We have come to the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost in the Usus Antiquior, the Vetus Ordo. Pius Parsch (+1954) saw in the Sundays after Pentecost a progressive schooling in Christian life. The earlier Sundays dwell frequently upon healing, the middle portion upon the conflict between God’s reign and the dominion of sin, and the later…
Many welcomed the Novus Ordo and bad architecture, but the history if more complicated than you think.
Pius Parsch observed that the Sundays after Pentecost may be viewed in three movements. The first draws attention to Christ’s healings and, through them, to the salvation of souls. The second, from the Seventh through the Fourteenth Sunday, sets God’s kingdom against the world. The final group turns toward the Parousia. The Ninth Sunday belongs…
A peek into the liturgical culture of our forefathers.
The Mass of the 8th Sunday after Pentecost sets before us the household of God and the household of this world, the inheritance promised to sons and the account demanded of stewards, the freedom of those led by the Spirit and the anxious calculations of those who live according to the flesh. The Collect, Epistle,…
The liturgy of the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost places a mirror before the soul and asks a question which cannot be evaded by ecclesiastical position, good intentions, or outward appearance: what fruit is being borne? The Epistle, Gospel, chants, Collect, and Postcommunion converge upon the same point. There are two servitudes, two harvests, two ends.…
Remembered for confirming the decrees of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
On the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, Holy Church brings us to the school of tough love. As Pius Parsch observed, the recent Sundays have shown God’s love inviting us, seeking us, and bestowing instruments of His mercy. The Good Shepherd has Fishers of Men. Now, after the image of divine love has gone out in…
We continue our project of delving into the texts for Holy Mass on the 4th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite, where the Apostle to the Gentiles gives us a vision of all creation groaning toward liberty and the Evangelist shows us Peter falling at the knees of Christ. The…
In the older Roman calendar, the Sundays after Pentecost have a way of placing us again and again before the same immense fact: the whole Christian life is lived between two waters. At the beginning, “the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of…
The fiery tongues of Pentecost have fallen. The ancient Ember Days have passed behind us. Trinity Sunday has crowned the revelation of the God who is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Corpus Christi has placed before our eyes the living Bread descended from heaven. In a handful of days, the Sacred Heart will show us…
