REMINDER: SOLEMN LATIN MASS FOR CHRIST THE KING SUNDAY OCT 27TH 315PM NEWMAN CENTER AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Hello everyone,

Here is a reminder for an upcoming Solemn Latin Mass in our diocese:

The St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir is holding a Solemn Latin Mass at the Newman Center's St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, this coming Sunday, Oct 27th, at 3:15pm.

More details and information are provided here:


CRITICAL NOTE: This Mass occurs on the Sunday and WILL fulfill your Sunday obligation to attend a valid and licit Catholic Mass (Liturgy). You do NOT NEED to attend another Catholic Mass that day if you attend the Latin Mass. 

• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at the Newman Centre at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Location: 89 St. George Street (St. George and Hoskin Ave.). The church is behind the Newman Centre.
• Start time: 3:15pm
• Organizer: St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir under Surinder S. Mundra
• Primary Contact/Inquiries: 416 731 4485 
• Parish Websites:
• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish: http://www.newmantoronto.com/
• Newman Center Student Chaplaincy (Please support!):  http://chaplaincy.newmantoronto.com/
• Newman Centre/Parish Contact: 416-979-2468
• Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/241532279336001/
• POSTER:

There are also other offerings for special Solemn Masses after the St. Patrick's ones listed here: http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/09/2013-latin-masses-for-solemnities-and.html

Pax Tibi Christi, Julian.

 

More Follow up to Stupid Trad Behaving Badly Criticism of Francis "Young unemployed and Lonely Old People" Comment

Hello Everyone,

FIRST, A CATECHESIS MOMENT:
The four greatest sins that one can make against the Heavens, that cries out for vengeance are:
(1) Willful murder (2) The Sin of Sodom (= homosexuality, despite what others say ...) (3) Oppression of the poor, and (4) Defrauding labourers of their wages.

The above relates to the content of this post.

This post will be covering # 3 and #4 in a sense, tying into the Francis interview in La Repubblica with an Italian Atheist, but also to show how foolish the TBB insults against the Pope's comment on the young and unemployed + lonely old people are, where are Holy Father should be placing any one of X moral issues, liturgical devastation, the Latin Mass etc. on the top of the list.

When I first heard the criticism of this, I was upset, and rightly so at those bloggers of the TBB atmosphere online, personally, and also at more "Pope bashing", a common activity of these TBBs.

Personally, I am upset at these bloggers, because, I am young, but I am underemployed, which to me, for my future, is just as bad as being unemployed. When I do marry and want to start a family, I know unless my wife chooses to work, or comes from unbridled wealth, I will not be able to afford living where I currently am in my area, near my family. Also, when I have children, besides my living expenses, I want their faith intact! This means first of all, a parish with orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, which is a rarity to find with Novus Ordo parishes, unless I have an EF parish nearby.

This will also mean an education that will not corrupt their minds and souls with government interference or "Jesus loves everyone" garbage, which is another increasingly rare occurrence. This limits me to two options: Homeschool, or Private Catholic schools/academies. Both options will be expensive, and to homeschool, that will mean one of us, the wife, or the husband, will have to give up a "normal" job to do so. I will also want them to not be a state of schism, and this will mean my children will NOT be going to an SSPX or other type of TBB school, not in communion with the Church. I heavily desire to AVOID the separate system in Ontario, unless it is our LAST, viable option, in which case both of us in our exhausted and stressful states will have to continually re-educate our kids every night after their daily dose of separate system "religious education."

So, how does what I say tie into the Pope's statement? Well, currently, my job does pays significantly better than minimal wage in our country. However, I know that I am not in the field I was trained for, one that pays a minimum of $30 starting CDN, and can go up to $38-39/hr with experience. This job is in short supply due to our selfish government and the recession back in 2010. Unless I can get a job of this quality, I will NOT be able to afford the salvation of my future children, and barely be able to support myself, and likely, not a marriage. To marry, it might require both of us have jobs, and this significantly will decrease the likelihood of your child maintaining the Catholic Faith after (or even before) high school, without HEAVY supplementation.

In addition, should we WANT that beautiful, orthodox worship with the reverent Novus Ordo or the Extraordinary Form, it WILL cost money. Those booklets, the choirmaster, stipends for the clergy(and maybe servers), choir materials, the altar cards, candles .... it all costs money! And many of the items fit for worship were destroyed in the great wreck-o-vation after Vatican II concluded by misguided or intentionally destructive liberal priests and laity in the "Spirit of Vatican II". So to restore it, IT COSTS MONEY. I covered this important fact in my two cents on the Pope's comment here. It was followed up by apologetics from a Traditionalist blogger, Kevin Tierney, here.

A couple of days ago, something popped up, courtesy of the almighty Father Z:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/10/26-year-old-obamacare-has-raped-my-future/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wdtprs%2FDhFa+%28Fr.+Z%27s+Blog+-+What+Does+The+Prayer+Really+Say%3F%29

He passed on a link from another site, of an account of a young woman in the United States of America, currently suffering under the ultra-liberal reign of Anti-Catholic tyrant, President Obama.
Because of his "Obamacare" act he passed in the last couple of years, the sad effects are starting to unravel, including the impoverishment of the young, who DID get a solid education. Please read this young woman's account here, which I have re-pasted below. It`s that important to see what happens when the youth are under/un-employed with suitable paying work:

From Liberty News:

Obamacare Has “Raped My Future!” Says Underemployed College Grad in Viral Letter

Ashley Dionne is a 26 year-old college graduate who says her future has been “raped” by Obamacare, reports Campus Reform.

This University of Michigan alum shared her story of Obamacare sticker shock and outrage with radio host, Dennis Prager.  Here’s a copy of her open letter:

“My name is Ashley Dionne and I’m a 26-year-old recent graduate from Michigan.
The phony Obamacare signup poster boy made me want to send a message about how Obamacare is really affecting people.

I graduated from The University of Michigan in 2009. In my state, this used to mean something, but even with a bachelor’s I was told I was too educated and wouldn’t stay. I watched as kids with GEDs and high school diploma’s took the low-paying jobs for which I applied.

I went back to school and got a second degree and finally found work at a gym. I work nights and only get 32 hours a week for eight dollars an hour. I’m unable to find a second job at this time.

I have asthma, ulcers, and mild cerebral palsy. Obamacare takes my monthly rate from $75 a month for full coverage on my “Young Adult Plan,” to $319 a month. After $6,000 in deductibles, of course.

Liberals claimed this law would help the poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I can’t afford to support myself, let alone older generations and people not willing to work at all.

This law has raped my future. It will keep me and kids my age from having a future at all.This is the real face of Obamacare and it isn’t pretty.” 

This isn’t the first time an American citizen has discovered the truth about Obamacare.  It will not be the last.

Hear that? Two degrees, only able to get part time work (Full time is 37.5 or 40 hrs a week depending on workplaces or countries/states/provinces) on unsociable shifts that decrease life expectancy, on top of her current health issues, and a high cost on a "young adult plan" to cover her health care needs. She might as well have not done degrees and been uneducated. She would have been better able to score those low-paying jobs. Cleary her higher education does not = good job.

Now that you've read the account, it's clear more and more, that the Pope is right in making the young and unemployed a vital concern of the Papacy or morally speaking. It clearly makes the heavens enraged under sins #3 and #4, and worse, by damming the prospects of the next generation, they will:

1) Not be able to support your generation or their parents when they need health care,
2) Aid in the push of another grave sin, euthanasia, as a morally depraved, but quick solution to rid the taxed economy and impoverished of the ``burden`` of those lonely old people,
3) Because my generation and the one below it will be struggling to provide even the most basic needs for our families, or ourselves, we might even forsake marrying and having a family, and increase the duration of mortal sins, like abortion, co-habitation, homosexuality, contraception, etc. and finally
4) Because you are so addicted to your EF liturgy, No money from the young people = NO LITURGY!

I think I and others have spoken enough on this matter. TBBs, curb your tongue at this one, as the fate of the EF is in the hands of the youth. If you slam the Pope on this one, you are slamming the younger generation. You are slamming the future of the EF, for when you and the older generations die off, it's either we pick up the financial tab, or no one does. Will you destroy one of the New Evangelization's greatest means of evangelization, in the EF, by making the financial future of my generation and under, less of a priority?

Pax Tibi Christi, Julian Barkin.

