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His excellency delivers a wonderful lecture on the incredible importance of Gregorian Chant in the renewal of the liturgy at the world's first online International Conference on Gregorian Chant on Oct 2, 2022.
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In today’s episode, on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following:
Offering Up Fasting while in the state of grace for Priests
Upcoming Feastdays this Week
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Dr. Peter Kwasniewski delivers at A House United!
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Esta conferencia aborda la alianza malsana entre las instituciones internacionales, los poderes políticos y los líderes de la Iglesia. Esta alianza se manifestó en la manera de lidiar con la crisis del coronavirus, en la que la jerarquía eclesiástica careció del discernimiento de los espíritus y adoptó acríticamente todas las medidas gubermentales. Particularmente trágica fue la promoción de las inyecciones contra el Covid, que son cuestionables tanto a nivel moral como por sus efectos en la salud.
La lucha contra la tradición inflige otra grave herida a la Iglesia.
Esto se ejemplifica con las restricciones injustificadas contra la Santa
Misa tradicional (Tridentina). Básicamente, al igual que con los
ataques anteriores, ¡se trata de un rechazo de la auténtica fe y moral
católicas!
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Fasting before receiving our Lord in Holy Communion, although the specifics have changed over time, is of apostolic origin. Hippolytus (c. 170 – 235 AD) in the Apostolic Tradition writes, "The faithful shall be careful to partake of the eucharist before eating anything else." At the Synod of Hippo in 393, the Eucharistic Fast was codified in Canon 29, and again a few years later it was likewise codified at the Synod of Carthage in Canon 28.
St. Augustine bears witness to the universality of the fast before Holy Communion in his writings: “Must we therefore censure the universal Church because the sacrament is everywhere partaken of by persons fasting? Nay, verily, for from that time it pleased the Holy Spirit to appoint, for the honour of so great a sacrament, that the body of the Lord should take the precedence of all other food entering the mouth of a Christian; and it is for this reason that the custom referred to is universally observed.”
The Eucharistic Fast immediately prior to Paul VI’s changes in 1964 followed the mitigated discipline introduced by Pope Pius XII on January 6, 1953, in Christus Dominus and on March 25, 1957, in Sacram Communionem. While legislating on a number of finer details, as a whole, Pope Pius XII’s legislation mitigated the fast to be for three hours before Holy Communion from all solid food and all alcoholic beverages. Nonalcoholic beverages were subject to a one hour fast, though water was permitted as stated in Christus Dominus: “In the future it shall be a general and common principle for all, both priests and faithful, that natural water does not break the Eucharistic fast.”
Note, that Pope Pius XII encouraged those who could keep the older fast to continue to do so: “We strongly exhort priests and faithful who are able to do so to observe the old and venerable form of the Eucharistic fast before Mass and Holy Communion. All those who will make use of these concessions must compensate for the good received by becoming shining examples of a Christian life and principally with works of penance and charity.”
What was the Fast Prior to Pope Pius XII? The traditional Eucharistic fast involved total abstinence from all food and all drinks, including water, from midnight until the reception of Holy Communion. Such a fast applied to priests as well as anyone approaching Holy Communion. This was enriched into Canon 858 of the 1917 Code: “Those who have not kept the natural fast from midnight are not allowed to receive, except in danger of death, or in case it should become necessary to consume the Blessed Sacrament to safeguard it against irreverence.”
The intentional violation of the Eucharistic fast is a mortal sin: "Communion is forbidden under grave sin to one who has broken his fast by taking even a small amount of food or forbidden drink" (Fr. Heribert Jone's Moral Theology, page 358).
The Eucharistic Fast is set by the Church so that those who are to receive our Lord in Holy Communion are more consciously aware of this sublime encounter. We need to fast beforehand to adequately prepare ourselves. To intentionally violate the Eucharistic fast is a mortal sin. Let us endeavor to observe in our own lives the strictness of the traditional discipline, in a time when so few do penance.
Learn more in the book "The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting and Abstinence" by Matthew Plese reviewed at https://acatholiclife.blogspot.....com/2023/02/the-def
Fasting is one of the chief means of penance we can perform to make satisfaction for sin, as our Lady of Fatima repeatedly called for. However, in a modern Church that legislates fasting only two days a year, we find a woefully lacking answer to Heaven’s incessant calls for penance and reparation. Understanding the decline of fasting over time in the Church should inspire us to observe these older customs and to encourage other Catholics to do so for the purpose of making satisfaction for sin.
