CHRISTVS REGNAT - December, 2011

The December, 2011, issue of the twice-yearly journal of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association is now available. You can subscribe to CHRISTVS REGNAT by e-mailing here. CHRISTVS REGNAT is also available for download here.

The following articles are found in the Fifth Volume, Number Two, for the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 2011:

Report on XXth General Assembly of the FIUV

Father Paul Murphy and the building of St Mary’s Church, Edenderry 1912-1918
A thorough history of one of the finest Churches in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin and its outstanding founder.

The Carthusian Rite
An examination of one of the least well-known Uses of the Roman Rite.

On the Honour of the World
Extracted from a sermon by Msgr. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, giant of the golden age of French pulpit oratory.

Kenelm Henry Digby
The life and works of one of the first beams of the dawn of the Victorian medieval revival and the great flood of 19th Century converts.

The Development of Tradition in Culture
An essay on the structure of tradition and its significance for todays traditional Catholics.

153 Big Fish! – The Johannine Catch of Fish and the Marian Rosary
An insightful and illuminating speculation upon the significance of the traditional structure of the Holy Rosary, with reference to Sacred Scripture and modern Marian apparitions.

“O Lord, You are my portion and cup”
A current Seminarian's insights into Seminary life and the significance of Seminary routine for the formation of Priestly identity.

Reports on Masses during the second half of 2011

CHRISTVS REGNAT - July, 2011

The June, 2011, issue of the twice-yearly journal of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association is now available. You can subscribe to CHRISTVS REGNAT by e-mailing here. CHRISTVS REGNAT is also available for download here.

The following articles are found in the Fifth Volume, Number One, for the feast of the Sacred Heart, 2011:

Universae Ecclesiae
An extract from the recent Instruction of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.

An Interview with the Very Revd. Fr. Richard Duffield, Cong. Orat., Provost of the Birmingham Oratory

Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) and the Blessed Virgin Mary
An analysis of the devotion of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman to Our Lady including a detailled examination of his associations with and attachment to the Mother of God at various moments in his life.

The late Father Francis Finegan, S.J.
An obituary for a deceased member of the Association

The Necessity of Suffering By Msgr. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
An extract from the famous sermon by the greatest of pulpit orators.

The Sarum Use, Part II
Concluding part of the series by one of the foremost scholars of the medieval English liturgy.

The Architects of Kildare and Leighlin
The second part of a detailed survey of the physical Catholic heritage of the Diocese, which is closely linked with our liturgical Catholic heritage.'

An Interview with Pushkin, the Cat who met the Pope
A world exclusive and ground-breaking interview with the most famous Catholic Cat in the World.

Reports on Masses during the first half of 2011

CHRISTVS REGNAT - Short Story Special Issue

This special short story issue of the journal of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association is now available here. Past issues are also available for download here.

Included in this issue are the following short stories:

Letter from the Pontiff A Short Story by Revd. Deacon Raymond Tucker Cordani

The Trail Before Cell Phones A Short Story by Kathleen Culligan Techler

The Liturgiologist and the Antiquary An ecclesiastical tale by Ritualist

The Guild A Tale of Old Dublin by Des Hannon

Revd. Mr. Cordani was born in Torrington, Connecticut and earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Literature with a minor in Creative Writing and Theater from the University of New Hampshire 1995. In 2002, he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He had been a working journalist since 1993, having written for the Associate Press, Catholic News Service, Columbia Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, and the National Catholic Register. Between 2002 and 2007 he taught English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

In 2007, he entered Blessed John National Seminary near Boston, the result of a long discernment to priesthood. He is sponsored by the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, and, God willing, was ordained to the diaconate on Saturday, 27th November, 2010. Currently he ministers in a parish called Immaculate Conception, “a hardscrabble assignment in the Puerto Rican and Dominican barrios in Western Massachusetts.” His Sacerdotal Ordination is scheduled for Saturday, 4th June, 2011. He adds that writing while in the seminary has been difficult, more than a labor of love but a “dual vocation,” as Merton said of his own vocation to writing and service of God in the Church.

www.tucker-cordani.blogspot.com

Kathleen Culligan Techler decided decided in second grade to become a writer, although she was to became a physical therapist, wife, mother of five, and grandmother of nine, before actually writing her first book. For Shalom, Mary: Letters the Blessed Virgin Mary might have written, (2001) thoughts came to her in church during a Christmas sermon and wouldn't leave her alone until she wrote the book. The ideas for Barriers (2001) and The Secret of Pirate Key (2004) came from the barrier island off the coast of Florida where she and her husband have a vacation house. Her time as a "skating mother" sitting in a cavernous old auditorium gave her plenty of ideas for Summer Ice (2006). She has also written in Holiday Hearts a collection Christmas Short Stories for her regular publisher Diskus Publishing. When she is not writing or reading she delivers Meals on Wheels, knits hats for newborns, and tutors second graders in reading.

