For the tired brethren bound to say the office…
No frills 1st Vespers for Pentecost Sunday with both the older, traditional Breviarium Romanum and also the newer Liturgia Horarum. The exception is that with the later, the Liturgia Horarum, I sing the hymn from the Liber Hymnarius.
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on Pentecost Thursday: When there is no joy in “dustville”.: “On Marriage, I remember hearing a true story, (may not have all the facts correct). A Royal Couple wanted a…”
on Pentecost Thursday: When there is no joy in “dustville”.: “” . . . bear the crosses that flow from the obligations one has chosen” This is heresy and anathema…”
on ROME 23/05 – Day 29: Monday in the OCTAVE OF PENTECOST: “Oh, gosh. The smell of jasmine reminds of New Orleans, about 35 years ago and a wonderful Jesuit (!) Priest…”
on ROME 23/05 – Day 31: Last full day and an “If only…”.: “Tossed my keys into a post box with mail while in college. Called the Post Office and a courier arrived…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “How odd of the NO “movement,” that its “movers” in the 60s – 70s insisted that “the reform” was “oh-so-much”…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “I strongly support scrutinies for candidates before ordination. Indeed, I support presenting the Oath of Fidelity & Profession of Faith…” on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “The surest sign that something in the Church pleases God and suits His purposes is that it has endured. This…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “Thanks for this very insightful instuction Father Z. I, too, had wondered about the timing issue of their receiving the…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “Did Benedict XVI add the Prayers over the People during Lent back to the Roman Missal or did Saint John…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Pentecost Sunday 2023: “Not a sermon note, but at the charismatic event I attended (which I had been planning if I was home,…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “We have an entry in Butler for St. Gameliel: “He was of the sect of the Pharisees, and a doctor…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “Thank you FrZ for this exceptional teaching and insight. This makes the whole Pentecost event even more powerful and amazing.…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: ““If the Octave of Pentecost can be abolished for the Novus Ordo calendar, it can be reinstated, just as Benedict…”
on Pentecost Wednesday: another ranting reflection: “This applies to yesterday’s rant as well as today’s. I’m just a poor, dumb pew sitter but I’ve been a…”
on ROME 23/05 – Day 31: Last full day and an “If only…”.: ““Which of these breakfast pairings is mine? And why?” The ‘Pop Tart’ on the left. Because apples remind you of…”
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since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
Awesome that you included the current Liturgy of the Hours. I own the current four-volume set and I find it a wonderful spiritual practice despite being a layman.
Though on the Intercessions, I thought the parts in italics were supposed to be recited as part of it.
They certain can be in communal recitation.
I see, thank you.
I will keep that in mind the next time I visit my grandmother. I’m sure she would like to recite the office.
Sequendum breviarium romanum antiquum, novissimis diebus liturgiam horarum aranea digitorum oramus. Mirabilis!
Salutationes omnibus.
This question has nothing to do with the Divine Office. Often I see paintings portraying the first Pentecost. In the paintings I see a flame above the head of the Blessed Virgin. If Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin (Immaculate Conception) and the Holy Spirit overshadowed her at the Annunciation and Jesus was conceived in her womb, why would Mary have to receive the Holy Spirit on Pentecost?
Consilio: Without this becoming a rabbit hole…
We don’t know. However, we can make some conclusions based on what we do know. Yes the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary at the time of the Incarnation. However, being so united with Her son, she has a privileged role in the Church. She is Mother of the Lord and Mother of the Church. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit breathed life into the Church. Holy Church’s Mother was there present. She, perhaps, received there additional graces to be Mother of the Church, spiritual mother of all the members of the Church.
The centrality of the Mother of Jesus in the midst of the disciples with the same flame of the Holy Spirit in an attitude of reception of the gift and of thanksgiving speaks to us of the “Marian profile” of the Church, where Mary represents the very essence of the Church: pure reception and transmission of the gift of God.
This is why she was present and is depicted as receiving also the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
It beats my question, which would’ve been, why’s the Holy Spirit ignite the Apostles via laserbeam?
My sense of humour must be a bit out of control lately; I don’t know that I’ve made a serious comment here in a while… but then, everyone else generally beats me to any points I’d want to make.
Merci, mon père.
Happy Pentecost!