tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72987875779525466602024-03-13T17:55:07.546-04:00PeregrinationsPEREGRINATIONS - Canadian Catholic Perspectives and Reflections by members of the PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.comBlogger686125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-35471697262001285012023-04-10T10:33:00.002-04:002023-04-10T10:33:55.938-04:00AN EASTER HOMILY - A REASON TO HOPE <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">April 9, 2023 <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>STM Toronto<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The first witnesses of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ maintain that the same Jesus who had been brutally and unmistakably put to death and buried was, through the power of God and the grace of hope, alive again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">This is the essence of the historical claim of Christianity to eternal hope.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The crucified Jesus was not vaguely “with God,” nor had his soul escaped from his body; nor had he risen in a purely symbolic or metaphorical sense. He, Yeshoua from Nazareth, the friend whom they knew, was alive again. What devout Jews hoped for all the righteous dead was that, at the end of time, they would be found with God in the general resurrection. But this resurrection had happened, <b><u>in time</u>,</b> to this one particular man, to Jesus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">It was the complete novelty of the event that gave such energy to the first Christian proclamation. On practically every page of the New Testament, we find the early Christians were not trading in bland spiritual abstractions. They were telling the world that something so new and astounding had happened that nothing would ever again be the same. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Over the past couple of centuries, many thinkers, both inside and outside of the Church, have endeavored to reduce the resurrection message to the level of myth or symbol. Easter, they argue, Is one more iteration of the “springtime saga” that can be found, in one form or another, in most cultures, namely, that life triumphs over death in the “resurrection” of nature after the bleak months of winter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Or, is it a symbolic way of saying that the cause of Jesus lives on in his followers. But as, C.S. Lewis keenly observed, those who think the resurrection story is a myth haven’t read many myths. Mythic literature deals in ahistorical archetypes, and so speaks of things that happened “once upon a time” or “in a galaxy far, far away.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But the Gospels don’t use that sort of language. In describing the resurrection, they mention particular places like Judea and Jerusalem, and specify that the event took place when Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of the region, and name distinct individuals: Peter, John, Thomas, who encountered Jesus after he rose from the dead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">No one dies defending a myth. The myths of Greece and Rome are powerful and illuminating but there are no martyrs to Zeus or Dionysus or Osiris. But practically all of the first heralds of the resurrection went to their deaths defending the truth of their message. <b>Christ is risen</b>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">What does the resurrection of Christ <b><i>mean</i></b> then? What does it mean to history and to humanity? It means, first, that the customary manner in which we understand the relationship between order and violence—from the Epic of Gilgamesh to “Game of Thrones”—has to be rethought. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">On the standard <i>Realpolitik</i> reading of things, order comes about through the violent imposition of strength. And if that order is lost or compromised, it must be restored through an answering violence. This is, as many view it – <b>the way of the world.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">When the risen Jesus presented himself alive to his disciples, they were, we are told, afraid. Their fear might not have been simply a function of their seeing something uncanny; it might have been grounded in the assumption that he was back for vengeance. However, after showing his wounds, the risen Jesus said to his friends, “Shalom,” Peace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The teacher who had urged his followers to turn the other cheek and to meet violence with forgiveness exemplified his own teaching in the most vivid way possible. And what he shows us, thereby, is that the divine manner of establishing order does not have violence, retribution, or an eye-for-an-eye retaliation at its heart. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Instead, Jesus radiates a love and forgiveness which swallows up hate, with forgiveness which triumphs over aggression. It is this great resurrection principle of hope which, explicitly or implicitly, undergirded the liberating work of saints like Pope Saint John Paul II in Poland. He was able to stand athwart the received wisdom only because he had opted for the way of love and hope. Jesus was going with the deepest meaning, operating in concert with the purposes of God: faith, hope and love. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Secondly, the resurrection means that God has not given up on creation – there is hope for humankind. According to the well-known account in the book of Genesis, God made the whole array of finite things—sun, moon, planets, stars, animals, plants, things that creep and crawl on the earth—and found it all good, even very good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">All that God has made reflects some aspect of goodness and all created things together constitute a beautiful and tightly-woven tapestry of hope. As the Old Testament lays out the story, human sin made a wreck of God’s creation, turning the garden into a desert. But the faithful God kept sending rescue operation after rescue operation: Noah’s Ark, the Prophets, the Law, and the Temple, even the people of Israel itself. There is always hope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Finally, God entered his own Creation as the Word or Logos, the perfect icon or incarnation of meaning and love. In raising the Incarnate Son from the dead, God has definitively saved and ratified creation, very much including the material dimension of it (which is why it matters that Jesus was raised bodily from death). Over and again we, God’s creatures, have said no to the goodness of creation; but God insistently says yes. Inspired by this divine yes, we always have a reason to <b>hope</b> in the Resurrection – Alleluia Christ is risen! He is risen indeed.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-29491284625238300562023-03-06T13:13:00.002-05:002023-03-06T13:13:39.534-05:00Thanksgiving for Housing - Novena to St. Joseph<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdDV1rgVb8rkqZQe5VVL3AohRtmeMWoU9WcWgl1r9Nn0c6VMCEBMwZ7XOPvVSCD0faKjHXwUwEfMvDoPCHvDxYkWusEnE_NW2wFA5IrI19_ETAJVJRTE324Qx_vBdMytG-g_BJ6hbGrgdqcTcCaMgGfsuwQy421AYKh4LM4lpOwz0lpsiwf-u9Tx8/s540/holy%20house%20olw.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="347" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdDV1rgVb8rkqZQe5VVL3AohRtmeMWoU9WcWgl1r9Nn0c6VMCEBMwZ7XOPvVSCD0faKjHXwUwEfMvDoPCHvDxYkWusEnE_NW2wFA5IrI19_ETAJVJRTE324Qx_vBdMytG-g_BJ6hbGrgdqcTcCaMgGfsuwQy421AYKh4LM4lpOwz0lpsiwf-u9Tx8/w408-h634/holy%20house%20olw.jpeg" width="408" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Holy House at the Shrine of </i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><i>Our Lady of Walsingham, Englan</i>d</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are thankful to report that Jane and I (Fr. John) have found rental housing in a very central location on Bloor Street East, Toronto. </span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This will allow Jane and me to continue working over the coming year as we move into retirement. By the grace of God, in May 2023 I begin my 72nd year after completing 10 years of service to the OCSP at St. Thomas More, Toronto. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Thank you for joining in prayer with the Novena to St. Joseph, Patron Saint of Canada and of those in need of housing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The Novena continues from March 10 to 19 (see text below). God's grace has been apparent from the outset and, indeed, has anticipated the nine days of the novena providing housing for us in a truly blessed way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Saint Joseph and Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p></p></div>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-38647316728889448712022-12-28T11:14:00.003-05:002023-03-06T13:16:38.745-05:00Novena to St. Joseph -- For all those in need of housing<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">NOVENA TO SAINT JOSEPH March 10 to 19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">An old and beautiful invocation of the prayers of Saint Joseph is traditionally prayed for nine days before the Feast of Saint Joseph, starting on March 10. It is found in many places. The full text was released in 1950 with the Imprimatur of the Bishop of Pittsburgh, Hugh C. Boyle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here is an abbreviated and edited form of the prayer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, we place in you all our interests and desires.