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Cardinal Burke will be in Steubenville!

Andrew Leung · September 3, 2015

CTL St Peter Steubenville WILL BE heading to Steubenville this Sunday after our 11am High Mass at my parish. Good news for those who live tri-state (Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania) area around Steubenville. Raymond Cardinal Burke will be visiting the Franciscan University of Steubenville on Tuesday, September 8. The main reason of his visitation is to deliver a keynote and participate in a panel discussion on “the Synod on the Family”. The last time the cardinal visited the university was in 2011, he was the celebrant for the Baccalaureate Mass where he received an honorary doctorate degree.

His Eminence will be celebrating a Solemn Pontifical High Mass at the historical St. Peter Church in downtown Steubenville. Priests from the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest will be assisting. The surprising thing is that this Mass, according to the 1962 Missale Romanum, is part of the official event of the university. As an alumni, I am very proud to see my alma mater participating in the Liturgical Movement and embracing the Ancient Form of the Mass. The Mass begins at 10:30 on Tuesday morning and a large crowd is expected. The university choir, the Schola Cantorum Franciscana, will be singing under the direction of Nicholas Will, Assistant Professor of Sacred Music. The choir will be singing all the Gregorian Propers, Messe Solennelle by Vierne and other motets.

Another visiting guest is Dr. Peter Kwasniewski from Wyoming Catholic College. Dr. Kwasniewski will be one of the panelists for the evening panel discussion and he will also be giving a lecture on “The Old Mass and the New Evangelization” on Monday night. The talk will be held in the Gentile Gallery at 8:00pm.

The keynote and panel discussion will be held in the Finnegan Fieldhouse from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Due to the large crowd, the Tuesday events, including the Mass, require confirmation through getting free tickets online. More details including the schedule, ticketing and the list of panelists can be found on the university webpage.

CTL Peter Kwasniewski Steubenville

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Andrew Leung currently serves the music director of Vox Antiqua, conductor of the Cecilian Singers, and music director at Our Lady of China Church.—(Read full biography).

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19 January 2021 • Confusion over feasts

For several months, we have discussed the complicated history of the various Christmas feasts: the Baptism of the Lord, the feast of the Holy Family, the Epiphany, and so forth. During a discussion, someone questioned my assertion that in some places Christmas had been part of the Epiphany. As time went on, of course, the Epiphany came to represent only three “manifestations” (Magi, Cana, Baptism), but this is not something rigid. For example, if you look at this “Capital E” from the feast of the Epiphany circa 1350AD, you can see it portrays not three mysteries but four—including PHAGIPHANIA when Our Lord fed the 5,000. In any event, anyone who wants proof the Epiphany used to include Christmas can read this passage from Dom Prosper Guéranger.

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A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier’s Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): “No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded.” They are absolutely correct.

—Jeff Ostrowski
2 January 2021 • Temptation

When I see idiotic statements made on the internet, I go nuts. When I see heretics promoted by people who should know better, I get angry. Learning to ignore such items is difficult—very difficult. I try to remember the words of Fr. Valentine Young: “Do what God places in front of you each day.” When I am honest, I don’t believe God wants me to dwell on errors and idiocy; there’s nothing I can do about that. During 2021, I will strive to do a better job following the advice of Fr. Valentine.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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Indeed I might add that although unfamiliar with it myself, the Extraordinary Form expressly reminds us that Mass in either form is not merely a communion meal but a ritual of love, a sacrifice at Calvary, by which, for you and for me, yes, here and now, Jesus Christ lays down his life.

— ‘Most Rev. Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth’

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