tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post3189915226563523877..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: I LOVE YOU SAINT PATRICK, BUT YOU'RE ONLY A LITTLE "m" MEMORIAL, SAINT JOSEPH IS A SOLEMNITY, THE BIG GUY WHO'S NEXT! EF MASS FRIDAY AT 7:30 PM, HERE!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-3528542183861670232011-03-20T13:53:57.682-04:002011-03-20T13:53:57.682-04:00"Our most heavily mostly Catholic Mass is the..."Our most heavily mostly Catholic Mass is the 4:00 PM Vigil of Christmas!"<br /><br />Of course, you wouldn't want Christ intruding on Christmas now would you?Templarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18204866760862707908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-72662108062747825022011-03-18T11:06:06.284-04:002011-03-18T11:06:06.284-04:00"I don't think we would celebrate Holy Th...<b>"I don't think we would celebrate Holy Thursday in this form but . . ."</b><br /><br />One of the more convincing rumored versions of the forthcoming SP instruction includes a statement specifying that the EF can be used during the Sacred Triduum. (Contrary to the probably deliberate misinterpretation of SP as prohibiting this, despite the fact that the Latin/English syntax clearly placed the OF and EF on equal footing, stating only that private Masses in neither form are permitted during the ST.)<br /><br /><b>"Our most heavily mostly Catholic Mass is the 4:00 PM Vigil of Christmas!"</b><br /><br />Not if you count adults only?Henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15350155179858817602011-03-18T08:39:49.584-04:002011-03-18T08:39:49.584-04:00Henry, we do celebrate the EF Mass for special occ...Henry, we do celebrate the EF Mass for special occasions such as All Souls with the combined choirs singing Faure's Requiem and Easter Sunday. This evening is the first time our choirs are singing Schubert's Mass in G.<br />I don't think we would celebrate Holy Thursday in this form but certainly a Christmas option is being considered, perhaps midnight which has more protestants attending than Catholics! Our most heavily mostly Catholic Mass is the 4:00 PM Vigil of Christmas!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-24613373683627469332011-03-18T08:29:48.675-04:002011-03-18T08:29:48.675-04:00Since your clairvoyance is well known, Fr. McDonal...Since your clairvoyance is well known, Fr. McDonald, I wonder if this is a harbinger of future parish practice. That is, using the extraordinary form for the most festive and solemn parish celebrations -- such as the Easter and Christmas vigil Masses, Holy Thursday, patronal feasts, etc. This would add an "upper end" to the range of appropriate levels of solemnity that the ordinary form affords well as the middle and lower ends.Henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-16543795566318611662011-03-17T13:05:17.508-04:002011-03-17T13:05:17.508-04:00I'm so glad to hear about your parish, Henry. ...I'm so glad to hear about your parish, Henry. Until last year, I believe I might have been the only person at my seminary to know how to do commemorations. And there's so much institutional lethargy, it has proven difficult to teach people about the proper way to do it. It was treated as a typical memorial at our Morning Prayer today.carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11331034984608859225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-90437829801283716852011-03-17T11:31:45.796-04:002011-03-17T11:31:45.796-04:00Carl, that's just the way we did it at parish ...Carl, that's just the way we did it at parish morning prayer this morning -- the Our Father followed by the Lenten ferial closing prayer without ending, then the antiphon for St. Patrick, then the St. Patrick closing prayer (with ending) and finally the final blessing. <br /><br />Others don't do commemorations this way? Seriously, of course, I know that seminaries haven't placed much emphasis on such liturgical details in recent few decades, so most priests probably don't know about this kind of thing.Henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-58869380618625633512011-03-17T11:09:43.780-04:002011-03-17T11:09:43.780-04:00I think it was Thomas Merton who once wrote how St...I think it was Thomas Merton who once wrote how St. Joseph was such an important and powerful saint, yet is hardly noticed. Thanks for giving him some good press.Robert Kumpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567786012498143419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53146709804226959972011-03-17T09:12:23.609-04:002011-03-17T09:12:23.609-04:00This is a pet peeve of mine, Father, but since fer...This is a pet peeve of mine, Father, but since ferias of Lent outrank memorials, Patrick is actually only a commemoration today. It's a barely known article in the GILH, at 239. I have a blogpost on how to do commemorations in the OF if you're interested: http://etvitamanifestataest.blogspot.com/2009/12/thomas-becket.htmlcarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11331034984608859225noreply@blogger.com