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Timothy,
Please watch your spelling in your answers. It is an embarassment to many people including myself when you purport to have so much wisdom and learning yes constantly spell incorrectly a plethora of the most common words of the English language. I know Holy Apostles VERY well, and apparently the'yre know ordaining men with little literacy.
Check your spelling BEFORE posting answers, for the LOVE of God, and learn how to spell words like TATTOO, ALTAR, not to mention many others. A priest who cannot spell altar? How odd to say the least.
Dr. Rossi
Hi, TOM:
Sorry if I misspelled any words in any past answers.
As you become more familiar with this format, you will notice more about how this message board works, and you will see that the subject lines for example are written by the one ASKING the Questions - not by me.
I may have misspelled tattoo; but I do not believe that I misspelled "ALTAR." I suppose that I just do not have a lot of personal experience or encounters with tattoos. Are you certain whether maybe somebody in a question to me didn't spell the word "Altar" as "alter"? This seems to be a common misspelling of that word that I encounter a lot. It seems that many misspell it.
Were there any other misspellings in past questions and answers? If you could point them out, I could go back, check them, and revise those answers. I am sorry about that, Doctor.
And you may wish to check your sentence from your kind and gracious note to me where you wrote:
"I know Holy Apostles VERY well, and apparently the'yre know ordaining men with little literacy."
You made 2-mistakes there:
1. "the'yre" for "they're" (the contraction of "they are")
2. "know" for "now" (one a verb; the other an adverb of time)
Let's help one another to get our English spelling and syntax perfect. I think you overrate my ideas about my learning and wisdom. I acknowledge freely that I am not perect; though it seems to me that you are a very angry and unhappy, critical person. + God bless you!
Fr. Timothy Johnson
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A Traditional Catholic Priest, validly and licitly ordained, incardinated legally and canonically in the Diocese of Fargo, and in good-standing with my Local Ordinary (Bishop) on active assignment at a rural Tri-Parish. I can provide honest and balanced answers to questions on topics pertaining to Traditional Roman Catholicism of the Latin Church (Councils of Trent and Vatican II)and a lot about the Eastern Catholic Churches, including the Sacred Liturgy, Sacred Scripture, Church History, the use of the Latin language, the tradition of Sacred Music, and current events in the Catholic Church from a traditional, historical and balanced perspective.
Experience
I have been ordained a Roman Catholic Priest since June 2001.
Organizations
Knights of Columbus; Church Music Association of America (CMAA)
Education/Credentials
Ordained Priest, 02 JUN 2001; Ordained Deacon, 27 JAN 2001; MA - Dogmatic/Systematic Theology;
MDiv - Professional Degree from Seminary;
2-Years formation with Canons Regular of Premontre including studies and experience in Sacred Liturgy, Chant, Latin, Sacraments, Spirituality.
BA - Scholastic/Thomistic Philosophy;
BA - Liberal Arts;
AA - General Studies.
Past/Present Clients
I serve 3-small, rural Parish Communities in Easter North Dakota
I converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1981, at the age of 15.
Over the years I have done work as an organist, cantor, and choir director for the Latin Rite (English & Latin) Mass (Liturgy of the Eucharist), and even for the Hours of the Divine Office.
I have worked as a cantor for a Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church.
Presently my pastoral and administrative duties as a Catholic Priest do not allow me as much time as I used to have to devote to Sacred Music; but for my weekend Masses and Solemnities within my Tri-Parish, I offer High Sung Mass in English. Weekday Mass is typically Low Mass (recited Mass) in English, though on occasion I will offer the "Tridentine Mass" in Latin, which I usually offer on my "Day Off", as well. And now, in light of the "Motu Proprio" by his Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI placing the extraordinary usage of the Roman Rite back into the mainstream of the Catholic Church, I have been offering a regularly scheduled SUN, 2:00 PM Tridentine Latin Mass with a community of the faithful that has a stable existence.
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