A rare photo, as in the only one, of my first Solemn Mass as Principal Celebrant at St. Joseph Church, Augusta, where I made my First Holy Communion and was Confirmed, for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, June 8, 1980:
June 8, 1980 fell on a Sunday and my first solemn Mass as the principal celebrant was for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. My second brain teaser: how many times has Corpus Christi, on Sunday, fallen on June 8th since 1980?
Today, June 8, 2024 is the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary which always falls on the Saturday following the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. My third brain teaser: how many times has June 8th, since 1980 fallen on the Saturday of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
7 comments:
One, two, five...no, three!!! (a few readers will get that one, the stranger readers)
If you go to http://www.easterbrooks.com/personal/cal_v2/index.php you can flip through the years, noting when the feast occurs.
And if you'd like to know what offices and masses with correct prefaces/propers were being said on those dates in any of the Latin mass rubrics from Tridentine up to 1960 USA calendar, and translated into any of the major European languages, you can plug in the dates and select rubrics at https://www.divinumofficium.com/
in case you'd like to know, for instance, what was being said that day in Magyar if a Hungarian used the USA calendar.
This is off-topic and I apologize as I don't like doing this, however, this piece is a concise and reasonable read regarding much of what's posted and discussed on this blog. It's a simple question to a priest that lacks demands for statistics, or the tiresome propagandist quote assembly that so far out of context could mean, really anything. These seem like real people dealing with a real world Catholic issue of preference.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/help-i-am-constantly-arguing-with-my-tridentine-rite-loving-granddaughter-who-wants-to-turn-the-clock-back-a-priest-answers-your-questions/
ByzRus, I thought that a very deft handling of a judgemental older revolutionary who preached "spirit of the Council" but who likely never read the Council documents...
and a very true read that youth are not finding God in modern worship and instruction...but then, the revolution happened because that was largely also true in the parishes of the old rite....
I hope the practitioners of the old rite today keep those failures in mind and do not repeat history, or the youth will again find it only fancier emptiness, taking only longer to find the hollow core.
As for the grandmother writing that, she likely is not old enough to have been one of the dissatisfied with the Latin mass revolutionaries, but more likely one of the parish youth bored by poorly explained worship and aims, suffering through rote and overjoyed at the then new freshness and togetherness of the new rite practices....
She never did get around to expressing her own desolation at the local parish collapse and how it mainly only old folk like her still there, and feeling betrayed by youth abandoning her and the parish, and thinking THAT the problem and blaming the Latin mass for robbing the parish of vitality and continuity.
Bob,
I agree, however, I thought this to be a simple "us vs them" scenario that so many needless liturgical wars had become.
To be sure:
If I look at the Church through a Roman lens, I'm very much a traditionalist.
If I look at my Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Church through a Byzantine lens, I'm not a traditionalist. It is as it always was prior to the 1950s and 1960s and is how it will be. There's nothing to ruminate over. Yes, we recovered what should never have been removed, however, I have no recollection of ever hearing anyone want to change anything. We're all very much at peace with our ancient faith, most are protective of it and most love the liturgy. We are therefore free in ways Romans do not remember to focus on our spirituality and study. In fact, our Eparchy and the Archeparchy have ordained over 12 men to the major orders this year - all married as was our practice. This includes a very good friend of mine who was just raised to the presbyterate. I'm hoping the same for another. We are becoming so orthodox that the only real difference between us and the Orthodox are litanies, a few regional differences and the commemoration pope vs patriarch. My point? We're not distracted. See the difference?
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