November 4, 2009

“2012” KILLS CATHOLICS, SPARES MUSLIMS

Catholic League president Bill Donohue speaks to the way Catholics and Muslims are treated in the upcoming film, “2012”:

When we got word recently that the movie “2012” depicts the Vatican being blown up, along with the famous statue from Rio, Christ the Redeemer, we were unmoved. Why? Because this occurs during the end of the world in a massive destruction. This kind of sensationalism, we reasoned, is standard fare for director Roland Emmerich: he is the guru of the “blow ‘em up” genre of movies. But now we’ve learned that while Catholics get theirs, Muslims are spared. Out of fear, of course.

Emmerich is more than a coward—he is a liar who has it out for Catholics. Last year, he was quoted saying, “I would like to erase all nations and religions.” Not true. He is quite content to live with Islam, even though he readily admits it is a religion of terror. When asked why he did not show the destruction of Kaaba, the religious structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, he said, “I wanted to do that, I have to admit. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have…a fatwa.”

So why was the Sistine Chapel designated for destruction? “We have to show how this gets destroyed….I am against organized religion.” Emmerich lies again. He is not against Islam.

After bragging that the movie shows the Sistine Chapel falling on people’s heads, Emmerich explains the moral of the story: “Never pray in front of a big church. Pray by yourself.” He lies again: Muslims who want to pray in front of a mosque are safe. That’s because, as Emmerich sees it, they’re known to kill those who offend their religion.

Every time I say Hollywood hates Christianity, especially Catholicism, my critics cringe. But they never offer evidence that I’m wrong.

Contact Sony Pictures Entertainment chief Amy Pascal:
amy.pascal@spe.sony.com
Susan A. Fani

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Catholic League looks at movie “2012″

Until next time, thanks to all the great folks I met on this trip.

UPDATE:

Minneapolis and St Paul, my hometown.

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Leaving NYC

I picked up from the young Papist that Cecile Richards – President of Planned Parenthood, the eugenics inspired organization originally intended to kill off black people – said in pages of Hell’s Bible that the US bishops are ideologues because they voiced their concern about federal funding of abortion.

Here is part of the article in Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times):

Beginning in late July, the bishops began issuing a series of increasingly stern letters to lawmakers making clear that they saw the abortion-financing issue as pre-eminent, a deal-breaker.

At the funeral of Senator Edward M. Kennedy in August, Cardinal Seán O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, stole a private moment with Mr. Obama to deliver the same warning: The bishops very much wanted to support his health care overhaul but not if it provided for abortions. The president “listened intently,” the cardinal reported on his blog. [I wonder if the President understands that something very hard to control is waking up?]

Bishops implored their priests and parishioners to call lawmakers. Conservative Democrats negotiating over the issue with party leaders often expressed their desire to meet the bishops’ criteria, according to many people involved in the talks. On Oct. 8 three members of the bishops conference wrote on its behalf to lawmakers, “If the final legislation does not meet our principles, we will have no choice but to oppose the bill.”

On Sunday, some abortion rights advocates lashed out at the bishops. “It was an unconscionable power play,” ["power play"?  What a dopey thing to call it.] said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, accusing the bishops of “interceding to put their own ideology in the national health care plan.”

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Prez of Planned P’hood, Speaker Pelosi’s former staffer, attacks bishops

My friend John Allen, the fair-minded nearly ubiquitous columnist of the otherwise ultra-lefty fishwrap National Catholic Reporter, has an interesting piece about His Excellency Most Rev. Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura.

When Archbp. Burke was brought to Rome to head up the Church’s highest "court", I was delighted.  I knew that he would therefore be contributing his voice in the meetings of other important dicasteries from that point onward, and would eventually be made cardinal.

My emphases and comments in this piece, which also talks a little about the process of making bishops.