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Saint Joseph, assist us by your powerful intercession, and obtain for us from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord; so that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, we may offer thanksgiving and homage to the most Loving of Fathers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">O Saint Joseph, we never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Saint Joseph, Patron of Canada, those in need of housing and of departed souls – pray for us. (Mention your intention) Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaadeodXk1TYkQUDR5dDIgAS8ajlsciQcae3MKVRQVCLfDIqYyWL3qGSKbvDMP3hD4Ika2XqHNnWmBxwWsdt2qmfDh4kg8PRWaGRYI_tv64swLwgh2D6t4FR7blnJA_rFpz_92GABrXzM42VWEC_abEv99PbzXM7IgosS5es0pWLhQ9oms9RiYsbu3mg/s540/holy%20house%20olw.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="347" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaadeodXk1TYkQUDR5dDIgAS8ajlsciQcae3MKVRQVCLfDIqYyWL3qGSKbvDMP3hD4Ika2XqHNnWmBxwWsdt2qmfDh4kg8PRWaGRYI_tv64swLwgh2D6t4FR7blnJA_rFpz_92GABrXzM42VWEC_abEv99PbzXM7IgosS5es0pWLhQ9oms9RiYsbu3mg/w365-h568/holy%20house%20olw.jpeg" width="365" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Holy House, Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Conclude the novena with Hail Mary, Our Father and Glory be. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-68175667031596060402022-12-13T10:37:00.007-05:002022-12-14T11:24:48.526-05:00Christmas 2022 --- Epiphany 2023<p><br /></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>ADVENT LESSONS AND CAROLS </i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>WITH BENEDICTION OF </i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>THE BLESSED SACRAMENT </i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Saturday, </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>December 17 at 7:00 p.m.</i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>CHRISTMAS EVE </i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Saturday, December 24 </i></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i> </i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Sung Mass</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>5:00 p.m.</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span><b><i>CHRISTMAS DAY</i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; 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</span>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-47165489781262772512022-09-11T09:41:00.001-04:002022-09-11T10:47:12.961-04:00Days of Mourning for her late Majestry, Queen Elizabeth II<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Until the official period of mourning is over after the state funeral, there are some temporary changes to Ordinariate liturgy:</span><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">If a Mass intention is free, the Mass should be offered for the repose of the Queen's soul. </span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">She should be remembered in all public devotions - The Litany(p. 1061) during a public holy hour in place of other devotions.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Masses on days that are memorials or optional memorials will be the Requiem Mass found on page 1024. She is named in the propers as: "... thy handmaid Elizabeth". </span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">The Dies irae is always recited at a requiem per our customs.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">The readings are the regular readings of the day.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Our Lady of Sorrows is an exception to the displacement; it is still observed.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">After all Masses, including the Sunday Mass, up to and including the day of her state funeral, the attached versicles and responses with collect from the breviary will be said or sung instead of any other prayers after the last Gospel and before the final hymn.</span></li></ul><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">V/. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">R/. And grant us thy salvation.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">V/. O Lord save the King.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">R/. And make thy chosen people joyful.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">V/. Endue thy ministers with righteousness.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">R/. And bless thine inheritance.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">V/. Give peace in our time, O Lord.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">R/. Because there is none other that fighteth for us.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">V/. O God, make clean our hearts within us.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">R/. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Let us pray. Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless our Sovereign Lord King Charles, the parliaments in all his dominions, and all who are set in authority under him; that they may order all things in wisdom, righteousness, and peace, to the honour of thy holy name, and the good of thy Church and people; through Christ our Lord.<br />R/. Amen</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggutHXnyCHS6-nj54A9-m7ofBUJ0LeAhp-C9EMdMt8Y3MR2kdO7b7OOB00lGBmHcK-ZpDy_eI8cp6m_7jJWi4kNXMQWe1p3PbM7BrGJCO6OxWZR7sj9lmUfGmqVIfAYDLXs0_cBbo7yx4SdhksD6bM4O5aueD2eUXRVM9TpDkwi80rfMPRFWSMxdu2sQ/s1600/queen_elizabeth_pope_benedicdt.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="1600" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggutHXnyCHS6-nj54A9-m7ofBUJ0LeAhp-C9EMdMt8Y3MR2kdO7b7OOB00lGBmHcK-ZpDy_eI8cp6m_7jJWi4kNXMQWe1p3PbM7BrGJCO6OxWZR7sj9lmUfGmqVIfAYDLXs0_cBbo7yx4SdhksD6bM4O5aueD2eUXRVM9TpDkwi80rfMPRFWSMxdu2sQ/w640-h446/queen_elizabeth_pope_benedicdt.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-20625360601664857522022-06-27T09:23:00.001-04:002022-06-27T09:24:51.757-04:00Homily at Patronal Sung Mass, June, 26, 2022<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">“He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">will find it.” </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">Matthew 10: 39</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As we contemplate the hundreds of Christians martyred around the world monthly, who better exemplifies the faithful response to this difficult saying of the Gospel than St. Thomas More, our parish patron saint? We thank God for him today as we ask his prayers along with those of his great friend and fellow martyr, St. John Fisher. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2sPL5fq6OEnJL8k5nfWh-sNS46Z7r-zOPQTio2DyUtgYGEnEZu5EbukDZnywiTOGA6cLr6k2KOWNny_AuCR1-1TQhl_2bCZVgxZjixTkZAP4SLbByEOZsyAVouELgwZTESzfI_Ty4Ow0tLJwqGp89nEJ2gABGxgKdOB64NQhei9-9SSMYwIt1vU/s768/St.%20John%20Fisher.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="614" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2sPL5fq6OEnJL8k5nfWh-sNS46Z7r-zOPQTio2DyUtgYGEnEZu5EbukDZnywiTOGA6cLr6k2KOWNny_AuCR1-1TQhl_2bCZVgxZjixTkZAP4SLbByEOZsyAVouELgwZTESzfI_Ty4Ow0tLJwqGp89nEJ2gABGxgKdOB64NQhei9-9SSMYwIt1vU/w404-h505/St.%20John%20Fisher.jpeg" width="404" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>St. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester</b></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Like them, today we face a direct challenge to living the Christian faith in Canada in the 21<sup>st</sup> century when churches are vandalized and desecrated and lies are spread about the the Catholic Church. The secular juggernaut: an alliance of atheist, secular and narcissistic social attitudes is challenging the Church and her norms with a creed of relativism, proclaiming the culture of death as they march.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thomas More made his choice for the culture of life based upon his unshakeable belief that in the Church and her sacraments Jesus Christ truly dwells, calling us to penitence, to conversion and to sanctification. For him it came down to the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Did the Sacraments convey what the Church had always said? Did Holy Matrimony unite one man and one woman for life whether they were king or queen, nobility or commoner? