Parody of CMA Theme Song - More to the Point?

I was passed this Parody of the Diocese of Rochester Catholic Ministry Appeal theme song "Spirit Alive" that perhaps better reflect what some of what the DOR is more accurately about these days. In case you've forgotten the CMAs fund raising video, I've included a link below


Leftists Alive! (to the tune of Spirit Alive!)

Leftists alive!
We're gonna help liberals thrive!

You'll come to Mass;
We'll take your cash.
We'll use it to
Conservative-bash.
We'll spread the word:
Obama is good!

Keepin' the leftists alive!
We're gonna help liberals thrive!

To advocate
For Democrats,
We'll use distortion
About abortion.
We'll call it "one
of many 'life issues'"!

Keepin' the leftists alive!
We're gonna help liberals thrive!
Leftists alive!

By Guy Amisano, Jr

And the original CMA video:

TLM in Steubenville

This past weekend I went to Pennsylvania to pick my daughter up at a forensic science camp she was attending at Penn State at Indiana, PA. After a nearly 5 hour drive to get there, she and I stayed overnight in West Virginia as we were going to visit some places in Steubenville. We ended up going to mass in Steubenville at St Peters, for the 11am mass. St Peters is a Beautiful

As luck would have it, the mass was and Extraordinary Form Missa Cantata. It was beautiful and for my daughter it was the first time she'd been to the old form mass. The schola was led by fellow Chant Intensive classmate Vince DeVendra. The Schola did great credit to the propers and ordinary for the day.

The mass was very well attended, as it was only one of two masses (8 and 11am) that the parish does for the day. Apparently this mass is done monthly at St. Peter's and there is a fairly large percentage of the people there who seem quite familiar with the old mass. A good homily was given by the celebrant and the mass went along with out a hitch.

Afterwards my daughter was quite happy with the way mass had gone and was glad we'd been able to go to such a rare treat.

UPDATE: TIME Change: 23rd of August at 12:15 PM at St Patrick's Church in Belfast, NY.

UPDATE: The time for this mass is 12:15pm please make a note of it!!

Later in the month Schola Omni Sancti goes on the road. We're sneaking over the border into the Buffalo Diocese to St Patrick's Church in Belfast, NY.

The pastor, Father Dennis, is a proponent of the EF Mass and graciously accepted our offer to have us accompany mass. Father Dennis, a true priest, is a forthright man who minces no words for his love of the old mass, and is direct in his comments about the abuses of the post-conciliar era. His assignment to this country parish while not exactly voluntary, but, its not like he minds it. With the wind blowing strongly from Rome, At age 50, I hope he will be returned to some place he can help further the penetration of the old mass.

St. Patrick's is a completely un-wreckovated church from the 187os. It is a small church, but it sounds like it will be quite a nice place to assist at mass.

Chant Mass St Mary's Church, Corning, 7:30am 2 Aug 2009 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

I am going to post from time to time the Propers for the masses that the All Saints Schola (Schola Cantorium Omni Sancti) sings. I will post links to the music once we sing if folks are interested..

This coming month the Schola will sing twice. Once at St Mary's and then later on the 23rd of August at 1:30 PM at St Patrick's Church in Belfast, NY. More on that later

