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I have a confession to make.

All Saints, high Wycombe,Buckinghamshire, in red for Sundays after Pentecost, with riddels, hanging pyx, and Warham altar frontal.

I feel like I'm pretending about this, and I don't feel right hiding this any more. It's a part of me that I don;t talk about or express, but I should talk about it now.
I'm not really attracted to the more Roman than Roman style of liturgy. Nope, I don't think I've been for the past three years. I might have spent more than a few odd Sundays and holy days at St.Clem's, and I might own my own cotta, but if I could really have it my way, I mean Really go all out and do it my way, you know what I'd like?
English Use, or something similar thereof.
No fiddlebacks, or lacy cottas, or altars dwarfed by sugar-cookie marble reredoses with a Big Six.
Instead, nice real Gothic vestments.Not semi-gothic, but the real thing. Like Warham Guild or something. And apparelled albs and amices on servers and clergy. holy Rood Guild has some nice stuff too (Though certainly all overly expensive.) Definitely a rood, maybe a full rood screen. Riddle posts with curtains, proper sediliae, an Easter sepulchre , and maybe even a hanging Pyx are a must. And I'm sure that to some extent, you could fit it all into Roman ceremonial. And don't think that I have'nt read The Parson's handbook and tried to figure out a way.
But none of this is really possibe unless you have a place like St.Birinius', so it's all wishful thinking.
Gotta go to the store now!

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False Dichotomies and Soteriology.

I go to a Protestant prep school, a good one I might add, and today during lunch I was cleaning out my locker a bit. I overheard the theology teacher lecturing the juniors on soteriology. he posed one question, and it seriously sounded ridiculous.
It was about whether God is sovereign over salvation, or it's up to us.
Said false dichotomy was that he says that if God does not totally and completely control salvation, than it means that we totally and completely control our salvation. That means that we save ourselves, and that's against the bible. I let it go, but I think he's wrong to say that you're either an Infra- (Or who knows, maybe even Supra-) lapsarian , or you're a Pelagian. There are no other views. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200$.
It's quite a shock that given his extensive seminary training (he's working on a doctorate) That he's not heard of Arminianism of Molinism. Maybe he has, but discredits such a view.
I can't describe my views on said subject, as I've simply given up trying to understand it. I have some general ideas, but it's nothing cohesive, and I'm bound to change them.

Seems that I can't give up sweets for Lent.

I forgot that if I go too long without some kind of sugar, I get these terrible migraine-like headaches. I'm not sure exactly what causes them, but seriously, for health, I don't think I can give up sweets.
I know, this totally sounds like a lie.

Oh No! It's the Second Week of Lent!

That means it's time to start learning all the chants for holy Week.
It's so much to learn what with tenebrae antiphons at lauds, the psalm tones, the ant. Christus factus est, etc. I know most of the stuff used during the masses and Good Friday Mass of the Presanctified. What I don;t know is the office. I've always sung it either on one note or psalm tones. I went over Maundy Thursday and Lauds of Good Friday.
Interesting thing to note, the last antiphon at Lauds (Crucem Tuam Adoremus) Is nearly identical to the Mysterium acclamation at holy mass ( Mortem Tuam Anuntiamus) So througout the year, the sacrifice Our Lord made on Good Friday is perpetually linked to the mystery of the sacrifice of the mass.
Love it.
I wish there were a recording of the tenbrae office somewhere (It does'nt matter if it's the older office. 99% of the 1969 holy week offices are simply taken from the 1962 breviary.)
When are we going to get an antiphonal or a Liber Usualis for the 1969 breviary and missal?!

It's On!

The world baseball classic is on!
*Leaves to watch*

So tell me....

......At the beginning of mass, do you kiss the biretta followed by the priest's hand, or is it hand first then biretta?
I served mass today and wasn't sure.

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Chant: Second Sunday of Lent.

I'm getting back on this as a form of personal discipline. I learned the Introit Reminiscere, the Tract Non in Solo, and the Offertory Meditabor in mandatis tuis. I'll do the communion ant. from the Graduale Simplex as usual, so it's the antiphon Visionem quam vidistis with verses of psalm 44. I already learned the hymn Audi Benigne Conditor, so I'll see if I can tackle this Sunday's proper antiphons for the office. Otherwise, more psalm tones.

D.A.

I totally got a second favorite on my picture of Our Lady of Lourdes. I have some avi art of my gaia avi that I made for myself. I also want to pload my Ookiku Furikabutte sketchdump. I'll see if the scanner works.
Oh, I'm not scheduled to serve this Sunday, so I can go to the 7:30 mass at Lourdes this week. Silence, good for lent.
Oh yeah, last thing: EPIC AWESOMENESS- Magnificat Sexti Toni, T.L. De Vittoria

FOOD.

