Dedicated to the Restoration of a Catholic Identity
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.
9 Comments:
Buon giorno,
That's because you're a ROMAN Catholic.
Tuo amico, fr lwg
Fortibus en ero.
Nobile, nobile,
Themis trux.
Latine loqui coactus sum.
The sound of Latin, spoken, is so very beautiful. The only sound more beautiful than the pure sound of Latin is you, Fr. Gonzales, saying Mass in Latin. We all hope and pray that we will be so very blessed to be able to hear that one day soon.
May our Lord Jesus Christ bless us all abundantly.
The eagle flies south at midnight.
I-ay ike-lay our-yay log-bay.
unny-fay!
I did not grow up with the option to study Latin, but I did study Spanish...so now when I read Latin, wheras I can pick out a lot of the meaning, I can't pronounce it correctly. I inflict a lot of Spanish pronunciation upon Latin which is really disturbing to me. Anyone who has ever studied languages knows why!
(I can also understand some French and Italian - in writing - via my learning in Spanish! LOL. What a way to confuse friends!)
I need a mentor because I really want to learn how to pray in Latin. There is power in Latin that just doesn't exist in English or any other language. Unfortunately, Father, you can't help me with that and my computer currently doesn't support audio files.
But I appreciate any written lessons you can provide in the interim. Do you have any plans to come to MN to teach Latin to the laity? :-)
Audio parts of the TLM will follow as 2.0+ after the 1.0+ series.
Any knowledge of the Roman language should assist with the Latin of course.
My Latin has a definite Spanish slant.
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