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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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After becoming ill at Christmas-time Archbishop Anthony Fisher gave the Chrism Mass at the end of Lent at St Marys Cathedral in Sydney.
2 - Feb 2016 - Letters: Sexual abuse Royal Commission, P.C. Wilson
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Built into this story was the insinuation that Pell knew about the abuse and did nothing buttressed by constant shots of Pell at Mass.
3 - Feb 2016 - Liturgy: Holy Thursday: Pope changes feet-washing ceremony, AD2000 Report
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The head of the Congregation for Divine Worship Cardinal Robert Sarah has issued a decree In Missa in Cena Domini (In the Mass of the Lords Supper) approving changes to the Holy Thursday ceremony of the washing of feet to allow any member of the congregation not just men to have their feet washed by the celebrant.
4 - Dec 2015 - Germany: Pope Francis deplores decline of Catholicism in Germany, AD2000 Report
He noted in traditionally Catholic areas a very strong decline in Sunday Mass attendance and the sacramental life.
5 - Dec 2015 - Genocide: US religious leaders condemn ISIS genocide against Christians, Nahal Toosi
Because of various international treaties that America is party to determining that a mass killing is a genocide could place a legal obligation on the US to intervene.
6 - Dec 2015 - Apostolic voyage: Pope Francis supports Catholic church during Africa visit, AD2000 Report
In his homily during the Mass said at Nairobi University he said Today God tells us that we belong to him.
7 - Dec 2015 - Education: Religious education: parents' responsibility or school's?, Fr Pat Stratford
They focus on the small percentage of children from Catholic schools who attend Mass regularly on Sunday during their years at school and after they leave school.
8 - Nov 2015 - Anglican Ordinariate: Radical ecumenism – the Ordinariate’s new Catholic Missal, Fr Ramsay Williams
It contains the Order for the Mass and the variable prayers and other scriptural texts instructions and rubrics and music and the liturgical calendar for Ordinariate congregations.
9 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
They Synod Fathers quoted the words of Pope Francis at the Midnight Mass last year in which he said Have we the courage to accept with tenderness difficult situations and problems of those around us or do we prefer impersonal solutions perhaps effective but without the warmth of the Gospel?
10 - Oct 2015 - Books: HOW THE REFORMATION HAPPENED, by Hilaire Belloc, Paul Simmons
In the course of this ritual and ceremony were radically simplified prayer to the saints was abandoned prayer for the deceased was discouraged if not forbidden the sacraments and the Mass were abandoned as were the devotional practices which had sustained religious life for centuries.
11 - Oct 2015 - The Rosary: The Luminous Mysteries explained, Audrey English
Jesus tells the Apostles to do this this action which makes the Body and Blood of Christ present across time and space in the Mass.
12 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Positive outcome of Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba, AD2000 Report
In the homily in his first Mass in Revolution Square Havana Pope Francis discussed the days Gospel in which the disciples are arguing about who is to be the most important in Jesus kingdom.
13 - Oct 2015 - Call to action: Call for urgent action on Religious Education
The Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher in an article in the Catholic Weekly (24 -31 May 2015) revealed the following very worrying statistics for the Sydney Archdiocese: bull; Only one in five children from Catholic schools attends Mass on Sunday; bull; Only one in four ever attends Mass held at school (Why isnt it compulsory?
14 - Sep 2015 - Reflection: The proper celebration of the Mass, Cardinal Robert Sarah
Of course there are other parts of the Mass in which the priest acting in persona Christi Capitis in the person of Christ the Head enters into a nuptial dialogue with the assembly.
15 - Sep 2015 - Books: YEAR OF THE LORD’S FAVOUR: A Homiliary for the Roman Liturgy, Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
This book is designed to be an aid to better preach homilies at Mass based on the particular reading for the day.
16 - Sep 2015 - Hebrew: The Sign of the Cross, Andrew Sholl
To conclude in the Eucharist everywhere whether leavened bread or unleavened hosts are used Jesus becomes really and truly present at the Consecration: he is then offered back to the Father on the altars of the Church and this action goes back to Jesus at the Last Supper nearly 2000 years ago in an unbroken priestly line: an offering which he originally made on the Cross on the first Good Friday for our salvation once for all but which continues to be re-presented universally and to the end of time in the Sacrifice of the Mass.
17 - Sep 2015 - Concordat: Catholic Church signs concordat with East Timor, Peter Westmore
The central event of the visit was the signing of a Concordat between Timor Leste and the Vatican followed by a Mass celebrated at Taci Tolo the same place visited by Saint Pope John Paul II 25 years ago in 1989 Coinciding with the much loved feast of the Assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary the visit marked the first time that the Catholic Church signs a Concordat outside the Vatican and also because the visitor Cardinal Parolin is the highest Catholic Church authority to visit Timor-Leste since the visit by Pope John Paul II on 12 October 1989.
18 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
His celebration of Mass on the Plaza de la Revolucin represented the public reconciliation of the church and the Cuban government.
19 - Sep 2015 - Refugees: Give priority to Syria’s persecuted Christians: Archbishop Fisher
Preaching in St Marys Cathedral on Sunday the Archbishop pointed out that the developing refugee crisis in the Middle East and mass movement of people across Europe had been sparked in large part by the persecution of Middle Eastern Christians the worst persecution of Christians in all of history worse even than that under the maddened Roman emperors.
20 - Aug 2015 - The Holy Land: Believers in Israel, Andrew Scholl
This was quite tricky from the perspective of attending weekly Mass as he lived in Ramat-Gan a suburb of Tel Aviv where there is no Catholic church.
21 - Aug 2015 - Marriage: We must stand up for marriage and the family: Archbishop Fisher, Archbishop Anthony Fisher
This is the homily of Sydneys Archbishop Anthony Fisher for the Annual Mass with Renewal of Vows in St Marys Cathedral Sydney on 12 July 2015.
22 - Aug 2015 - Confraternity of Christ the Priest’s Diamond Jubilee, Fr Thomas Casanova
For the Confraternity of Christ the Priest the Mass is everything!
23 - Aug 2015 - Obituary: Fr Greg Jordan: an exemplary Jesuit, AD2000 Report
Fr Greg Jordan SJ an outstanding priest and influence on generations of young Australians suffered a stroke while celebrating the Mass at St Gregorys Latin Mass Community in Brisbane on 19 July 2015 and died later in hospital.
24 - Jul 2015 - Letters: Sexual abuse of children: a response, Anne Lastmen
A further comment regarding the ongoing debate on the use of smartphones and tablets at Mass etc.
25 - Jul 2015 - Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous, AD2000 Report
I also spoke with parishioners in relation to the Letter following Mass at Bellerive recently Archbishop Julian said.
26 - Jun 2015 - Reflection: Faith: dialogue of mind and heart, Audrey English
Translated in Catholic language this means obeying the precepts of the Church one of which which requires us to go to Mass on Sunday.
27 - Jun 2015 - Letters: Using e-Readers at Mass, Gerry van Hees
I cannot but help to express the joy I have of using my Kindle e-Reader during Mass.
28 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
Pope Francis has canonised three sisters who founded religious congregations and a fourth a Discalced Carmelite sister who founded a monastery in Nazareth in a moving Mass attended by many thousands from around the world in St Peters Square on 17 May.
29 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
In a homily at a Mass marking the centenary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 Pope Francis expressed his union with the Armenian people and called for reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia.
30 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
The Preface of Priesthood heard at the Chrism Mass includes the following paragraph: For Christ not only adorns with a royal priesthood the people he has made his own but with a brothers kindness he also chooses men to become sharers in his sacred ministry through the laying on of hands.
31 - Apr 2015 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 The Pocket Guide to Mass Michael Dubruiel Get the most out of the Mass.
32 - Apr 2015 - Books: THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, by Mike Aquilina, Paul Simmons
What did the early Christians believe about the Mass?
33 - Apr 2015 - Letters: Put not your faith in electronic gadgets!, Anne Lastman
Having just finished reading March issue of AD2000 I was again confronted with Mr Westmores penchant for electronic gadgets to be used in Mass.
34 - Apr 2015 - Pilate's inscription on the Cross, Andrew Sholl
for the Mass and Sacraments.
35 - Apr 2015 - Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Élisabeth de Baudoüin
Cardinal Robert Sarah: Vatican II never asked us to reject the past and abandon the Mass of St.
36 - Apr 2015 - Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism, Patrick Morgan
Integral to this was creating a sacred mood through the Mass the sacraments and other liturgical ceremonies which embodied distance and reverence as a foretaste of the eternal.
37 - Apr 2015 - Designer babies: Dolce&Gabbana versus Elton John, Fr Dwight Longenecker
Here a sweet old Mass-going widow asks if she should attend her lesbian granddaughters wedding.
38 - Mar 2015 - Letters: Anne Lastman replies ..., Anne Lastman
Just that it seems to me that we can immerse ourselves in the whole mystery of the Mass and make it into a prayer.
39 - Mar 2015 - NACF: National Catholic Families Conference attracts 400 to Albury, Kathleen Horsfall and Marie-Louise Fowler
Holy Mass and all night Adoration however formed the centrepiece of this wonderful faith-filled weekend.
40 - Mar 2015 - Apps: Smartphone apps to bring you closer to God, Peter Westmore
Perhaps the most useful Catholic apps are the multi-purpose ones which contain common prayers often the full text of the Bible a guide to reconciliation and other sacraments and even the Mass readings and responses.
41 - Mar 2015 - Seventh iWitness Retreat: another youth ministry success, Br Barry Coldrey
There is daily Mass Eucharistic Adoration Morning and Evening prayer of the Divine Office a candle-lit Rosary in the outdoor amphitheatre inspirational talks wide-ranging Group Discussions and easy availability of the Sacrament of Penance.
42 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
I have challenged the best of our youth and though prayerful and noble they could not tell me what the Mass was in essence or indeed express intelligently the meaning of the essential truths of the Faith.
43 - Mar 2015 - Liturgy and mystery in the Mass, Audrey English
When I was a child I occasionally went to the Sunday Solemn High Mass held in the cathedral of the town in which I lived.
44 - Mar 2015 - Rediscovering the spiritual dimension in modern psychology, Wanda Skowronska
He was taking on a movement of immense significance in mass-cultural psychological terms giving intellectual and spiritual witness to what Joseph Ratzinger has always exhorted Christians to demonstrate namely the courage of non-conformism in the face of the trends of the affluent world and their need to revise the euphoric view of the early post-Conciliar era ( The Ratzinger Report p.
45 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Popes visit to Philippines During his recent visit to the Philippines which included a Papal Mass attended by an estimated record six million people Pope Francis addressed a gathering of families on 16 January in the course of which he praised Pope Paul VI for resisting pressures to accept contraception.
46 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
However Jackson argues that this picture changed in the middle decades of the 19th century with the mass immigration of free settlers from the 1830s which accelerated with the Gold Rushes of the 1850s.
47 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons
At his ordination Mass Bishop Ma publicly announced that he was resigning from the Catholic Patriotic Association as membership was incompatible with his duties as a bishop.
48 - Feb 2015 - Letters: A rejoinder to Anne Lastman, Charles M. Shann
In fact this morning at a weekday Mass with between sixty and seventy people attending I noted that many of them had their weekday missals and this allows the laity to read the lessons of the day at home which can only be good.
49 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Smartphone apps 'very suspect', Elizabeth Afribo
I am sorry Anne Lastman is being besieged and I also agree that apps do not seem the appropriate method of following the Liturgy of the Mass.
50 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Catholic education, Allan Choveaux
The overall decline in Holy Mass attendance in Australia is accentuated by the fact that the average age of those attending is increasing.
51 - Feb 2015 - The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity, Andrew Sholl
We know from the Acts of the Apostles that the earliest Christians the Apostles worshipped in the Temple or the synagogue on the Sabbath and offered the Mass (then known as The Breaking of Bread) on Sunday in private houses.
52 - Feb 2015 - Brisbane: powerhouse of Catholic young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
In due course Emmanuel Community members brought the National Evangelisation Teams (NET) to Australia and twelve years ago they commenced the three-day Ignite Conference for young Catholics which has grown from humble beginnings to a massive event on the last weekend of September.
53 - Feb 2015 - Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage?, Cardinal George Pell
This is the homily given by Cardinal Pell to the staff and seminarians at the English College Rome late last year on the occasion of the Martyrs Day Mass.
54 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope: Church key to understanding Jesus To separate Jesus from the Church would introduce an absurd dichotomy Pope Francis told those were present in St Peters Basilica for his 1 January Mass celebrating the solemnity of Mary the Mother of God.
55 - Dec 2014 - Reflection: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light, Pope Francis
This is the text of Pope Francis homily during the Christmas night Mass in St Peters Basilica on 24 December 2013.
56 - Dec 2014 - Books: IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE SPIRIT: Guide to the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church, Paul Simmons
Yet we know little about the Holy Liturgy the Mass in the Byzantine tradition and even less about the sacraments.
57 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Last man standing!, Anne Lastman
To answer Mr Shanns statement that for the most part people who read from their missal pay more attention to the Mass than those who dont: I would have to say Baloney!
58 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Toowoomba trouble, Tristan Ross
In recent Masses I have attended some priests have spruiked during homilies and following Mass of the need for greater lay involvement particularly in baptisms marriages and funerals due to their belief that within the near future there will be no priests within the Toowoomba Diocese.
59 - Dec 2014 - The after-life: Why pray for those who are no longer with us?, Audrey English
Purgatory is not a medieval invention intended to raise money for Masses to be said.
60 - Dec 2014 - Economic justice: The Catholic Church explains sexual mores - with economics, Emma Green
As rates of Mass attendance and baptisms and other Catholic rites have fallen there has been a widespread recognition .
61 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
For example the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century with a vast range of disputed teachings led to the clarification of doctrine concerning the relation of Scripture and Tradition the seven sacraments the Mass the Real Presence purgatory indulgences prayer to the saints and the papacy.
62 - Dec 2014 - Vocations: Young Men of God Retreat for 2014 another success, Br Barry Coldrey
Within half an hour the rest of the 130 men had emerged from their cabins for an early 7am Mass.
63 - Dec 2014 - Dissent: New controversy erupts in Toowoomba, Peter Westmore
In Western countries there has been an encouraging increase in vocations where parishes encourage a richer spiritual life particularly in emphasising regular attendance at Mass and reception of the sacraments a deeper prayer life and Eucharistic Adoration.
64 - Dec 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Pope Francis beatifies Paul VI An estimated 70000 people including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were present on 19 October at the Mass to celebrate not only the closing of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family but also the life of Blessed Paul VI who first established the Synod of Bishops as an institution of the Church designed to help the Pope with his magisterial office.
65 - Nov 2014 - Reflection: The meaning of life and death, Archbishop Julian Porteous
We have Masses said for the repose of their souls.
66 - Nov 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-97756-998-4 In the Household of the Spirit Lawrence Cross amp; Joseph Leach The authors hope their study of the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church will contribute to a resurgence in the love and practice of the Mass and Sacraments in the Western Church.
67 - Nov 2014 - Books: EASTERN CHRISTIANITY: The Byzantine Tradition, by Laurence Cross, Paul Simmons
These different perspectives had a deep influence not only on theology but on the prayer life the role of tradition the sacramental life the Eucharist the Sacred Liturgy (Mass) and even the interior design and decoration of churches.
68 - Nov 2014 - Why we make the Sign of the Cross, Cedric Wright
It is used by the priest at the start and end of Holy Mass as well as in the preliminary prayers before the Consecration and we bow our heads and repeat the gesture when the priest gives us the formal Blessing at the end of Mass.
69 - Nov 2014 - Why be a priest?, Fr John O'Neill
He must live the Way preach the Truth and provide the means of the Life the Mass and the Sacraments in celebrating which he has to forget himself and let the presence of the active Christ take him over.
70 - Nov 2014 - Formation: 'I used to be a Catholic', Audrey English
In the most solemn worship offered to God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass the Bible occupies pride of place.
71 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
Its champions in the mass media and in government - like so many false prophets - pretend to want to protect us from suffering and to fight for the rights of the oppressed but they do the opposite.
72 - Nov 2014 - Anglican: The Ordinariate in Gippsland: the first year
Fr Ken Clark was ordained on 19 October celebrated his first mass at Sion Chapel and with the agreement of Fr Hilarion and Bishop Christopher Prowse was given permission to use the Heyfield church on Sunday mornings and Cowwarr church during the week for all Ordinariate worship.
73 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope: Christianity needs the Cross Christ as Redeemer cannot be understood save through a willingness to take up the cross said Pope Francis during his homily for Mass on 26 September.
74 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
As a boy as a young man at university I used to go to Mass at St Marys Cathedral in Sydney especially for the Easter liturgies which I loved at the Cathedral.
75 - Oct 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-97756-998-4 In the Household of the Spirit Lawrence Cross amp; Joseph Leach The authors hope their study of the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church will contribute to a resurgence in the love and practice of the Mass and Sacraments in the Western Church.
76 - Oct 2014 - Books: PRAYER FOR BEGINNERS, Peter Kreeft - WAYS OF PRAYING, John Edwards SJ, Br Barry Coldrey
Chapters include The Mass The Sacrament of Reconciliation as Prayer and The Rosary For over thirty years this little book has provided sure and helpful guidelines for developing a personal life of prayer.
77 - Oct 2014 - Letters: Use and misuse of language, Anne Lastman
So Audrey thank you for your article on this matter but I still do not agree with you or Mr Westmore about Apps or even missals being used during Mass.
78 - Oct 2014 - Letters: Using the missal at Mass, Charles M. Shann
With regard to Anne Lastmans letter in AD2000 regarding reading from the missal during Mass I would contend that for the most part people who read from their missal pay more attention to the Mass than those who do not.
79 - Oct 2014 - Students: Young adult ministry on Australian tertiary campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
The liturgy and prayer side of the ministry includes: weekday Mass Eucharistic Adoration for an hour on Tuesdays confessions and rosary on Mondays before Mass Christian Meditation on Wednesdays and Scripture study on Thursdays.
80 - Oct 2014 - Art: Sacred art: window into eternity, Tommy Canning
It also proclaims that every Mass is a re-enactment of the sacrifice on Calvary.
81 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
About 100 Chinese Catholics travelled to Daejon where Pope Francis presided at the closing Mass for Asian Youth Day.
82 - Oct 2014 - Pope Francis' pastoral focus in visit to South Korea, AD2000 Report
In his third overseas trip since being elected pope last year Pope Francis celebrated Mass for 800000 people canonised 124 Catholic martyrs in South Korea and attended the sixth Asian Youth Day for young Catholics from throughout Asia.
83 - Sep 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-97756-998-4 In the Household of the Spirit Lawrence Cross amp; Joseph Leach The authors hope their study of the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church will contribute to a resurgence in the love and practice of the Mass and Sacraments in the Western Church.
84 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
There were thoroughly-prepared Masses all-night Adoration the ready availability of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the input of guest speakers exploring their themes from an unambiguously Catholic viewpoint.
85 - Sep 2014 - Art: The new mural in Sacred Heart Church, Griffith, NSW, Tommy Canning
In the Mass we sing the Gloria the hymn to the Lords glory with all the angels in Heaven.
86 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Mass attendance falling in Poland Sunday Mass attendance has fallen below 40% in Poland according to statistics published in LOsservatore Romano.
87 - Aug 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-97756-998-4 In the Household of the Spirit Lawrence Cross amp; Joseph Leach The authors hope their study of the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church will contribute to a resurgence in the love and practice of the Mass and Sacraments in the Western Church.
88 - Aug 2014 - Books: PRAY FOR ME The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis, by Robert Moynihan, Br Barry Coldrey
The events explored within this section include Pope Francis appearance on the balcony of St Peters his first Mass and homily initial meetings with cardinals and journalists the receiving of foreign leaders and the Palm Sunday Mass.
89 - Aug 2014 - Letters: Use of iPhone at Mass ..., Audrey English
While I have the greatest respect for Anne Lastman and her ideas may I differ in respect to the use of iPhones to participate in the Mass.
90 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska
The Poles over a million of them had come en masse to be there when one of their own former Pope John Paul II was to be canonised on 27 April.
91 - Aug 2014 - Factors in the success of Australia's young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
they accepted the Churchs core teachings attended Mass on Sundays received the sacraments and did their best with the Churchs moral teaching.
92 - Aug 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
They added: Shia Islam opposes and forbids the production stockpiling use and threat to use weapons of mass destruction.
93 - Jul 2014 - Books: HE LEADETH ME, by Fr Walter J Ciszek SJ, Michael Daniel
This frequently involved performing heavy labour on an empty stomach so that he could observe the Eucharistic fast (which at that time was from midnight) so he could celebrate Mass either during the lunchtime break or after work.
94 - Jul 2014 - Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
Daily Mass became part of his routine and he was received into the Church in 1989.
95 - Jul 2014 - Boko Haram: Christians and Muslims unite against Nigerian terrorists, CNA-EWTN REPORT
The Nigerian government has come under criticism for failing to provide security or to respond adequately to the mass kidnapping and to the crisis in general.
96 - Jul 2014 - Apps: Smartphone Catholic apps for all purposes, Peter Westmore
This app began its life as Mass Readings then became CatholicOne before taking its present name to reflect the breadth of its functions.
97 - Jul 2014 - Summorum Pontificum: Growth of Latin Mass parishes and chaplaincies in Australia, Michael E. Daniel
In 2007 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum a motu proprio which recognised that the form of the Roman Rite often referred to as the Latin Mass had never been abrogated and which made provision for more widespread celebration of this liturgy which it called the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
98 - Jul 2014 - Dubai: is this the largest parish in the world?, Patrick Byrne
However more than 2000 people regularly attend the numerous masses even on weekdays.
99 - Jul 2014 - Nigeria: Oka Obulu Uzo: leading by example, Madonna Brosnan
Regular attending parishioners number around 3000 and last month Fr Raphael conducted a funeral mass for his eldest parishioner aged 127 years.
100 - Jul 2014 - Youth: Young adult ministry flourishing in Australia, Br Barry Coldrey
Each YMT team shares a house begins and ends each day with group prayer attends daily Mass and spends some time in daily personal prayer.
101 - Jul 2014 - Pauline Fathers: Opening of Mercy Valley in Mareeba, North Queensland, Garry O'Brien
Each Sunday Mass is preceded by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Holy Hour Rosary and Reconciliation.
102 - Jul 2014 - Middle East: Pope Francis cuts through divisions in the Holy Land, AD2000 Report
The following morning he travelled to Palestine to visit Bethlehem meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas saying Mass and praying the Regina Caeli.
103 - Jun 2014 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
The central questions remain of concern today as they were then: Are science technology and the mass media automatically at odds with Christianity?
104 - Jun 2014 - Letters: Mr Westmore: please put your thing away!, Anne Lastman
My vision of Mass church brothers and sisters sharing Eucharist with me is not a vision of looking around and seeing hundreds of people gazing at their phones (even if discreetly) instead of being deep in contemplation and participation of the mysteries taking place.
105 - Jun 2014 - Letters: What about the Roman Missal smartphone app?, Harry O'Regan
The interesting article on smartphone Mass apps did not review the Roman Missal app which like Universalis also uses the English/Australian readings at Mass.
106 - Jun 2014 - Letters: Smartphone apps on the Mass, A. Erskine
Thank you for the article on apps for following the Mass on my smartphone.
107 - Jun 2014 - Why England's churches are empty, Nick Hallett
Average attendance at Sunday Mass was 861000 in 2007 compared to 852000 at Anglican services.
108 - Jun 2014 - Fr Des Byrne: priest and catechist extraordinary, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
This is the homily given by Bishop Peter Elliott at the Pontifical Requiem Mass for Fr Des Byrne the remarkable Melbourne parish priest who died early in April.
109 - Jun 2014 - Frassati Australia: dedicated young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
There are 14 men in these three houses and each commits to the following: Sunday Mass and at least one additional Mass per week; monthly reception of the Sacrament of Penance daily personal prayer; regular community prayer in each house; spiritual reading and spiritual direction; works of charity; regular Eucharistic adoration; and attendance at Frassati events.
110 - Jun 2014 - Chain of generosity from Australia to Nigeria, Madonna Brosnan
Daily Mass at 6.
111 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
If we truly open our hearts in prayer within our families and parishes I have no doubt this gift of new vocations will be given us the bishop said in his homily during the 16 April Chrism Mass at St Anthonys Church in Manchester.
112 - Jun 2014 - Saints John XXIII and John Paul II canonised, AD2000 Report
The Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday 27 April 2014 was watched by hundreds of millions of people on TV around the world.
113 - May 2014 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: progress report, Fr Damonn Sypher, FSSP
Fraternity priests offer the traditional Latin Mass ( Roman Missal of 1962) and provide wide-ranging pastoral care to the larger Catholic community.
114 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
What is more the thoroughly galvanised anti-life and anti-family agenda of the pervasive secular mass media confuses and corrupts minds and hearts and dulls consciences to the law written by God upon every human heart.
115 - May 2014 - After the turbulent years: the Church renewed, Fr John O'Neill
In all of this and perhaps worst of all the Mass suffered: the beautiful-in-itself Novus Ordo (the Ordinary Rite now) was torn to pieces by would-be creative liturgists and celebrants producing poor theatre in our churches.
116 - May 2014 - Apps: Check out religion apps for smartphones!, Peter Westmore
Next time you see someone take out their smartphone at Mass dont assume they are texting a friend answering an email or playing games.
117 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
On the other hand solitude pushes them to find consolation and peace in the Lord so we have a relatively high percentage of Mass attendance which stands at between 30 and 35 percent.
118 - May 2014 - Missionaries of God's Love: Vatican recognition lifts status, Br Barry Coldrey
In an impressive ceremony in a packed St Christophers Cathedral in Manuka the Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn Christopher Prowse presided over the inauguration Mass on behalf of the Pontifical Congregation of Religious Institutes and Societies of Apostolic Life.
119 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Msgr Victor Hugo Basabe undersecretary of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela told reporters that some churches that are located in places where the conflict was high were attacked by violent groups even during Mass.
120 - Apr 2014 - Reflection: Lent: our preparation for Easter, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
Extra prayer: try a weekday Mass in addition to the Sunday ones; the family rosary; some time of adoration; some quiet time with God every day even if its just a few minutes more than normal.
121 - Apr 2014 - Events: Holy Week 2014 - Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962 Missal)
30am Solemn Mass with blessing of Palms and Procession Spy Wednesday (16 April) 8.
122 - Apr 2014 - Conversion and confession, Cedric Wright
Following on the powerful cleansing ceremony of Penance I joined other young people in regular attendance at Mass and periodic confession and have never ceased thanking Our Lord and his Mother -my wonderful wife led me to an intense devotion to Mary - for the divine mercy which brought me a lifetime in the true faith.
123 - Apr 2014 - Marriage: Don't trust media reporting of Synod on marriage, Philip F. Lawler
Seven months before the Synod of Bishops meets to discuss pastoral care for the family one can easily foresee how the mass media will cover the prelates discussion.
124 - Mar 2014 - What Jesus teaches us about prayer, Audrey English
He renews this offering daily through the Mass which goes beyond time and space allowing us to be present in the unique Sacrifice of Calvary.
125 - Mar 2014 - Pope Francis puts indelible mark on College of Cardinals, Peter Westmore
Capovilla aged 98 who was personal secretary of Blessed John XXIII; the outspoken emeritus Archbishop of Pamplona Spain Fernando Sebastian Aguilar; and the emeritus Archbishop from the small island of St Lucia in the Caribbean Kelvin Felix who spends his days saying masses in parish churches.
126 - Feb 2014 - Books: TO BONEGILLA FROM SOMEWHERE, by Wanda Skowronska, Michael Gilchrist
And most significantly the book sheds light on this countrys recent history involving the mass migrations of the post-World War II period.
127 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
More than 500 Vietnamese joined by some Thais gathered at St Josephs parish in Ayutthaya about 50 miles north of Bangkok for Mass a procession and a play.
128 - Dec 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: 'Make room for God', Benedict XVI
The above are extracts from Pope Benedict XVIs homily at the Christmas 2012 Mass in St Peters Basilica.
129 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
through Church family work and profession trade and commerce politics and government mass media science and culture and national and international relations.
130 - Dec 2013 - Schools: Catholic school education: returning to our roots, Paul McCormack
In arguing that a Catholic school should be a Catholic school I am suggesting that it should be a place where the teachers are faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church; the students are taught the doctrines of the Church and learn how to explain and defend them; the parents receive support in their role as the primary educators of their children and agree to undertake their obligations faithfully; where saints are invoked and icons are visible where prayer is a common and regular practice including Mass; and a place where the salvation of our soul and desire for eternal life (Heaven) are the underlying priority.
131 - Dec 2013 - Catechesis and liturgy: an unbreakable bond, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Liturgy that is the celebration of Mass and the sacraments is foundational.
132 - Dec 2013 - Inspirational Young Men of God retreat, Br Barry Coldrey
Over the next hour the remainder of the 130 men at the retreat emerged from their rooms and at 7am Fathers Barker and Dave OCallaghan concelebrated Mass for the whole retreat complement.
133 - Dec 2013 - Obituary: Cardinal Pell's tribute to Bishop William Brennan, Cardinal George Pell
Daily Mass and meditation were ideals rather than regular events prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction were never seen and public recitation of the Rosary forbidden.
134 - Nov 2013 - Books: WHO NEEDS GOD?, by Barbara Stockl with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact the crux of the new evangelisation launched by Pope John Paul II is not focused essentially on reaching pagans who have never heard of Christianity but on re-evangelising the Christian and Catholic masses in the Western world who have seen their faith eroded by the dominant secular culture.
135 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Three to get married, Cedric Wright
We had the wonderful privilege of a Nuptial Mass and were very much aware that this was a Holy Covenant in which we pledged our everlasting love in the presence of the Almighty and received His blessing.
136 - Nov 2013 - Youth: Emmanuel Community: youth ministry powerhouse, Br Barry Coldrey
Over 200 students attend the annual camp arranged around faith and holiday recreational activities: on the one hand there are Mass Reconciliation and ample opportunities to explore faith issues; on the other there is room for games swimming and hikes.
137 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The problem of pornography and the problem of contraception are things that are widespread within the Catholic community including Mass-going Catholics .
138 - Nov 2013 - Human rights: Zoe's Law and the right to life, Eamonn Keane
Examples of this given in William Brennans book Dehumanising the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives (Chicago 1995) include negro slavery the Soviet gulags and the Nazis mass murder of the Jews.
139 - Oct 2013 - Reflection: Bishop Fisher: Young Catholics must be Christ in the world, Bishop Anthony Fisher
This is the homily of Bishop Anthony Fisher OP of Parramatta at the World Youth Day Mass for the New Evangelisation at the Colgio Dom Bosco Rio de Janiero Brazil on 26 July 2013.
140 - Oct 2013 - Events: Spiritual Exercises in Bowral, December 2013
Included in the program are Daily Mass according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite Rosary confession Holy Hour and Benediction.
141 - Oct 2013 - Church of Divine Mercy in Singapore: an amazing discovery, Kazimierz Kozlowski
During our stopover in Singapore on the way to Poland on a weekend in May 2012 we decided to fulfil our Sunday obligation by attending a Mass in Chinese.
142 - Oct 2013 - The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins, Audrey English
Without the priesthood we would not have the Mass the moment of Calvary made present for us here and now.
143 - Oct 2013 - Frassati Australia and the New Evangelisation, Fr Paul Chandler
They commit as residents of a Frassati House to the following: Sunday Mass and at least one daily Mass per week; the Sacrament of Penance each month; personal prayer each day; regular communal prayer in the house; regular spiritual reading and spiritual direction; works of charity; regular Eucharistic adoration; and attendance at Frassati events.
144 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
64% of Hispanic Catholics and 53% of white Catholics surveyed said that abortion is morally wrong although among white Catholics who attend Mass at least once a week the figure rises to 74%.
145 - Sep 2013 - Books: WAYS OF PRAYING, by Father John Edwards SJ, Br Barry Coldrey
Chapter headings include Formal Private Prayer The Mass the Sacrament of Penance Group Prayer Prayer of Petition and the Rosary.
146 - Sep 2013 - Frassati: The Holy Terror: a model for young Catholic men, Br Barry Coldrey
Daily Mass private prayer sometimes all night and intense work for and among Turins poor absorbed much of his time.
147 - Sep 2013 - World Youth Day 2013: Pope Francis inspires Rio, Peter Westmore
We cannot keep shut up in parishes in our communities when so many people are waiting for the Gospel he told clergy and religious at a Mass on 27 July.
148 - Sep 2013 - Cardinal Burke: What is good liturgy?
In the true sense the Church over time has come to an ever deeper understanding of the sacred liturgy and has expressed that in several ways whether it be through sacred vestments sacred vessels through sacred architecture - even the care for sacred linens which are used in the Holy Mass.
149 - Aug 2013 - Books: CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS: a course in religion for Catholic high schools, Michael E. Daniel
Volume One covers creation original sin Christ faith grace and eternal life; Volume Two the Mass seven sacraments indulgences and sacramentals; Volume Three God Christianity and the Church; and Volume Four sin virtue and conscience.
150 - Aug 2013 - Letters: Sense of sacred, Cedric Wright
From time to time questions are raised about the standard of behaviour at Holy Mass - the lack of real reverence for the Blessed Sacrament immodest or over-casual dress and sloppy behaviour by lay persons assisting the priest.
151 - Aug 2013 - National Assembly: Order of Malta renews and grows, Damian Wyld
The Assembly continued on the Sunday with Mass and a procession by members at St Patricks Cathedral.
152 - Aug 2013 - Sacra Liturgia 2013: Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: interview on liturgy, Zenit News Service
the Traditional Latin Mass was controversial in some quarters.
153 - Aug 2013 - Common good: St Basil the Great: outstanding doctor of the Church for our time, Jordan Grantham
The Mass for which St Basil wrote his own liturgy was the centre of his life and animated his service to the poor in whom Christ is also present in a sense.
154 - Aug 2013 - University: In the lions' den: Catholic ministry on secular campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
The chaplaincy in this example is led by thirty-year-old married man Daniel Hill while the chaplain Dominican friar Father Paul Rowse provides daily Mass and makes the sacraments available.
155 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
As the first non-Italian pope in nearly 600 years John Paul II became synonymous with the universality of the Catholic Church visiting 129 countries during his 27 year pontificate celebrating Mass for millions of the faithful and personally meeting hundreds of thousands of people.
156 - Jul 2013 - Books: ST JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA AND THE ORIGINS OF OPUS DEI, Br Barry Coldrey
His plays include Margaret Clitherow the heroic story of a Catholic wife and mother from York who maintained a room at her (Anglican) husbands house in the Shambles within a stones throw of the Cathedral where Catholics could secretly hear Mass.
157 - Jul 2013 - Musicae Sacrae: The essential role of music in the Mass, Ronan Reilly
To gain a small understanding of the connection between the Mass and music one must first take a brief look at what music is in relation to the human person.
158 - Jul 2013 - Obituary: Vale Fr Paul Duffy SJ (1931-2013), Anna Krohn
In 1969 he urged the Medico-Legal Society to examine the sexual revolution not merely as a deterioration of individual morality but in connection with the other effects of the industrial and affluent society: social mobility rootlessness uniformity the impersonalism of mass organised society and the anonymity of urban living.
159 - Jul 2013 - Youth: Melbourne's young adult ministry continues its revival, Br Barry Coldrey
These young men and women accept and follow the Churchs teachings and attend Mass receive the sacraments.
160 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
At the cathedral where many had sought refuge the Ottomans knocked down the door and surrounded Archbishop Stefano Pendinelli who was celebrating Mass and distributing Communion and quartered him on the spot.
161 - Jun 2013 - Books: MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA: a Personal Portrait, by Msgr Leo Maasburg, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) Mother Teresa of Calcutta scarcely requires an introduction given that the mass media has presented her extraordinary achievements to the world over many years.
162 - Jun 2013 - The elephant in the sanctuary, Paul MacLeod
How to Go to Mass and Not Lose Your Faith is the English translation of the title of a recent book written in Italian by senior Vatican official Fr Nicola Bux.
163 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
He immediately went down to help passengers and as it became clear that the liner was sinking he started to pray with the Catholics who had attended Mass with him earlier and to hear confessions.
164 - Jun 2013 - Pope begins reform of the Vatican Curia, Peter Westmore
Some commentators were quick to claim that the advisory group was the sign of a new collegial Church as though previous popes had not established groups and commissions on every topic from the future of the Catholic Social Studies Movement (1957) to the legal status of the Traditional Latin Mass (1986).
165 - May 2013 - Youth: Reasons for Hope retreat for young adult Catholics, Barry Coldrey
There was a time when young adult Catholics could feel isolated with some parishes not particularly youth friendly and others with few young adults attending their Sunday Masses.
166 - May 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Catholic-Orthodox relations: mixed signals Attending the recent inauguration Mass of Pope Francis Bartholomew I became the first Greek Patriarch of Constantinople to do so since the Great Schism of 1054 if not ever building on the foundations of the previous pontificates Catholic-Orthodox dialogue.
