For the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, I celebrated the 8:30 AM Mass at St. Gregory the Great Church in Bluffton, South Carolina.
I did not have a chance to review the Roman Missal in the Sanctuary before Mass, but the sacristan had set the ribbons to the proper places.
I had forgotten that it is classified as a feast, so I was grateful, that the newly purchased Roman Missal I was using indicated that the Gloria should be said or sung.
I mention that the parish recently replaced their tattered Roman Missal with a newly purchased one.
As I was praying the Prayer over the Offerings, I noticed that the Missal stated to use the Preface for the Apostles!!!!
I, was completely distracted by that. Mary Magdalene wasn’t an apostle. Why does the missal say to use the Preface of the Apostles.
Fortunately, the sacristan had set the ribbons for the Preface for Saints.
After Mass, I looked at the Ordo and it stated that the proper preface for this feast is for the Saints, either I or II.
I know that the Roman Missal can have mistakes or misprints. But I also know that heterodox leftists in the Church say that because Mary Magdalene was the first to encounter the Risen Lord and the first to communicate it to the Apostles that she was raised to an apostle by the Risen Lord and “ordained” to go and preach the resurrection!
Is there some skullduggery by someone responsible for the English Roman Missal, newer editions, to set into motion, like a footnote in Amoris Letitia to allow divorced and reamarried to receive Holy Commnion, the ordination of women?????
Just wondering: Mistake or Mischief??????
6 comments:
Strange. I thought Mary Magdalene now had a proper preface in the Pauline missal (with the moniker "Apostle to the Apostles"). Not sure if an English translation would've been implemented in time for the parish's new missal. Iwould guess mistake--the proof-readers saw "apostles" and glazed over the error.
Nick
I also was confused when setting up the missal this morning. As noted, the Ordo doesn't state to use the Proper Preface. The Proper Preface is available on the USCCB's website: https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year-and-calendar/saint-mary-magdalene It should have been used since 2020.
Wow! Thanks for that! In fact the new edition Missal said that, but I did not read it correctly. It also gave a page # which was around 1,300 toward the back. I couldn’t fumble to look for it at the time of the preface. But since this is a new missal it has additions in it promulgated after older editions of the missal. The ordo, though, should have indicate proper preface.
Maybe they're borrowing from the East, in which St Mary Magdalene has the title Equal to the Apostles...?
I think so. I think Pope Francis elevated the feast from a Memorial to a Fradt in 2016. The proper preface which I had never seen until today refers her to the Apostles to the Apostles. I presume the Esdt celebrates her feast on the 22nd too?
Yes, Father. Same date for this feast (although we're on the Julian calendar, so the feast will happen in 13 days for us -- a big day as my daughter is named for this saint).
We have several saints with the title "equal to the apostles," so this is not unique to her despite being quite an honor. It looks like Thomas Aquinas coined the phrase "apostle to the apostles," if the internet can be trusted! It does seem like an appropriate moniker.
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