Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost will be celebrated in an EF Low Mass in our Martha and Mary Chapel at 6 pm. Be there or be square!
TUESDAY AFTER PENTECOST
TUESDAY AFTER PENTECOST
DOUBLE, FIRST CLASS / RED
Baptism alone seals a person as a child of God, bestows an initial share in Christ's priesthood and enriches the soul with divine life. But Jesus instituted also the Sacrament of Confirmation, by which He gives a further indelible seal and a further share in His priesthood, as well as the special grace to live and worship as a mature, apostolic Christian.
INTROIT IV Esdr. 2:36, 37
Receive with joy the glory that is yours, alleluia! giving thanks to God, alleluia! who has called you to the heavenly kingdom, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Ps. 77:1. Hearken, My people, to My law; incline your ears to the words of My mouth.
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
O Lord, let the power of the Holy Spirit be with us, gently cleansing our hearts and guarding us against danger. Through our Lord . . .
LESSON Acts 8:14-17
Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost. For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy Ghost.
Alleluia, alleluia! V. John 14:26
The Holy Spirit will teach you whatever I have said to you. Alleluia! (Here all Kneel.)
V. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and kindle in them the fire of Your love.
SEQUENCE
Holy Spirit, come and shine
On our souls with beams divine
Issuing from your radiance bright.
Come, O Father of the poor,
Ever bounteous of your store,
Come, our heart's unfailing light.
Come, Consoler, kindest, best,
Come our bosom's dearest guest,
Sweet refreshment, sweet repose.
Rest in labor, coolness sweet,
Tempering the burning heat,
Truest comfort of our woes.
O divinest light, impart
Unto every faithful heart
Plenteous streams from love's bright flood.
But for your blest Deity,
Nothing pure in man could be;
Nothing harmless, nothing good.
Wash away each sinful stain;
Gently shed your gracious rain
On the dry and fruitless soul.
Heal each wound and bend each will,
Warm our hearts benumbed and chill,
All our wayward steps control.
Unto all your faithful just,
Who in you confide and trust,
Deign the sevenfold gift to send.
Grant us virtue's blest increase,
Grant a death of hope and peace,
Grant the joys that never end.
Amen. Alleluia!
Holy Spirit, come and shine
On our souls with beams divine
Issuing from your radiance bright.
Come, O Father of the poor,
Ever bounteous of your store,
Come, our heart's unfailing light.
Come, Consoler, kindest, best,
Come our bosom's dearest guest,
Sweet refreshment, sweet repose.
Rest in labor, coolness sweet,
Tempering the burning heat,
Truest comfort of our woes.
O divinest light, impart
Unto every faithful heart
Plenteous streams from love's bright flood.
But for your blest Deity,
Nothing pure in man could be;
Nothing harmless, nothing good.
Wash away each sinful stain;
Gently shed your gracious rain
On the dry and fruitless soul.
Heal each wound and bend each will,
Warm our hearts benumbed and chill,
All our wayward steps control.
Unto all your faithful just,
Who in you confide and trust,
Deign the sevenfold gift to send.
Grant us virtue's blest increase,
Grant a death of hope and peace,
Grant the joys that never end.
Amen. Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 10:1-10
At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees: "Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice. And he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers."
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke. Jesus therefore said to them again: "Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 77:23-25
The Lord opened the doors of heaven, and rained down manna upon them for food. He gave them the bread of heaven, and man ate the food of angels, alleluia!
SECRET
O Lord, may we be cleansed by the sacrifice we offer, and made worthy to receive Your Blessed Sacrament. Through our Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON John 15:26; 16:14
The Spirit who proceeds from the Father, alleluia! He will glorify Me, alleluia, alleluia!
POSTCOMMUNION
O Lord, may the Holy Spirit heal our souls with this divine Sacrament, for He Himself is the forgiveness of all sins. Through our Lord . . .
4 comments:
NLM has a good article on how each of the ferial day readings in the the Pentecost Octave refers to a specific sacrament. Monday - Baptism, Tuesday - Confirmation, Wednesday - Eucharist, Thursday - Holy Orders, Friday - Penance, Saturday - Extreme Unction.
So for the Octave to make sense, the EF Mass needs to be celebrated every day. This would also include the three Ember Days which, along with the Octave itself, were axed by those who deliberately wrecked the Roman Rite in the second half of the 20th century.
yes Father, you are correct the Octave and the Ember Days are alive and well at my traditional parish (in union with Rome). I don't think I knew (or maybe I forgot) they didn't exist in the novus ordo.
John,
What follows is from a book ("A Concise History of the Catholic Church " by T Bokenkotter) being used by my 16 year old daughter, who attends a private Catholic school.
"For the everyday life of the Church, probably nothing Trent did was more important than its reform of the Mass. The need for reform was obvious. The medieval Mass had become a theatrical-type spectacle, the faithful having lost the sense of participation that was at the heart of the ancient liturgy. Moreover, owing to the copying of liturgical books by hand and other factors, a great variety of local variations had crept in, some of them bizarre, disedifying ceremonies; and besides, there were celebrants who indulged their own eccentricities to the amusement and sometimes the scandal of the faithful. 'A tangled jungle' is the way Jesuit scholar Joseph Jungmann described the Mass at the end of the Middle Ages....in 1570 Missale Romanum was issued and was made binding on the universal Church and which remained unchanged until the 1960s. Its introduction marked a new era in the history of the Mass: in place of the allegorical Mass there would now be the rubrical Mass- the priest being obligated under penalty of mortal sin to adhere to its most minute prescriptions. Here again it is the extreme conservatism of the Council of Trent that strikes the eye. It is at least conceivable that they may have taken a creative approach. They might for instance have introduced the vernacular, which the Protestants had done so successfully. But instead they acted defensively and protectively. One reason for this was their rudimentary state of historical knowledge. Scholars then had not uncovered the complex history of liturgical evolution and the slow formation of the main liturgical families. Common opinion at the time believed that St Peter had instituted the Catholic way of saying Mass........also, on the negative side, it helped engender the myth of the unchangeable Mass, the sign and proof of the unchangeableness of the Roman Church (a myth whose overthrow has caused such confusion in our times)...."
I could go on, but that will do.
This is what I work 2 jobs, 70 plus hours a week, to pay for.
PJK.
PJK (continued)
Also according to this text:
The so-called "Private Mass" was a notable 8th century deviation.
With the use of Latin in the liturgy, language became a barrier to understanding rather than a vehicle of communication...
Around this time, the 8th century, the priest came to be seen as offering Mass for the people rather than presiding at a liturgy in which all played a part....
By the 13th century the liturgy which had once been a communal prayer was now a clerical ritual..... and the liturgy instead of revealing the Christian mysteries had itself become a mystery in need of explanation.
By the end of the Middle Ages the Mass by and large had become a Good Work performed by the priest for the spiritual benefit of the Church. This was the Mass the reformers knew and this was the Mass they rejected.
And on another matter:, in our era, with "enforced celibacy", the arguments in its favor no longer seem persuasive to most Catholics. The concept of ritual purity (sex defiled the priest) on which it was originally based now seem bizarre, while the main argument now used to justify it - that celibacy allows the priest to be totally at the disposal of his people - seems a somewhat idealised version of the facts.
Even a fairly liberal Catholic priest who is a friend of our family believes in parts this book goes too far, and at other times is simply wrong and is surprised by its use in my daughters private Catholic school.
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