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Divine Worship: Saint Andrew

30 Monday Nov 2015

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Saint Andrew the Apostle in Saint Mary’s Oratory, Wausau, WI

Deliver us, O Lord, we beseech thee, from all evils, past, present, and to come; and at the intercession of the blessed and glorious ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with thy blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and with Andrew, and all the Saints, favourably grant peace in our days, that by the help of thine availing mercy we may ever both be free from sin and safe from all distress. 

One element of the Communion Rite in Divine Worship: The Missal that has been retained from the Anglican missal tradition is the embolism, the prayer immediately following the Lord’s Prayer, and as it is found also in the older form of the Roman Rite. This short prayer, traditionally said by the Priest as he takes the paten into his right hand to collect the consecrated Host, first making the sign of the cross over himself with what Arthur Couratin, the Anglican liturgical scholar and Principal of Saint Stephen’s House, Oxford, apparently liked to call “the flash of the paten”, stands out as somewhat peculiar to ears more familiar with the amended version found in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite but, today, also for the specific reason that, together with Our Lady and Saint Peter and Saint Paul, it mentions the apostle Saint Andrew, whose feast we keep.

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Divine Worship: Pastoral Introduction

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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At the invitation of the Pastor, the following presentation was given to the parishioners of the Personal Parish of Saint Luke, Washington, D.C., a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, on the occasion of the inauguration of Divine Worship: The Missal, on the First Sunday of Advent 2015.

Collects of Divine Worship: Advent I

28 Saturday Nov 2015

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Christ in Majesty, Andrea de Giona (1424), The Cloisters, NY

Christ in Majesty, Andrea de Giona (1424), The Cloisters, NY

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead; we may rise to the life immortal; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

In the opening Collect of the liturgical year, the Church directs her prayer to God the Father in supplication, pleading his strength and his protection on the Christian faithful. In so doing Our Holy Mother lays before her children three parallels, setting the scene for the season that is upon us, and focussing our hearts and minds on the choices and tasks we must face in this privileged and holy time.

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A Bishop for the Ordinariate

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Crozier with the Annunciation, 13th century, Limoges

Some canonical considerations on the appointment of a bishop-ordinary for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

In succession to The Reverend Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson, P.A., today the Holy Father appointed The Reverend Monsignor Steven Lopes as the second ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, and its first bishop. Monsignor Steenson was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in January 2012, and led the personal ordinariate for the United States and Canada from its genesis, to a point where it boasts around forty communities, seventy clergy, a territorial deanery in Canada, an administrative and canonical infrastructure, and the facilities required (in terms of church buildings and a chancery) to establish itself permanently within the life of the Catholic Church in the United States. As he relinquishes this responsibility, the clergy and faithful of all three personal ordinariates can be grateful for his relentless work and commitment to this project, and for the example that he leaves for the development, growth, and success of the personal ordinariates as distinctive communities of Catholic life and faith, rooted in the liturgical, pastoral, and spiritual traditions of Anglicanism.

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Homily for Mass for the Dead

20 Friday Nov 2015

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Detail from stained glass window, 1245-47 (France)

The following homily was given at a Sung Mass, offered for the victims of the terrorist attacks by the Islamic State in Paris on 13 November 2015.

In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, through the action of Christ, the Church on earth becomes united in a particular way with the Church in heaven. The Church militant and the Church triumphant are one in the adoration of the fullness of God, assisted in that worship by the angels and saints. Here, also, we are one with the Church expectant; that is those who have died and now undergo the final preparation for heaven. These souls the Church rightly calls “holy” because they are in the hands of God; they are being purified by God in preparation for eternity in his presence. Through the offering of suffrage for the faithful departed, as through almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance, those of us who remain here below have an opportunity to assist these holy souls, not changing the outcome as in a bribe, but pleading God’s inevitable mercy as an act of charity on our part, for our beloved dead.

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Homily for XXIV Sunday after Trinity

14 Saturday Nov 2015

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Sacrifice in the Temple, South Netherlands, ca. 1515-24, The Cloisters, NY

Sacrifice in the Temple, Netherlands, ca. 1515-24, The Cloisters, NY

In the two months before the great season of Advent this year, the Church sets before us an extended passage from the Epistle to the Hebrews, which Pope Benedict XVI described as “a new way of understanding the Old Testament as a Book that speaks of Christ.” In a particular way, these readings set out the place of the Eucharistic sacrifice—the preeminent worship of the new covenant—in the context of the sacrifices of the old. In them we read of the role of sacrifice in the new dispensation, and of the fulfillment of the sacrifices of the old covenant, and indeed of all sacrifice, in the sacrifice of the cross, which is re-presented for us in the Eucharistic oblation. As the Council of Trent taught: “in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, that same Christ is contained and immolated in an unbloody manner, who once offered himself in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross” (Sess. xxii. cap. II.).

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Divine Worship: Anglican Patrimony

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Divine Worship: The Missal

Divine Worship: The Missal

In a recent interview with The Ordinariate Observer, Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, was asked about Divine Worship: The Missal and its relationship to the Anglican patrimony. His response was instructive, and is perhaps a useful means of understanding how the communities of the personal ordinariates will receive anew those traditions and practices which sustained their life within Anglicanism, and which have prompted within them aspirations to full communion with the Catholic Church. He said: “Anglican patrimony can be defined by as many people that happen to be in a room at that time. The Holy See helped us to define what is genuinely Catholic in these Anglican texts. Left to our own devices, we could not have defined our patrimony, simply because it is too various and too diverse; every congregation has a definition of ‘what is’ the distinctive Anglican patrimony of those they represent. Anglican patrimony was principally expressed locally, not universally. The Holy See needed to come in and help us ‘see it.’”

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Divine Worship: Significant Dates

04 Wednesday Nov 2015

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Saint Charles Borromeo and Saint Thomas More, Saint Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, MD

Ss Charles Borromeo & Thomas More, St Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore

As a sign of her conformity to Christ in the midst of the world, the Church maintains her own calendar of feasts and fasts, which mark not only the principal commemorations of the life of Christ, her Lord, but also the lives of the saints, and the turning of the annual cycle of the year. This respects, of course, the cycle of nature; a fact seen in the timing of the Ember Days and Rogations. But the calendar of the Church’s feasts, the liturgical calendar, also provides something of superstructure that guide the Christian through the year, in accord with the life of Christ and his saints, as what we might topically describe as a liturgical “pathway of accompaniment” toward sanctification in the sacramental life of grace.

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