www.ktechler.tripod.com
www.diskuspublishing.com/kathleenculligantechler.html

CHRISTVS REGNAT - December, 2010

The December, 2010, issue of the twice-yearly journal of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association is now available. You can subscribe to CHRISTVS REGNAT here. Past issues are also available for download here.

The following articles are found in the Fourth Volume, Number One, for the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 2010:

Opening Comments from the Report of the International Federation Una Voce
The introduction to the third annual FIUV Report to the Holy See on the implementation of Summorum Pontificum across the Church.

The Sarum Use
The first part of a detailled examination of the origins, sources, structure and features of the former Rite of Mass particular to England by an eminent Anglican scholar.

The Eminent Dignity of the Poor By Msgr. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
An extract from the famous sermon by the greatest of pulpit orators.

The Real Saint Patrick
Scholarly insights into the personality of the Apostle of the Irish as revealed by his mission and his writings.

An Interview with Prof. Duncan Stroik
The theories of an outstanding Catholic architect and academic on the interaction between Faith and Architecture in the Church today.

A Sermon for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
The meaning of the Immaculate Conception considered in light of ancient and modern revolts against God and the interventions of Our Blessed Lady into history.

The Architects of Kildare and Leighlin
The first part of a detailed survey of the physical Catholic heritage of the Diocese, which is closely linked with our liturgical Catholic heritage. The series examines its theme under four headings, the first being 'the Bishops who built.'

The use of Greek in the poems of John Scotus Eriugena
This article explores the learning and compositions of an Irish scholar at the Imperial Court in the 9th Century and what it tells us about the extent and impact of Irish medieval scholarship during the middle ages.

Flann O’Brien and Catholicism
Viewed in the context of his near contemporary and some-time companion James Joyce, this article considers the relationship of the famous Irish Author, under his various pseudonyms, with his own Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church he experienced in Ireland in the mid 20th Century.

Reports on Masses during 2010

CHRISTVS REGNAT - June, 2010

The June, 2010, issue of the twice-yearly journal of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association is now available, either in hardcopy here or for download here. Past issues are also available for download here.

The following articles are found in the Third Volume, Number Two (June, 2010):

Important Clarifications from the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
The Vatican interprets Summorum Pontificum and the proper manner of providing of the Gregorian Rite.

Singed (by rays felt during Missa cantata at Bl. Columba’s Altar)
A poem composed by Revd. Fr. David Jones, D.D.

St. John the Baptist in the Gregorian Rite
A survey of the place and significance of St. John the Baptist in the 1962 Missal and the lessons to be learned from it. The author goes through St. John's place in the Common of the Mass, the Proper Masses of his feast days and his place in the temporal and sanctoral cycles.

Brigid and her veneration: Two Sequences
A study of the origins, structure and significance of two medieval Sequences included in the text of Masses to honour St. Brigid of Kildare found in the Arbuthnott Missal and in the Gradual of Coligny. The author also examines the origins and place of the Sequence as an element of the Liturgy. The text of the Sequences is appended to the article.

I came not to seek the just
From the writings of Msgr. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux.

An Interview with Dom Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
The experiences that have inspired of one of the most noted liturgical musicians and composers in the Church, and who is currently Director of the Institute of Sacred Music in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, given in his own words. He speaks about the influence that Benedictine Nuns, an Irish Grandmother, and the Archbishop of St. Louis have had upon the direction of his life.

The Irish Traditional Liturgical Calendar - Part II (1918 - 1962)
The second part of a series looking at the development of the General Liturgical Calendar and the Irish Liturgical Calendar and the impact that various reforms have had upon them. It traces the fate of the local feasts of Saints, Dedication of Cathedrals, Votive Masses for the Dead, the changing character of Lent and Advent, etc., and the examines the various Calendar reforms from that point of view. Once again, the author illustrates the various points by reference to fictional clerics, Frs. O'Murphy and O'Toole, who struggle with the reforms amid their Parochial duties.