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thomas More famously refused to take an oath denying that King Henry (VIII) Tudor was sacramentally married to Queen Katherine of Aragon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In conscience, Thomas could not deny Christ and the Sacrament that binds man and woman in an unbreakable bond. He would not swear the oath and so had to give his mortal life in order to retain his soul. What could be simpler? What could be more difficult? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In our day, people insist that truth is relative. You know the language: <i><b>You have your truth and I have mine.</b></i> Today we see the “progressive” collusion of governments with legislatures and social engineers forwarding the grab for power by those who serve the dictatorship of relativism. The "Woke" are gradually raising the pressure on and "cancelling" those who hold to the sacramentality of the Church and the sanctity of life as the way in which we are in communion with Christ and his sacrifice for us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This campaign to change the once universal customs and morality embedded in laws governing marriage between one man and one woman seems relentless. It goes hand in hand with efforts to make the Mass little more than a communal gathering with no sense of the transcendent. These entrapments are all part of a grand design to put an egotistic humanity at the centre while denying the transcendence of God and the moral order that has been at the heart of human flourishing from time immemorial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">St. Thomas More stood, in his day, for the faith once delivered to the saints. We pray for the grace to stand in our day for the same faith. May his prayers along with those of our Lady, St. John Fisher and all the saints guide us in our journey of faith which has been paved for us by the feet of the martyrs. </span></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-3025878808109642842022-06-20T08:39:00.000-04:002022-06-20T08:39:34.856-04:00Patronal Celebrations at STM Toronto<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 0, 0); color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Patronal Sung Mass </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>of St. Thomas More</i></b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Sunday, June 26 at 12:30 noon</i></b></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #cc0000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">263 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJLaxDHhtfiIFlVGOJ_l5qRVSe4dN7ryECunWMRXQsMiSVSznMdlsGjXBdGEms-q-Hfb6Z4xG5ItZMgjCVccxgyns-TfanGjOpg6bhgLYTTPKou3SSfDOgnhx9x_ZkxlAw8pv4uUo4IyEYd86NdAn7Y52lwhcymyUKjDEZWlS88upo9Q-_WYHNEtAaeQ/s1120/CORPUS%20CHRISTI%202022.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="843" height="543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJLaxDHhtfiIFlVGOJ_l5qRVSe4dN7ryECunWMRXQsMiSVSznMdlsGjXBdGEms-q-Hfb6Z4xG5ItZMgjCVccxgyns-TfanGjOpg6bhgLYTTPKou3SSfDOgnhx9x_ZkxlAw8pv4uUo4IyEYd86NdAn7Y52lwhcymyUKjDEZWlS88upo9Q-_WYHNEtAaeQ/w409-h543/CORPUS%20CHRISTI%202022.jpeg" width="409" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Sacred Music with SATB choir</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Refreshments to follow.</span></div><p></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-57794392056492623212022-04-24T07:49:00.002-04:002022-04-24T08:04:55.247-04:00STM Homily for Easter II<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">EASTER II, April 18, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">STM Toronto</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The prophet Daniel saw in a vision: “One like the Son of Man” receive everlasting kingship (Dan. 7:9–14). In a vision described in today’s Second Reading, the Apostle John is taken where he sees Daniel’s prophecy fulfilled in Jesus, the Christ, who appears as “One like a Son of Man.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jesus is clad in the robe of a High Priest (Ex 28:4; Wis 18:24) and wearing the gold sash of a king (1 Mac 10:89). He has been exalted by the right hand of the Lord. In this image we see the completion of the Old Covenant with Israel. The anointing of the Apostles by the Holy Spirit conveys the living Apostolic tradition of Christ’s Church – his Body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">His risen body, which the Apostles touch as recounted in today’s Gospel, has been made a lifegiving Spirit (1 Cor 15:45). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As the Father anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power (Acts 10:38), so Jesus pours out the Spirit on the Apostles, sending them into the world: <b>“as the Father has sent Me so I send you.</b>” Jesus “breathes” the Spirit of His divine life into the Apostles—as God blew the “breath of life” into Adam (Gen 2:7), and as Elijah’s prayer returned “the life breath” to the dead child (1 Kings 17:21–23).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jewish Scholars from before the time of Jesus passed on <b>Masorah</b> or transmission of sacred tradition from generation to generation. In parallel, the creative breath of Jesus unites the Apostles—His Church—to His body, and empowers the Church to breathe His life into a dying world. This apostolic faith is the living tradition of Christ embodied in the baptized community of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In today’s Gospel and First Reading, we see the Apostles fulfilling this mission with powers only God possesses—the power to forgive sins and to work “signs and wonders,” a biblical expression only used to describe the mighty works of God (Ex. 7:3; 11:10; Acts 7:36).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thomas and the others saw “many other signs” after Jesus was raised from the dead. They saw, they believed and they passed on the living tradition in the power of the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">They have been given Jesus’ life, which continues in the Church’s Word and Sacraments, so that we who have not seen might share in God’s blessings and have life in the Name of Jesus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Acts 5:12–16 Psalm 118:2–4, 13–15, 22–24 Rev. 1:9–13, 17–19 John 20:19–31</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;">Fr. John Hodgins</span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-82797667219062329242022-01-16T09:09:00.003-05:002022-01-16T09:11:38.558-05:00Homily -- The Marriage Feast<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">EPHIPHANY II January 16, 2022 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">STM Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b> Mystagogy X</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">These weeks after Christmas present us with a season of “epiphanies” or revelations. The liturgy is showing us who Jesus is and what He has revealed about our relationship with God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Last week and the week before, the imagery was royal — Jesus is the newborn king of the Jews who makes us coheirs of Israel’s promise, beloved children of God. Last week in the liturgy we went to his baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZUC6_C3FW1mbjjxNouzQev7EEeSXXPNfVIeFb0PBf0_HP7wOqRv7rk_lK6dD_M4jEngc6oQY4KvAqFpdBSVBwXA8c6flc73szlbxSrvcNlcwJWn4ii5b8qb8Rc-CZ9eXltGW211byDLk4psiy8P2F7WNMXU0qFAyGjF77EeD2irWfKEUdn7_V3dVKlg=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="640" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZUC6_C3FW1mbjjxNouzQev7EEeSXXPNfVIeFb0PBf0_HP7wOqRv7rk_lK6dD_M4jEngc6oQY4KvAqFpdBSVBwXA8c6flc73szlbxSrvcNlcwJWn4ii5b8qb8Rc-CZ9eXltGW211byDLk4psiy8P2F7WNMXU0qFAyGjF77EeD2irWfKEUdn7_V3dVKlg=w553-h436" width="553" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">This week we’re at the Wedding in Cana and Jesus’ first miracle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">We’re being shown another dimension of our relationship with God. We are sons and daughters of God married into the family of faith. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Bible begins and ends with a wedding—Adam and Eve in the garden and the marriage supper of the Lamb (Gen. 2:23–24; Rev. 19:9; 21:9; 22:17). Monogamous marriage between one man and one woman is, of course, the most embattled of human institutions today after being established for millennia as an essential part of society . . . <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Throughout the Bible, marriage is the symbol of the covenant relationship God desires with His chosen people. God is the groom, humanity is the bride. We see this reflected beautifully in today’s First Reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">When Israel breaks the covenant, she is compared to an unfaithful spouse (Jer. 2:20–36; 3:1–13). But God promises to take her back, to “espouse” her to Himself forever in an everlasting covenant (Hosea 2:18–22).