While the purpose of fasting has remained the same, how fasting is observed has changed. As more Catholics seek to rediscover the traditions of earlier centuries and piously observe these traditions, they are often confused by the changing disciplines and exceptions for certain times, places, and circumstances. St. Francis de Sales remarked, “If you’re able to fast, you will do well to observe some days beyond what are ordered by the Church.”
This talk, based on the research in "The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting and Abstinence" by Matthew Plese explains fasting and how it has changed over the centuries in one of the most complete compilations yet written. Unfortunately, most summaries of fasting are either inaccurate or incomplete. However, rather than being a mere academic exercise, the purpose of studying the history of fasting is ultimately to help us rediscover these more ancient practices in an attempt to better observe our Lord and our Blessed Mother’s call for penance and reparation for sins.
As Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once remarked, "It is a long-established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship." The same may be said for matters concerning either Holy Days of Obligation or fast days. What our forefathers held sacred should remain sacred to us in an effort to preserve our catholicity not only with ourselves but with our ancestors who see God now in Heaven.
The book is available in English, Spanish (La Guía Completa del Ayuno y Abstinencia en el Catolicismo), and Polish (Wszechstronny przewodnik katolickiego postu i wstrzemięzliwośći)!
For more information, see https://acatholiclife.blogspot.....com/2022/11/the-def for a variety of articles on the forgotten history of Catholic fasting and abstinence
This lecture was given at Most Precious Blood of Jesus parish in Pittsburgh, which is run by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. The topic is what the Roman rite lost between 1948 and 1962 and why we should recover it today. In order to impose reasonable limits, the focus is on the Mass, and, more particularly, Palm Sunday, the Easter Triduum, the Vigil of Pentecost, Corpus Christi, and the feast of the Holy Innocents, followed by five general features of Mass. Lastly, Dr. Kwasniewski turns to some practical and canonical issues, including the question of what kind of permission is necessary in order to recover these lost elements.
Dr. Thomas Curran of My Catholic Faith Ministries and Sound Insight (https://mycatholicfaith.org/) interviews Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, prompted by his book "Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass." Dr. Curran wants to understand: "Why is this Mass so effective at communicating and supporting the Catholic Faith? Why do we need it in the Church today, right now, and everywhere?" Join us for an invigorating and wide-ranging conversation.
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This lecture was delivered at Prince of Peace Catholic Community in Houston, TX, on November 23, 2019. In it, I explain what is meant by "participation" in the Mass and then explain how the "Extraordinary Form" of the Roman Rite (the traditional Latin Mass) actually fosters a fuller and more perfect participation than its modern replacement. The liturgical reform put the laity's participation above everything else, but ironically, by not letting the focus remain on the primacy of the action of Christ the High Priest and the higher human faculties, it ended up producing a liturgy that works against, rather than in favor of, the transformation of the believer in(to) Christ. The Tridentine Mass, in contrast, has a multitude of ways of drawing us in and plunging us deeply into the mystery.
This lecture became, in a rewritten form, chapter 3 of my book "Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass." The book is available from Amazon and its affiliates:
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This lecture, given at Prince of Peace Catholic Community in Houston, TX, on Saturday, November 23, 2019, is meant as a wide-ranging introduction to the Extraordinary Form or Traditional Latin Mass of the Roman Rite -- "why it is the way it is, and acts the way it acts." The lecture was subsequently revised and published as chapter 2 of my book "Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass" (Angelico, 2020).
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This panel discussion, featuring Dr. Thomas Stark, Pater Edmund Waldstein, and Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, moderated by Wolfram Schrems, took place in Vienna on April 2, 2017, as part of the Austrian launch of the German edition of "Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis." A transcript of the discussion is published as chapter 9 of "Tradition and Sanity: Conversations and Dialogues of a Postconciliar Exile" (Angelico, 2018), pp. 99-116.
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In today’s episode, on this Palm Sunday, I address the following:
The Strictness of the Holy Week Fast: Passion Fast & Xerophagiae
Traditions for Holy Week: Indulgences, Forgotten Customs, & Suggestions for a Holy Week
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The Message of Fatima is the ONLY solution to the grave crises facing the Church and the world today.
