tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post6008992693938299907..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: POPE FRANCIS CELEBRATES DIVINE MERCY OUTDOOR MASSFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-31546712005504409102016-04-05T09:12:15.379-04:002016-04-05T09:12:15.379-04:00Communion in the hand? Why, that is how it was don...Communion in the hand? Why, that is how it was done in the early Church...so I guess you had better take your complaint to the early Church fathers. Distribution of communion has varied in both the East and West over the centuries...that is a small "t" tradition, not a big "T" one like the Trinity, Virgin Birth, apostolic succession and the like....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-29412452398972932982016-04-03T17:49:19.834-04:002016-04-03T17:49:19.834-04:00That's true - the candles are best on the alta...That's true - the candles are best on the altar, not next to it. It makes a versus populum Mass look more... Catholic. :)Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-32728777751552285422016-04-03T17:47:22.855-04:002016-04-03T17:47:22.855-04:00Communion in the hand. Lots of vernacular. The C...Communion in the hand. Lots of vernacular. The Church of Rome. Unbelievable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-79945629518762029972016-04-03T17:06:48.649-04:002016-04-03T17:06:48.649-04:00Does your parish altar have Pope Francis' alta...Does your parish altar have Pope Francis' altar arrangement yet??????<br /><br />Yours doesn't !!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-85234740108789992412016-04-03T16:46:24.534-04:002016-04-03T16:46:24.534-04:00His Mercy endures forever.
The Divine and Mercifu...<br />His Mercy endures forever.<br /><br />The Divine and Merciful Sun has risen with rays of spiritual and grace filled light which shine forth with an everlasting splendor far greater than that of any earthly luminance. By the grace of God are the clouds of sin over us parted so that we can benefit from the the light of the Divine Son. By His Mercy and to our benefit, God allows the Divine sunlight to penetrate to us only so much in accordance with our state of spiritual readiness.<br /><br />God created the earth in six days and having created man, rested on the seventh. Now God knowing His Divine plan, saw present before His Divine Majesty the Eighth day in which the light of the Eternal Sun would rise in splendor on that Glorious morn of the New Day of Salvation. Christ, the Son of God, would come forth as the Divine Light in triumph over the darkness of sin and death, coming forth from the darkness of the tomb.The Son of God came into our existence, the Light of the New Day of Salvation, in order to bring man out of the darkness of the Night of Sin. Our God is Love, and by His Divine Mercy and Holy Will, His love is made manifest. What is mercy but love in action?. Merciful is our God, whose death slew death, so that those faithful to Him could be glorified into Eternal life.<br /><br />Just as Christ came forth from His mother in the darkness of a cave on that Glorious and Holy morn, so to He came forth from the the darkness of the tomb at His Resurrection, the Eternal Sun rising in splendor on that resplendent morn in the New Day of Salvation. And so Christ came forth- the Divine Light, in triumph over the darkness of sin and death. He came forth, just as at the beginning Creation came forth, to fill the void of darkness. The light of created things brought illumination to dispel the darkness that was there. "All things came to be through Him and without Him nothing came to be. What came through Him was life and this life was the light of the human race. The light shines in the darkness,and the darkness has not overcome it" Just as at the beginning, the physical matter of Creation expanded and brought light to the darkness, so also Christ, in the form of His teachings and disciples, would expand from the darkness of the tomb to fill the earth with His Divine Light and Mercy.<br /><br /><br /><br />Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809499822558662728noreply@blogger.com