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">That’s why Jesus performs His first public “sign” at a wedding feast on the “Third Day.” Third meaning the day of fulness, completion or finality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Jesus is the divine bridegroom (John 3:29), calling us to the royal wedding feast (Mat 22:1–14). By His New Covenant, He will become “one flesh” with all humanity in the Church (Eph 5:21–33). By our baptism, each of us has been betrothed to Christ as a bride to her husband (2 Cor 11:2).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">The new wine that Jesus pours out at this feast is the gift of the Holy Spirit given to His bride as today’s Epistle says. This is the “salvation” announced to the “families of nations” by the Psalmist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Isaiah 62:1–5 Psalm 96:1–3, 7–10 1 Corinthians 12:4–11 John 2:1–12<o:p></o:p></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-55793017601095238992022-01-10T11:19:00.001-05:002022-01-10T11:19:09.114-05:00BAPTISM OF THE LORD - Mystagogy IX<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">January 9, 2022 STM Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In this season of the Epiphany of Christ we glimpse with the Magi or Wise Men the mystery of God’s plan. In Jesus all peoples have been made “co-heirs” to the blessings promised to Israel by virtue of Baptism into the life of Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jesus humbles Himself to pass through the waters of the River Jordan leading a new “exodus”— opening up the promised land of God’s Kingdom so that <u>all peoples</u> can hear the words pronounced over Jesus, words once reserved only for Israel and its king. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Through Baptism each of us becomes a beloved son or daughter of God (Gen. 22:2; Ex. 4:22). But our adoption as co-heirs with Jesus has implications for our actions and our behaviour. We are called to and we <u>must use our gifts and talents</u> for the sake of the Kingdom of Christ . . . serving our community of faith – our parish – at the altar, at the door greeting people, as an altar server and on the street using our time and our tithes. Today, Joseph DeCaria our administrator will outline some of the areas of need that we have here at STM.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jesus is the chosen servant that Isaiah prophesies in today’s 1st Reading. He is anointed with the Holy Spirit to make things right and just. The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus as “a covenant of the people,” the liberator of captives, the light to the nations. The 2nd Reading today tells us that Jesus is the One long expected in Israel, “anointed . . . with the Holy Spirit and with power.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are each and all called to share in this anointed mission by serving all those whom God calls into the Kingdom. We do so by offering our gifts at the foot of the Christ Child as the Magi did. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The word messiah means the one anointed with God’s Spirit. King David was “the anointed of the God of Jacob” (2 Sam. 23:1–17; Ps 18:51; 132:10, 17). The prophets taught Israel to await a royal offshoot of David, upon whom the Spirit would rest (Isaiah 11:1–2; Daniel 9:25).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The crowds are anxious at the start of today’s Gospel. But it isn’t John they’re looking for. God’ voice confirms what the angel earlier told Blessed Mary: Jesus is the Son of the Most High, come to claim the throne of David forever (Luke 1:32–33).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the Baptism of Christ the voice of God hovers over the waters like a fiery flame. He has sanctified the waters, made them a passageway to healing —a fountain of new birth and everlasting life for us and for all those we serve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Readings for Baptism of the Lord:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Isaiah 42:1–4, 6–7 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Psalm 29:1–4, 9–10 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Acts 10:34–38 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Luke 3:15–16, 21–22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-81667623956271706232022-01-04T08:26:00.000-05:002022-01-04T08:26:23.913-05:00MYSTAGOGY VIII - DIVINE MICRO-CLIMATES<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The following is a response to an article by Dr. Ephraim Radner in FIRST THINGS - JANUARY 2022 -- THE BACK PAGE</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In his meditation on climate, culture, language and catechesis, Ephraim Radner offers an insightful look at the directions open to society in this century. He concludes with a clarion call for catechesis in the Church, a call to which many will sound a great Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are two points to add to Dr. Radner’s pastoral call for biblical focus. The first is in response to his lament: “The <b><i>Book of Common Prayer </i></b><i>(BCP) </i>was suffused with a penitential spirit. It is no longer so.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is true. Myriad additions, subtractions and “woke” amendments to Anglican orders of service around the globe cover everything from Evensong to LGBTQ (add your letter) inclusivity rites and transgender “affirmations”. What is left of the <i>BCP</i> in the Anglican Communion (I use the term loosely) is a mess of potage, detritus on a sea of change blown by every wind of doctrine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fortunately, under the aegis of Pope Benedict’s farsighted Dogmatic Constitution <b><i>Anglicanorum Coetibus</i></b><i> (AC), </i>there is a safe harbour for English (Anglican/Episcopalian) liturgy and patrimony. The recently published English breviary for the Ordinariates: <b><i>Divine Worship: Daily Office (CTS, 2021) </i></b>is mandated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for English-speaking clergy and people worldwide. This book is a rich compilation of Anglican daily offices and other rites shaped in conformity with universal Catholic liturgical principles and approved by the CDF.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Breviary retains the poetic English of the <i>BCP</i> tradition while offering all seven of the daily offices for religious communities and individuals. The breviary serves as a text and work book for grounded and ongoing catechesis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This English form of <b><i>The Liturgy of the Hours</i></b> joins the previously published <b><i>Divine Worship: The Missal (CTS, 2015) </i></b>and <b><i>Divine Worship: Occasional Services (CTS, 2014)</i></b>. These traditional texts provide contours for the second element we may add to Dr. Radner’s appeal – mystagogy, the learning through liturgy. Mercifully, these English prayer books have a home now in the Universal Church. </span></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-36251395438782830002022-01-02T08:44:00.002-05:002022-01-02T08:46:24.385-05:00A MYSTAGOGY OF MARY (Mystagogy VII)<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Mary, Mother of God </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Jan. 1, 2022 STM, TORONTO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">The Apostles together with the Blessed Virgin Mary, formed the Church, an indissoluble group surrounding the human life of Jesus. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Mary’s fiat, her “yes” to God, is the foundation, the undergirding and the sustaining the Church which emanates from Jesus Christ, her Son. The Church finds her personal centre in Mary. Her faith response to the Divine Bridegroom complements the masculine principle and together they bear the fruit of Christ’s love for the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Knowing that all people are envisaged in God's plan, the Church can humbly know herself as the chosen representative of mankind before God in faith, prayer, and sacrifice, in hope for all, and, still more, in love for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">The highest priority of the Church belongs to our readiness to serve the divine love. Our “Yes” that has no other purpose. Yet, this response to God appears senseless in a world caught up in what is thought to be urgent, reasonable and individualistic. This is a society in thrall to the dictatorship of relativism, the plague of self-referential gender fluidity and the mania for unlimited choice. Society slouches towards Sodom. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">St. Thomas Aquinas, in discussing Mary's fiat, saw that it was necessary to show the spiritual marriage between the Son of God and human nature. Mary's "yes" stands for all God's people; making it possible for every person to pronounce their own personal fiat – Yes to God’s love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Mary’s Immaculate Conception locates her personal existence between Heaven and human life in its fallen state. This is because her Immaculate Conception has freed her from any influence of sin. