Advent Meditations: The 3rd week Is Interior Silence — Catholic Family News

https://www.catholicfamilynews.org/blog/2018/12/18/advent-meditations-interior-silence

In Honor of St. Thomas Aquinas: A Portion of St. Francis Borgia’s “Litany of the Attributes of God” – On Novus Motus Liturgicus

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/03/in-honor-of-st-thomas-aquinas-portion.html#.WL7sFfKDOz8

Lenten Embertide Week Is Upon Us – Follow Some Of The small “t” traditions together with the Sacred Traditions Along With Us

http://www.fisheaters.com/customslent3.html

Recent Amazing Sacred Photo Posts

• Photo Post Rorate Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk Conn – On The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny
• http://sthughofcluny.org/2018/12/rorate-mass-at-st-marys-church-norwak.html
• Photos from Pontifical Rorate Mass with Cardinal Burke in La Crosse – On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/12/photos-from-pontifical-rorate-mass-with.html#.XBfXcWlReUk
• Immaculate Conception Photopost 2018 – On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/12/immaculate-conception-photopost-2018.html
• Photopost: Closing Mass of the CMAA 2018 Colloquium- On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/07/photopost-closing-mass-of-cmaa-2018.html#more
• Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Mass Photopost 2018 (Part 1) – On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/12/gaudete-sunday-and-rorate-mass.html#.XB0Y9WlReUk

Propriety – Order- Morals- Virtue –Civility Proper Dress- Order

• December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls – Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites‘
• http://www.nobility.org/2013/12/19/bl-urban-v/
• For a Darkening 21st-Century Church, the Light Is Tradition – On OnePeterFive
• https://onepeterfive.com/darkening-church-light-tradition/
• Nothing Says Woman Quite Like a Dress – On Crisis Magazine
• https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/nothing-says-woman-quite-like-a-dress
• Dioceses edit photo of priest in cassock to make it look like he’s wearing jeans | CatholicHerald.co.uk
• http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/03/21/dioceses-edit-photo-of-priest-in-cassock-to-make-it-look-like-hes-wearing-jeans/
• Understanding the American Spirit – The Cowboy & the Crusade – By Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
• http://www.traditioninaction.org/History/F_007_cowboy.html
• Protecting the Family from the Enemy Within – On Return To Order
• http://www.returntoorder.org/2017/04/protecting-the-family-from-the-enemy-within/

The Holy Mass And The Restoration Of Catholic Sacred Tradition

• 10 Reasons Restoration Minded Catholics That Are Seeking To Help End The Crisis Should Attend The Traditional Latin Mass with Eric Sammons and Dr Marshall – On YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcWCIenN84
• Help restore the Shrine of Christ the King Novena starting December 17 Tradition Mass – On Rorate
• https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2018/12/you-suggest-help-restore-shrine-of.html
• Count Neri Capponi Avid Supporter Of The Traditional Rite Has Passed Away – RIP- On Novus Motus Litrugicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/12/count-neri-capponi-rip.html#.XBfXmWlReUk
• Traditional Sacrament of Baptism – V – Preparation & Parts of the Baptism by Fr. Paul Alvarez Norton
• https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/i041_Baptism5.htm
• Archbishop Pozzo on Summorum Pontificum: Hope for the Future of the Church – On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• We are extremely grateful to Archbishop Guido Pozzo, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, for sharing with our readers the talk which he delivered for the Fifth Summorum Pontificum Conference in Rome. In the first part, His Excellency gives his appraisal of what has been achieved in the last ten years since the motu proprio became legally active, and in the second looks forward to prospects for the future. I would especially call your attention to these words, considering them in the light of some unfortunate polemical statements recently made against the traditional liturgy. “The restoration of the ancient Gregorian liturgy is not … a step back, but looks to the future of the Church, which can never build itself by destroying or hiding the spiritual, liturgical and doctrinal richness of its past. … To celebrate the old rite means to look with hope to the future of the Church.”
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/09/archbishop-pozzo-on-summorum-pontificum.html#.WcUEQMaQyUk
• Is the Church Crisis Driving the Faithful to the Latin Mass? An Interview with Dr. Kwasniewski – Rorate
• https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2018/12/is-church-crisis-driving-faithful-to.html
• December 2018 Una Voce New York Bulletin Tradition
• na Voce NY Winter Bulletin _ UVNY Bull XXI 3 (12-2018)
• What time can Midnight Mass begin? Updated with PCED guidance. – Rorate
• While it is true the obligation to hear Mass on Christmas Day can be fulfilled the night before — the result of a 1967 invention by Paul VI, codified in the post-Vatican II code of canon law, it is not true that the first Mass of Christmas propers are permitted any time before Midnight.  A Mass starting at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve, for example, must use the Christmas Eve propers — with violet vestments, no Gloria, no Credo and the common (or Advent) preface. The rubrics are clear enough on this point, but the new PCED letter should put to rest any existing uncertainty.
• https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-time-can-midnight-mass-begin.html

