Mese: Gennaio 2019

The Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Chattanooga, Tennessee (diocese of Knoxville)

From New Liturgical Movement site:

We recently reported on a very nice restoration project at the Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the diocese of Knoxville, in which three new altars were installed, along with a new reredos for the main sanctuary, and a good deal of carpeting removed from the church’s original hard pine flooring. A final stage of the project has now been completed, with installation of a new tabernacle in the main sanctuary, and the return of the altar rail around it. Fr J. David Carter, the pastor and rector of the basilica, wrote to his parishioners that the altar rail is being used as a way of encouraging people to kneel for the reception of Holy Communion, in the hopes that it will serve to foster belief in and greater reverence for the True Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament – feliciter!

Latin Novus Ordo Masses:

11:30 am Sun. – Sung Novus Ordo Mass in English & Latin with schola, incense, ad orientem
1:30 pm Sun. – Sung Novus Ordo Misa en Español & Latín with choir, incense, ad orientem seasonally

The Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul
214 E. 8th Street, Chattanooga Tennessee
423 266 1618
Website

“Mass Facing the People: A Good Idea?” — Fr. Schmitz

Fr. Mike Schmitz gave a talk at the 2019 FOCUS conference, and here is an excerpt:

Basically, Fr. Schmitz says celebration facing the people leads people to “sit there and watch” Mass—whereas Mass “ad orientem” reminds us we’re called to assist at Mass rather than sit as “detached and silent spectators” (as Pope Pius XI put it).

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Il card. Hume sulla Comunione nella mano

Avrei voluto dividere con altri un’inquietudine concernente la fede del nostro popolo nella Presenza reale del Cristo nell’Eucaristia. La Comunione nella mano, lo spostamento del Santissimo Sacramento dall’altar maggiore, l’assenza di genuflessione hanno, secondo la mia esperienza, indebolito il rispetto e la devozione dovuta a un così grande sacramento. I gesti esterni esprimono una disposizione interiore e, allo stesso tempo, contribuiscono a favorire l’atteggiamento adeguato.

Card. Basil Hume, in La Documentation Catholique n. 2211 del 3/10/1999.

Communion in the hand, moving the Blessed Sacrament from the high altar, failure to genuflect, have in my experience weakened the respect and devotion due to so great a sacrament.

(Catholic Herald 3rd September 1999)

In Epiphania Domini – 6 Ian 2019

Sollemnitas

Ubi sollemnitas Epiphaniæ non est de præcepto servanda, assignatur, tamquam diei proprio, dominicæ a die 2 ad diem 8 ianuarii occurrenti.

Ad Missam in Vigilia

Hæc Missa adhibetur vespere pridie sollemnitatis sive ante sive post I Vesperas Epiphaniæ.

Ant. ad introitum Cf. Bar 5, 5
Surge, Ierúsalem, et circúmspice ad oriéntem et vide
congregátos fílios tuos a solis ortu usque ad occásum.

Dicitur Glória in excélsis.

Collecta
Corda nostra, quǽsumus, Dómine,
tuae maiestátis splendor illústret,
quo mundi huius ténebras transíre valeámus,
et perveniámus ad pátriam claritátis ætérnæ.
Per Dóminum.

Dicitur Credo.

Super oblata
Súscipe, quǽsumus, Dómine, múnera nostra
pro apparitióne Unigéniti Fílii tui
et primítiis géntium dicáta,
ut et tibi celebrétur laudátio
et nobis fiat ætérna salvátio.
Per Christum.

Præfatio de Epiphania.

Ant. ad communionem Cf. Ap 21, 23
Cláritas Dei illuminávit civitátem sanctam Ierúsalem
et ambulábant gentes in lúmine eius.

Post communionem
Sacra alimónia renováti,
tuam, Dómine, misericórdiam deprecámur,
ut semper in méntibus nostris tuæ appáreat stella iustítiæ
et noster in tua sit confessióne thesáurus.
Per Christum.

Adhiberi potest formula benedictionis sollemnis.

Ad Missam in die

Ant. ad introitum Cf. Mal 3, 1; 1 Chr 29, 12
Ecce advénit Dominátor Dóminus;
et regnum in manu eius et potéstas et impérium.

Dicitur Glória in excélsis.

Collecta
Deus, qui hodiérna die Unigénitum tuum
géntibus stella duce revelásti,
concéde propítius, ut, qui iam te ex fide cognóvimus,
usque ad contemplándam spéciem tuæ celsitúdinis
perducámur.
Per Dóminum.

Ubi mos est, pro opportunitate, publicari possunt post Evangelium festa mobilia anni currentis iuxta formulam positam.

Dicitur Credo.

Super oblata
Ecclésiæ tuæ, quǽsumus, Dómine, dona propítius intuére,
quibus non iam aurum, thus et myrrha profértur,
sed quod eísdem munéribus
declarátur, immolátur et súmitur, Iesus Christus.
Qui vivit et regnat in sǽcula sæculórum.

Præfatio de Epiphania Domini.

Quando adhibetur Canon romanus, dicitur Communicántes proprium.

