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Save the World: Build More Carmels

Veronica Brandt · June 10, 2018

ONSIDERING the religious life is something rather special in itself. When you realize how powerful and important prayer is. When you realize that God wants you, your whole life. That whatever you choose, this life is a supernatural adventure.

The architect in this video touches on this when he says:

Not only have we grown spiritually throughout this process, but also understanding how important the liturgy is and how important the contemplative orders are to the Church itself and really for its survival. Similarly the rebuilding of society and the Church itself is going to require determined and saintly women…

Another thing that stands out to me is the example of having traditional stone walls, being told that this is impossible, until they find the enthusiasts who are keeping these traditional building methods alive. Sound familiar?

This video comes from a new Carmelite Monastery being established in Fairfield Pennsylvania.

There is another new Carmel being established by the same Carmelites further afield in Western NSW in Australia. They are at a much earlier stage, but you can find out about them and subscribe to their mailing list for further updates here: Carmelite Monastery of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

This project is not just about building a new monastery – it is about bringing together craftsmen, families, workers, men, women, and children together from all walks of life so that in 100 years, our grandchildren can look at this incredible monument and say, “My granddad built that!”

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

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About Veronica Brandt

Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. She lives near Sydney, Australia, with her husband and six children.—(Read full biography).

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14 May 2022 • “Pure” Vatican Edition

As readers know, my choir has been singing from the “pure” Editio Vaticana. That is to say, the official rhythm which—technically—is the only rhythm allowed by the Church. I haven’t figured out how I want the scores to look, so in the meantime we’ve been using temporary scores that look like this. Stay tuned!

—Jeff Ostrowski
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If there is a more beautiful book than Abbat Pothier’s 1888 Processionale Monasticum, I don’t know what it might be. This gorgeous tome was today added to the Saint John Lalande Online Library. I wish I owned a physical copy.

—Jeff Ostrowski
Sound Familiar?

1 June 1579: “The chapter passes a rule that anyone ascending to the new organ without official permission shall be fined a month’s pay.”

26 October 1579: “The altar boys remain always separate and distinct from choirboys—the one group learning only plainchant and assisting at the altar, the other living with the chapel-master and studying counterpoint and polyphony as well. Father Francisco Guerrero postpones his departure for Rome and instead spends the entire year in Seville making ready for the trip. In the meantime he neglects his choirboys. On 16 November, after considerable complaint against their unruliness and ignorance, he engages an assistant, Bartolomé Farfán.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

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For the most part, a “good pope” is defined as someone who does what the critic would do if he were pope.

— William F. Buckley Jr. (6 September 1978)

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