Daily Breakfast 520 - Return of the Priests
Today I share with you my recent visit to the south of the Netherlands and tell you a bit about the recent history of the Catholic Church in my country. How from a complete crisis in religious life and the priesthood, we are currently seeing a return of the priests in a changed society.
: O Father! You got your hair cut!!!?? Father, you don’t have enough hair to get it cut!!! You look like a Marine now : ( You’re going to grow it back, right???
I had to go to UStream to watch you go get a dictionary for ‘furniture’, which is when I noticed you got a hair cut : ) It looks okay/good … (I hope you grow it back ; ))
Great show so far!
Adrianne
Believe it or not, priests also need haircuts from time to time. And just like with other mortals, the hair will grow back as well
Dear Father:
Have you thought about saying the Traditional Mass? I read about the history of the Novus Ordo and I can’t stand attending it any more. I feel like I am consorting with the enemy. Even though I know Our Lord is present. At this stage, I can’t imagine a revival of Catholicism happening without a return to tradition.
Dear Emmett,
I am convinced that the Novus Ordo is beautiful, based on a solid foundation that goes back to the earliest centuries of our Church, and can be celebrated with reverence, devotion and beauty.
You might have had some negative experiences in your local situation, but please don’t judge the current liturgy on the basis of the abuses that exist in some places. My parents tell me that the old liturgy was also sometimes celebrated without any reverence, in a mechanical way without any true respect.
Always follow the guidance of the Magisterium in these matters.
Wow, next visit to the Benedictine Monastary please, if possible, do a podcast of the visit and especially of the Gregorian Chanting. Just thinking that it would be nice to hear kids/teens singing Gregorian Chants. Heard a teen choir once sing some Chants and it also was very beautiful. I especially love the Credo.
Hello Fr. Roderick,
In my ideal world there would be at least one Tridintine Mass at every parish along with the Novus Ordo. I recently began attending a Latin Mass and have listened to your early DB’s (150’s or so) where you translated from the Latin the prayers of the Mass. I’m pleased that the Vatican has approved some reforms such as the “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” As I am only 18, I never grew up with this tradition of the Church and am grateful to be able to experience it today. However I absolutely agree that we should respect the Novus Ordo.
I really enjoy your style of presentation and appreciate that as a priest you are totally behind the Magisterium.
Thank you much for putting this DB episode together.
oh, could you link to the site which lets you modify your avatar photo? I know you mentioned this previously, but I don’t remember which Daily Breakfast it was…
Thank You again
Hello Fr. Roderick,
In reference to Ep. 518 on St. Anthony:
I hesitate to correct you Father, but …
rather than Wikipedia, perhaps http://www.newadvent.org/ would be better to promote for authentic Catholic information.
Wikipedia is so, how shall we say, changable…
I didn’t mean to clog the comment board, hope you don’t mind.
You can change your avatar at Gravatar.com. Problem with Catholic Encyclopedia is that it’s based on a text from 1913. Even though there is a lot of good material there, it lacks information from more recent research and post-conciliar ecclesial and theological developments.
Father! I just have to tell you (and Ann) that I, too, was at a Benedictine Monastery for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin — but I was at one of the thousand-year-old (literally!) ones: St Pierre de Solesmes. I agree, their vespers in Gregorian chant are amazing! (Although I don’t know if I could handle praying in latin everyday, though.) God bless you and thanks for all the catholic history that you explained in this episode.
Thank you Father. You’re the best!
I really enjoyed this episode. A girl (”girl” - we’re all your age, Father) I grew up with here in the States is married to a German man. He is a cradle Catholic and she entered the Church in 2002 - I am her godmother. I’m an RCIA Catholic married to a cradle Catholic as well.
ANYway, listening to this episode made me get off my duff and really bug her/them about listening to DB. We live in a pretty parochial place and I know they will love the references to European places I’m sure they know well. Once they are intrigued by that initial “hook” I trust they will come to enjoy listening to you as much as the rest of us do.
I enjoyed the episode. I remember similar issues with post Vatican II interpretation here as I was growing up in the states. I think you did an excellent job of discussing that transition in a tactful manner.
As a former Air Force officer, I think the haircut looks great.
I hope you enjoy your vacation and come back relaxed and refreshed with renewed vigor for your apostolate. (funny, Mac OS X thinks apostolate is a misspelling…)