Today I went to the daily Mass at the Catholic Church closest to me, where the Mass is Novus Ordo and was in for a pleasant surprise at Holy Communion. I haven't been there for a few months, and today I noticed there were four portable kneelers at the front of the Church, and every person there knelt for Communion! This same priest wants to say the Traditional Latin Mass, and is training his altar servers in the responses, but he told me last fall that the main resistance is coming from the choir. Lately, I have noticed the choir singing a few hymns in Latin when I have been there for a Sunday Mass, and the Kyrie Elieson is sung now, too. Eventually, God will have His way, and there will be a Mass there said in Latin.
Priests often have to be so patient with the faithful; they encounter resistance and make small changes, just enough to make a bit of a difference, but they don't do everything all at once so that parishioners feel blind-sided. It's very similiar to how God keeps tolerating our sinfullness, all the while placing little graces in our path that are meant to bring about our conversion.
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Prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas for thanksgiving after Holy Communion
Workman's prayer to St. Joseph
Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work in a spirit of penance for the expiation of my many sins; to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my inclinations; to work with gratitude and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop, by means of labor, the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever recoiling before weariness or difficulties; to work, above all, with purity of intention, and with detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account which I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all for Mary, all after your example, O Patriarch Joseph. Such shall be my watchword in life and in death. Amen.
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O gentlest Heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed Sacrament, ever consumed with burning love for the poor captive souls in Purgatory, have mercy on the soul of your departed servant Joe. Be not severe in your judgement, but let some drops of Your Precious Blood fall upon him, and send, O merciful Savior, Your angels to conduct him to a place of refreshment, light and peace. Amen.
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Consecrated Hands
"Because out of reverence towards this sacrament, nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament." - ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologica
2 comments:
Hey! You have a great blog. Just an observation....and I may be wrong on this. You mentioned the Kyrie being sung in Latin; but I always thought that Kyrie was Greek.
Anyway, on the rare occasions that I'm at Mass and the padre sings, or chants parts of the Mass it is really a neat experience.
-Eddie in New Mexico
A pleasant surprise
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