In 2012 the Congregation for Divine Worship allowed that the Thursday after Pentecost could be celebrated as the Feast of Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest. Music Sacra Forum as a link to the Latin texts for the Novus Ordo feast, as they appear in Notitiae 2012, 335-368.
It’s almost as if someone said, “This time after Pentecost seems a little empty. I wonder what we could do to spice it up?”
May I make a request? Perhaps today (or everyday) you could pray for a priest. I have a link on the side bar to a Daily Prayer for Priests.
It might be good to pray not only for priests whom you like, but especially for priests whom you find seriously annoying or troubling.
If you can’t think of one, please pray for me.
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Thank you for the information about this Feast. It’s not yet in the printed in English Breviaries, perhaps because it is so new. It’s also not in English and German apps for the Liturgy of the Hours. I guess that it has not yet been added to the Calendar for Mass or the LOTH. I look forward to when it is available for the Divine Office.
Fr Z.
A retired Priest here in Osorno Chile, Padre Bernhard Bernardo Warth, passed away 19 May in his sleep. He was 87. He was a German who came to Chile in the 1970s to minister to Chileans.
What is so special about this retired Priest?
Well he was a friend of our family here in Chile and would he visit us at our house during the SHENANIGANS that happened in Chile and the world. The (b)ishops of Chile decidedly abandoned all of the Chilean Catholics. No going out and finding the lost lamb here, we were all lost and remain that way for the most part.
Hard times required hard decisions and I needed to protect my families souls as best I could. If I can not get to the Priest then I need to get one to my family!
I would go to Osorno and pick him up and he would clandestinely come and say Mass and hear confessions for my family. (sketchy thing during the lock down). I am sure that had the bishop known that he he did this he would have been reprimanded to say the least since all of our Church buildings were ordered closed by the bishop for no less than approximately 30 months. Our parish priest came only once over the same time period (and would not hear our confessions or say Mass for us).
You know the phrase “He was a real Life Saver” ?
Fr Padre Bernhard Bernardo Warth was not a really traditional priest. He was not particularly Do the Red Say The Black, to say the least type of Priest, but he did recognize that Catholics who want the sacraments and ask for them should receive the sacraments.
Over those 30 months, he heard our confessions and said Mass for my family 4 times and he loved doing this for us. Just a simple man living his vocation. This is what many, many Priests live to do. He did.
To me this is what being Catholic should be. To live and to die in the faith.
We would make for him his favorite meal every time with a large bottle of wine and good conversation. No rules about masks or distancing here. He would rest in our lounge chair and pet our cat and take a nap for 4 or so hours and then I would drive him home in the evening. Every time he asked me to please let him visit us again. He was kind of a shut in at 87. So it was good for him and for us when he visited. His visits were our pleasure and obligation.
May the Souls of the Faithful departed rest in peace, and may the perpetual light of Christ shine upon him. Especially Padre Bernhard Bernardo Warth.
He was a SOUL SAVER.
Here’s a question on the Octave of Pentecost: If the Octave is a First Class Octave (like Easter) but the Friday is an Ember day is it a Meatful or Meatless Friday?
Fr. Z, about that Daily Prayer for Priests, years back, in response to a humorous comment of yours, I added “annoying” to the “unfaithful and tepid” category on the list. I’ll continue to disregard the occasional nagging, passing fear that this might be taken as a daily request for more of same.
Sid Cundiff said
not in English and German apps for the Liturgy of the Hours
I use Universalis, which is based in England (Farnborough Abbey), for England (and some other places but not the US or Germany) it does provide proper texts for this feast in English and Latin. Both for Mass and the Office.
I have the impression that it is one of those Pro aliquibus locis feasts, and yes they do exist in the NO.
One of my prayers at the end of my daily Rosary is the Memorare for all clergy.
I have always been able to remember the Luminous Mysteries by linking them with the ministry of parish priests – The Baptism of Our Lord, The Wedding Feast at Cana, The Proclamation of the Gospel, The Transfiguration, and the Institution of the Eucharist. Our good priests preside at Baptisms, Weddings, they Proclaim the Gospel in words and in deeds, and they bring us the Eucharist – all of which Transfigures our lives for the good! Where would we be without our good parish priests – God bless every one of them!
In England&Wales it was put on the national calendar as a Feast, not a Solemnity, in 2018. Neither Scotland nor Ireland has yet adopted it.
Regarding prayers for our priests, I would like to recommend the Monthly Prayer Requests for Priests apostolate (https://www.mprpapostolate.com/), which is currently active in some 70 dioceses nationwide. I don’t know how it is done in other places, but here in Milwaukee the local group takes the clergy directory of the archdiocese and assigns a priest per day, alphabetically, throughout the year. There are also days to pray for our Holy Father, Archbishop Listecki and his auxiliaries, as well as the religious orders of priests active in the archdiocese. It is a wonderful way to remember our priests locally, many of whom I will never know personally this side of the veil!