167 - May 2013 - Francis: pope of paradox, Damian Wyld
In his eight-year reign Benedict XVI achieved an incredible amount: the establishment of the Anglican Ordinariate the opening of dialogue with the various Orthodox churches removal of restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass and sacraments doctrinal talks with the Society of St Pius X and countless new appointments of bishops and cardinals to name but a few.
168 - May 2013 - Editorial: AD2000: looking towards the future, Damian Wyld
Indeed I was fortunate to have attended Mass as a boy in places largely untouched by the chaos sweeping through the Church of my youth.
169 - Apr 2013 - Reflection: Easter: the centrality of faith in the risen Christ, Fr Dennis Byrnes
We believe that God is present in the Sunday Mass assembly in the Word proclaimed and preached and supremely present in his Body and Blood the Eucharist.
170 - Apr 2013 - Books: FESTA PASCHALIA: A History of Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite, Goddard, Michael Daniel
Philip Goddard a regular contributor to the magazine Mass of Ages and author of The Plain Mans Guide to the Traditional Roman Rite of Holy Mass examines the historical development of the Holy Week liturgies.
171 - Apr 2013 - Solemn Abbatial Requiem Mass for deceased servicemen on Anzac Day
Mass will be in the Extraordinary Form (1962 Missal) and celebrated by Fr Philip Anderson OSB Abbot of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Tulsa Oklahoma.
172 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
The Mass is then restored to its true status as being both a Sacrament and a Sacrifice.
173 - Apr 2013 - Returning beauty and sacredness to churches, Art Lohsen
While many parishes were well-intended in fulfilling an initial interpretation of the Vatican II documents many churches were built in a manner that destroyed centuries of understanding about the impact meaning and sanctity of the Mass.
174 - Apr 2013 - Pilgrimage: A Holy Land pilgrimage with Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Wanda Skowronska
Pointing out the connection between the Mass and the book of Revelation he said that its Holy Holy Holy prayer and 28 references to the Lamb of God are clear reflections of the heavenly liturgy.
175 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey
Last February this writer attended an early morning Mass at St Anthonys Shrine Hawthorn (Melbourne suburb).
176 - Apr 2013 - Obituary: Vale Dr Lyn Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond), Joan Clements
Eulogies At the Requiem Mass celebrated in St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne on Thursday 21 February two of Dr Lyns sons Jimmy and Peter gave eulogies on behalf of their large family.
177 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
He linked this to the fact that he has desired that in the celebration of our Mass there should be a crucifix on the altar.
178 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
Bishop Anthony Fisher OP was the principal celebrant at the Funeral Mass at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne for Creos Mary Roman who died in January.
179 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
In the sacrament of the Mass or Eucharist and the ordination of its male clergy (to which women priests are claimed to be successors) the mother Church of England during the Reformation drew on the Calvinist and Lutheran thinking imported from the Continent which was uppermost in the theology of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer author of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) (1549) and the more overtly Protestant Ordinal (Ordination Service) of 1550 and revised BCP of 1552.
180 - Feb 2013 - Reflection: The cathedral: symbol of Christ's authoritative teaching, Bishop Michael Kennedy
For 100 years this cathedral has been as a beating heart in the Churchs mission: the faithful streaming into Sunday Mass to be filled and empowered by the love and grace of God only to be sent forth an hour later to carry the Gospel to the surrounding world just as blood is sent forth from the heart to carry oxygen to the entire body.
181 - Feb 2013 - Books: THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITY, by Thomas J. Heffernan, Peter Westmore
In the full version of the Roman Canon or First Eucharistic Prayer - rarely said these days in the Mass even on their feast days - are the words To us sinners .
182 - Feb 2013 - Pilgrimage: Christus Rex Pilgrimage 2012: from Ballarat to Bendigo, Patrick Doyle
Last October over three hundred pilgrims walked from St Patricks Cathedral Ballarat on a chilly Friday morning to Sacred Heart Cathedral Bendigo on Sunday afternoon for Solemn High Latin Mass in the presence of Most Rev Les Tomlinson the Bishop of Sandhurst (Bendigo).
183 - Feb 2013 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 2): living under canon law, Frank Mobbs
In the parish church the layman had to attend Mass on Sundays and after 1215 receive Communion once a year confess to the parish priest and have his children baptised.
184 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey
Included in the 2012 retreat program were Morning Office (using beautifully prepared booklets) daily Mass the Forty Hours Eucharistic Adoration inspirational talks and wide-ranging discussions.
185 - Feb 2013 - Parish Renewal: New springtime for Catholic faith at St Mary's, South Brisbane, Jenny Davies
Her generous donation went towards the purchase of much needed Mass vestments while others donated sacred vessels.
186 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
While 83 percent of Frances population still call themselves Catholics on census forms weekly attendance at Mass according to 2002 statistics is about eight percent.
187 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
Encouraging developments have occurred in all these areas in recent years with the development of new religious movements and new orders and the rediscovery of the Churchs rich tradition but simultaneously secularism continues to impact on the Churchs membership especially via the advances in mass communication.
188 - Dec 2012 - Christmas: Latin Mass in Melbourne
Christmas Masses in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite At St Aloysius Church 233 Balaclava Rd Caulfield North Christmas Day Midnight: Solemn Midnight Mass with blessing of the Crib 7.
189 - Dec 2012 - Advent and the Second Coming: a forgotten article of faith, Br Christian Moe FSC
Although practising Catholics recall this belief at every Sunday Mass as do those devoted to the Rosary every time they recite the introductory Creed - not to mention that at nearly every Mass in the Eucharistic Prayer or the seasonal Prefaces we recall this mystery - yet somehow this basic article of faith seems to make little impact on our imagination or on a consciously-lived faith.
190 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
Therein one had to attend Mass on Sundays and Feasts and confess ones sins at Easter.
191 - Dec 2012 - A different fire: Vatican II and the new evangelisation, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Tribal Catholicism In the earlier time of tribal Catholicism one was by and large born into a Catholic family went to Mass at a Catholic parish and attended a Catholic school.
192 - Dec 2012 - Catholicism: The Year of Faith: time to revisit the Catechism of the Catholic Church Church, Audrey English
In his address the Holy Father affirmed that the council was a time of great grace a continuity with the past and with truths which are unchanging even though there were changes in many practices such as in parts of the Mass.
193 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
Prayerful witness The journey will end with Mass and a pro-life rally in Melbourne on Saturday 12 January which will be the launch-pad for a campaign to overturn Section 8 of Victorias abortion laws (the second worst in the world behind only Chinas) which violates the rights of doctors consciences to refuse participation in an abortion which is now legal up until birth.
194 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
Within half an hour Mass was celebrated and everyone appeared to be present including many exhausted after travelling from most parts of Australia.
195 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The patriarch made his remarks in an address at the opening ceremony of the Year of Faith which was inaugurated with Mass in St Peters Square on 11 October.
196 - Dec 2012 - Culture: Western crisis is spiritual: Russian Orthodox leader, Metropolitan Hilarion
Christian communities in Syria and other countries of the Middle East are crying for help while the mass media in the West largely ignore their cries and the politicians prefer to close their eyes on this unprecedented wave of persecution.
197 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
There were no homilies at Masses.
198 - Nov 2012 - Books: CATHOLICISM: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, by Fr Robert Barron, Michael Gilchrist
In such situations when endeavouring to explain Catholicism (to both Catholics and non-Catholics) one would focus on its distinctive features such as the Mass the sacraments Mary the priesthood the bishops and popes as underpinned by the Churchs intellectual armoury of apologetics theology and philosophy.
199 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
The last time I attended Mass at this parish on a Sunday morning about a year ago the church was about half full.
200 - Nov 2012 - Significance of the Higgs boson 'God particle' for believers, David Forster
When a particle collides with a boson it loses enough energy to slow down gain more mass and thus comes closer to being matter.
201 - Nov 2012 - Ignite Conference unites young practising Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
One of the high points of Ignite 2012 was the noon Mass on Friday 28 September concelebrated by Archbishop Coleridge with several priests.
202 - Nov 2012 - Pope's Lebanon visit sends a message of peace to Middle East, Michael Gilchrist
Following Mass Benedict formally presented the document to representatives from the Latin-rite Maronite Melkite Armenian Coptic Chaldean and Assyrian Catholic Churches living in countries from Egypt to Iran.
203 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Real Presence, Cedric Wright
And at the Last Supper his words (as repeated by the priest at Mass) were: This is my body which will be given up for you.
204 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Christian unity, Andrew Sholl
One of the most significant contributions of Aquinas to Catholic theology was I believe his formulation of the term transubstantiation by which he meant the process of the change of mere bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus during the Consecration of every Mass following the command of Jesus at the Last Supper known as Holy Thursday the day before Good Friday when he suffered his Passion and death on the Cross.
205 - Oct 2012 - Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Charles Morton
A chapel is part of the school with regular weekday Masses and Mass whenever there are visiting priests.
206 - Oct 2012 - Liturgical Music: Vatican II: Singing nourishes faith ... raises minds to God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
How often at weddings funerals Confirmations or even Sunday Mass few join in the singing.
207 - Oct 2012 - Universities: Cardinal Pell's tertiary ministry at Sydney's universities, Br Barry Coldrey
Of course these teams need priestly support especially to make the Mass and the Sacraments available.
208 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
This was no different on 13 May 2011 when thousands crowded the sanctuary at Fatima for Mass to be followed by the traditional procession.
209 - Sep 2012 - Books: THROUGH SHAKESPEARE'S EYES: Seeing the Catholic presence in the plays, Pearce, Michael E. Daniel
This is an almost verbatim translation of the In Paradisum at the end of the Requiem Mass the celebration of which was strictly forbidden in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
210 - Sep 2012 - The Church's mission priority: to search for its 'lost sheep', Andrew Kania
It is all well and good to preach to the converted to enjoy cups of tea with those who slap your back and shake your hand after Sunday Mass for a homily well done but if we are to believe that less than ten per cent of all Catholics regularly attend weekend Mass what are we doing as a Church to be authentic to the Gospel message of seeking out the lost?
211 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
Todays ACSA Mission is to: inspire a deeper love of Jesus Christ and His Church through prayer the Sacraments and in Masses of extraordinary beauty; inform young Catholic adults of the threats which challenge the moral foundation of individuals and society; equip young Catholic adults to speak with authority and act with commitment on their Catholic faith.
212 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM
And it involves more than prayer at home and Mass on Sunday - though these things are vitally important.
213 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
During an appearance on 60 Minutes he noted that only two per cent attend Mass in some Dublin parishes.
214 - Sep 2012 - Film: 'For Greater Glory': an inspiring message for today's Christians, Babette Francis
I cannot imagine our more phlegmatic and secular Australian audiences calling out like that but perhaps bishops and other church leaders could organise a mass reading from Leviticus and St Paul to the Romans in Federation Square.
215 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
00am Msgr Entwistle will concelebrate Mass with the newly ordained Ordinariate priests at Holy Cross Catholic Church.
216 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
At the same time the pastors must offer guidance that respects the truth and urge people in painful situations to continue to attend Mass and to pray for an answer that respects the truth knowing that they have in our Eucharistic Lord a compassionate Saviour.
217 - Aug 2012 - Religious freedom: US Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, Babette Francis
To judge by critiques from conservatives Roberts decision upholding the constitutionality of Obamacare was a diabolical betrayal by a conservative Chief Justice whom the Religious Right regarded as one of their own a daily Mass-goer and communicant.
218 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
However he found time for daily Mass and the Rosary and in due course the Perth Archdiocese employed him in youth ministry.
219 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Vatican II: Eucharistic adoration and processions Benedict XVI says the Second Vatican Council did not reject Eucharistic adoration outside of Mass.
220 - Aug 2012 - Benedict XVI sets up Anglican Ordinariate for Australia, Monsignor Harry Entwistle
As the Ordinariate is in organic unity with the Catholic Church Western and Eastern Catholics are welcome to worship and receive communion in an Ordinariate Mass and vice versa.
221 - Jul 2012 - Books: THE FACE OF GOD and THE TRUE ICON, by Paul Badde, Paul MacLeod
The new second Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass now asks God to welcome the departed into the light of Your face rather than presence as in the old version and it has been suggested that the altar cloth and chalice veil at Mass have their origins in the Shroud and the Veil.
222 - Jul 2012 - Books: ANSWERING THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHALLENGE, by Robert M. Haddad, Angela Schumann
In Chapter 3 Christ and the Mass Robert Haddad corrects numerous mistaken ideas about the Mass and priesthood including the concept of transubstantiation.
223 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Communion reception, Ken Bayliss
I personally saw a young man at a Requiem Mass in suburban Brisbane in the early 1980s receive communion in the hand and place the Host in his shirt pocket.
224 - Jul 2012 - Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God, Babette Francis
This is the same Biden who claims to be a staunch daily-Mass-going Catholic who always carries a rosary in his pocket.
225 - Jul 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI
Extracts from Benedict XVIs homily on 29 June 2011 at a Mass for the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul in St Peters Basilica.
226 - Jun 2012 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Pentecost and the Church's universality, Pope Benedict XVI
This is the shortened text of Benedict XVIs homily given on 12 June 2011 when he celebrated Mass for the Feast of Pentecost in St Peters Basilica.
227 - Jun 2012 - Remembering the Catholic priests on board the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
Fr Byles and Fr Peruschitz had offered Mass on the morning of Sunday 14 April only hours before the supposedly unsinkable ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
228 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
In the parish Sam was one of few young men who attended Mass regularly.
229 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
It began with priests hearing confessions at the Peoria riverfront before a silent march to the Cathedral of St Mary for Mass which was followed by the Rosary.
230 - Jun 2012 - Society: Cardinal George Pell: Science and religion can coexist, Cardinal George Pell
The speed of light the gravitational constant the mass of a proton or electron are the same throughout the universe.
231 - May 2012 - Events: The Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite: Sacredness in Continuity
Beginning Saturday 12 May (at 6pm) a weekly Vigil Mass in the Ordinary Form will be offered at St Aloysius Church 233 Balaclava Rd Caulfield which will try to exemplify sacredness in continuity.
232 - May 2012 - Letters: Genuflection, John Frey
The Church through the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) governs the celebration of Mass of the Ordinary Form and instructs (no 274) that genuflection signifies adoration and the bow signifies reverence and honour (275).
233 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
As there is difficulty so too you are experiencing an extraordinary number of faithful attending Mass as well as a growth in vocations?
234 - May 2012 - Young adult ministry 2012: more reasons for hope, Br Barry Coldrey
Uplifting liturgy with Daily Mass and Benediction often with a Schola to add a rich musical dimension.
235 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
When sexual minorities routinely use the states power and friendly mass media to break down traditional definitions of marriage and the family they are met with a confused and disengaged response.
236 - May 2012 - Benedict XVI builds on John Paul II's historic Cuba visit, Michael Gilchrist
In his homily at a huge public Mass in Havana on 28 March attended by over half a million people Benedict noted that Cuba had made progress towards full religious freedom and he urged the government to continue these advances to strengthen society and to allow the Catholic Church to pursue her mission.
237 - May 2012 - Episcopacy: Brisbane's new Archbishop well-equipped for the challenges, Michael Gilchrist
He also continues an international rle as Chairman of the Commission for the preparation of the forthcoming new Lectionary of Scripture readings for the Mass.
238 - Apr 2012 - Events: Holy Week 2012 - Extraordinary Form of the Roman Liturgy (1962 Missal)
30am Solemn Mass with blessing of Palms amp; Procession Spy Wednesday (4 April): 8.
239 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
Mass follows.
240 - Mar 2012 - Books: MISSA CANTATA: A Chant Mass for the Assembly, Accompaniments by Geoffrey Cox, Christopher Trikilis
MISSA CANTATA: A Chant Mass for the Assembly Accompaniments by Geoffrey Cox (London: Catholic Truth Society 2011 RRP $13.
241 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Social get-together, Richard Congram
The Christmas Vigil Mass I attended in Sydney was a resounding success in at least one sense of the word.
242 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
The saving power of his merits can reach backwards as well as forwards as we see in the Mass the eternal sacrifice of the altar.
243 - Mar 2012 - Fulton Sheen Cause: progress report, Msgr Stanley Deptula
On 11 December 2011 we celebrated a Mass during which we had a ceremony closing the Diocese of Peorias inquiry into an alleged miraculous healing through the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J.
244 - Mar 2012 - Campion College's Summer Program on Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
Campion Colleges Summer Program also focussed on spiritual matters with Father Anthony Percy Rector of Sydneys Good Shepherd Seminary celebrating Mass for the students both to open the weeks activities and at their conclusion.
245 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
6 percent say they practise their faith and attend Mass on Sundays and holy days.
246 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
Father Black requested the SSPX choirs to sing the Te Deum at the normal Sunday Missa Cantata (Sung Mass) at which nine altar boys serve.
247 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
I heard the Holy Father speak at the closing Mass the Franciscan sister remembered.
248 - Feb 2012 - Missionary outreach: Melbourne parish's gifts for a growing Fijian parish, Christopher Akehurst
And it is still growing with the parish church needing to be substantially extended to accommodate the hundreds who attend the three Masses celebrated each Sunday.
249 - Feb 2012 - Youth: iWitness 2011: a celebration of young adult Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
There were Morning and Evening Divine Office using beautifully prepared booklets daily Mass Eucharistic Adoration inspirational talks wide-ranging discussions question-and-answer sessions and five priests available to hear confessions (which most took advantage of).
250 - Feb 2012 - Census: Growth and decline in the churches: research findings, Frank Mobbs
We all know of the low figures for Mass attendance especially amongst youth (the Churchs future).
251 - Feb 2012 - Domus Australia: 'Roots and wings': a little corner of Australia in Rome, Fr Anthony Denton
Naturally I say Mass each day and am available for confession.
252 - Feb 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope also welcomed the new English translation of the Mass which he said should inspire an ongoing catechesis helping the faithful grasp the true nature of the liturgy as a participation in Christs saving sacrifice for the redemption of the world.
253 - Feb 2012 - Curia: Benedict XVI names 22 new cardinals for his fourth consistory, Peter Westmore
Benedict XVI has announced that a consistory will be held on 18 February 2012 reading out the names of 22 future cardinals in St Peters Square following a Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany on 6 January.
254 - Dec 2011 - Reflection: Advent faith, Christmas and the Pope's call to evangelise, Fr Dennis Byrnes
This renewed participation means Sunday Mass a well prepared confession and a return to the Eucharist with the consciously recalled fervour of ones first communion.
255 - Dec 2011 - Books: RONALD KNOX AND ENGLISH CATHOLICISM, by Terry Tastard, Michael Daniel
His weekly reflections formed the basis of his in slow motion series for example The Mass in Slow Motion.
256 - Dec 2011 - Events: Advent and Christmas Liturgies - Extraordinary Form
St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne Pontifical Low Mass for Ember Wednesday 14 December 5.
257 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Eucharistic confusion, John Royal
Has it ever occurred to those with the modernist mindset that their innovations may have actually driven many out of the Church or discouraged others from attending Sunday Mass?
258 - Dec 2011 - Summorum Pontificum: Latin Mass in Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral, Michael Daniel
In the wake of Summorum Pontificum (2007) Pope Benedict XVIs motu proprio freeing up restrictions on the celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass - known to some readers as the Traditional Latin Mass - a group of lay faithful sought to have a weekday celebration of the Extraordinary Form in St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne.
259 - Dec 2011 - Catholic Literature: Robert Hugh Benson and Christ's Second Coming, Br Christian Moe FSC
How often at Mass we recite the Creed declaring that we believe that Christ the Lord will come in glory to judge the living and the dead.
260 - Dec 2011 - Pilgrimage: Young disabled Catholics: new ministry initiative, Fr James McCarthy
Many learned to serve or to read publicly and confidently at daily Mass despite their disabilities.
261 - Dec 2011 - Tyburn world tour: A visually compelling new documentary on the monastic life, AD2000 Report
It offers a vivid and authentic insight into the spirituality of the nuns as they glorify the Most Blessed Trinity through the Holy Mass the choral celebration of the Divine Office Eucharistic Adoration and in daily prayer for the Holy Father the Church and the entire human family.
262 - Dec 2011 - Religious education: Different worlds: being Catholic in Indonesia and Australia, Phillip Turnbull
Mass attendance Indonesian children tell me what happened at Mass on Sunday as First Communion in Indonesia is not Last Communion.
263 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
Children begin and end each school day with prayers they attend a weekly school Mass and conclude each week in the school chapel with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
264 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
Then within a half-hour we had Mass at 7am after most of the retreatants had emerged from their rooms.
265 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Since it began its media campaigns in 2008 Catholics Come Home has increased Mass attendance an average of 10 percent in the markets where the ads have been shown and brought 300000 people back to the Church.
266 - Nov 2011 - Reflection: The Church's architecture: faith translated into vision, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
With the Industrial Revolution came steel plate glass and mass-produced components.
267 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Advocate needed, Oliver Clark
My wife and I gave consent to marriage together in a Catholic nuptial Mass in St Peters Catholic Church Clayton Melbourne on 8 May 1970 when my wife was 21 and I was 23.
268 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Vatican II, Kathleen Donelly
But just as a final observation when there was one Mass universally practised and described as the most beautiful thing this side of heaven and when we had what was perfect why are we trying to reform the less perfect Novus Ordo taking the original Mass as a model when that extraordinary form of the Mass still exists?
269 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day 2011: Experiencing Christ's presence, Dr Joe Santamaria
Ben also experienced the presence of God in the final Mass on Sunday 21 August.
270 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
In November 2003 after a court decision in Massachusetts to legalise gay marriage school libraries were required to stock same-sex literature .
271 - Nov 2011 - Ad Limina: The Australian bishops' 2011 ad limina visit to Rome, Michael Gilchrist
A Mass of thanksgiving for Bishop Morris held in the Cathedral on 28 August was filled to overflowing and included Bishop Brian Heenan of Rockhampton and Bishop James Foley of Cairns as concelebrants.
272 - Oct 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Final Mass homily for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI
Growing in friendship with Christ necessarily means recognising the importance of joyful participation in the life of your parishes communities and movements as well as the celebration of Sunday Mass frequent confession and the cultivation of personal prayer and meditation on Gods word.
273 - Oct 2011 - Books: MEDJUGORJE REVISITED: 30 Years of Visions or Religious Fraud?, Michael Gilchrist
In light of this and the many pilgrims who have found their faith reactivated at Medjugorje and the countless good fruits including the long the lines for confession Eucharistic adoration and Mass it is no wonder that so many are convinced of the veracity of the apparitions.
274 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Pre-Vatican II, Kevin McManus
While we must respect Mrs Clearys experience of Mass both pre- and post-Vatican II (August AD2000) it has been not the experience of all of us.
275 - Oct 2011 - Letters: One-sided, Charles M. Shann
For example on 20 November 2005 the Bishop was saying Mass at the Deuchar Church after he had stood down the much loved Allora priest and during his homily which included talk about his favourite subject at the time priestless parishes he made the mistake of claiming that we had all voted on and agreed to priestless parishes.
276 - Oct 2011 - Letters: World Youth Day, Arnold Jago
Yet at the appropriate times - during Mass and during the pauses on the Way of the Cross - the silence was absolute.
277 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
They have attended weekly school Mass in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman rite and encountered the rich culture of the Church in hymns and Mass settings in both Latin and English.
278 - Oct 2011 - History: Lepanto, history's most decisive naval battle, Bob Denahy
Each Christian ship carried a chaplain and Mass was celebrated at dawn.
279 - Oct 2011 - Pastoral care: One of the Catholic Church's best kept secrets, Marie Mason
Its not just a conference but also a spiritual retreat away from the world with no TV no newspapers or radio no alcohol and a solid program of talks and workshops Masses Eucharistic adoration and penance and I loved every minute of it.
280 - Oct 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
During his four days in Madrid he presided over eight events before reaching the pinnacle of WYD - Mass for an estimated two million pilgrims at Madrids Cuatro Vientos on the Sunday.
281 - Oct 2011 - World Youth Day 2011, Madrid: Australia's participation, Br Barry Coldrey
The Opening Mass was on Tuesday 16 August at the vast Cibeles Square in Madrid while Pope Benedict XVI arrived two days later and presided at a series of events until the final Sunday Mass at a military Air Force base on the outskirts of the city (see page 20).
282 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
In fact we are a Church of seven sacraments and one of the most wonderful sacraments is the sacrament of Penance where there has been a massive drop-off.
283 - Sep 2011 - Events: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for busy people
In addition daily Mass according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite Rosary and prayer are held as well as Confession after a thorough preparation Holy Hour and Benediction.
284 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Maria Plustwik
They sing and clap to mindless infantile songs at Mass.
285 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Where is Jesus?, Michael Apthorp
And as Dr Edward Sri puts it In holy communion Our Lord enters our bodies joining himself to our souls in this most intimate union ( A Biblical Walk Through the Mass Ascension Press 2011 p.
286 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
He was fascinated by a man who owned a harmonium so his father bought one and he played it so well that when he was only 10 years old his parish priest asked him to play it during the Holy Mass for schoolchildren on weekdays.
287 - Sep 2011 - Sacred Art: Catholic church statuary: a craft in danger, Christopher Akehurst
Candlesticks including a rather handsome pair of Exposition candelabra awaiting restoration jostle with pious images and booklets on the Mass.
288 - Sep 2011 - Cloyne Report exposes Ireland's continuing sex abuse crisis, Michael Gilchrist
Where in past years the Church could justifiably count on the devotion respect and affection of the overwhelming majority today it faces constant critical scrutiny from an increasingly anti-clerical media and political establishment even as Mass attendances and priestly vocations decline.
289 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
they naturally need priestly support to make Mass and the Sacraments available.
290 - Aug 2011 - Books: PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS: Catholic women come home to the Church, ed. Donna Steichen, Michael Daniel
Faith weakened Not only were there largely external pressures on Catholic women entering adulthood for Steichen also identifies factors within the Church in the years following the Second Vatican Council that shook the faith of these women: vacuous faith formation in the form of defective religious instruction; and changes in the liturgy which all too often replaced the Latin Mass with banal celebrations of Mass featuring music described as sacro-pop and being riddled with liturgical abuses and lacking any sense of the sacred.
291 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Rose-coloured glasses, Cathy Cleary
There seems to be a view among your journalists and correspondents that pre-Vatican II Catholicism in Australia was a period of beautiful Mass celebrations with perfectly appropriate music (mainly Gregorian chant) and reverent congregations who followed the mainly Latin Masses in their missals with rapt attention and complete understanding.
292 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
Each of these conferences has become very popular with many young adult Catholics and while each is distinctive they all tend to have the following common features: strong speakers dealing with topics important to Catholic adults robust discussion daily Mass confessions Eucharistic Adoration along with a sporting activity during the second afternoon and a social function on one evening.
293 - Aug 2011 - Bishop Conley on the new Missal translation: 'The very words of God', Bishop James Conley
The new Mass is almost a half-century old now.
294 - Aug 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Benedict XVI
The above are extracts from Benedict XVIs homily for the Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrated at the St Thomas of Villanova Parish Castel Gandolfo on 15 August 2010.
295 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Lack of vocations, Susanna Vale
He told one priest that he knew every word that he had said at Mass before he had even removed his vestments.
296 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
Coopers daughter Maria tells how her father and Hemingway frequently discussed the Catholic thing and although he had always been well disposed towards the Church and frequently attended Mass with the family he never discussed it with them.
297 - Jul 2011 - Steubenville: How a university's Catholic identity was recovered, AD2000 Report
At the time Fr Scanlan became president the most popular Mass for students was held at midnight.
298 - Jul 2011 - Universae Ecclesiae: Vatican document strengthens use of the traditional Latin liturgy, Fr Glen Tattersall
The Instruction explicitly asks bishops to offer their priests the possibility of acquiring adequate preparation for the celebration of Mass in the Extraordinary Form.
299 - Jul 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency English bishops promote new Mass translation In a letter read in all parishes 29 May the English bishops said the current translation of the Mass does not express the full meaning of the original Latin and loses some of the teaching of the faith meant to be communicated in the liturgy: In the earlier translation not all the meaning of the original Latin text was fully expressed and a number of the terms that were used to convey the teachings of the faith were lost.
300 - Jun 2011 - Books: HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: Thoughts on Holy Mass, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: Thoughts on Holy Mass by Pope Benedict XVI (Ignatius Press 2010110pp $29.
301 - Jun 2011 - Books: THE STORY OF THE LITURGY IN IRELAND, by Edmond Gerard Cullinan, Michael E Daniel
The singing of the Divine Office as well as the Mass were central both to monastic and cathedral liturgies.
302 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Catholic religious education: some grassroots views, John Morissey
A school Mass is described as a Eucharist and the less said the better about preparation for receiving Communion.
303 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
instituting a special year to honour priests (which was well received by priests and people) continuing with a new translation of the Roman Missal and encouraging the Tridentine Mass to be celebrated.
304 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey
Todays seminaries around the country have been placing added stress on the eternal basics of the spiritual life: the Mass the Divine Office solid time-honoured devotions and faithfulness to the Churchs Magisterium.
305 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Ours is a strong and very real faith in what happens at Mass and it is appropriate that the robust words used in Latin to express the human reality and our need for the Lords redeeming mercy are translated accordingly in English.
306 - May 2011 - Books: ELIZABETH HAYES: Pioneer Franciscan Journalist, by Pauline J. Shaw, Br Barry Coldrey
Her ministry was that of the printed word an apostol-ate of the press in the emerging era of mass newspapers but prior to the advent of radio cinema and television.
307 - May 2011 - Letters: A mixture, Arnold Jago
Next day reporters found her at Mass in her local church.
308 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
The generation of Catholics who weathered the changes in the liturgy from the Tridentine Mass to the new Order will have no difficulty accepting those alterations which are to occur in the English translation of the prayers of the Mass.
309 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
The Conference began with Mass at St Benedicts Broadway celebrated by ACSAs chaplain Father Greg Jordan SJ.
310 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
The speakers will help us to reflect on the particular role of adoration for evangelisation while situating adoration always in relation to its intrinsic connection to the Mass.
311 - May 2011 - Modern martytrs: Shahbaz Bhatti (1968-2011): Pakistan's contemporary martyr, Babette Francis
When I observe Catholics emerging from Sunday Mass they seem cheerful but placid and I wonder if I am living in a parallel universe.
312 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Iraqi refugees take part assiduously in daily Mass despite the fact they come from far away on foot or public transport.
313 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
He led a deep spiritual life praying before the altar for hours every day as well as celebrating Mass reciting the Rosary and having the most intense devotion to Mary the Mother of God to whom he dedicated his pontificate.
314 - Apr 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Palm Sunday means following Jesus Christ, Pope Benedict XVI
The above are extracts from Benedict XVIs 2010 Palm Sunday homily given during Mass in St Peters Square (Vatican Information Service).
315 - Apr 2011 - Events: Holy Week 2011 - St Aloysius, Caulfield North
30am: Solemn Pontifical Mass with blessing of Palms and Procession (meet at War Memorial Caulfield Park) Spy Wednesday (20 April) 8.
316 - Apr 2011 - Letters: Same-sex 'marriage', Robert Prinzen-Wood
It is a cause of concern indeed frightening to see the mass media giving great respect and air space to arguments in favour of same-sex marriage as if error has equal rights to truth.
317 - Apr 2011 - Marian Valley and Penrose Park: spiritual powerhouses, Br Barry Coldrey
At these locations the monks provide spiritual exercises of all kinds for those who arrive constantly by coach and car for Mass private prayer retreats contemplation renewal and picnics in their extensive grounds.
318 - Apr 2011 - Music that elevates faith and worship of God, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Haydn Mozart Beethoven Schubert and Brahms to name but a few wrote for example masterly settings of the Mass and the Requiem.
319 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis
The CBCK initiative called New Life Project was inaugurated on 7 February 2011 at a Mass presided over by Bishop Gabriel Chang Bonghun of Cheongju president of the CBCK Committee for Bioethics.
320 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Eucharistic Adoration transforms parish Eucharistic adoration has transformed a dying small-town Massachusetts parish into one of the most vibrant in the Diocese of Fall River according to the website of the New Bedford Standard-Times.
321 - Apr 2011 - Homily: Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Thursday homily, Pope Benedict XVI
This is an extract from Pope Benedict XVIs homily at the Mass of the Lords Supper in the Basilica of St John Lateran Rome 2007.
322 - Mar 2011 - New Divine Mercy parish and school for Perth, Fr Paul Fox
It will be a place of pilgrimage for the Archdiocese with daily Mass Adoration and devotions.
323 - Mar 2011 - iWitness 2010: an unforgettable retreat for young Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
The iWitness leadership team arranged a program which balanced serious talks daily Mass wide audience participation and enjoyable events such as the iWitness Challenge and the Amazing Pilgrimage.
324 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds chairman of the conferences Department for Christian Life and Worship affirmed that this was a tremendous opportunity for the Church in England and Wales to learn about our faith and the Mass.
325 - Feb 2011 - Reflection: The great but neglected harvest of inactive Catholics, Joseph Agius
The priests who minister to us in our parish in the Archdiocese of Melbourne ceaselessly encourage parents of children who are being baptised or receiving First Communion to bring them to Mass every Sunday.
326 - Feb 2011 - Letters: Leadership, Joe Lopez
For when these Catholics organise petitions after Mass to oppose State/Federal legislation that is anathema to the Christian concepts of life and marriage they are liable to be met with remarks like I really dont know if I should sign or the Church has got it wrong on this.
327 - Feb 2011 - Pope Benedict honours Catholic Women's League member Brenda Finlayson, AD2000 Report
Brenda was officially invested with the Papal title at a special ceremony during Mass celebrated by Bishop Peter Connors in Ballarats St Patricks Cathedral on 7 November 2010.
328 - Feb 2011 - Science and Christian faith: the case for intelligent design, Babette Francis
001 times the mass of protons all protons would have decayed into neutrons or all neutrons would have decayed into protons.
329 - Feb 2011 - Vocations: Following in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi, Kay Cozad
Each brother shares his deep devotion to God through participation in Bible study door-to-door evangelisation walks parish missions confirmation and youth retreats catechesis with the neighbourhood children Saturday devotions and Mass and serving area parishes in any way they can.
330 - Feb 2011 - Liturgical rights of Catholics must be upheld, Fr Martin Durham
There is another consideration equally important which has been overlooked namely that the faithful have the right to have Mass celebrated properly according to the norms laid down by the Apostolic See.
331 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
He was addressing members of the Legion of Mary at a Mass marking the 30th anniversary of its founder Frank Duffs death.
332 - Feb 2011 - Editorial: Challenges ahead for the Church in 2011, Michael Gilchrist
Many Catholics including regrettably some priests have come to regard the Mass as owned by the local community rather than the universal Church with relevance rather than authenticity the watchword.
333 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
Steve and his friends prayed that the Lord would provide full access to Randwick and for the Vigil and Mass to be a time of extraordinary grace.
334 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (the traditional Latin Mass) is celebrated solemnly each day on route.
335 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
The 2010 Young Men of God Conference mentioned above followed a proven and successful approach with Mass prayer lectures opportunities for confession and free time for sports.
336 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Christian massacre in Baghdad Nowhere is safe anymore not even the House of God said auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans Shlemon Warduni the day after an unprecedented attack on the Christian community on 31 October.
337 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
An extract from Pope Benedict XVIs homily at the midnight Mass for Christmas 2009.
338 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Elephants in the room, Frank Bellet
Attending Mass in another suburb recently I heard the celebrating priest who is not Australian pay tribute to our country with the comment that we recently held an election resulting in a hung parliament and no-one was killed.
339 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Future Church, Tom King
This edition of AD2000 was particularly relevant for our Buranda Latin Mass congregation as it was the 80th birthday of our inspirational pastor and Jesuit Father Gregory Jordan.
340 - Nov 2010 - Saints: Blessed John Henry Newman: why he is worthy of canonisation, Frank Mobbs
When a Catholic priest he loved to celebrate Mass daily.
341 - Nov 2010 - Liturgy: Catholic funerals: Bishop Elliott explains Melbourne's guidelines, Bishop Peter J. Eliott
Here the Guidelines spell it out clearly focusing on the Mass and citing the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal: The Church offers the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Christs Passover for the dead so that since all members of Christs body are in communion with each other the petition of spiritual help on behalf of some may bring comforting hope to others (GIRM 379).
342 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
After the opening Mass celebrated by Bishop John M.
343 - Nov 2010 - Canonisation: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: let the truth be told, Peter Westmore
The fact that until the 1960s over half of Australias Catholic population attended Mass every Sunday was a measure of the contribution teaching religious orders like the Josephites made to the Church and Australian society.
344 - Oct 2010 - Latin Mass Melbourne: Rosary Sonatas
Latin Mass Melbourne presents Australias leading baroque trio Latitude 37 performing Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Bibers famous Rosary Sonatas in their original setting with a decade of the Rosary being prayed between each sonata.