Updates to Solemn Latin Masses in Archdiocese: Feast of Christ the King 2013 Sun Oct 27th 315pm @ Toronto Newman Centre

UPDATE TO THIS POSTING OCTOBER 6, 2013

Don't Forget! The first accounted Solemn Latin Mass in the Archdiocese (outside of the normal Latin Mass parishes, and in my Fall 2013 listings link below,) will be taking place tomorrow evening at St. Cecilia's Church, Toronto, 7pm (with rosary and confessions at 630pm.) The Solemn Latin Mass will be sponsored by the Toronto Traditional Mass Society with the Knights of Columbus Blessed John XXIII Council #4976.

More information and the event poster can be found here, at the TTMS's president's personal blog, Vox Cantoris: http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2013/10/toronto-solemn-latin-mass-for-our-lady.html

Pax, Julian.
________________________________________________________________________
Hello Everyone,

I have updated the page for the "2013 Fall Latin Masses for Solemnities and Feast Days in the Archdiocese of Toronto" with new information on another upcoming Solemn Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Toronto.

The new entry is being organized by the St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir at a new Mass site .... The Newman Centre at the University of Toronto! I am quite pleased at this, as I have a number of good Catholic friends who are part of the Centre's vibrant ministry towards young adults! Believe me, this is exactly the right place to expose such a treasure as the Latin Mass. I have attended a number of their retreats and events over the last few years, and I've covered a couple of their events in the past, attended by my fellow "Newmanites" here:

http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2012/10/cardinal-collins-at-newman-center-for.html - Adoration and Benediction with His Eminence, Cardinal Thomas Collins

http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/03/reflection-march-8-10-retreat-with.html - A weekend retreat I went on with the talks covering John Paul II's work, the Theology of the Body

There are a number of great social, spiritual, and other events going on in this place, and it really is making a difference, as it is reaching out to Catholic youth on the U of T Campus ... and these youth are the ones going to Sunday Mass, helping out in their parishes, being solid and orthodox in the faith .... and even a number of my acquaintances have expressed interest in the Latin Mass, with a few actually going to some!

Here are the details, though you can also find them in the 2013 link:

CRITICAL NOTE: This Mass occurs on the Sunday and WILL fulfill your Sunday obligation to attend a valid and licit Catholic Mass (Liturgy). You do NOT NEED to attend another Catholic Mass that day if you attend the Latin Mass. 

• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at the Newman Centre at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Location: 89 St. George Street (St. George and Hoskin Ave.). The church is behind the Newman Centre.
• Start time: 3:15pm
• Organizer: St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir under Surinder S. Mundra
• Primary Contact/Inquiries: 416 731 4485 
• Parish Websites:
• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish: http://www.newmantoronto.com/
• Newman Center Student Chaplaincy (Please support!):  http://chaplaincy.newmantoronto.com/
• Newman Centre/Parish Contact: 416-979-2468
• Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/241532279336001/
• POSTER:

So please "save the date" in your calendars for this Mass and if you are in the Archdiocese of Toronto, do attend!. 

Pax Tibi Christi, Julian Barkin. 

Collection of Highlight Posts about What Pope Francis Said and Apologetics Against TBB Claims

Hey Everyone,

Wow, I've fired of a lot of Highlight posts today. Here's the collection of what I've fired off all in one shot, to defend against what is going around the Trads Behaving Badly blogosphere, by Traditionalists themselves (with a little of my personal $0.02 added in), with regards to the La Repubblica interview with the Italian atheist.

The interview that started it all, from La Repubblica: http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/10/01/news/papa_francesco_a_scalfari_cos_cambier_la_chiesa-67630792/

The Vatican, put it on their website (not a smart move until it's fully translated and evaluated): http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/speeches/2013/october/index_en.htm

And now, the apologetics posts against some of the crazy claims floating around the TBB blogosphere and critics of Pope Francis:

1) Big Blue Wave - General defense against how the TBBs are slamming Pope Francis because of the La Repubblica interview.
POST 1 - http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/10/highlight-big-blue-wave-says-it-best.html
POST 2 - http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/10/highlight-big-blue-wave-says-it-best_2.html

2) Kevin Tierney of Common Sense Catholicism - Latin Mass Traditionalist who has done apologetics, and continues to do so. He's now in my sidebars under "GladTrad/Defenders ..."
Post 1 - My Two cents. http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/10/highlight-2-part-1-my-two-cents-on.html
Post 2 - Kevin's Take on the Youth Unemployment and Lonely Old People line (which are both tied together) - http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/10/highlight-2-part-ii-kevin-tierney.html

3) Fr. John Zuhlsdorf - Traditionalist Blogging Priest who says the EF/Latin Mass blog is "What Does the Prayer Really Say" after his ability to dissect the Latin of prayers in the Mass. Speaks out about the "conscience" line and Jesus being incarnate in the souls of men mis-translation (that makes it look like the Pope promotes heresy and pantheism):
Post 1 - http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/10/highlight-3-great-fr-z-counters-trads.html

Now, you got everything together. Have a fun read. Pax, Julian.

Highlight 3: The Great Fr. Z Counters the Trads Behaving Badly on the Papal Italian Interview

Hello Everyone,

As always, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf is one of the mega-stars of the Traditional Catholic Blogosphere, between his intelligent (and sometimes witty and snarky) take of those things traditional in our Church, and his vast knowledge of liturgical and theological things.

And one thing is for sure, he`s on the right side of Traditional Catholicism.

Turns out the Pope said some things about Conscience and Jesus incarnate in the souls of Man. The old heresy of relativism and a little pantheism to boot, eh? Well, No Virginia, Pope Francis is NOT violating Church teaching on these beliefs. Here's good old Fr. Z, using his linguistic break-down skills and intellect to decipher the truth of what was said in the interview, and it's non-violations of Church teaching. Pax, Julian.

P.S. You gotta love how Fr. Z uses the bona-fide Vatican II documents in his defense. Fighting the "Spirit of Vatican II" with the "Real" Vatican II.

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/10/wdtprs-what-did-the-pope-really-say-1/

WDTPRS: What Did The Pope Really Say? 1 – UPDATES

Posted on 1 October 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I finally got the glacial site of the vile Italian daily La Repubblica to cough up the latest Franciscan interview… in Italian.

When I read in the English version that Pope allegedly said,

“The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood”,

I said to myself, “That can’t be right. Swap out brotherhood with something like ‘sisterhood’ and he sounds like an LCWR nun, and he is no fan of theirs or of their ‘female machismo’!”  No! Allow me to amend.  None of them would have said that.  They’ve grown beyond Jesus and words like “son”.

But you get my drift.  The Second Person of the Trinity did not incarnate in the “souls of men”.
So… What Did The Pope Really Say?  My emphasis.

Il Figlio di Dio si è incarnato per infondere nell’anima degli uomini il sentimento della fratellanza….
The Son of God was incarnate in order to instill in soul of men the feeling of brotherhood.
Perhaps better… “awareness… sense” of brotherhood?

I would like to take that “sentimento” in the Italian sense of “awareness”, but since Pope Francis is fundamentally a Spanish speaker, I don’t know what he meant by it here. I suspect we have to hear “sentimento/sentimiento” as “feeling”.  Honestly, my Spanish isn’t quite strong enough yet to hear that possible nuance behind the Italian.  In Italian I would have said something like, “consapevolezza”… or, now that I think of it, “senso”.

We have to be careful with the reports about what Francis said.  We have to check the English version of the interview against the Italian.

I am sure there will be other examples.

UPDATE:
In the meantime, the vile La Repubblica has this as a headline right now, filtered to you from a twit on Twitter:

“Questo Papa è il Rohani del Vaticano”… “This Pope is the Rohani of the Vatican”.

Yah… that’s right.  Talk about not getting this at all.

UPDATE:
From a reader:

Pope Francis–“Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them.”
Here, man “conceives” what is good or evil. Conceiving what is good or evil on an individual level is Moral Relativism.
 

Catholic Church in GS 16

16. In the depths of his conscience, man detects [Latin detegit] a law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him to obedience. Always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience when necessary speaks to his heart: do this, shun that. For man has in his heart a law written by God; to obey it is the very dignity of man; according to it he will be judged.(9) Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, Whose voice echoes in his depths.(10) In a wonderful manner conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbor.

Here, man “detects a law” in his conscience he must be “obedient” to. Conscience “reveals that law”, not “conceived” by each according to one’s liking. How do we reconcile these things that seem to be in direct opposition?

It think you may be over analyzing this on the basis of the English alone.

What Did The Pope Really Say?

