Didde Center Homily Podcasts

"The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value, greater even than that of any other art."   Sacrosanctum Concilium, The Second Vatican Council --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

«La tradición musical de la Iglesia universal constituye un tesoro de valor inestimable que sobresale entre las demás expresiones artísticas, principalmente porque el canto sagrado, unido a las palabras, constituye una parte necesaria o integral de la liturgia solemne.»  --El Concilio Vaticano Segundo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

In the final three paragraphs of the fascinating memoir he wrote while still Prefect of the Congregation, Cardinal Ratzinger explained the significance of the bear:  According to legend, on his way from Germany to Rome in the early 700s, St. Corbinian’s horse was torn to pieces by a bear. Corbinian reprimanded the bear, loaded onto it the pack the horse had been carrying, and made the bear haul that burden all the way to Rome. Only then did Corbinian release the bear.  Then Cardinal Ratzinger quotes Psalm 22 (“When my heart was bewildered, I was stupid and ignorant. I was like a dumb beast before You. I am always with You). He tells us that in those very words, St. Augustine spoke of the burdens he carried once he became bishop:  A draft animal am I before You . . . for You. And this is precisely how I abide with You.  How often, continues Cardinal Ratzinger, writing the last paragraphs of his memoir . . .  did Augustine protest to heaven against all the trifles that continually bloc

For God there are only individuals.   Nicolás Gomez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Para Dios no hay sino individuos.  --Nicolás Gomez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 26. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Delivered at Christ the King Catholic School --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Of Hildebrand’s thirty books surely one of the most interesting for our generation is Trojan Horse in the City of God: The Catholic Crisis Explained (1967). An early post-Vatican II book written more than fifty years ago, Hildebrand proved once again, as he did in the 1920s when he was among the first to warn about the coming disaster of Nazism, that he was prophetic in detecting the ominous storm clouds gathering over the Catholic Church. His wife Alice reported that on his deathbed Hildebrand referred to himself as having the soul of a lion. It could be said that in this book he roared like a lion at the herd of Trojan horses galloping toward the vaulted halls of the Vatican. John Cardinal O’Connor in his introduction to The Trojan Horse remarked that the glorious achievements of Vatican II were undermined and sabotaged by those who sought to remake the Church in their own image. Hildebrand saw this happening, and Cardinal O’Connor believed there is reason to believe that what Hildebrand saw in 1967, and wa

"As they stared blankly, in dumb misery deepening as they slowly realized all they had seen and all they had lost, a capricious little breeze, dancing up from the surface of the water and blew lightly and caressingly on their faces, and with its soft touch came instant oblivion. For this is the last, best gift that the kindly demigod is careful to bestow on those to whom he has revealed himself in their helping: the gift of forgetfulness. Lest the awful remembrance should remain and grow, and overshadow mirth and pleasure, and the great haunting memory should spoil all the after-lives of little animals helped out of difficulties, in order that they should be as happy and light-hearted as before."   The Wind in the Willows --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

This is an old idea--one that started way earlier than the last time I used this image, three years ago in the lectionary cycle.  "Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from men; but the greatest glory of the other is God, the witness of conscience. The one lifts up its head in its own glory; the other says to its God, 'Thou art my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.'” Saint Augustine, The City of God, Book XIV, Chapter 28 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Want to assist with the project of restoring the communion rail to use in Blessed Sacrament Church? You can give online at https://blessedsacramentkck.weshareonline.org/ Make sure you include a reference to the communion rail in the comment portion of the form. My rough and ready translation of Father Pro's meditation on the empty tabernacles is corrected and somewhat improved below. "Lord, return to the Sanctuary! May the Tabernacle no longer be empty... See how on their Calvary so many souls beg for it, O my Jesus! "Your souls, Lord, crucified in the cross of suffering, torn to pieces by the deepest grief imaginable: the sorrow of your absence! "Lord of the Sanctuary, you left. You left, Lord, and since then the bells are silent, the churches deserted, the altar bereft of sacrifice, the choirs silent, sanctuaries without flowers, the candles mournful without their golden flame, the cavernous naves grieving and empty, though a fluttering prayer stirs mysterious wings; all immersed in silence and drowsiness,