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Yet, Blessed Mary lived her human existence in this fallen world of sin. Her personal life is situated at the passageway between the Old Covenant of Law and Sin and the New Covenant of Grace and Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Blessed Mary stands in direct continuity with the generations who descend from Abraham. As Virgin Mother, who became pregnant by her consent to the overshadowing Spirit; she signifies a new beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Finally, her existence lies in the tension between time and eternity. Although she herself has regained Paradise in her Assumption, as Mother of all the living she gives birth to the Messiah in the birth-pangs of the Cross." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Mary's dramatic role emerges both from her centre – as Jesus’ Mother – the Mother of God — and from the whole range of her being, which embraces fallen and redeemed humanity. Her role is universal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">Two thousand years of Christian tradition bear witness to the abiding presence of the Mother of God at the heart and centre of the Church. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;"><i>Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-17707504133012404922021-12-15T10:09:00.003-05:002021-12-15T10:09:58.019-05:00Mystagogy VI - Art, Architecture and the power of Gothic churches to communicate the Gospel <p>The following link is to a homily given by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 about the beauty of gothic churches and their role in the mystagogy of saints, art architecture.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/09/21/awakening-wonder-in-church-architecture/">Gothic Churches</a><br /></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-54863304761747529452021-12-11T10:18:00.000-05:002021-12-11T10:18:37.632-05:00ADVENT III C, 2021 - Homily STM, Toronto<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">We hear in today’s Gospel that God's people are “filled with expectation.” The crowd gathered around John the Baptist believed that he might be the Messiah whom they’ve been waiting for to free them from the power of sin and Rome. Three times we hear their question: “What then should we do?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Messiah’s coming requires everyone to choose—to “repent”. That’s John’s message and it will be the message of Jesus too (Lk 3:3; 5:32; 24:47). “Repentance” as we have already heard this Advent, is translated from the Greek word, <i><u>metanoia</u></i>(literally, “change of mind”). However, repentance is a twofold change or turning. It is “turning” away from sin (Ezekiel 3:19; 18:30) and then turning toward God (Sir 17:20–21).<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">This “turning” is more than what a teacher might call an attitude adjustment. It means a radical life change. It requires “good fruits as evidence of our repentance” (Luke 3:8). That’s why John tells the crowds, the soldiers and tax collectors they must prove their faith through works of charity, hope, honesty, and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">In today’s Mass, each of us is called to stand in that crowd and hear the “good news” of John the Baptist’s call to repentance. In this mystagogy, i.e. this learning through the sacramental mysteries of our faith, we examine our lives, asking from our hearts as the crowd asked: “What should we do?” Our repentance springs not from fear of coming wrath (Luke 3:7–9) but from a joyful sense of the nearness of our saving God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">This theme resounds through today’s readings: “Rejoice! “. . . <i>Gaudete</i>! Rejoice ye! The Lord is near. So, on this Third Sunday of Advent the liturgical colour is rose signifying our joy at the news of the coming Messiah. Have no anxiety we are told in today’s Epistle. The Lord is coming amongst us. “Rejoice, in the Lord always, again I say: Rejoice.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">In today’s First Reading, we hear echoes of the angel’s Annunciation to Blessed Mary. The prophet’s words are very close to the angel’s greeting (Luke 1:28–31). <u>Mary is the Daughter Zion</u>—the favoured one of God, told not to fear but to rejoice that the Lord is with her, “a mighty Saviour.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">She brings us joy. For in her the Messiah draws near to us, as John the Baptist had promised: “One mightier than I is coming.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Zephaniah 3:14–18 </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Isaiah 12:2–6 </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Philippians 4:4–7 </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Luke 3:10–18</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-973262105579491962021-12-10T09:54:00.000-05:002021-12-10T09:54:35.351-05:00MYSTAGOGY V - STM 2021<div addthis:title="" addthis:url="" class="addthis_toolbox addthis_32x32_style" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="socialLinks" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 37px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 25px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><li class="socialLinks-item socialLinks-item-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 24px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 26px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Share: </li> <li class="socialLinks-item socialLinks-item--facebook" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #012e5c; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Praying the O Antiphons of Advent </span></a></h1><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"></span></div></header><div class="blog-post" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">During the final days of <a href="https://www.catholiccompany.com/advent-c1504/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: inherit;" target="_blank">Advent</a>, we focus on the glorious nature of the coming Messiah. This anticipation is marked by something special in the prayers in the Breviary.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Antiphons are short sentences sung or chanted before the recitation of a psalm or canticle.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The antiphons of Evening Prayer which we see in the week before Christmas welcome the birth of the Saviour by heralding one of His resplendent Biblical titles along with a special petition related to that title.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">It is a liturgical tradition that was started in the earliest centuries of the Church—one that has continued to the present day in monasteries and convents, and even in the homes of the Catholic faithful who make portions of the Divine Office part of their daily prayers.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">You might recognize these antiphons from the beautiful Advent hymn "O Come O Come Emmanuel."</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; letter-spacing: 0.25px; margin: 2.25rem 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Icon of the Nativity" height="267" src="https://store-du09xubjip.mybigcommerce.com/product_images/uploaded_images/church-nativity-scene-cave-bethlehem.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 20px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Icon of the Nativity" width="400" /></p></h3><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; margin: 2.25rem 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">THE "O" ANTIPHONS</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The O Antiphons are particularly special. These seven antiphons are prayed immediately before the Magnificat during Evening Prayer in the week before Christmas.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Each antiphon begins with the exclamation "O", which is why they are popularly called the "O Antiphons."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.25px;">THE PROPHETIC TITLES OF JESUS</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Each O Antiphon emphasizes a unique prophetic title of the soon-to-be-born King of Kings, as foreshadowed in the Old Testament by the prophet Isaiah:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Wisdom</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Lord of Israel</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Root of Jesse</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Key of David</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Radiant Dawn</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">King of All Nations</span>, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Emmanuel</span>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62);">DIVINE WORSHIP: DAILY OFFICE (DW:DO) -- The official Prayer Book of the Ordinariates -- has the full English texts of the O Antiphons to be said or sung at Evensong before the Magnificat (beginning on p.294 of DW:DO, North American edition). </span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62);">These antiphons cover the special period of Advent preparation known as the "Octave before Christmas," from December 17th to the 23rd. (December 24 is Evensong of the Christmas Vigil, and does not have an O Antiphon.)