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December 3, 2011
New Mass Translation Outside Mass; Bad Confession Advice; Customer Responsibility; Responsibility for Others' Sins
So the new Mass Translation has gone into effect! (Woo-hoo!) But there are still questions about it that need to be asked.
For example: If you're in a *different* liturgy (not the Mass, one of the other sacraments) and the priest says "The Lord be with you," what are you supposed to say? The old "And also with you" or the new "And with your spirit"?
Or what if you're saying the Confetior in another service? Or how about using the Collect from Mass in the Liturgy of the Hours? Or taking Communion to an elderly person who suffers from dementia and is only used to the old translation?
Also, what should you do if a priest tells you in confession not to confess all your mortal sins? Does this invalidate the confession? Do you need to go back and confess them? What to say to a priest who tells you this kind of thing?
What are our responsibilities as customers? Do we have a moral obligation to refuse to purchase products that may have involved animal cruelty or poor working conditions at factories in the third world? Is it a sin to do so? How could we untangle these questions?
Suppose you innocently mention something to a co-worker and that results in the co-worker going out and committing a mortal sin. How responsible are you for what happened? Did *you* sin?
These are among the questions we explore in this week's episode of the Jimmy Akin Podcast!
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SHOW NOTES:
JIMMY AKIN PODCAST EPISODE 023 (12/03/11)
* CHRIS ASKS ABOUT THE NEW MASS TRANSLATION AND THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/archbishop-aymond/
* AIMEE ASKS ABOUT A PRIEST WHO TOLD HER NOT TO CONFESS PAST MORTAL SINS IN CONFESSION
* LUKE FROM MINNESOTA ASKS ABOUT USING PRODUCTS FROM COMPANIES ENGAGED IN ANIMAL CRUELTY OR WORKER MISTREATMENT
* JACK FROM ARDMORE ASKS ABOUT PROVIDING INFORMATION TO PEOPLE WHICH LEADS TO THEIR COMMITTING MORTAL SIN
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The Weekly Benedict (Dec. 3, 2011)
Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):
ANGELUS: Angelus, 27 November 2011
AUDIENCE: 23 November 2011, Apostolic Journey to Benin
SPEECH: To the Bishops from the United States of America on their ad Limina visit (November 26, 2011)
December 1, 2011
Secret, Closed-Door Vatican Smackdown?
Back on November 10, well-respected Vaticanista Sandro Magister reported:
Precisely when the G20 summit in Cannes was coming to its weak and uncertain conclusion, on that same Friday, November 4 at the Vatican, a smaller summit convened in the secretariat of state was doing damage control on the latest of many moments of confusion in the Roman curia.
In the hot seat was the document on the global financial crisis released ten days earlier by the pontifical council for justice and peace. A document that had disturbed many, inside and outside of the Vatican.
The secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, complained that he had not known about it until the last moment. And precisely for this reason he had called that meeting in the secretariat of state.
The conclusion of the summit was that this binding order would be transmitted to all of the offices of the curia: from that point on, nothing in writing would be released unless it had been inspected and authorized by the secretariat of state.
The PCJP document was indeed a subject of controversy. For example, some, such as the astute Mark Brumley, pointed out the difficulties that would be involved in implementing its proposals.
In anticipation of and in response to the controversy, I tried to provide some perspective to help people situate it in the overall scheme of things, including whether or not it represented an act of the Magisterium.
Magister's piece on the document was widely hailed in the blogosphere and viewed as an indication that the document had caused a secret, closed-door Vatican smackdown.
I thought about blogging on the topic at the time, but I wanted to wait and see how the story matured.
November 27, 2011
The Four Liturgists of the Apocalypse
The Register recently asked me to do a post on what I saw at Mass this Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent, the first Sunday using the new translation of the Roman Missal.
Happy to oblige! So here's what happened . . .
I arrived at Mass a few minutes early and took my seat in the pew. The particular parish I was attending had not done a lot of prep work for the new translation.
In fact, I saw that the Roman Missal they had was still in its shiny, new shrinkwrap.
And behold, there were seven seals upon its shrinkwrap.
I heard the cantor proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the Missal and break its seals?"
And no one in the parish was able to open the Missal or to look into it, and I wept much that no one was able to open the Missal, for I was really looking forward to the new translation.
Then the pastor said, "Weep not. This will only take a moment."