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The Tradition Of Music And The Sacred

• They Have a Dream –The Mueller family –Working For Chant & Polyphony To Be Restored to the Mass On Regina Magazine
• https://reginamag.com/they-have-a-dream/
• Death by Dullness: Prioritizing Speech over Silence and Song – Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/01/death-by-dullness-prioritizing-speech.html#.WHO_zn2DOz8
• Barbra Streisand – Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father ‘ Our King) – YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXeiIURirI
• Poetic Traditional Hymns Put Alternatives to Shame – On Crisis Magazine
• https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/poetic-traditional-hymns-put-alternatives-to-shame
• Charlemagne’s Care for Singing by Hugh O’Reilly
• http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/h075rp.Singing.html
• Divini Cultus, Pope Pius XI’s Apostolic Constitution on Sacred Music – On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/12/divini-cultus-pope-pius-xis-apostolic.html#.XB0ZFmlReUk

A Few Good Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Break

• CATHOLIC CHURCH – Exemplary Excommunication / From the film Becket – YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxJyEF4qLE
• Amazon.com: Buying Choices: Becket
• https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00007G1WH/ref=sr_1_2_olp?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1483108814&sr=1-2&keywords=Becket+with+Richard+Burton
• Fiddler On the Roof: Topol, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Norma Crane – Via Amazon
• A great movie about tradition, traditional family, and the old covenant – A Jewish movie with song and dance that explains the global & cultural attack on families and tradition in a different way – A good re-watch with the family over the Christmas break
• https://www.amazon.com/Fiddler-Roof-Topol/dp/B07GT8YW3S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1545144068&sr=8-1&keywords=fiddler+on+the+roof

The Tradition Of Food And Seasonal Get Togethers

• The Tradition Of Visiting The Grand Central Ny’s Oyster Bar At Least Once Every Year
• http://www.oysterbarny.com/
• A Taste of the Terminal: Sandy Ingber | Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant – YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgbWP_toZpo
• A Brief History Of Delmonico’s, New York City’s First Restaurant: Gothamist
• http://gothamist.com/2017/01/19/demonicos_nyc_history.php#photo-1
• Party Rooms | At The Fraunces Tavern At Pearl And Broad
• http://www.frauncestavern.com/party-rooms/
• Photos of Historic Childs Restaurant Building, Now Restored at Coney Island Boardwalk | Untapped Cities
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/05/22/photos-of-historic-childs-restaurant-building-now-restored-at-coney-island-boardwalk/

Sacred Tradition And The Queenship Of The Mother Of God

• Science Confirms: Angels Took the House of Our Lady of Nazareth to Loreto On Tradition, Family, and Property
• http://www.tfp.org/tfp-home/about-our-lady/science-confirms-angels-took-the-house-of-our-lady-of-nazareth-to-loreto.html
• The Miraculous Medal: Medal of Many Graces – On Tradition, Family, and Property –
• http://www.tfp.org/tfp-home/about-our-lady/the-miraculous-medal-medal-of-many-graces.html
• Madonna del Miracolo Our Lady of the Miracle, saint of January 20
• http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j112sdOLMiracles_1-20.htm
• The Optional Antiphons From This Past Sunday’s Advent Expectation – Our Lady of the Expectation, Our Lady of the O, the O Antiphons – December 18 to December 23 – Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary
• http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j207sd_OLExpectation_12-18.html
• Photos Of The National Shrine In New Orleans Of Our Lady Of Prompt Succor Can Be Found Here
• http://www.neworleanschurches.com/promptsuc/promptsuc.htm

The Spirit Of Chivalry And Originality

·         Fostering the Originality of Each Social Cell by Plinio Correa de Oliveira

• http://www.traditioninaction.org/OrganicSociety/A_064_SocialCells.html
• Charlemagne’s Care for Singing by Hugh O’Reilly
• http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/h075rp.Singing.html