Introit/Entrance Chant; Psalms 69: 2, 3 ℟. Deus in adjutórium meum inténde: Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína: con­fundántur et revereántur ini­míci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam. ℣. Aver­tántur retrórsum, et erubé­scant: qui cógitant mihi ma­la. Gloria Patri. . . . . Deus	℟. Incline unto my aid, O God: O Lord, make haste to help me: let my enemies be confounded and ashamed, who seek my soul. ℣. Let them be turned backward and blush for shame, who desire evils to me. Glory be to the Father . . Incline unto my aid, . . .
OFFERTORY; Exodus 32: 11, 13, 14 Precátus est Móyses in con­spéctu Dómini Dei sui, et dixit: Quare, Dómine, irásce-ris in pópulo tuo? Parce iræ ánimæ tuæ: meménto Abra­ham, Isaac et Jacob, quibus jurásti dare terram fluéntem lac et mel. Et placátus factus est Dóm inus de malignitáte, quam dixit fácere pópulo suo.	Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord his God, and said: Why, O Lord, is Thine indignation enkindled against Thy people? Let the anger of Thy mind cease; remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom Thou didst swear to give a land flowing with milk and honey. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which He had spoken of doing against His people.
COMMUNION; Wis 16:20 v:Ps 77 ℟. Panem de cælo dedísti nobis, Dómine, habéntem omne dsapórem suavitátis.electaméntum, et omnem ℣. Adtendite populus meus legem meam inclinate aurem vestram in verba oris mei ℣. Aperiam in parabola os meum eloquar propositiones ab initio	℟. Thou didst feed us with the food of angels, O Lord, having in it all that is delicious and the sweetness of every taste. ℣. Attend, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth ℣. I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter propositions from the beginning.

A Church Musician's Lament

Oh those of us of traditional music leanings who are Church Musicians have been tortured for years by the GIA Hymnals. Their last good one was Worship II as far as I am concerned. The rest have been, well, Haugen & Hauss and worse. Now, it seems the good folks over at the Musica Sacra forums, which are hosted by the Church Music Association of America, have come up with a Parody of Dies Ires from the Mass for the Dead (Missae Pro Defuntis)

A Church Musician's Lament:

Day of wrath, O day of mourning!
Earth to ashes now returning!
Gather, by the millions burning!
Cleansed at last by cataclysm
Butchered rhyme and battered rhythm,
Neo-pagan narcissism!
On that day, Lord, when Thou comest,
And our dreadful hymnals thumbest,
Smite the ugliest and dumbest.
Smite them, Lord, yet of Thy pity
Take their songsters to Thy city:
Even Haugen, Haas, and Schutte.
Spare them on the stern condition
That they feel a true contrition
For the Worship III edition.
Doom them not to loss and ruin
While the darker storm is brewing!
They knew not what they were doing.
On that day when Palestrina
Dare not touch a Celestina,
What will Sister Ballerina?
With thine eyes that pierce like lances
Still her silly heathen dances
And her flirting with Saint Francis.
Purge us of the prim and prissy,
Ditties fit for Meg or Missy,
Not for Francis, but a sissy.
Cantors who thought nothing grander
Than a sheaf of propaganda
Writ like office memoranda,
Raise them to Thy room to bide in
Where their hearts and ears may widen
To the strains of Bach and Haydn.
Let their hearts within them falter,
Hearing, as they near Thine altar,
Seraphs sing the Scottish Psalter.
Seize those devils set to pen a
Hymnal neutered of its men-ah.
Fling 'em back to black Gehenna!
Fling them one and all to mangle
Their pronominals, and wrangle
Lest a participle dangle!
Who held manhood in derision.
Preaching double circumcision.
Suffer now their own revision.
Though the songs of Hell are naughty.
None by Handel or Scarlatti,
At the least they'll have castrati.
Pitch, O Lord, the bald and raucous
Slogans of a leftist caucus
Down to Sheol, or Secaucus!
Save their singers, though: restore 'em
To a silent sweet decorum,
Per saecula saeculorum.
Various are the throngs of heaven:
Some were lump, and some were leaven.
Some as lame as six and seven.
When the demons hear thy curses.
And this world's dense fog disperses.
Heal the hobbled - not their verses.
Hush me, too, Lord, when I grumble:
In Thy mercy make me humble.
Lest On Turkey's Wings I tumble.
Though Haugen sing "Hosea" evermore.
Save me I pray - but keep me near the door.
Amen.

So how long is enough for the Sex abuse Scandal?

Newsday, in an article titled In an Catholics have mixed reactions on sex abuse bill relates the fact there a child sex-abuse victims bill pending in Albany drew mixed reactions from Catholics attending Sunday Mass. Well duh!

