This Sunday we observe the Feast of the Transfiguration rather than the “green” Sunday after Pentecost, being the 10th. This Feast of the Transfiguration has a complicated history. First, in Rome there were celebrated on 6 August the feast of the martyrs Pope Sixtus II and six of his deacons, slain that day in the…
For the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, we hear in the Vetus Ordo a reading from 1 Corinthians. Paul is correcting the behavior of the Corinthians using, in this chapter, examples from the history of Israel, moments when God sent punishments to correct the people who had gone astray and who displeased Him. For example, there…
This Sunday, the 8th after Pentecost, brings us an Epistle or first reading in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Latin Mass, from the Apostle to the Gentiles’ Letter to the Romans 8: 12-17. We have already seen some context for Romans in previous offerings. We have already had a look into a possible thematic flow…
Listen up you soldier slaves! Get yourselves squared away.
Context is important. We’ve been over the ground we tread before, regarding the liturgical season and the Letter Paul wrote to the Romans. However, here is something from Dom Prosper Guéranger about the flow this time of year: It is to the Romans that are addressed today’s inspired instructions of the great apostle. For the…
Our journey through the liturgical year in the Vetus Ordo continues this week with out look into the Epistle reading for Holy Mass on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. For the last weeks we have been giving strong images of Christ as, for example, Good Shepherd. In a sense, the images are “outside” of us…
Stick that in your demonic Pachamama pantheism and smoke it.
We continue with our task of opening up something of the riches of the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the tried and true Traditional Roman Rite which stengthen virtually all the Roman Church’s saints whom we now venerate. As always, we look at context. A major shift has taken place…
No! Unworthy Communions hurt all of us who are members of the Body of Christ.
Holy Trinity Sunday is “a synthesis of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost."
Our task this year is to look into the first reading for Holy Mass on Sunday celebrated with the Roman Catholic Church’s venerable and always legitimate and appropriate and contemporary and fruitful and ever alluring and awesome Vetus Ordo. We come to Pentecost at last, that major bookend, with its Octave, to the Pre-Lenten Sundays…