Because it's lent and I've given up meat again. I think I might give up sweets too, but only after I've finished off the Frosted Flakes and blueberry waffles. We're not in a position to waste food like that.
Do you know how hard it is to find meatless dishes that are somewhat palatable without being so good they're practically not Lenten food? It's a hard balance to find, so I've mostly been eating plain pizza, fries, ramen, and plain potato chips. I'm trying a plain stromboli tonight for dinner*. I've also had chicken fried rice with the chicken picked out and given to the cat**, and this disgusting pasta mix-thing my dad got for me from Trader Joe's. I had grilled cheese after Ash Wednesday, but I think it was those sanwiches that gave me the Death Sickness that makes certain things taste like gasoline. Yes, I'll admitit, I broke down last week when I was sick and had chicken soup. On a Friday no less. I think I'll pick uo some chicken-flavoured ramen cups, and a couple yakisoba and this-other-flavour-I get-from-the-Korean-grocery-shop-whose-name-I-don't-remember.
I want to try some meatless lasagna too, but there's no mozzarella around.
Unfortunately, other than cereal, I've mostly had to omit breakfast. D:
It's almost time for vespers, then dinner.
Not going to the youth group meeting tonight. I'm too tired to serve mass, and I can't dance anyway. You know, racism aside, I'm the rare black peson who's mixed enough that he does'nt have any rhythm. (They're doing salsa dancing.
*I usually get steak, fried onion and peppers.
** Aparrently under the pre-83' rules, working-class people and sick people were dispensed of the requirements anyway, except on Fridays.

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I feel better now. b

Just one post...

....Until I get better. I was going to take a break, but this is too much. You know that Kennedy Failure-I mean fellow, who's systematically created a cult of personality and is gladly leading his flock skipping merrily into perdition as they sing "Puff the Magic Dragon"?*
This is his last statement:

"We are a Vatican II community - at least, we try to be."

ELL-O-FRIGGIN'-ELLZ ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
I'm lost. What part of Vatican II suports him? This part?:

"Though they differ from one another in essence and not only in degree, the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial or hierarchical priesthood are nonetheless interrelated: each of them in its own special way is a participation in the one priesthood of Christ." (Lumen Gentium)

Oh Noes! Vatican II says that the priesthood of the baptized and the ministerial priesthood are essentially different. Not just differrent, but Essentially so. But Fr.Kennedy says that we're all priests in the exact same way, so we can all celebrate the mass.
Was it this part?

"This Sacred Council, following closely in the footsteps of the First Vatican Council, with that Council teaches and declares that Jesus Christ, the eternal Shepherd, established His holy Church, having sent forth the apostles as He Himself had been sent by the Father; and He willed that their successors, namely the bishops, should be shepherds in His Church even to the consummation of the world. (Lumen Gentium 136)

Oh Noes! Vatican II says that Our Lord intended and did establish the church. But Fr. Kennedy says that Christ did not intend to start a church.
Maybe this part?:

"Bishops, therefore, with their helpers, the priests and deacons, have taken up the service of the community, ( presiding in place of God over the flock,( whose shepherds they are, as teachers for doctrine, priests for sacred worship, and ministers for governing.." (Lumen Gentium 11*)

Oh noes! Vatican II says that priests are to be the bishop's helpers. But Fr.Kennedy says that he can defy/be disobedient to his bishop.
Ok, Ok, Maybe this Part?:

"1. Regulation of the sacred liturgy depends solely on the authority of the Church, that is, on the Apostolic See and, as laws may determine, on the bishop.
3. Therefore no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority."(Sacrosanctum Concilium 22)

Oh noes! Vatican II says that no person may ever change the liturgy on their own authority. But Fr.Kennedy says that he can invalidate baptisms by changeing the words, and that he can write his own eucharistic prayers/Make up his own mass.
This part then?

"He Who is "the image of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15), is Himself the perfect man. To the sons of Adam He restores the divine likeness which had been disfigured from the first sin onward. Since human nature as He assumed it was not annulled, by that very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity in our respect too. For by His incarnation the Son of God has united Himself in some fashion with every man. He worked with human hands, He thought with a human mind, acted by human choice and loved with a human heart. Born of the Virgin Mary, He has truly been made one of us, like us in all things except sin." (Gaudium et Spes 21-24)

Oh Noes! Vatican II says that Our Lord Jesus is the Son of God And he was born of a Virgin. But Fr.Kennedy says that Our Lord was only a man, and that no one is stupid enough to beleive in the virgin birth these days.

You get my point. Fr.Kennedy is not about the Second Vatican Council. he has nothing to do with Vatican II. From this, you can see he does'nt give a flip about Vatican II, since he goes on contradicting what the fathers said, making up his own opinions and then trying to use the council as a scapegoat for his own actions. It's intellectual dishonesty I say!


*We all know what that song was really about. That explains why he'd be singing it.