Lenten exorcism of candidates and our single elect:
And not to forget, the EF Mass:
Monday, March 15, 2021
LENT IN A NORMAL, REGULAR ORDINARY FORM PARISH THAT HAPPENS TO CELEBRATE SOME EF MASSES AND SOME PRIVATE MASSES
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Speaking of the EF Mass, check out the latest news on the spread of the EF Mass in other areas of the Diocese of Savannah on the Una Voce of Georgia website!
And we have many army families that rotate in and out of our parish and at unusual times, thus on Laetarae Sunday, one of our moving First Communicants received her First Holy Communion.“
It must have been very difficult giving her Holy Communion while she was moving!
She is kneeling, please note, and thus not a moving target.
I really don’t like your flimsy looking undersized altar cloth casually hung over the altar like my grandma’s kitchen table - it’s informal looking and scruffy. Attention to detail and respect for proper form is needed please!
The traditional manner of dressing an altar is for the cloth to hang all the way to the floor along the sides of the altar (with weights sewn in so it hangs straight and does not slide off. Neither should it be draped halfway down over the altar’s front elevation, although a small amount of lace or limited decoration is permissible eg few inches max. Either that or if you don’t want to adhere to traditional praxis, then just a simple cloth which fits squarely on the top mensa without hanging over at all.
Please tell your sacristan team that it’s not a tablecloth!!! They are literally clothing Christ.
I like your header photo - “be filled with the gift of covid”!
That rose chasuble in the Communion picture was really nice. Much, much better than the "bubble gum" or "Pepto Bismol" vestments some clergy wear.
"Literally" is one of the three most incorrectly used words in the English language today.
No, they are NOT literally clothing Christ because the altar, while mystically representing the Saviour, is not literally Christ.
The length or the drape of an altar cloth is not determined by tradition. "Permissable" comes from what authority? The "Miss Do It The Way I Want It Done Guide To Unnecessary Quibling" altar society guide book? Please...
The traditional use of three linen cloths, the topmost one overhanging the mensa on either side, is believed to date from the ninth century. The authority is the Rubricae Generales which apply when the 1962 Missal (or earlier editions) is used.
The rubrics for the Novus Ordo require only one cloth and are characteristically vague.
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