Today is Thurday after Ash Wednesday. Lent is underway but we are still within its narthex.
GO TO CONFESSION!
Today we hear a reference to mafia bombs, taking up our crosses, and Esau’s horrifying moment of realization of what has happened.
Genesis 27:34
Esau, on hearing his father’s words, broke out into a loud cry of anguish; Thy blessing, father, for me also thy blessing!
Please pray for me – and for Pope Benedict – as we begin our discipline.
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Very moving ceremony yesterday and obviously this great Pope is loved by many. The French station France24 had nice words for the Pope yesterday. As the Pope stated, we need to start praying for the next one!
At the risk of commenting first to find that it is among your details later, yesterday I read, looking up “il gran rifiuto” (Inferno, III, 60), Dr. Oelsner’s note, “Probably Celestine V., [...] Objections may be raised against this interpretation; but the other names suggested (such as Esau, or Vieri de’Cerchi, chief of the Florentine Whites) are even less satisfactory.” Well, what are presumably Boniface VIII.’s words quoted by Guido in XXVII, 104-05, to “due le chivi,/che il mio antecessor non ebbe care”, seem milder about St. Celestine V, though whether that makes Esau a more satisfactory alternative… (Do you have a favourite solution?)
Dear Fr. Z,
Could you identify the source of the exquisite Kyrie recording in the background of this Thursday LENTCAzT? Thank you so much for these (and for all your work). My ongoing prayers for you, for our Holy Father Pope Benedict, and for his successor.
CatherineTherese
CT:
Here’s a link that may help you out. I too find this Kyrie gorgeous!
Brudieu Kyrie • SATB & Chant • Easy Polyphony
-Mark
Indeed a wonderful Kyrie, but I would prefer it sung by a real choir and not a computer…
Question for everyone here….Just thinking about this sadness of this whole thing with Our Great Pope Benedict XVI and comparing sadness with other Papal events…
How many remember the reign of John Paul I, and the short 33 days of his pontificate…..the sorrow alot of us felt at the time…..none of us really had a chance to see what type of Pope he would have been and clearly he know he had to make way for Blessed John Paul the Great.
When a Pope dies we are all sad, but have the consolation of knowing he is now with God in heaven…..if God wills that.
But this…this empty gut renching feeling one has about our DEAR BELOVED POPE BENEDICT…it is to hard to put into words….other than sadness…..
Fr. Z’s latest post is about the “great and bitter cry” who of use who love the Holy Father cannot say we are experiencing the “great and bitter cry”
What must it been like for CHRIST???? Sure can never imagine, but the bitter pain he went through for us sinners….
Dear Jesus, please accompany your servant Benedict so he may feel your presence and help all of us through this “valley of tears”
Another awesome Lentcazt, Fr. Z.!
Thanks Fr. Z; it’s always hard for me to get a schedule together for my Lent, and I need and have always earnestly desired schedules in my life (though rarely have I successfully implemented any) to help me live a Christian and peaceful life. It is nice at least to have something like your Lentcasts to start off the day with to put one in the right attitude during this hardest season of the Church year!
VR,
Found a youtube recording of the kyrie with human voices. Enjoy
-Mark
Fr. Z, will these be posted on Itunes as well? Currently only the Ash Wednesday poem is up there.
Thank you kindly, Mark! (aka aquinasadmirer)
Hi Aquinasadmirer,
I recognize that Kryie from the TLM Requiem High Mass for the Dead…..
When I was in a then Catholic Grade School, the sang that Mass almost all of the Month of November
God Bless
Dear aquinasadmirer: Thank you!
VexillaRegis