This Sunday, English Speaking Catholics across the globe will celebrate
Sunday Eucharist using the New Roman Missal.
Salt and Light Television has created some excellent videos to help us
appreciate and adapt to the new updates and changes that we will all experience:
The St. Louis Review reports the Vatican’s top ecumenist as stating that Pope Benedict’s relaxation of the 1962 Missal (Triditine Rite) is just the beginning of the reform of the reform of the liturgy. Read the article here.
I am beginning to hear questions and to sense some real excitement about the New Roman Missal. It is hoped that here in Canada we will be able to begin using the new missal at Mass this Advent. There is some information on the New Missal on the CCCB website. Here is a brief quote, and you will be able to read all the information, if you visit this link.
“It is our intention that the date of implementation of the new Roman Missal will be the same as in the United States, but experience has taught us to urge caution in announcing the availability of any new print product on a specific date, especially one the size of the Missal….. So if it is humanly possible, we will be ready for an Advent 2011 implementation.”
I am old enough to have experienced hundreds of Tridentine Masses, but I never saw this:
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I receive a monthly email from Sister Patricia Bruno, a Dominican Sister in California. Each email explores biblical stories that are seldom heard in the liturgical lectionary. This month she focuses on Advent and the the prophet Isaiah. She concludes her recent email with these words: “I hope this article will encourage you to spend some time using the daily Mass readings for your own personal reflections and prayer. Perhaps by doing so we will become like the bird who feels the light and sings while the dawn is still dark – true Advent people!” Here is the full email for this month. Maybe you would like to get on her mailing list:
Stories Seldom Heard
124th Edition Advent December 2009
Each advent is like the dawn of a new morning. It is a time of hope, expectation, and mystery. The morning dawn is a great symbol for the light of God’s Kingdom. It begins almost invisibly amidst the darkness of the night sky. On crystal clear nights it also happens amidst the glorious twinkling of a thousand stars that inspire the human heart. Advent is a time to be inspired in time by the past, present, and future. May the days of advent be a blessing to us all, helping us to remember all that is good and loving in our lives. May they be days that teach us to wait in prayer as we journey through the darkness and the light – the good and the bad. And, may they be days that inspire hope in our hearts, trust in the Lord, and God’s loving ways. This advent may our hearts be united in joyful hope, as we pray: Lord Jesus, Come in Glory – Come Lord Jesus, Come in glory! Link to my homily thoughts for this Sunday.
