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Apr 2021
Last year I had been writing a series of reflections on ‘social justice’ as ‘the right order of human society’. I took as my starting point the harmonious order that existed in Eden before sin and observed that first there was the right order of man beneath God, then the right order within the human soul, then the right order between man and woman (the first social relationship from which all others derive), and finally the right order between man and the physical world in which he lives, over which he had......
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January 24, 2020
The Order of the Mass: The Foundation of all Right Order
I have been writing about the principles of social justice. Social justice means nothing if it does not mean the right order of human society. We see the foundational principles of that order in Eden...
June 14, 2019
Summertime
School is out for some and almost out for others, the cherry harvest is ready to begin, and summertime is upon us. For some this means hard work, for others vacation. For a great many...
November 30, 2018
Towards God: Part III
As we begin the season of Advent we also begin to experience the celebration of the Mass with the priest standing at the altar “towards God”. I have written about this traditional practice the past...
August 18, 2017
The Extraordinary Form Mass
On July 7, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated an Apostolic Letter ‘Motu Propio’ (on his own initiative) Summorum Pontificum on the use of the Roman liturgy prior to the reform of 1970. In that letter,...