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It was the 5th Sunday of Lent in the Novus Ordo and 1st Passion Sunday in the Vetus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have some thoughts about the Sunday HERE. A taste…
Let’s be clear about this. Christ took common things of life and used their materiality to give us the seven Sacraments. One of the most common and natural things in the human condition is the need to unburden, to tell our troubles. Christ instituted the Sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation. The form of the sacrament is the pronouncement of the words of absolution by a validly ordained priest – alter Christus … another Christ – who has the “faculty” or authorization to use His powers of forgiveness. The matter of the sacrament is the telling of the sins. Therefore, in order to know what must be forgiven the sins must be told to the priest. A priest confessor cannot know the hidden most secrets unless the sinner reveals them. Hence, the verbal confession of all mortal sins to the priest, in kind (what the sin entailed) and how many times.
All statues were coved to begin with. Our deacon at mass this morning spoke of Christ’s forgiveness for us in the confessional and how he forgets our sins and how we must put our trust in him.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Father Z and everyone who reads this excellent blog!
Today Father told us Lent is over. Now we enter Passiontide.
He strongly recommended attending Tenebrae.
Not yet veiled, but will be next week. I’ll be helping to do it, D.V.
statues & crucifixes were veiled even including the several small statues at the base of the pulpit and the traveling OL Fatima statue. stations of the cross were not veiled, but i’m not sure i’ve ever seen that done.
All the main and lower statues are covered. There are too many that are very high up to be able to reach them without long ladders and without endandering the statues. All twelve apostles, evangelists, etc. All the other statues on the main altar, side altars are covered since they are lower and more reachable. At the Easter Vigil they have to be able to be taken off safely. We heard about the return of Joseph and the Holy Family from Egypt to Nazareth in our novena homilies in honor of St. Joseph. Then after Holy Mass, we heard a lesson in Liturgy about the Introit, Kyrie, Gloria and the Graduale and Tractus taken from Abbe Claude Barthe’s book, A Forest of Symbols. Then the canon recommended reading Columba Marmion’s books. It was an amazing presentation.
Everything veiled and covered except for a statue of Our Lord in His Passion – hands bound, crown of thorns, and His precious body covered in wounds. It really is amazing the difference in not having the consolation of the familiar images of Christ, Our Lady and the saints.
I would love to see the results of this graphed over the last 10 years. I think it would be quite telling.