Saint Brigid and the Blessed Virgin Mary
A careful and reverent study of the Irish traditional appelation of St. Brigid of Kildare as "Mary of the Irish," contrasting the approaches of the various ancient Irish sources such as the Hymn to St. Brigid of St. Ultán of Ard Breccan and the Life of St. Brigid by Cogitosus.

The Kildare Poems and the Friar who owned them
A fascinating article examining the possible origins, authorship, contents and style of a cycle of poems known as 'The Kildare Poems' as well as the use that they were put to by itinerant Franciscan Friars in medieval Ireland.

Reports on Masses for the Holy Year of Priests
Masses in the Gregorian Rite organised by St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association in the second half of the Holy Year for Priests.

CHRISTVS REGNAT - December, 2009

Articles in the December, 2009, issue of CHRISTVS REGNAT include:

• Introduction to the Report to the Holy Father on the Second Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum
  An outline of the contents and methodology of the report that the International Federation Una Voce presented to the Holy Father in October, 2009.
• Report on the FIUV General Assembly XIX
  A personal recollection by one of the seven members of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association who travelled to Rome in mid-November.
• The Irish Liturgical Calendar
  Part one in this series covers the period 1835 to 1914. It traces the interaction of the Universal and the Irish calendars, as well as the fate of local feasts under the various reforms of the rubrics during that period.
• Sir Francis Cruise, M.D.
  A biographical sketch of the Dubliner who was an acknowledged world expert on The Imitation of Christ and who also found time to contribute to civil society as President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, Governor of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Senator of both the University of Dublin and of the Royal University of Ireland, and who was rewarded by both the British Crown and Pope St. Pius X for his services.
• Jansenism, the Liturgy and Ireland
  A Jesuit repost to the proposition that Irish liturgical practice reflects a Jansenistic spirit that infected the whole of Irish Church life three centuries ago.
• The Instability of Heresy
  From the writings of Msgr. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux.
• Astronomical Allusions in the Book of Job
  A survey of the delicate task of translation and its impact upon the sense of Sacred Scripture, contrasting the Septuagint, Vulgate and Irish language texts. The author provides evidence from the internal astronomical references that places the authorship of the Book of Job several centuries earlier than the date that is commonly-held by modern scholars.
• Report on Masses for the Holy Year For Priests

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Annual General Assembly 2009

The Annual General Assembly 2009 met in an air of mourning. One of our founder-members died just a few days ago and the prayers of the meeting were offered by the eleven members present for the repose of her soul.

After the opening prayers and the election of a minute keeper, the Convenor's Report outlined the practical state of the Association under several headings: Advancement of the cause of the Latin Mass in Kildare and Leighlin; Mobilizing souls in the cause of the Latin Mass; the Holy Year of St. Paul and the Holy Year for Priests; Growth in Membership; Blogs and Publications.

Then Mario Corrigan of Kildare County Council gave an excellent talk on the four historic abbeys of Kildare Town: St. Brigid's double monastery/Cathedral; the Black Abbey; the White Abbey; and the Grey Abbey. He began by showing the geographical importance of Kildare and then by looking at the development, first, of the Brigidine Ecclesiastical City and then the Medieval Norman City centred on the Cathedral and surrounded to the West, South West and South East by the three great Abbeys (and to the East by the Castle). He brought us through the history of each, only the Carmelites of the White Abbey being still active, concluding with the present-day buildings that we will see. It is clear that the Ecclesiastical City of Kildare is a major element of our Gaelic Christian Heritage.

Following the Litany of Loreto, we received a report of the finances of the Association and appointed two delegates to represent the Association at the General Assembly of the International Una Voce Federation in Rome in November. Nearly a dozen members intend to make a pilgrimage to Rome to coincide with the General Assembly.

After a few other points of business, the meeting concluded with prayers to Our Lady, St. Joseph and our Guardian Angels and refreshments.

Latest issue of 'Christus Regnat'

The mid-year issue of Christus Regnat will be published soon. Articles will include:

• Commentary on the Manila Guidelines
• Most Reverend Bishop Matthew Cullen, D.D.
• The Crusaders of Kildare
• A Visit to a Seminary
• The Greatest Sacrifice of the Mother of God
• Actuosa Participatio
• Report on the Holy Year of St. Paul

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Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperat!

Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperiat!

Announcing the forthcoming issue of 'Christus Regnat', the journal of St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association. Articles will include:

• Most Reverend Bishop Thomas Keogh, D.D.


• The Origins of the Laudes Regiæ


• Tranquillity and the Sacrifice of Calvary


• Roman Conference Report

Potential contributors or subscribers can obtain further details from: catholicheritagegroup@catholic.org