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01/30/2016
Beethoven’s music, blasted for three days,
Should shock, console, enlighten and amaze.
Beethoven’s music, blasted for three days,
Should shock, console, enlighten and amaze.
Upon the good, to exist depends the bad.
Thus Newchurch with no true Church can’t be had.
If I cut loose all moorings of my mind,
How can I be surprised, chaos to find?
Today’s work-places crucify a man?
With a finger-rosary pray wherever you can.
The New Year’s Church and world in disarray
Do make us ask, what can we do? Watch, pray.
Two families can both have one man for head –
So can two churches by one Pope be led.
The Saviour of the World lies on cold straw –
Great God, grant us to hurt Him never more!
Beethoven towers o’er music of today.
Sonatas of his hear a young man play.
Catholics, be generous! Recognize God’s goal
To save, outside “Tradition,” many a soul.
The eucharistic miracles are where
God shows that He Himself is truly there.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.