倪神父

Dominican friar (@opdomcentral).

Metaphysics, medieval, neo-Confucianism, and assorted tidbits.

Views are my own and do not represent my school, @hkbaptistu.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I invite you to enthrone the Heart on your timeline (pin it!) in reparation for sins on social media.

I'm fond of the Sacred Heart when combined with the icon of Christ the Teacher: 'Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.'

Icon by M. Pervan
https://t.co/HgninbjS0G

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

"...the former Ecclesia Dei world does not mutilate tradition in the way the SSPX and [those] that follow it do. There is indeed a fundamental part of Catholic tradition that is no longer honored in the position and actions of the latter: union with the Catholic hierarchy."

[Rorate Caeli @RorateCaeli]

The SSPX Consecrations: "Separatism Is Not a Catholic Solution" - article by Dom Louis-Marie de Blignières https://t.co/uHpzgTRvIY

[Dietrich 🇻🇦 @jarldietrich]

This guy targeted his friends, family and members of his church in a ponzi scheme and defrauded them out of thousands of dollars but sure let's listen to him finger wave when the pope wants to consecrate a recreational activity to God

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I too think the Church made an objective mistake in approving the classical Roman Rite, when the Byzantine Rite brings objectively more grace.

Clearly, we never had the Western Schism or Reformation.

(It's liturgical fans! More grace comes with fans. Our OP rite had fans too.)

[Fr Thomas Crean OP @crean_fr]

A rite could nevertheless be approved which was less pleasing to God and which therefore (qua sacrifice not qua sacrament) brought less grace. This might mean *in practice* that a Christian community using it would not hold its ground against the world, the flesh and the devil.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Whatever demons are doing, the only thing they desire from us is sin. There's no need to worry about anything further, whether curses or UFOs or pea soup or sorcery, as it has no power at all over any Christian who is in a state of grace.

Just love God and avoid sin, be normal.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I firmly disapprove of any and all celebrity exorcists. Exorcists ought to be neither seen nor heard, pursuing their necessary work in dignified silence. To do otherwise is unhelpfully to foster superstition and obsession among the credulous.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

If there are aliens, I take their nature and existence to be a scientific question, not one answerable by celebrity exorcists.

But there's simply no spiritual need to care about any of this stuff. If there are aliens, they have no spiritual bearing on my life one way or other.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@lukei4655 I don't think it is prudent to present various possibilities as certain or well-founded when representing the Church's teaching. For instance, it would be imprudent to assert there are incarnations on other planets.

And unhealthy obsession with demonic stuff is bad.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@lukei4655 The decision that each concelebrant can take a stipend for an intention follows upon the reality that each offers the sacrifice and applies the fruit of the Mass for their own intention, as true celebrants.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I am not opposed to private Mass. However, it really does seem much more liturgically beautiful, devotional, and appropriate to celebrate one (well-done) concelebrated conventual sung Mass than a serial round of private Masses with or without a conventual Mass following.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I do not deny concelebration in the contemporary Latin Rite leaves much to be desired.

But it need not - ought not - be that way.

If you ever wanted a good example of what Latin Rite concelebration could & ought to be, consider the Ordinariates or the Communauté Saint-Martin.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

The case for 'historical'/'classical' Protestantism, while theologically more substantive, is not really anything more than romantic fiction.

Nobody within Protestantism has standing to impose church discipline on all others. Which is why the movement fell apart ab initio.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I'm not opposed to private Masses solitaria. They're an action of the Church. But they should only be done for truly good reasons.

Trying to multiply Masses or fruits of the Mass, or something like this, is not a good reason. And there were hundreds of people on this pilgrimage.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Some seem to think objecting to saying Mass without any of the faithful is to do a modernism.

But such Masses 'solitaria' were forbidden explicitly as early as the 800s.

The post-Vatican II Code allows it only if there is a good reason.

Trads shouldn't defend this as the norm.

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

From 4:00 a.m. onwards, each priest can celebrate his own Mass in one of the three tents set up with several altars. This was one of them.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@MLorenzoFS Jesus Christ is our spiritual food, and it is quite appropriate to address prayers to Him.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

What stands out to me is that none of the priests has a server to make the responses.

I celebrate this way only while traveling, but concelebrate most often because otherwise (today) making this an 'ordinary' way to celebrate the EF is problematically anti-liturgical.

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

From 4:00 a.m. onwards, each priest can celebrate his own Mass in one of the three tents set up with several altars. This was one of them.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Fr. Hunwick (pbuh) on his blog had a series that discussed some of the theological exemplars in the Western history/theology of concelebration.

E.g.: https://t.co/TM9oN9RgKa

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

It is false that concelebrations decrease the 'fruits of the Mass.'

This was clarified, authoritatively, under Benedict XIV, and this decision was instrumental in formulating the new Code regarding the offerings of the Mass. (Also Innocent III).

This was noted in a few manuals.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@PdS2QC @WestConfucian This was the normal practice in such cases.