·         In order to have the spirit of chivalry, love the sublimity of the fight –On Nobility And Traditional Analogous Elites

• http://www.nobility.org/2017/01/12/to-have-spirit-of-chivalry-love-sublimity-of-fight/

In Architectural Wonders News

• Boston Manor in London: Harmonious Proportion Exemplified – On Novus Motus Liturgicus
• http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/12/boston-manor-in-london-harmonious.html#.XBkGlWlReUk
• The Marble Palace Was Home to NYC’s (and the Nation’s) First Department Store | Untapped Cities
• http://untappedcities.com/2017/03/09/the-marble-palace-was-home-to-nycs-and-the-nations-first-department-store/
• Untapped Staff Reads: A Brief History of Delmonico’s, Public Art Fund to Light up New York | Untapped Cities
• http://untappedcities.com/2017/02/03/untapped-staff-reads-a-brief-history-of-delmonicos-public-art-fund-to-light-up-new-york/
• The Evolution Of The Technology Behind The Tradition Of New Year’s Eve Times Square Ball in NYC From 1907 to Present | Untapped Cities
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/12/31/the-evolution-of-the-new-years-eve-times-square-ball-in-nyc-from-1907-to-present/
• Photos: Inside the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Brooklyn | Untapped Cities
• https://untappedcities.com/2018/12/13/photos-inside-the-prison-ship-martyrs-monument-in-brooklyn/
• The Marble Palace Was Home to NYC’s (and the Nation’s) First Department Store | Untapped Cities
• http://untappedcities.com/2017/03/09/the-marble-palace-was-home-to-nycs-and-the-nations-first-department-store/

Bl. Pope Urban V rebuilt the Basilica of St. John Lateran after it was burnt down

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From the book of the prophet Isaiah 48:1-11

Hear this, O house of Jacob called by the name Israel, sprung from the stock of Judah, You who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel without sincerity or justice, Though you are named after the holy city and rely on the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Things of the past I foretold long ago, they went forth from my mouth, I let you hear of them; then suddenly I took action and they came to be. Because I know that you are stubborn and that your neck is an iron sinew
and your forehead bronze, I foretold them to you of old; before they took place I let you hear of them, That you might not say, “My idol did them, my statue, my molten image commanded them.” Now that you have heard, look at all this; must you not admit it?

From now on I announce new things to you, hidden events of which you knew not. Now, not long ago, they are brought into being, and beforetime you did not hear of them, so that you cannot claim to have known them; You neither heard nor knew, they did not reach your ears beforehand. Yes, I know you are utterly treacherous, a rebel you were called from birth.

For the sake of my name I restrain my anger, for the sake of my renown I hold it back from you, lest I should destroy you. See, I have refined you like silver, tested you in the furnace of affliction. For my sake, for my own sake, I do this; why should I suffer profanation? My glory I will not give to another.

From a homily In Praise of the Virgin Mother by Saint Bernard, abbot The whole world awaits Mary’s reply

You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of compassion; the sentence of condemnation weighs heavily upon us.

The price of our salvation is offered to you. We shall be set free at once if you consent. In the eternal Word of God we all came to be, and behold, we die. In your brief response we are to be remade in order to be recalled to life.

Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs this of you, O loving Virgin, in their exile from Paradise. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy patriarchs, your ancestors, ask it of you, as they dwell in the country of the shadow of death. This is what the whole earth waits for, prostrate at your feet. It is right in doing so, for on your word depends comfort for the wretched, ransom for the captive, freedom for the condemned, indeed, salvation for all the sons of Adam, the whole of your race.

Answer quickly, O Virgin. Reply in haste to the angel, or rather through the angel to the Lord. Answer with a word, receive the Word of God. Speak your own word, conceive the divine Word. Breathe a passing word, embrace the eternal Word.

Why do you delay, why are you afraid? Believe, give praise, and receive. Let humility be bold, let modesty be confident. This is no time for virginal simplicity to forget prudence. In this matter alone, O prudent Virgin, do not fear to be presumptuous. Though modest silence is pleasing, dutiful speech is now more necessary. Open your heart to faith, O blessed Virgin, your lips to praise, your womb to the Creator. See, the desired of all nations is at your door, knocking to enter. If he should pass by because of your delay, in sorrow you would begin to seek him afresh, the One whom your soul loves. Arise, hasten, open. Arise in faith, hasten in devotion, open in praise and thanksgiving. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, she says, be it done to me according to your word.