Las meditaciones y oraciónes de Beato Miguel Pro SJ: https://www.morderlarealidad.com/2021/11/24/beato-miguel-agustin-pro-9-9-oraciones-y-meditaciones-del-p-pro/ «¡Señor, vuelve al Sagrario! Ya no esté el Tabernáculo vacío... Mira que en su calvario lo piden tantas almas, ¡Jesús mío! «Almas tuyas, Señor, crucificadas en la cruz del dolor despedazadas por el duelo más hondo en la existencia ¡el dolor de tu ausencia! «Tú te fuiste, Señor de los Sagrarios. Tú te fuiste, Señor, y desde entonces mudos están los bronces, los templos solitarios, sin sacrificio el ara, mudo el coro, los altares sin rosas, tristes los cirios de la llama de oro, tristes las amplias naves solitarias, sin que agite sus alas misteriosas un vuelo de plegarias; todo en silencio y en sopor sumido, todo callado y triste, todo tribulación, muerte y olvido... «Señor, ¿por qué te fuiste? Allí junto al Sagrario en la cita de amor y de misterio, a la trémula luz del lampadario, que dejaba en penumbra el presbiterio, iban los peregrinos de la vida,

"One needs to open one’s heart to the abundance of grace and to allow the word of the Redeemer to act with all its power: ‘Duc in altum!’ Whoever opens his heart to Christ will not only understand the mystery of his own existence, but also that of his own vocation; he will bear the abundant fruit of grace." Pope Saint John Paul II, 2005 World Day of Prayer for Vocations --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

[The Church needs] a change of mindset, particularly concerning laypeople.  They must no longer be viewed as ‘collaborators’ of the clergy, but truly recognized as ‘co-responsible’ for the Church’s being and action — thereby fostering the consolidation of a mature and committed laity. Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Roman Clergy, 2009 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

If we believe in God we should not say, “I believe in God,” but rather, “God believes in me.” Nicolas Gomez Dávila, Scholia on an Implicit Text, 1128 There are those who, while they recognize the glory of God as well as the importance of man and the call addressed to him in general, believe in false humility, that the call is meant for all others but not for their own person. They deem their own person too wretched to dare assume that they may refer the divine call to themselves. They would hide in a corner and play the part of mere onlookers. The sight of their wretchedness impels them to exclude themselves from the great dialogue between God and man. This ostensible excess of humility, for all the diffidence it involves, is not free of an element of pride. For here, once more, man presumes to decide himself where he stands, instead of leaving that decision to God. Yet, this is precisely the test of true humility, that one no longer presumes to judge whether or not one is too miserable to be included in the

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality. Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth? But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily. If there isn’t something in that legend for us today, in this city, in our time, then I am completely insane. Professor Faber --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

The passage read as the spiritual sense of the Gospel of this fourth Sunday of Advent is 2 Samuel 6:1-19 Linked here for your convenience: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/2samuel/6 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"Although nothing is to be seen, the soul senses very sharply the presence of an evil power which wants to influence it to give up: the sins are too many and too horrible to allow any hope.  But it also senses another spiritual power present.  It may be the guardian angel soothing the soul, reminding it, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: reminding the soul of the bottomless mercy and love of the heavenly Father whom it is to meet very soon now." Read the Baroness' journal entry about her near-death experience: https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/spiritual-life/preparing-to-be-called-to-account.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Take time to read Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, available on the Vatican website. https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

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"What were his thoughts during this part of the journey? As in the morning he watched the passing of trees, thatched roofs, tilled fields, the changing vistas appearing at every bend in the road, an occupation soothing to the spirit that may almost take the place of thought. Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute. Perhaps somewhere in the vague recesses of his mind he perceived parallels between this series of dissolving views and our human life. All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road… and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness it." Hugo describing the thoughts of Je