345 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
This is the edited text of Cardinal George Pells homily given on 16 August at the 25th Anniversary of Ordination Mass for the Class of 1985 Corpus Christi College Clayton at Mary MacKillop Church Keilor Downs Melbourne Archdiocese.
346 - Oct 2010 - New Missal: Why we need the new translation of the Mass, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
The printing of new missals for the altar and the people is under way a massive project as there is one version for the whole English speaking world.
347 - Oct 2010 - Youth: Young adult Catholic ministry: hopeful signs continue, Br Barry Coldrey
Most importantly they were practising Catholics who accepted the Churchs core doctrines attended Mass on Sundays received the sacraments and did their best with the Churchs moral teachings.
348 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
It is a massive force.
349 - Sep 2010 - Letters: New evangelisation, Retired Queensland Priest
That Australia is in dire need for a new evangelisation is obvious from the last National Church Life and Census survey which included the following poor results of Catholics who practise their religion including attending Sunday Mass: Ages 15-19: 4%; Ages 20-29: 5%; Ages 30-39: 9%; Ages 40-49: 16%; Ages 50-59: 18%; Ages 60-69: 21%; Ages 70-79: 18%; Ages 80: 7%.
350 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
There are well-prepared Eucharistic celebrations Masses in both the English and extraordinary Latin rites energised by the music of a fine Schola trained by Ben Wilson.
351 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
He reminded journalists that the Pope is often criticised by liberal theologians and the liberal mass media in the West for his opinions.
352 - Sep 2010 - Britain prepares for Benedict XVI's visit, Joanna Bogle
Massive anti-Catholic outbursts from committed atheists led by Richard Dawkins and the cynical use of material relating to the evil sexual activities of some clergy have combined to foster a mood of opposition to the Papal visit which was in any case likely to develop as plans for this State occasion emerged at a time of recession and projected economic hardship.
353 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS, by Warren H. Carroll, Michael Daniel
While according to Carroll the Vendeans generally spared their prisoners the revolutionaries by and large massacred theirs.
354 - Aug 2010 - Letters: Liturgy
Convinced and committed Catholics who regularly attend Mass - and in fact these days it seems these are effectively the only regular participants - would I hope accept what the Archbishop has to say even if they dont necessarily express themselves as I might here.
355 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The angel who died on Christmas Day, Arthur N. Ballingall
Six weeks later on Christmas Eve an hour before Midnight Mass the priest was chatting with a visiting missionary doctor when there was a loud knock on the parish door.
356 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession?, Br Barry Coldrey
John had not been to confession since primary school nor had he attended Mass much in recent years.
357 - Aug 2010 - Liberalism: Christian churches and the 'religious left', Babette Francis
What I am commenting on is the emergence of a contemporary religious left members of which while purporting to be regular Mass-goers - and maybe some of them are - support abortion rights.
358 - Aug 2010 - The Mass: why we should focus on its essence, Fr John O'Neill PP
One could start a few rows - quite heated ones too - by stating that the Mass has not changed essentially in two thousand years; but the statement is quite true because in its essence the Mass has not changed nor can it.
359 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI affirmed that the Mass itself when celebrated in the respect of the liturgical norms and with a fitting appreciation of the richness of the signs and gestures can foster and promote Eucharistic faith.
360 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Mass attendance The information collected on the ground in parishes in the Archdiocese of Dublin indicates that regular Church attendance has dropped in some cases dramatically.
361 - Jul 2010 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
The central questions remain of concern today as they were then: Are science technology and the mass media automatically at odds with Christianity?
362 - Jul 2010 - Books: CONVINCED BY THE TRUTH: Embracing the Fullness of Catholic Faith, John Fleming, John McCarthy
I finally make brief reference to that part of Father Flemings new publication which includes chapters on the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Real Presence in the Eucharist.
363 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
Serving at Mass has become girls work.
364 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
The books title and contents are particularly relevant for todays Catholics and Christians especially the young who need to practise discernment to distinguish truth from falsehood good from evil given the amount of relativistic nonsense emanating from such sources of influence as the mass media entertainment industries advertising and Internet.
365 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
This is the shortened text of Benedict XVIs homily at the Mass in St Peters Basilica for the Feast of Pentecost 11 May 2008.
366 - Jun 2010 - Passover: Understanding the Jewish traditions behind the Catholic Mass, Gabrielle Walsh
The aim of the event which was very well attended was to deepen understanding of the Jewish traditions that underpin the Catholic Mass given that the Passover or Seder Meal is similar to the Last Supper that Jesus celebrated with his Apostles.
367 - Jun 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Eucharist: the background to Vatican II's liturgical reforms, Br Barry Coldrey
After the Protestant Reformations and the Council of Trent many Catholics prayed their own private prayers and devotions at Mass.
368 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Support for Latin Mass in Germany According to a survey by the French organisation Paix Liturgique 44% of practising Catholics would regularly attend the traditional Latin Mass if Benedict XVIs Motu Proprio was implemented.
369 - Jun 2010 - The New Evidence: Shroud of Turin: the scientific case for fresh carbon dating tests, Michael Gilchrist
On 10 April 2010 the latest exposition of the Holy Shroud opened in the Turin Cathedral with one of the highlights of the exposition which ended on 23 May being the visit of Benedict XVI who celebrated Mass in the citys Piazza San Carlo on 2 May.
370 - Jun 2010 - Missal: New Mass translation: Archbishop Hart interview, Archbishop Denis Hart
Michael Gilchrist editor of AD2000 recently interviewed Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne on the reasons for revisions to the English Mass wordings the processes of consultation and the steps being taken to implement these changes in parishes.
371 - May 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-558-4 Celebrating the Holy Eucharist Francis Cardinal Arinze Nigerian-born Cardinal Arinze recently retired Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments provides a concise authoritative outline of key aspects of the celebration of the Mass.
372 - May 2010 - Letters: Non-Christians, Fr Brian Harrison OS
Never mind the suggestion that non-Christian religious texts could also be inspired and even used at Mass for the first reading!
373 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
We saw in the previous two articles in this series on the celebration of the Eucharist (Mass) that at the Passover meal before His passion death and resurrection Jesus consecrated the bread and wine into His own Body and Blood and gave the Apostles their first communion.
374 - May 2010 - Parish life: A youth apostolate that works, Fr John O'Neill
It is among the highest joys of a priests life that one now experiences in the young people of this little parish to stand among them on Sundays after Mass and sense the bond they have the mutual trust they share and their genuine enjoyment of each others qualities.
375 - May 2010 - Liturgy: Reform of the reform: a 'shift in liturgical culture', Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Some of what we sing and hear at Mass is a substitution for silence rather than a feeding of the silence of God into which we are drawn.
376 - Apr 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-558-4 Celebrating the Holy Eucharist Francis Cardinal Arinze Nigerian-born Cardinal Arinze recently retired Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments provides a concise authoritative outline of key aspects of the celebration of the Mass.
377 - Apr 2010 - Real Presence: Eucharistic Adoration: ultimate weapon of spiritual warfare, Fr Martin Durham
Cardinal Hummes call to address the paucity of priestly vocations in the Church by Eucharistic Adoration was extended by Mother Teresa to cover all the ills in the Church especially those in our Western nations including Australia where only 13 percent of Catholics attend weekly Sunday Mass and cafeteria Catholicism inadequate catechesis liturgical abuses and a kind of neo- Protestantism are all-too-prevalent.
378 - Apr 2010 - Jerusalem: Catholic soldiers' World War I military pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Tom Johnstone
2 Following Mass and breakfast the pilgrims assembled near the Jaffa Gate to be welcomed by the Military Governor.
379 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
Regarding this question some Indian theologians have sought clarification from the Churchs magisterium on the use of some passages from these sacred books of other religions at formal Catholic liturgies - even at Holy Mass - celebrated in India.
380 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
Rhoades was celebrant at Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC.
381 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons
Visiting clergy such as Archbishop Denis Hart Bishop Elliott Fr Glen Tattersall Fr Joseph Pich and others not only said Mass but gave their own unique view of Catholicism in the public sphere which clearly has a lot to offer the world in motivation love and change.
382 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Fisher was the principal celebrant at the installation Mass with concelebrants Cardinal George Pell the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto the dioceses Apostolic Administrator Bishop Kevin Manning the bishops of Australia and priests of the Dioceses of Parramatta Broken Bay Sydney and beyond.
383 - Mar 2010 - Holy Week: Holy Week 2010: Extraordinary Form of the Roman Liturgy (1962 Missal)
00am Solemn Pontifical Mass with blessing of Palms and Procession Wednesday (31 March): 8.
384 - Mar 2010 - Youth: Summer School of Evangelisation: helping young people's faith, Johanna Banks
Mass was offered daily Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament was continuously available and each day began with Morning Prayer from the Divine Office.
385 - Mar 2010 - Conversion: Paul Fitzgerald: my spiritual journey, Paul Fitzgerald
The boarders attended Mass every morning and we said a prayer before every class.
386 - Mar 2010 - Year for the Priest: English-speaking clergy: first ever international conference, Fr Glen Tattersall
The highlight of the week was of course attendance at the Holy Fathers Epiphany Mass at St Peters Basilica.
387 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
There has been a collapse: only seven percent of Catholics now go to Sunday Mass; only 16 percent of children are baptised.
388 - Feb 2010 - Books: SECULAR SABOTAGE, by Bill Donahue, Fr Martin Durham
To this list we can add other weapons at our disposal: the Mass Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament the Rosary penance the sacraments and sacramentals.
389 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Climate change, Ron Blackstock
When will common sense finally prevail over academic meadow mayonnaise and mass hysteria?
390 - Feb 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Celebrating the Eucharist during the early Christian centuries, Br Barry Coldrey
The format of the Eucharistic sacrifice the Mass developed over time.
391 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
In particular the date was chosen to commemorate the Christians who died in massacres in Orissa in late August 2009 events whose victims still seek justice with the perpetrators likely to remain unpunished.
392 - Feb 2010 - Catholic Culture: 'A small brave initiative': Campion College's second graduation, Br Barry Coldrey
Cardinal Pell with Bishop Jarrett and many priests celebrated the Votive Mass of St Edmund Campion requesting the 16th century Jesuit martyr to present their prayers for the Campion College community to the Lord.
393 - Feb 2010 - Priest denounces 'deniers' of man-made climate change, Michael Gilchrist
On the contrary the bullying and browbeating have been in the other direction with true believers like Fr Rue and much of the mass media denouncing and marginalising the sceptics and deniers.
394 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
Because every time we drive home after Mass you and dad criticise what the priest says in his homily.
395 - Feb 2010 - Preparation time: New Missal translation nears completion: a window of opportunity, Michael Gilchrist
But according to Archbishop Denis Hart ICEL representative of the Australian Bishops Conference Catholics in the pews should be encountering the changes at Masses during the latter part of 2011.
396 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Dublin Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field offered an apology to child-abuse victims as they announced their resignations during Christmas Mass.
397 - Dec 2009 - Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily, Fr Glen Tattersall
This article is taken from a homily preached by Fr Tattersall on the occasion of a wedding and nuptial Mass.
398 - Dec 2009 - Books: THE MASS AND THE SAINTS, by Thomas Crean OP, Br Barry Coldrey
THE MASS AND THE SAINTS by Thomas Crean OP (Ignatius Press 2008 208pp $30.
399 - Dec 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us, Br Barry Coldrey
The sacrifice was acceptable to God and is recalled in the liturgy of the Mass.
400 - Dec 2009 - How to get Vatican II back on track: a bishop's prescription, Bishop R. Walker Nickless (Sioux City, Iowa)
On the one hand there is an interpretation that I would call a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture which has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media and also one trend of modern theology.
401 - Dec 2009 - Events: Melbourne - The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962 Missal)
00pm) Solemn Midnight Mass (Friday 25 December 12.
402 - Dec 2009 - Victoria: Abortion evil: pro-life forces need to be united, John Morrissey
An Hour of Prayer held after High Mass featured Scripture readings hymns and a homily given by the Archbishop.
403 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Recession: but Irish Mass attendances recovering More Irish are attending Mass more often during the present economic recession the Iona Institute for Religion and Society reported on 3 November.
404 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Specifically the way we have participated in Sunday Mass received the Eucharist tried to remain faithful to our state of life in marriage vows or ministry tried to share our faith and seen Christ in others is the same way we shall die.
405 - Nov 2009 - Missionaries: Mary Glowrey (1887-1957): Australian witness to hope in India, Robyn Fahy And Fr Dan Strickland MGL
At her requiem Mass the Bishop of Guntur described Mary as a special creation of God .
406 - Nov 2009 - Schools: How to rebuild Catholic education from the grass-roots, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Our students are not perfect but it is generally taken for granted among them that Sunday Mass regular Confession daily prayer and learning in the faith are a non-negotiable part of life and nothing to cringe about.
407 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
We also support him when his courageous declarations arouse negative reactions on the part of politicians or public figures or they are criticised and sometimes misrepresented by some in the mass media.
408 - Nov 2009 - Climate change alarmism: a new 'religion' for Christians?, John Morrissey
With representatives of the worlds nations due to jet into Copenhagen this December to discuss ways of saving the planet from inevitable incineration due to the human races increasing carbon dioxide emissions many in key sectors of the Christian churches have already joined the bandwagon along with most of the mass media politicians and educators.
409 - Oct 2009 - Reflection: The Mass: priest and people offer sacrifice, Bishop Edward Slattery
Because the Mass is so necessary and fundamental to our Catholic experience the liturgy is a constant topic in our conversation.
410 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
And following his retirement when he had moved back to Stratford he purchased a house in London which had not only been owned by Catholics but was formerly a Catholic safe house used to hide priests and in which Mass was celebrated.
411 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Liturgy reform, Paul Martin
(It is sad to say not uncommon in some places to have no servers for Mass even on Sundays and major feasts.
412 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
There has been an explosion of the means of mass communication and the media has done much to create a sex-saturated culture.
413 - Oct 2009 - Seminary Life: Spiritual direction at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary, Fr Paul Glynn SM
because your Father is there and knows what you need his daily Mass does become the summit and source of his Christian life that Vatican II said it should be.
414 - Oct 2009 - Episcopacy: Bishop Luc Matthys: on being a bishop, Bishop Luc Matthys of Armidale
The Munus Sanctificandi: the task of sanctifying especially through the administration of the sacraments the Sacrifice of the Mass the devotional life and sacramentals.
415 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
So gradually the spirit of a whole religious institute may change from decade to decade with a lessened regard for the daily practice of praying together and attending at the sacrifice of the Mass.
416 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Preaching in Manila at the closing Mass of the plenary assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences Cardinal Arinze - Pope Benedicts special envoy to the meeting - encouraged Asian bishops to foster Eucharistic adoration and reverence.
417 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy
While it is true that the actual Holy Sacrifice of the Mass should not be conflated with the Eucharist reserved outside the liturgy they are certainly not mutually exclusive.
418 - Sep 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 ISBN 0-89870-888-5 WYD Sydney 2008 Complete Set of Events This package of eight DVDs is remarkable value containing all the major events of World Youth Day including the Journey of the Cross and Icon Opening Mass Papal Arrival Stations of the Cross Evening Vigil and much more.
419 - Sep 2009 - Books: DOVE DESCENDING: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, by Thomas Howard, Br Barry Coldrey
Nevertheless Four Quartets deserves a place alongside other great artistic monuments infused with the Christian vision: Dantes Divine Comedy Chartres Cathedral Johann Sebastian Bachs B Minor Mass and van Eycks painting The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.
420 - Sep 2009 - Books: JOHN GERARD: Autobiography of an Elizabethan, trans. By Philip Caraman SJ, Michael E. Daniel
During much of this time he was able to move freely around the countryside and London celebrating Mass and other sacraments in secret and bringing many people to the Catholic Church.
421 - Sep 2009 - The Reformation and England's changing Coronation Oath, Tom Johnstone
do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess testify and declare that I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever: and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other Saint and the sacrifice of the Mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are superstitious and idolatrous.
422 - Sep 2009 - Campus Life: Brisbane hosts 2009 Australian Catholic Student Association Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
Earlier the Conference had commenced with Mass in the Duchesene College Chapel with the Principal Celebrant Father Bevin Clarke Catholic Chaplain at the Queensland University of Technology.
423 - Sep 2009 - Christian Life: Courage and EnCourage: a chaste lifestyle for the same-sex attracted, Marie Mason
Each day Mass was concelebrated by at least a dozen priests with the main celebrant for the opening Mass being Cardinal Justin Rigali Archbishop of Philadelphia.
424 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Padovese saidthat in addition to asking Christians to pay to enter the church Turkish authorities had placed a time limit on Masses and other prayer services so they do not disrupt the normal operation of the museum.
425 - Sep 2009 - Editorial: 2009 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
Instead the mass media for the most part promotes cultural relativism while rejecting the moral absolutes and Judeo-Christian heritage on which our societys well-being depends.
426 - Aug 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 WYD Sydney 2008 Complete Set of Events This package of eight DVDs is remarkable value containing all the major events of World Youth Day including the Journey of the Cross and Icon Opening Mass Papal Arrival Stations of the Cross Evening Vigil and much more.
427 - Aug 2009 - Books: THE WINE OF CERTITUDE: a Literary Biography of Ronald Knox, by David Rooney, Michael Daniel
Akin to Knoxs apologetics works were those which systematically explained aspects of Catholic belief and practice such as The Mass in Slow Motion and The Creed in Slow Motion.
428 - Aug 2009 - Magisterium: Authentic Catholicism: neither progressive nor conservative, Fr Martin Durham
the Creed the Sacraments the Ten Commandments as set out in the Catechism discipline represents the laws made by the authority of the Church which are binding such as the liturgical require- ments governing celebrations of the Mass and other rituals or the length of the fast prescribed before Holy Communion.
429 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
He was convinced that the fervour of a priests life depended entirely upon the Mass: The reason why a priest is lax is that he does not pay attention to the Mass!
430 - Jul 2009 - Books: Books available from AD Books and Freedom Publishing
00 WYD Sydney 2008 Complete Set of Events This package of eight DVDs is remarkable value containing all the major events of World Youth Day including the Journey of the Cross and Icon Opening Mass Papal Arrival Stations of the Cross Evening Vigil and much more.
431 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
As the author frequently notes these personal qualities coupled with a deep devotion to personal prayer the Mass and genuine service to others enabled Fr Tony to achieve the unachievable.
432 - Jul 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Bible, by Peter Stravinskas, Br Barry Coldrey
A Biblical theology of the Mass and the place of the Bible in the Sacred Liturgy.
433 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Latin Mass, Anthony Bono
Last year The Telegraph (London) of 14 June reported that the Traditional Latin Mass would be reintroduced into every Roman Catholic parish in England and Wales even where the congregation has not asked for it.
434 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler
As for Hitler himself he was a psychopathic mass murderer.
435 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
Though he continued to attend Sunday Mass his mind was usually elsewhere.
436 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
He is also Chaplain to the Medical Guild of St Luke and the St Gregorys Traditional Latin Mass Community in Brisbane.
437 - Jun 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for June
00 A Family Retreat Preached before a church congregation in the 1970s this retreat consists of twelve half-hour talks directed at all age groups: Youth and Sex The Devil Confession The Meaning of the Mass Our Cross and others.
438 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Prayers after Mass, Ken Bayliss
Those now over 50 years of age will remember the introduction of the Dialogue Mass between the end of Vatican II and the introduction of the Novus Ordo revolution of 1969.
439 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
In the wake of Vatican II discussion of tough uncompromising and unpleasant issues such as the Last Things tended to disappear from homilies at Sunday Masses.
440 - Jun 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Latin Mass priest to head ICEL An English priest with an affinity for the extraordinary (pre-Vatican II) form of the Mass has been named the general secretary of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL).
441 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich
He believes this enthusiasm defies the belief of some in the Church that such a practice is old- fashioned: Theres nothing old- fashioned about it; its embracing whats already there in the Church praying the Office (the prayer of the Church) morning noon and night participating in the Mass then having another personal prayer life on top of that - it glues all the other stuff together.
442 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen
We have a traditional Latin Mass once a week in St Marys Cathedral during the week but the numbers are not enormous.
443 - May 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for May
00 A Family Retreat Preached before a church congregation in the 1970s this retreat consists of twelve half-hour talks directed at all age groups: Youth and Sex The Devil Confession The Meaning of the Mass Our Cross and others.
444 - May 2009 - Conversion: A Catholic convert's story (Part 2): Are there any regrets?, Michael Daniel
While Mass attendance rates were higher than todays among many Catholics there was a sense that their once proudly-worn religious iden- tity had slipped away.
445 - May 2009 - Dissent: Rebel South Brisbane priest: new cafeteria church launched, Michael Gilchrist
While Fr Kennedy blamed his difficulties on ultra-conservatives reporting him to Rome his bizarre Masses have long been an open secret.
446 - Apr 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for April
95 The Immemorial Tridentine Mass Archbishop Fulton Sheen explains the Traditional Latin Mass in this magnificent 1940 black and white film of a sung High Easter Sunday Mass complete with choir and orchestra in Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Chicago.
447 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Church in China, Francis Vrijmoed
As a Catholic who over the years has attended Masses in Catholic churches of the so-called Patriotic (or Open) Church in Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou and who since 2001 goes to daily Mass in Shen Zhen (a border town next to Hong Kong) I am surprised and annoyed to observe that AD2000 still prints articles that give the impression that the Catholic Church is persecuted by the Chinese Government.
448 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Active Catholics?, Rev Edward P. Evans
He and his friends have resorted to violence forcing the officers of the Queensland police service to advise Fr Howell not to celebrate Masses on the ground that there may be a danger to public safety.
449 - Apr 2009 - Events: Holy Week 2009 - Traditional liturgy in Melbourne
00am Solemn Mass with blessing of Palms and Procession Wednesday (8 April): 8.
450 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
During the funeral Mass one of the young eulogists mentioned that her grandmother had a strong life-long devotion to St Jude the patron saint of the hope of the hopeless.
451 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Elliotts homily in St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne on 2 February 2009 at the Annual Red Mass for the opening of the Legal Year in the State of Victoria.
452 - Apr 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Ranjith writes that implementation of the Councils suggested reforms often veered away from the actual intent of the Council Fathers: Some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy like Mass versus populum facing the people Holy Communion in the hand altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular songs and hymns without much space for God and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass.
453 - Apr 2009 - Editorial: Confronting the long march of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
Of further significance is the fact that non-believers appear to be disproportionately represented in the mass media and in areas of government.
454 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
Cardinal Pells homily at the Opening Mass is also included.
455 - Mar 2009 - Marian Valley, spiritual oasis for young Brisbane Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
Young dedicated Catholic adults can feel very isolated among the mass of non-practising secularised census Catholics.
456 - Mar 2009 - The family and the culture of death: a challenge for Christians, Fr Dennis Byrnes
As Benedict XVI said at his Mass of Installation as the successor of Peter: We are not some casual meaningless product of evolution.
457 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
The last public appearance was his painful and determined concelebration of the funeral Mass of his great friend and fellow theologian Cardinal Avery Dulles on 18 December at St Patricks Cathedral.
458 - Mar 2009 - Did Antonio Gramsci have second thoughts?, Babette Francis
He exhorted his comrades to gain control of civil society which he defined as the historical traditions and social movements of a nation - the churches political parties trade unions mass media and various voluntary associations.
459 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
The report exhorts seminaries to celebrate Mass Lauds and Vespers daily including on weekends.
460 - Mar 2009 - Vocations: Indian priests: still plentiful but fewer available for overseas, AD2000 Report
Mass attendance in many dioceses is over 80 percent.
461 - Mar 2009 - Lefebvrists: Benedict XVI's bold move for Church unity, Michael Gilchrist
In 2007 Benedict answered one of Bishop Fellays key requests by relaxing restrictions on celebrating the traditional Latin Mass.
462 - Feb 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
Benedict XVIs motu proprio Summorum Pontificum established the traditional Latin Mass as the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
463 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves
He advises a child whose parents do not take him to Mass and explains what good it does for our everyday life to go to Mass speaking expressively of the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
464 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Clarification on new Missal translation - final text has been approved, Archbishop Denis Hart
You refer to the Decree issued by Cardinal Arinze dated 23rd June 2008 granting Confirmatio for The Order of Mass as it will appear in English when the missal is published.
465 - Feb 2009 - Flying into the Wind for the new evangelisation, Fr John Fowles CCS & Fr Joel Wallace CCS
Together they undertook the massive task of fund raising building and pioneering a new Catholic parish in Thurgoona New South Wales.
466 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
Severe penalties were imposed for Catholic practices such as saying or attending Mass.
467 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
Having lived in India during the terrible time of Partition (1947) when the Muslim majority provinces of the country separated to form the new country of Pakistan a separation accompanied in the northern part of the sub-continent by riots mass migration of Hindus fleeing to India and Muslims fleeing to the new Pakistan and the killing and deaths of millions I have long felt that the roots of terrorism lie in the inability of many Muslims to accept living in a secular democracy rather than under an Islamic regime.
468 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
There was daily Mass morning and evening prayer from the Divine Office all-night Eucharistic Adoration a candle-lit Rosary in the outdoor amphitheatre led by Cardinal Pell inspirational talks wide-ranging discussions and question-and-answer sessions.
469 - Feb 2009 - Culture of death: US bishops confront Barack Obama's sweeping abortion agenda, Paul Kengor
(John McCain won Catholics who attend Mass weekly 50 to 49 percent but lost in a landslide to Catholics who dont attend weekly 58 to 40 percent.
470 - Feb 2009 - Editorial: Liturgy: 'Reform of the reform' on track, Michael Gilchrist
With the Latin Mass (1962 Missal) given official status as the extraordinary form of the liturgy and a much improved English translation of the ordinary form on the horizon there will be two major steadying influences at work after decades of disorder.
471 - Dec 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us, Pope Benedict XVI
This is the shortened text of Benedict XVIs homily at the midnight Mass in St Peters Basilica Christmas 2006.
472 - Dec 2008 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
Benedict XVIs motu proprio Summorum Pontificum established the traditional Latin Mass as the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
473 - Dec 2008 - Letters: The Leonine Prayers, Kevin McManus
It seems time for serious consideration to be given to the restoration of the Leonine Prayers after Mass.
474 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
It really makes no sense to think that if home and school are without Catholic identity then a weekly visit to Sunday Mass can bear the load.
475 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
He said canon law required that homilies at Mass must be preached by a deacon or priest.
476 - Dec 2008 - Novus Ordo: Vatican approves new Missal translation, Michael Gilchrist
The Vatican has granted its recognitio (approval) to the revised English translation of the Order of Mass (common prayers) agreed upon by the US Bishops Conference in 2006.
477 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
But they encouraged the suffrages of the faithful for the dead - Masses prayers alms and other works of piety.
478 - Nov 2008 - Letters: South Brisbane parish - Catholic or not?, Richard Stokes
Following Archbishop Bathersbys letter to the rebel church of St Marys South Brisbane on 29 September I attended one of the community meetings intended to work out what to do so as to address the Archbishops letter in which he directs the parish to align itself with the Catholic Church particularly in regard to the norms of the sacraments and the Mass.
479 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Rebel church in South Brisbane, Bob Osmak
In 2004 the Archbishop had written to the parish about its invalid baptisms and other problems cited over time have included women preaching the blessing of homosexual couples gay and lesbian choir practices inside the church irregular prayers used during Masses and the presence of a Buddhist statue in front of the altar.
480 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
But once set it could only be assuaged by the Eucharist of the Mass.
481 - Nov 2008 - Dissent: Business as usual at South Brisbane's rebel church, Michael Gilchrist
Continue current inclusive language content and structure of the mass.
482 - Nov 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Other consultants include Fr Mauro Gagliardi an expert in dogmatic theology and professor at the Legionaries of Christs Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum; Opus Dei Spanish priest Juan Joseacute; Silvestre Valor professor at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome; and Fr Uwe Michael Lang CO an official of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and author of the book Turning Towards the Lord which argues the historical basis for Mass celebrated ad orientem (with priest and congregation facing in the same direction during the Liturgy of the Eucharist).
483 - Nov 2008 - Editorial: All Saints Day and All Souls Day, Peter Westmore
While the Bishops decision was made because of the difficulties for many Catholics of attending Mass on these working days its consequences have included a further erosion in the liturgical life of the Church and diminished awareness of the Communion of Saints the doctrine which teaches that believers on earth are united in a spiritual fellowship with the saints in Heaven (see article on pages 12-13) and the souls in Purgatory (see Bishop Elliotts article on page 20).
484 - Oct 2008 - Books: SACRED THEN AND SACRED NOW: The Return of the Old Latin Mass, Thomas E. Woods, Fr Martin Durham
SACRED THEN AND SACRED NOW: The Return of the Old Latin Mass by Thomas E.
485 - Oct 2008 - Letters: Sermons (letter), Chris Hilder
In contrast at the last election one parish priest wouldnt even allow information pamphlets on candidates pro- or anti-life stances to be distributed at the church doors after Mass.
486 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Referring to the Gospel reading of that days Mass he reflected on the mission of St Peter who received from Christ the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
487 - Oct 2008 - Response: Archbishop Bathersby's concerns over rebel Brisbane parish, Michael Gilchrist
In fact the certain laxity about the liturgy has been starkly evident over a lengthy period in each weeks parish bulletin where the words of the Mass are set out for the congregation to recite.
488 - Sep 2008 - Letters: World Youth day (letter), M. & L. MORRISSEY
The press also reported that the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims celebrated Mass with the Pope instead of the other way around.
489 - Sep 2008 - Liturgy: No smoke without fire: Benedict XVI and true liturgical reform, David Birch
I read the recent comments on Pope Paul VI and the smoke of Satan (July AD2000) with interest not long after I had finished re-reading the massive work by the late Archbishop Annibale Bugnini generally considered to be the main architect of the liturgical reforms prior to during and after Vatican II.
490 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
At the end of all this development the priests vital duty is to give spiritual leadership to the Catholic people by providing the sacraments most obviously in presiding at the Eucharist or Mass on a regular even daily basis.
491 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Memories of homestay hosts, Emidio and Phyllis Restall
We attended various events in Melbournes Days in the Diocese including shopping with the East Timorese for warm clothes visiting the Carmelite Monastery and attending the Commissioning Mass at the Telstra Dome.
492 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: A reflection on WYD, Tim Cannon
As we gathered at Randwick for the climactic prayer vigil and Mass the enormity of the crowd had me imagining how much more vibrant it will be to stand amid the throng of all Christs faithful past present and future of all the angels and the saints before Christ the King in the fullness of time.
493 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Impressions of youth, Bridget Pati and Berni Sullivan
This was the overall highlight of my time in Sydney and it was facilitated by time spent each morning in catechesis sessions daily Mass Youth Festival Events in the city including adoration at the opera house and the final Papal Mass.
494 - Sep 2008 - Editorial: World Youth Day 2008: the challenge ahead, Michael Gilchrist
For Australia the challenge will be to ensure there are similar measureable increases in average weekly Mass attendances confessions Catholic marriages baptisms or numbers of priestly and religious vocations.
495 - Aug 2008 - Books: MYSTERY OF CREATION by Paul Haffner, Michael Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Hardly a day passes without some reference to the environment in the mass media.
496 - Aug 2008 - Census shows a strong Church in Singapore, AD2000 Report
Eight in ten Catholics in Singapore say they attend Mass every weekend (80.
497 - Aug 2008 - Priesthood: St Louis: another US vocations success story, AD2000 Report
Archbishop Burke for example is considered to be one of the strongest supporters of the old Latin Mass among US bishops and last year Kenrick began celebrating the traditional liturgy on Fridays while more formal vestments are now required at morning and evening prayers.
498 - Aug 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
We are getting reports from parishes that many of the faithful who had for some time abandoned their religious practices have returned to confession and Sunday Mass.
499 - Jul 2008 - Books: Cardinal Pell's new Mass Book - This Is The Mass
The first of its kind in 50 years This the Mass is a beautifully illustrated coffee table book that explains every detail of the mystery of the Mass from The Introductory Rites to The Dismissal and Recessional by means of step-by-step photos of Cardinal George Pell celebrating Mass.
500 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY: Turin Shroud display in Melbourne to coincide with World Youth Day, Max Crockett
Benedict welcomed about 7000 pilgrims from Turin who had attended Mass in St Peters earlier in the day.
501 - Jul 2008 - Liturgy: Why Paul VI saw liturgical abuses as the 'smoke of Satan', Cardinal Virgilio Noe
In that denunciation he said the Pope meant to include all those priests or bishops and cardinals who didnt render worship to the Lord by celebrating badly Holy Mass because of an errant interpretation of the implementation of the Second Vatican Council.
502 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
In 1745 the Catholic armies were confidently massing behind Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) - Bonnie Prince Charlie.
503 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
Catholics married to non-Catholics may face the task of explaining to spouses that they are not invited to Holy Communion if they attend Mass.
504 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish, Fr Anthony Denton
The culmination of the week - World Youth Day itself - is marked by the Vigil and final Mass celebrated by the Holy Father.
505 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Juventutem Australia: young people devoted to the traditional liturgy, Alice Woolven
) Those familiar with the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Mass know the value of Gregorian chant Latin the prayers and ceremonies which articulate a rich theology of the Mass and a deep sense of the sacred and the importance of continuity in the life of the Church.
506 - Jul 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Vatican approves Marian apparitions in France On Sunday 4 May during a Mass celebrated in the town of Laus in the French Alps Bishop Jean-Michel de Falco of Gap accompanied by numerous cardinals and archbishops from around the world announced the official approval of the Church of the Marian apparitions to Bentrade;ite (Benedicta) Rencurel between 1664 and 1718.
507 - Jul 2008 - Liturgy: Archbishop Coleridge calls for an end to liturgical experimentation, Michael Gilchrist
Sense of the sacred Among the detrimental trends Archbishop Coleridge notes that in many cases the Mass has become too chatty with a noisy and unreflective feel to it; people tend to talk freely in the churches certainly before and after Mass.
508 - Jun 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI
This is the edited text of Benedict XVIs homily delivered during the Mass on the solemnity of Corpus Christi in May 2005 held in the square of the Basilica of St John Lateran.
509 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
And many bishops would tolerate almost anything except celebrations of what is now known as the Extraordinary Form commonly called the Latin Mass despite the fact that this liturgy had been celebrated by the Church for centuries.
510 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Priests needed in Ballarat, Jenny Bruty
We are in desperate need of priests - for ourselves our children and our grandchildren - as only a priest can celebrate Mass.
511 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Contraception, Tim Coyle
I can fondly remember the bulging numbers of 1957 with many standing at the back at the 10am Sunday Mass in our parish church when the Missa de Angelis was sung by the congregation and Communion was received kneeling at the altar rails.
512 - Jun 2008 - Christianity 'lite' with all the hard parts unmentioned: a spiritual dead-end, Alan Roebuck
Even if you are not a Christian you should be concerned about a mass movement that thrives by suppressing many important ideas that it once believed in especially because the same error tempts other idea-based movements such as conservatism.
513 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
David McFadden head teacher at London Oratory said the criteria for admission are based on canon law: The first criterion is based on Mass attendance.
514 - Jun 2008 - Editorial: Man-made climate change: a moral issue, Michael Gilchrist
Before such heavy burdens are imposed the worlds governments and mass media need to filter out the Green hype and focus more on the many scientific experts questioning the basis of man-made climate change.
515 - May 2008 - Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Teaching about the Mass began to emphasise the community.
516 - May 2008 - Letters: Brisbane, Franklin J. Wood
During my stay in Brisbane I attended Mass at the solidly Catholic parish of Corpus Christi Nundah.
517 - May 2008 - Letters: Receiving Communion, Charles Haber
A few days ago while serving at Mass (I am an altar server) I noticed an individual acting suspiciously after taking the Host in his hand and proceeding to leave the church.
518 - May 2008 - Letters: Church architecture, Terry Parkhouse
Church architecture does play an important part in the celebration of the Mass.
519 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
The term Eucharistic devotion refers to a number of religious practices surrounding the Blessed Sacrament outside the celebration of Mass.
520 - May 2008 - Interview: Positive impact of Pope's decree on the Latin Mass, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos
In an interview in March with LOsservatore Romano Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei explained that Pope Benedict XVIs Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum which liberalised the use of the Tridentine Mass is not a return to the past and has brought many separated brethren back into full communion with the Church.
521 - May 2008 - Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response, Fr Andrew Wise
It was about the time of the Holy Fathers release of Summorum Pontificum in July 2007 that I attended my first celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.
522 - May 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
But the survey also shows a sharp distinction between the Catholics who attend Mass regularly and those who are not active.
523 - May 2008 - Two changes: Bishop Jarrett explains upcoming Mass changes, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett of Lismore (NSW) has circularised his diocese on changes due in the Mass on Pentecost Sunday 11 May.
524 - May 2008 - Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
A major concern for many parents grandparents and parish clergy today is the massive drift away from the belief and practice of the Catholic faith by the vast bulk of school-leavers.
525 - Apr 2008 - Reflection: Original Sin, the 'madness' of the Cross and the 'foolishness' of God's love, Fr Dennis Byrnes
As proclaimed in the Mass: Christ has died Christ is risen Christ will come again.
