I have a priest friend staying for the weekend: Fr Michael Cullinan who has just published a new book on ethics in St Paul. I hope to be able to publish a link to his book in due course.
Fr Cullinan will be celebrant at our principal Mass this morning, I will be deacon and my permanent Deacon, Rev Michael Baldry will be subdeacon. This will be our first Sunday High Mass as part of our normal parish schedule (I normally celebrate a Missa Cantata.) It is good to be able to do this since High Mass is the proper form of the Mass for the "extraordinary form" and I am glad that my regular congregation will be able to participate in the Mass celebrated as it should be.
We may be able to get one or two photos to post later.
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How did you guess I'd have my camera?
;-)
I hope the LMS takes notice of your TLM's new timeslots. The LMS directory of TLM's in England and Wales still lists your parish as having a SATURDAY (not Sunday) Missa Cantata.
AMDG
Dear Fr Finigan,
Your priest friend Father Cullinan has certainly chosen a great subject for a work to be published in this the Pauline Year.
I am sure he will not have forgotten the debt that Bl. Columba Marmion OSB owed to the Epistles of St Paul in virtually all the "Christ the life of...." books he wrote, particularly our adoption as sons of Christ.
I hope he has also paid tribute to the great Encyclical of Pope Benedict XV opm published on June 15th 1917 - Humani Generis Redemptionem, which becomes in its second half a description of St Paul as the model for the preacher.
Here is an extract from www.vatican.va
13. The same severity is to be shown towards those who fail to preach properly because they have neglected the acquisition of whatever is necessary for performing this function becomingly. What these conditions are We may learn from the example of him whom the Church has called "the Preacher of truth," the Apostle St. Paul. Would that by God's mercy We might have many more preachers like him!" an extract from Benedict XV's Hum. Gen. Redemptionem of 1917 AD.
In caritate Xp.,
Bryan Dunne
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Carlos - here I must make a confession. Our Sunday "Missa Cantata" is not yet complete. the choir have not as yet learnt to sing the texts from the Graduale and so there are hymns instead. I would not want someone to travel for our Mass and be disappointed. That being said, most trads in the area seem to be happy that we are nearly there.
We do have the TLM on Saturday - normally Low Mass but on the first Sunday of the month, Missa Cantata with all the texts sung by a visiting schola.
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