Posted on 11/24/2008 1:42:12 PM PST by Pyro7480
From the website of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei comes a very important announcement (NLM translation):
The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has, on November 21st, 2008, communicated to the Most Reverend Abbot Fr Josef Vollberg O.C.S.O. of the Abbey of Mariawald in Germany (diocese of Aachen) the privilege conceded by the Holy Father of a complete return to the Liturgy and the Observance in use in the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) until 1963/64.
Fr Abbot Josef Vollberg himself had in fact presented to the Holy Father a plea to be allowed to return to the Liturgy and the Observance according to the "usus" of Monte Cistello (Rome 1964), approved by the Holy See.
(Excerpt) Read more at newliturgicalmovement.org ...
Catholic ping!
Wonderful news!
Those Trappists are excellent brew masters.
That’s really nice.
From my quite limited knowledge of German, “Mariawald,” the name of the Trappist abbey that’s doing this, means “Mary’s Woods.”
That squares with my limited knowledge of German, too :-). I always remember the site of Hermann’s defeat of the Roman legions: the Teutobergerwald, which means something like, “The Forests of the Teutons’ Mountains”.
From the website: Am 4. April 1486 waren die notwendigsten Bauten errichtet und die ersten Mönche konnten unter der Leitung von Prior Johannes vom Goch das Kloster beziehen und das regulare Leben auf dem Kermeter beginnen, sodass dieser Tag das eigentliche Gründungsdatum der Abtei Mariawald ist. Die Neugründung erhielt den Namen Nemus Mariae - Wald Mariens.
VERY rough and quick translation: On April 4, 1486 the most necessary buildings were erected and the first monks were able to occupy (that's a guess - I think of beziehen as 'pull' or 'draw' - maybe like the English "take to") the cloister under the leadership of Prior Johannes vom Goch, and begin the regular (or regulated) life in the Kermeter (a region), so that this day is the actual date of founding of Mariawald Abbey. The new foundation received the name nemus Mariae (Latin: grove of Mary) - Wald Mariens (German: Mary's Wood). The Latin has echoes of 'sacred grove' - there was one behind the temple of the Vestal Virgins.
Oooooh, pagan syncretism!
I prefer to think of it as beating the pagans at their own game.
1st Corinthians 9:20-22.
I read “The Iron Hand of Mars” at a sensitive age. The pagans can have tree-worship, thanks.
Okay, but do the trappers know that there's a bear behind them?
LOL!
If Suetonius and Tacitus didn't put me off sacred groves, nobody else is likely to . . . I just laugh when I think of "modern pagans", who have no idea what it was all about . . . .
A Cliche Came Out of its Cage
1
You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House
Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes,
And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes,
Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses
To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem.
Hestia's fire in every flat, rekindled, burned before
The Lardergods. Unmarried daughters with obedient hands
Tended it By the hearth the white-armd venerable mother
Domum servabat, lanam faciebat. At the hour
Of sacrifice their brothers came, silent, corrected, grave
Before their elders; on their downy cheeks easily the blush
Arose (it is the mark of freemen's children) as they trooped,
Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance.
Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods,
Shun Hubris. The middle of the road, the middle sort of men,
Are best. Aidos surpasses gold. Reverence for the aged
Is wholesome as seasonable rain, and for a man to die
Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing.
Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune
Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions;
Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears ...
You said it. Did you mean it? Oh inordinate liar, stop.
2
Or did you mean another kind of heathenry?
Think, then, that under heaven-roof the little disc of the earth,
Fortified Midgard, lies encircled by the ravening Worm.
Over its icy bastions faces of giant and troll
Look in, ready to invade it. The Wolf, admittedly, is bound;
But the bond wil1 break, the Beast run free. The weary gods,
Scarred with old wounds the one-eyed Odin, Tyr who has lost a hand,
Will limp to their stations for the Last defence. Make it your hope
To be counted worthy on that day to stand beside them;
For the end of man is to partake of their defeat and die
His second, final death in good company. The stupid, strong
Unteachable monsters are certain to be victorious at last,
And every man of decent blood is on the losing side.
Take as your model the tall women with yellow hair in plaits
Who walked back into burning houses to die with men,
Or him who as the death spear entered into his vitals
Made critical comments on its workmanship and aim.
Are these the Pagans you spoke of? Know your betters and crouch, dogs;
You that have Vichy water in your veins and worship the event
Your goddess History (whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune).
C. S. Lewis
St. Seraphim and the Bear.
I found Tacitus’ “Annals” at the used book store last week. I hate paying list price for a book :-).
Woof, that was something. Anoreth will like it, if she makes an effort.
Are you familiar with abebooks.com? It is absolutely the cheapest used book store going, sort of a clearinghouse for used books all across the country and abroad.
I have nobbled some great bargains, including a Chants of the Church for FIVE DOLLARS!!!!! I'm waiting for a Liber Usualis for less than 50 bucks to come along (list last time I checked was almost 200).
Does Anoreth like the Narnia books?
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