The usual suspects are in the article...the oh so loyal SNAP (Survivor's Network of Abuse by Priests) and Voice of the Faithful organizers calling for the "secrets" to come out. The willing (supposed)devout Catholic Democrat Politician Margaret M. Markey (D-Maspeth)supporting the bill full of concern for the victims. Markey has sponsored the bill in three prior legislative sessions, where it has passed in the Democratic-led Assembly and stalled in the then-Republican-controlled Senate. Some supporters say it now has a good chance of passing because Democrats have gained a majority in the Senate.

Now I feel compassion for the victims of the abuse scandal, but these folks are NOT interested in the victims, they are interested in embarrassing the Church in order to further their progressive agendas.

Of course, the Democrat Pol may not have considered the implications this has for school teachers where abuse of children is FAR greater than anything that happened in the Church. I wonder if the teacher's union is aware of this bill and the fact it is coming down the pike? I'm sure they don't want people dredging in their pools of slime which are infinitely deeper.


Of interest is an article from the Chicago Tribune That goes into more detail on the Bill and the background.

WHAT THE LAW WOULD DO

*The Markey bill would create a one-year window during which the five-year statute of limitations on filing lawsuits in child sex abuse cases would be dropped. This would allow alleged victims to file lawsuits in the state regardless of when the abuse occurred.

* The alleged victims would have to prove their case in a court of law.

* The bill would also extend the statute of limitations for future cases from five years to 10 years. It is counted from the alleged victim's 18th birthday, meaning they would have until 28 years of age to file a lawsuit instead of 23.

* A competing bill introduced by Assemb. Vito J. Lopez (D-Brooklyn) does not include the one-year open window. It would extend the time an accuser can file suit to seven years after turning 18, that is, 25 years of age.

The Emasculation of the Priesthood.

I am a regular reader of Fr. John Zuhlsdorf's blog "What Does the Prayer Really Say? In a rather interesting post--the comments are even more interesting, on communion in the hand

Within the comments was a comment from a

Some of you might find this article from The Latin Mass, by Fr. James McLucas interesting. It’s called “The Emasculation of the Priesthood” and it deals directly with issues like communion in the hand.

http://www.latinmassmagazine.com/artEmasculation.asp

Excerpt:

The mistake was the failure to take into account the obvious possibility that the unique sacramental / pastoral role of the priest is not a mere timebound whim of the Church, but is intrinsic to the nature of the priesthood, particularly a celibate one. From the time that priestly celibacy came to be understood as the norm, the unique administration of the sacred and, in particular, the priest as sole steward of the Eucharist, were supernatural responsibilities that grounded the celibate’s commitment.[5] The man who has sacrificed wife and family is discovering that the structure that guarded his self-identity as a spiritual spouse and father is in the process of being dismantled. The effects are simultaneously subtle and pronounced.

... The need for a unique physical intimacy with another is constitutive of permanent monogamous relationships ordained by the Creator, Yet it is precisely that type of intimacy with another human being that the celibate sacrifices. The celibate priest, however, was offered through his office an incomparable and unparalleled intimacy: he alone could touch God.

Read the article. Now, keep in mind it was written 10 years ago and it has some things about the complicity of the Vatican in the break down of the priesthood, that I find gratuitous at best, but, I think there is some definite accuracy in the why the priest hood is in trouble. Especially in dioceses like Rochester that push a "collaborative approach" to leadership of the parish that just screams trouble. Why would a man give up having children and family only to become a limited sacramental technician that is beaten and abused on all sides? He doesn't even have any authority over his flock, because he's got to get all his actions "approved" by them before he does anything, or is hammered at all sides by lay people who have supposed Theology Degrees, but who are at odds with the magisterium.

The supposed "new" template for priesthood, frankly stinks. It seems to breed an abridged version of the Vocation that has limits to obedience to the Church, Pope and Magisterium; limits to its time; and limits to its faith.

Dioceses that have returned to the "old" template for the Priesthood. One of Father, shepherd, and spiritual leader have seen dramatic upticks in their vocations and their attendance. Maybe the "old" model worked for 20 centuries for a reason...because it it is authentic. Just as sheep know their Shepherd, so do Catholics, real Catholics, know a Real Priest.