Posted on 05/25/2005 7:48:08 AM PDT by ELS
Ping to thread and post #19.
(I shouldn't rag on 'em so hard, now that I'm not one any more, but it just comes so naturally that the words are out of my mouth (or off my fingers) before I know it . . . < g > )
I checked out the Vatican site for Papal Office for Liturgical Celebrations and checking the archives, looks like, at least from 2000 to 2004, the Solemnity was celebrated on Thursday.
Thanks! Let's pray (and possibly write to him) that Pope Benedict extends this to the entire Church!
I checked EWTN's programming schedule on their Web site and they will NOT be airing anything from Rome tomorrow. :-(
I remember Someone saying something about "a sign of contradiction" ...
But they're airing the Mass and Procession.
SOLEMN MASS OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
ST. JOHN LATERAN SQUARE
PROCESSION TO SAINT MARY MAJOR,
EUCHARISTIC BENEDICTION [3 hours] LIVE
Thursday May 26, 2005 1:00 PM LIVE
Thursday May 26, 2005 10:00 PM ENCORE
Friday May 27, 2005 3:00 AM ENCORE
Yes, it's definitely going to be a discipline to have a little charity for the benighted Anglicans...LOL!
A lot of holy days were moved or abolished by the episcopal conferences with the authority they have in Canon 1246.
I imagine the Vatican is not part of any national conference so they set their own calendar. And they probably have a higher percentage of parishoners willing and able to fulfill a mid-week obligation.
Episcopalians don't celebrate the Feast of the Corpus Christi, do they Mother? (you've become my Liturgical Mentor, hate to tell you) I don't think we've ever covered it in the church I went to. I don't remember ever having heard of it.
Now that I'm going Roman Catholic, I find it's kind of a big deal. Parade at the Cathedral, special mass at my new regular parish, where I will be singing in my first mass with the choir this Sunday.
But the parade is at 7:00 a.m. so the secular world won't be very aware of it, especially since not many people live around the cathedral.
What's the name of that parade they do in NYC where they have that huge tower and the crews of men take turns carrying it and turning it around and stuff? That's not this feast, is it?
Great! Thank you for finding it. They didn't have it listed on the page for Special May Programming in the Program Schedules section of the site.
I'm finding it easier to have charity for Anglicans everytime I read an article about a Catholic Father who lets his dogs observe the Solemn Mass, or some of the other insanity that goes on. I sure am glad to be out though!
Okay, dare I ask what constitutes "observing" (*cringes, visions of doggie biscuits floating in my head*)?
Not to take the thread off topic, but I'm really surprised to see Pope Benedict traveling in the popemobile (I really hate that word!) without the bullet-proof glass. Matter of fact, it worries me a bit...
They sleep by the altar. One parishioner said they would crisply follow him from side to side and back and forth as he prepares the Eucharist. They've even been known to growl at people coming in late. One person said "It's cool." I think it's disrespectful and distracting.
If it was Episcopalian though, he'd probably be giving them the Host.
That's the newer Protestant/Hebrew numbering, as opposed to the Catholic numbering in the Vulgate.
Thanks for the picture. I have fond memories of attending Mass at St. Aloysius when I was in Oxford in '96. The Mass was in Latin, with the congregation giving the responses in Latin.
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