Today is the 3rd Sunday of Lent. The Mass formulary in the Usus Antiquior is of great antiquity. Just thought I’d add that.
We hear about the Station (once bombed), the Collects (the Novus Ordo prayer is really even wordier than yesterday), and then have part something from an Angelus address of Benedict XVI about the Samaritan Woman.
From Benedict:
The theme of thirst runs throughout John’s Gospel: from the meeting with the Samaritan woman to the great prophecy during the feast of Tabernacles (7: 37-38) and even to the cross, when Jesus, before he dies, in order to fulfill the Scriptures, says, “I thirst” (19: 28). Christ’s thirst is an entranceway to the mystery of God, who became thirsty to satisfy our thirst, just as he became poor to make us rich (cf. 2 Corinthians 8: 9).
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“Today is the 3rd Sunday of Lent. ”
Isn’t it the third Sunday *in* Lent, not the third Sunday “of” Lent? Missale Romanum (2002 edition) has it as “Dominica III in quadragesima” rather than “Dominica III quadragesimae”. Traditionally, Sundays in Lent are not counted as part of the forty days.
This is a mistake perpetuated in the new translation of the missal, which was also present in the 1973 translation. The “Saint Andrew Daily Missal” of 1956 has the “Third Sunday in Lent”, by the way.
[From the website of the USCCB:]
[From the website of the Conference of England and Wales:]
I noted today that the reading today was Lk 13:1-9…which did not match up with the preface. Seems like the preface was written for the A cycle readings.
Thank you, Father Z. Beautiful.
Thank you Father Z.
Father, is there some flexibility in the Gospel reading for today or something? I am really confused. Today, our bulletin had an insert about the reading being about the Samaritan woman. I thought that somebody just got something out of sequence until I heard you saying the same thing here. At Mass, we actually heard the parable of the fig tree in Luke 13, which is also what I found on the USCCB site. My initial thought is that you would be using an order of readings from the EF, but I HIGHLY doubt that the bulletin insert would care about that. Any ideas? Thanks.
[I believe it has to do with the "scrutinies" done with potential converts during Mass.]
Fr. Z: So, that shows that the websites of both the US and England & Wales bishops’ conferences have it wrong as well. The Sundays in Lent are “in quadragesima” not “quadragesimae”. You don’t need me to tell you how to translate the Latin. [No. I really don't.]