Today's Lunacy from the Lil' Licit Liturgy began when the visiting priest, Fr Steve Olds (Faculty member at St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fl.) started shaking hands with pew dwellers in the back of the church while a woman in the sanctuary read for a bit from the bulletin that is available for all to read for themselves after the Lil' Licit Liturgy anyways.
He and the Deacon then walked down the aisle silently - no communal reading of today's antiphon - and when he stood behind the altar he happily greeted us all and asked if there were any visitors and a woman raised her hand and Fr Olds asked her where she was from
New York
In the city or the state ?
Long Island
Ooooo....That really is New York...Who else ?
Man standing: I'm from Kentucky
Louisville or Lexington?
No, ABS is not joking but he was fuming...
The real beginning of Mass in the Real Mass savors of a different sort of spirituality..
From Fish Eaters:
The priest genuflects at the foot of the Altar and recites the "Júdica Me," a part of Psalm 42 written by an Israelite priest 800 years before our Lord was born and which speaks of his yearning to worship on the holy hill of Jerusalem. The Júdica Me is omitted from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday inclusive and in Masses for the Dead.
Then he will say the Confiteor, confessing and begging God's forgiveness for his sins. The server, speaking for the people -- the unordained royal priesthood -- then says the Confiteor on our behalf as we mentally accuse ourselves of our sins and ask the Saints to pray for us. The priest then absolves us (this does not obviate private Confession). | |
Kneel
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In nómine Patris, et Fílii, + et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.
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In the Name of the Father, + and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Introíbo ad altáre Dei. S.Ad Deum qui lætíficat juventútem meam.
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I will go in unto the Altar of God. S.To God, Who giveth joy to my youth.
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The priest joins hands and says:
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Júdica me, Deus, et discérne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab hómine iníquo, et dolóso érue me.
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Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
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S.Quia tu es, Deus, fortitúdo mea: quare me repulísti, et quare tristis incédo, dum afflígit me inimícus?
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S.For Thou, O God, art my strength: why hast Thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflictech me?
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P.Emítte lucem tuam, et veritátem tuam: ipsa me deduxérunt, et aduxérunt in montem sanctum tuum, et in tabernácula tua.
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P.Send forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have led me and brought me unto Thy holy hill, and into Thy tabernacles.
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S.Et introíbo ad altáre Dei: ad Deum qui lætíficat juventútem meam.
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S.And I will go in unto the Altar of God: unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth.
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P.Confitébor tibi in cíthara, Deus, Deus meus: quare tristis es, ánima mea, et quare contúrbas me?
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P.I will praise Thee upon the harp, O God, my God: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?
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S.Spera in Deo, quóniam adhuc confitébor illi: salutáre vultus mei, et Deus meus.
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S.Hope thou in God, for I will yet praise Him: Who is the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
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P.Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
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P.Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
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S.Sicut erat in princípio et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.
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S.As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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P.Introíbo ad altáre Dei.
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P.I will go in unto the Altar of God.
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S.Ad Deum qui lætíficat juventútem meam.
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S.Unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth.
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Adjutórium nostrum + in nómine Dómini.
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Our help + is in the Name of the Lord.
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S.Qui fecit cælum et terram.
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S.Who hath made heaven and earth.
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| Confiteor by the Priest first, and then the People: And then it was time for today's Gospel (Lazarus) and the Deacon told us all to sit down (because we were exhausted from not having stood or kneeled at all so far) and he read it and Fr Olds launched into a recapitulation of Gen McArthur being forced to flee the Philippines but he promised to be back but while he was gone death march, prison, etc and when the Americans returned and released the captives from prison one remarked We thought you had forgotten us and the liberating soldier said We never forgot you and so Jesus never forgot Lazarus or us because he had Hope... No, not kidding. A Faculty member at the local seminary thinks Jesus had Hope and he thinks that because the modern seminarians are taught that Jesus was a man who did not always really know what was going on and had to struggle etc just like we do. Fr Olds prolly thinks Jesus also had Faith... So Lazarus Gospel is not about Jesus giving witness to His Divinity with His power over life and death, but being a precursor to Gen McArthur and freeing men from prison... O, and of course we are told that Martha reproved Jesus for letting Lazarus die.. Yeah, right: Ver. 21.—Then said Martha unto Jesus, &c. Because I know Thee to be so powerful, that Thou art able to drive away death, and to love both him and us so well, that Thou wouldest not have permitted him to die. In her grief, says Chrysostom, she silently, but reverently, seems to blame Christ for coming too late. But rather in fact she accuses herself, that she had not sent the messenger sooner to Christ; or generally, she bewails and laments His absence, as we lament a casual absence of the physician, if, while he is absent, death takes place. O, and because of fear of the Jews - ever ancient, ever new- we are not told of how it was that Jesus' raising Lazarus from dead sealed His fate from His own chosen people: But some of them went their ways, &c. S. Augustine doubts whether they did this with good or evil intention; whether to announce to them that they might believe, or to betray Him that they might use severity, as says the Gloss. For they might do this with a good intention, namely, in order that the Pharisees, if they could not bring themselves to believe in Christ, should at least have a milder disposition towards Him, as Origen is of opinion. But all others think that they did it with an evil intention. Theophilus and Leontius add that they intended to accuse Christ as being sacrilegious, and even so far as that He had dug up the body of a dead person. Great then was their malice and malignity, with which they repaid Christ for so great a benefit, [inflicting on Him] so great an outrage—for a miracle blasphemy, for life death; since they denounced Him to the Pharisees to be condemned to the cross. | |