Burke’s influence is set to grow
Vatican names pugnacious prelate to congregation
Nov. 06, 2009
By John L Allen Jr

Analysis

Archbishop Raymond Burke’s Oct. 17 appointment to the powerful Congregation for Bishops offers an illustration of how in the Vatican, even the ordinary can be extraordinary.

The appointment means that the 61-year-old Burke, a frequently polarizing figure during his 12-year run as a bishop in the United States, is now in a position to put his stamp on the next generation of Catholic bishops all over the world.

At one level, Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to tap Burke for the role was the dictionary definition of pro forma. Of the 33 members of the Congregation for Bishops at the beginning of 2009, 25 were current or former Vatican officials, including Burke’s predecessor as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the church’s highest court. (Burke was actually appointed on Oct. 17 along with another recently installed curial official, Spanish Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, who heads the Vatican’s liturgical office.) 

That preponderance of Vatican prelates is partly because the Congregation for Bishops has to vet nominees from around the world, and Vatican officials control the archives where possible skeletons may lurk. In addition, the Congregation for Bishops meets for an entire morning every two weeks, and it’s simply more practical to expect prelates based in Rome to show up.

Yet seen through American eyes, Burke—who’s widely expected to become a cardinal in the next consistory, the event in which new cardinals are installed—is hardly just another Vatican official.

As the bishop of La Crosse, Wis., from 1995 to 2003, and then as archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008, Burke earned a reputation as a strong conservative voice on matters of both faith and politics. During the 2004 election, Burke publicly said he would not administer Communion to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, a [pro-abortion] Catholic and at the time the Democratic nominee for president. He also once blasted a benefit concert by pop singer Sheryl Crow for a Catholic children’s hospital in St. Louis because she’s pro-choice. [pro-abortion… let’s call it what it is.]

Since being called to Rome in 2008, Burke has hardly gone quiet. In a September 2008 interview with an Italian newspaper, Burke said that the U.S. Democratic Party risks becoming the “party of death” because of its positions on bioethical questions. He’s also insisted that nothing can justify voting for a candidate who’s “anti-life” and “anti-family.”

As a member of the Congregation for Bishops, Burke now has a seat at the table when possible new bishops are evaluated and proposed to the pope. (The Congregation for Bishops handles most appointments in the Catholic church, except for those in mission territories, which are prepared by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and those in the 22 Eastern rites in communion with Rome, which are handled by the Congregation for Oriental Churches.)

Burke becomes one of five Americans who sit on the congregation, the second largest national bloc after the Italians, who have 12—nine cardinals, including Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the congregation’s prefect, and three bishops. The other four Americans are Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia; Cardinal Francis Stafford, former head of the Apostolic Penitentiary; and Cardinal Bernard Law, archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major.

Like other important Vatican offices, the Congregation for Bishops has a staff that handles its day-to-day operations, but policy is set by the formal members of the congregation who are appointed by the pope. While many offices have full meetings of members only once a month or less frequently, the Congregation for Bishops meets more often because of the high volume of nominations to be reviewed.

When a diocese becomes vacant, it’s the job of the papal nuncio, or ambassador, in that country to solicit input on the needs of that diocese and to work with the local bishops and bishops’ conference to identify potential nominees. The nuncio prepares a terna, or list of three names, which is submitted to the Congregation for Bishops, along with extensive documentation on the candidates.

Members of the congregation are expected to carefully review all the documentation before meetings, and each is expected to offer an opinion about the candidates and the order in which they should be presented to the pope. Ultimately, it’s up to the pope to decide who’s named to any given diocese, but in most cases popes simply sign off on the recommendations made by the congregation.

To be sure, Burke’s nomination doesn’t mean he can single-handedly control who becomes a bishop, whether in the United States or anywhere else. For one thing, he’s simply one of five Americans on the congregation, and the least senior. At least initially, his input on American appointments is unlikely to be decisive. [Exactly.]

Most observers say that aside from the pope himself, the two most powerful players in determining who becomes a bishop in the United States today are the current nuncio, Italian Archbishop Pietro Sambi, and Rigali of Philadelphia. (Rigali is a longtime veteran of Rome himself, and a close friend of Re.) [That may be the case.]