526 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Church interiors, Marija Sestan
However I do not despair because even in the most common church our Lord presides in the most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and in the tabernacle.
527 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Unwarranted changes, John McLaren
However there is a glimmer of light now shining in the form of a liberalising of the Latin Mass details of which appeared on page 10 of the same issue of AD2000.
528 - Apr 2008 - Apostolic journey: Pope's Washington visit will address key issues, Peter Westmore
The Pope will meet leaders of other faiths in both Washington and New York City address the United Nations on 18 April and meet young people on 19 April before celebrating a Mass at Yankee Stadium in New York on 20 April.
529 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle
Cliches centred on Liberation Theology which had become a staple of Western sloppy thinking as seen in Bidding Prayers at suburban Masses began to seem stale and the collapse of Communism following Pope John Pauls visit to Poland and the emergence of Solidarity was a major part of that.
530 - Apr 2008 - Editorial: AD2000 reaches the twenty year mark, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile with the present low and declining Mass attendance rates the potential readership for a journal like AD2000 continues to shrink quite apart from its disproportionate reliance on an older readership for circulation.
531 - Mar 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr. A. Joseph
During the Mass at the Shrine I remembered and prayed for readers of AD2000.
532 - Mar 2008 - Letters: 'Re-ordered' churches, Brian Tooley
Then followed the changes to the Mass.
533 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Response, Richard Stokes
Vatican IIs liturgy document makes clear that no priest on his own authority may change anything in the Mass.
534 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Dennis Macdonald
Indeed in Brisbanes Catholic Cathedral some of the most sacred parts of the Mass depart significantly from the rules.
535 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Language, Kevin McManus
The new English translation of the Novus Ordo Mass due out in the next two years could very well be the last chance of the full vernacular in the English-speaking world.
536 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: Signs of hope in US diocese
The former high school footballer told Father Francik how he faithfully makes a holy hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament attends Mass prays the rosary and observes the liturgy of the hours - daily.
537 - Mar 2008 - Easter: The Sacred Triduum in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962 Missal)
00pm: Mass of the Lords Supper with adoration at the Altar of Repose until Midnight Good Friday 21st March 3.
538 - Mar 2008 - Recovering the sacred in modern church architecture, Moyra Doorly
The early Church did not allow catechumens into the main body of the church and the entirely 20th century novelty of Mass facing the people would have seemed an alien practice The final chapter of No Place for God is a plea for a return to ad orientum - the priest and people together facing east in liturgical worship.
539 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In his homily at the Mass for the opening of the legal year in St Patricks Cathedral on 29 January Archbishop Denis Hart singled out Victorian Government proposals to give legal recognition to couples in a relationship who are not married including providing marriage-like legitimacy to same sex intimacy.
540 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
He would have welcomed the wider permissions for the celebration of the Latin Tridentine Mass and the prospect of a richer better English translation of the Roman missal.
541 - Feb 2008 - Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival, Br Barry Coldrey
On Saturday 1 December 2007 in St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart and Bishop Peter Elliott together with many priests concelebrated a Healing Mass to venerate Mary as Our Lady of Lourdes.
542 - Feb 2008 - Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture, Tony Evans
Available from Freedom Publishing) With Mass attendance declining and young people leaving Catholic schools without the Faith and most churches locked during the day because only vandals would be likely to enter them clergy educationists and interested laity rack their brains for an explanation and a remedy.
543 - Feb 2008 - Letters: New look Mass, Jessie Roger
I was at the very first Novus Ordo Mass celebrated in St Patricks Church here almost 40 years ago.
544 - Feb 2008 - How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right, Chris Hilder
He notes how the great mass of teachers Eacute; have been indoctrinated by the reigning philosophy Eacute; and so inadequately educated that they would be hindered from understanding the principles or taking part in the execution of the reform being proposed.
545 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
Rahho celebrated Mass.
546 - Feb 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Now we take hold of the General Instruction in English to renew our practices in celebrating Mass according to the mind of the Church using the texts which the Church provides without omission or innovation so as to lead our people to authentic Catholic faith which the liturgy expresses so well .
547 - Dec 2007 - Reflection: May we deepen our longing for the Lord's coming, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
It is appropriate to see how intimately connected this season is with every celebration of the Mass.
548 - Dec 2007 - Events: Latin Masses for Christmas in Caulfield and Kew
Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool (Extraordinary Form 1962 Missal) will be celebrated by His Lordship Bishop Peter Elliott at St Aloysius Church 233 Balaclava Rd Caulfield North on Gaudete Sunday 16 December 2007 at 11.
549 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Pope's Masses, Paul Martin
I noted with interest your report that Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Tridentine Rite of the Mass (1962 Missal) in his private chapel (September AD2000).
550 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Latin Mass, Carol V. Phillips
I rejoice with many others that the Traditional Latin Mass (1962) Missal has at last been given its due recognition.
551 - Dec 2007 - Architecture: Did Vatican II recommend the removal of altar rails?, M. Cassey
The Mass is something that Christ not us does by offering Himself to the Father in the Holy Spirit.
552 - Dec 2007 - 1962 Missal: Australian bishops support Benedict XV's liberalising of the Latin Mass, AD2000 Report
Benedict XVIs motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 7 July 2007 liberalising celebrations of what the Pope called the extraordinary use of the Latin Rite has been well received by many Australian bishops with several celebrating Masses according to the 1962 Missal of John XXIII in their cathedrals (see following presentation).
553 - Dec 2007 - Catechetics: Religious education in Catholic schools: the role of parish priests, Michael Gilchrist
celebrating Mass and the sacraments) and governing (administering and directing the social life of the Church).
554 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey
Criticisms Those who have attended Catholic primary and/or secondary schools almost invariably offer the following criticisms: the RE teacher(s) obviously wasnt a practising Catholic; there was an anti-Church anti-Catholic aggro about the place among some teachers and some students; the religious education teacher(s) contradicted church teaching on the tough moral issues of the age; a good deal of time was spent on comparative religions with little on core Catholic matters such as the Mass and sacraments; there was a fascination with rhetorical soft-Left political questions such as care for the environment without the slightest sense that there is a hierarchy of importance in moral matters and concern for the state of the earth is more a political question than a Catholic moral issue; the only area that could be endorsed readily was the concern for the least the little and the lost in society viewed in material terms alone - a good thing as far as it goes.
555 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester Massachusetts issued a statement on 10 October responding to protests from lay Catholics about plans for a conference at the College of the Holy Cross in which Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts would make presentations.
556 - Dec 2007 - Liturgy: Australian archbishops report progress with new English Mass translations, Michael Gilchrist
Steady progress continues towards completed revisions to the English language Mass translations in line with Pope John Paul IIs guidelines in Liturgiam Authenticam which called for greater accuracy and sense of the sacred in the texts.
557 - Dec 2007 - Editorial: Liturgy: light at the end of the tunnel, Michael Gilchrist
For those favouring an eventual reform of the reform of the Latin Rite Mass following decades of misinformation in the spirit of Vatican II there has been much to be thankful for in recent years.
558 - Nov 2007 - Letters: Petition
At the end of midday Mass on 30 September at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church Randwick the parish priest gave a short summary of a petition authored by Dr Paul Collins which was titled An appeal to the Australian Bishops to ordain priests for our parishes.
559 - Nov 2007 - Letters: Modern saints and traditional liturgy, Seamus Mahady
Her personal copy of the Roman Missal was a treasure to Edith - she had meticulously studied every detail of it before she had even attended a Mass.
560 - Nov 2007 - Architecture: How a Sydney parish church was restored, John O'Brien
The existing front altar and ambo were upgraded and repositioned to allow for the celebration of Mass on both sides of the altar and the future introduction of altar rails.
561 - Nov 2007 - Latin is still the universal language of Liturgy, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
They celebrated the Mass with the Holy Father and found a unity that transcended their national boundaries as they voiced their prayer in Latin.
562 - Nov 2007 - Ora et labora: How monastic hospitality can strengthen one's faith, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
After Mass everyone embraced and I felt keenly the contrast of this communal love with the harsh professional world I inhabit normally.
563 - Nov 2007 - Liturgical Abuse: Trinitarian language lost in Brisbane Scriptures, Michael Apthorp
It comprises pitifully mangled versions of the Scripture excerpts scheduled for reading at Mass this year.
564 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
Catholic World News Benedict XVIs Letter on Latin Mass: follow-up Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa the president of the Italian bishops conference has called Benedict XVIs recent letter on the expanded use of the Latin Mass an invitation to unity.
565 - Oct 2007 - Events: Cardinal Pell to celebrate Latin Mass - 3 November 2007
To implement Benedict XVIs Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum Cardinal George Pell Archbishop of Sydney will celebrate Pontifical Mass at the Throne at St Marys Cathedral Sydney on Saturday 3 November at 10am.
566 - Oct 2007 - Letters: St Therese Church Torquay demolition threat, Charles Haber
This beautiful 50-year-old church is a landmark on the main highway and no doubt many readers have attended Mass there during past holidays.
567 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Mass attendance, John Schmid
A lengthy report was recently submitted to the Australian bishops on why people no longer attend Mass.
568 - Oct 2007 - Sacred language: New US liturgy head endorses revised Missal translation
This change in method of translation as employed by the new ICEL translators will mean changes for us in the words we say (and hear) at Mass.
569 - Oct 2007 - Queensland: Liturgy in Brisbane and the rights of the laity, Michael Apthorp
During parts of 2004-5 my wife and I regularly attended Sunday (or vigil) Mass at a certain church in Brisbane where the liturgy was on the whole celebrated impressively well but where there were a few disturbing irregularities.
570 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Wider use of the 1962 Missal for Latin Mass Benedict XVIs move to allow for wider celebration of the Roman Missal of 1962 has received a positive reaction from the Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow who told the Italian daily Il Giornale in August The recovery and valuing of the ancient liturgical tradition is a fact that we greet positively.
571 - Oct 2007 - Catholic Life: Sydney's Pastoral Plan ready for implementation in 2008, Michael Gilchrist
Liturgy The need for authentic Liturgy is another area of priority with provision for ongoing formation on Church teaching in relation to the celebration of the Mass and Sacraments and regular workshops for clergy liturgical ministers teachers and catechists to inform them of recent liturgical documents.
572 - Sep 2007 - Letters: Extraordinary?, Mark Szymczak
The decree states that the Mass formula of 1962 is permissible and is indeed an extraordinary expression of the same Lex Orandi as espoused by the Roman Missal of Paul VI.
573 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
The introduction of the Legion of Mary into a parish always increases the Mass attendance and while the prospect of his Catholics behaving like Jehovah Witnesses and knocking on every door in the parish can fill the parish priest with alarm eighty years of experience have shown that it works.
574 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
In his homily at a St Patricks Day Mass in St Marys Cathedral in 2002 Cardinal Pell paid tribute to the contribution of Irish nuns and brothers to the establishment of Catholic schooling in Australia: It was the arrival of hundreds of Irish teaching nuns and brothers after the removal of government funding for Church schools in the 1870s that accelerated the steady development and improvement of the Catholic community.
575 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Benedict XVI uses older ritual for private Masses Benedict XVI who recently issued a motu proprio allowing all Catholic priests to celebrate the old Latin Mass uses the older ritual himself for his private Masses.
576 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
A first step towards enhancing the Catholic character of Catholic schools lies in enrolment policy which means there must be a critical mass of Catholic students in each school.
577 - Sep 2007 - Editorial: How to ensure AD2000's continuing impact, Michael Gilchrist
Now in its 20th year it seems almost miraculous that AD2000 has survived for so long at a time when few Catholics attend Mass regularly far fewer read religious materials and publications of all descriptions struggle to maintain their circulations.
578 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
Where charity and love areEacute; is based on the antiphons sung during the ceremony of the Washing of the Feet at the Mass of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday and as it is included in this particular Mass it is closely connected with the Eucharist.
579 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
This year there have been 20 workshops covering science literature maths faith fatherhood special needs and spiritual issues with Mass confession and four hours adoration made available.
580 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn
While pornography is not a new problem the development of the mass media and recent technological advances have made it much easier to access this deceptive evil.
581 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
The event opened with Mass at the Changi Memorial Chapel at the Royal Military College Duntroon.
582 - Aug 2007 - Events: LATIN MASS CELEBRATIONS - Melbourne and Sydney
Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Throne will be celebrated in the traditional Latin rite (1962 Missal) by His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne on Saturday 25 August at 10.
583 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
It is therefore permissible to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass following the typical edition of the Roman Missal promulgated by Bl.
584 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
See in the daily offering of Holy Mass your identity as priests and your greatest service to Gods holy people.
585 - Jul 2007 - Priesthood: Praying for priests: The Society of Christ Priest and Victim, Barry O'Brien
In return the members of the Association would be blessed spiritually with a Mass offered for their intentions each Thursday.
586 - Jul 2007 - Poetry: A legacy of virtue: the remarkable Craig sisters, Fr John Lea McDaniels FSSP
We are also left to realise in deepest gratitude that indeed they are more with us than ever as advocates for the intentions of each and every member of the Latin Mass Community in Australia.
587 - Jul 2007 - Events: Canberra 6-8 July - Australian Catholic Students' Association 2007 Conference, Patrick Giam
Our national capital Canberra is a fitting venue with plans for a Mass for fallen soldiers and visits to our national icons as well as the MacKillop Ball to be held at Parliament House.
588 - Jul 2007 - Education: New Wagga Wagga schools take their 'leap of faith', Bill Andrews
The acceptance of families to the colleges is dependent on the parents commitment to ensuring their children are supported by Catholic values; their readiness to attend Key Parent Function evenings during the year; and their promise to see that their children attend Sunday Mass each and every week without fail.
589 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
For someone like me who was interested in both the spiritual and intellectual grounding of the Christian faith I didnt need the folk Mass with cute nuns and hip priests playing Kumbaya with guitars tambourines and harmonicas.
590 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Regarding Priority 3 Parish Renewal the Plan notes As we await the new translations of the liturgical books for the Mass it is an opportune time to revisit our liturgical life.
591 - Jun 2007 - Reflection: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
At the beginning of Mass we are greeted with the hope that the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
592 - Jun 2007 - Letters: Parish amalgamations (letter), Eilenn A. Gomm SFO
People who used to be daily communicants suddenly have very few Masses they can attend unless they drive.
593 - Jun 2007 - Youth ministry active in the Melbourne archdiocese, Barry Coldrey
On Sunday 4 March 2007 Bishop Hilton Deakin offered the Commencement Mass with a large crowd of students in the chapel of the Religious Centre at Monash University to mark the opening of the tertiary year.
594 - Jun 2007 - Verbicide: 'Happy' or 'Blessed'? How faith can be drained of meaning, Arthur Ballingall
But most modern English translations used by the Catholic Church whether from the pulpit or elsewhere in the Mass present the Beatitudes prefixed by the word happy.
595 - Jun 2007 - New Zealand Catholic college's intellectually challenging RE program, Bernard Moran
The Mass Dan Stollenwerk says that at the heart of St Peters syllabus is the Mass.
596 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Elliotts homily at the Mass of Christian Burial for Dr John Billings in St Patricks Cathedral Wednesday 4 April 2007.
597 - Jun 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The parish priest is to determine in conjunction with the school authorities the frequency of school Masses and the provision for the Sacrament of Penance.
598 - Jun 2007 - New Missal translation: light at the end of the tunnel, Michael Gilchrist
He was asked: Can you tell us what stage were at in the new English translation of the Mass?
599 - Jun 2007 - Editorial: Sacred music: an integral part of worship, Michael Gilchrist
Sacred music should complement rather than distract from the flow of the liturgy yet all too often Masses are cluttered with hymns that have little to do with this flow but rather simply fill in spaces where silence might be more appropriate.
600 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
This is because the Eucharist is a priceless treasure a treasure we can grow to appreciate more by coming to Mass frequently.
601 - May 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
The Heresy of Formlessness Martin Mosbach Martin Mosbach is a German award-winning author and film script writer whose discovery of the preconciliar Latin Rite prompted a critique of the manner in which the Novus Ordo Mass is celebrated.
602 - May 2007 - Books: Liturgy, Life of the Church; The Modern Rite; Pope and Council on Sacred Liturgy, Michael Daniel
The primary concern of Beauduin and his contemporaries was not reform of the liturgy; rather it was for people to be attentive to the Mass itself by praying the prayers in a Missal rather than using the time to engage in private devotions that had at best a loose association with the text of the Mass.
603 - May 2007 - Books: The Heresy Of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy, by Martin Mosebach, Tim Cannon
His passion derives from a clearly evident and devout love of the Mass and particularly of its culmination in the sacrifice of the altar the sacrament of the Eucharist.
604 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
One sunny Sunday morning I routinely announced to a crowded church that nuns would be collecting money after Mass for the foreign missions a rather common pious practice among Catholics.
605 - May 2007 - Education: How to fix Australia's Catholic schools and colleges, Br Barry Coldrey
These are the Catholics who are prepared to conform on special occasions such as a Commencement or Graduation Mass but who are not practising Catholics in their private lives.
606 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
With so much ignorance misinformation and defective practice evident throughout the Church a solid authoritative teaching document on the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament - the crux of what it means to be Catholic - is more than timely.
607 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic atmosphere, Stuart Paterson
This should include an emphasis on Sunday Mass obligation with explanation and discussion of the Scripture readings.
608 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools
We need better Catholic homes more than we need better Catholic schools - homes where there is an atmosphere of fair discipline some mortification where the Rosary is recited where Grace before meals is said where there is spiritual discussion where the whole family attends Sunday Mass together each week and where mother and father have complementary rather than competing roles.
609 - Apr 2007 - National Church Life Survey clarification, Bob Dixon
Seventeen different versions of the NCLS questionnaire were completed by Mass attenders in Catholic parishes.
610 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Money talks, Richard Stokes
The same applies if the priest introduces unauthorised innovations (abuses) in the Mass such as illicit ministers of Holy Communion.
611 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Church leadership, P.W. English
This has contributed to the mass exodus of graduates of the Catholic education system - a situation all Australian bishops need to address.
612 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Liturgy: what next?, Franklin J. Wood
In November 2006 I attended a Saturday night Mass at St Marys Church South Brisbane - or at least I had assumed it was to be a Mass.
613 - Apr 2007 - Belief: Christian-Muslim dialogue: major stumbling blocks, Fr Richard Umbers
I began to wonder where they were attending Mass.
614 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
Despite this in most churches there was a strong devotion to the Divine Mercy and to Pope John Paul II with pictures and sculptures of both prominently displayed inside the churches where people knelt and spent time in prayer after Masses.
615 - Apr 2007 - Rockhampton Lenten program: 'whatever that might mean', AD2000 Report
Under Passion Sunday we are informed that Gods peace is within us Pentecost is now while the programs coverage of Holy Thursday contains no mention of the Eucharist the Mass or Holy Communion.
616 - Apr 2007 - Vocations: New survey of successful US dioceses: lessons for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Further information that might have fine-tuned the comparisons like Mass attendances rates was presumably difficult to obtain for all dioceses.
617 - Apr 2007 - History: How much do Catholics know about ecumenical councils?, Frank Mobbs
Perhaps the best known example is the definition of the first ecumenical council the Council of Nicea (325 AD) which we recite at Mass the definition of Jesus Christ as being one in being of the same substance with the Father that is as sharing in the nature of God.
618 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au
The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady.
619 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Ecumenism?, Peter Davidson
The post-Reformation churches owe their very existence to the total repudiation of the blasphemous fable of the Mass and the most fundamental Catholic belief that bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ at the moment of Consecration.
620 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Modesty of dress, Greg Byrne
I think that its about time modesty of dress was an issue especially modesty of dress at Mass and for Ministers of the Eucharist.
621 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Suitable wedding attire, Tom and Barbara Phillip
Further to Bishop Yantas reminder (December/January AD2000) on suitable attire for Mass wed like to suggest the introduction of a dress code for Catholic weddings which we believe used to exist at one time.
622 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
At the same time the mainstream laity were constantly filling their parish churches each Sunday and it was woe-betide anyone arriving late for Mass; indeed it was a case of standing room only.
623 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Changes in the liturgy such as Mass in the vernacular were readily accepted and indeed welcomed.
624 - Mar 2007 - Survey of Catholic teachers
The survey is titled Profile of Mass-attending teachers in Catholic schools: A Report to Directors of Catholic Education based on the 2001 National Church Life Survey.
625 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania
It found that regular attendance at Mass and confession by the students is becoming less frequent that personal prayer life is decreasing among students and that they are becoming increasingly negative towards the subject of religious education.
626 - Mar 2007 - Catholicism flourishes in South Korea, Richard Stokes
At my first Mass in South Korea in 2003 I had met Fr Joe Pius who spoke English (and Latin).
627 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
The 2007 Course Handbook lists 43 different subjects including Introduction to Christology Introduction to Theology Liturgy and Life Marian Spirituality Getting More from the Mass The Human Person and The Genius of Woman.
628 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady.
629 - Feb 2007 - Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church, Sr Mariana Handley
Olsen says that our lost in the cosmos society needs a revival of Pope Gregory VIIs statement that at the Consecration at Mass the heavens stand open and choirs of angels are present at the mystery.
630 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
He recalled that as an altar server aged eight at one of the local Bishops Masses he dropped the wine cruet on the marble floor of the sanctuary.
631 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Latin Mass, John Gariano
Just recently I attended a Latin (Tridentine) Mass for the first time in over 30 years.
632 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Obedience, Matthew Buckley
Furthermore literary style is an important consideration in translation as the language used at Mass should be sacral not banal and flatfooted.
633 - Feb 2007 - Poetry: Gender-Bender Autos, Bruce Dawe
Concern is being expressed over the use of inclusive language in Church services including the Mass If youve got a major problem With your present Trinity Gender-Benders is the firm You folks should go and see!
634 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Shared guilt, Errol Duke
This needs a concerted effort to promote the importance of Sunday Mass and the Eucharist as the key legacy left by Jesus for our salvation.
635 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle
In recent years several national bishops conferences (including Australias) have transferred Holy Days of Obligation - days in addition to Sundays on which Catholics are required to attend Mass - from the dates on which they have traditionally been celebrated to the nearest Sunday or have eliminated the requirement altogether.
636 - Feb 2007 - The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first, Wanda Skowronska
Cultural Catholics It is hardly ever visited by the social or cultural Catholics who attend baptisms funerals and weddings but who can run faster than Speedy Gonzalez whenever the A word is raised not to mention barbeque-destroying topics like post- abortion grief the frozen orphan- ages of surplus IVF embryos and the new weapon of mass destruction RU-486.
637 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
It was not the people in the pews who faithfully went to church for Mass and confessions who demanded that their parishes remove statues communion rails or whitewash their sanctuaries.
638 - Feb 2007 - East Timor: priests threatened with execution, Peter Westmore
Even during the Indonesian occupation the local language Tetum was the principal liturgical language not just for the Scripture readings but for the entire Mass.
639 - Feb 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
French poll shows support Latin Mass choice Although the French Catholic bishops have said that the faithful would oppose wider use of the Tridentine rite a poll of French Catholics last November found that nearly two-thirds would like to have the choice of attending a traditional Latin Mass.
640 - Feb 2007 - Education: Australia's Catholic school systems: the case for radical surgery, Michael Gilchrist
In recent years the weekly Mass attendance rate of school leavers has been estimated by professional surveys as at somewhere between three and six percent.
641 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady.
642 - Dec 2006 - Events: Advent and Christmas Ceremonies, Priestly Fraternity of St Peter
00am Solemn Midnight Mass with the blessing of the Crib.
643 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Community?, Peter Gilet
If we go throught the motions and keep grinning and shaking hands the Mass will provide us with what we want.
644 - Dec 2006 - Shrines: Marian Valley: Queensland's centre of pilgrimage, Peter Westmore
Through the extraordinary energy of the Pauline Fathers and the Shrines devoted band of volunteers it has been transformed from a single house into a magnificent religious complex consisting of the original homestead (now a residential block) Black Madonna Chapel a large roofed area for open air Masses and Benedictions a dozen Madonna Shrines life-size Stations of the Cross a retreat centre with Adoration Chapel education centre gift shop and associated buildings.
645 - Dec 2006 - 2006 National Church Life Survey: important questions overlooked, Michael Gilchrist
These showed regular Mass attendances (at least 2-3 times per month) to have fallen from 18 percent to 15 percent of the total Catholic population.
646 - Dec 2006 - Religious Life: Tyburn Sisters' communities spread around the world, Tess Livingstone
The first Mass was celebrated for the Sisters on the last Friday before the end of the Year of the Eucharist in October 2005.
647 - Dec 2006 - Modest dress: Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension, Bishop John W. Yanta
Yanta of Amarillo Texas reminded his diocese of the often neglected topic of appropriate attire when attending Mass.
648 - Dec 2006 - A 'best practice' guide to priestly vocations
The Director of Vocations needs to encourage special Masses for vocations throughout the diocese share ideas with colleagues from other dioceses and if possible speak in every parish about vocations to the priesthood during Sunday Mass.
649 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
While some may be looking at a book dusting a shelf polishing a wooden item or watering the plants in the surrounds others may be engaging in a liturgical activity such as setting up the model altar laying out the liturgical colours meditating on a moment/ gesture from the Mass or working with the vestments.
650 - Dec 2006 - 'Lost!' controversy: Archbishop Bathersby's reply, AD2000 Report
While the number of priestly vocations is only one indicator of spiritual health as is the rate of Mass attendance each is a sound litmus test given their centrality to the Catholic faith as a whole.
651 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He exhorted priests to approach the Mass with reverence and an appreciation for their own role in the Eucharistic mystery.
652 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
The situation of the faith in Switzerland is typical of most other Western European nations where weekly Mass attendances are into single digits and the monitoring of theological dissent and liturgical abuses by bishops is lax.
653 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Among the casualties of this unholy crusade is the Holy Mass.
654 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady.
655 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Accuracy needed, Carol V. Phillips
I most heartily agree with Philip Holberton who questions the new draft English translation of the Order of the Mass in relation to lsquo;propter nos hominesrsquo;.
656 - Nov 2006 - Liturgy: US bishop sets out clear guidelines on celebrations of the Mass, AD2000 REPORT
Bishop Edward Slattery who was installed as the third bishop of Tulsa in eastern Oklahoma in 1994 issued a letter to his diocese earlier this year concerning faithful adherence to liturgical norms including the need for suitable sacred music and a deepened appreciation of the sacrificial aspect of the Mass.
657 - Nov 2006 - Brisbane Archdiocese: inclusive language in the liturgy continues, Michael Apthorp
In the August 2005 AD2000 I pointed out that unauthorised translations of the psalms were being used at Mass in Brisbanes St Stephens Cathedral.
658 - Nov 2006 - England: British Catholicism's dark night of the soul
Over a three-decade period Mass attendance has declined by 40% according to a summary of the report published in The Times on 4 July.
659 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
rsquo; Vatican Information Service The duties of Catholics in public life Political and community leaders are called to change the world with justice and charity and with a greater love for God than for their careers said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver at the Red Mass in Harrisburg Pennsylvannia on 3 October.
660 - Nov 2006 - Editorial: EWTN and the secular media: fighting fire with fire
A major factor in the secularising of most of Australias Catholics has been the mass media.
661 - Oct 2006 - Book Launch: Lost! Australian Catholics Today, by Michael Gilchrist
as the author argues that much of the Church in Australia is already lost in the sense that at least 85 percent of Catholics are unchurched according to the 2001 National Church Life Survey and Mass count figures.
662 - Oct 2006 - Books: Towards A People's Liturgy: The Importance of Language, by Mark Twinham Elvins, Michael E. Daniel
Available from AD Books) According to the author of Towards a Peoples Liturgy Since the introduction of the vernacular Mass .
663 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Missal translation, Philip Holberton
It seems the new English translation of the Order of Mass is not to be revealed to the laity until the Vatican has approved it.
664 - Oct 2006 - Modernism's 'second wave' continues to impact on the Church, Fr Martin Durham
g Redemptionis Sacramentum on abuses in the Mass does not apply; female priests will one day be permitted; cafeteria Catholicism - picking and choosing ones beliefs is acceptable; following ones conscience becomes equivalent to doing what one wants to do because the Holy Spirit okays it; one religion is as good as another.
665 - Oct 2006 - Educating young Catholics: a bold initiative in Wagga Wagga, Michael Gilchrist
In addition it is planned to take students by bus to the Wagga Wagga Cathedral each Friday for Eucharistic Adoration confession and Mass.
666 - Oct 2006 - Generation Y: New survey confirms low belief and practice levels of young Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
The results of the 2001 National Church Life Survey and Mass count showed that just over five percent of Catholics in their 20s attended Mass regularly (two or three times a month).
667 - Sep 2006 - Reflection: Cardinal Arinze on the need for Eucharistic reverence, Cardinal Francis Arinze
At Mass the ordained priest acts in the name of Christ.
668 - Sep 2006 - Books: William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk, by Judith Champ, Michael Gilchrist
While the ship was docked in Memel the mate Mr Craythorne said William let us go to Mass.
669 - Sep 2006 - Clergy: ACCC Annual Conference focuses on theology of Benedict XVI, AD2000 Report
The use of a church (rather than a chapel) for liturgies meant that local Catholics could also participate particularly at the daily concelebrated Masses at St Patricks Albury and on Friday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Thurgoona.
670 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
Each day at the conference began with Mass while the talks covered such topics as The Strength of Asian Families and their Christian Values Social/Economic Developments and Changes and their Impact on the Christian Family Family Spirituality and Rights of the Family and Meeting Major Societal Changes.
671 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
I grew up in a family that attended Mass more times in a week than it watched television I served Mass as a boy and was sent to local Catholic schools.
672 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency British Catholicism facing pastoral catastrophe A 260-page report on the state of the Catholic Church in Britain has found that Mass attendance has slumped by 40 per cent and Catholic marriages by 60 per cent over the last 30 years.
673 - Sep 2006 - USA: Liberal Christianity goes into meltdown, Charlotte Allen
A causal connection between a critical mass of female clergy and a mass exodus from the churches especially among men would be difficult to establish but is it entirely a coincidence?
674 - Aug 2006 - Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: A Life of Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan, Michael E. Daniel
The title of the work comes from the practice of laying linen on hedges to dry a signal that a priest was about to celebrate a secret Mass.
675 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Funeral eulogies, Greg O'Regan
Yet their insertion into Catholic funeral ceremonies seems to have at least tacit permission in spite of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM editions 1975 Section 338 2003 section 382) which states: At the funeral Mass there should as a rule be a short homily but never a eulogy of any kind.
676 - Aug 2006 - Letters: What Is The Eucharist?, Rosanna Sherman
The Mass we were made to understand was the unbloody re-enactment of Christs bloody sacrifice on the cross and this came from a too literal interpretation of what Jesus meant when he said This is my body.
677 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
Attending Mass at our Hobart Cathedral recently my family and I had the opportunity to listen to a seminarian from Victoria.
678 - Aug 2006 - DIY Mass: Redemptionis Sacramentum revisited, Fr Martin Durham
Cardinal Arinze the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments declared The do-it yourself Mass is ended.
679 - Aug 2006 - What makes a Catholic university 'Catholic', Father John Coughlin
From an academic perspective a Catholic university requires a critical mass of committed Catholic scholars who are dedicated to the search for truth.
680 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
Held in Easter week each year this is an opportunity for young men to spend three to four days apart with the Lord praying attending Mass and listening to talks given by Fr Denton and other priests about the life of a diocesan priest.
681 - Aug 2006 - Music: Benedict XVI seeks a greater sense of the sacred in church music
Constant exposure to such unsuitable church music can erode ones sense of the sacred and appreciation of what is taking place at Mass.
682 - Aug 2006 - Liturgy: The new Missal translation: Archbishop Hart's progress report, Michael Gilchrist
The penitential rite at the beginning of Mass will match more closely the Latin translation with I have sinned greatly through my fault through my fault through my most grievous fault in place of I have sinned through my fault.
683 - Aug 2006 - Editorial: Falling Mass attendances and liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
Many of todays Catholics differ often passionately about the merits of the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms as well as the reasons for the steep decline in Australian Mass attendances since the Council.
684 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
A deep appreciation for the sacrifice of the Mass and for the Sacrament of Reconciliation needs to be instilled in students.
685 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Pope Pius XII, Br Con Moloney CFC
Bishop Lucker of New Ulm writes of Pope Pius XII during World War II: Some say he didnt speak out forcefully enough or even that he was silent in the face of the Nazi regime in Germany especially in the mass slaughter of the Jews of Europe .
686 - Jul 2006 - US Archbishop: how to reform the Liturgy
Archbishop Raymond Burke of St Louis has been one of the most generous US bishops in regard to celebrations of the Latin Mass in his archdiocese.
687 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
A Latin Mass community which had been meeting in a city parish was upgraded to a parish in its own right while Bishop Finn appointed himself as its parish priest.
688 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News The Church and militant homosexuality In the US gay-rights activists from the Rainbow Sash movement announced plans to provoke a showdown with Catholic bishops in major cities on Pentecost Sunday by attending Mass and presenting themselves for Communion while wearing their distinctive sashes.
689 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Disturbing exhibit, Veronica Sidhu
Indeed by divine worship it would seem the Church is referring to the sacrifice of the Mass and adoration.
690 - Jun 2006 - Liturgy: Catholics at prayer: why we stand and kneel, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The practice of kneeling at prayers and especially at Mass was so common in the early Church that it came to be permitted only on weekdays.
691 - Jun 2006 - The Da Vinci Code: did the Church vilify Mary Magdalene?, Frank Mobbs
Always they included women such as those named to this day in the Mass - Felicity Perpetua Agatha Lucy Agnes Cecilia Anastasia.
692 - Jun 2006 - Vocations: Sydney seminary's growth continues, Michael Gilchrist
This program includes two seminarians visiting a parish each weekend and giving testimony at the end of each Mass.
693 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
In the book Father Lang argues in favour of celebrating Mass ad orientem - that is with the priest and the congregation facing in the same direction.
694 - Jun 2006 - Editorial: Pentecost: Church needs a spiritual kick-start, Michael Gilchrist
With another Mass count underway to coincide with the five-yearly national Census it will be of significance whether the level of practice has continued its downward path since the late 1960s or whether there has been any levelling out or upturn.
695 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
This union with Jesus Christ more than a bond - more like the absorption of the drop of water into the wine at the Offertory of the Mass - establishes the priesthood.
696 - May 2006 - Letters: Warning!
These men will be using formidable weapons like the Mass following the Catholic Church and supporting priests!
697 - May 2006 - Letters: Phillip Adams, Frank Bellet
I have been a Catholic all my life and when possible go to Mass every day.
698 - May 2006 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Rosanna Sherman
Much has been written over the years with regard to liturgical abuses and we are all experts in what should or should not take place on the altar during Mass.
699 - May 2006 - Letters: Actions and attitudes, S. Chaston
The Mass may be divided into the following two aspects: (i) the text and (ii) the actions and attitudes expressed by priest and people.
700 - May 2006 - Letters: Lay led liturgies in Rockhampton diocese, Jessie Roger
Mass as we knew it was going to be replaced by a paraliturgy conducted by lay people.
701 - May 2006 - Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes, Bob Osmak
After Sunday Mass on 26 February 2006 at a church in suburban Brisbane all parishioners were invited to participate in the parish assembly.
702 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
Seldom are people quiet during Mass.
703 - May 2006 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2006 scheduled for Melbourne and Sydney in May, AD2000 Report
In both cities the festival will culminate with the Festival Mass on Sunday 21 May.
704 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The Vatican source said the exhortation would include an invitation to greater use of Latin in the daily prayer of the Church and in the Mass - with the exception of the Liturgy of the Word - as well as in large public and international Masses.
705 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
The destruction of the old Latin Mass is an emblem for many of the devastation of the years following the Second Vatican Council.
706 - Apr 2006 - Events: Holy Week 2006: Classical Roman Rite in Melbourne
00am Solemn Mass with blessing of palms and procession.
707 - Apr 2006 - Books: Swear To God: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments, by Scott Hahn, Jacinta Cummins
Continuity The author shows the continuity of the covenant from the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper with Jesus telling His disciples unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood you have no life in you (Jn 6:53) right through to the Church today where the Real Presence in the Eucharist at Mass is the primary spiritual sustenance.
708 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Church of England, Jim Turley
Like His Holiness I believe that we must call all men to a deep love of our Lord Jesus Christ enjoin ourselves and encourage others to a deeper spirituality particularly through the mystery of the Mass and teach the orthodox Catholic faith.
709 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Action needed, Kevin McBride
Meanwhile they have to deal daily with the direct consequences of this: the decline or disappearance of priestly and religious vocations the ever-dwindling Sunday Mass attendances and the increasing apathy among those Catholics who want to energise their religious worship but find no inspiration or spirited encouragement from their Church leaders.
710 - Apr 2006 - Music and Culture: Benedict XVI, Mozart and the quest for beauty, Mark Freer
He is organist and choirmaster for the Latin Mass at Holy Name Church in Adelaide and has performed and broadcast in Australia Switzerland Germany and Italy.