Ant. ad communionem Cf. Mt 2, 2
Vídimus stellam eius in Oriénte,
et vénimus cum munéribus adoráre Dóminum.

Post communionem
Cælésti lúmine, quǽsumus, Dómine,
semper et ubíque nos prǽveni,
ut mystérium, cuius nos partícipes esse voluísti,
et puro cernámus intúitu, et digno percipiámus afféctu.
Per Christum.

Adhiberi potest formula benedictionis sollemnis.

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Messalino in PDF con letture in lingua italiana (da stampare su fogli A3 fronte/retro)

Missalette in PDF with readings in English (to be printed on A3 sheets, front/back)

Præfatio de Epiphania Domini

De Christo lumine gentium

Sequens præfatio dicitur in Missis de sollemnitate Epiphaniæ. Dici potest, una cum præfationibus de Nativitate, etiam diebus post Epiphaniam usque ad sabbatum, quod præcedit festum Baptismi Domini.

V. Dóminus vobíscum.
R. Et cum spíritu tuo.
V. Sursum corda.
R. Habémus ad Dóminum.
V. Grátias agámus Dómino Deo nostro.
R. Dignum et iustum est.
Vere dignum et iustum est, æquum et salutáre,
nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere:
Dómine, sancte Pater, omnípotens ætérne Deus:
Quia ipsum in Christo salútis nostræ mystérium
hódie ad lumen géntium revelásti,
et, cum in substántia nostræ mortalitátis appáruit,
nova nos immortalitátis eius glória reparásti.
Et ídeo cum Angelis et Archángelis,
cum Thronis et Dominatiónibus,
cumque omni milítia cæléstis exércitus,
hymnum glóriæ tuæ cánimus,
sine fine dicéntes:
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus Deus Sábaoth.
Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua.
Hosánna in excélsis.
Benedíctus qui venit in nómine Dómini.
Hosánna in excélsis.

In sollemnitate Epiphaniæ, quando adhibetur Canon romanus dicitur Communicántes proprium.

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Non è pane, è Gesù. Il corretto modo di fare la comunione

di Padre Paul Cocard

Prefazione di mons. Athanasius Schneider

Ed. Fede & Cultura

La Comunione sulla lingua aiuta a mantenere la distinzione, ereditata dalla Parola di Dio e dalla Chiesa primitiva, tra il sacerdozio comune dei fedeli e il sacerdozio ministeriale. Quest’ultimo deputa il prete al compito dell’Eucaristia che ne ha dunque la custodia e la responsabilità. Durante la Messa, l’Eucaristia, la sua celebrazione e la sua distribuzione gli sono affidate. San Giovanni Paolo II aveva sottolineato che il prete ha le mani consacrate per toccare l’Eucaristia.

In questo campo, la Comunione nella mano traduce di fatto una diminuzione e anche un certo rigetto della Fede cattolica nella Presenza reale. È lontano dall’essere neutro: permette al laico di mettersi allo stesso posto del prete nel suo rapporto all’Eucaristia e di smarcarsi da un forte attestato di Fede nella presenza di Cristo sotto le apparenze del pane e del vino consacrato per non riconoscervi che un segno di comunione tra tutti i membri dell’assemblea o, per lo più, un segno di una presenza puramente spirituale del Cristo.

Twelve Things I Like About the Novus Ordo Mass

Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Like many, I’m critical of the abuses of the new Mass–the dreadful architecture, banal art, saccharine and heterodox music, poor preaching etc etc that too often has gone along with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, but my point has always been that these are abuses and when you take the Ordinary Form of the Mass–simply what’s in the book–just the words and rubrics–there’s not much wrong with it. Can there be some improvements? Sure, but I’ve asked traditionalists if they can tell me what is so terribly wrong with it–just the words in the book–not all the other abuses and things they don’t like that are associated with Vatican II.

Nobody’s given me a good answer yet.

In keeping with my own view that one should always give the benefit of the doubt and try to find what’s right rather than always find what’s wrong I thought I’d put together this list of what’s GOOD about the Novus Ordo Mass.

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It’s flexible. We’re supposed to honor Latin as the language of our church and it is easy enough to integrate a little or a lot of Latin into the Novus Ordo Mass. It is also flexible musically. You don’t have to use Haagan Daz, hootenany and soft rock music. Learn Gregorian chant and polyphony. It fits.

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It can be celebrated ad orientem, with altar rails, communion administered to the faithful kneeling and on the tongue, well-trained altar servers, good music, vestments, architecture and art. Yes, bland and banal is possible, but so is grand and glorious.

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It’s simple. The plain words and actions of the Novus Ordo provide for a celebration with noble simplicity. Just saying the black and doing the red has a down to earth dignity–not overly ornate and fancy nor banal and vulgar.
Does this mean I am against traditionalists and disapprove of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass? No. It’s good to have both and each should inform the other. A person is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies. It is possible therefore to be critical of a thing without rejecting it entirely just as it is possible to see the good in a thing without endorsing it 100%.

Read full article here.