QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY
INTROIT (Ps. 30:3-4)
Be
a God of protection to me, a place of shelter to give me safety. For
You are my strength and my refuge; for Your name's sake You will lead
me and nourish me.
Ps. 30:2. In You, O Lord, have I hoped; let me never to be put to shame. In Your justice rescue me and set me free.
V. Glory be . . .
Ps. 30:2. In You, O Lord, have I hoped; let me never to be put to shame. In Your justice rescue me and set me free.
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
Hear our prayers, we beg You, O Lord. Free us from the slavery of our sins, and protect us against all adversity. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and rules with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
EPISTLE (I Cor. 13:1-13)
Brethren:
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I
should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and
have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my
goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned,
and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not
perversely, is not puffed up, Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is
not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil: Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
but rejoiceth with the truth: Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part: and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
GRADUAL (Ps. 76:15, 16)
You are the God who alone works wonders; You have made known Your power among the nations. V. With Your strong are You have freed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
TRACT (Ps. 99:1-2)
Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; serve the Lord with gladness. V. Come before Him with joyful song. Know that the Lord is God. V. He made us, not we ourselves; and we are His people, the flock He tends.
GOSPEL (Luke 18:31-43)
At that time, Jesus took unto him the twelve and said to them: "Behold,
we go up to Jerusalem; and all things shall be accomplished which
were written by the prophets concerning the Son of man. For he shall
be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit
upon. And after they have scourged him, they will put him to death.
And the third day he shall rise again."
And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid from them: and they understood not the things that were said.
Now it came to pass, when he drew nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind
man sat by the way side, begging. And when he heard the multitude
passing by, he asked what this meant. And they told him that Jesus of
Nazareth was passing by. And he cried out, saying: "Jesus, Son of
David, have mercy on me."
And they that went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace:
but he cried out much more: "Son of David, have mercy on me."
And Jesus standing, commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, he asked him, Saying; "What wilt thou that I do to thee?" But he said: "Lord, that I may see." And Jesus said to him: "Receive thy sight: thy faith hath made thee whole." And immediately he saw and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (Ps. 118:12-13)
Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your commandments. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of your mouth.
SECRET
May
this offering cleanse us from our sins, O Lord, and may it sanctify
Your servants in body and soul for the celebration of this sacrifice.
Through Our Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON (Ps. 77:29-30)
They ate, and were well filled, and the Lord gave them what they craved. They were not cheated of their desires.
POSTCOMMUNION
Almighty
God, we pray that the reception of this Bread of Heaven may
strengthen us against all adversity. Through Our Lord . . .
8 comments:
It would be nice if a brother priest could help you out! There is one who finds time to post here who could if he were a more liberal person and not so rigid
He’s afraid of tripping over his own maniple.
Anonymous4EF / Kavanaugh
Per the rubrics, you don't wear the maniple on your leg. Thanks for your wonderful substantive contribution. In other words, you are too rigid to help.
Dear TJM,
Anonymous4EF stands for Anonymous for the Extraordinary Form.
I won't reveal my secret identity for fear of retaliation/retribution from the anti-TLM crowd in the Savannah diocese and the Augusta deanery. I am a layperson and one of the remnant in Augusta who can't get enough of the TLM and would love to see its restoration full-time in Augusta. I have known Fr. Kavanaugh (a.k.a. Anonymous-on-steroids or Pater Ignotus), since he was the parochial vicar at St. Mary's on-the-Hill thirty+ years ago. Doing a self-assessment, I would say I'm at the opposite end of the Catholic religious spectrum from him.
In all honesty, I agree with your posts about 99.99% of the time. Many times they put a smile on my face or cause me to have a good laugh especially when you comment about you know who (almost sounds like a Dr. Seuss character).
Pax vobiscum!
Addendum: The "he" in my March 2 post I was referring to was Fr. Kavanaugh. It was an oblique reference to his dislike/disdain for all things maniple.
I have just returned from Mass for Quinquagesima Sunday. It was held in a fairly modern church on the outskirts of Bedford and was at the fairly early hour of 8.30 am. It is celebrated by an FSSP priest and the idea is to have it sung on most Sundays. The parish is Novus Ordo but the EF attracts a good congregation; mostly on the young side and with many families.
I am helping out with the chant once a month and we are making progress, but I can't commit to a particular parish since my services are in demand in other places. The desire for the traditional Mass tends to outstrip the number of singers and servers available. As more young priests want to celebrate it, this problem will be exacerbated.
Traditionally-minded Catholics need to be more pro-active (sorry, an awful neologism). Don't simply accept the crap that goes on in your local parish. Parochialism did not survive the invention of the motor-car. Exercise choice and discernment, and take your money with you.
Father,
I was at the cathedral today and you did a beautiful job celebrating the holy sacrifice of the mass.
By the way who was that other young priest who assisted? It wasn’t Father Larkin but another.
By the way I didn’t post this but last week the paper of record “NY Times” wrote that 30-40 percent of priests are sodomites, which lines up with the Apocalypse when 1/3 of the stars will fall from heaven. I once heard Mother Angelica years ago make that correlation. What does the church teach when explaining the meaning of that verse?
Enjoy your day off tomorrow.
Pax Christi
Anonymous 4EF,
Please accept my apologies confusing you with the artful dodger, Kavanaugh, whose contribution to this blog is mocking the Faithful through his use of various "nom de plumes."
I was at an EF today where over 200 Hispanic grade school children were present - the progressives worst nightmare.
I grew up with the EF and was trained by the Holy Cross Sisters who in those days were wonderful teachers - I learned by the time I was 10 years old to chant, by heart, 5 Latin ordinaries. When the "reforms", "deforms" or whatever you wish to call them arrived, I saw no need for the changes in the Mass which flowed from Vatican Disaster II which did a far superior job in destroying the unity of the Faith than Martin Luther and the rest of the religious revolutionaries of the 16th century could have imagined.
I truly believe, that unless the OF is reformed to be more like the EF, the Novus Ordo Church is on life support and may not last another couple of generations. The religious vitality is with the young priests and laity who have rediscovered the EF. I thank God every day that I have lived long enough to be able to attend the EF, the Mass of my youth, which is spiritually superior to the Novus Ordo, in the words of Benedict XVI:
The liturgical reform, in its concrete realization, has distanced itself even more from its origin. The result has not been a reanimation, but devastation. In place of the liturgy, fruit of a continual development, they have placed a fabricated liturgy. They have deserted a vital process of growth and becoming in order to substitute a fabrication. They did not want to continue the development, the organic maturing of something living through the centuries, and they replaced it, in the manner of technical production, by a fabrication, a banal product of the moment. (Ratzinger in Revue Theologisches, Vol. 20, Feb. 1990, pgs. 103-104)
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