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posted by Fr LWG at 1:33 PM
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
About Me
- Name: Fr LWG
- Location: Peoria, Arizona, United States
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
Previous Wisdom (or Folly)
- Zzzzzzzz
- EWTN Advent Calendar
- December Papal Intention
- 'Church of the Ark' Found
- Advent Wreath Symbolism
- Figgy Pudding with Custard Sauce
- Mt. Soledad Cross Victory
- Sophia
- Veni, veni Emanuel
- Good news!
3 Comments:
Did you know that in some parts of Canada, the word tabernacle is actually a swear word? (Source: today's Washington Post.)
In French Canada the word tabernacle is used as a swear word. As are Christ Child, the Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin, the Sacred Blue (referring to the Blessed Virgin), and the Little Christ (referring to the Blessed Sacrament) (among others. . .). Sadly, most of the people who use these words as swear words don't even realize their actual literal meaning.
(I don't live in Quebec but I attended a Francophone School where such words were sadly often used by my peers. . . even sadder still was the fact that most of these young French Canadians had never set foot in a church.)
So sad.
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