Ciascuno ha una sua idea del Bene e del Male e deve scegliere di seguire il Bene e combattere il Male come lui li concepisce….
Each person has his idea of Good and of Evil and he must choose to follow Good and combat Evil as he perceives / understands them…

In this case, Italian “concepire” is clear understood in the sense of “understand, believe, perceive”, maybe even “grasp” and not English “conceive” in the sense of making something up on one’s own, as in “devise”.

In English we can say that “he conceived a plan”, which is something that he comes up with. Otherwise, we can say that “he couldn’t conceive what she was rattling on about”, which means that he didn’t understand, couldn’t workout out what she was saying.  Be careful of “false friends” in translation. Sometimes similar words do not have the same meaning or the same impact.

Let’s turn back to your citation of GS16 with that “detects”.  Latin detego, detexi, detectum (compound of tego “to cover, hide”) is, in the first place, “to un-cover, lay bare” and also to “dis-cover, dis-close, de-tect”.

From Vatican website: In the depths of his conscience, man detects a law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him to obedience.  Always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience when necessary speaks to his heart: do this, shun that.
Latin (doesn’t hack up the sentence): In imo conscientiae legem homo detegit, quam ipse sibi non dat, sed cui obedire debet, et cuius vox, semper ad bonum amandum et faciendum ac malum vitandum eum advocans, ubi oportet auribus cordis sonat: fac hoc, illud devita.
Fr. Z: In the depths of conscience man discovers the law which he does not give to himself, but which he is obliged to obey, and whose voice, always summoning him to do good and to avoid evil, whenever it is necessary rings in the ears of the heart: do this, shun that.

There is juridical language: lex, advoco.  However, the Holy Spirit is referred to in language both juridical and moral: Advocate, Counselor.  Advoco can also mean “console” and the Holy Spirit is called Consoler.

I love the image GS16 invokes: the “law’s voice summons” us to obligations, to obedience, to action.  It is as if we are, in the moment of “discovery” of the previously hidden evidence in the case, then placed before the bar in a moment of truth, when we are called to act justly and truthly in the face of the evidence that has been uncovered.

I digress. I don’t see much daylight between Francis’ “concupiscence”, rightly understood, and the GS 16 detegit.

Highlight 2: Part II Kevin Tierney Counters The Notion that Church Downplays Moral Issues in Francis Italian Interview

So now you got my analysis of the idiocy of the TBB's comments on this matter, you should hear it from another perspective, one who's got more experience in apologetics and defending the Church/making sense of "Traditionalist" things.

Tierney's Take
Another great Conservative/Traditionalist blogger, Kevin Tierney, of Common Sense Catholicism, comes to the defense of what is the truth of the messages given in that interview with the Italian atheist of La Republica.

Kevin gives a level headed view on things traditionalist, being one himself who attends the Latin Mass, AND has been in the apologetics department for a while. While he's not a big name one like Shea, Akin et al., he nonetheless is fully capable to discuss matters in defending the Church, including those misrepresentations of Her that are slung by TBBs.

Without further ado, Kevin breaks down the TBB lie of downplaying moral issues in his latest post. As usual, I'll boldface and underline important stuff. Pax, Julian.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Reading Francis Through..... Leo XIII???

Here we go again. 

Pope Francis gave another shoot interview (1), and already everyone is screaming. The Pope endorses moral relativism! The Pope says we should no longer try to bring people to Christ and His Church! The Pope says unemployment is a bigger evil than abortion! I'm not going to focus on the first two. Fr. Z covers the first one sufficiently. As for the other, the only people who really think that are those who have never actually done apologetics or evangelizing to begin with. (Hint, if your goal in these endeavors is to convert people, you are going to have a really low rate of success. I will probably expand on this later) It is the third one I have an interest in. 

This is the following statement everyone seems to be freaking out about.

The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old. The old need care and companionship; the young need work and hope but have neither one nor the other, and the problem is they don't even look for them any more. They have been crushed by the present. You tell me: can you live crashed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. 

Your Holiness, I say, it is a largely a political and economic problem for states, governments, political parties, trade unions.

 "Yes, you are right, but it also concerns the Church, in fact, particularly the Church because this situation does not hurt only bodies but also souls. The Church must feel responsible for both souls and bodies."

Everyone seems to be focusing a lot on the bolded part, and, par for the course, ignoring everything else quoted. He's talking to an atheist. He says that at this moment, the biggest danger is not just unemployment and loneliness, but rather what they signify. What good is a society if they can't take care of their elderly, and also cannot provide any hope for the future? Everyone is stuck in the tyranny of the present, which is a very nasty and brutish tyranny. When Peter gave the Gospel, he didn't call for people to save themselves from events that already happened or from the world to come, but to save ourselves "from this wicked and perverse generation." (Acts 2:40) The world hasn't changed much in 2,000 years. If all we have to live for is the present, then things pretty much suck for the young and the old. Society has always mitigated that by providing for the elderly, and offering hope for the young that they can advance. 

That really isn't the case anymore.  (If it ever was to begin with.) The Global Financial Collapse of 2008 changed everything. Unemployment has become nearly permanent for the youth, and across the globe the elderly have mostly been abandoned by their families. (Or worse yet, euthanasia.) To make things worse, the young and the elderly realize this. My generation isn't optimistic about the future. They are downright dystopian about it, because for many of them, there isn't any hope to advance in their life. As many governments have enacted austerity in the wake of the crisis, the elderly have frequently been a casualty, as their personhood is reduced to numbers in an acturial table. If you happen to be elderly and poor, well good luck. 

In such a situation, it is next to impossible for the Gospel to take root. People won't look to an eternal home when they don't have much a chance of surviving in the present. Many will say this isn't the [Church's] business, as these are primarily political and economic concerns, not those of the Church which are spiritual. Francis rightly rejects this line of thought, insisting that the damage unleashed by these forces impacts not just bodies and political states, but first and foremost it impacts souls. In these words, one finds an echo of Leo XIII in that most splendid of papal encyclicals, Rerum Novarum.

Neither must it be supposed that the solicitude of the Church is so preoccupied with the spiritual concerns of her children as to neglect their temporal and earthly interests. Her desire is that the poor, for example, should rise above poverty and wretchedness, and better their condition in life; and for this she makes a strong endeavor. By the fact that she calls men to virtue and forms them to its practice she promotes this in no slight degree. Christian morality, when adequately and completely practiced, leads of itself to temporal prosperity, for it merits the blessing of that God who is the source of all blessings; it powerfully restrains the greed of possession and the thirst for pleasure -- twin plagues, which too often make a man who is void of self-restraint miserable in the midst of abundance; it makes men supply for the lack of means through economy, teaching them to be content with frugal living, and further, keeping them out of the reach of those vices which devour not small incomes merely, but large fortunes, and dissipate many a goodly inheritance.

Mankind has abandoned the Gospel, and as a result, has abandoned the things which society depends on. Secular society has tried for centuries to come up with an alternative to the Church in promoting the welfare of society. So far, it has failed miserably. This is becuase the Catholic Church has a unique experience in this manner. She has rich and poor members, and must always look out for their well being, even (and especially) when governments don't. Leo spends paragraphs 27-42 talking about how the Church more or less achieved this balance throughout history, and offered suggestions for how nation states could do the same. (Go ahead, read them. Seriously. If you take nothing else from this rant, take Leo XIII's words!) 

Here's the depressing part, and something I don't think Catholics have really come to terms with. One of the reasons the Church was able to be such a balance was because she had extensive networks built up throughout society to help the poor, restrain the avarice of the rich, and use a leveling power to bring the two together. Almost all of those institutions are gone due to the Crisis in the Church of the last five decades. Nobody can afford them anymore. In other manners of social assistance, even most Catholics are free to let the welfare state help the poor instead of their own networks. Here in America, the last bastions of those old networks (Catholic hospitals) are now faced with closing their doors unless they violate their religious belief. As these institutions have disappeared, so has the Churches moral voice in society. Without that voice, the state has only been too happy to substitute its own wisdom, and the results ain't too pretty. Is it any wonder that such a nasty and brutish society has abortion as its primary sacrament? Is it any wonder that in such a society, the primary target of the world is the nuclear family, the only institution that can begin to fix this mess? Communism and materialism haven't fixed these problems, they've only made them worse. 

I don't know if this is the Pope's message or not. I also am not going to say I am optimistic about what can be accomplished by this Pope. (Hint: Even a fantastic superpope is only going to make a small dent in this problem. Leo XIII could be credibly called one of those, and the problem he saw coming in the 1890's came anyways.) I do think he has a keener understanding of socities problems than many are giving him credit for.