711 - Apr 2006 - Has just punishment had its day?, Fr Matthew Kirby
Do mass murderers deserve to be punished?
712 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
It is not uncommon to find the virginity of Mary use of the sacrament of reconciliation and attendance at Sunday Mass rejected while cohabitation sex before marriage divorce abortion and so on are regarded as acceptable.
713 - Apr 2006 - Salesian Missions: Cardinal Pell visits East Timor, Michael Lynch SDB
Cardinal Pell celebrated Mass in the Tetum language on three occasions and after the Sunday Mass to a packed church in Fatumaca he was greeted by a bevy of teenagers seeking his autograph.
714 - Apr 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Polands Mass attendance figure still high A survey of 17 European Union countries shows that 56.
715 - Mar 2006 - Reflection: Bringing Christ's love to the bereaved: a ministry for Catholic parishes, Fr Dennis Byrnes
And in the Preface of the Mass for the dead it is said: Life is changed not ended when the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting place in Heaven.
716 - Mar 2006 - Books: Golden Priest, Wooden Chalice, by Fr Tim Norris, Michael Gilchrist
From the village Mass Rock he knew as a child in Ireland to his commentaries on the challenges we face in 21st century Australia Golden Priest Wooden Chalice is full of substance and interest.
717 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Elitism, Jeff Harvie
As long as we get our Latin Mass the rest apparently dont count.
718 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Guitars, John Daly
But much of guitar music may not be suitable at all for the Mass.
719 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Adore 2006 in Brisbane, Tim Wallace
The general format consisted of a Holy Hour and Benediction to start the day and another to prepare for Mass; mood-setting sessions with music and dancing; a talk by Fr Bing (Oblate Apostles of the Two Hearts) who has been seen on EWTN and another talk from one of the three bishops present - Bishop Oudeman (Brisbane) Bishop Jarrett (Lismore) and Bishop Porteous (Sydney).
720 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Eucharist, Jim Howe
Rather many of us feel a pressing need to be saved practically every day and frequent attendance at Mass drives us to be reconciled with him frequently.
721 - Mar 2006 - The distribution of Holy Communion past and present: an historical survey, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
In times of necessity on account of the shortage or non-availability of priests such ministers men and women (including members of religious orders) may assist in distributing Holy Communion to the congregation during weekly and Sunday Masses and to sick or infirm people in hospitals or homes who are unable to receive Communion in churches.
722 - Mar 2006 - Liturgy: Eucharistic faith: why the Mass needs re-enchanting, Alvin F. Kimel Jr
I am sure this would be a good thing but I wonder if the decline in Eucharistic faith is not tied into the massive disenchantment of the liturgy that has occurred since Vatican II.
723 - Mar 2006 - Mass: How can differences over the Liturgy be resolved?, Fr John O'Neill
One sure way to lose friends is to have a definite position about the Liturgy especially the Mass.
724 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
I refer of course to the precipitous fall in Mass attendance over the last forty years the ignorance of Catholic teaching and traditions among our Catholic and State school leavers the lack of statistical difference between Catholics and the population at large in marriage breakdowns and remarriage in the use of contraception the frequency of abortion the lack of courage to publicly afffirm Catholic teaching among lay leaders in society the collapse of Religious Institutes and vocations to the priesthood to name a few.
725 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
For the past four days City Hall has been transformed into a giant Catholic cathedral complete with masses confessions statues and incense as hundreds of young people from around Australia gathered for Adore 2006 a congress of prayer and traditional devotion.
726 - Mar 2006 - Editorial: The challenge facing Pope Benedict, Peter Westmore
John Paul II attempted to overcome the influence of the secular culture by speaking directly to the faithful through an exhausting program of missionary journeys to every corner of the world by-passing the filter of the mass media.
727 - Feb 2006 - Reflection: The hidden treasure of the Holy Mass, St Leonard of Port Maurice
The Holy Mass is the sum of Christianity the soul of faith and the summary of all that is good and beautiful in the Church of God.
728 - Feb 2006 - Books: CATHOLIC FAMILY CATECHISM: Disciples' Edition and Apostles' Edition, Fr Tierney, Michael Gilchrist
Despite their slim dimensions the catechisms cover all the key areas for Catholics needing to be informed about the Faith - Ten Commandments Sacraments the Mass prayers doctrines etc.
729 - Feb 2006 - Books: For the Life of the World:St Maximilian and the Eucharist, by Fr Jerzy Domanski, Michael Gilchrist
Included are sections devoted to the priesthood the celebration of Mass Eucharistic adoration and the role of Mary.
730 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Homilies (letter), Robert Prinzen-Wood
Why go to Mass if you can simply earn your salvation by acts of social justice?
731 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Beautiful music (letter), Josephine Landsberg
My cousin who was then living in Spain suggested we go to midnight Mass as she said she might have a surprise for me.
732 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Wrong chord? (letter), John Daly
In them I found constant references to the value of the organ a prohibition on the use of frivolous instruments and frequent stress on the need for reverence dignity and solemnity in the music used during Mass.
733 - Feb 2006 - Letters: All Saints Day (letter), M & L Morrissey
The horses ran past the saints if the presence at Mass was any indication.
734 - Feb 2006 - Blessed Charles de Foucauld: seeking nothing but God's will, Dr Frank Mobbs
Besides he needed Mass in the life of solitude he planned.
735 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
(After early morning Mass I have walked past yoga classes in full swing in the hall next to the church.
736 - Feb 2006 - Liturgical Music: The spiritual impact of Msgr. Richard Schuler's priestly leadership and example, Fr John T. Zuhlsdorf
And when the Novus Ordo Mass was implemented in 1969 and 1970 the transition was peaceful in accord with the Roman tradition and precisely what the Council had asked for.
737 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Mass attendance This is a diocese in which I thank God the parochial schools including our secondary colleges still remain in a commonality of life with the parish which they serve.
738 - Feb 2006 - Catechesis: Latest research on Catholic school leavers, Michael Gilchrist
8 percent reported that they attended Mass every Sunday; 82 percent stated that they rarely or never went to the Sacrament of Reconciliation; 9 percent saw the use of contraception as sinful; 12 percent saw themselves as practising Catholics.
739 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service US Bishops divided over new Mass translation At their meeting in Washington in November 2005 the US bishops conference discussed the draft of the proposed new translation of the Missal with sharply divergent views on the merits of the translation expressed by individual bishops.
740 - Feb 2006 - Cardinal Arinze on the Liturgy: the Mass is not entertainment, Cardinal Francis Arinze
But much of guitar music may not be suitable at all for the Mass.
741 - Dec 2005 - Books: In Memory of Me / Come to Me, My Children, by Christine McCarthy, Michael Gilchrist
There are also simple explanations of the Mass confession and Our Lady.
742 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Vatican II myths, Peter D. Howard
For the English Mass the priest faced the tabernacle for the Liturgy of the Eucharist and communicants received Our Blessed Lord while kneeling at the altar rails.
743 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder
Finally a beautiful and powerful extension of this Sacrament of Sacrifice is in Eucharistic adoration outside of the Mass.
744 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
People frequently missed Sunday Mass and work dominated the lives of most.
745 - Dec 2005 - Episcopacy: Archbishop Chaput of Denver: America's plain-speaking Pope's man, Peter J. Boyer
Were at a time for the Church in our country when some Catholics - too many - are discovering that theyve gradually become non-Catholics who happen to go to Mass.
746 - Dec 2005 - PRAYER: Melbourne initiative: a spiritual approach can defeat drug addiction, Anh Nguyen
All in the house are required to attend Lauds (morning prayer) at 7am and Vespers (evening prayer) at 6:30pm each day and encouraged to attend daily Mass.
747 - Dec 2005 - Synod on the Eucharist sets agenda for Benedict's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
Some clues as to the Holy Fathers likely approach in his exhortation could be inferred from the concluding Mass which he celebrated in St Peters Square.
748 - Dec 2005 - Editorial: Christmas: time for Christians to stand up!, Michael Gilchrist
Over recent years there has been a surprising and unexpected - but entirely gratifying - increase in the number of people attending church services at Christmas including Midnight Mass.
749 - Nov 2005 - Letters: SSPX response, Timothy Hungerford
It is not just the Mass but the whole Catholic culture in which I enjoy seeing my children challenged and educated.
750 - Nov 2005 - Letters: New Zealand visitor to Brisbane, Leo Leitch
At the Mass I attended at a local parish I was first struck by the open-plan style of the building.
751 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
Through the Mass the sacraments regular prayer and Eucharistic adoration Christ the light of the world develops in us a personal relationship with Him and opens the eyes of our soul.
752 - Nov 2005 - Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified, Peter Westmore
Many bishops cardinals and lay leaders spoke bluntly about the major problems facing the Church today: the decline in the number of priests declining Mass attendance infrequent use of confession and inadequate catechesis.
753 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Broader use of the Latin Mass likely Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez the former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship is a member of the Ecclesia Dei commission set up by Pope John Paul II to serve the needs of Catholics who favour the Latin Mass.
754 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Shortly before he entered the conclave in which he was elected pope Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger preached the homily at the pre-conclave Mass and warned against the rise of a dictatorship of relativism.
755 - Nov 2005 - Editorial: A remarkable Catholic parish
On my earlier visit I attended the 10 oclock High Mass (Novus Ordo) celebrated in Latin with ample use of the Churchs treasury of sacred music including Gregorian Chant and a Mass setting by Schubert.
756 - Oct 2005 - Reflection: What the early Church tells us about the celebration of Mass, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
During the current year of the Eucharist it is most pertinent for us Catholics to foster a deeper appreciation of the sacred nobility of the Holy Mass lovingly tendered by our Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Supper the night before he offered his life as a victim on the cross for our redemption.
757 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Sacrifice of the Mass, A. Bono
On 25 June at the invitation of the Festival of Faith I attended a Latin Mass at St Marys Cathedral Sydney.
758 - Oct 2005 - Letters: A treasured priest: Fr William Ross, Tom King
On a recent Sunday Father celebrated the second Latin Mass he has presided over during the absence of the regular priest Fr Jordan.
759 - Oct 2005 - Dies Domini: Armidale Diocese promotes Sunday observance, Bishop Luc Matthys
While participating in Mass and receiving Holy Communion is the high point of every Sunday keeping the Lords Day holy entails more than this e.
760 - Oct 2005 - Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day, Sannon Donahoo
We often hear people complaining about the lack of young people in the Church - specifically at Mass - but place yourself in the shoes of those who do practise the faith.
761 - Oct 2005 - Juventutem: Young Latin Mass Catholics attend World Youth Day, Fr Glen Tattersall
On Saturday 16 July at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart celebrated Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Throne in accordance with the Roman liturgical books of 1962.
762 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In a July interview Bishop Fellay said that he wanted to meet with Pope Benedict and ask him to give permission for all Catholic priests throughout the world to use the Tridentine rite in celebrating Mass.
763 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
The steep decline in Mass attendances the low level of observance of the Churchs moral teachings the relative few entering the priesthood and religious life all connect with the parlous state of the family - including the decline in numbers of children.
764 - Sep 2005 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: how to make the new evangelisation more effective, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
During his homily at his Mass of Installation Benedict XVI said: We are not some casual meaningless product of evolution.
765 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE PATH OF LIFE: Benedictine Spirituality for Monks and Lay People, Gabrielle Walsh
This underpins the prayer life of the monks which is expressed in daily Mass Liturgy of the Hours and private prayer The virtue of humility comes into sharp focus when looking closely at the Benedictine way of life.
766 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass, Richard Congram
Tom Kings letter (August AD2000) recounted how the Archbishop of Brisbane in May 2005 prohibited celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass on any day except Sunday.
767 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Society of St Pius X, Fr Kevin Robinson
It uses exclusively the Traditional Latin Mass and other liturgical books as well as the unchanged doctrine of the Church.
768 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Liturgy, John Daly
In the area of poor quality church music for instance how do you convince your average church guitarist looking for a gig that people dont go to Mass just to provide him with a captive audience?
769 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
They believe that such good example does not only include such matters as the avoidance of drug-taking but extends to a cheerful willingness to pray assist at Mass and to strong love for and loyalty to the Church and its teachings.
770 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi
I am trying to concentrate on this theme attempting to both educate and inspire the faithful to a greater knowledge of the doctrine of the Eucharist and a practical love that engenders reverence at Mass and the practice of the Holy Hour or a holy minute as I tell people.
771 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
I have read recent letters to AD2000 on the subject of reverence at Mass with mixed feelings.
772 - Sep 2005 - Priesthood: America's 'vocation rich' dioceses: latest success stories analysed, AD2000 Report
The website maintained by the Savannah vocation office seeks prospective seminarians who believe in the truths taught by the Catholic Church attend daily Mass or make visits to the Blessed Sacrament and frequently make use of the Sacrament of Confession.
773 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT
This was announced by Pope Benedict XVI at the final Mass of World Youth Day in Cologne on 21 August.
774 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
People have been complaining for years about the loss of reverence at Mass and in churches as places of prayer - much to do with the unnecessary hiding of tabernacles and hiding of devotion in the conduct of the Sacred Liturgy.
775 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
00 What Happens at Mass Jeremy Driscoll OSB Scott Hahn writes: Father Driscoll has done something remarkable here.
776 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Catholic Than the Pope, by Patrick Madrid and Pete Vere, Fr Glen Tattersal FSSP
Or are you simply confused about the legitimacy of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass?
777 - Aug 2005 - Letters: The Mass (letter)
Why go to Mass?
778 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Brisbane Archbishop bans weekday Latin Mass (letter), Tom King
In your June edition you published my very favourable observations concerning the Latin Mass fraternity at St Lukes Church Buranda Brisbane.
779 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Real Presence (letter), John Schmid
Only 46 per cent of 15-17-year-old mass attenders accepted this doctrine - 54 per cent did not.
780 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Sacrifice (letter), M.A. Ross
One of the main reasons why many people dont go to Mass is that they are lacking in any number of the first three senses and therefore see no need for the fourth.
781 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Lay-led liturgies (letters), M.T. Kennedy
Catholics are obliged to worship God at Mass if it is reasonably possible to attend.
782 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
The church is now packed for several Masses each Sunday.
783 - Aug 2005 - Benedict XVI's pontificate: the possibilities, Damian Thompson
It would undoubtedly be false to expect that a sort of historical shift could take place that the faith will again become a large- scale mass phenomenon that dominates history.
784 - Aug 2005 - Feminist translation: Inclusive language and the Trinity: the latest from Brisbane, Michael Apthorp
At Mass the community was welcoming and the music and sermons were good but there was one drawback: the novel and unauthorised version of the Scriptures to which the congregation was subjected.
785 - Aug 2005 - Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities, Stephen Lawrence
To make daily Mass available on campus has been a priority for Cardinal Pell.
786 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The final Sunday vigil Mass of World Youth Day planned for the boulevard of Sydneys Olympic Park and at which the Pope would preside would be expected to draw 250000 people - including more than 80000 overseas pilgrims.
787 - Aug 2005 - Editorial: Liturgy: opportunity for bishops to take control, Michael Gilchrsit
The document devotes much of its space to widespread problem areas: low Mass attendances in most Western countries; the near-disappearance of confessions; liturgical abuses; a lack of both reverence and a sense of the sacred; a blurred liturgical distinction between priests and lay people; a lack of emphasis on the Mass as a sacrifice; declining belief in the real presence; poor quality church music; poor homilies; and the placement of tabernacles in obscure parts of churches.
788 - Jul 2005 - Books: The Catholic Community in Australia, by Robert E. Dixon, Michael Gilchrist
While no detailed statistics are available on the numbers at confession the 2001 National Church Life Survey cited 54 per cent of Mass attenders as stating that they had not been to confession in the past 12 months.
789 - Jul 2005 - Events: St Patrick's Cathedral Latin Mass 16 July
Solemn Pontifical Mass in the classical Roman Rite will be celebrated by Archbishop Denis Hart at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne on Saturday 16 July at 10.
790 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Reverent silence, Rosemary Chandler
This does not honour the Saint but borders on superstition as are the cringe-inducing thanks to this or that saint published in the secular press the flocking to weeping statues and an eagerness for sensational events when we have each day in our churches the most miraculous happening imaginable in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
791 - Jul 2005 - Letters: More priests needed, Jenny Bruty
Where priests are unavailable to celebrate Mass each weekend lay-led services have been put in place.
792 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Silent apostasy, Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
Other aspects of the phenomenon are the decline in attendance at Sunday Mass and the breakdown in morals with Catholics in developed countries using contraceptives and divorcing at the same rate as non-Catholics.
793 - Jul 2005 - Science: God, physics and Stephen Hawking, Fr Matthew Kirby
You see however much mass and/or energy the universe had fitting them into something of zero volume is a mathematical nightmare.
794 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier
Early in 2003 when I attended Mass in that church one parishioner informed me that the community of parishioners had exerted considerable influence in the design of the new church.
795 - Jul 2005 - Man of the Year: How John Paul II converted a 'Time' journalist, NewsMax.com
In April 1987 Wynn and his wife Leila a Protestant joined the Church together and a few days later John Paul invited them to a Mass in his private chapel in the Vatican.
796 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
During the ordination Mass at the Sign of Peace I witnessed John Paul II give Patrick what could best be described as a huge bear hug.
797 - Jul 2005 - Evangelisation: Why many Catholics join fundamentalist sects, Frank Mobbs
The liturgy of the Mass was revised so as to make clear that the readings from the Bible are above all other readings because they are indeed the word of God.
798 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT
It was presented by the Bishop at an in-service meeting for Catholic teachers and catechists on 27 February 2005 and also at the Holy Thursday Mass of the Last Supper.
799 - Jul 2005 - Year of Eucharist: The Eucharist: heart of our faith, Cardinal George Pell
Water and oil are used at baptism and confirmation while bread and wine are used at Mass and turned into the Body and Blood of Christ.
800 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency How not to solve the priest shortage An article titled What happens if theres no Mass?
801 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
After the consecration at Mass the priest proclaims: Mysterium fidei for the Eucharist is the mystery of faith and also the priesthood is a mystery.
802 - Jun 2005 - Events: Catholic Doctors' Association Mass and Dinner
The second Annual Mass and dinner of the Catholic Doctors Association of Victoria is to be held on Tuesday 28 June 2005.
803 - Jun 2005 - Events: Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, Fraternity of St Peter
00am: Solemn Mass in the classical Roman Rite.
804 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Sanity?, Tom King
On a recent Sunday I was near Brisbane and took advantage of attending the Latin Mass celebrated at Saint Lukes Church Buranda.
805 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes College, Pascale Cotterill
At the school they are studying their Catholic faith through RE morning Mass (Novus Ordo in Latin) daily Rosary and superb spiritual direction under Fr Pilon (resident French- Canadian priest).
806 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Pre-Vatican II myths, Douglas V. Boyle
I also still have my old Sunday Missal with which I followed the pre- Vatican II Latin Mass in English like 90 per cent of the people in the crowded churches.
807 - Jun 2005 - Letters: A true shepherd, Lynn Wise
After a long absence from the Catholic Church I have thanks to the Holy Spirit and our Blessed Mother returned to Mass attendance and come to know my Jesus again this time as an adult.
808 - Jun 2005 - Papal awards for WA Catholic politicians, Hugh Ryan
Bill McNees first direct link with John Paul II came during the Popes visit to Perth in November 1986 when he his wife Lesley and their four children were chosen as the representative family to receive Communion from the Pope at the Mass at Belmont Park.
809 - Jun 2005 - Benedict XVI and liturgical reform, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
And he has stated categorically in God in the World and elsewhere that proscriptions against the traditional Mass should be lifted.
810 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
His grasp of world history and his track record of protecting the faith for the past 24 years had prepared him to lead the Church Cardinal George told a news conference at the Pontifical North American College following the new Popes first Mass.
811 - Jun 2005 - Editorial: Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ
In beautiful words the Holy Father explained how the Mass unites heaven and earth.
812 - May 2005 - Books: Sacred and Secular Scriptures / The Catholic Revival in English Literature, David Birch
She was a society informing the individual and not a mass of individuals forming a society (Ker p.
813 - May 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass Times in Hobart, Kevin Tighe
Catholic visitors to Tasmania might be interested to know that the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated at the beautiful St Canice Chapel Sandy Bay Hobart on the first Sunday of the month at 11.
814 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic hymns, Dolores Lightbody
Gathered together are selections of hymns sung in the Liturgy of the Mass hymns for the various seasons of the Church a wide variety of hymns for devotions and feast days (including Latin hymns with translations) and those to popular saints such as St Joseph St Anne St Anthony St Therese and the angels.
815 - May 2005 - Letters: Ecclesial unity, Meg Fennell
Your report (March AD2000) regarding the Society of St Pius Xs publicity initiative of sending a book to all priests in Australia and inviting those interested to contact the SSPX for assistance and support is timely in that: (1) The valid arguments raised by Father Tattersall as a matter of just concern may help the priests who read AD2000 to realise that Latin Mass priests who remain loyal to the Churchs magisterial authority had nothing to do with this burst of short- sighted enthusiasm.
816 - May 2005 - Letters: Society of St Pius X, Stephen McInerney
Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP has done the cause of the traditional liturgy and ecclesial unity a great disservice by his summary dismissal of the book Priest Where is Thy Mass?
817 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
Archbishop Fulton Sheen celebrated Mass and preached there regularly for decades as does Australias Cardinal George Pell when he visits London.
818 - May 2005 - Catholic beliefs and practices: the challenge ahead for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
In addition according to the 2001 National Church Life Survey about 87 per cent of people at Mass on a given weekend attend every week or almost every week so that 13.
819 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo
The former corrected common misunderstandings about transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass while the latter spoke about St Dominic Savio and Eucharistic devotion.
820 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
who attend Mass at least a few times a month whose moral views were influenced by John Paul jumped from 50 per cent in 2003 to 69 per cent in 2005.
821 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
It is a measure of the extraordinary impact of Pope John Paul II that over a million people filed past his open coffin in St Peters Basilica before the massive queue was closed off to allow his funeral Mass to take place.
822 - Apr 2005 - Books: Mass Without a Congregation: A Sign of Unity or Division?, Michael Gilchrist
MASS WITHOUT A CONGREGATION: A Sign of Unity or Division?
823 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Pregnancy Assistance, Brian A. Peachey
During the first year volunteers provided the furnishings for a chapel on the premises where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved and Mass is celebrated three times a week.
824 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Christ the Creator, Gerard J. Keane
Consider these points: The Novus Ordo Mass professes that We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ through whom all things were made.
825 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Talking in Church, Judith McRae
I have just returned to Sydney after ten days in Victoria and having attended Mass in a regional city parish not understand why the readings and Gospel were not as in my Missal.
826 - Apr 2005 - Adore 05: Sydney's successful Eucharistic Youth Congress, Nicole Osmak
There were excellent speakers each day including Cardinal George Pell who visited us on the first day and celebrated Mass in St Marys.
827 - Apr 2005 - Cardinal Ratzinger: Liturgy should be God-centred, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Running through the history of the Roman Rite (Mass and Breviary) from its beginnings up to the eve of the Second Vatican Council this book seeks to establish the principles of liturgical development and thus to draw from history - from its ups and downs - the standards on which every reform must be based.
828 - Apr 2005 - Events: Carnivale Christi returning to Sydney with an Easter theme, Liz Arblaster and Anthony McCarthy
Carnivale Christi culminates on Sunday with a Festival Mass celebrated by Cardinal Pell.
829 - Apr 2005 - Vocations: Why some new religious orders are attracting recruits, Fr John Hogan
Eucharistically centred the Mass and Adoration are at the heart of their day.
830 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
It is alleged there was a deplorable absence of active participation in the Mass with each individual saying his or her own prayers and paying little attention to what was happening on the altar.
831 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
net commented on the deep meaning of the liturgy and the Mass.
832 - Mar 2005 - Obituary: The passing of a holy, many-talented Jesuit - Fr Victor Ian Falconer SJ, Michael O'Callaghan
The eulogy at Fr Falconers Requiem Mass was delivered by Fr Tom Lake-Smith SJ who referred to a quote from the late Superior-General of the Jesuits Fr Pedro Arrupe: Nothing is more practical than finding God that is falling in love in a quite absolute final way.
833 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass (letter), Alan Freckelton
It was great to read Maryse Ushers letter in the December/ January AD2000 and her comments about the Latin Mass.
834 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Convert (letter), Jeff Harvie
The years have passed since my confirmation with weekly Mass attendance.
835 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Layman saint Bob Santamaria (letter), J.W. McMahon
For a couple of years during the course of attendance at Mass I have had recurring thoughts on the same theme.
836 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Orthodox young priest (letter), John David
I had the privilege of serving both Mass and Benediction for Fr Joseph.
837 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Mangled hymns (letter), Michael Apthorp
During recent travels I attended a Mass where the church notices included a strange new version of the hymn Seek O seek the Lord by that great Australian poet James McAuley.
838 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Reporting abuses is not spying (letter), Fr Edward P. Evans
It is their right to report abuses to their Archbishop and expect him to rebuke the guilty priests and to ask them to celebrate Mass at least correctly if not devoutly.
839 - Mar 2005 - A young Catholic's encounter with Latin at Chavagnes International College, Alexander Morrison
My brother and I come from a practising Catholic family but before going to Chavagnes we had not been exposed to anything other than the Mass in English in our local parish.
840 - Mar 2005 - Events: Holy Week Celebrations - Classical Roman Rite
00am: Blessing and distribution of palms procession and Mass including the singing of the Passion.
841 - Mar 2005 - Culture: Secularism, not religion, is threatened with extinction, David Quinn
Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Bush but so did a majority of Catholics and a clear majority of Mass-going Catholics.
842 - Mar 2005 - Church's future lies with orthodoxy, not dissent, Fr Paul Stuart
Catholics will simply have to travel about 5 to 15 minutes further in their cars to get to Masses Baptisms weddings funerals etc as will clergy celebrating these.
843 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
A priests job is to help people become whole selves and grow in maturity not to get them to attend Mass or go to confession.
844 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Jesus wishes us this year to know his nearness throughout the devout celebration of Mass according to the mind of the Church and through prayer and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.
845 - Feb 2005 - Reflection: Archbishop Hart: Pope John Paul II and the Year of the Eucharist, Archbishop Denis Hart
The Mass is the sacrifice offered on Golgotha as well as the meal the fellowship which God wishes to establish with us and which we ourselves must build with one another.
846 - Feb 2005 - Books: Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer, Michael Gilchrist
Lang a young priest-scholar of the London Oratory makes the focus of this compact accessible book the orientation of the priest as he celebrates Mass.
847 - Feb 2005 - Letters: The New Mass (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
The New Mass it was confidently predicted would lead to an increase in the number of the faithful assisting at Sunday Mass and the number of converts to the Faith.
848 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Changes in Liturgy (letter), Valentine Gallagher
Alluding to the composition of the New Mass Father Duggan states: It is enough to compare the text of this Missal (the Missal of 1570) with the Novus Ordo of 1969 to see that there has been a revolutionary change (November AD2000).
849 - Feb 2005 - Letters: School leavers (letter), Mrs M.A. Ross
We hardly even see it in the faces of children of daily Mass-goers unless they are in a home schooling class.
850 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Society of St Pius X (letter), Anthony Bono
John Youngs reference to the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) as unlawful (November AD2000) was unfortunate (and debatable) especially for those Catholics like myself who have difficulty finding Novus Ordo parishes where liturgical abuses do not occur regularly even at times putting the validity of Masses in doubt.
851 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Jim Brown
I have been attending Mass every Sunday now for nearly 70 years but in all of that time I have never heard a homily preached about the Creator.
852 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Fiji example (letter), Tom King
The reverence and prayerful demeanour during Mass Benediction and a Childrens Liturgy re-energised this outsider.
853 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
The period before Vatican II was not particularly notable for its emphasis on a reasoned faith which is probably why religious communities fell apart on a massive scale after the Council.
854 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
Decline in practice When AD2000 was launched in 1988 weekly Mass attendances were around 25-30 per cent nationally.
855 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
This says Fr Stuart is more than double the figure for 1993 despite decreasing Mass attendances clergy sex scandals the huge decreases in numbers in other Australian dioceses and with the services of only a part-time Director of Vocations.
856 - Feb 2005 - Editorial: Year of the Eucharist: a time to get serious, Michael Gilchrist
The past 30 or more years have unfortunately witnessed a lessening of faith in the Real Presence a decline in reverence at Mass and a reduced appreciation of the essential role of the priesthood.
857 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
This is the edited text of Pope John Paul IIs Christmas Midnight Mass homily of 24 December 1999.
858 - Dec 2004 - Poetry: The Salami Treatment, Bruce Dawe
on hearing How Great Thou Art cut in half at Mass in the increasingly common dismissal of hymns as a central act of worship O Lord my God we find ourselves now under -whelmed to learn how low down on the chart We now place hymns that tore our souls asunder -How long O Lord before they all depart?
859 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Abortion (letter), Maryse Usher
And another thing: as a new parishioner in an indult Latin Mass congregation not only have I found peace beauty heavenly Gregorian Chant and blessed periods of silence after Communion but Latin Mass- goers all seem to be unashamedly and naturally pro-life.
860 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Mass translation (letter), Leo McManus
I do not accept Philip Holbertons criticism of the new draft translation of the Mass (September AD2000).
861 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Robert Denahy
It contains plenty of dos and donts: do pray daily do be faithful to the Mass and regular confession do obey Church moral teaching; dont disobey the ten commandments.
862 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Liturgical development (letter), Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Duggan SM goes too far in claiming that there was no substantial change in the Roman Rite of the Mass between Pope St Gregory the Great (who died in 603) and the Missal of Pope St Pius V (1570).
863 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Orthodoxy succeeds (letter), Fr Adrian Head
It has affiliates in different parts of the world in their own languages In response to some criticisms that Radio Maria is too pietistic Fr Fanzaga points out that listeners have nominated the 30 percent of transmissions dedicated to the Rosary Mass spiritual talks catechesis Bible studies courses in theology the Angelus by the Pope etc as being their most popular programs.
864 - Dec 2004 - Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary, Martin Tobin
Sheen Society will be celebrating this event in a number of ways including a Mass on 10 December at Trinity College Chapel East Perth followed by a video presentation.
865 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
He casually remarked as I shared morning tea with him that in the late 1970s when he was pastor the Sunday Mass attendance was some 2500.
866 - Dec 2004 - Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum on the liturgical rights of the faithful, CDF
It is the right of Christs faithful that the Liturgy especially the celebration of Holy Mass should truly be as the Church wishes according to what is prescribed in the liturgical books and by the other laws and norms (12).
867 - Dec 2004 - English language: Will Rome ensure the completion of an improved Mass translation?, William Oddie
In most places of worship a new kind of liturgical English - bare sparse apparently wilfully lacking in elegance or sonority - gradually replaced both Cranmers English and the Latin of what became known as the old Mass.
868 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
In other words we must be able to demonstrate that through savings and efficiency at least some of the following effects are occurring: Mass attendance and prayer are increasing marriages and families are growing in numbers and in stability more adults are converting to the faith more children and students are accepting the truths of the faith the poor and suffering are being helped effectively.
869 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The fact that nearly two-thirds of regular Mass-going Catholics voted against the Democrats in Florida and Ohio this election is just lethal he continued.
870 - Dec 2004 - US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged, Michael Gilchrist
Likewise a higher proportion of the 60 million strong US Catholic population (about 25 per cent) attends weekly Mass than is the case in Australia with its 15 per cent average.
871 - Dec 2004 - Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry?, Michael Gilchrist
With less than five per cent of Catholic school-leavers at weekly Mass the Churchs crisis is of far greater magnitude than the States.
872 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Unchanging Mass? (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Monsignor Peter Elliott in his review of two recent books on the Roman Rite of Mass (October AD2000) has expressed his personal preference for the Novus Ordo Missae promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969.
873 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Extraordinary ministers of Communion (letter), Leon Voesenek
Elizabeth Harrington education officer with the Brisbane Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission wrote in her column Liturgy Lines (The Catholic Leader 22 August 2004): I attended Mass where no extraordinary ministers were used .
874 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Young Catholics (letter), Nola Viney
Primarily they were told they did not have to go to Mass weekly by their liberalised teachers who had responded with touchy-feely instincts of their own rather than take time to examine what the Church was asking why and how.
875 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Real Latin (letter), Matt Bruekers
My mind went back to 1952 when I arrived in West Australia as a European migrant and went to Mass at the Cathedral Church of Perth.
876 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Reporting abuses (letter), E. Makaus
I would like to know what is wrong with reporting liturgical abuses to the authorities - especially those related to the Eucharist and Mass - when the complaints are made in truth and charity.
877 - Nov 2004 - Letters: The Passion of the Christ (letter), Arnold Jago
I believe Jesus is present on the altar at Mass.
878 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
Michael Davies who died on 25 September 2004 was a household word in traditional Latin Mass circles and well beyond.
879 - Nov 2004 - Morning Mass: Finding some 'head space': an alternative approach, David Birch
Alternative Consider an alternative way proposed by Hilaire Belloc back in 1902 in his The Path to Rome: For half-an-hour just at the opening of the day you are silent and recollected and have to put off cares interests and passions in the repetition of a familiar action - time spent at Mass is like a short repose in a deep and well-built library into which no sounds come and where you feel yourself secure against the outer world.
880 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
they dont attend Sunday Mass; they are not prayerful and are preoccupied with worldly concerns.
881 - Nov 2004 - Liturgy: Ad-libbing in the Mass: Does it really matter?, John Young
Some people see nothing wrong with a priest departing from the rubrics and exercising creativity in saying Mass.
882 - Nov 2004 - British Catholic writers call for a better Mass translation, AD2000 Report
The Mass is a mess says a British Catholic writers group.
883 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
He encouraged them to work closely with their priests to make sure that every priest celebrates Mass with reverence and in obedience to liturgical norms.
884 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
As in Australia the sharp fallaway in Sunday Mass attendance (a solemn obligation) in recent decades was a cause of major concern since as John Paul II put it this dimmed the light of witness to Christs presence in your country.
885 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Organic Development of the Liturgy, by Alcuin Reid OSB, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In his scholarly but accessible study of how the Roman liturgy developed up to Vatican II Dom Alcuin Reid describes a process of gradual change that soon explodes the myth of an unchanging Mass of all times.
886 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Ceremonies Of The Roman Rite Described, Fortescue,O'Connell, Alcuin Reid, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
Setting the traditional rite of the Mass in the context of the Church today THE CEREMONIES OF THE ROMAN RITE DESCRIBED by Adrian Fortescue J.
887 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Catholic Doctors' Association of Victoria (letter), Dr Dominica Ho
The Catholic Doctors Association of Victoria will be holding its opening Mass and dinner on Saturday 9 October 2004.
888 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Year of the Eucharist (letter), Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
00am Mass of Exposition and Procession; 4.
889 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Come As You Are? (letter), Brigid P. McKenna
Meanwhile suffering parents bravely smiling outwardly while inwardly still praying for strength gratefully thank God if they can say at least they are still going to Mass.
890 - Oct 2004 - The Pope's Encyclical on the Eucharist, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Right now we of the Catholic Church are being required by our Pope to make an examination of conscience with regard to our attitudes to and conduct of the Sacred Liturgy - and in particular the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
891 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
You must learn to pray to her Our Lady regularly each day even if for some reason you do not always get to Sunday Mass.
892 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell
One zone of contention or at least interest was the varying degrees of attachment to the Latin Mass or the more conservative liturgical options within the Novus Ordo.
893 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
The latest Mass attendance figure for recent school leavers according to the Catholic Church Life Survey is under five percent.
894 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
He must live the way preach the truth and provide the means of the life - the Mass and the Sacraments in celebrating which he has to forget himself and let the presence of the active Christ take him over.
895 - Sep 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
Nash From the Garden of Eden to Christs Ascension Thomas Nash illustrates how the biblical roots of the Mass go much deeper than the Last Supper and Christs Passion.
896 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Maronite Church, L.L. Booth
Last Sunday at the invitation of a friend I attended Mass at St Charbels Maronite Church at Punchbowl Sydney.
897 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Permissiveness, Ena Makaus
So if the fad of the day is to display a maximum amount of skin then young women presumably may attend Holy Mass and go to Holy Communion bikini-clad and young men in short shorts and singlet.
898 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Liturgy abuses, Peter Lynch
Reading Michael Gilchrists account typifies why many Catholics do not attend Mass or follow the Churchs laws.
899 - Sep 2004 - Letters: NRSV Bible, Mrs M.A. Ross
It was with astonishment and consternation that I read that the new translation of the Mass is to use the NRSV translation of the Bible even if the excessive and inappropriate use of the inclusive language is to be moderated (July AD2000).
900 - Sep 2004 - Adult education: Latin language course in Melbourne
The Latin course will run on three evenings per week (Tuesday Wednesday Thursday) at St Aloysius Primary School Balaclava Road Caulfield from 3 November to 23 December culminating in a Solemn Sung Midnight Mass in Latin on 24 December.
