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Given that this is Thanksgiving week, this humble blogger would like to draw your attention to one of Deus ex Machina’s favorite blogs, i.e. Musings of a Pertinacious Papist.
The reason for the affinity for the Musings blog is its editorial line. The proprietor of this blog is an active member of the Restoration effort in the Detroit area. He and his fellow Traditionalists are having a very successful run at bringing about the Restoration of all things in Christ. And they are chronicling the Restoration as it proceeds. Hence, the optimistic outlook.
And it’s not just coincidence that the Catholic Church is rising from the ashes in a city like Detroit. (see here)
Now with respect to the Restoration, this same optimistic outlook is shared by this humble blogger, who has noticed just this PROCESS over this long, dark, rigid, modern gnostic, querulous and disillusioned pessimist,pagan Christian era brought about by the promoters of the poison of immanence. These years have been long, but today we can clearly see the end of the dark age of FrancisChurch and the wider post-conciliar church in sight.
So today, I am re-publishing the below Musings post that should prove that “it’s not just me”!
Enjoy!
And one more bit of good news. At the top of this post is that video of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s lecture from the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid, Spain. What’s interesting about this lecture is the disposition of the host, who is a very rational women. No radical feminist, she!
Further, for those who follow Spain, you will know that after the death of General Francisco Franco, the International Left descended on Spain and has dominated it culturally if not economically ever since. So witnessing this interview, the sorts of questions that are being asked, the tone of the discussion and the lack of communist protesters are quite quite telling.
At the 1 hour mark, Dr. Peterson has some advice for Francis, the despot of Rome…
And then their is this quite prescient observation from Marco Tosatti about the FrancisDetroit behind the Sacred Vatican Walls:
Once again, ENJOY!
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Reasons for Thanksgiving and Optimism
Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (November 18, 2018):
November 18, 2018 – Resumed Sixth Sunday After Epiphany
It seems that most of the Catholic news nowadays comes in one of two categories, either bad news about malfeasance and corruption in the Church hierarchy or “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” seemingly forced-happy news from establishment Catholic media outlets.
Ignored in both of the above are the quiet signs of improvement in many areas of Catholic life, most connected with the Traditional Latin Mass. Given that this is the week of American Thanksgiving, it’s appropriate to remind ourselves to give thanks for what we do have. For example:
The continuing mainstreaming of the Tridentine Mass, and its increasing prominence in diocesan life. The ever-increasing number of Extraordinary Form Mass sites in metro Detroit and Windsor (and elsewhere) is something unimaginable just eleven years ago. Consider how many options we now enjoy on major weekday Feast Days as one example. In this region, we’re now limited by number of volunteers available to organize and run more Masses rather than by number of willing and interested host churches and clergy.
The ever-increasing number of priests and seminarians interested in learning to serve and celebrate the Extraordinary Form. A perfect example of this was at the All Souls Day Mass on Friday, November 2 at Old St. Mary’s Church in Detroit [photo above]: Brothers from the Franciscans of the Holy Spirit served the Mass, with seminarians from Sacred Heart Major Seminary representing two dioceses sitting in choir. Every one of the Franciscan seminarians repeatedly expressed their gratitude for having been exposed to the Traditional Mass. And stay tuned – there will be more good news along this front in next week’s Tridentine Community News column.
The increasing prevalence of Gregorian Chant and sacred polyphony in parish life. For example, this week this writer heard Gregorian Mass XVIII’s Sanctus and Agnus Dei and the Salve Regína sung at a weekday Mass at an average parish in Las Vegas. That would have been unthinkable in the pre-Summórum Pontíficum era as recently as eleven years ago, when blogs and discussion boards proudly boasted of Ordinary Form choirs taking the daring step of chanting the occasional Communion Antiphon in Latin. Clearly the bar has been raised.
A gradual evolution of where serious Catholicism is found. Prior to Vatican II, many if not most parishes seemed to have been fairly orthodox. Post-Vatican II, only a handful of conservative parishes and ethnic parishes cared enough to maintain traditions. Nowadays there is no mistaking that Tridentine Mass communities lead the charge, but an increasing number of Ordinary Form parishes are shifting to a more traditional presentation of the Faith, at least at certain Masses.
A recapturing of the importance of celebrating the Feasts of the Church Year, and increasing integration of the Church calendar into daily thinking and prayer. Catholic media and many priests’ preaching are helping to rekindle awareness of the sanctoral cycle, Feasts of Our Lady, octaves, and the lives of the Saints.
Rediscovery and rededication to traditional devotions, from the Rosary to Eucharistic Adoration to gaining Indulgences. Even at otherwise “modern” parishes, ground-level support from the faithful is causing a resurgence of popular devotions that often went ignored in the 1980s and 90s. One example is the increasing number of novenas and devotions prayed before or after weekday Masses.