By itself, Burke’s appointment doesn’t alter that calculus. Sambi in particular is believed to have reservations about the pugnacious, and occasionally partisan, episcopal style that Burke came to symbolize.

On the other hand, Burke’s influence may grow with time.

He’s by far the youngest of the current crop of Americans on the congregation (the next youngest, Levada, is 73, and Rigali is 74). Since appointments are for five-year terms and may be renewed until a prelate reaches the age of 80, Burke could be involved in bishops’ appointments for the next two decades. At some point he may well become the senior American in the process, with a correspondingly greater impact.

Whatever happens, one thing seems clear. If anyone suspected that the decision to bring Burke to Rome last year was a way of muzzling him, [I didn’t] or limiting his influence in the United States, [HA!] it certainly doesn’t seem to be playing out that way.

John L. Allen Jr. is NCR senior correspondent. His e-mail address is jallen@ncronline.org

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John Allen takes a look at Archbp. Burke

The Apostolic Constitution which describes the provisions for traditionally minded Anglicans has finally been issued.

Anglicanorum coetibus

The first sentence:

In recent times the Holy Spirit has moved groups of Anglicans to petition repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion individually as well as corporately.

Here is the press release:

On October 20, 2009, Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced a new provision responding to the many requests that have been submitted to the Holy See from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful in different parts of the world who wish to enter into full visible communion with the Catholic Church.

The Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus which is published today introduces a canonical structure that provides for such corporate reunion by establishing Personal Ordinariates, which will allow the above mentioned groups to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony. At the same time, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is publishing a set of Complementary Norms which will guide the implementation of this provision.  [That will be the nuts and bolts document.]

This Apostolic Constitution opens a new avenue for the promotion of Christian unity while, at the same time, granting legitimate diversity in the expression of our common faith. It represents not an initiative on the part of the Holy See, but a generous response from the Holy Father  [NB: this is a response] to the legitimate aspirations of these Anglican groups. The provision of this new structure is consistent with the commitment to ecumenical dialogue, which continues to be a priority for the Catholic Church.

The possibility envisioned by the Apostolic Constitution for some married clergy within the Personal Ordinariates does not signify any change in the Church’s discipline of clerical celibacy. According to the Second Vatican Council, priestly celibacy is a sign and a stimulus for pastoral charity and radiantly proclaims the reign of God (Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1579).

Some key points of the document:

• The document first lays out theological starting points.
• Note that the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith is setting up the Ordinarites.
• The Ordinariates are "within the confines of the territorial boundaries of a particular Conference of Bishops in consultation with that same Conference" and there can be more than one within those territories.
• The ordinariates are juridically comparable to dioceses.
• The CCC is the reference point for what those who belong must profess to believe.
• Other dicasteries of the Holy See oversee specific spheres of interest.  For example, if there is a liturgical question, then the CDW would be involved.
• The Ordinariates can use either the Roman Rite or the books proper to the Anglican tradition that are approved by the Holy See.
• The Ordinariates can "as a rule" admit only celibate men to priesthood.  Individual exceptions can be made on a case by case basis.
• The Ordinariates can incardinate and they can set up seminaries.
• They must make ad limina visits.
• They can set up their own tribunals or use the diocesan tribunals.

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Apostolic Constitution: ANGLICANORUM COETIBUS

Summorum Pontificum has been in force for over two years.

That is more than enough time to figure out how to integrate training of seminarians into programs of formation.

In another entry, I had asked seminarians to send reports about training and availability for the TLM in their seminary formation.

St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia:

"St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia does in fact offer a course on the TLM, and does frequently include Latin in the propers of the Mass celebrated in the OF."