</span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(62, 62, 62); color: #3e3e3e; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The ancient monks who first assembled the O Antiphons were very creative with the order in which they were prayed. If you take the first letter of each antiphon (in the Latin) and read them from last to first, the word ERO CRAS is spelled, which translates: "Tomorrow I will come."</span></p></div></section></div></div></div>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-60022079677909072122021-12-10T09:20:00.000-05:002021-12-10T09:20:34.562-05:00MYSTAGOGY IV – STM 2021<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Excerpted from an article by Z. Maier:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What does full participation mean?</span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy</i> offers little explanation as to what “full, conscious, and active participation” consists of, other than that it is inherent in the very nature of what liturgy is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Participation is primarily internal</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Active participation in the liturgy is primarily internal, no matter how much such external manifestations may be concrete indications of what is happening within. Active participation has to do with a kind of mindful engagement in the rites, an attending to the words and gestures, the symbols . . . the space, the season. Without interior participation the rites are empty formalism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is needed to achieve participation?</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Preparation for the Sunday readings</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pope John Paul II touched on this issue in his 1998 apostolic letter, <i>Dies Domini:</i> The Day of the Lord. In it he suggested that in order for the faithful to benefit from hearing the Word of God in the liturgy each Sunday they must take steps to prepare themselves in order to draw life from its proclamation. Of particular benefit, he said, is bringing people together beforehand to reflect on the Word of God they will hear proclaimed.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Faith re-encountered</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many parishes have among their people a small group of “cradle” Catholics who have discovered a whole new understanding of their faith when they were asked to sponsor someone wanting to join the Church and participated in the journey with the newcomer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Mystagogy reintroduced </span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is in the context of reception that the idea of mystagogy, a period of post-baptismal catechesis, was re-introduced into the current church experience. The word <i>mystagogy </i>derives from a Greek word meaning “teaching of mystery.” This time of catechesis suggests, is “of great significance for both the neophytes and the rest of the faithful,” and they in turn should “derive from it a renewal of inspiration and of outlook” (p. 145).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mystagogical reflection in the early Church</span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both the catechumenate and mystagogical preaching were at their height in and around the fourth century. Reflections on liturgy by teachers of the time – Cyril of Jerusalem (+386), John Chysostom (+407), Augustine of Hippo (+430), among others – are part of the Church’s legacy. It is from one such mystagogical reflection that we have the often-quoted words of Augustine: “If you are the body and members of Christ, then what is laid on the Lord’s table is the sacrament of what you yourselves are, and it is the sacrament of what you are that you receive.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mystagogical preaching </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Judging from the Church’s experience of that time, mystagogical preaching is an important part of ongoing catechesis. The call is made to the baptized to enter into mission, to service in the world. At the end of every liturgical celebration, the dismissal rite sends the community forth in the service of Christ.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A mystagogical approach needed to engage the faithful</span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Making the liturgy accessible to “head and heart” is done best by a mystagogical approach. There are several characteristics of mystagogy as re-introduced in current church practice that make it particularly appropriate:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is for all the baptized and not just for the neophytes; <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mystagogy is a lifelong process involving a commitment to learning and deepening one’s understanding and commitment that is never finished; <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The whole of the community’s sacramental life is appropriate material for mystagogical reflection; <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mystagogy is focused on personal experience, a sense of an encounter with God, the many layers of meaning in liturgical texts and symbols, and sharing this experience in order to be enriched; <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The liturgy itself is the first teacher describing who the baptized Christian is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-513730934017049062021-12-09T10:23:00.000-05:002021-12-09T10:23:04.803-05:00Mystagogy III - 2021<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><span><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">The following is excerpted from an article by </span></b></span></span><strong style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-align: justify;">Evan Ponton: </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><strong style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-align: justify;"><br /></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><b>CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (CCC)</b> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">paragraph 1075 </span></b><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92); color: #351c75;">Liturgical catechesis aims to initiate people into the mystery of Christ (It is "mystagogy.") by proceeding from the visible to the invisible, from the sign to the thing signified, from the "sacraments" to the "mysteries." </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">Such catechesis is to be presented by local and regional catechisms. This Catechism, which aims to serve the whole Church in all the diversity of her rites and cultures, will present what is fundamental and common to the whole Church in the liturgy as mystery and as celebration </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">(Section One)</em><span style="caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">, and then the seven sacraments and the sacramentals </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">(Section Two)</em><span style="caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">.</span></span></p><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><br /></b></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>What is Mystagogy?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Our faith needs mystagogy first and foremost because of one simple reason: we celebrate and proclaim a mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">It is important to recognize that for some people, the idea of religious “mystery” conjures up images of a Da Vinci Code-esque Church shrouded in secrecy, New Age spiritualism, or even a pre-scientific belief in “magic.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But the sacraments do not initiate us into a special club or secret society. Through them, we are made participants in the life of Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Faith begins and ends in mystery, most especially the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, “the central mystery of Christian faith and life . . . the source of all other mysteries of faith” (CCC 234). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">In the scriptures, liturgy, and sacraments, we truly encounter and participate in the <u>Triune life of God</u>. But no matter how intelligent or insightful we are, we will never fully wrap our minds around God’s glory or totally experience it with our five senses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mystagogy comes from the Greek word meaning, “to lead through the mysteries.” The Catechism describes mystagogy as a “liturgical catechesis that aims to initiate people into the mystery of Christ” (CCC 1075). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mystagogy leads us from the external signs and rituals of the liturgy to the inner, spiritual meaning of the divine life they signify. Mystagogy is the form of catechesis that helps us unpack and explore the spiritual treasures contained in the sacraments by continuously reflecting on their meaning and significance in our personal lives of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mystagogy was the way the early Church Fathers embraced and trained new Christians in the practices and beliefs of the faith. Perhaps the most well known teacher of mystagogy was St. Cyril of Jerusalem (315-386 CE), who delivered a famous series of sermons, known as “mystagogic catecheses,” during the time of Lent through the Easter Octave. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But mystagogy isn’t just for the newly baptized; it is the way every Catholic can continually deepen their relationship with Christ by daily drawing on the grace of the sacraments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Significance for the New Evangelization</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Just as Catholics are rediscovering the importance of the “kerygma” (Greek for “proclamation”) for evangelization, mystagogy is incredibly important in our approach to catechesis in the New Evangelization. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Pope St. John Paul II wrote, “Through catechesis the Gospel kerygma is gradually deepened . . . . and channeled toward Christian practice in the Church and the world” (<i>Catechesi Tradendae</i>, n. 25). This catechesis is accomplished by means of mystagogical reflection. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Living the Mystery Daily</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Ongoing mystagogy is important because our relationship with the sacraments changes as we grow and mature as individuals and meet new life challenges and circumstances. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">In turn, the sacraments really change us. Pope Benedict XVI said, “The mature fruit of mystagogy is an awareness that one's life is being progressively transformed by the holy mysteries being celebrated” (<i>Sacramentum Caritatis</i> n. 64). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">By reflecting regularly on the sacraments, we access an incredible strength for our daily tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Developing a practice of Eucharistic mystagogy can combat the routinization that often sets in to our receiving communion. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">For those who are married, or preparing for marriage, there is a mystagogy of marriage. With ongoing mystagogic reflection, you may discover new fruits of that sacrament in every season of life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Studying theology and the Bible is often an undervalued way of developing our spiritual life. Learning about someone or something is a sign of love, and we truly become what we behold (cf 2 Cor. 3:18). Reading the great books and sermons of Catholic authors and theologians greatly expands our hearts and minds to experience the truth and depth of our faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The Catholic philosopher Gabriel Marcel is attributed as stating, <u>“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived</u>.” Mystagogy is the path leading Christians to learn to live the mystery of our faith. I encourage you to follow the path trod by St. Cyril up through Pope St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI in making this incredible tradition and gift called “mystagogy” a part of your life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(92, 92, 92); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-91545213324062136302021-12-09T08:18:00.000-05:002021-12-09T08:18:48.281-05:00MYSTAGOGY I - STM 2021<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS TO</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">PARTICIPANTS AT </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">THE PLENARY </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ASSEMBLY </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">OF </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">THE CONGREGATION </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;">FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;">THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Room adjacent to </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>St. Paul VI Audience Hall Thursday, 14 February 2019<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>The liturgical formation of the People of God. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>The task that awaits us is indeed essentially that of spreading among the People of God the splendour of the living mystery of the Lord, Who makes Himself manifest in the liturgy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>. . . liturgical formation means first and foremost being aware of the indispensable role the liturgy holds in the Church and for the Church. And then, concretely helping the People of God to interiorize better the prayer of the Church, to love it as an experience of encounter with the Lord and with brothers who, in the light of this, rediscover its content and observe its rites.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Since the liturgy is an experience extended to the conversion of life through the assimilation of the Lord’s way of thinking and behaving, liturgical formation cannot be limited to simply offering knowledge – this is a mistake . . . In order for the liturgy to fulfil its formative and transforming function, it is necessary that the pastors and the laity be introduced to their meaning and symbolic language, including art, song and music in the service of the mystery celebrated . . .The Catechism of the Catholic Church itself adopts the mystagogical way to illustrate the liturgy, valuing its prayers and signs. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Mystagogy: this is a suitable way to enter the mystery of the liturgy, in the living encounter with the crucified and risen Lord. Mystagogy means discovering the new life we have received in the People of God through the Sacraments, and continually rediscovering the beauty of renewing it.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Regarding the stages of formation, we know from experience that, in addition to the initial phase, it is necessary to cultivate the ongoing formation of the clergy and laity, especially those who are involved in the ministries serving the liturgy. Formation not once, but continuing. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Dear brothers and sisters, we are all called to deepen and revive our liturgical formation. The liturgy is in fact the main road through which Christian life passes through every phase of its growth. You therefore have before you a great and beautiful task: to work so that the People of God may rediscover the beauty of meeting the Lord in the celebration of His mysteries and, by meeting Him, have life in His name. I thank you for your efforts and I bless you, asking you to always reserve for me a place – a large one! – in your prayer.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-26233173267063488052021-12-09T08:09:00.000-05:002021-12-09T08:09:14.181-05:00ADVENT 2 C (Mystagogy II) <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;"> Dec. 4, 2021 </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;">STM Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm;">Based on Mass Readings: Baruch 5:1–9; Psalm 126:1–6; Philippians 1:4–6, 8–11; </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm;">Luke 3:1–6<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;">“I am thankful for your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now.” These are the words of St. Paul to those who are journeying with him into the Light of the Gospel.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">In the Advent readings we recall God’s saving deeds in the history of Israel and in the coming of Jesus. Our remembrance is meant to stir our faith, to fill us with confidence that, as today’s Epistle puts it, “the one who began a good work in [us] will continue to complete it” until He comes again in glory.” (Phil. 