convinced me even more than before that we are present at one of the most defining, critical times in the history of the Church. We all must vocally and stridently oppose the revolutionaries in the Church with the loudest and clearest voices possible. Obviously more voices will help.
What difficult times not just we, but the entire world faces. Lord have mercy on us.
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