901 - Sep 2004 - Why not a little Latin in the liturgy?, Angus Sibley
In the days when Mass was said in words inaudible to all Mass-goers and unintelligible to many or most Catholic churches were crowded.
902 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
Our plan is to offer the majority of these courses again in 2005 together with planned new units including Getting more from the Mass Saints and Seasons What is the Church?
903 - Sep 2004 - Mass Attendance: Where have all the worshippers gone?, Fr Martin Durham
In the June 2004 issue of The Review Bishop Brian Heenan of Rockhampton Queensland called for answers to the question of falling attendances at Sunday Masses under the heading of Where have all the people gone?
904 - Sep 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Lifesite News Bishop Heenan not aware of liturgy abuses in Rockhampton At a Diocese of Rockhampton Council of Priests meeting in June Bishop Brian Heenan said there was very little in the Vatican Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum on matters to be avoided in the Eucharist that affected the way we celebrate Mass in Australia.
905 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Parish revitalised, Br Con Moloney CFC
Father concludes his article with Over the following month the roster of adorers kept increasing until upwards of twenty parishioners attended each day with an inspiring follow-up of improving Mass attendance on Sundays.
906 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Casual trend, Gina Voskulen
They dont bring young people to Mass; nor does insisting on modest clothing keep them away.
907 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Hymn parody, Peter Hannigan
On the other hand modestly respectful and appropriate attire probably indicates that the wearer is aware of and sensitive to the full meaning of the Mass; and further as a matter of Christian charity that person seeks to avoid giving a source of unnecessary distraction to others in the congregation.
908 - Aug 2004 - The Catholic Church and the Greens: why?, Tony Kearney
At the Mass which my wife and I attended in our parish church on Social Justice Sunday the congregation was subjected to a lengthy dissertation on the environment by a Dr Nick Cooling who commended Senator Brown national leader of the Greens Ms Peg Putt its current leader in the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Ms Christine Milne (about whom more below).
909 - Aug 2004 - The morning after pill, Bishop Anthony Fisher
For two generations now we have experimented in mass sex education condom and pill supply abortion on demand - you name it - and still some babies escape the net.
910 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
He also reminded Catholics in general that the practice of indiscriminately presenting oneself to receive Holy Communion merely as a consequence of being present at Mass is an abuse that must be corrected (cf.
911 - Aug 2004 - Pope's representative reminds Australian religious leaders on liturgy abuses, Archbishop Francesco Canalini
The Papal Nuncio to Australia Archbishop Francesco Canalini devoted the latter part of his Mass homily at the annual gathering of the 120 leaders of Australian religious congregations in Brisbane in mid-June to reminding them of Pope John Paul IIs concerns about liturgical abuses.
912 - Jul 2004 - Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation, Fr Leo J. Trese
There are times and places when vocal prayer is the best prayer; at Mass for example and in other public services when we pray together.
913 - Jul 2004 - Redemptionis Sacramentum (Sacrament of Redemption) abridged version, Fr M. Durham
An abridged version of the recent Vatican instruction with the norms for Mass celebrations and identification of liturgical abuses is available from Fr M.
914 - Jul 2004 - Letters: No kneelers (letter)
Likewise it seems to be standard practice these days to shut down traditional parishes like mine and force its parishioners to attend Mass at nearby trendy parishes.
915 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Parish concerns (letter), Peter Gilet
I wonder if other readers share these concerns: During Mass some of the priests ad-lib little exhortations one-line homilies and fatuous explanations of what they are doing.
916 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Disappointment (letter), Cathy Cleary
When I was a little girl attending Mass with my parents my mother would say to me if I commented on what anyone was wearing You should have been too busy praying to notice anyone else.
917 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
In my pastoral experience I can vouch that years ago a number of converts initially became motivated to become Catholics more through witnessing crowds and families in hail or shine attending Sunday Masses rather than through reading or enquiring about the Faith as much as this is most important too.
918 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
One of the clearest messages which Pope John Paul II gave to the Bishops of Australia when we met with him during our ad limina visit last March was this: Do everything in your power to challenge your people to rediscover and to strengthen the Christian observance of Sunday with their faithful presence each week at Sunday Mass at its heart.
919 - Jul 2004 - Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer, Joanna Bogle
She used to love it and got really interested in the Mass and the Sacraments and the events in the New Testament and the lives of saints but this year they have a new teacher and its all sitting on a mat and talking about their feelings.
920 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist
When one places sections of the present Missal translation alongside the new draft version and the Latin master edition of the new Mass as promulgated after Vatican II one is struck by the many glaring linguistic inaccuracies not to mention theological distortions or omissions.
921 - Jun 2004 - Books: Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy, Reform of the Reform?, Paul Russell
) Both available from AD Books These days it seems that the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass is perhaps as much a point of division as it is a unifying force as the source and summit of our faith.
922 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Priestly vocations (letter), Monsignor Robert Egar
In 1957 when I was only two months ordained I was sent from the seminary at Manly to St Canices Church Elizabeth Bay Sydney to celebrate Sunday Mass.
923 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Options (letter), Maryse Usher
No wonder the young the faltering and anguished souls dont come to Mass - the sense of mysticism in the presence of our transcendent God is annihilated by congreg-ations who are too busy re-establishing social contact after Mass.
924 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Behaviour at Mass (letter), Michael Ryan
That was a wonderful article by Matthew Greene Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?
925 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Disrespect (letter), John Casamento
Its unfortunate that it takes a layman to berate massgoers for their irreverent behaviour before the Blessed Sacrament.
926 - Jun 2004 - The importance of beauty in the Liturgy, Christopher Pearson
It is hard to think of an oxymoron that epitomises the churches attempts to accommodate modernity more aptly than a Rock Mass.
927 - Jun 2004 - Education: Chavagnes en Paillers: a Catholic college with a Catholic culture, Paul Russell
Daily Mass is still celebrated there for the townspeople.
928 - Jun 2004 - Theology of the Body: Why the silence on the Church's moral teachings?, Audrey Dillon
For many of my friends their disagreement with the Churchs hang-ups about sex is one of the main reasons why they dont go to Mass.
929 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Weekend Masses off for Canberra Synod Important Synod 2004 said to justify lay-led services on 15-16 May Attendance of the Canberra-Goulburn Archdioceses priests at Synod 2004 was so important for the good of the local Church that it justified parishes arranging the conduct of lay-led Liturgies of the Word and Communion Services for the weekend of 15-16 May Archbishop Francis Carroll said.
930 - May 2004 - Events: Wagga Wagga Seminary Open Day 16 May
Vianney College the Wagga Wagga Dioceses seminary will conduct an Open Day on Sunday 16 May starting with Mass at 11.
931 - May 2004 - Letters: No laughing matter (letter), Dr Lance Eccles
Perhaps the diocese thinks Mass-attendance rates are still not sufficiently low and that too many souls are getting into Heaven.
932 - May 2004 - Letters: Reverence at Mass (letter), Shirley Vaughan
I wish to express my thanks to AD2000 for all the good articles you publish in particular the one by Matthew Greene on reverence at Mass.
933 - May 2004 - Letters: Timely article on reverence (letter), Name and Address Supplied
Catholics who dislike having their private prayers (especially before and after Mass) unnecessarily disrupted by others willing to advertise this proposal as widely as possible.
934 - May 2004 - Letters: God's house (letter), Melanie Costabile
Each time I am at Mass I am astounded at the fact that no sooner has Father dismissed us than members of the congregation are anxious to start chatting about their social lives.
935 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
As a consecrated virgin she is not part of the Carmelite community at Quidenham but she does join the community every day for Mass in the morning.
936 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC
This finding is easily seen to be related to other findings: only about three percent of graduates of Catholic schools practise some important demands of their faith like regular Mass attendance and many of their teachers too graduates in the faculty of education at Australian Catholic University find that they cannot subscribe to essential teachings of the Churchs Magisterium such as the authority of the Pope to pronounce on questions of morality or faith or the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist or the unlawfulness of abortion or divorce or the invalidity of gay marriages etc.
937 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
In his address to the people and clergy of Melbourne at the 1994 Chrism Mass Archbishop Frank Little warned: Those who plan for a priestless church shall have one.
938 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
Sunday Mass Pope John Paul II was clearly conscious of the challenges facing the bishops when he addressed them on 26 March.
939 - May 2004 - New liturgy document: Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses, Michael Gilchrist
Liturgical abuses often compromise Catholic faith in the Real Presence and the Sacrifice of the Mass doctrines reaffirmed in the introductory sections.
940 - Apr 2004 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter - Holy Week 2004
Masses at St Aloysius Church 233 Balaclava Rd Caulfield: Weekdays 7.
941 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Taking a stand in the culture war, Robert and Carmel Garrett
The ongoing search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq made me think and then realise that in Australia these weapons have been in the hands of the media since the introduction of television in 1956.
942 - Apr 2004 - Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?, Matthew Greene
Mass was over.
943 - Apr 2004 - Events: Adore 2004 Youth Eucharistic Congress, Nicole Osmak
The Adore 2004 Youth Gathering held at Melbournes Telstra Dome on 22-25 January 2004 incorporated daily Mass and rosary many well-qualified speakers stirring testimonies amazing performances on stage and heart-warming Christian fellowship.
944 - Apr 2004 - Riccardo Piol of Communion and Liberation makes an impact in Victoria, AD2000 Report
The School was an excellent weekend and the visitor was in his element with plenty of person-to-person conversations and a series of excellent talks on the call to bring the light of faith into the social life of our nation the Mass Eucharistic Adoration and confession.
945 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Progress on new English translation of the Missal Comments on draft invited from bishops conferences Bishops in English-speaking countries have been sent copies of a draft translation of the main prayers used at Mass.
946 - Apr 2004 - National Church Life Survey: church-going declines further, Michael Gilchrist
The 1996 survey found only 63 percent of those aged 15-39 attending weekly Mass accepted the central article of Christian faith that There is one God Father Son and Holy Spirit while 83 percent of those over 60 did so.
947 - Apr 2004 - Editorial: The Passion of the Christ: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?', Michael Gilchrist
Here indeed is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world; the bloody sacrifice of Gods own Son which is at the heart of the Mass.
948 - Mar 2004 - Books: Archbishop Fulton Sheen : A Man for All Media, by Gregory Joseph Ladd, Michael Gilchrist
Such a person in such a role is needed more than ever today to defend Christian and family values against the relentless incursions of the feminist- and gay-biased mass media and entertainment industry.
949 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
Mass attendances are now around ten percent and still falling in some dioceses while individual confessions have all but disappeared.
950 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
We come to Mass to adore God praise Him and thank Him not to entertain one another.
951 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
Laws must protect the weak defenceless: Bishop Fisher The following is an edited version of the homily given by Bishop Anthony Fisher OP Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney for the Red Mass Opening of the Legal Year celebrated in St Marys Cathedral on 2 February 2004.
952 - Feb 2004 - Letters: New Age?, Fr Don Coutts
The cross of Christ and the sacrifice given (and by implication the Mass) are irrelevant to the New Age whereas it is at the heart of Christianity.
953 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Social Justice Statement, John R. Barich
Some mass killings were committed by both sides but they were rare and isolated events where the numbers of dead were in the tens rather than the hundreds.
954 - Feb 2004 - Interview: Scott Hahn interviewed on Dei Verbum : What Vatican II taught about Scripture, Zenit News Service
Listen to them in the liturgy but read them too either before Mass in preparation or afterward in meditation.
955 - Feb 2004 - Human life: precious from conception, Fr Angelo Serra SJ
This morphological and functional difference becomes more evident at the sixth and seventh cycle when the blastocyst appears made up of 64 to 128 cells: here we can distinguish three cell types which are histologically different and have diverse destinies: the polar and mural trophoblast derived from the differentiation of the trophoblastic cell line; the primitive ectoderm and the endoderm which are derived from the differentiation of the embryoblast or internal cell mass (ICM).
956 - Feb 2004 - Melbourne and Sydney initiatives to educate adults in the Catholic faith, Peter Holmes
Participants were asked to select from a variety of electives exploring how the rubber of the Churchs teaching hits the road in areas such as: Drugs Stress and Depression Bioethics Sharing the Faith Modern Music Mass Media Premature Parenthood Public Speaking Camps and Retreats for Young People and Street Kids.
957 - Feb 2004 - Modern church design: 'Spank the architect!', Paul Mees
A Filipino friend stopped attending Mass after migrating to Canberra because his local church was like a Protestant church: no candles or statues or anything.
958 - Feb 2004 - Liturgy: 'Excellent start' on accurate English Missal translation, AD2000 REPORT
In the case of the Order of Mass and those parts of the Sacred Liturgy that call for the direct participation of the people a single translation should exist in a given language unless a different provision is made in individual cases.
959 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
At the beginning of the Great Jubilee year before Holy Mass I opened the Holy Door of the Vatican Basilica.
960 - Dec 2003 - Books: AD Books - A happy and a holy Christmas!
95 The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy Adrian Fortescue Originally written in 1912 this remains one of the major works in English on the origin and development of the Roman rite of the Mass designed to answer Protestant questions and objections.
961 - Dec 2003 - Books: Confirmed in the Faith, by Dora Nash, Joanna Bogle
Candidates must develop a life of prayer and have a lively recognition of what it means to be a Catholic - to confess sins and receive absolution to be at Mass every Sunday to receive Holy Communion regularly.
962 - Dec 2003 - EVENTS: Adore 2004: a Eucharistic Congress for youth
Last years Adore 2003 was held in Omaha Nebraska with Archbishop Elden Curtiss celebrating the opening Mass reminding the young people of Pope John Paul IIs call for them to be apostles of the third millennium who will keep the spirit of Jesus alive in the world.
963 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
Finally Archbishop Hart closed the Congress with a Mass in the packed cathedral that also celebrated John Paul IIs 25th Jubilee as our Pope.
964 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Scottish Cardinal defends his orthodoxy But raises further questions Cardinal Keith OBrien of St Andrews and Edinburgh has strongly denied that he said anything against traditional Church teaching at a Mass held just days after he was named as a future cardinal reports the London Times.
965 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Letter from India
I will certainly pray for you and I do promise to offer Mass for your intentions.
966 - Nov 2003 - Letters: The Mass? (letter), Kevin McBride
The letters in the September AD2000 are bewildering in the variety of rites/terms describing our Mass today by several writers e.
967 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
Rather than spending his time with paper projects Fr Gould preferred to travel to parishes to preach about priestly vocations at Sunday Masses as well as to groups at schools colleges scout retreats Knights of Columbus councils and even military bases.
968 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne's Caroline Chisholm Library passes ten year mark, Michael C.C. Ryan
Archbishop Denis Hart who celebrated Mass in St Francis Church Melbourne on 8 August 2003 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Caroline Chisholm Library paid tribute to its core of volunteers and offered them his congratulations for saving the treasure.
969 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
The normal day in an MGL formation house begins with two hours of morning prayer including Mass chanting the Divine Office and one hour of adoration before the exposed Blessed Sacrament.
970 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Zenit News Service New Scottish Cardinal queries Church teachings Makes public statement one day after being named a cardinal Archbishop Keith OBrien of Aberdeen Scotland who was named by Pope John Paul II to become a cardinal used a Mass of thanksgiving as an occasion to question Church teaching and discipline regarding contraception homosexuality and clerical celibacy.
971 - Oct 2003 - Reflection: Why the tabernacle should be centrally located in our churches, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The celebration of Holy Mass and the reservation of the Eucharist in the tabernacle have always been through the centuries up to the present the focal point of a Catholic life nurtured by the Body and Blood of Christ.
972 - Oct 2003 - Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II, by Michael Davies, Michael Gilchrist
Davies writes: Cardinal Heenan was present in the Sistine Chapel for Father Bugninis demonstration of his newly concocted experimental rite of Mass in 1967 (Missa Normativa) and he was dismayed by what he witnessed.
973 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Education crisis (letter), Alex Sharah
To think that 97 percent of our school-leavers do not hold the Catholic Church as true or go to Mass is to withdraw in horror and demand either the schools be decertified as Catholic or that the one not producing good results be closed; to be re-opened when proper arrangements are in place to assure the parents and the Catholic community that authentic Catholic truths are imparted.
974 - Oct 2003 - Letters: New bishops (letter), Anne Lastman
Fr Fisher (now Bishop Fisher) has supported me offered Holy Mass for me and my work and been there when I needed to speak to someone.
975 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Does the antidote mean a return to traditions and rites such as Lenten fasts holy days and daily Mass?
976 - Oct 2003 - AD2000 readers' generous response to Queensland Lourdes appeal, Jenny Davies and Nicole King
One AD2000 reader a Christian Brother sent $1000 saying I have already started to pray for Susans healing and will keep her in my prayers each day especially at Mass.
977 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova
A further young speaker Fr Michael Willemsen assistant priest in Traralgon showed the really joyful sides of both the Sacrament of Penance and the Penitential Rite at the start of Mass.
978 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
ACI-Prensa reported that the new document was likely to set out clear guidelines for the proper celebration of the Mass reminding priests they do not have the authority to change the liturgy at their own discretion.
979 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
Complementing this has been the plethora of publications notably the Catechism of the Catholic Church and a succession of encyclicals and apostolic letters covering every aspect of Catholic teaching and practice many of these under challenge from well-placed dissenters within local churches - not to mention the often hostile mass media in Western countries.
980 - Sep 2003 - Reflection: A Christian response to bereavement: Jesus' ministry to the sick and dying, Fr Dennis Byrnes
For those with faith: In death life is changed not ended (Preface of the Mass of the Dead I).
981 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Converts (letter), Kevin Tighe
I should like to respond to many of the points raised in Peter Howards letter on the New Mass but shall limit myself to just one.
982 - Sep 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Philip Robinson
Peter Howard (New Mass July AD2000) says that my letter in the June edition was a simplistic criticism of Paul VIs New Mass.
983 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Liturgical choices (letter), Marguerite Fennell
Replying to Peter Westmore (April) and Philip Robinson (May) I propose that it is time both Catholic reformists who refuse to acknowledge the value of the classical Latin Mass and traditionalists who view with suspicion the Novus Ordo re-examined their positions.
984 - Sep 2003 - Pope John Paul II calls for greater use of Latin, Denis Murphy
The Pope believes that Latin is indispensable and his commitment was underlined on 24 May when one of his senior Vatican prelates Cardinal Castrillion Hoyos Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy celebrated a Tridentine Mass in the Roman basilica of St Mary Major - the first for a generation.
985 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
Hence the Liturgy comprises the Mass the sacraments and the daily office.
986 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
Popes anniversary Thursday 16 October is the 25th Anniversary of John Paul IIs Pontificate and Archbishop Hart will be celebrating this event with the Holy Hour for Vocations on that evening also being in prayer for the Pope while the Saturday Mass at St Patricks Cathedral (6pm Vigil) will be the Archdiocesan Mass on his behalf.
987 - Sep 2003 - Culture: Second 'Carnivale Christi' Catholic arts festival scheduled for Melbourne, Michael Gilchrist
Sung Mass The festival will conclude with the Missa Te Deum to be celebrated in St Patricks Cathedral on 3 October at 8.
988 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
Fr Benedict Groeschel founder of the Franciscans of the Renewal preached the homily at the concluding Mass of the Conference.
989 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
According to the provisional program the activities scheduled in Rome to celebrate the beatification will begin on Friday 17 October with Masses in various languages in the Basilica of St John Lateran.
990 - Aug 2003 - Reflection: The Apocalypse: proclaiming the final victory of Christ and His Church, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Here on earth we have the counterpart of that heavenly liturgy in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass the renewal in sacramental form of the sacrifice of Calvary and our link with the worship of the blessed in Heaven.
991 - Aug 2003 - Priests 24/7 : A video documentary, Michael Gilchrist
personal prayer homily preparation and celebrating Mass and the sacraments (marriage and baptism).
992 - Aug 2003 - Books: Will Catholics be Left Behind, by Carl Olson, Envoy Magazine
: In this extraordinary book Carl Olson uses a surgeons scalpel to cut through the mass of confusion that dominates contemporary reflection on the Last Things.
993 - Aug 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Kevin Beck
I am one of those so-called Lefebvrists because I attend Masses celebrated by priests of the Society of St Pius X and will not accept the Novus Ordo Mass for the reasons which Monsignor Elliott himself is complaining about.
994 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Confession (letter), Joe Slowiak
Many people are of the opinion that confession is necessary only when a grievous sin is committed and therefore confession does not apply to them even though they may attend Holy Mass on only a few Sundays during the year.
995 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Pope Paul VIs 1968 ruling which reaffirmed the traditional Church opposition to artificial contraception provoked massive public dissent whose consequences we are still experiencing.
996 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In 1992 he was named Bishop of Fall River Massachusetts at a time when that diocese was the focal point of national attention because of scores of sex-abuse charges against a former priest of the diocese James Porter.
997 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
Turning to the Mass and sacraments the Holy Father calls for revival of an authentic sense of the liturgy and the proper formation of consciences: The Synod Fathers have insisted on the recognition of the reality of personal sin and the necessity of personal forgiveness by God through the ministry of the priest.
998 - Aug 2003 - Editorial: 'Do this in memory of Me', Peter Westmore
In the Catholic tradition the priest stands in persona Christi in offering the sacrifice of the Mass fulfilling the command which Jesus gave to the Apostles and which they transmitted to their successor priests and bishops Do this in memory of Me.
999 - Jul 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Peter D. Howard
The simplistic criticism of Paul VIs New Mass as evidenced by Philip Robinson (June 2003) misses the essential fact that the culture which has produced so much dissent has similarly produced disobedience regarding the rubrics.
1000 - Jul 2003 - School sacramental programs: evangelise Catholic families first, Fr John Speekman
What is it that is stopping us from accepting the simple fact that so many of the families - in my parish up to 95 percent - of children in our Catholic schools do not make the effort to bring their children to Sunday Mass?
1001 - Jul 2003 - How to start a parish apologetics group, Mavis Power
Most group members are also involved in Eucharistic Adoration and or daily Mass and the Rosary.
1002 - Jul 2003 - The concentration camp prisoner who became a Queensland priest, Warren Losberg
On 11 June 1990 the Traditional Latin Mass returned to Townsville and for the next twelve years Father Dlugaj celebrated it without fail at 11am each Sunday.
1003 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT
the ongoing decline of Sunday Mass attendance now 13 percent in Brisbane the continuing shortage of priests and miniscule seminary numbers and public pressures particularly from the media burdening the task of evangelisation.
1004 - Jul 2003 - Catholic Literature: Hilaire Belloc's 50th anniversary: is he 'yesterday's man'?, Br Christian Moe FSC
(I schematise his presentation): the industrial world would break down and lead to the restoration of sane ordinary values; or it will break down and lead to nothing but a desert; or it will lead to the mass of men becoming contented slaves with a few rich men controlling them (p.
1005 - Jul 2003 - Homily: Bicentenary Mass celebrated in Sydney, Archbishop George Pell
During the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in May a special Mass was concelebrated by the bishops in Sydneys St Marys Cathedral on Sunday 11 May to commemorate the bicentenary of the first official Mass to be celebrated on Australian soil in 1803.
1006 - Jun 2003 - Books: Culture and the Thomist Tradition : After Vatican II, by Tracey Rowland, Fr Peter Joseph STD
Truth beauty and goodness A sub-theme within the work is that the process of dumbing-down the liturgy and the presentation of the Churchs teachings so as to meet the intellectual and cultural standards of mass man is counter-productive.
1007 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Latin Mass (letter), Philip Robinson
Unless circumstances otherwise dictate my wife and I only attend Mass according to the 1962 Missal - the Traditional Latin Mass - and have done so since 1988.
1008 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), Alistair Barros
It was evident after the Synods opening Mass where the celebration and music drew praise of ethereal heights.
1009 - Jun 2003 - Those dreadful old Catholic hymns?, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
I thought of this one day in Sydney when I was attached to a certain parish and the convent-educated children were coming to my Mass on the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady.
1010 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service
I also believe that some changes to the Mass went beyond what the Council Fathers envisaged in Sacrosanctum Concilium and this is the very area where we still encounter problems.
1011 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Ukrainian 1930s famine an act of genocide Church leaders call for UN acknowledgement Church leaders have asked the UN to recognise the mass starvation in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as an act of genocide.
1012 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
On Holy Thursday 17 April 2003 Pope John Paul II released his 14th encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia formally signing it during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lords Supper in St Peters.
1013 - Jun 2003 - Editorial: Three Feasts: Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Peter Westmore
Although its existence was clearly stated in the New Testament and early recognised as a doctrine of the faith it was only when the Arian heresy - which denied Jesus was God - was spreading in the fourth century that the church Fathers prepared an Office with canticles responses a preface and hymns to be recited at Mass.
1014 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
On the ecclesial level for quite a number of years throngs of faithful line up to receive Holy Communion at Sunday Masses - a most heartening scene indeed!
1015 - May 2003 - Letters: Praying for priests (letter), Denise Kelly
Our three-fold prayer commitment is to pray the Mass Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day for these intentions which we place under the patronage of Saint Joseph.
1016 - May 2003 - Language: The forgotten language of adoration of God - through words and actions, Audrey English
Such a decision is aimed at ensuring that there is unity among the faithful so that this central action of the entire Mass would not be a moment when division was manifested but unity in Christ.
1017 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
Were you able to say Mass in prison?
1018 - May 2003 - Liturgy: Latvia shows the way on liturgical renewal, Cardinal Janis Pujats
If the entire Mass had been in Latvian then maybe we would have faced towards the people.
1019 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
During meditations prior to reciting the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St Peters Square on Sunday 30 March the Holy Father referred to his forthcoming encyclical which on the occasion of Holy Thursday God willing I will sign during the Mass of the Lords Supper.
1020 - Apr 2003 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter - Holy Week 2003
00am 20 April Sunday Masses are celebrated by the Fraternity every week as follows: 8.
1021 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Vatican II (letter), Denis O'Leary
For me it is still the Mass that matters!
1022 - Apr 2003 - Our Lady of Peace: one American parish's successful formula, Arthur J. Brew
While Sunday Mass attendance is dropping precipitously all over the world by as much as 70 per cent in some areas it is usually standing room only for weekend Masses at Our Lady of Peace.
1023 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
20am Mass said sometimes in Latin and sometimes in English.
1024 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
If they hadnt won the mass immigration of the late 19th and early 20th century might not have happened because opposition to newcomers would have continued to grow and the nations openness might have closed.
1025 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Many villages in Latin America only have Mass once a month because of the shortage of priests.
1026 - Apr 2003 - Editorial: Good news on the liturgy, Peter Westmore
On Holy Thursday Pope John Paul II will release a new encyclical his first since 1998 which will deal with the centrality of the Mass and Holy Communion in the life of the Church.
1027 - Mar 2003 - Liturgy: The Mass is the same sacrifice as the Cross, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
Elliott EV on the sacrificial aspects of the Mass.
1028 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Bishop William Weigand made the announcement at a Mass on 22 January the 30th anniversary of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed abortion on demand throughout the US.
1029 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
The test covers the areas of beliefs and symbols decision-making Mass and the Eucharist sacraments saints Church prayer liturgy and Scripture.
1030 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
This is the first of two articles on The Sacrifice of the Mass by Msgr Peter J.
1031 - Dec 2002 - Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge, Peter D. Howard
A serious re-evaluation of the state of affairs in the Archdiocese is undoubtedly necessary given the catastrophic level of regular Mass attendance - now 13 percent according to Archbishop Bathersby and even fewer among the young - and the dearth of priestly vocations.
1032 - Dec 2002 - Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues, Eamonn Keane
Here Groome was targeting what he sees as a flaw in the Churchs teaching that in the Mass the ordained priest must be a man as he has to sacramentally represent Christ in terms of his spousal relationship to the Church which is that of Bridegroom to Bride.
1033 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
While the Mass is the Churchs public act of worship the Rosary encourages private devotion and a quiet encounter with Christ.
1034 - Dec 2002 - New Vatican Instruction on priesthood: the challenge to be another Christ, AD2000 Report
Given the centrality of the Eucharist in a priests ministry and in his spiritual life the document stresses the importance of proper preparation before offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of its daily celebration of thanksgiving and of the visit to the Blessed Sacrament during the course of the day.
1035 - Nov 2002 - Letters: EWTN (letter), Jacqueline Donohue
The Mass Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet are broadcast daily while a good current affairs program covers Vatican and Church-related news the world over.
1036 - Nov 2002 - Australian apologist Raymond de Souza's successful overseas lecture tour, AD2000 Report
To fight back that invasion the Pope composed the Prayer to St Michael the Archangel and instructed that it be recited by both priest and congregation kneeling after Mass.
1037 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC
No wonder also there are several calls for Gods mercy in every Mass and such common prayers in the Catholic tradition as the Lords Prayer and the Hail Mary give prominence to acknowledgement of our sinfulness and pray for forgiveness.
1038 - Nov 2002 - Sydney Archdiocese courses on 'Catechism', Fr John Flader
Similarly someone who understands the nature of the Mass will be more inclined to love it and to want to attend it regularly.
1039 - Nov 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva canonised at Papal Mass in Rome, AD2000 Report
Before a multitude of more than 350000 people that packed St Peters Square and the Via della Conciliazione John Paul II proclaimed Josemaria Escrivagrave; de Balaguer a saint during a Mass on 6 October 2002.
1040 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The Requiem Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano Secretary of State together with other cardinals.
1041 - Nov 2002 - Independent inquiry exonerates Archbishop George Pell, Peter Westmore
He concluded I have just celebrated Mass for all those caught up in the tragedy of Bali and look forward to being in the office tomorrow resuming my work of spreading the Catholic faith and celebrating Mass on Sundays as usual at St Marys Cathedral.
1042 - Nov 2002 - Editorial: The essential role of saints in the Church, Michael Gilchrist
The latter was proclaimed a saint by John Paul II on 6 October at a Mass in Rome attended by over 300000.
1043 - Oct 2002 - Reflection: Devotion to God through the Angelus and Rosary, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
The prayer which is usually said before or after the rosary is taken from the Mass of that feast.
1044 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Dr Garrick Small
More should be made of the fact that despite three decades of highly creative catechesis 34% of Catholic parents still expect their children to go to Mass.
1045 - Oct 2002 - Letters: "The Pell Show" (letter), Stephen Hitchings
Act 1: A group of Catholics drop in for Mass wearing their rainbow sashes.
1046 - Oct 2002 - Catholic liturgy in the 21st century: major challenges facing the Church, Fr Peter Williams
Three areas will impact upon us as we continue to proclaim the mystery of Christ through the Mass in the 21st century - three areas that are currently contentious in the Churchs life: texts music and liturgical architecture.
1047 - Oct 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Vatican Information Service Installation of new Archbishop of Milwaukee EWTN provides live coverage EWTN Global Catholic Network provided a live coverage of the Installation Mass of the Most Rev Timothy M.
1048 - Sep 2002 - Books: The Lost Shrine of Liskeard, by Claire Riche, Michael Daniel
The author indicates that the renewed interest in the shrine is part of a growth in interest in Cornish language and folklore that also includes the translating of the text of the Mass into Cornish.
1049 - Sep 2002 - Books: The Arians of the Fourth Century, by John Henry Newman, Peter Westmore
They further tell us that these doctrines were condemned by the Council of Nicaea (325AD) which formulated the Nicene Creed the profession of faith which in slightly amended form is still recited at Mass as the most comprehensive summary of Christian belief.
1050 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), J. Dekker
Hoysted (July AD2000) and his reference to zero tolerance is to draw attention to the following: The prayer at Mass In your mercy keep me free from sin.
1051 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Teaching the faith (letter), Kevin McBride
If our children are not taught the basic elements of the faith including the Ten Commandments and the Law of the Church then of course these children cannot be blamed for not bothering to attend Mass or confession.
1052 - Sep 2002 - John Paul II and World Youth Day in Toronto: an Anglican perspective, David Warren
All last week in Toronto I shared sidewalk streetcar and subway space with the kerchiefed young assembled here from every part of the world for the Mass at which the Holy Father presided at Downsview on 28nbsp;July 2002.
1053 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
Apart from celebrating Mass at the College Fr Jordan conducts Scripture Study sessions attended by students from inside and outside the College.
1054 - Sep 2002 - CHURCH ATTENDANCE: The family, feminism and the declining role of fatherhood, Richard Egan
However only 34 percent of students responded affirmatively to the statement My parents expect me to go to Mass on Sundays.
1055 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
daily celebration of the Mass frequent Confession daily meditation regular acts of asceticism obedient submission to Church teaching and discipline and simplicity of life).
1056 - Aug 2002 - Letters: 'New Catholicism' (letter), Richard Congram
Brisbanes Catholic Leader of 2 June 2002 noted that most of the few young Catholics who attend Mass reported low levels of satisfaction.
1057 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
A new two-year program or pastoral focus for the Melbourne Archdiocese based on Pope John Paul IIs Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (2001) was launched on 24 May with the release of a pastoral letter by Archbishop Denis Hart and his celebration of Mass in St Patricks Cathedral preceded by a 24 hour prayer vigil organised by Catholic Youth Ministry.
1058 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
This lies in the masses of statistical findings particularly those regarding the Catholic character of these schools which confirm Br Flynns earlier prediction of a consistent rapid decline.
1059 - Jul 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
In this small gift book Benson finds meaning in all of the elements that comprise the Catholic Mass beginning with the entrance to the worship service continuing through the sermon and the prayers of the people to the liturgical centrepiece: the Eucharist which Benson calls the Word made flesh.
1060 - Jul 2002 - Books: The Modern Rite, by Mgr Klaus Gamber, Fr Peter Joseph
The topics covered include: the orientation of the altar and Mass facing the people; the problem of the vernacular; the reform of the calendar; Communion in the hand; the antiquity of the doctrine of the Mass as a sacrifice; participation by the laity; liturgical continuity.
1061 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Fr Des Jenkins Golden Jubilee (letter), Gordon R. Coomber
He will celebrate a High Mass in the Latin Rite at 10.
1062 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Obituary - Fr Patrick Cosgrove, South Africa (letter), Fr E. Lumley-Holmes CSsR
A large number of priests and lay people were present at the Requiem Mass for he was well-known and loved by the people of this large and very active parish.
1063 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Missal translation (letter), Philip Robinson
ICEL took on a life of its own and destroyed much of the Mass with its banal translations.
1064 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Short-changed (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
My parents were good people who took us to Mass on Sundays and sent us all to Catholic schools.
1065 - Jul 2002 - Vatican II, church architecture and "reform of the reform", Sidney Rofe
As a result many innovations were incorrectly applied to churches in the name of Vatican II - involving iconoclasm a loss of sacredness and symbolism a diminishing of hierarchy clericalisation of the laity confusion over the sacrificial and meal aspects of the Mass and an over-emphasis on community-focused worship at the expense of the central Christological themes.
1066 - Jul 2002 - Chavagnes International College for boys, Paul Russell
Their faith development will include daily prayer Mass - with sung vespers on Sundays and major Feasts - and Compline each evening.
1067 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service
And even those prepared to say that the mass murder of innocents for political purposes is wicked have forgotten how to justify such judgments.
1068 - Jul 2002 - Saints: Padre Pio canonised: "a model of the priesthood" (John Paul II), Paul MacLeod
Model Yet to all appearances all Padre Pio did as a priest was say Mass and hear confessions (sometimes sending away those he believed were not sincerely repentant).
1069 - Jun 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 The Mass: The Heart of the Mission John Dutto According to Dutto the celebration of Mass on the Lords Day can really become the best occasion for missionary conversion.
1070 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Inclusive language (letter), George F. Simpson
Miller asks by what right hymns sung at Mass are amended to incorporate inclusive language (April AD2000).
1071 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Good example (letter), Paul Foster
My main concern is that so many deprive themselves of Our Lords presence within them through their absence from Mass.
1072 - Jun 2002 - Letters: An exemplary priest (letter), John Monaghan
His challenge to holiness was supported by frequent opportunities to pray and attend Mass Novenas and confessions.
1073 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
At the time I thought Sisters advice was a bit odd because I figured the Mass was the Mass but I never forgot her words to me.
1074 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
This is the edited text of Bishop Geoffrey Jarretts homily at the Mass of the Chrism for the Lismore Diocese on 25 March 2002.
1075 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The first section of the new norms provides a theological summary of the Churchs teaching on Communion under both kinds while the following section describes the authorised procedures by which such distribution can be accomplished at Mass.
1076 - May 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
All are arranged according to the Churchs three-year cycle of Mass readings.
1077 - May 2002 - Letters: Liturgical abuses (letter), Name and Address Supplied
I can inform Michael that the priest concerned serves six distinct communities each with its own church where Mass is celebrated regularly each separated by many kilometres and each with its own problems.
1078 - May 2002 - Letters: Priestly formation (letter), Cyril Drew
The chaplain asked whether he saw the Mass as the centre of the priesthood and Fr Hollings replied he did not.
1079 - May 2002 - Letters: Farewell Mass for Fr Des Byrne (letter), Barry O'Brien
Father has also officiated at a fairly large number of nuptial Masses over the years between members.
