Australian Liturgist Uses Art To Create New Church

The Wanderer ^ | March 11, 2004 | Paul Likoudis

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February 19 article by Paul Likoudis.

Reflections On The Work Of Australia’s Top Liturgist

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 Under Harrington’s influence, parishes are being pressured to replace traditional Communion host wafers with home-baked bread. This reinforces arguments made by Fr. Elich in Liturgy News, September and December 2000, in his deconstructive interpretation of the new General Instruction of the Roman Missal. He told his readers GIRM was confusing, ambiguous, contradictory, and in violation of the liturgical renewal called for by Vatican II.

4. Serious Abuses - Those which Invalidate the Mass

The serious abuses which invalidate the Mass are all those which inhibit transubstantiation, that is fail to bring about Jesus' True Presence in the Eucharist. The Church has very specifically defined what must - and must not - occur so that transubstantiation will result. There are four conditions required for a valid Consecration resulting in the miracle of transubstantiation. All of these conditions must be present for a valid Consecration. This is dogma. Therefore, anyone who denies these requirements is liable to heresy.

4.3 Condition Three - Matter

Note that this article deals with only the Western Latin Rite Church. There are different rules for Eastern Rite Catholic Churches, such as Byzantine Catholic. For the Western Latin Rite Catholic Church, valid matter consists of wheat unleavened bread and grape wine.

Canon 924 §1 The most holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist must be celebrated in bread, and in wine to which a small quantity of water is to be added.  §2 The bread must be wheaten only, and recently made, so that there is no danger of corruption.  §3 The wine must be natural, made from grapes of the vine, and not corrupt.

Canon 926 In the Eucharistic celebration, in accordance with the ancient tradition of the Latin Church, the priest is to use unleavened bread wherever he celebrates Mass.

GIRM 282. According to the tradition of the entire Church, the bread must be made from wheat; according to the tradition of the Latin Church, it must be unleavened.

GIRM 283. The nature of the sign demands that the material for the eucharistic celebration truly have the appearance of food. Accordingly, even though unleavened and baked in the traditional shape, the eucharistic bread should be made in such a way that in a Mass with a congregation the priest is able actually to break the host into parts and distribute them to at least some of the faithful. (When, however, the number of communicants is large or other pastoral needs require it, small hosts are in no way ruled out.) The action of the breaking of the bread, the simple term for the Eucharist in apostolic times, will more clearly bring out the force and meaning of the sign of the unity of all in the one bread and of their charity, since the one bread is being distributed among the members of one family.

GIRM 284. The wine for the Eucharist must be from the fruit of the vine (see Lk 22:18), natural, and pure, that is not mixed with any foreign substance.

GIRM 285. Care must be taken to ensure that the elements are kept in good condition: that the wine does not turn to vinegar or the bread spoil or become too hard to be broken easily.

Any other matter of Altar breads, especially forms becoming more popular with dissenters such as cakes or cookies, invalidates transubstantiation. St. Thomas Aquinas also covers this requirement in Summa Theologica (Third Part, Question 74, Articles 1 through 8). There are rare exceptions where Bishops may grant individual priests with allergies or alcohol problems the right to use low-gluten altar breads or mustem (a specific form of grape juice with fermentation suspended). It is gravely sinful for a priest to celebrate Mass knowing the matter is invalid.

Is Your Mass Valid? Liturgical Abuse

[Siobhan]

This would be the nightmare from Down Under -- my diocese.

[m4629]

Any other matter of Altar breads, especially forms becoming more popular with dissenters such as cakes or cookies, invalidates transubstantiation. St. Thomas Aquinas also covers this requirement in Summa Theologica (Third Part, Question 74, Articles 1 through 8)............ It is gravely sinful for a priest to celebrate Mass knowing the matter is invalid.

Check out our Cookie Monster Bishop Embarrasstus John Cummins of Oakland (home base of Beserkley).

Scroll down to May 27, 2003.

Let's take a poll here. How many would say that's NOT a cookie?

[PA Lurker]

NYer

Am I to understand that the organization referred to as Notre Dame is, in fact, my Alma Mater the University of Notre Dame du Lac in South Bend, Indiana?

[Desdemona]

Oh, what a mess. I'm afraid to ask about the music.

[rogator]

How do you find a valid Mass in a place like that?

[Siobhan]

I turn toward the Carmelite nuns in Ormiston -- though even they have suffered. But compared to the evil on every side, they are a ray of hope.

[Siobhan]

I neglected to say there is sometimes a pre 1963 ordained priest who celebrates the Mass there.

[rogator]

What a liturgical wasteland. I think we have it bad in Oregon but it apparently doesn't compare.
I can't understand why Rome does not intervene. Even if there were a formal schism, at least folks would be able to get valid Sacraments. It sounds as if your diocese is in de facto if not de jure schism now as it is. Where do you draw the line on whether your diocese is Catholic or not? I hate to say it but this kind of diocese gives justification to the actions of the SSPX folks.

