tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275959782008-05-07T15:21:49.745-06:00Kansas City Catholicwolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comBlogger742125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-10060592605089647832008-01-30T23:19:00.000-06:002008-01-31T00:36:35.080-06:00This Blog Has Moved
Kansas City Catholic has a new spot on the internet.
It is now located at www.kansascitycatholic.wordpress.com .
The email address stays the same.
The change is made for technical reasons that are too boring to explain here.
Thanks to all other bloggers who have generously linked to KCC in the past. Changing the link to the new address would be greatly appreciated.
Better thanks to the wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-41740953932881805562008-01-29T22:58:00.000-06:002008-01-29T23:02:50.625-06:00Prayer to Saint Andrew
O Glorious St. Andrew,
you were the first to recognize and follow the Lamb of God.
With your friend St. John you remained with Jesus for that first day, for your entire life, and now throughout eternity.
As you led your brother St. Peter to Christ, and many others after him, draw us also to Him.
Teach us to lead others to Christ solely out of love for Him, and dedication in His service.
Helpwolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-57230345147670265632008-01-27T07:26:00.000-06:002008-01-27T16:46:00.577-06:00Salve Regina Store--Saint Joseph, MO (Updated with Photos)If you are in Saint Joseph, MO, soon, then check out this store on the south side of downtown, especially if you are looking for a 1962 missal or a copy of a Douay Rheims Bible, or any other traditional item. Below are a few photographs of the strore's interior. Drop by sometime and say hello to Jeff, the proprietor.
wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-7385446214140470292008-01-26T23:59:00.000-06:002008-01-27T10:02:17.583-06:00KEXS NewsOne of the best things about being Catholic in Kansas City is KEXS-AM1090, the local Catholic radio station.
The station now has a Saturday morning show called Ask the Bishop. From 10:00 a.m. to 10:15, Bishop Finn answers questions that have been submitted by area school children.
Also, the station is sponsoring a Lenten Retreat with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., and Fr. Ben Cameron, C.P.M., at St. wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-44231539900290571272008-01-26T11:15:00.000-06:002008-01-26T15:39:12.986-06:00Father Z in KC
The well-known and well-regarded Father John Zuhlsdorf ("Fr. Z") is visiting Kansas City. He offered to meet with anyone that showed up to LatteLand in the Briarcliff area this Saturday morning. A good number of folks showed up to converse with Fr. Z, whose popular blog What Does the Prayer Really Say discusses all things Catholic, especially liturgical matters, and more especially liturgicalwolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-84547496099461842432008-01-26T07:19:00.000-06:002008-01-26T07:28:03.736-06:00More on the New Bishop for Springfield--Cape G.
The newspaper down Springfield way had an article about the new bishop in southern Missouri.
You can read it here. It is a good article about an apparently great priest.
The article does, however, have a terribly constructed sentence.
To wit:
Both Knoxville and southern Missouri share some issues that have troubled the Catholic Church, including clergy abuse and calls for a return to the wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-77893880441532352682008-01-25T23:04:00.000-06:002008-01-26T00:18:00.626-06:00Catholic Schools Week from Kansas to Canada
For a number of reasons, including the fact that we do not live anywhere near a Catholic school, my family homeschools. So forgive me if I am not sure if Catholic Schools Week is beginning or ending. Not to put too fine a point on it, but for us every week is Catholic Homeschool Week.
But elsewhere the one designated week in each annum meets with different receptions. First the good, second wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-4696498814686611252008-01-24T21:16:00.000-06:002008-01-25T08:34:59.392-06:00Priest Named Bishop of Southern Missouri Diocese Was Named as Hero by the Federal Government in 2005
On January 24, 2008, the Vatican named Fr. James Vann Johnston, Jr., of Knoxville, TN (far right in photo above) as the new bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in southern Missouri. His consecration as a bishop is to take place on March 31, 2008. By all accounts, this 48 year-old priest seems the answer to many prayers that have been sent up along Interstate 44.
Within his wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-38632977004568162232008-01-24T14:51:00.001-06:002008-01-24T22:17:09.789-06:00BREAKING: NEW BISHOP for SPRINGFIELD-CAPE G.
This has just hit the web:
From the article hyperlinked above:
Vann Johnston Jr. has been named bishop for the Roman Catholic diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Johnston is chancellor and moderator of the curia for the Knoxville diocese. He has served as priest at the Holy Ghost parish in Knoxville and currently is priest at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Alcoa.
The Missouri diocese wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-53379379899872512872008-01-23T18:32:00.000-06:002008-01-23T18:39:00.448-06:00Prayer for Priests
Almighty God, look upon the face of Him who is the eternal High Priest, and have compassion on Your priests in today's world. Remember that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation. Keep them close to You lest the enemy prevail against them, so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation. O Jesus, I wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-7528966132943009252008-01-23T18:31:00.001-06:002008-01-23T18:32:42.099-06:00Any Guesses Which Church This Belfry Belongs To?wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-62287785218576364122008-01-22T21:50:00.001-06:002008-01-23T18:58:46.135-06:00Out with the New--In with the Old
The Washington Post reports about a large new church in Gainesville, VA, that is nearing completion.
An excerpt:
Parishioners in western Prince William County will celebrate the opening next month of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, an $18 million, 80,000-square-foot spiritual home and community center for thousands of people in the Gainesville area.
