Author is very gentle in his criticism — and straightforward and almost biting about the Bishop’s podcast , agreeing with main points, then roaring into his declamation of what’s actually the obvious if apparently invisible in plain sight.

Yes, catechesis is important, but more important still is our liturgical worship, for decades hardly “sacred” liturgical worship. [here as throughout, emphasis added]

Lack of belief in the Eucharist is mostly a massive failure in the way we celebrate the Eucharist!  I mean, of course, Holy Mass.

Everything flows from worship and then back to worship.

More:

Not a word from Bp. Barron in the video about liturgy, about decades of the prevailing liturgical style (or the rite itself – the Novus Ordo).  This is so typical of bishops.

Not a word – in that video – about liturgy as either a cause of the problems we face or as a solution. I listened to it twice and didn’t hear it.  He talks about the danger of placing social justice, etc., before doctrine.  But, he doesn’t talk about liturgy.

The bishop speaks with fervor of “the Eucharist.”

However . . .  “Eucharist” is not just the Blessed Sacrament. It is also the way the Eucharist is celebrated.

There’s the Eucharist that is the Host and Precious Blood and there’s the Eucharist that is the very way by which we have the Host and Precious Blood, the ultimate “thanksgiving” which is Holy Mass.

Our sacred liturgical worship is our most important action in the fulfillment of Religion, that orders all other activities and gives them meaning.

The way that Holy Mass is celebrated IS DOCTRINE… it IS CATECHESIS.

More more more here, at: Fr. Z’s Blog.

An eye for the absurd. (But some are not.)

It has been a serious week.

Let’s have something a little less heavy.

First, some memes that amused me.

Just a few of many that this connoisseur has gathered for this Friday, for which thank God:

More here, including the non-absurd, at Fr. Z’s Blog

Do not be afraid of “me,” says this scrupulously correct speaker of and writer in the English language.

I have capriciously decided not to enable two additional categories of comment:
1. Comments including the grammatical error “We must respect he who is the King of Tonga”.

We do not, in English, say “we must respect he [nominative]”; we say “We must respect him [accusative]”.

A curious idea seems to be growing up that whenever the relative pronoun “who” is used, it has to be preceded by a nominative. It most certainly doesn’t.

This is the same sort of error as using the nominative for the second of two linked names: “He spoke to Theodore and I”. We do not in English say “He spoke to I”; we say “He spoke to me”. So: “He spoke to Theodore and me”.

Take that, you failing speaker and writer in English.

More more more at Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Yes, yes, and double-yes:

RUSH: The Drive-Bys, they’re incorrigible. Now they are literally trying to once again talk the people of this country into a recession. Now they’re doing it with the inverted yield curve. And the whole problem here is the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is anti-Trump, is making a mess of the interest rate circumstance.

So many people in that town want rid of Trump that they’re going to stop at nothing. It doesn’t matter what damage they do to the economy or the country. And it’s not unprecedented, folks. This has been done before. What was it, back in 2006, the midterms, the Drive-Bys were doing everything they could to talk down the economy.

We had the so-called financial crisis of 2008. And, of course, they were doing everything they could in the second Bush term to talk down the economy while sabotaging the Iraq war and war on terror efforts.

When the elite meet to greet, it’s a problem.

via The Rush Limbaugh Show