I think this is a beautiful Mass and if parishes had Masses like this, the post-Vatican II period would not have been so liturgically awful.
The Epiphany Proclamation is great too!
I like the altar candlesticks although the 7th one is absent. However, due to optical illusions concerning some camera angles, the candlesticks look misarranged or odd, depending on that camera angle.
Pope on Epiphany: Like the Magi may we dream, seek and adore
By Vatican News staff writer
In his homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis spoke about the pilgrimage of the Magi going to Bethlehem and what motivated them.
He recalled that they were wise men, famous and wealthy, yet they let themselves be unsettled by desiring to find the Christ Child and the sign of the star guiding them. They were filled with expectation, he noted, and "seekers after God."
This "spirit of healthy restlessness" was "born of desire," the Pope noted, saying their secret was this capacity to "fuel the fire that burns within us," looking beyond the immediate and visible.
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It's great to see the Gentili candlesticks again (aside from 1 January, this must be their first trip out of the St Peter's treasury since Pope Benedict's papacy). There were only ever six candlesticks in the set, probably because the matching altar cross would have been far too big to have a candle in front of it: there's a picture of it here:
http://www.giovannirinaldi.it/page/museum/roma_museotesorosanpietro/image43.htm
The candlesticks would look magnificent in a straight line, but they're much too ornate and chunky at the base to work in the diagonal arrangement.
I agree that this is a beautiful Mass. Saying that, I cannot understand why we, in our respective dioceses, cannot have the same form of worship.
It's your bishops who have 'moved' Epiphany - nothing to do with the Pope. Ours did the same, but when Epiphany fell one year on 2 Jan. (aka Eighth Night) it generated a backlash which enentually persuaded their Lordships to rescind their questionable decision. So this year on 2 Jan. we had the Mass of the Second Sunday after Christmas 'Dum medium silentium'.
Likewise the anomaly of Ascension Thursday Sunday was removed, which (ironically) brought us back into line with the Anglican Church which in this instance had stuck with tradition.
Was it kosher for me to celebrate the Solemnity of Ephiphany at our daily Mass this morning and in the USA we commemorated Saint Andre Bisset which I did as the conclusion to the Universal Prayer. Otherwise it simply would have been a Mass after Epiphany.
If the pope can celebrate Epiphany today, why not me?
You’re not the Pope, but sympathize with your position
Transferring Epiphany is permissible in the EF but not obligatory, so the neat solution would be to celebrate according to the 1962 Missal. When your bishops realize that transferring feasts actually encourages celebrations in the EF (it certainly did in England) they might change their minds and restore the correct days.
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