1080 - May 2002 - Gregorian Chant's new lease of life in Brisbane, AD2000 Report
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy goes on to say it is important to take steps so that the faithful may also be able to say or sing in Latin those parts of the Mass which pertain to them.
1081 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
In every Mass we ask God to look not on our sins but on the faith of the Church.
1082 - May 2002 - Liturgy: New edition of the Roman Missal released: vernacular translations to come, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile any parish wishing to celebrate the new Mass in Latin - as the Holy Father does regularly - need not wait for the English translation be be approved.
1083 - Apr 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
All are arranged according to the Churchs three-year cycle of Mass readings.
1084 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Mutilated hymns (letter), Eric G. Miller
Over the last 18 months I have spent time in my original home-town of Adelaide and found that in the suburban church where I attended Mass the feminist element had modified many of the hymns to remove any reference to God as masculine.
1085 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Telling the truth (letter), Teresa Martin
It is so very devastating to have to go to so many different parishes to find a good and loyal priest who says Mass the way it should be said.
1086 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Reforming the reform (letter), Valentine Gallagher
Alluding to changes in the Mass after the Second Vatican Council Cardinal Ratzinger calls for a return to tradition and to reform the reform (Catholic Weekly 20 January 2002).
1087 - Apr 2002 - Australian version of Maltese Marian shrine of Ta' Pinu
It presently encompasses a massive cross stations of the cross (with statues) and a chapel.
1088 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fatima Handbook, by Leo Madigan, Catherine Sheehan
Mass times are given and times for recitations of the Rosary and other popular events such as the Candlelight Procession.
1089 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Nicene Creed, Ken Bayliss
It was only some time after Cardinal Norman Gilroys imprimatur of 23 January 1970 to We Offer the Mass that the Nicene Creeds credo correctly translated as I believe became We believe.
1090 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Mrs Hiske Deschepper
As a housewife and mother of five children and their families I am sad about the watering down of the Ten Commandments including the Third - to keep holy the Lords Day - which requires attending Mass on Sundays.
1091 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Sunday obligation, Leo Willems
I refer to the letter from Fr John Speekman (November AD2000) in which concern is expressed about the majority of Catholic secondary school students who are ignoring their obligation to assist at Sunday Mass.
1092 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Courage Needed (letter), Frank Bellet
Although I agree with Fr John Speekman and Br Con Moloneys sentiments concerning the problem of children no longer genuinely connected with the Church attending school Masses (AD2000 November and February) I do not agree that the substitution of a Liturgy of the Word is the answer.
1093 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Human Rights (letter), Sr M.B. Eanswythe OSB
Both electronic and print media constantly report massive downsizing as causing unemployment.
1094 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Watered-down faith, Teresa Martin
It is so very devastating to have to go to so many different parishes to find a good and loyal priest who says Mass the way it should be said.
1095 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden
At the Saturday Vigil for the Baptism of the Lord Mass I was confirmed as a Roman Catholic into the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
1096 - Mar 2002 - North American vocations summit overlooks orthodox success stories, Zenit News Service
Many sisters have to stand outside the chapel during the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours.
1097 - Mar 2002 - 'Conservation Plan' recommends changes to Toowoomba's Cathedral, Michael Gilchrist
The Vatican II liturgy document for example calls for the retention of Latin in the liturgy pride of place for Gregorian Chant and forbids priests to alter or replace words in official Mass texts.
1098 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The document indicates that from now on they recognise: the authority of the Pope as Vicar of Christ and Shepherd of the Church; the legitimacy of the Second Vatican Council; and the validity of the Mass approved by Pope Paul VI.
1099 - Feb 2002 - Reflection: NCC Mass of Thanksgiving: Archbishop Hart's homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
The following is the text of Archbishop Denis Harts homily at the National Civic Council Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated at the Basilica of Our Lady of Victories Camberwell on 5 December 2001.
1100 - Feb 2002 - Books: St Therese of Lisieux: from Lisieux to the Four Corners of the World, Catherine Sheehan
The text of the Mass in honour of St Theacute;regrave;se is provided along with the novena through her intercession and the words she spoke during her agonising last days recorded by her sister as she died of tuberculosis.
1101 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Overcoming evil, Mary Beaumont
Under the heading The Mass - Triumph of Love he makes four important points: By entering into the Saviours Sacrificial Offering the faithful share in the victory won by Him over the evil of the world.
1102 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Real Presence, Philip Robinson
To observe those present at many Sunday Masses one could well believe that Christ is not present.
1103 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Michael Baker
We attended the local Catholic church for Mass on the Tuesday.
1104 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
The Mass we know makes present in every time and place the one all-sufficient sacrifice of Jesus Christ so that we can in a community as well as individually and intimately draw the benefits and strength of His victory over sin and death into our lives.
1105 - Feb 2002 - Into the Deep Forum: young Catholics meet Australian bishops, Helen Ransom
Bishop Grech encouraged the audience to embrace the Cross to be faithful to the basic tenants of the Faith including the Holy Mass and the Sacraments and to read the Bible.
1106 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
Archbishop Little said at the Chrism Mass of 1995: Those who prepare for a priestless Church shall have one.
1107 - Feb 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Remarking that the priest in persona Christi celebrates the Sacrifice of the Mass and administers the Sacraments the Holy Father then affirmed: For a parish to have a priest as its own pastor is of fundamental importance .
1108 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
Im not just talking about horribly designed suburban brick Mass-barns - Pizza Hut churches - but botched liturgical compromises and the neglect of 2000 years worth of lovely music.
1109 - Dec 2001 - New Titles from AD Books
If your teen no longer attends Mass challenge him or her to read Prove It!
1110 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty' by Michael Casey, Anthony Cappello
The author has mastered his writers and a mass of accompanying material with enviable skill and lucidity and made an important and original contribution to metaphysical analysis and exposition.
1111 - Dec 2001 - St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, and Europe's Christian heritage, Stephen W. Carson
He and his wife having lost relatives in the mass murders by the National Socialists because of being Jewish then were tortured and imprisoned for many years by the Romanian Communist regime for preaching Yshua (Jesus) as the Messiah.
1112 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
The large turnout at Tom Kendells Requiem Mass on 24 October at St John Vianneys Church Mulgrave indicated the high regard in which he was widely held especially for his educational achievements.
1113 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
I attended Mass on 2 November All Souls Day at a suburban church in the capital Dili.
1114 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Opening the ceremony Bugalov spoke of the Popes recent visit to Kazakhstan recalling one of the banners at the papal Mass that proclaimed: Holiness we are waiting for you in Russia.
1115 - Nov 2001 - Bookstore: New Titles from AD Books
If your teen no longer attends Mass challenge him or her to read this first!
1116 - Nov 2001 - Obituary: Lew Bennett R.I.P.
A Requiem Mass for Lew Bennett strong supporter of AD2000 and the NCC and long-time friend of the late B.
1117 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Fr John Speekman
It seems to me that one of the most forgotten teachings today is on the obligation to assist at Sunday Mass and the necessity to confess deliberate failures in this regard in the Sacrament of Reconciliation before once again receiving Holy Communion.
1118 - Nov 2001 - Opinion: Catholics before and after Vatican II: separating fact from myth, John Young
Apparently it was a place where the priests word and even the nuns word was accepted with unthinking obedience; where Scripture was shunned; where little existed in the way of a lay apostolate; where rules and regulations reigned supreme; where the laity were passive at Mass; where intolerance towards non-Catholics was part of the typical Catholics mentality.
1119 - Nov 2001 - Winter school: Evangelising in a "post-pagan" culture, Fr Anthony Mastroeni
Our formerly Christian civilisation now possesses a bare shell of what was once the Faith: 30 per cent of French say they have no religion; 56 per cent of the English say they do not believe in a personal God; only three per cent of Catholics in the Czech Republic practise their faith; in the US only 25 per cent attend Mass each week and in Australia the proportion is smaller; in Holland churches are closed and sold as restaurants cabarets even mosques.
1120 - Nov 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger's latest book-interview - 'God and the World', Zenit News Service
The mass Church may be something lovely but it is not necessarily the Churchs only way of being.
1121 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Missing Mass without a serious reason was no longer perceived by many people as seriously wrong.
1122 - Nov 2001 - Brisbane liturgy director calls Vatican document "a betrayal", Michael Gilchrist
The same complaint applied to Romes refusal to approve use of the inclusive language New Revised Standard Version of the Scriptures for Mass readings from the Lectionary due to doctrinal difficulties.
1123 - Nov 2001 - A young Catholic's views on the state of the Church in Australia, James Connolly
Often I am at Mass and I think - as I listen to terrible music and a celebration which seems more concerned about making us feel good - that I am Catholic despite the liturgy.
1124 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
On 30 September in St Peters Basilica Pope John Paul II presided over a solemn opening Mass with 247 bishops from around the world for the inauguration of the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
1125 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'The Spirit of the Liturgy' by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Christopher Quinn
The Cardinal underlines this point at some length going so far as to say that Mass with the priest facing the people during the liturgy of the Eucharist has led to the situation where less and less is God in the picture.
1126 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Cult (letter), Wal Maggs
One of the MMMs recent teachings via its founder Debra Geileskey is that normal Catholic Masses are invalid and that those who attend them commit a mortal sin!
1127 - Oct 2001 - Letters: True picture (letter), Christine Slagter
The article states: BECs break away from the traditional formal structure of the parish church with its parish council and instead rely on making and keeping contact with and building communities around all Catholics in an area whether or not they attend Mass.
1128 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Liturgy translation (letter), Jack R. Nyman
I note that some liturgical formulae in the Mass may be returned to their original forms.
1129 - Oct 2001 - Eternal Word Television Network's missionary outreach, Michael Daniel
The programs to which we listen represent cover a wide range of devotions (the Stations of the Cross Rosary morning prayer and Mass) as well as apologetics and discussion shows presented by leading Catholic speakers e.
1130 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
It is appropriate then that one important measure of a Catholic schools effectiveness should be whether its Catholic students past and present attend Mass regularly.
1131 - Oct 2001 - Events: Gerry Matatics Visit / Catholic Homeschooling Conference, Parramatta, AD2000
His topics will include Purgatory and Suffering The Bible Contraception and Abortion The Mass: Heaven on Earth Did Jesus really know He was God?
1132 - Oct 2001 - Editorial: Liturgy: light at the end of the tunnel, Michael Gilchrist
The Vatican Instruction Liturgiam Authenticam published earlier this year with the endorsement of Pope John Paul II sets clear guidelines for the production of sound tasteful vernacular translations of Mass texts.
1133 - Sep 2001 - Reflection: Saint Catherine of Siena: how to receive the Eucharist more worthily, Sr Mary Jeremiah OP
Desire for God will direct all our actions toward giving Him honour and glory not only at Mass but also during each moment of the day.
1134 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Padre Pio: In My Own Words', ed. Anthony F. Chiffolo, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Although constant pain became his companion he nevertheless continued to celebrate Mass hear confessions and draw closer to his Lord - all of which attracted many people to him.
1135 - Sep 2001 - Kenneth Bruce Dowding, Australian Catholic hero: his brother's tribute, Rev Keith Dowding
As a postscript to the article published in the July 2001 AD2000 by Ron Cowban (page 20) we are reproducing the text of a eulogy given by the Rev Keith Dowding at a Requiem Mass for his brother Kenneth in the Mercy Hospital Chapel in Perth on 30 June 2001 kindly made available to us by Rev Dowding.
1136 - Sep 2001 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women: Executive members' feminist views, Richard Egan
(This same poem had been used by the dissenting women protesting at Adelaides Chrism Mass.
1137 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
The same faces at many of their conferences show that this is by no means a mass movernent just an influential one.
1138 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe
This call for a restoration of the liturgy was realised at the Sunday Mass which saw the use of Latin for parts of the liturgy such as the Kyrie Sanctus Agnus Dei and Canon with English for the changeable parts such as the responsorial psalm and the readings.
1139 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
They also noted the importance of dialogue between civilisations for a common commitment in favour of peace and the protection of humanity from disasters poverty ignorance moral degradation family disintegration wars and the effects of weapons of mass destruction.
1140 - Aug 2001 - Events: Victorian Thomas More Winter School 2001 in Ballarat, 3 - 5 August 2001
The School will reach a climax with the title talk by Richard Doig and a sending out of participants following Mass in Ballarats Cathedral to Bring Christ to the Land and the Land to Christ.
1141 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Mass leaflet (letter), Stephanie McClarty
We would like to bring to the attention of your readers a pictorial leaflet What Happens at Mass: Understanding what Catholics do at Mass.
1142 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Radical feminists (letter), Dr T.R. White
Proof of their influence has been: Changes made to the liturgy through the use of inclusive language; The use of the Dominican Convent at Cabra for Sophia meetings by radical feminists; The lobby by feminists and their supporters in the Cathedral grounds at the time of the Chrism Mass.
1143 - Aug 2001 - Appreciating the Mass: a successful new publication, Fr Robert Egar PP
The Adelaide Priests Vocations Committee adopted as one of its long-term strategies the idea of producing a book that would give a simple and clear explanation of the Mass.
1144 - Aug 2001 - US bishops implement papal teaching on Catholic universities, Charles E. Rice
The chapel seats 800 with six Masses on Sunday and three each weekday including a Spanish Mass.
1145 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
Roaming from mining camps to shanty towns celebrating Mass on a makeshift altar in the back of a horse-drawn buggy Denvers first bishop in 1887 was an adventuresome Frenchman Joseph Machebeuf close friend of the legendary evangelist of the American Southwest Jean Baptiste Lamy.
1146 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
No obvious mass religious revival has yet occurred.
1147 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope concluded by expressing his great gratitude for the impressive mass of work you have undertaken and for the spirit of humility and self-denial which has constantly marked your activity.
1148 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
Although the Holy Father presided at the Mass the principal celebrant was Cardinal Ratzinger probably because of the Popes tiredness after his recent visit to Ukraine reports AD2000 publisher Peter Westmore who was present at the ceremony.
1149 - Jul 2001 - Corpus Christi Seminary Inquiry Day
Young men in their senior years of secondary school (Years 11 and 12) or under 35 years old who wish to find out more about the diocesan priesthood as a vocation are invited to spend a day at Corpus Christi College for prayer Mass lunch talks and a tour of the seminary.
1150 - Jul 2001 - Books: Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage AD2000, Catherine Sheehan
The conditions of accommodation that many had to cope with were not pleasant to say the least but the joyous experiences of seeing the Pope and attending Masses that he celebrated certainly made the journey worthwhile.
1151 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Church land (letter), Charles Haber
This small church currently accommodates only 40 worshippers in cramped conditions with others having to stand outside the doorway during Mass.
1152 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Mass media (letter), Errol P. Duke
The mass media is largely to blame for this prevailing attitude.
1153 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Ballarat Diocese (letter), Peter Jenkins
What shall we do to fulfil the Sabbath obligation to honour our Lord worthily when we cannot minister to Him through the hands of a priest in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
1154 - Jul 2001 - First Tetum-language New Testament for East Timor
And whatever gains we will get will be used to re-print the much sought-after Mass guide and songbook Hananu ba Nai.
1155 - Jul 2001 - Report on Marins BECs workshop in Ballarat, Peter Finlayson
Mass celebrated by Fr Marins concluded the day.
1156 - Jul 2001 - Carnivale Christi: an inspiring display of Christian culture, Angela Smith
Byzantine Russian Syriac and Maronite chants were among the distinguishing features of these evenings with the Choir of the Holy Rood from the Maternal Heart of Mary Traditional Latin Mass Community performing Gregorian chant under the direction of Stephen Smith.
1157 - Jul 2001 - Thomas More Centre Winter Schools 2001 for Ballarat and Brisbane
There will be a choice of four workshops which will be repeated dinner and a social evening on Saturday and Mass in the Cathedral on Sunday at 5.
1158 - Jul 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Sandhursts new Bishop calls for vocations Promises diocesan support for those receiving call During his homily in Sacred Heart Cathedral Bendigo on the occasion of his Installation Mass last April the new Bishop of Sandhurst Most Rev Joseph Grech called on the dioceses Catholics to be mindful of their identity as people who do what Jesus tells us to do .
1159 - Jun 2001 - Reflection: The priest: mediator between God and man, Archbishop George Pell
This is the text of Archbishop George Pells homily to priests of the Melbourne Archdiocese for the annual Mass of the Oils on 10 April 2001 at Saint Patricks Cathedral.
1160 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Praying The Psalms: A Commentary' by Fr Stanley L. Jaki, Anthony Cappello
Fr Jaki reminds the reader of the days of the Latin Mass when the priest would recite this Psalm while he washed his hands after the Offertory - the rightful place for the lavabo: The priest needs to wet only his fingertips because he should begin the celebration of the Mass with nothing more than mere peccadillos on his conscience.
1161 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Altar (letter), Stuart J. Blackwood
to correct or soften anything that is too Catholic in the Mass .
1162 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Annunciation (letter), Andrew Scholl
00 pm on Sunday 25 March I suddenly came to the realisation that in four hours of religious activity during that day Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral Townsville from 10.
1163 - Jun 2001 - Light to the Nations 2001 - Young Australian Catholics celebrate their faith, Mary-Jane Donnellan
After the Holy Thursday Mass we had the opportunity to reflect on areas in need of our prayers: the Church herself respect for life youth vocations missions and evangelisation.
1164 - Jun 2001 - How a small rural parish survived against the odds, Paul Newton
Mass attendance was down to two people and the difficult decision was made.
1165 - Jun 2001 - US missionary risks death in Colombia, Zenit News Service
He celebrates Mass and preaches in faulty Spanish to the 30 faithful.
1166 - Jun 2001 - Annual women priests protest in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
The tenth annual protest outside St Francis Xaviers Cathedral in Adelaide during the Chrism Mass for priests of the Archdiocese took place on 9 April 2001.
1167 - Jun 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities: Adelaide's 'new model of church', Michael Gilchrist
In fact during the period BECs have been operational in Adelaides parishes Mass attendances have continued to fall in line with the rest of the country.
1168 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
As was the case five years earlier at the Melbourne Exhibition Building (St Patricks Cathedral then being renovated) the best examples of the Churchs beautiful sacred music were presented (all personally selected or approved by the Archbishop) throughout the two-and-a-half hour ceremony and Mass.
1169 - May 2001 - Books: 'Great Christian Prayers' by Stephen Redmond SJ, Peter Westmore
Among the interesting facts discussed is that use of the sign of the cross was documented by the early Church fathers that the Te Deum was written as a response to the Arian heresy of the 4th Century and that the words of the Eucharistic Prayer at Mass Blessed are you Lord God of all creation .
1170 - May 2001 - Letters: Queensland Bishops (letter), Dr Tim Coyle
I telephoned the Townsville Bishops Office to enquire the availability of Mass at Bowen for the weekend.
1171 - May 2001 - Letters: Altar? (letter), D.I. Davies
In particular the matter concerning the priest facing the people at Mass.
1172 - May 2001 - Letters: Eucharistic Congress (letter), Basil Lane
I have a medal from it being honoured to be chief altar boy at a childrens Mass celebrated by the late Bishop Barry of Goulburn.
1173 - May 2001 - Why John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Michael Davies
Catholic principles With this idea in mind he wrote Tract 90 to show that the Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles had been so worded as to admit the ancient Catholic doctrine on such subjects as the Mass and the Sacraments while excluding the Roman version of these doctrines.
1174 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
During the Mass at which he presided the first after his return the new Cardinal asked the faithful to remember their tradition of faith and their responsibilities to the universal Church.
1175 - May 2001 - 'Systematic instruction in the faith' program to be launched in July, Bishop Luc Matthys
A concerted and common effort by all priests catechists teachers and parents is called for - a concerted effort at all Masses on 14 Ordinary Sundays of Year commencing on 29 July; a common effort by all those involved in religious education to present the same subject/theme as given at the Sunday Mass that week.
1176 - Apr 2001 - Books: The Apostles' Creed, Defend the Faith and other apologetics topics, Michael Daniel
Defend the Faith analyses mainly faith-based topics in greater depth particularly those that are points of dispute with Christians of other faith traditions such as the The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Sola Scriptura (the Bible alone) Statues and Images and The Inquisition.
1177 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Dress code (letter), Raymond de Souza
Probably aware of the ways in which many Catholics dress to attend Mass on Sundays the writer of the announcement added a very diplomatic paragraph on the required dress code for the Synagogue.
1178 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
It leads to people providing their own action in place of the deep contemplative following of the Mass which is a shared action at a much deeper level.
1179 - Apr 2001 - US parishioners more outspoken about church "renovations", Zenit News Service
It says for example that in most cases the altar should allow the priest to celebrate Mass facing the people.
1180 - Apr 2001 - Is Townsville the model for Ballarat's priest shortage?, Michael Gilchrist
Some Ballarat Catholics were surprised their diocese had to venture to distant liberal Townsville one of the most hard-pressed dioceses in Australia in terms of low Mass attendances few priests and next to no seminarians.
1181 - Apr 2001 - Former Townsville Bishop's admissions on liturgy practices, Bishop Raymond Benjamin
For example: substituting Mass readings with non-scriptural texts; the use of unapproved Eucharistic Prayers on certain occasions etc.
1182 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
Mass confession the Prayer of the Church Eucharistic Adoration and other devotions will be available with the chapel open for students private prayer.
1183 - Mar 2001 - Reflection: Liturgy in the true spirit of Vatican II, Ralph McInerny
There is a sense in which the language in which the Mass is said is unimportant.
1184 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised, Michael Daniel
In Australia weekly Mass attendance rates have plumetted from around 60 percent before the Council to less than 20 percent today; rates for baptisms and Church weddings have likewise declined as has a knowledge of Church teachings particularly among younger generations.
1185 - Mar 2001 - What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
If you skip Mass criticise priests and disagree with the Church on one issue or another .
1186 - Mar 2001 - How monastic life can reinvigorate the Church, Fr Peter Knowles OP
In their turn monks and nuns have provided much of the content of that liturgy mostly in the form of a great mass of hymnography they have composed.
1187 - Mar 2001 - Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter ordinations
The ordinations which took place at the St John Vianney Church Doonside in the Parramatta Diocese were followed by Pontifical Mass according to the traditional Latin rites.
1188 - Feb 2001 - Reflection: The essential role of the Catholic priest, Fr John A. Hardon SJ
But in the Catholic Church the priest exists for one main purpose: to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass.
1189 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Sacred Liturgy', 'Discovering the Mass', by a Benedictine monk, Christopher Quinn
Prices include GST but postage needs to be added) Discovering The Mass by a Benedictine Monk (The Saint Austin Press 1999 120pp 30 plates $31.
1190 - Feb 2001 - Letters: 'Creating Our Future' (letter), Mrs Jeanette Joseph
Mass was not offered at the biggest Catholic celebration of the Jubilee year - while most children attending would have missed Mass for there was no other opportunity available on the day.
1191 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Church in China (letter), Angela Martello
On last Pentecost Sunday four lay people who helped a priest to escape arrest for saying Mass in a private home had their homes set on fire.
1192 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
Social evening The weekend also included a social evening on the Saturday night a Mass in St Michaels Cathedral and an open forum where various groups could promote their work.
1193 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
In the course of her conversation - while my friend sat patiently - she stated to the party on the other end of the line that she fully expected to be wearing a priests stole and celebrating Masses soon.
1194 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
The contents of Mass booklets recently to hand underline persistent problems Australias bishops need to address in the vital area of liturgy.
1195 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
In unit 13 the family activity is taken one step further with pupils being asked to attend Mass with their families.
1196 - Feb 2001 - Bishop Wilson of Wollongong to be the future Archbishop of Adelaide, AD2000 Report
The establishment of annual Masses for Wollongongs religious as well as for married couples has been well received.
1197 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Sermons (letter), Gordon R. Coomber
Sermons on all of the topics she mentions as missing - and more - are preached every Sunday at St Josephs Black Rock at our Latin Mass every Sunday at 10.
1198 - Dec 2000 - Letters: The Church in China (letter), Francis Vrijmoed
30am Sunday Mass in English celebrated by a local Chinese priest last September in the state-controlled Roman Catholic Cathedral in Guangzhou (formerly Canton) the General Intercessions began with Lord we pray for our Holy Father Pope John Paul II Bishop James Lin and all the priests in China .
1199 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Rainbow Serpent (letter), Hans Klaver
We all know this is an important story to the indigenous people of Australia but do Catholic primary school pupils when they are presumably taught from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and learn the prayers of the Mass have to be told the Rainbow Serpent stirred from the land and set off to create .
1200 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
This is not an exclusivist approach; we embrace the renewed sense of communio emphasised by the Second Vatican Council and in no way wish to detach the Mass from its impact on Catholic life.
1201 - Dec 2000 - C.S. Lewis: Christian apologist, Sarah Macdonald
When I began Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivialists or in the unintelligible language of highly cultured clergymen.
1202 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Jubilee year has produced a special event punctuated by a solemn Mass at which the Pope has presided nearly every Sunday of the year.
1203 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
The findings indicated a large proportion of graduating student teachers were out of line with Church teachings on the Real Presence the Trinity the priesthood abortion contraception and Sunday Mass obligation.
1204 - Nov 2000 - Books: Martyrs And Saints In Catholic Liturgy by K.G. Mortensen, Michael Daniel
This work would not only be a useful resource for those who attend weekday Mass regularly but also for those involved in liturgy preparation and education.
1205 - Nov 2000 - New lay apostolate: Confraternity of the Holy Name of Jesus, Barry O'Brien
Here in Melbourne we have approached and continue to approach parish priests with mixed success seeking permission to speak to their parishioners at Sunday Masses.
1206 - Nov 2000 - The Great Jubilee: reaffirming the spiritual power of indulgences, Catherine Cavanagh
Jubilee churches For those who do not want to let an opportunity slip daily Mass and communion and the grace of fortnightly confession mean that the two most important conditions are always fulfilled.
1207 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria
In his panegyric during the Requiem Mass for the late Fr Francis Harman Archbishop George Pell noted that Father Harman became internationally known and respected as a church lawyer - he combined an unusually clear grasp of first principles with a formidable legal dexterity and capacity for lateral thinking.
1208 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
These programs - with catchy titles such as Tomorrows Church - failed to make inroads on falling Mass attendances and individual confessions disappearing priestly and religious vocations and chronic religious illiteracy in Catholic schools.
1209 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
At the end of Mass together with the bishops he recited the Act of Entrustment to Mary before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
1210 - Nov 2000 - Canonisation of 120 Chinese martyrs: has much changed under communism?, AD2000 Report
The Pope concelebrated the canonisation Mass with Cardinal Shan Kuo-hsi of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Archbishop Joseph Ti-Kang of Taipei and Bishop John Ton Hon an auxiliary bishop of the Hong Kong Diocese.
1211 - Nov 2000 - Editorial: Pope John Paul II on the Eucharist, Michael Gilchrist
This lack of awareness of what the Holy Sacrifice really means has undoubtedly contributed to a lack of reverence during Mass as well as low Mass attendance rates in many countries.
1212 - Oct 2000 - Archbishop Pell: social justice for today's family, Archbishop George Pell
These changes have come about in a context of massive economic and social reform: the end of protection for our industries; openness to the pressure of world markets; the privatisation of government services and the reconfiguration of welfare.
1213 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
If anything it is men who find themselves increasingly marginalised in the Church: the more parishes became feminised - with around two- thirds of Mass attenders now women - the more men stay away.
1214 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The General Instruction or introductory text which gives precise instructions on how the Mass should be celebrated was earlier modified (see September AD2000).
1215 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Let me begin by suggesting some points for review by no means an exhaustive list: How Mass is celebrated: the use of voice gestures habits fidelity to liturgical law.
1216 - Sep 2000 - Rome's International Eucharistic Congress: 'an unforgettable week', Christine McCarthy
He called attention to the neglect that has occurred in relation to the Eucharistic presence outside of Mass and even to irreverence during Mass.
1217 - Sep 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The document cites regular Mass attendance figures by age group for the diocese extracted from the Catholic Church Life Survey.
1218 - Sep 2000 - Rome calls for new emphasis on the sacred at Mass, AD2000 Report
The new Latin-language instruction introduces numerous minor changes in the way Mass is to be celebrated many of them clarifying problem areas that have arisen since 1975.
1219 - Aug 2000 - A tribute to Cardinal John O'Connor, Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
The rest is history The untimely death of your good and great friend Bishop James Kileen whose first Mass I attended in 1942 at St Jeromes in the South Bronx brought you to New York to work in the Military Ordinariate and to the keen attention of Cardinal Cooke and our Holy Father.
1220 - Aug 2000 - Eucharistic Congress in Wollongong: 'a time of blessing', Fr Mark De Battista
A highlight of the congress was the celebration of Mass in two of the Eastern Catholic Rites.
1221 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Thuan said that he had celebrated the most beautiful Mass of my life while I was in prison.
1222 - Jul 2000 - John Bradburne: Zimbabwe martyr and lepers' friend
On the anniversary of Bradburnes death over 6000 people paid tribute to his memory with a candle-lit procession and an all- night vigil Midnight Mass was celebrated on his prayer track.
1223 - Jul 2000 - Italians in Australia: Celebrating cultural and Catholic identity, AD2000 Report
However in line with the wider Church Mass attendance remains relatively low at 20 percent.
1224 - Jul 2000 - Australian bishops' response to 'Woman and Man' report, Michael Gilchrist
The fact that the Catholic Church Life Survey of Mass-going Catholics found a large majority supportive of the status quo was given relatively little space in the Woman and Man report.
1225 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Paul Poupard president of the Pontifical Council for Culture celebrated the Mass after which the participants met with the Pope.
1226 - Jun 2000 - Shedding further light on the English Reformation under Edward VI, Michael Daniel
While religious houses no longer existed and pilgrimages were impossible with the destruction of most shrines Mass was still celebrated and ceremonies such as palms for Palm Sunday and ashes for Ash Wednesday were yet to be abolished.
1227 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
In 1989 enraged activists responded by chaining themselves to pews and throwing condoms in the air during Mass at St Patricks Cathedral in New York.
1228 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
About 600000 people were present at the Mass of beatification.
1229 - Jun 2000 - Archbishop Hickey reins in abuses in Sacrament of Penance, AD2000 Report
The experimental versions attempted to incorporate the Sacrament of Penance into Sunday Mass.
1230 - May 2000 - Books: 'The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue' ed. Michael Davies, Michael Daniel
Davies is a Welsh Catholic writer and President of Una Voce (an international organisation seeking to facilitate celebrations of the traditional Mass) whose works are largely concerned with the traditional rite of Mass.
1231 - May 2000 - Letters: Archbishop Pell defended (letter), Fr Kevin Ryan
They were celebrated in the sacristy (where the priest vests for Mass).
1232 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
Talk of the Mass as a meal encourages quite different ways of thinking.
1233 - May 2000 - The priesthood: John Paul II's Holy Thursday Letter sets guidelines, Pope John Paul II
The Popes Letter cited the importance for priests of long and often Eucharistic adoration as integral to the manner of witness they give to the People of God during celebrations of the Mass.
1234 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
I have heard people ask in cases of abuses: How can those Masses be valid?
1235 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Russian historian refers to the Popes prudence not only as characterising his relations with Nazism but also with the Soviet Union another regime responsible for horrific massacres.
1236 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
Findings The following are a few of McLaughlins findings: Just on one-third of student teachers interviewed believed that the bread and wine become Christs body and blood (transubstantiation) during Mass.
1237 - Apr 2000 - Indulgences and the Millennium Jubilee Year, Neil Coup
Significant too was the tribute paid to the doctrinal orthodoxy and devotional richness of the Traditional Roman rite by Pope Paul VI when authorising the New Mass: Countless saintly men have drawn rich nourishment for their spiritual lives from its scripture readings and prayers most of which were arranged in due order by St Gregory (Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum 1969).
1238 - Apr 2000 - Fraternity of St Peter in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Daniel
The Fraternity of St Peter is an Order of Pontifical Right whose priests enjoy the privilege of celebrating exclusively the Mass and Sacraments according to the typical editions of the liturgical books in use in 1962.
1239 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
In that country we find barely 5 percent Mass attendance rates no vocations of female religious in some of the dioceses for years and four or so seminarians for the whole country.
1240 - Apr 2000 - Should the Church apologise?, Fr Colin Barker
This leaves the field wide open to condone oppression torture imprisonment without trial and mass slaughter as culturally conditioned and therefore legitimate.
1241 - Mar 2000 - Books: 'Building Family Prayer and Traditions' by Steve Givens, Catherine Sheehan
Religious tradition once a natural part of Catholic family life with regular Mass Rosary Confession Benediction Grace before meals holy days of obligation and no meat on Fridays is nowadays generally a thing of the past.
1242 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
He knew he could not simply preach to the converted but had to go out into the streets the universities the world of radio and television the world of mass publication to call the world to conversion.
1243 - Mar 2000 - US Bishops favour prominence of tabernacle, AD2000 Report
First of all it makes it possible for us to reinforce our belief in the Holy Eucharist and the Real Presence by the way in which the Blessed Sacrament is greeted as the people come in make a genuflection; as they keep a prayerful silence before the Mass begins .
1244 - Mar 2000 - New York Scripture seminar affirms reliability of New Testament, Eamonn Keane
Professor Scott Hahn linked the Churchs teaching on the Kingdom of God with the Sacrifice of the Mass: Our Eucharistic liturgy is a royal Sacrament in which we participate in our Kings priestly self-offering before the angels and saints and unto his Father and our Father in heaven.
1245 - Mar 2000 - English language Mass translation reform: should ICEL be wound up?, Michael Gilchrist
Such examples abound in the ICEL version of the Mass used worldwide since 1973.
1246 - Mar 2000 - Editorial: The recovery of the sacred, Michael Gilchrist
While the Mass and Eucharist are at the heart of the Catholic faith there is no denying that numbers at weekend Masses throughout Australia continue to decline as does the level of belief in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament along with signs of Eucharistic reverence.
1247 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Persecution (letter), George F. Simpson
The residents lives of prayer fasting penance and loving obedience to the Holy Father are an inspiring example as is the reverence at Mass and the various ceremonies.
1248 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Rockhampton (letter), Franklin J. Wood
In the report parish churches are called Mass Centres.
1249 - Feb 2000 - Books: 'A Victorian Convert Quintet' by Michael Clifton, Michael Daniel
However his beliefs seemed to be an eclectic mixture of Anglican and Catholic teachings manifested by the funery requests in his will: Requiem Mass followed by burial office from the Book of Common Prayer.
1250 - Feb 2000 - The comunità: a new form of monastic life for Australia, Peter Westmore
The comunit is committed to a contemplative life with particular devotion to the reverent celebration of the Mass fidelity to the teachings of the Church prayer (including the Divine Office) and study of the Bible and the Early Fathers of the Church.
1251 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
2 million Mass attendance dropped by 30000 over the last year to just 1056027.
1252 - Feb 2000 - Editorial: Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Michael Gilchrist
Sr Fawkner made no mention of one key finding in the report: that a large majority of Mass-attending Catholics surveyed in the Catholic Church Life Survey experienced no such barriers.
1253 - Dec 1999 - On the Highway to Heaven: Wagga priest's trucking apostolate, Fr Thomas Casanova
we cleared out the VIP room in the tower above the track and offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass praying for all those we would meet.
1254 - Dec 1999 - Catholic Church Life Survey's shock findings, AD2000 Report
In one of his articles Fr Mason identifies the national Mass attendance average of Australian Catholics: .
1255 - Dec 1999 - Church art and architecture: 'sacramental role' is central, Msgr M. Francis Mannion
The question of the orientation of the altar and the priest at Mass is the most controversial aspect of this issue.
1256 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The Irish Catholic Fraternity of St Peter Foundation in Melbourne approved On 26 October 1999 the Fraternity of St Peter whose priests celebrate the traditional Latin Mass was formally invited into the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
1257 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The Melbourne Archdiocese has embarked on a massive project the introduction of a new text-based curriculum throughout our primary and secondary schools.
1258 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
The Mass even now says Save us Lord from damnation but even in the most traditional churches you very rarely hear a sermon about damnation.
1259 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Throughout this year the statue of Mary Help of Christians has travelled thousands of kilometres accompanied by Mass Eucharistic Devotion and Rosary.
1260 - Oct 1999 - Apostleship of the Sea: the Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre, AD2000 Report
Some years later in 1931 at a Mass commemorating the Golden Jubilee of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia Archbishop Daniel Mannix asked that the Society might mark the occasion by establishing a Seamens Institute in Melbourne.
1261 - Oct 1999 - Spanish academic revives speculation about authenticity of the Holy Grail, Zenit News Service
The author finally brings together the negative publicity and damage it has been subjected to since then as well as its use by John Paul II during a Mass celebrated in Valencia in November 1992.
1262 - Oct 1999 - Catholic counselling support group, Peter Watt
The network originally published quarterly newsletters and updates of its membership register for the benefit of networking and Mass was offered for clients as a regular intention.
