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Today is the Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum. Learn about them.
July 9: Feast of St. Martyrs of Gorkum, 17 secular and religious priests and 2 lay brothers who were cruelly killed by the Watergeuzen (fanatical Calvinists) because they adhered to the Pope & the doctrine of the true presence of Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. pic.twitter.com/EgHhkmXsSS
— P. D’Angona, Sacerdos Romano-Catholicus (@RomanoSace57080) July 7, 2025
Meanwhile…
Two serious scholars and loyal sons of the Church badly treated during the previous pontificate. Whether or not one agrees with all the details of their diagnosis of that pontificate, the problems they raise will not go away, and must be (and will be) addressed sooner or later pic.twitter.com/HnZWmz0Etq
— Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) July 7, 2025
Well said! Rist was one of my professors at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. He contributed essays to a couple of books that Francis didn’t like.
Maybe there’s more to my streamed Masses after all!
Collapse of number of Priests in the Czech Republic: Archbishop of Olomouc “suspends the Sunday obligation” — for those who cannot go far, the “online mass is acceptable.”
First of many?… https://t.co/wa0OkYHsRs
— Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) July 8, 2025
Card. Burke received this note from Leo XIV for his 50th anniversary of ordination.
Venerabili Fratri Nostro RAIMUNDO LEONI S.R.E. Cardinali BURKE S. Agathae in Urbe presbytero
aureum ordinationis presbyteralis celebranti iubilaeum Romae uti sacerdoti dioecesis Crossensis receptae, navitatem studiose exercitam gratulamur ac probatam sollicitudinem, quam ad res iuris potissimum vertit et in Apostolicae Sedis Dicasteriorum usu, qui secundum Cor Christi Evangelii praedicavit praecepta eiusque enarravit thesauros, Ecclesiae universae diligenter inserviens. Cui dum optima quaeque ominamur, Apostolicam Nostram Benedictionem, auspicibus beatis Petro et Paulo apostolis, ei eiusque propinquis libentes impertimur.
Ex Aedibus Vaticanis, die XVII mensis Iunii, Anno Sancto MMXX V.
Leo PP. XIV
To Our Venerable Brother RAYMOND LEO Cardinal BURKE of the Holy Roman Church Cardinal-Priest of the Basilica of Saint Agatha of the Goths at Rome
As he celebrates the Golden Jubilee of his priestly ordination in Rome, which he received as a priest of the Diocese of La Crosse, we thank him for the prompt service he has zealously carried out and the earnest care he has demonstrated most especially for the law, which has also been of good service to the Dicasteries of the Apostolic See. He has preached the precepts of the Gospel according to the Heart of Christ and has recounted His treasures, diligently offering his devoted service to the Church universal. While anticipating the very best for him, and under the watchful care of blessed Peter and Paul the Apostles, it is our good pleasure to impart our Apostolic Blessing to him and to those near to him.
Given at the Vatican, 17 June, in the Holy Year 2025
Pope Leo XIV
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My two eldest sons (aged 11 and 9) are the acolytes for our local TLM “diocesan circuit” (two different churches, two different times, two Sundays a month only).
When they started it was… painful to watch sometimes, being very aware of their jitters and twitching on the altar (praying that the lopsided candle doesn’t spill wax everywhere). Now, after a year and longer of them serving, they are crisp and focused (and the MC is very patient with them).
But what serving gives them is a sense of duty, and they are eminently more focused and calmer in the rest of their life too. I put that down to the serving. Maybe, God willing, there is a priest(s) in training then.
Serving and the Mass gives focus, dedication and excellence in the rest of a boy’s life, not just on a Sunday. The future of the Church is on the shoulders of that generation. It is lovely to see.