"Daily Mass: Ordinary Form, usually with Latin Sanctus.  Feast Days: Ordinary Form with incense.  Usually Latin Common, and sometimes Missa de Angelis or Polyphony.  Latin Benedictus and Magnificat. Once a month there is a Saturday Ordinary Form with Latin Common and Propers. Once a semester there is a Mass in the Extraordinary Form. A course (elective) on celebrating the Extraordinary Form is taught in the Theology Division each year."

"I have diligently searched their course offerings and unfortunately there is no course offering for the Traditional Latin Mass.  I have spoken to several of the men who will be going there, and all of us have a strong desire to learn the TLM, and so we will be petitioning CTU to add such a course offering.  If not, we will find a way to learn it ourselves."

"Our Lady of Corpus Christi, run and established by the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, has two Extraordinary Form Masses every week, one by the FSSP on the Sunday, and another during the week by Fr Sam Medley, a Society priest and formator. He has been introducing SOLT seminarians, studying philosophy, to the Extraordinary Form and giving them serving lessons. Also, every SOLT seminarian at the college learns Latin. 
 
In the ordinary form, primarily a mixture of the vernacular and latin is used. For example, sometimes the laity parts of the Mass are in Latin, and other times the Priest says the Eucharistic Prayer in Latin. On other occasions the whole Mass has been said in Latin, and on a few occasions the Priests say Mass Ad Orientem."

This program was established by Archbishop Raymond E. Burke and is being continued by Archbishop Robert Carlson

Mass is offered in Latin with Gregorian Chant (a capella) every Friday.
OF and EF alternate.
All Souls Day is celebrated in the EF.

Every Saturday there is an English Chant Mass, usually B.V. M. on Saturday, sung a capella.
Sanctus and Agnus Dei in Latin, Our Lady’s Mass on Saturday, Mass X
Ave verum Corpus sung after Communion.
Salve, Regina (or appropriate Marian Antiphon) sung after Mass.
Other parts sung in English chant, from the Saint Louis Gradual.
Preparations are being made to sing the Introit “Salve, sancta Parens.”

On Mondays and Wednesday, the proper Vesper Hymn is sung in English, Gregorian Chant melody, from the Saint Louis Hymnal for the Hours.

On most days, except Sundays, a Low Mass (EF) is celebrated at 7:30 a.m. and 11:10 a.m.  Those who wish may attend this Mass.  The seminarians have an opportunity to practice serving.  Seminarians, faculty and staff attend as they wish.

For all who wish, complete training is available in the EF for celebrating Mass, Vespers and the Sacraments, and for learning how to serve.

Latin is taught every semester.  The first year Latin course (an elective) at the present time has an enrollment of 34 students.  The Latin texts of the both the OF and EF are explained and practiced as part of the course.

Students have asked to form a “Latin Club” to continue working on their knowledge and pronunciation of Latin for the liturgy.

A course in Gregorian Chant is available as an elective, usually once a year.

OF and EF Masses are celebrated by the Rector, and four priests who also teach in the seminary.

Fostering Gregorian Chant, the Latin liturgy and the study of liturgical and patristic Latin is one of the important responsibilities of the Institute of Sacred Music established by Archbishop Raymond L. Burke."

"I am a seminarian at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California, which is run by the Sulpicians.  There is currently no training offered in either the Extraordinary Form or in the Ordinary Form with Latin.  Latin is not even offered as a course anymore (before this year it was always an elective.)  Last year the Dean of Students (who is now the Rector) told a seminarian friend of mine that there are no plans to introduce training in the EF."