---- 1.) In Pro Wrestling, a "shoot" interview is where somebody breaks from the script and says what is really on their mind.

Highlight 2: Part 1: My Two Cents on Pope`s Unemployed Young People and Old People Comments

Hello everyone,

One of the biggest criticisms that the Trads Behaving Badly (TBBs) have launched on the internet is such: They say that the Pope said the world's biggest evils are be youth unemployment and lonely old people, and then quote a long list of what should be the world`s biggest evils or say otherwise. It seems that unless it is a moral issue of great depravity and/or ethics or attacking the Catholic Faith, it should not be on the Church's priority list, or be bumped down to "non-urgent" status. Clearly they are the arbiters of what the Church`s priority is, no?

My Two Cents
My common sense take on this with regards to the Church:

• The Church has always been concerned with the welfare of the poor as its priority. How many countless saints went out there, dealt with the poor, the youth, the unemployed, or a combination of all three? St. Alphonsus Liguori comes to mind, and he also fought against the Jansenism spreading its way through the ranks of the clergy too (which seems like a bit of a repeat amongst TBBs today ...)

• There's an expression that one can truly evaluate one's personal character, or a society's character, in how it treats the less fortunate. The elderly fall under that category, so if the elderly aren't a concern for the Church, well the Church is really shallow isn't it? That is contradictory to the true nature of the Catholic Church. She never turns a blind eye to the poor and the Weak, and Jesus' said so in his beatitudes. It's people who do so, and turn their backs on the Church and/or choose themselves and their gratification.

• Those young people who aren't working, Guess what? You don't like the fact that our Church is shrinking and "traditional looking parish X" doesn't have enough money to maintain it's beauty, and "trad parish Y" closed down? Guess what TBBs and other Traditionalists, IT TAKES MONEY to finance the Church, and within it, the Latin Mass:
• To clothe and feed your priests, especially those who can say the Latin Mass or want to do valid, licit, and orthodox liturgies. In addition if you want other priests on board, or more so, bishops, you must be willing to give suitable training (e.g. videos, trips to train with the FSSP or a convent), especially if you go by the rules of Summorum Pontificum. If you aren't willing to pay, they won't sacrifice their time to learn the TLM, and the bishop WILL follow the rules of SP .... meaning no priests who can do the TLM, no Mass. You'll have greater success if the resources are there from the start, and that means people willing to finance said resources.  

•  ... to clothe and feed your choirmasters, and not all of them can get a high paying job outside of their Church work or have the skills to do so, having devoted time and energy to their craft or choirmastering/organ playing, etc. Such a career path, or secondary career, is likely not paying a king's ransom. Practically speaking: Lady Gaga or Signor Magnifico and his baroque/classical/Gregorian Chant music. Who's music is in demand these days, and being paid the big bucks by joe average, or joe Catholic for that matter? HINT: It's not Mr. Magnifico.

• ... to put altar rails in churches that were wreck-o-vated, or to de-modernize a church via renovation. And those parishes that hold your Latin Masses? If it isn't an EF only parish, it's got MANY OTHER concerns besides your Latin Mass at 9am or 2pm or whatever ... many more concerns that have existed before you arrived on the scene, and Novus Ordo Masses that contain the bulk of the parish's paying families and parishioners. If you demand Father to divert his parish funds to your little effort, expect your Latin Mass and its adherents to be booted out of the Church in a flash, as the mis-educated laity will harass the pastor and the bishop with nasty, calumnious letters when they get word of your request for money.

• In addition, if one has a family, whether it's two ailing parents who don't have great jobs or only one, or said individual has a family to feed, and he's dependent on social welfare, or a minimal wage job (which is quite generous here in Canada and the USA vs. other countries)/ not-so-well paying job for where they live, where do you think he/she will be spending the money towards? Their family who needs medical care and attention (if he's a good son/she's a good daughter and takes Commandment #4 seriously) and their family.

• So what's my point? IT TAKES MONEY to buy the things for the Latin Mass, to re-build the sacred and holy culture you value so much, and guess what? When you and the rest of your generation pass on, or the one above you who WERE the big financial contributors to the Church, where do you think that money is going to come from? If the youth of the generation(s) below you cannot afford a decent job, or are kept out of them by your generation(s) who are holding onto the positions, and your company/institution isn't growing, complied with responsibilities to their family members, then blasting the Pope for saying youth unemployment is a priority is damming Traditional Catholicism and the Latin Mass .... there won't be anyone to pay for the expenses that traditional Catholicism needs to be revitalized or maintained. So therefore .... no employed youth ... NO LATIN MASS/holy and orthodox liturgies, or beautiful parishes, for your kids and their grandkids.

• And as for those "Old people",
• Who do you see attending Daily, and even more so, SUNDAY OBLIGATORY MASS?
• Further, there is a push for Euthanasia (oh yeah, isn't that one of your moral issues that you think should take priority over the unemployed and the old people?) in society, which is catching up to its "Death brother", abortion.
• Just recently, a world-renowned and well-respected clinical microbiologist, Dr. Donald Low, died from a fatal brainstem tumour. He was loved and valued by those who worked with him, and remembered for not only his professional work, but his personal interactions with colleagues and friends. He resided in my city, Toronto, and within my Archdiocese (though I do not think he is Catholic).See news coverage here - http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/dr-donald-low-investigated-option-to-die-with-dignity-wife-says-1.1469817. He promoted euthanasia in a post-humously released video as a plea to increase services for those with terminal illnesses and to change the laws regarding euthanasia in the world, including Canada. 
• So with those unemployed youth clamoring for jobs, and those seniors who can retire but are not, holding onto positions the youth need to progress and, well, make a living, and those ``lonely old people`` eating up spaces in exhausted health care institutions and nursing homes, guess who's going to be the first to fall in line to euthanasia? That's right, those "lonely old people".
• Might I also mention that while more young people are flocking over to the TLM, the majority are still in Novus Ordo land? So the main people who value the TLM are the older generation who had it pre Vatican-II? A couple of decades more are needed for my generation and the one below me to overtake the TLM and re-discover it.

So to sum it up, those TBBs who are bashing pope Francis for these statements in the interview, are truly being ignorant of the whole scenario and the practical and associated MORAL consequences of the issue. If anything, what lies behind the practical issues ARE those moral and ethical issues that the TBBs say should be of great priority to Pope Francis and other Catholics. Further, they are dooming the future of the Latin Mass by not thinking ahead about their individual fates (among the pre-Vatican II crowd) and the future of their beloved treasure when there will be no one left to finance the Latin Mass from my generation ... cause we won't have suitable-paying work, or be too poor to put even a $5-$10 bill in the donation box/collection plate.

And that`s my two cents. The next post will be the real ``highlight`` from blogger Kevin Tierney of Common Sense Catholicism. Pax, Julian.

Highlight: Big Blue Wave Says it Best About the Pope's Latest Interview post 2

Here's the addendum or 2nd post that Big Blue Wave has regarding the Francis' Italian interview. I've boldfaced some important points:

"Addendum to last night's blogpost about Pope Francis' latest interview and the commotion around it.

Remember that the devil will use ANYTHING to turn us against the Church or Jesus Christ. Including our own orthodoxy. Strange as that sounds, the devil will use our own orthodoxy against us to separate us from the Church, and ultimately Jesus.

It is possible to make orthodoxy into an idol replacing Jesus. We become so busy in pursuing orthodoxy, that we forget the ultimate goal.
The goal is not to give popes and other clergy litmus tests. Don't get me wrong, orthodoxy is very important. But our goal is not to make the Church orthodox. Our goal is to save souls. Orthodoxy is necessary but it's not the only way to save souls. By that I mean some people come into the Church from an intellectual point of view, and so orthodoxy is really important.

But other people come to the Church from a mystical standpoint, because we have the Eucharist. Or from a psychological standpoint, because Christ healed them of a wound.

These are all valid means to save souls.

We are rightly disgusted with the dissent in our Church. But that disgust shouldn't turn into  a monomania where it`s the be-all and end-all of being Catholic. 'Cuz it`s not.

There are people in the world who don't think a lot about doctrine who are legitimate Catholics.

The purpose of  doctrine is to bring people to Christ, but for some people, it's not what leads. It's the Eucharist, or some spiritual or psychological aspect that brings them to Christ. We shouldn't be so pharasaical that we have to evaluate everyone by their orthodoxy.

Everyone is at a different place in their spiritual life, and some people aren't not into doctrine right now. What is unacceptable is when people have an agenda to spread serious errors. This we rightly oppose.

