Posted on 09/18/2003 7:38:48 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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As an aside, my NO pastor did an excellent job with the Confirmandi on Monday evening, explaining each part of the mass. He included the priest's vestments, describing the colors that accompany each liturgical season, and the names for each garment. Afterwards, I asked him if the NO priests say vesting prayers as they dress. He smiled and said he sometimes does, when he is vesting for mass at the Provincial House for the St. Joe sisters across the street. That is because they have the prayers written on plaques in the Sacristy. "What a shame", I thought since these prayers are quite beautiful and exquisitely meaningful. Interestingly, the NO priest does not wear the amice - NOTE the prayer that accompanies it. :->
When washing the hands:
Give virtue to my hands, O Lord, that being cleansed from all stain I might serve you with purity of mind and body.
With the amice:
Place upon me, O Lord, the helmet of salvation, that I may overcome the assaults of the devil.
With the alb:
Purify me, O Lord, and cleanse my heart; that, being made white in the Blood of the Lamb, I may come to eternal joy.
With the cincture:
Gird me, O Lord, with the girdle of purity, and extinguish in me all evil desires, that the virtue of chastity may abide in me.
With the maniple:
Grant, O Lord, that I may so bear the maniple of weeping and sorrow, that I may receive the reward for my labors with rejoicing.
With the stole:
Restore unto me, O Lord, the stole of immortality, which was lost through the guilt of our first parents: and, although I am unworthy to approach Your sacred Mysteries, nevertheless grant unto me eternal joy.
With the chasuble:
O Lord, Who said: My yoke is easy and My burden light: grant that I may bear it well and follow after You with thanksgiving. Amen.
BTW, cover story in the current issue of The Wanderer - "Why I Favor Our Superiors Legalizing Our Situation in the Church" - an interview with Fr. Aulagnier.
No, and yes, but no causes found.
I'm sure an unbeliever would immediately suspect some Church conspiracy to embalm the bodies, then pretend they didn't.
Yes. Always a conspiracy for those folks. As though enbalming could perfectly preserve a body for hundreds or hundreds and a thousand of years.
Look at St. Silvan here.
Don't get me wrong...I would be absolutely elated to have it undeniably demonstrated that the bodies of some saints--and only saints--are incorruptible for no discernable natural cause. I just think I need to take a good, hard look at it before I accept it. In that, I believe I'm following the position of the Church on miracles.
Many people who have not yet been declared saints are also incorrupt. We have a local here near Philadelphia recently found thus - Mother Therese of Coopersburg.
But all the incorrupt bodies I have heard of are among Catholic and Orthodox Christians. The most recent incorruptibles as far as I can determine are St. John Maximovich, Orthodox Bishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, and martyred Ukranian Catholic Bishop Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, C.Ss.R.
I take this presence among Catholics and Orthodox as a sign of the graces available from the Sacraments. It should also confound those who love to preserve the seperation of the two Churches.
There is also this fascinating photo of St. John Maximovich surrounded by the uncreated light of the Almighty. This light is the origin of saints "halos".
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