Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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)
- Holy Wisdom
- Dominican Sisters of Mary
- Life through pain
- Papal Retreat
- Living Lent: The First Sunday - Cardinal Rigali
- Solemn Pontifical Mass
- Clericus Cup 2007
- Via Crucis
- Eulogies
- More on the need for liturgical reform
3 Comments:
Yes, and Jesus would have more friends if he wouldn't make it so difficult to be one of his...
Wisdom and some humor, you whippersnapper, you.
That could be changed from Christianity to "Catholicism." After all, protestants frown on self mortification and sacrifice. It's one of the things that makes being a Catholic so beautiful to some, but so unappealing to others.
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