"In regards to your post about TLM training, etc., here at Conception I believe that they offer TLM once a semester…maybe. We just had one last Saturday morning, which was about 4 hours before the normal mass on Saturday. That obviously made it very unappealing to someone who had maybe never been. I was a little miffed about the time, but there were still about 20-25 of us there. I don’t know if they’re offering another next semester. As far as training goes, they wouldn’t offer something like that in college seminary, but really they don’t mention it at all here. "

"St. Paul Seminary offers a monthly Mass in Latin in the ordinary form.  This Mass was added in response to Sacramentum Caritatis #63 (though only seminarians who voluntarily sing with the schola are taught about the execution of Gregorian Chant).  Once in a while there will be a schola at this Latin Mass, but it is normally done with hymns (in English or Latin) and the responsorial psalm is always sung in vernacular.  The sung ordinary is Jubilate Deo.  As for the Extraordinary Form, there is no apparent move to expose seminarians to it, or to have it taught.  I use the word "apparent" because it is not mentioned to students; however, things move slowly here and the faculty may have discussions or plans which have not yet been made known.  I know that a desire for instruction in this form of the Mass has been expressed to the faculty (perhaps not frequently), but there has been little apparent response.  Additionally, there are likely more students than those who have made requests who would learn this form of the Mass if it were available, and many seminarians here have never seen the extraordinary form."

"Just a Report on Sacred Heart School of Theology in Milwaukee Wisaconsin.  Run by the Priests of the Sacred Heart with a focus on later vocations…

There is neither the EF nor the OF Latin mass offered—though there has been the slightest emergence of Gregorian Chant in the Novus Ordo and the LOH, just this year.

Several seminarians from different Diocese about the country were seeking instruction from the Archdiocesan approved ICKSP Parish (St. Stanislaus) on our own time (weeknight instruction and serving on Sundays)  The entire school was encouraged to attend mass outside the seminary on Sundays as the chapel is used for neighbors and SCJ donors, etc for mass.

Once they realized (after one of last years graduates offered a Solemn High Mass, at his home parish, as his mass of thanksgiving upon ordination) what we were doing we were forbidden to attend St. Stanislaus.  Our Bishops and VDs complained and now everyone is required to attend the "normative mass" in school which of course still has the neighbors and donors in attendance—all this ostensibly to come into compliance with the report of the Apostolic Visitation and the PPF.

They showed their cards, however, by denying us the opportunity for mass away from school first.  Now my Bishop (he wants me and my Diocesan Brothers to learn as he himself has been doing at home) intervened again and we can attend out side "on occasion" and no longer require pre approval for the "visit" and must discuss what we learned with out Formation Advisor.  This still isn’t over as the aged and uber liberal formation staff of a priest or two and some pantsuited sisters are actively opposed to the Holy Father, his initiatives and the Trad Latin Mass—womens ordination they’d go for…Latin never."

"We have been told explicitly that there will be no celebration of, nor training in the extraordinary form of the Mass at this seminary."

Availability of Extraordinary Form Mass: No
Training for Extraordinary Form Mass: No

Ordinary Form Mass in Latin: Yes, once a week on Saturday as an option for Mass (there are two options, an 8AM Latin OF, or an 11:30AM English OF)

Availability of Extraordinary Form Mass in area: Yes
Seminarians allowed to go: Yes, as long as seminary commitments come first.

There are no scheduled EF masses. There is only one priest here who knows how to say the EF Mass. When he doesn’t have a scheduled Mass on a given day, he says a low Mass in a side chapel around 05:00. I am pretty sure he would allow anyone to assist who woke up early enough.

There is at least one (and I believe it is only one) course for saying the EF Mass. It is taught by an FSSP priest who comes in just for that.

Mount St. Mary, MD:

Last year we introduced the EF form, with training for seminarians who’s respective bishops allowed.  We had a weekly EF Mass on Tuesdays and another on Saturday. We celebrated our patronal feast, Dec. 8th, with a Missa Solemnis, with polyphonic ordinary.  It was told us that this would be the regular use for the patronal feast.
 
[...]

The training class was reduced to one semester, for deacons only.  The weekly EF Mass has been removed, as well as the Saturday EF.  The December 8th Mass has returned to it’s former status.  
 
We have an Latin OF Mass once a month on Saturday. 

Theological College at Catholic University of America:

Theological College at the Catholic University of America, DC does not offer the Extraordinary Form nor training for it (though there is one available at the National Shrine across the street), but we do have a few Latin OF masses each year and Latin mass parts and chants are a staple of the music program.

Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, TX:

Nothing at all with the TLM.  ... Latin is an elective at another college, if wanted, but it is not encouraged.  Theology classes are taken at Oblate School of Theology, which is hostile to anything traditional.  ... There is only one TLM in the city, but seminarians are required to stay on campus for the community Mass, meaning they cannot make it to the TLM.  Those interested must learn from DVDs and on break from the seminary.

University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Chicago

Still nothing.

The Liturgical Institute at USML in conjunction with St. John Cantius hosts a conference in May on the extraordinary form.  It’s quite a good conference, and is conveniently scheduled immediately after the seminarians have finals, during ordination season, and/or have left for their summer assignments.  Even for those seminarians who are available and participate, it isn’t part of seminary formation.

 

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News about TLM training for seminarians

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A visit to Newark

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UPDATE: The National Shrine of St Gerard is at St Lucy down the hill.

I was delighted to find a devotion to San Sabino here!

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A visit to Newark

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Quotes from your e-mail about Bp. Trautman’s war on the translation

]]> Some comments from my (250+) e-mails about Bp. Trautman’s efforts to derail the new translation of the Roman Missal.

QUOTES FROM YOUR E-MAIL:

"We’ve had too many years of watered down pastoral language. The situation reminds me of the word lists once suggested for children’s book writers: don’t write beyond your reader or you’ll lose him—a preposterous idea. How best to stretch the imagination and the mind at Mass?  Use words reflecting the solemnity and reverence of the liturgy.  Children should know that reading is hard work;  so is praying!  Efforts are always rewarded.  "

"Just to say I really like the new translation, a much less banal and more spiritual translation. Further, as a student of Latin, I’m aware of how terrible the current English translations are – Bishop Trautmann is fighting a rearguard action against the reform of the reform, I suspect. "

"I support the approval of the new translation of the Roman Missal, which while remaining faithful to the original Latin is nevertheless clear and consise English, in order that the liturgy may be a more fitting expression of our worship of God.  "

"Roman Catholics deserve a better translation. If Bishop Trautman thinks that Roman Catholics are not smart enough to understand the proposed translation of the Creed, he must think Eastern Catholics are smarter, because they’ve been using a much more literal translation for as long as they have used English, without any complaint."

"As an English-speaking Canadian, I am offended that this one bishop and the heretical NCR continues to try to roadblock this desperately needed new Roman Missal!"

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During the November '09 plenary USCCB meeting should the bishops follow Bp. Trautman's lead and reject the translation for the sake of forcing a review of the whole project?

• Yes, Bp. Trautman is right. The bishops should vote to reject at least one block of texts with the hope of forcing a review with Rome.
• No, Bp. Trautman is wrong. The bishops should approve the texts even if they send some amendments. Enough is enough. Rome will not approve an insufficient text.

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Quotes from your e-mail about Bp. Trautman’s war on the translation

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Sermon about prayer for dead priests

]]> Last Thursday in New York City I had the privilege of being celebrant for a Solemn TLM Requiem which was offered in a special way for deceased priests.  It was a First Friday, in the week following All Souls, during the Year for Priests.

At the end of Mass and before the Absolution, I was asked to give a sermon.  I focused on the need to pray for priests, living and especially deceased.

At the very beginning, the mic started to give some feedback, so we had to stop for a moment and turn it is.  I cut out a small section as a result.

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Sermon about prayer for dead priests

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Off to another point on the list

]]> I had lunch with a friend and a walk along East River.

UPDATE:
Now uptown to see the Frick Gallery where I believe there is a Duccio!

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A visit to the spectacular St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington.

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This time I didn’t have to walk by the Grand Sichuan! I have time for a quick bite before the concert which is about 5 minutes walk from here. Typical Chinese restaurant: hot, crowded, and noisy!

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Singapore Mai Fun and Sichuan Wonton Soup… 15 minutes to eat and a few more to the theatre!

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