November 26, 2011
The Weekly Benedict (Nov. 26, 2011)
Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):
AUDIENCE: 16 November 2011, Psalm 110 (109)
APOSTOLIC VOYAGE TO BENIN (cont. from last week) . . .
SPEECH: Meeting with children at St. Rita Parish in Cotonou (November 19, 2011)
SPEECH: Meeting with the Bishops of Benin at the Apostolic Nunciature of Cotonou (November 19, 2011)
HOMILY: Holy Mass at the "Stade de l'amitié" of Cotonou (November 20, 2011)
ANGELUS: Recitation of the Angelus Domini (Cotonou, 20 November 2011)
SPEECH: Farewell ceremony at Cardinal Bernardin GantinInternational Airport (Cotonou, 20 November 2011)
Did Jesus Quote the Deuterocanonicals? Receiving the Holy Spirit in Acts. Should I Quit My Job at Hospital?
You often hear that Jesus and the apostles quoted from the deuterocanonical books of the Bible--those that aren't in the Protestant Old Testament. Did they? If not, what does the New Testament's use of the Old Testament tell us about the canonicity of those books?
In Acts 8 Luke describes a situation where a group of people have been baptized, but he says that the Holy Spirit hasn't fallen on them yet. If we receive the Holy Spirit in baptism, how can we explain this?
What if you work in a hospital that performs In Vitro Fertilization or other immoral procedures. If your own work is doesn't involve those, do you still have to quit your job?
These are among the questions we explore in this week's episode of the Jimmy Akin Podcast!
Click Play to listen . . .
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SHOW NOTES:
JIMMY AKIN PODCAST EPISODE 022 (11/26/11)
* WHIT FROM FLORIDA ASKS ABOUT QUOTATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW
Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament: A Complete SurveyBy Gleason Leonard, Jr. Archer and Gregory Chirichigno
http://astore.amazon.com/jimmyakincom-20/detail/1597520403
NOTE: "Septuagint" is abbreviated LXX
Categories:
A (straightforward LXX): 268
B (LXX where it slightly deviates from MT): 50
C (Masoretic Text): 33
D (LXX where it deviates more from the MT): 22
E (Other): 13
F (Allusions that aren't quotations): 32
Total using LXX as primary text: 340
Total using MT as primary text: 33
Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament
http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/deutero3.htm
* WESLEY FROM BROOKLYN ASKS RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ACTS
CCC 1288-1290
* "CONFLICTED" ASKS ABOUT QUITTING HER JOB AT A HOSPITAL THAT DOES IMMORAL PROCEDURES
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November 24, 2011
Bl. Miguel Pro & H. P. Lovecraft
Separated at birth?
Thoughts on Re-Watching Star Trek
So... why did they need a helmsman *and* a navigator on the Enterprise (NCC-1701)?
Surely the degree of computerization in the 23rd century would be such that after the course is "plotted and laid in" all you'd need to do is set the speed and push "Boldly Go!"
Further, the ship should have been able to run on autopilot for lightyear after lightyear between stars.
And what's with all this staff on the bridge?
You only need a watch officer and maybe a petty officer to monitor the ship's functions, right? (That's assuming the petty officer *isn't* a ship's function; it really should be an AI.)
And why do we need a full-time receptionist?
Sulu, Uhura, and the gang must have been bored out of their minds.
November 23, 2011
New TV Program on 1st Female Pope?
The other day a press release lands in my email inbox and blares:
U.S. TELEVISION PREMIERE OF "POPE JOAN" ON REELZCHANNEL
The Incredible Legend of the Only Female Pope
Two-Part Television Miniseries Event Premieres Sunday and Monday, December 18-19, 2011 at 8pm ET and at 8pm PT
Oh, great. The "Pope Joan" thing again.
REELZCHANNEL? I've never heard of that before. And it's no wonder with a name like REELZCHANNEL. What were their corporate branding people thinking? That Z for S substitution in the middle of two words slammed together is just painful to think about.
But back to the story . . .
(Albuquerque, NM) Tuesday, November 22, 2011—REELZCHANNEL—TV About Movies® today announced the two-part miniseries "Pope Joan" will make its U.S. television premiere on REELZ starting Sunday, December 18, 2011 with part 1 airing at 8pm ET and at 8pm PT. "Pope Joan" is the legend that will not die—a sweeping historical drama about a woman whose existence has been denied for a thousand years.
Uh . . . that would be because she never existed. People tend to deny the existence of things that never existed.
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