1263 - Oct 1999 - Australian bishops' report on women: majority supports orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
The major finding of the recently launched 496-page summary report on the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia - Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus - was that a substantial majority of Mass-goers (most of them women) support orthodoxy and the status quo.
1264 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
A public Mass will be celebrated on 7 November at which time the document Ecclesia in Asia might be promulgated.
1265 - Sep 1999 - Spirituality: West Australian Rosary tapes: a growing international success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
That night I spoke at two Masses and six the following morning alternating between two churches in Ballinasloe with extraordinary co-operation by clergy and lay friends.
1266 - Sep 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Lay persons may help in this important service when there is a particular need that has been identified - as when there are so many persons present at a Mass and not enough ordained ministers to distribute Communion.
1267 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
For the first time in nearly three decades an Australian bishop has celebrated the Traditional Roman rite of the Mass in his own cathedral.
1268 - Aug 1999 - Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999), Archbishop of Westminster, R.I.P., Christopher Quinn
He allowed the Traditional Mass and visited the Brompton Oratory celebrating Mass according to their customs.
1269 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The Mass attendance rate has progressively fallen from around 63 percent in 1954 55 percent in 1964 42 percent in 1974 36 percent in 1984 to 26 percent in 1997.
1270 - Aug 1999 - Editorial: Feast of the Assumption: 15 August, Peter Westmore
The universal Church has taught that certain great feast days including the Assumption are Holy Days of Obligation when the faithful are to attend Mass; but this practice has been abandoned in Australia over the past twenty years or so.
1271 - Jul 1999 - Liturgy: An American parish's formula for success, Judy Trajanyi
Once Mass begins there are other distinguishing characteristics that set this church apart from the typical late 20th-century American Catholic model.
1272 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Priestly Fraternity of St Peter Continuing progress in United States Founded in 1988 with the approval of the Holy See the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter celebrates only the traditional Latin Mass.
1273 - Jun 1999 - New Missal a 'decided improvement' concludes US Archbishop Elden Curtiss, Archbishop Elden Curtiss
In time a Sacramentary with Mass prayers newly translated from the Latin will also be available after review and approval by the Holy See.
1274 - Jun 1999 - Fr. Frank Andersen's new book on the Eucharist: how Catholic is it?, Des O'Hagan
The author addresses two main questions: (a) How should we participate in the Mass; (b) What is the meaning of Jesus being present at Mass?
1275 - Jun 1999 - Archbishop Weakland finds defects in the post-Vatican II liturgy, Michael Daniel
While his opposition to restoration of the Tridentine Mass and calls to rectify Vatican IIs poorly implemented liturgical renewal were predictable his critical comments on practical aspects of the new Mass - largely echoing the sentiments of readers of this journal - were less expected.
1276 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Brief Catholic teachers reminded of priorities Be witnesses to Christ says Bishop Manning In March Bishop Kevin Manning of Parramatta celebrated the annual Catholic education Mass at St Patricks Church Blacktown addressing more than 1400 teachers.
1277 - Jun 1999 - Bishops Conference resolves crisis over 'Statement of Conclusions', Michael Gilchrist
Yet even with the most orthodox competent diocesan officials to help them the bishops face the major challenge that most Australian Catholics have been influenced by the prevailing culture of secularism that the national average weekly Mass attendance is now down to 18 percent and falling while two generations are largely ignorant of the faith and tend to dismiss or reject the Churchs moral teachings.
1278 - May 1999 - Historic Marian statue brings joy to Perth's Italian Catholics, Rocco Loiacono
Each day thereafter rosary and Mass were offered by Msgr Cocolo assisted by Fr Maurice Toop the parish priest of Sacred Heart.
1279 - May 1999 - The 'Statement of Conclusions': how can religious education be reformed?, Michael Daniel
Despite this massive outlay church attendance rates particularly amongst young people are at an all time low.
1280 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
On 19 April pilgrims participated in John Paul IIs traditional Vatican audience followed by Mass celebrated in the Roman Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls.
1281 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
Mass was celebrated on Saturday and Sunday in the Newman Chapel and confessions were heard by three priests on both days.
1282 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
One is constantly aware of how the mass media advertising and entertainment industries and higher education sectors treat religious issues to appreciate the strength of No Religion in pivotal opinion-shaping sectors - which in turn impact on the political processes.
1283 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Latest research on Catholic student teachers 34 percent weekly Mass attendance better than national average of 18 percent Research has recently been completed on first and final year student teachers at Australian Catholic University by Professor Denis McLaughlin head of the department of Educational Foundations at the Brisbane campus of ACU.
1284 - Apr 1999 - Editorial: Many matters in need of attention, Peter Westmore
Among other things it highlighted the important role of bishops in upholding orthodoxy; called for continuing formation of priests to develop their spiritual life; strongly encouraged the active promotion of vocations to the priesthood and religious life; demanded that associations of priests and religious superiors accept the Churchs magisterium; called for an end to abuses especially at Mass and in the Sacrament of Penance; and called for the strengthening of the Catholic content of Catholic education.
1285 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell
Being Catholic means a readiness to pray and to worship at Mass regularly to act decently and honestly - first of all with family and friends - and to strive for honesty integrity and purity.
1286 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
Last year on the anniversary of our liberation from Dachau April 29 I concelebrated with 28 other priest-survivors at a Mass presided over by Pope John Paul II in Poland.
1287 - Mar 1999 - Pilgrim Statue Of Mary Help Of Christians welcomed in Brisbane, Patrick Quirk
His Grace Archbishop Bathersby signalled the statues debut by celebrating a Cathedral Mass for the Feast of the Presentation with a candlelight procession led by the statue.
1288 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
This also includes meditation Mass Rosary Exposition and Benediction.
1289 - Mar 1999 - Changing church interiors: what is at stake, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Such a proposal would have commended itself to Martin Luther and Thomas Cranmer for whom the Mass was no more than a Communion service - as also to their modern counterparts for whom the Mass is no more than a community meal.
1290 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
However in a statement in the Cathedral weekend Mass bulletin (6-7 February) Bishop Connors made clear that the Blessed Sacrament would in future be reserved in a refurbished Blessed Sacrament Chapel rather than in a tabernacle on the former main altar of the Cathedral.
1291 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report
As soon as the Holy Father addressed the youth during a Papal Mass attended by over one million people on 24 January inviting them on behalf of the Lord Jesus to be like the apostles fishers of men a roaring round of applause and exclamations broke out from the crowd as an affirmative and lively response to the invitation of the Pope.
1292 - Feb 1999 - Bob Billings (1915-1999): outstanding Catholic layman, Peter Westmore
The following is an edited text of the tribute by the President of the National Civic Council Peter Westmore on the occasion of the Requiem Mass for Mr Billings at the Immaculate Conception parish Hawthorn Victoria on 19 January.
1293 - Feb 1999 - Brompton Oratory: London's liturgical oasis, Joanna Bogle
The Novus Ordo Latin sung Mass is packed every Sunday.
1294 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
On 23-26 October 1998 the tenth anniversary of Pope John Paul IIs motu proprio Ecclesia Dei was celebrated in Rome by thousands of supporters of the traditional Latin Mass (Missal of 1962).
1295 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist
During Pope John Paul IIs concluding address on 14 December 1998 to members of the Australian Conference of Bishops on their ad limina apostolorum visit to Rome late in 1998 (see pp 3-5) the Holy Father had occasion to comment on the role of the mass media: Unfortunately the teaching of the Magisterium is sometimes met with reservation and questioning a tendency sometimes fuelled by media interest in dissent or in some cases by the intention to use the media as a kind of strategem to force the Church into changes she cannot make.
1296 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
With weekly Mass attendances down from over 50 percent in the 1960s to less then 10 percent in places and vocations to the priesthood almost non-existent in some dioceses that was putting it generously.
1297 - Feb 1999 - Editorial: Tackling the Church's problem areas, Michael Gilchrist
There has been no lack of Vatican documents and episcopal statements expressing concerns about different problem areas in the Catholic Church in Australia: declining priestly and religious vocations liturgical abuses low Mass attendances empty confessionals poor catechetics and so on.
1298 - Dec 1998 - Intercommunion: why Catholics need not 'apologise', Kevin Myers
That key is transubstantiation which Catholics believe is the changing of the bread and wine during the sacrifice of the Mass into the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ the Saviour of Mankind.
1299 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
This one supposes refers to the practice of some celebrants adding their own comments and explanations to the stipulated wordings of the Mass.
1300 - Dec 1998 - Thomas More Centre's Sydney Spring School, Anthony English
Mass was concelebrated by Bishop Manning with Fr Sharah (Superior of the Brothers of St Francis).
1301 - Dec 1998 - Editorial: Liturgy: Reforming the reform, Michael Gilchrist
Almost thirty years since the Novus Ordo (or New Mass) was introduced following the Second Vatican Council many Catholics have wondered: Will the real New Mass ever stand up?
1302 - Sep 1998 - Books: Why Christianity must Change or Die, by Bishop John Selby Spong, Frank Mobbs
Results of the Catholic Church Life Survey for my own parish show that 22% of Mass attenders do not believe in God; that is they identify God with something which is not God.
1303 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
Importantly he found there is a strong correlation between weekly Sunday Mass attendance and acceptance of Catholic moral teaching.
1304 - Aug 1998 - Decline in priests 'an opportunity for growth!' says Townsville's Bishop, Michael Gilchrist
Several years after adopting a new diocesan blueprint - Never Ending Story - the north Queensland diocese of Townsville has achieved the distinction of having possibly the lowest level of Mass attendance of any Catholic diocese in Australia.
1305 - Jul 1998 - Inclusive language: 'eventually all nonsense implodes upon itself', Gerald Wilson
The demand within parts of the Catholic Church for inclusive language for use in the Bible the Mass and other parts of the liturgy has increased in recent years.
1306 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
The following is the full text of Archbishop George Pells homily at the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Christian Burial and State Funeral for B.
1307 - Apr 1998 - Holy See rejects the latest ICEL submission
The deep dissatisfaction which many Catholics have felt about the inferior quality and inaccuracy of English translations of Mass prayers and readings used in the reformed liturgy since Vatican II has come to a head in the Holy Sees rejection of the latest production from ICEL (International Commission on English in the Liturgy).
1308 - Mar 1998 - Reflection: Young Catholics: why 'updating' the Church will not bring them back, Rocco Loiacono
0ver many years explanations have been sought as to the whys and the wherefores of declining Mass attendance and apathy towards Church involvement in general - particularly among younger Catholics.
1309 - Mar 1998 - Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity is binding on Catholics, Peter Westmore
His comments followed public dissent expressed against the former document particularly its limitations on lay participation on the altar during the celebration of the Mass.
1310 - Feb 1998 - Reflection: The Mass: the symbolism of 'facing East', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Until very recently say thirty years ago every holy Mass in every part of the world in cathedral parish church or small chapel for century after century was celebrated turned towards the Lord not as now facing the people.
1311 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor
We believe that this same Christ the Son of God is here with us in his eucharistic presence that in this holy sacrifice of the Mass a piece of bread will actually become his sacred body a cup of wine his precious blood fountain of life and of eternal youth and renewal.
1312 - Dec 1997 - Adelaide Cathedral administrator calls for Church blessing of homosexual unions, Peter Westmore
Far different from Fr Shinnicks approach was that adopted in Melbourne where a group of homosexuals attempted to turn a Mass in St Patricks Cathedral into a demonstration in favour of recognition of homosexuality.
1313 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal O'Connor of New York in Australia as the Pope's representative, Michael Gilchrist
The centrepiece of his visit was celebration of Mass at the Cathedral and consecration of a new high altar on Monday night 27 October 1997.
1314 - Nov 1997 - A young Catholic woman's defence of Church teachings, Anna Silvas
Why is that I hear a mature married woman once a daily Mass-goer patronisingly dismiss the Pope in a way she would have abhorred years before or a senior priest at Mass sneer at the Popes letter for the year of the family and proceed to defend every form of family except that of husband wife and children?
1315 - Nov 1997 - Editorial: Can the tide of religious illiteracy be reversed?
The legacy of this can be found among todays Catholic parents and teachers who are part of a context in which Mass attendances are barely 20% and knowledge and practice of the Faith minimal.
1316 - Sep 1997 - Editorial: Inclusive language: the Vatican sets the limits, Michael Gilchrist
The second decisive - and one hopes conclusive - decision was the Vaticans refusal to countenance a mass of devices to whittle away the true meaning of the Biblical texts used in the liturgy in order to make them acceptable to the feminist club comprised largely of nuns and lay employees of the Churchs various educational structures and establishments.
1317 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
The mass media - and even some Catholic papers - have tended to focus attention on those speakers most critical of the status quo as if these were representative views worthy of support.
1318 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
Most young Catholics even those who are not regular Mass-goers pray regularly.
1319 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
a definite and uncontested commitment (although a recent US survey suggests that most Catholic women oppose the introduction of inclusive language in the Mass).
1320 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist
How many of the dwindling numbers of loyal Mass-going Catholics will continue to support such an arrangement remains to be seen.
1321 - Apr 1997 - Brisbane Archdiocese booklets: how to make parishes 'zoom along', Michael Gilchrist
Nowhere is there mention of Mass attendance levels Eucharistic adoration reverence daily Masses effective use of the Catechism of the Catholic Church or numbers at confession as indicators of a parishs success.
1322 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
The secular press subsequently reported on the mass resignation of the seminary staff of Corpus Christi College which caters for all Victorian and Tasmanian dioceses.
1323 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
Impressions Although my impressions of the Church in Singapore are based primarily on my contact with the local Franciscan communities and my attendance at Sunday Mass at St Josephs Parish Upper Bukit Timah my experience with other parishes and religious communities suggests that these observations are valid in varying degrees for the Church throughout Singapore.
1324 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Adelaide: Road to renewal? Or decline?, Michael Gilchrist
Conversely if Mass attendances priestly vocations and knowledge and/or practice of Church teachings are any spiritual yardstick the statistical decline at the grass roots continues.
1325 - Feb 1997 - 'Catholic Church Life Survey': 250,000 parishioners polled, Michael Gilchrist
During November 1996 in what must be the largest project of its kind in the Churchs history 250000 Catholics in about 400 Australian parishes were asked to fill out one of four different survey forms distributed during Masses.
1326 - Oct 1996 - Reflection: Mediator Dei: Recovering the 'vital impulse' of the liturgical movement, Bishop Basil Meeking (Christchurch, New Zealand)
The trouble was those reforms - in some of the rites of the Mass in the rites of the sacraments in the calendar in the use of the vernacular in facilitating greater participation - took so much effort that the work of the liturgical movement has been tied up just with the mechanics of the changes for the past thirty years or more.
1327 - Sep 1996 - Fr Joseph Fessio in Australia: Principles of genuine liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Harrison had argued that any comprehensive return to the preconciliar Mass was not an ultimate solution to the present problem even if a continued and widespread exercise of this option as allowed for by the Pope was to be desired.
1328 - Aug 1996 - Oxford Declaration on Liturgy: intentions of Vatican II 'frustrated', Christopher Quinn
One of the stated purposes of the conference was to enable priests and laity to pray and reflect together on the purpose of the Mass and on what precisely the great liturgical reform initiated by the Second Vatican Council has so far achieved and failed to achieve.
1329 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
But a priest is one who offers sacrifice and the bare facts are that without a priest we have no Mass and without Mass our Church has its very heart torn out.
1330 - Jul 1996 - Books: 'Critics on Trial - An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis', O'Connell, Fr John Parsons
As Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) the French secular priest and chief Modernist writer put it in 1906 two years before his excommunication and some months before he stopped saying Mass: It appears evident to me that the notion of God has never been more than a sort of ideal projection a replication of the human personality and that theology has never been nor could it ever be more than a mythology that becomes with time more and more sanitised.
1331 - Jul 1996 - Vendée Catholics during the French Revolution, James Bogle
All this was massively rejected by the Vendeacute;e and elsewhere.
1332 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
There are at present at least three liturgical trends evident today: a continuing radicalisation of the new Mass via the liturgical bureaucracy; a reform of the reform (supported by Cardinal Ratzinger) seeking to bring the liturgy more into line with Vatican II; and a spread of celebrations of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass.
1333 - May 1996 - Reflection: Holy Communion and the Real Presence: whatever happened to reverence?, Christine McCarthy
Some five minutes later Mass finishes.
1334 - May 1996 - Archbishop Little warns priests on flawed 'priestless liturgies' document
The parish and its parish priest said Dr Little are not essential for the attendance of people at weekly Mass.
1335 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
Charles son Archduke Dr Otto von Habsburg (now a member of the European Parliament) recalled that Charles had ordered a Mass to be said at which he would be altar-server.
1336 - Apr 1996 - Vatican II, 1962-1965 - The next 30 years: to bring about a Catholic revival, Fr John Parsons
Fr Parsons is in charge of the Canberra-Goulburn Archdioceses Latin Mass congregation at St Brigids Dickson ACT and is a regular contributor to secular and religious publications.
1337 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
Fr John Parsons who is in charge of the Canberra-Goulburn Archdioceses traditional Latin Mass congregation at St Brigids Dickson ACT is a regular contributor to the religious and secular press.
1338 - Mar 1996 - Editorial: The problem is belief, B.A. Santamaria
Others have summed him up as an essentially political revolutionary fighting to liberate the Jewish masses from the Roman yoke.
1339 - Feb 1996 - An agnostic medical student on euthanasia: 'Why taking a life is unacceptable', Matthew Bailey
The question of whether or not to legalise euthanasia continues to be hotly argued across the Australian mass media.
1340 - Feb 1996 - 'Mass facing the people': did Vatican II require it?, Eamon Duffy
It is widely believed that the modern practice of celebrating Mass facing the people has solid historical foundations in Church tradition and was called for by Vatican II.
1341 - Nov 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - II - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
He heard Mass daily though in London he was fifteen minutes distant from the church.
1342 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
That fewer and fewer young Catholics see the need to attend Mass even while still attending Catholic schools is hardly remarkable given the kinds of teaching on the Mass and sacraments in vogue since the late 1960s.
1343 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
This push has been assisted by the ready availability of the mass media.
1344 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
The following Sunday he attended Mass for the first time in England at St Georges Cathedral Southwark and the attraction he had felt to the Catholic Church as a boy of seventeen returned.
1345 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
For his first Mass he was assisted by Msgr Ghika who being of the Byzantine Rite was much at sea with the sparse tidy Dominican Rite even sparser and tidier than the then current Roman Rite.
1346 - Aug 1995 - Reflection: A Catholic undergraduate faces the future with confidence, Lucy O'Connell
I have to traipse from parish to parish in search of priests who do not change the form of the Mass or give sermons containing error or de-emphasise the Eucharist.
1347 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
Edels mother was a devout Catholic who attended daily Mass and it was she along with some of Edels nun-teachers who exerted an early spiritual influence.
1348 - May 1995 - Perth's Archbishop calls for liturgical fidelity, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Priests and the Eucharistic Liturgy directs among other things that: A priest should not allow his personality and skills to prevail over the sacred mysteries being celebrated for the Mass is never simply the action of the people.
1349 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
In a recent interview with Roger McCaffrey of the US-based journal The Latin Mass Bishop Bruskewitz remarked that his diocese was blessed with a contented happy priesthood an abundance of young priests and seminarians no external signs of dissent nor any of the clerical scandals which have plagued other American dioceses.
1350 - May 1995 - Editorial: Re-defining Christianity through substitution, B.A. Santamaria
The program seemed to invite the conclusion that these secular icons were perhaps better off for keeping Christianity at a distance and that genuine holiness need not derive from Gods help via prayer penance sacraments or the Mass.
1351 - Mar 1995 - A young Catholic's view of Youth Liturgies, Bernard Finnigan
A common view among Catholic educators and liturgists appears to be that entertainment-oriented youth Masses are needed to attract (or retain) the allegiance of young Catholics.
1352 - Feb 1995 - Reflection: Receiving Communion: why the Church's rule should be followed, Christine McCarthy
At Holy Mass this intimate relationship between Christ and the priest is at its most intense especially when he pronounces those words of Consecration which bring the divine presence onto the altar so as to offer Christ in sacrifice to God the Father in the re-presentation of Calvary.
1353 - Feb 1995 - Vatican says 'no' to NRSV translation - 'Inclusive language' setback, Michael Gilchrist
The Vatican has now barred use of the inclusive New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) translation of the Bible for Scripture readings during Masses in English-speaking countries.
1354 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
Daily Mass seems to be hit and miss - apparently it alternates with morning or evening prayer!
1355 - Dec 1994 - Cardinal Hume: the new Catechism must be implemented, Simon Matthews
As summaries they are necessarily brief and one may note the absence of explicit mention of the Sunday Mass obligation.
1356 - Nov 1994 - Vatican moves to save high altars: a bit late in the day, Simon Matthews
Reading the documents we see that there is a preference for a freestanding altar and that Mass facing the people is permitted.
1357 - Sep 1994 - Gregorian Chant makes a comeback, Simon Matthews
The first Immaculee Conception (AMCD 107/38707) is of Mass and Vespers of that feast.
1358 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
A considerable proportion of the Catholics who still regularly attend Mass - whether a majority or a minority can only be guessed at - are disgusted at the situation in which they find themselves.
1359 - Jul 1994 - Books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church', Fr Peter Joseph
Since the ICEL Mass translations are all being revised in any case there was no duty to keep to them.
1360 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
The almost complete success of the Lutheran movement in the years 1517-1525 was made possible by the control of that ages only means of mass communication the press whose significance for the Church was insufficiently understood.
1361 - Jun 1994 - 'Inclusive' Mass readings: why the rush?, Michael Gilchrist
This journal has highlighted recent moves to introduce inclusive language into the English edition of the new Catechism and into the Ordinary of the Mass.
1362 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
I do not experience the changing of the bread and wine into Our Lords body and blood at Mass any more than I experience the neuronal changes constantly occurring in my own brain.
1363 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
A recent document (newsletter) from the Catholic Diocese of Townsville (Queensland) titled Partnership - a vision of hope dated December 1993 and produced by the Townsville Pastoral Planning and Formation Commission asks in regard to Mass attendances Where have all the people gone?
1364 - Feb 1994 - Can liturgical 'reform' be reformed?, Simon Matthews
The new Mass of the Roman Rite formally promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1970 has continued to be the focus of criticism by some Catholics for being more a revolutionary break with the past than an orderly organic development of the rite as required by Vatican II.
1365 - Feb 1994 - New studies raise question: How 'Catholic' are Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
The number attending Sunday Mass according to the survey fell from 69% in 1972 to 38% in 1990 (p.
1366 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
The crisis must if possible be ended or the Church will cease to exist as a Church of the masses.
1367 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews
Recently the writings of Monsignor Klaus Gamber and of Cardinal Ratzinger have recalled the fact that the practice of celebrating Mass facing the people does not have the ancient origins that some liturgical historians have claimed for it and that it is not a theological pastoral or even psychological necessity to continue the practice today.
1368 - Nov 1993 - Preparing for a 'priestless' Church in Rockhampton?, Michael Gilchrist
At a time when the Church is facing major problems with falling Sunday Mass attendances especially among the young - with Melbournes rate now down to barely 20 percent - it seemed curious timing for Bishop Brian Heenan of Rockhampton to absolve Catholics in his diocese from their Mass obligation even for just one weekend.
1369 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
In his Religion in Australia published in 1970 Dr Hans Mol estimated that 60 percent of Catholics went to Mass weekly.
1370 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
in its relation to the Mass it describes in a profound and beautiful passage what happens when the faithful visit the Blessed Sacrament: Dwelling with Christ our Lord they enjoy His intimate friendship and pour out their hearts before Him for themselves and their dear ones and pray for the peace and salvation of the world.
1371 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth Western Australia celebrated a special Mass in St Marys Cathedral Perth on Sunday 25th July to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae which has been the target of continued criticism from within the Church ever since its release.
1372 - Jul 1993 - Reflection: Eucharistic reverence: 'How our actions reflect our belief', Christine McCarthy
We were never allowed to touch the sacred vessels nor the linen cloths used for Mass.
1373 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
Rather the sad result is too often the slavery and sheep-like acceptance that we have - powerfully beamed at us by the mass media and education policies.
1374 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
And while stop-gap measures may be necessary to ensure that all Catholics have access to regular Mass and Holy Communion into the foreseeable future it is vital that those responsible have a long hard look at how Australias larger seminaries are currently operated and at how the image of the priesthood is projected to young potential recruits.
1375 - Jun 1993 - US opposition to ICEL changes intensifies, AD2000 Report
The present revised Mass translation is due for review and approval in 1994.
1376 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
There is very clear evidence that after the enormous moral and financial investment in Catholic schools less than 10% of those who finally leave the class-room have any real knowledge of Catholic doctrine or regularly attend Mass: a condition which by the end of the decade unless radically attacked will leave a mere 10% of the Catholic population practising what is a largely ersatz religion.
1377 - Nov 1992 - Where 'normal' religious life flourishes, Fr John Parsons
They too celebrated their Low Masses in the morning after Lauds each priest thus making full personal use of his priesthood for the greater glory of God and to intercede for some particular need.
1378 - Nov 1992 - Editorial: Turning the Faith inside out, B.A. Santamaria
Every successful acceptance of inclusive language; every endorsement of proposals to down play the parish; every communion service offered where with a little effort or ingenuity the Mass might otherwise be supplied: each is a small but extremely practical sign of the fact that the foundations of Catholicism are being successfully eroded.
1379 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
For many years at the end of Mass in response to the Fatima message we prayed for the conversion of Russia.
1380 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
Yet Dignity continues to hold Masses at Milwaukees St Pius X Church contrary to Vatican directives (The Wall Street Journal July 11 1991).
1381 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
She did not overcome the crisis by giving up her authority nor by accepting equivocal formulas of compromise nor by welcoming the liturgical chaos created by arbitrary innovations in the divine service; these were also eliminated on the Protestant side with Luthers German Mass and the later Lutheran ecclesiastical ordinances.
1382 - Sep 1992 - 'Science can't explain Creation of the Universe' - Fr. Stanley Jaki in Australia, Peter Westmore
(In fact as every student of nuclear physics knows Einsteins theory deals only with the inter-convertibility of mass and energy and that time slows down as an object moves at speeds approaching that of light.
1383 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
Comparisons with earlier research data were particularly revealing: Whereas 48% of a similar sample of Catholic students in 1970 thought their work with secular subjects complemented their Christian beliefs in 1989 the figure was down to 11%; In the total sample 90% went to weekly Mass in 1970 63% in 1981 and 43% in 1989; at one of the sampled Catholic schools (Sion) the drop was from 96% to 37% between 1970-1989!
1384 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
What Sr Carmel Leaveys research discloses is that of those who are still at school: 77% have at least a tentative belief in God and Jesus; 57-58% have some intention of modelling their lives on the teaching and example of Christ; 35% have a positive view of their knowledge of Christianity; 13% can explain the Incarnation; 42% believed in the certainty of life after death; 2% could adequately explain the Kingdom of God; 43% went to weekly Mass (compared with 90% in a similar survey in 1970 and 63% in 1981).
1385 - Jun 1992 - Did 'the Enlightenment' K.O. Christianity?, David Quinn
To have any hope of implementing a program of social reform the massive power and authority of the Church had first to be confronted.
1386 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
(1) One (as the old catechism used to define it) means that all Catholics believe the same truths offer the same Sacrifice of the Mass share the same Sacraments and are united under one visible head on earth the Pope.
1387 - May 1992 - Christianity's first three centuries - the truth behind the myth, Andrew Quinlan
The last resort was therefore a mass persecution at the grass roots which lasted on and off in various places until about 311.
1388 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Apparently the Orthodox have not adverted to the indifference in which they themselves are held by the vast mass of Catholics and do not see that the lack of interest is born of lack of awareness of their history and their place in Christianity.
1389 - Apr 1992 - Whence Ecumenism? The Vatican and ARCIC, Michael Davies
Article XXXI of the Thirty-Nine Articles to which all Anglican clerics must subscribe teaches that: Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses in which it was commonly said that the Priests did offer Christ for the quick and the dead to have remission of pain and guilt were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits.
1390 - Feb 1992 - Authority - Yes, Authoritarianism - No, David Quinn
The result of this is rampant individualism and among other things the mass breakdown in relationships we witness going on around us.
1391 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
The Popes wide ranging agenda for renewal can be found spelt out in a host of documents and addresses such as his reminder that the Mass is above all else a sacrifice a sacred ritual not simply a meal community togetherness - even entertainment - and that the liturgical rubrics and disciplines of the universal Church are to be faithfully observed.
1392 - Dec 1991 - 'Follow your conscience': but what does that mean?, Frank Mobbs
Young people justify their receiving Holy Communion after months of unrepented missing of Mass by appeal to their consciences.
1393 - Dec 1991 - New Zealand: 'transforming the Church from within', John Kennedy OBE
which presses the case for preaching at Mass by nuns and laity.
1394 - Nov 1991 - Editorial: When television told the truth, B.A. Santamaria
By the end of the decade the already small percentage of those still attending Mass will be smaller still.
1395 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull
It is a land that has produced in every century an abundant harvest of saints theologians and missionaries and yet estimates today place the Sunday Mass attendance figure as low as 11% in a population of some forty million baptised Catholics.
1396 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
We now have a variety of liturgical styles in our parishes and a great deal of theological confusion and divisions among our intelligentsia with the great bulk of our slowly diminishing group of Mass-goers not too much influenced by this except when it impinges on the young members of their families.
1397 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
It is not for instance merely the result of the abandonment of the Latin Mass although the influence of that display of authoritarianism - which conflicted with the injunctions of the Council - cannot be dismissed.
1398 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
prepared a massive report for the Bishops.
1399 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
Arnold: But how specifically do you reconcile theological problems such as the Mass the Eucharist interpretation of Scripture?
1400 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
The Sunday Mass attendance among students seemed to be quite low despite the heavy concentration in the school of ethnic groups whose families held to traditional religious values and practice and were not over-materialistic.
1401 - Mar 1991 - Editorial: Statistician registers numbers of believers - but what do they believe?, B.A. Santamaria
Of the 4 million Catholics no more than 22-23% at the most take their religion seriously enough to go regularly to Sunday Mass whereas at the beginning of the sixties the proportion was 54%.
1402 - Feb 1991 - Leading questions for New Zealand's Religious, Sr Micaela Dillon OP
The last point is pressing as some questions seem to suggest a particular attitude to the Mass.
1403 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
Despite the present healthy Mass attendance figures for American Catholics Protestant trends within the Church do not augur well for the future.
1404 - Dec 1990 - Books: Australian bishops tell Catholic teachers what to teach, Msgr John P. Kelly
Scattered among its pages one will find statements albeit in just a few words at times affirming that sacred Tradition is a vehicle for revelation; that interpretation of the Scriptures (and Tradition) must be subject to its authentic interpretation by the Magisterium; that the Pope is infallible; the truth of Jesus resurrection; that the risen Jesus offers Himself to the Father today (particularly) through the Sacrament of the Eucharist also called the Mass; that Eucharistic (school or class) liturgies are not purely affective experiences; genuflection as adoration and reverence; the meaning of Transubstantiation; the obligation to attend Sunday and Holy Day Mass; that first Confession precedes first Communion; the necessity after grave sin of sacramental Absolution before receiving Communion; the distinction between venial and grave (or mortal) sin; the reality of Original Sin; the Ten Commandments; that abortion is wrong that artificial contraception is inconsistent with a Christian understanding of human sexuality; that homosexual actions are not Christian love; the existence of judgement Heaven Hell Purgatory angels and devils.
1405 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
More specifically is the new look Australian seminary even when trying to look its best for example in the above publicity picture from a fund-raising brochure (showing seminarians standing around an altar for Mass some in thongs with hands in pockets) or in statements of policy by seminary rectors or in the comments of newly ordained priests in radio or press interviews a likely invitation to recruitment?
1406 - Aug 1990 - Christians and the 'Green' prophets of doom: the need for scepticism, Bill Muehlenberg
Now unless Ive missed something hundreds of millions of people did not die in mass famines in the 70s.
1407 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
So it would be quite normal for me to be sent to a Catholic school to go to Mass on Sunday to say my prayers.
1408 - Mar 1990 - Parish assemblies - pluralism or brainwashing?, Michael Gilchrist
The priorities would be clear and urgent: falling Mass attendances empty confessionals the rapid decline of priestly and religious vocations defective catechetics courses a breakdown in family life little understanding and/or observation of the Churchs moral teachings widespread liturgical abuses and much unorthodox content in seminary adult education and teachers college courses.
1409 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
For what else in most persecutions did people throughout the centuries die if not for the faith in the Mass and all it stood for?
1410 - Mar 1990 - 'Being church': manipulating language to change meaning, Fr Peter J. Elliott
It has similar nuances to insisting always on Eucharist instead of Mass or teaching eight-year-olds to explain dramatically that they are making their first reconciliation.
1411 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
Mass counts are a shadow of what they used to be.
1412 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
The single Mass The outrage felt by Romero and his clergy after the assassination of Grande was expressed in a decision to hold only one Mass in the Archdiocese on the following Sunday.
1413 - Feb 1990 - A Tale of Two Universities, Dr Ralph McInerny, Dr Alan Schreck
At our Baccalaureate Mass on May 12 1989 our president Father Michael Scanlan TOR Dean of Faculty Dr Michael Healy all of our seven full-time theology professors and all of the Franciscan priests who teach and minister on our campus publicly made the Profession of Faith and took the Oath of Fidelity which were graciously received by our bishop Albert Ottenweller.
1414 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
Three Masses are celebrated daily all in Latin at the students request.
1415 - Dec 1989 - Challenging the atmosphere and agenda of secularist Australia, Karl Schmude
Identity By contrast with Europe the Church in Australia retained the allegiance and affection of the great mass of ordinary people; and by contrast with America it exerted a general influence on a culture that had privatised religion - and thus blocked any kind of transcendental identity.
1416 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
The whole school attends First Friday Mass.
1417 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
The Creed used at that colleges Opening of the School Year Mass in February was something of a foretaste of the students Year of Mission contributions to liturgy.
1418 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
It is also true that Catholic education is not confined to the school; far more crucial is the role of the family not to mention the local parish and the mass media.
1419 - Jul 1989 - Editorial: No subscriptions under false pretences, B.A. Santamaria
Almost the only opportunity a young Catholic has of hearing a list of the uncompromisable doctrines of the Church is in the recitation of the Nicene Creed at Mass.
1420 - Jun 1989 - How the liturgy fell apart: the enigma of Archbishop Bugnini, Michael Davies
In India this incarnation has reached the extent of making the Mass in some centres appear more reminiscent of Hindu rites than the Christian Sacrifice.
1421 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
This development is exemplified not merely in the field of the liturgy where the arrogant and brutal destruction of the old Mass has been followed by a limp and occasionally desacralised successor.
1422 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
These recruits after all are drawn from a community which has massively departed from the Churchs official moral teachings and of which only about 25% attend regular Sunday Mass.
1423 - Feb 1989 - Editorial: Who are the educational 'experts'?, B.A. Santamaria
Perhaps the Archbishop himself provides the answer when he refers to the characteristic teaching in Catholic schools on the obligation to attend Mass each Sunday.
1424 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
The Council changed the language of the liturgy from Latin into English and provoked substantial and beautiful reforms to the Mass and the ritual of the sacraments so that our liturgical style is much closer to that of Cranmer and the Lutherans than previously.
1425 - Oct 1988 - A Catholic university for Australia: surely not modelled on Notre Dame?, Michael Gilchrist
A similar capitulation occurred during 1988 at Fordham where the Gay and Lesbian Student Union has now organised forums featuring homosexual speakers including one involved with disruptions of the Sunday Mass at St Patricks Cathedral New York City.
1426 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
Catalyst While Lefebvres opposition to Rome is not confined to the issue of the Tridentine Mass the de facto abolition of the Tridentine Mass was the catalyst.
1427 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
Its Sunday Mass attendance rate was among the highest in the world at the time of the Council; as late as 1967 the figure was still 63 per cent including 84 per cent in rural areas.
1428 - May 1988 - Cardinal Ratzinger: defender of the Faith, Andrew Greenwich
Between the clergy-dominated opposition and the lay-dominated Ratzinger supporters are the mass of Catholics.
1429 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
Lest they forfeit their connections with the great mass of Catholics whom they are endeavouring to lead in a direction which would be anathema to the latter if openly avowed the dissident groups carefully label their continuing internal rebellion faithful dissent or loyal opposition without clearly specifying to what they are faithful or to whom they are loyal.
1430 - Dec 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: the new consoling certainty of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
1431 - Nov 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Sunday Mass: 'not a command, but an inner necessity', Pope Benedict XVI
1432 - Oct 2004 - Liturgy: Why priests should stick to the Mass texts, Bishop T.J. Paprocki
1433 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Mass translation?, Philip Holberton
1434 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Unwarranted school closure, Maurice McGrath
1435 - Nov 2002 - Books: Scripture Diary 2003
1436 - Mar 2002 - 'Liturgiam Authenticam', ICEL and the need for improved Mass translations, Anna Silvas