By Fr Tim Finigan
At last night’s Mass of the Annunciation, we welcomed the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate who sang the chants from the Gradual, the Missa cum Iubilo, and motets at the Offertory and Communion. Mulier Fortis has posted some photos …

More photos at Mulieris Fortis

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Variety #94 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska ( 14min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America.  We are posting them here in a five part series. In the first part, in answering Fr. Elias questions, the bishop relates his thoughts about:

• His 50 years as a priest and bishop in the Church and all the changes and events in the time.
• His visits to shrines in Europe and Rome.
• His 19 years as Bishop of Lincoln.
• The graces that are ever needed for his office
• His work with John Paul II and Benedict XVI
• What these two papacies have done for the Church especially the continuity that they reaffirmed between the post and pre-Vatican II Church
• The Moto Proprio of Pope Benedict and how it is not at all against Vatican II
• The unlikelihood of a mixture of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the liturgy
• New English translation of the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy
• How well Catechisis has been carried out in the Post Vatican II era
• balance needed between doctrine and pastoral and social concerns

Listening to Bsp. Bruskewitz’s clear  insights and answers is refreshing indeed.

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Variety #108 -In Defense of Vatican II ( 09min) >>> Play

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In Defense of Vatican II – Part 2

In this short four part series Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner outlines many of the blessings brought to the Church through the Second Vatican Council. He also explains the need to interpret its documents in light of Tradition with a “view to reform” avoiding both extremes of Modernism and Traditionalism.

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On the memorial of St. Gregory the Great (Pope & Doctor of the Church, Sept. 3), Fr. Alan explains how the current crisis of sexual abuse within the Church conspicuously points to the need for reform, beginning by restoring the principle of truth in matters of faith and morals, especially with regard to sexual behavior.

St. Gregory reformed the Church in his day, addressing lost discipline in the clergy and in the liturgy by restoring the sense of sin and of the sense of the sacred. These fundamental issues are today undermined by the loss of the principle of truth, through relativism. A sense of truth must be restored in order to resolve the crisis at the root.

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Mass: St. Gregory the Great – Mem

Readings: 
1st: 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7
Resp: Ps 96:1-3, 7-8, 10
Gsp: Lk 22:24-30

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Mar 23, 2022, on how Christ has high expectations for us in regard to morals and devotions. Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it and raise the moral standards contained in the ten commandments to a higher level. He points out the many ways that both religious practices and moral teachings of the New Testament have continuity with the Old Testament.

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Mass: Wednesday 3rd Week of Lent – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/032322.cfm
1st: deu 4:1, 5-9
Resp: psa 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20
Gsp: mat 5:17-19

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