Increasing availability of Confession before and after Mass. If you offer it, they will come, even in Ordinary Form parishes.
The resurgence of traditional art and architecture, both in new church construction and in restorations and un-wreckovations of older churches. The number of church restorations seems to be outpacing wreckovations these days. Communion Rails, High Altars, and serious religious art are making a comeback, and the designers and contractors supporting those efforts are growing in number and busier than ever.
The rise of a whole industry of secondhand and new traditional church goods vendors, as presented in the November 4 edition of this column. The era of 1970s style products is finally starting to pass.
One might ask, with all of this good news, why isn’t the Catholic press more focused on it? Certainly much of the mainstream Catholic press is under control of the bishops, most of whom still seem oblivious to or disinterested in traditional forms of piety and worship. However, web sites, blogs, and social media – and of course this column and Extraordinary Faith – abound with example after example of the resurgent interest in our immemorial traditions, so the encouraging word will spread via other channels.
Tridentine Masses This Coming Week
- Tue. 11/20 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor (St. Felix of Valois, Confessor)
- Sat. 11/24 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi (St. John of the Cross, Confessor & Doctor
Often writing as ColdStanding said:
As to the comment “Why isn’t the press more focused on this?”
The press is the enemy! I pray they continue to ignore us.
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Often writing as ColdStanding said:
Detroit decay photo essay had pictures of Guastavino thin tile vaulting! Very interesting method revived from the middle ages and applied with continuing success in the first part of the 20th century.
https://www.structuremag.org/?p=2046
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JTLiuzza said:
I enjoy your blog but I must admit I’m at a loss to understand your fascination, or anyone’s for that matter, with this Peterson fellow.
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S. Armaticus said:
I am not sure how much of Dr. P’s work you are familiar with, so I’ll explain.
What I find fascinating about him is that he is a (self-avowed) Traditionalist in the Natural Law sense of the term.
If we look at the nature of reality (ontology) we can distinguish between the natural and the supernatural. The supernatural reality we obtain from revealed Truth. The natural reality we obtain through the “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”. This is what is known as natural theology.
What Peterson does is that he takes that which we know from the natural light of human reason and ties it back to the supernatural part of ontology. In other words, he reconciles the natural with the supernatural.
And from what I observe, his message is a very effective weapon for not only proselytizing, but more importantly, for stopping the eradication of Christianity from the public domain altogether.
Concluding, the most destructive element of the Modernist revolution and that which we call the Enlightenment is that the forces of evil have been able to put in place this notion that the supernatural is some sort of an exotic “superstition” and relic from a past dark, ignorant age and will eventually fade away and die out. And then we will enter a new age of enlightenment where our values will be generated from reason, empiricism and science.
And along come Dr. P and makes the obvious observation that reason, empiricism and science can explain reality, but they can’t generate a set of values which will give meaning to the lives of those who are guided solely by reason, empiricism and science.
So Dr. P makes the case that no matter how much the Modernists would like to eradicate (organized) religion, they will not be able to do it since it satisfies a basic human need. And I find this aspect of Dr. P’s work nothing short of prophetic.
Hope this helps.
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Princeps militiae caelestis said:
Reblogged this on Princeps militiae caelestis.
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Akita said:
Dearden confirmed me. I too, eventually escaped Detroit, but to a diocese that is equally degraded, not in an urban sense, but inasmuch as the homo-heresy is firmly entrenched. That priest who works in the Vatican now (Radcliffe?) who proclaims sodomy is Eucharistic is a regular guest speaker in the diocese. Architecture of every church built post Vatican II is squalid. I’m moving again to be close to SSPX God-willing.
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Princeps militiae caelestis said:
God bless you.
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Michael Dowd said:
Thanks Sam for some good news to feed our Thanksgiving gratitude.
I spent my first 70 years in Detroit from it’s time of greatness to it’s time of shame. I left 14 years ago and I hear things there are much improved. As you may know we had Vatican II in full in Detroit under the infamous Cardinal Dearden, which, in my opinion, had much to do with the catastrophe that became Detroit by the end of the 1960’s. Detroit was a vision of hell with the Catholic Church more augmenting the madness than ameliorating it. My wife and I had much to do with our 11 kids to escape it’s pernicious impact.
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S. Armaticus said:
I grew up in Chicago. We are just going through the leftist destruction now. Property taxes going through the roof. New taxes mentioned every other month. 9% on video games is the latest.
And on top of that, Francis gave us Cupich…
This isn’t going to end well…
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Michael Dowd said:
Yes, devastation to communities is the way loss of faith, failure to teach morality and Marxist ‘Social Justice’ programs end.
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Akita said:
My cousin lives there. He has yet to red pill. Still clinging to Novus Ordo and Opus Dei.
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