[Dajjal]

Novior et Novior et Novior et Novior Ordo bump

[NYer]

Catherine White, director of liturgy for the Toowoomba Diocese, observes that much of the work of modern liturgists is focused on restoring the importance of the liturgical assembly and overcoming the unfortunate legacy of the Middle Ages, when people focused on the act of transubstantiation and adored the Host.

Oh Siobhan, this is truly heinous! What has happened to our church!

Stay tough! Fight the good fight! And know that we are all with you through our prayers. The Waderer is keeping your situation alive, through a lengthy series of articles. May God have mercy on the sheeples who blindly follow these leaders.

[johnb2004]

Catholics who take the time to research the true Church directives relating to Church architecture and worship from documents readily available, often find themselves shunned or openly abused by their fellow parishioners. We are the ones who are portrayed as disloyal and uncharitable for daring to question Fr.
Elich’s false theology.

[OpusatFR]

Oh, this sounds really really really bad...

" a stone trough of water, and vessels of sulphur, salt, and mercury. . . . The objects function rather like sacraments where simple physical things (bread, wine, water, oil) are imbued with transcendent meaning..."

An Analysis of the Gnostic Mass..http://www.hermetic.com/egc/mass-analysis.html

" The 3 steps may represent IAO, the 3 Triads, the 3 Triangles, the 3 Stages of Life and Initiation, Salt—Sulfur—Mercury, the 3 chapters of the Book of the Law, the aeonic progression of Isis, Osirus, Horus, etc. The Black and White squares are yin/yang, +1(-1), etc."

[Siobhan]

The Catholic Church in Brisbane belongs to the Wiccans, satanists, and predatory homosexuals.

In Queensland the SSPX maintains Mass Centres in various venues where any number of the faithful will go from time to time to be guaranteed that they are receiving the real Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our dearly Beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

When you live in another kind of diocese the SSPX may means something else. Here in Brisbane and Queensland, the SSPX literally means refuge from the wtiches, satanists, and predatory homosexuals. So from now on I am very, very careful in what I have to say about the SSPX (except when they attack the Holy Father -- but that is another subject - the war in Rome etc.)

And there are the Carmelites who struggle on in Ormiston.

In Brisbane we also have the tiny parish of St. Maroun of the Maronite rite Catholics. It is a great distance from where we live. But, as some of you know, the Maronites are always a safe haven for real Catholics. And they say prayers for the undoing of the evil all around.

[Siobhan]

It is very difficult for my husband and I to be the only voices, but we have learned from a dear saint, an elderly aboriginal woman who goes about her business doing things the old way. She enters the church, drops to her knees and walks on her knees right down the middle aisle till she takes her seat. She gives Miraculous Medals to the children who love her. She kneels through most of the Mass praying her Rosary. She goes up and receives the Eucharist from the priest and then she goes up and kneels where the altar rail used to be. (We joined her in doing that).

One Sunday the priest was giving her grief after Mass, and in a loud voice she said so the whole parish could here, "Why, Father, I never figured a soft boy like you would be a racist? Here have a medal?"

A great saint of the flinty kind.

[Siobhan]

Australian Bishops embark on ad limina visit to Rome

Monday, March 08, 2004

The Catholic Bishops of Australia are embarking on a spiritual pilgrimage to Rome this month, designed to celebrate and strengthen their communion with the universal Church and the Successor of Peter, Pope John Paul II.

The pilgrimage is known as the “ad limina Apostolorum” visit – or “to the threshold of the Apostles”, and it will take place from March 14 to 28.

All bishops who are charged with the leadership of a diocese, are required to make an ad limina visit every five years. It is an important spiritual pilgrimage and a reminder of a local bishop’s wider role, in communion with the bishops of the world.

Thirty-six of Australia’s 44 bishops will undertake the ad limina visit, during which they will report to the Pope on the pastoral situation in Australia and visit the tombs of Sts Peter and Paul, pastors and pillars of the Roman Church.

The visit is also seen as an important part of the Holy Father’s pastoral ministry, as he receives the bishops with whom he exercises pastoral ministry and listens and talks with them about their mission in their diocese.

Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference President Archbishop Francis Carroll of Canberra-Goulburn said he and his fellow bishops would be seeking the prayers of those in their diocesan community as they undertook the ad limina pilgrimage.

“We wish for all Catholics, through prayer and solidarity, to feel a part of the ad limina visit, which confirms and celebrates that which we profess each week when we express our belief in the ‘one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church’,” Archbishop Carroll said.

“Our faith was handed down to us from Jesus by the apostles and as bishops we are charged with the enormous responsibility of continuing that tradition. The ad limina visit is an important physical and spiritual milestone in the carrying out of that ministry.”

While in Rome, the bishops will also make a pilgrimage to Assisi, undertake a day of reflection at Castelgandolfo and visit 27 various Vatican organisations.

Released by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
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I wish someone in Rome would just keep Archbishop Bathersby and send back a pre-Vatican II attack dog in his place

[Desdemona]

I will be praying that the roof of St. Peter's doesn't collapse when the earthquake hits.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

We are the ones who are portrayed as disloyal and uncharitable for daring to question Fr. Elich’s false theology.

and fanatical. Don't forget fanatical.