Our faith isn't reduced to doctrines. I guess this is what I'm trying to get at. Our faith is an encounter with Jesus Christ to bring us closer to him. Doctrines help us with that, but doctrines are not the only thing.  Our faith is not a theology test. Our faith is to love Christ and through him our neighbour. If someone doesn`t really know the Marian doctrines, that`s not so good, but if he tries hard to love God and his neighbour, that's the main thing. It`s not the only thing, but it's the main one.

Some people might discard that path because it's ignorant and not theological. That person is a not-good-enough Catholic because they don't even bother to learn their faith. [The author is saying here what a radical or "orthodox" Catholic would think to disregard his/her more "ignorant" brother or sister in Christ] While of course we should all learn our faith, but this is what St. Paul said when we shouldn't argue with those weak in the faith. We have to begin where people are at.

If we expect people to be doctrinal experts before they can be acceptable Catholics, then we're acting like Pharisees. We look down on people who were poorly catechized, or those who try to accompany them.
And in this way, the devil makes use of our commitment to orthodoxy and faithfulness to separate from Christ. We become full of pride and we say to ourselves: well those Catholics are no good, they haven't learned their catechism yet.
Instead of looking down on Catholics who aren't well-versed, we should try to care about them, and see what we can do to bring them one step forward to Christ. For some people it's difficult because it involves actual caring and empathy, and instead of putting forward information or an argument.

It's still something we need to learn."

Highlight: Big Blue Wave Says it Best About the Pope's Latest Interview post 1

Hello Everyone,

Funny, one of my colleagues on Facebook says something to the extent that Pope Francis will be an interesting pope that will truly show us how Catholic we really are.

I take it further and say that Pope Francis is a litmus test that will truly show our real core of our soul, to be one of the following: Pope Francis will test you, and reveal that you really are:

1) A "Judas"/false Catholic, who lies about their practice and adherence to the Faith, and really doesn't love Christ, and really should just go about not calling themselves "Catholic."

2) A true and active Catholic who does love our Lord and seeks to be as perfect as he was, being devout and truthful to the Catholic Faith and believing in all the truths it contains, as well as living out said Catholic Faith and rejecting the empty lies of His enemy, the Devil OR

3) He will expose the Pharisee that you really are, a Trad Behaving Badly, that while you cross your I's and dot your T's, you truly, deep down are only Catholic by law, but are not at the core of your soul. You lack the virtue of Charity, do Satan's will via said Pharisaical behaviours, focusing on externals and a rigorist practice of the faith that makes the Catholic Faith SEEM elitist and secluded, and abusing the Latin Mass/Liturgy for selfish means outside of its true purpose. The old: "Saint on Sunday, Sinner the other 6 days of the week" as it were.

Personally, I want to aim for #2, thank you. And if you have been reading the multitude of posts I've written here the past year on S.U.D., you'll see based on what I cover and how in depth I am in both forms of the Roman Rite in the Church, that I do not want to let 3) be my fate at the litmus test of Pope Francis. And we should strive for the same.

Anyhow, I wanted to go in depth on what I've witnessed and seen from some of my colleagues and/or other coverage on the internet. Pope Francis' interview with an Italian atheist of La Republica, has caused much outrage amongst the blogosphere and produced some comments on Facebook too. However, another conservative, Catholic blogger has beat me to it, though his/her focus is usually pro-life issues.

Big Blue Wave, has been around the blogosphere for a while, speaking mainly on pro-life and family issues. But he/she has taken time away from that to comment on the whole Francis debacle, sharing my exact sentiments and feelings. I'll let Big Blue do the talking in two posts, which I will be posting in full here and in a second highlight post, because I think it is absolutely important you read all the text.

Pax, Julian. Here's the first one, thought for the sake of shrinking the post I'll be removing spaces put into the text:

"The orthodox hissy fit over the pope's latest interview annoys the crap out of me.

First of all, given that the interviewer is an atheist, we're not even sure if the pope's words were correctly conveyed. Secondly, there is the issue of translation. Third: Can't a pope have a conversation with an atheist without it turning into exhibit A for his heresy trial?

Sure, the conversation was recorded. But it's a conversation.

I'll reveal a deep, dark secret about me. Sometimes, when I'm offline and you're not all paying attention: I talk about things other than abortion. I don't even talk about orthodoxy. Or dissent.
Sometimes, I think about how to make myself a better Catholic. And get out the smelling salts for this one: I even think about helping the poor.

Does it boggle the mind? Give yourself a good whiff.

Okay, maybe I'm being a bit presumptuous, because I'm not the pope after all. I mean, nobody ultimately cares what I think about abortion or orthodoxy. Except, maybe, you. :)

But if this is the case for me, why shouldn't it be the case for the pope?
It doesn't make him a bad Catholic. So you're saying to yourself: but the babies... the dissent.
I get it. I share your concerns. Nonetheless, what he's doing is not at cross purposes of what we want to do.

Don't we want to bring people to Christ? Isn't that the pope's number one job? Won't that make people more pro-life?

And I know that this is going to make people mad, but you don't bring people to Christ by leading with abortion or talking about how sinful it is to dissent from Church teaching.

If you hadn't noticed, it's not like us orthodox Catholics have done a really bang up job of bringing converts to the Church, or even just keeping baptized Catholics Catholic. Yes, yes, we blame all the professional Catholics, and the bishops, etc. But ultimately, being the bearers of the Truth, it's not like we've driving people to the Church in droves.

We bear that responsibility. How many people have YOU brought into the Church? Given the numbers of people who go to Mass, I'm going to say that on average you've probably brought zero people into the Church.

We've had the internet for 20 years now. We've been able to reach a lot of people. And sure, orthodox Catholics have done a lot to improve the doctrinal atmosphere of the institutional Church but newsflash: [there's] just not that many people joining. The net growth has not been very good.
And maybe it's swell to be a smaller but more faithful Church, but that doesn't improve the fate of lost souls out there...

Pope Francis has the ear of people who would otherwise not give the Catholic Church the time of day. Why is that so wrong?

He's not going to talk about abortion and orthodoxy when talking to an atheist, just like he's not going to talk to Jews about Jesus' Resurrection or Muslims about his Divinity, certainly not on the first or second date.

This is how normal relationships work. People don't lead with "Hi, I believe in Jesus Christ, are you saved?" Not in Canada, anyway. Normal people don't work that way so neither should we. St. Paul said to become all things to all people, and it's no different for us faithful Catholics.

We're so wrapped up in culture war battles we sometimes forget how to be normal human beings. I'm as guilty as anyone. To some extent, we enjoy the battle. We revel in saving babies, the beauty of Church teaching, and bringing greater glory to God. This is normal for faithful Catholics. There is nothing wrong with that.

But the rest of the world doesn't think like that. I understand that the rest of the world gets on our nerves because it doesn't operate on the premises that we like, and on top of that it mocks us for our beliefs, so we retreat into our comfortable little circles and don't bother to stick our necks out so that we can't avoid the discomfort of facing the world's anti-Catholicism.

I completely get that.

But it doesn't bring souls to Christ. It doesn't make faith seem normal. There are people in this world who don't know a single faithful Catholic. Even though there are a billion Catholics in this world.
Whose fault is that? Is it the bishops'? It's time we stop always blaming the clergy for everything, notwithstanding the weight of responsibility they do bear.

Pope Francis is showing us how it's done-- how to talk to people like normal human beings.

The pope is not going to lead with teachings from encyclicals, much as I love them. He is not going to lead with abortion. That's probably why he didn't mention it as the top evil. He didn't want the conversation to go down that path and be railroaded into another culture war discussion that doesn't anywhere. He wanted to talk about things that this atheist wanted to talk about.

He wanted to start where people are at.

I'm not too good at this stuff. It doesn't mean it shouldn't get done. It doesn't mean that I shouldn't learn. Does this mean that we stop talking about abortion and that we stop speaking out against dissent? NO!!!

Our concerns about abortion, and modernism and orthodoxy and the whole culture war litany of issues are completely valid.

But being a Catholic is like being a guy with the spinning plates. Remember those from the Ed Sullivan days? We can't just spin one or two plates. We have to spin all the plates. Culture war, orthodoxy, saving souls, missionary work, charitable work, prayer, etc etc.

Being Catholic is not just about one thing. It's about everything. So we can't just get ticked off when the pope doesn't lead with our issues. The best predictor of future results is past results.

In the past, Pope Francis has come out strongly in defense of human life. He is strongly orthodox.
He will not disappoint us. We have to stop acting like we have no lessons to receive from our pope just because he's not talking about our issues this very moment.