With large stained-glass windows and an wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-1746626403427935902008-01-21T21:02:00.000-06:002008-01-21T21:31:25.317-06:00Re: Scapulars
Whenever I hold my one-year old daughter (which is often), she likes to reach her little fingers under my collar and find my scapular. Then she pulls a strand of it out somehow and keeps pulling. To what end? None. But she is stronger than she looks and I think I will be going through more scapulars than usual until she gets bored with this game. She gives no sign that she will move on fromwolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-33920800709206414652008-01-19T16:32:00.001-06:002008-01-19T16:37:01.920-06:00Make a GuessTo which parish in the diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph do this tabernacle and window belong? Tell KCC readers in the combox.
wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-57632608913442521072008-01-19T11:06:00.000-06:002008-01-19T16:46:20.230-06:00Two Items from The New York Times
Two Catholic-related items in today's New York Times caught my eye.
The first was an article about the election of the new leader of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. The article contained this morsel:
The 468-year history of the Jesuit order has often included stormy relations with the Vatican. Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul, believed the order had become too independent, leftistwolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-18496356269378568062008-01-19T07:57:00.000-06:002008-01-19T09:01:53.553-06:00Bass Ackwards
This morning it is three degrees below zero (F) outside. Sitting down with a warm cup of coffee while the rest of the family is asleep, I typed in "Latin Mass" in Google News to see what recent stories included that term.
First there was this, news of another traditional Latin Mass offered in a diocesan parish. This one in northern Florida. Let us consider the story:
The Rev. Patrick wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-10520092645820600812008-01-16T21:25:00.000-06:002008-01-16T23:13:56.162-06:00So There I Was . . .So there I was standing in Terminal A of Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
If you fly to D.C. at all, you already know that this terminal is the poor relation of Terminals B and C. Terminal A is the poster child of dated 1970's architecture that resembles, somehow simultaneously, a disco and a prison (not that I am that familiar with either). Like discos and prisons, Terminal A is wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-64009890541112844602008-01-14T22:04:00.000-06:002008-01-14T22:09:42.098-06:00A Quick and Worthy Prayer
Prayer to Prevent One Mortal Sin
O Mary, Immaculate Mother of Jesus, we beseech thee, offer to the Eternal Father the Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, to prevent at least one mortal sin from being committed somewhere in the world today. Amen.
wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-53347247035249924762008-01-14T21:33:00.000-06:002008-01-14T21:42:39.790-06:00MLK Jr. Day Festivities at Visitation Parish (KCMO)
As noted on KCC before, Visitation parish has been hailed as a great acoustic space in The Kansas City Star. Now, we learn from the Star that a Martin Luther King, Jr., rememberence was held there on Sunday. The photograph above, taken from the Star story, shows that some find the parish a fine dance hall as well as a great acoustic space.
Who knew?wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-23655472242675893702008-01-12T22:23:00.000-06:002008-01-12T23:11:19.773-06:00TLM News from Near and Far
News came this week that the traditional Latin Mass will soon be regularly celebrated in two cities in the southern part of Missouri: Stockton and Springfield. More can be learned at a new blog, Missouri Latin Mass Community, set up to promote the TLM in the Diocese of Springfield and Cape Girardeau. This development has been in the works for decades. KCC will have more news about this soon.wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-84683880101608189682008-01-12T08:47:00.000-06:002008-01-12T09:03:26.867-06:00Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery
Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery (Benedictine, traditional Latin Mass) is featured in an article in The Tulsa World today. The focus of the article is how they are constructing a monastery and community that will survive a 1,000 years. That's looking ahead.
An excerpt:
HULBERT -- A vision born 35 years ago on the campus of the University of Kansas and nurtured in a monastery in Francewolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-8207846571754763192008-01-12T08:34:00.000-06:002008-01-12T08:42:56.197-06:00Consecration Bells versus Tambourines
I have no crystal ball, of course. But my observations of the present and a fleeting glance to the recent past tell me that the following (taken from The Cleveland Plain Dealer) is not true. The usual reasons apply.There are a lot of differences between the late Sunday afternoon Mass at St. Ambrose Catholic Church and the regular morning Masses throughout the Cleveland Catholic wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-29382758855481752182008-01-12T08:26:00.000-06:002008-01-12T08:33:08.195-06:00Holy Is Thy Name
From the Litany of the Holy Name, the devotion to which January is dedicated.
Jesus, splendor of the Father,
Jesus, brightness of eternal light.
Jesus, King of glory.
Jesus, sun of justice.
Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary.
Jesus, most amiable.
Jesus, most admirable.
Jesus, the mighty God.
Jesus, Father of the world to come.
Jesus, angel of great counsel.
Jesus, most powerful.
Jesus, mostwolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-80328034134277018662008-01-12T08:15:00.000-06:002008-01-12T08:26:20.774-06:00Catholics Rethink Quinceañera Craze
The Washington Post has a story devoted to a rite of passage common among Hispanic young women.
An excerpt:
DENVER -- On the day she is to become a woman, Monica Reyes sits in front of the church for Mass. Her white dress -- sewn in her mother's Mexican home town -- spills over her chair like an oversized lampshade.
The priest urges her to live as a daughter of God. Her parents give her a wolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27595978.post-49450781595790238872008-01-10T21:35:00.000-06:002008-01-12T09:14:56.276-06:00You Have to Admit, Satan Is a Clever Son of a . . .
Who knew Satan was one to have fun with puns. See this news story from The Denver Post:
LAS VEGAS—You could sum up the state of TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show this way: New delivery methods will let people watch pretty much anything, anytime, on gorgeous flat-panel displays.
At the adjoining Adult Entertainment Expo, which opened here Wednesday, the message is: We KNOW onewolftrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155033397548603133noreply@blogger.com