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Week by week the liturgy of Sunday Mass teaches us that like Israel in her exile we have been led into captivity by our sinfulness. We stand in need of healing and conversion by the Word of the Holy One as the prophet Baruch proclaims (Baruch 5:5). The lessons of salvation history teach us that, as God again and again delivered Israel, in His mercy, God will free us from our attachments to sin if we constantly turn to Him in repentance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">In a 2008 address to cultural leaders in Paris, Pope Benedict affirmed that the <i>Logos</i>– the Word of God—the locus of Reason calls us to metanoia, repentance – literally<i>meta-noia </i>i.e. going beyond the mind. As Pope Benedict puts it: the Logos displays his mystery through the complexity and the reality of human history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Those who are beginning their Catholic mystagogy, their enlightening reflection on the sacraments and the mysteries of the Christian Faith have much to meditate on in the person and teaching of St. John Baptist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">John – the mystagog or proclaimer of meaning – is introduced in today’s Gospel as the last of the Prophets (Jer. 1:1–4, 11). But John is greater than the prophets (Luke 7:27). He’s preparing the way not only for the redemption of Israel but for the salvation of “all flesh,” all races and nations (Acts 28:28) through the mystery of the waters of Baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">St. John the Baptist quotes Isaiah (40:3) to tell us he’s come to build a <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">road home for us, a way out of the darkness, the wilderness of sin and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">our alienation from God. It’s the illuminated road we follow Jesus down, a journey we make, as Baruch puts it, “rejoicing that [we’re] remembered by God . . .<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; padding: 0cm;"> For God will lead Israel (and so all of us) with joy, </span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;">in the light of His glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from Him.” </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 396pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;">J. L. Hodgins</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-35028418036357938252021-09-25T11:18:00.003-04:002021-09-26T09:36:07.894-04:00Evangelium - Sept 26 - Some questions for discussion<p><br /></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br />1. What is prayer? <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-navTC9PQm9c/YU89Wn_UnDI/AAAAAAAAGMY/vULvN1_S8xcMn0LXgG2khoZh5i1oVQ4UgCPcBGAsYHg/s2048/IMG_0761-EFFECTS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="368" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-navTC9PQm9c/YU89Wn_UnDI/AAAAAAAAGMY/vULvN1_S8xcMn0LXgG2khoZh5i1oVQ4UgCPcBGAsYHg/w545-h368/IMG_0761-EFFECTS.jpg" width="545" /></a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- "The raising of one's mind to God or the requesting of good things from God"<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Why do we pray? (benefits of prayer)<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- How do we pray? (including tips)<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Difficulties in prayer<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Mistaken ideas about prayer<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">2. Salvation History<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Adam and Eve, the Fall, the stain of Original Sin.<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Because God loves us, he offered several covenants to humanity throughout the Old Testament.<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- God established covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, the Prophets, and finally with John the Baptist.<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">3. The Ten commandments</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Established by God to Moses on Mount Sinai<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Commandment, explanation, example (biblical or modern)<br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">- Tip for memorizing</span><br /></div><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-43367651441153164872021-06-08T08:55:00.020-04:002021-06-08T15:21:19.509-04:00Public Masses begin again in Toronto for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Friday, June 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n454kTeLaus/YL9lvF1hPoI/AAAAAAAAGIo/kC14PrLLOecatlpsXxbCwRLd8NyBTo59QCLcBGAsYHQ/s588/Apostles.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="432" height="558" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n454kTeLaus/YL9lvF1hPoI/AAAAAAAAGIo/kC14PrLLOecatlpsXxbCwRLd8NyBTo59QCLcBGAsYHQ/w409-h558/Apostles.gif" width="409" /></a></span></div><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br />Friday is also the World Day of Prayer for priests and a day to give thanks for the gift of the Mass publicly celebrated once again in Toronto while observing Covid19 guidelines of the Province of Ontario which allow up to 15% capacity in church buildings for Stage 1 and increasing numbers for each subsequent stage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Because STM has a very large church building at 263 Roncesvalles Ave. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">(shared with St. Vincent de Paul parish) we will be able to accommodate our usual number and somewhat larger numbers of people attending Sunday Mass.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>First public Sung Mass at STM:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Sunday, June 13 at 12:30 noon</b> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u><i><b>No reservations will be required but come early to ensure you have a seat.</b></i></u></span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-27808708356008482242021-04-09T12:04:00.000-04:002021-04-09T12:04:43.949-04:00<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The Province of Ontario announced a “Stay-At-Home Order” to take effect throughout the province as of Thursday, April 8 for a period of one month.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLEASE NOTE ....</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The announcement does not change regulations for places of worship. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Attendance is limited to 15% capacity of the worship space. Physical distancing must be observed at all times.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">STM will welcome people as usual with no advance registration while following all regulations. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Come early to ensure seating. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Choral Mass is at 12:30 noon on Sundays.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Brct9VJqD44/YHB6w0Yu7pI/AAAAAAAAGCM/udLRWDMSoVYJPWi5EV4pqBalCydwWTZNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1484/IMG_E2561.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="1484" height="464" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Brct9VJqD44/YHB6w0Yu7pI/AAAAAAAAGCM/udLRWDMSoVYJPWi5EV4pqBalCydwWTZNACLcBGAsYHQ/w551-h464/IMG_E2561.JPG" width="551" /></a></div></div>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-8819254741532203662021-04-04T08:24:00.002-04:002021-04-04T08:24:34.800-04:00Easter at the Empty Tomb<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lnh4IZOErzM/YGmvoYSCNdI/AAAAAAAAGCE/ykyvGdzNYvMVn_q5DvhCXVj-jhnGhLcYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/Peter%2Band%2BJohn%2B-%2BEaster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="300" height="535" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lnh4IZOErzM/YGmvoYSCNdI/AAAAAAAAGCE/ykyvGdzNYvMVn_q5DvhCXVj-jhnGhLcYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h535/Peter%2Band%2BJohn%2B-%2BEaster.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">John, the Beloved Disciple and Peter at the Empty Tomb </span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">by the Swiss artist Burnand.</span></p>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7298787577952546660.post-45224650364727849042021-04-03T08:53:00.003-04:002021-04-03T09:27:32.426-04:00Byrd for Easter<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">12:30 Four Part Sung Mass this Easter Sunday at St Thomas More, 263 Roncesvalles, Toronto</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You may need to come early for a seat due to the 15% capacity rule. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Music to include selections from Byrd - Mass for Five Voices and Terra tremuit.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2K3e3vaXCco/YGhk65MVi_I/AAAAAAAAGB4/jymireqJXrwpbl5X9gSDqYj4YUo4aR4QACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/fullsizeoutput_b88.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2K3e3vaXCco/YGhk65MVi_I/AAAAAAAAGB4/jymireqJXrwpbl5X9gSDqYj4YUo4aR4QACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/fullsizeoutput_b88.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></div>peregrinustohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669515867797692879noreply@blogger.com0