He's giving us an important lesson on how to reach out to people.

Given our poor record of reaching out to people outside our circles and bringing them in, maybe we should be paying attention. And I will now don my industrial strength flamesuit."

Cool! More New Priests Choosing EF as Their First Mass After Being Ordained

Hello Everyone,

This is "just too cool to miss." This was part of my Facebook feed:

http://liturgyguy.com/2013/09/30/new-priests-and-the-old-mass/

Take a read! It's about how more priests are choosing the EF for their first Mass after ordination. You know that a newly ordained priest's first Mass is indulgenced right?

Anyways, it's a good article. Just shows you that there are fruits being yielded by Summorum Pontificum .... and it's looking somewhat better with each passing year.

Pax, Julian.

ANNUM PRIMUM, EST FINIS! Happy Blog-o-versary on Servimus Unum Deum + The Feast of St. Michael the Archangel (& Gabriel and Raphael in N.O)

Hello Everyone.

Well, I can't believe this, but this blog, this little labour of love for the Latin Mass from an altar server's perspective, is one year old. It was on Sept 29th last year that I decided to plunge ahead with this blog, to begin the journey of blogging on tips and run-throughs of altar serving in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, and give coverage to other Latin Mass efforts in the Archdiocese of Toronto that were not getting equal or additional coverage. Now, a number of serving posts exists, with others in progress, other areas of Traditional Catholicism, and even the Novus Ordo at times have been covered. Since inception, I`ve reached Over 25000K pageviews! I never thought this niche blog would get that in a year.

Tomorrow is also special besides this anniversary for another reason. This weekend, we arrive at a big feast day in the Church, which the Archdiocese of Toronto under His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Collins, has ordered to be celebrated superseding the normal Sunday Ordoes. In the Novus Ordo and the EF in other areas of the world, this would be the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time or the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. This Sunday, he declared that the Feast of St. Michael and its associated readings be used as the Ordo for this Sunday. This is, to my understanding, for a number of reasons:

• To coincide with the ongoing implementation of the Pastoral Plan to enhance the Archdiocese of Toronto
• To coincide with the Year of Faith that has been promulgated by the Vatican
• Because St. Michael is the Patron saint of this Archdiocese, and is whom our Cathedral is named after
• Because we need his intercession in this time of our lives as Catholics.  

I`ll admit, that the reasons above aren`t official, but are what I can arrive at to my understanding. Personally I am not too keen on the idea of non-1st class (EF lingo) feast days/Solemnities of Saints superseding the normal Sunday Mass Ordo (cause I`m more of a rules and order person), which breaks from the ``universality`` of the Catholic Church (where wherever you go, you are supposed to get the same Mass, with the same ordo). Despite this snafoo, I`m pleased it was St Michael`s feast being the one to be chosen. Being a proud graduate of St. Michael`s College School, having been raised on the school Hymn to St. Michael, the SMCS tradition, and the like, it is great that I get to share a teensy little space next to this awesome feast and saint.

For now, as long as I continue to be involved with Latin Mass serving, the Servimus Unum Deum blog will continue onward in its 2nd year, and may under the patronage of St. Michael and through his intercession, that the Latin Mass may proliferate and grow in Catholic, positive, and Christ-centered means; may also the great commander of all the angels, continue to defend us from the spiritual assaults of the Evil One, whom he banished to Hell in the Great War in Heaven.

(Source Unknown)

Sancte Michael Archangele, Ora Pro Nobis!



Pax Tibi Christi, Julian Barkin.

REMINDER: Servimus Unum Deum Serving Practice Tomorrow, Sat Sept 28, 2013 630pm

Hello Everyone.

Just a reminder ....

The next practice for the Servimus Unum Deum Latin Mass serving group will take place next Saturday, September 28, 2013 @ 630pm, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

More details here: http://torontotlmserving.blogspot.ca/2013/09/annoncement-next-servimus-unum-deum.html

One important detail: While the St. Pat's Choir and I will be inside the Church, the doors will be locked after 630pm. If you arrive late, please call my cell number so I can let you in the Church: 416-894-1725.

Pax. Tibi Christ, Julian Barkin.

A Brief Interlude .... "Vatican II" Saint Celebrates the Latin Mass .... PADRE PIO!!!

Hello Everyone.

Just a brief interlude, and coolness for me. Through a couple of blogs I read, I found out that the beloved St. Padre Pio celebrated the Latin Mass!!! And we've got video proof thanks to YouTube! It was his feast day in the Novus Ordo liturgical calendar in the Church, yesterday.

First this short clip in colour of the Last Mass that Padre Celebrated, which was a Solemn Tridentine/ Latin Mass or Missa Solemnis.



And second, my favourite clip, rare footage of the Saint while going about his daily duties and such in the Monastery. I like this clip because it shows him being himself, a holy monk, but human, expressing, joy, laughter, and other things with his fellow friars, and even a little joking around with the cameraman. We often hold saints like they are demi-gods, forgetting there can be none other than God himself, and his three persons with one Divine Nature in the Trinity. Seeing a film like this grounds you reality, but also puts a smile on your face, and even makes you realize, hey, perhaps it is possible to be human, and holy, like a saint ... this saint ... Padre Pio.

Pax Tibi Christi, Julian Barkin.

P.S. DONT FORGET SERVER PRACTICE THIS SATURDAY FOR SUD!!! SEE HERE!!!.

ANNONCEMENT: Next Servimus Unum Deum Serving Group Practice - Saturday Sept 28 @ 630 PM St. Pat`s Toronto

Hello everyone.

The next practice for the Servimus Unum Deum Latin Mass serving group will take place next Saturday, September 28, 2013 @ 630pm, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

The church is located at 131 McCaul Street, Toronto, near Dundas St. W. and University Avenue, downtown. The closest subway station is St. Patrick's station. You get off at St. Patrick's, West side, go west on Dundas St. W 3 blocks towards the "Village by the Grange" and past a police station, and then turn right onto McCaul St.

The focus of the practice is the Solemn Latin Mass, as there will be upcoming Masses in the Archdiocese that will be of the Solemn/Missa Solemnis level. Please confirm your attendance, and should the church be locked at or after 630pm, please call my cell number provided on the attached poster for this practice.

Please attend this practice, especially if you are interested in serving for the St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir Solemn Latin Mass to take place on the last Sunday of October, for their annual Christ the King Mass.

In addition, if there is a young man, or another practicing Catholic gentleman in your life, whom you think would be interested, please pass along this information and the poster to them, or your parish, and have them contact me through my e-mail and/or my number provided in the poster.

Thank you, and Pax Tibi Christi, Julian Barkin.



2013 Fall Latin Masses for Solemnities and Feast Days in the Archdiocese of Toronto

Hello Everyone.

Here is a listing of all the Latin Masses known to me for the following Solemnities and Feast Days this fall in the Archdiocese of Toronto. This page will be updated constantly as more Masses are offered, closer to their feast/solemnity dates.

Regular offering Masses
Please see the page with the regular listings for times and locations. These churches will have either Low, High, or Solemn Masses offered during the day, and possibly in the evening on special feast days/solemnities.

Special Offering Masses
Monday October 7, 2013 - Feast of our Lady of the Rosary

• St. Cecelia's Catholic Church - Toronto, ON
• Where (address) - 161 Annette St. Toronto, ON
• Start Time: 630pm Rosary with the Sacrament of Reconciliation, then Solemn Mass at 7pm
• Organizer: Toronto Traditional Mass Society (a.k.a. Una Voce Toronto) under David Anthony Domet
• Contact: unavocetoronto@gmail.com
• Facebook event page created by Una Voce Toronto: Coming soon ?
• Poster:



UPDATED! Sunday October 27, 2013 - Feast of Christ the King
CRITICAL NOTE: This Mass occurs on the Sunday and WILL fulfill Your Sunday Obligation to Attend A Valid and Licit Catholic Mass (Liturgy). You do NOT NEED to attend another Catholic Mass that day if you attend the Latin Mass. 

• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at the Newman Centre at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Location: 89 St. George Street (St. George and Hoskin Ave.). The church is behind the Newman Centre.
• Start time: 3:15pm
• Organizer: St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir under Surinder S. Mundra
• Primary Contact/Inquiries: 416 731 4485 
• Parish Websites:
• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish: http://www.newmantoronto.com/
• Newman Center Student Chaplaincy (Please support!):  http://chaplaincy.newmantoronto.com/
• Newman Centre/Parish Contact: 416-979-2468
• Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/241532279336001/
• POSTER:

Friday, November 1, 2013 - All Saints Day

St Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church

Where (address) - 2210 Lawrence Ave East, Scarborough, ON

Start Time: Solemn Mass at 7pm

Organizer: Toronto Traditional Mass Society under David Anthony Domet

Contact: unavocetoronto@gmail.com

Facebook event page created by Una Voce Toronto: Coming soon ?