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In today’s episode, on this Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday), I address the following:
Laetare Sunday and the custom of the Papal Golden Rose
The Transferred Feast of St. Joseph vs. the forgotten former Eastertide Feast of St. Joseph
The Votive Feast of the Precious Blood (Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent)
The History of American Anti-Catholicism of the Late 1800s and early 1900s
To start, though, I’d like to remind everyone that Meaning of Catholic has launched its online shop, and PDFs of my book on the Roman Catechism and my book on fasting and abstinence are available at https://meaningofcatholic.com/shop/. For the fasting one, English, Spanish, and Polish are all available there. So please check them out if you would like a PDF of any of these books. PDFs are only $9.99 each.
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In today’s episode, on this Third Sunday of Lent, I address the following:
1. There is No Salvation in Judaism
2. Can I Eat Meat on St. Patrick's Day on a Friday in Lent?
3. Who is Exempt From the Law of Fasting or Abstinence?
4. The Feast of the Five Holy Wounds
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This Q&A with Fr Chad Ripperger was pre-recorded for the world's first online International Conference on Gregorian Chant and originally aired on Oct 1, 2022. Because this recording took place over Zoom with less-than-perfect internet connection, there are occasional glitches in the video/audio. Fr Ripperger is the founder and superior of an order of exorcists (Society of Our Most Sorrowful Mother, aka Doloran Fathers) according to the traditional rite of exorcism, with a PHD in Thomistic Philosophy, a Masters in Theology, and is a personal friend.
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This lecture was given as part of the world's first online International Conference on Gregorian Chant and originally aired on Oct 1, 2022. Because this recording was taken on Zoom with less-than-perfect internet signal, there are frequent glitches in the video/audio.
Fr Ripperger is the founder and superior of an order of exorcists (Society of Our Most Sorrowful Mother, aka Doloran Fathers) according to the traditional rite of exorcism, with a PHD in Thomistic Philosophy, a Masters in Theology, and is a personal friend.
Q&A follow up to this lecture: https://youtu.be/nr3xwuAPnsQ
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This lecture was given by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at Assumption Grotto in Detroit on March 6, 2022. The talk was sponsored by Call to Holiness. PLEASE NOTE: The first 2 minutes and 15 seconds have a poorer sound quality than the remainder of the lecture, so hang in there! (After 2'15", the head-mic kicks in.)
This presentation — given at the Sacred Liturgy Conference in Spokane, Washington, in May 2019 — explains why Gregorian chant is the supreme model of sacred music, a reservoir of faith and a wellspring of devotion. It has three parts: (1) a rapid sketch of the history of chant in the Western liturgy; (2) why we sing our liturgy rather than merely speaking it; (3) the eight characteristics that make Gregorian chant uniquely suited to the Catholic liturgy. Visual images and musical examples are included.
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski gave this lecture in Davenport, IA, on March 2, 2022, at a gathering sponsored by Una Voce Quad City. The full text is available at New Liturgical Movement (published on Monday, March 14, 2022).
The talk explains the unique nature of the form of prayer known as praise, which is done solely for God, because of His goodness. This praise finds its highest expression in the "sacrifice of praise," that is, the Holy Mass. For this ultimate prayer, only the "ad orientem" stance is appropriate: orientation away from self, this world, the immediate community, and toward God, the world to come, the kingdom of the saints, reflects man's "ecstatic nature" as made to the image and likeness of God, destined to find his happiness outside of himself, and in contemplation rather than construction or mastery. This analysis allows us to identify several key errors plaguing modern styles of liturgy.
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This lecture was given at Most Precious Blood of Jesus parish in Pittsburgh, which is run by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. The topic is what the Roman rite lost between 1948 and 1962 and why we should recover it today. In order to impose reasonable limits, the focus is on the Mass, and, more particularly, Palm Sunday, the Easter Triduum, the Vigil of Pentecost, Corpus Christi, and the feast of the Holy Innocents, followed by five general features of Mass. Lastly, Dr. Kwasniewski turns to some practical and canonical issues, including the question of what kind of permission is necessary in order to recover these lost elements.