Poster:



 

Saturday November 2, 2013 - All Souls Day

St. Issac Jogues Catholic Church, Pickering, ON

Where (address) - 2210 Lawrence Ave East, Scarborough, ON

Start Time: Solemn Mass at 11am

Organizer: Toronto Traditional Mass Society under David Anthony Domet

Contact: unavocetoronto@gmail.com

Facebook event page created by Una Voce Toronto: Coming soon ?

Poster: Coming Soon

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Missassauga

Where (address) - 5440 Durie Road, Mississauga, ON

Start Time: Solemn Mass at 11am

Organizer: Toronto Traditional Mass Society under David Anthony Domet

Contact: unavocetoronto@gmail.com

Facebook event page created by Una Voce Toronto: Coming soon ?

Poster: Coming Soon

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Special Offering - Rorate Mass

• St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Missassauga
• Where (address) - 5440 Durie Road, Mississauga, ON
• Start Time: Solemn Mass at 6am (Really Early!!!)
• Organizer: Toronto Traditional Mass Society under David Anthony Domet
• Contact: unavocetoronto@gmail.com
• Facebook event page created by Una Voce Toronto: Coming soon ?
• Poster: Coming Soon

Sunday December 8, 2013 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Peterborough Diocese - NOTE: While this is outside of the core of the Archdiocese of Toronto, and is in another diocese, I make exception to this offering, as it is being assisted by the St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir, in co-operation with a priest from the diocese who has assisted at the Masses organized by SPGC.

???? - Special Offering

• Where: To be determined 
• Start time - 3pm or 4pm in the afternoon
• Organizer: Fr. ???? at ????? with assistance from St. Patrick's Gregorian Choir under Surinder S. Mundra (including altar servers who serve with the choir)
• Contact: 416 731 4485
• Parish Contact: To be added at a later date

Monday, December 9, 2013
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Missassauga

Where (address) - 5440 Durie Road, Mississauga, ON

Start Time: Solemn Mass at 7pm

Organizer: Toronto Traditional Mass Society under David Anthony Domet

Contact: unavocetoronto@gmail.com

Facebook event page created by Una Voce Toronto: Coming soon ?

Poster: Coming Soon

 

UPDATED: October 11, 2013

Don't worry, I'm Still Here

Hello Everyone,

Just checking in. I just haven't had time to get into some serious blogging work, between work and my other activities.

I do want to continue and finish the thurifer post in future. Also, I will be working on getting the September practice set up for the SUD Latin Mass serving group, though I will have to move it to another date to work commitments I cannot switch a shift for.

So don't worry, I haven't left the building yet. Just got a lot on my plate. Pax, Julian.

A Sunday Funny for Us "Trads"

I like youth ministry, yes I do.

However, I might have to inform the liturgical police about this one .... seems that some bad liturgical music "instruction" is about to cause some "treble" amongst our youth ministries this coming month ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EloJwgcjYXc

 

WATCH IF YOU DARE!

 

Have a laugh on me. Pax, Julian. 





Brief MIA: Brief Vacation away from Servimus

Hello Everyone.

If you don't see any more highlights, articles, etc. for a while, save the odd one or two over the next week, it is because I am on a vacation from work. I might do some post-work on the thurifer post, but other than that, I'll just be reading my blogger feed.

Part of it will be hunkering down with the family and friends, taking a bit of rest, and my Labour Day weekend having something exciting I am preparing for:

Canada's Annual Marie Reine Du Cap Pilgrimage with the FSSP.

Briefly, every year the St. Clement's (at St. Anne's parish) FSSP community in Ottawa, organize a 3-day (+ travel time) long walking pilgrimage through the Trois-Rivieres region of Quebec along the St. Lawrence River. Latin Masses every day, virtually 24-7 access to confession from FSSP priests, and more.

The main website for the pilgrimage is here:

http://www.marie-reine.ca/index_en.php

Also, for you Traditional Catholic who surf the blogosphere, it might peak your interest to know that this pilgrimage has been featured on popular Trad websites such as New Liturgical Movement and the more right-wing Rorate Caeli, as well as right-wing Catholic forum, Fisheaters:

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2009/08/marie-reine-du-canada-pilgrimage-to.html#.UhvFenVzY6Y

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/07/events-mary-queen-of-canada-pilgrimage.html

http://catholicforum.fisheaters.com/index.php?topic=3453443.0;wap2 (This is a cached blog entry. I don't think you can sign up for their forums currently).

So, if any one isn't doing anything productive this coming weekend in Canada, you still have time to prepare and sign up!!! Just contact the person listed on the website for your division: English or French.

Pax Tibi Christi, and have a good week. Julian Barkin.

DOUBLE HIGHLIGHT: Oil and Water Mix for a Change: Mark Shea and Latin Mass Society UK Joseph Shaw on Liturgy

Hello Everyone.

Out of interest, two entries appeared on my blog feed, one linking to the other. Some of you who venture into the online Catholic blogosphere, would know of the high quality devotion and defense of the faith provided by Catholic Answers, at www.catholic.com/. One of their frequent authors in their publications, and in numerous collaborations, is Mark Shea, a Catholic apologist, who also writes a weekly column for the more conservative National Catholic Register (NOT the NCreporter!).

Of course, for this week, he decided to cover the Liturgy. On the whole, Mark gets it absolutely right in his column, here:

" .... Quarrels about liturgy have, for me, this same maddening and distracting quality.  I don’t want a liturgy I can look at.  I want a liturgy I can look along—to see God .... I want to enter into the Paschal mystery, not keep being dragged back out by the thought “What is he doing now?”  [as in stupid liturgical abuses or things the priest likes.] I want music that makes me think of God, not ... a riff from Dave Brubeck’s “Take 5” ... I want vestments that clothe the priest in Christ, not in gimmickry.  I want them to just stick to the script. Say the black, do the red, as the saying goes. [Father Zuhlsdorf !!!!]

I’m not at Mass to be entertained, charmed, fascinated by a dazzling personality, or amused.  I’m not there to worship myself or hear about ... which lay martinets dominate a few “ministries” in the parish ... and are now ... tiny tyrannical fiefdoms [over the whole of the parish community].  I don’t want to hear a homily in which a priest is now so remote from the most elementary truths of the Tradition ... I don’t want to improve the Our Father to the Our Mother nor pray in the name of the Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier.  I don’t want to live with the impression that the last words of Christ to Peter were “Try experiments on my rats” and not “Feed my sheep.” 

Why am I at Mass?  I want God.  That’s why ...."

Wow! This, Mark, is exactly what those of us of the Generation X and Millenial generation, want of our Catholic liturgy and faith. WE ARE TIRED of the stupid things that priests and misguided lay teachers think we want. We want the whole kit and caboodle, without lies about the true teachings, doctrine, and dogmas of our faith. Screw the "Jesus loves everyone" garbage and "tolerate one another" stuff.

Now, Mark continues on because he's about to, like Christ always has, turn the tables and challenge the other extreme when it comes to the faith: The liturgical Pharisees and/or the "Trads behaving badly."

" .... But for exactly the same reason, I’m also not interested in the reaction to all this sort of twaddle from laity who have made it their life’s mission to be perpetually angry or obsessed with the minutiae of liturgy and hyper-critical of the Paul VI rite.  Just as I don’t want a priest to take me out of the Mass and into the cult of “Aren’t I Fabulous?” so I likewise don’t want angry Reactionaries endlessly critiquing and carping about how intrinsically inferior even a well-celebrated Paul VI rite is. [a sadly typical behaviour of Trads Behaving Badly (TBBs), and their organizational counterparts e.g. the Society of St. Pius X.] I don’t want to listen to paranoid rants about the Jewish conspiracy tunneling under the sanctuary, or how the vestments aren’t quite the right color, or how we must all panic because Pope Francis’ priorities are not particularly on gorgeous liturgy. I find his simple offering of a beach ball to God in gratitude for 3 million hearts touched by Christ at World Youth Day to be an occasion of deeply moving joy, not a reason to scream "Sacrilege!" I also don't think the Little Drummer Boy insulted God by not playing Palestrina. I’m not super-inspired by singing “City of God”, and I can't stand "Anthem", but on the whole, I think that if that's the worst suffering I have to endure, I’m getting off way better than the Hiroshima martyrs and I am not going to let it destroy my peace ...."

While I do appreciate the gesture to Pope Francis about the beach ball thing, and I get his point not to act like a `trad behaving badly` to such a thing, personally, beach balls don`t belong on the altar. If you HAVE to absolutely bring something up like that in the Novus Ordo, then put it below the actual altar in front with those ``liturgical displays`` done by ``liturgical committees``. I`ve seen it before though usually with things the "Children's Mass/Liturgy/schools" do. I respect the sacredness, especially even higher, of the Sanctuary, and we should not willingly be doing things to violate that. Though I get we can't take out our mace and batons and do citizen's arrests on priests and people for that. So I`ll take my lumps with Mark on that.

HOWEVER, His overall sentiment rings true. This is the sickness that KILLS any hope of people coming to the Latin Mass, or even the Church in general. It`s not the form of the Mass itself that drives away people. It`s the bitter, angry, TBBs that do it, in person and their social media. This anal-retentiveness about all things liturgical and keeping the purity of "t/T-radition" just angers people off except their own allies/adherents. The Church and the Latin Mass is for everyone, and if you TRULY care about spreading the EF, you don't be like how Mark is describing above. Seriously, youth these days hate over-burdening authority of ANY sort. You have to break down our sensitivity barriers people.
SO, of course someone else decided to chime in, the Latin Mass Society UK head no less on his blog! At first glance of the title, I feared another TBB reaction was coming, and usually, these "Neo-Con" bloggers and Trads don't mix, like oil and water. Interestingly, there is some agreement from the author, Joseph Shaw. I still think there is a tad bit of reactionary "self-defense" mode going on, as I've seen his tone and writing in other posts, especially concerning a Lie-Beral Monsignor Basil Loftus, but he actually had some support for Mark Shea. Let me show you:

".... To liberals, comparing Mass to a piece of theatre is like showing a red rag to a bull. They want it to be natural and spontaneous. Nevertheless, Shea has a point: you need to lose yourself in the liturgy. The trouble is that doesn't make the point he wants it to make, which is that thinking about the liturgy is a Bad Thing.

 

There may sometimes be an element of 'I murder to dissect': if you are thinking too much about how the poet is producing his effect, it won't have its effect on you. But it equally won't have its effect if you can't understand the words or images or references (like me reading Mark Shea's blog), or if it is being read badly or printed in the wrong order. So learning about poetry or drama and getting a good text or a good performance will ultimately enhance your experience. Learning about the liturgy, and attending its worthy celebration, will enhance your liturgical experience.

 

If liturgy is important, as Shea presumably thinks it is, if he thinks it allows you to 'look along - to see God', then we need to argue about it a lot, we need to make it better, we need to adorn it with the best music we can and art set it in the best architecture. There's no easy escape for those 'conservatives' who don't want to takes sides on liturgical issues, I'm afraid ....

.... Shea may be feeling weary of the battle, but bad arguments and poor scholarship must be replaced by better, and a banal liturgy with something which speaks to us more clearly of heavenly things."

So while Joseph is about maybe 89.27546% in agreement with Shea (as he still defends most argumentation about the liturgy in general here, which, I agree somewhat, of the sentiment that we should not be blind sheep obeying our parish overlords and Lie-beral types of clergy and lay authroities), It is great to see some agreement between the Trad and Neo-con side here with this critical analysis blog post from Joseph.

The main message is clear between the both of them:
--> Liberals, stop thinking the liturgy is all about YOU. Stop trying to screw with the means God gives us as the highest form of worship, set about by Christ in his Passion, Death, and Resurrection that Passover Seder 2000+ years ago. Stop trying to violate the Church's doctrines and dogma. It ain't going to Happen as Christ said in Matthew 16:18.  Priests, say the black text in your Missal and do the Red indicated. Nothing else NOT in the liturgy or outside of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Give the laity what they deserve: A liturgy fit for Christ the King!

--> Conservatives: Stop being TBBs, over dissecting the liturgy and pitting one form of the Mass against the other, Pope Benedict Emeritus and his preference of the EF over Pope Francis and his preference of the OF against one another, and stop being a bunch of liturgical police that enforces every rubric known to man, 1860 or 2013. You are sickening the liturgy and the people who come to the Church with your overzealous, and often anger-laced behaviour.

Good job to both of them. Pax Tibi Christi, Julian.

HIGHLIGHT: New Update Aug 25 2013 on Update on the Fraciscan Friars of the Immaculate Situation Thanks to Fr. Z

Hello Everyone.

You might have remember the fury and fire that blazed across the blogosphere a couple of weeks ago when "Big Bad" Pope Francis though the head of the order of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, restricted the Latin Mass/EF. There were cries amongst the townspeople to carry their torches and pitchforks and put these men's heads on a platter, There were people writhing in agony, there was ..... none of that, I am just being an exaggerating young man. But you get the drift, there were upset people, especially amongst the "Trads."

I did blog about this, but I took the positive and caution side, even titling my post, "No Francis Does Not Hate the FFI's Virginia``. I did however post much on warnings from Fr. Z, to take a ``Chill Pill`` and not be a ``trad behaving badly``, otherwise we`d lose the EF for good or they will not progress in our (arch)dioceses.

Well .... The Pope STILL DOES NOT HATE THE FFI`s Virginia.

Fr. Z has done some follow up on the situation here: http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/08/update-franciscan-friars-of-the-immaculate-and-restrictions-on-the-tlm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wdtprs%2FDhFa+%28Fr.+Z%27s+Blog+-+What+Does+The+Prayer+Really+Say%3F%29

In a nutshell, Our Holy Father doesn`t want the extreme, radical form of traditionalism to prevail, and he wants to make sure those doing it, aren`t doing it for the wrong reasons, but also to ensure the faithful attached to the EF/Latin Mass are not insulted. He isn't stupid and detests the Trads Behaving Badly and what they do to the TLM, but at the same time, he will not let the Lie-Berals crush that form of the Mass and what his living predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, did with Summorum Pontificum.

More proof, if you read the post in full ..... permissions are being granted to the FFI community to celebrate the EF and continue what they were doing before. It's not being as decimated as you think. Go have a read, and start to put your fears aside.

Pax, Julian.

UPDATE AUGUST 25, 2013

This is NOT from Fr. Z's site, but that right-leaning (not as much in a good way) Trad site, Rorate Caeli, was able somehow to acquire a copy of the questionnaire given to FFI members by the Intervention Commissioner from the Vatican.

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/08/franciscans-of-immaculate-intervention.html

 Of course, some of the commenters and the title make it look once again like another attack on the EF and takes a "Trad behaving badly" tone.

What I can say looking at this, is, that they did not waste time getting to the heart of the matter that requires analysis in terms of the conflict in the community: The Latin Mass. To me, I will be taking this survey in the best light. The survey clearly looks like it wanted to get to the topic of disagreement in the community. It was also trying to examine the attitudes of the community and verify if there was any improper presence of (a.k.a. Trad Behaving Badly) attitudes not conductive towards the Latin Mass, the order, and the Church.

Clearly, if there was elements of TBB within the community, IT WAS IN EVERY RIGHT FOR THE SAKE OF THE FAITHFUL THAT POPE FRANCIS, BE IT HIMSELF OR THROUGH HIS DELEGATED SUPERIOR, RESTRICT THE LATIN MASS WITH THIS COMMUNITY. Trads behaving badly are the biggest roadblock to the success and growth of the Latin Mass in the Church and do nothing but destroy the New Evangelization. Their actions can even go so far as committing the works of the Devil (e.g. calumny, slander, detraction ... ).

I will say however, that while the survey does get to the thick of it, I would not be surprized if some Lie-berals in the community used it as a sticking point to attack their EF preferring brethren, or to slam the Latin Mass. Unfortunately, like many things in this world, the physical objects are neutral, and in the wrong hands or one whose free will is not choosing God above all things, the tool becomes a weapon. So if there was a group, no matter how big or small, of theological dissenters or EF-haters, then of course they would use the questionnaire as a weapon.

However, despite the website Rorate Caeli, it's spin, and the questionnaire, I do not think we can look at this in the most negative light, unlike some of their commentators. Believe me, if Pope Francis' papacy was in the wrong spiritual direction or totally against the EF, he would or will have quashed Summorum Pontificum with his own Motu Proprio, or a total neglect of the EF, whether Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was living or not.

Pax.