While almost every other aspect of the liturgical reform following Vatican II has been the target of serious and sustained criticism, the revamped multi-year lectionary is the one element consistently put forward as a notable success, an instance of genuine progress. Yet are there reasons to believe that the ancient lectionary from the first millennium that we use in the TLM today — and, in general, the ancient approach to Scripture in the Mass — has more to be said on its behalf than we’ve been led to think? Could it be that here, too, the Church knew what she was doing for centuries?
Talk given at Velocity All Sports in Mokena, Illinois, on March 7, 2022, sponsored by the Coalition for Canceled Clergy. Includes extensive Q&A after the talk.
Lecture I gave at Queen of Peace Parish in Patton, Pennsylvania, on September 21, 2020, a video of which has also been posted at YouTube (here). Although certain ideas in this talk have been discussed in other articles of mine, the synthesis offered here represents, for me at least, an intellectual breakthrough in responding to what I have increasingly come to see as the impoverished state of liturgical discourse, which is typically limited to only two categories (validity and liceity). Although much attention is paid to fittingness in the realm of sacred art, it deserves to be considered a liturgical category alongside the aforementioned pair; and finally, joining these must be the category of authenticity or legitimacy, as an irreducibly distinct perfection. Only by considering all four qualities can we arrive at an adequate assessment.
In this lecture, Dr. Kwasniewski focuses on the Mass of Catechumens (the first part of the traditional Latin Mass) and explores why the Epistle and Gospel are read to the east and the north, respectively. At a Solemn Mass—the most ancient and fullest form of the Roman rite, with priest, deacon, and subdeacon—the subdeacon chants the Epistle on the right side of the sanctuary, standing ad orientem, that is, toward the sanctuary wall on or before which the altar is mounted. If we think the reading is just a moment of instruction for the benefit of the congregation, it will strike us as odd that he's chanting it facing away from the people. Similarly, after the interlectional chants have been sung, the deacon, subdeacon, and acolytes form a small procession to the place where the Gospel will be chanted, and the deacon proclaims it facing northwards—on the left side of the church, facing the left wall: again, not towards the people present. In both cases, it’s clear that “something is up.” This centuries-old rite must be doing this not at random but for a reason. What is that reason? As we delve into the symbolic dimensions of it, we find opening before us depth upon depth of theological doctrine and spiritual nourishment.
Given at St. Mary of Redford Catholic Church in Detroit on March 5, 2022. There is also a half-hour Q&A in a separate video.
Given at the Sacred Liturgy Conference in Spokane, Washington, in 2019, this lecture explains why tradition is so central to the Catholic Faith (and always has been); looks at different kinds of tradition, how they interrelate, and why all of them are important; furnishes examples of people who were drawn closer to Christ through particular traditions, especially the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass); considers the devastating consequences of the banishment of many traditions after Vatican II; and refutes the common claim that all that matters at Mass is that "Jesus is present." Overall, the talk is a rousing defense of the "externals" and "trappings" of the Faith that progressives and liberals are so quick to dismiss or replace.
From the conclusion:
"What we need most in the Catholic Church today is not more accommodation to the tastes and tactics of the secular world, but a rekindling of the fire, light, and warmth that made the Old Evangelization successful and glorious. The revival of tradition is an extraordinary grace of our times, given in response to the alarming amnesia of identity, the crisis of fidelity and even of identity through which the Catholic Church is passing in our times. To use a medical metaphor, it is as if the recrudescence of modernist cancer is being met with the cellular regeneration of tradition."
N.B. A revised and expanded version of this lecture features as chapter 1 in my book, "The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile," published on October 4, 2022.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Once-Fu....ture-Roman-Rite-Trad
Publisher (TAN) link: https://tanbooks.com/products/....books/the-once-and-f
I gave this lecture on Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. The purpose of my talk is not to critique the charismatic movement but to show how the things valued by members of that movement are found plentifully and profoundly in the traditional liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the Tridentine Mass. It is an invitation to reconnect with the fullness of our heritage. Will be appreciated also by those who have no connection to the charismatic movement.
In Hyperpapalism, Dr. Kwasniewski squarely confronts the situation of the Church today. Hyperpapalism is a major addition to the ever-growing critical literature now appearing on the crisis in the Church.
A lecture given by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Sponsored by the Charlotte Latin Mass Community
(https://charlottelatinmass.org/)
For those who would like to read more, I recommend my book "Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright" (Angelico Press):
https://www.amazon.com/Reclaim....ing-Our-Roman-Cathol
