OK, so we celebrated the Remembrance Mass this morning in the EF. In our community, the tradition is that if the presider is a brother other than the superior, he goes to the superior first, kisses his hand, asks for permission to celebrate the mass. The superior blesses him and then he proceeds to begin. We donāt do prayers at the foot of the altar. Thatās a Roman tradition. We donāt follow it. We go directly into the Introit.
All is proceeding fine, except for one thing. At the reading of the Gospel, the brother sitting next to this superior says, āWhy are you responding in Italian?ā
Thatās what happens when you have the mass memorized in several languages that sound alike: Latin, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Apparently, I blessed the presider in Italian and responded to all the prayers in Italian and didnāt notice until it was pointed out to me. I thought that Brother seemed a little confused when I blessed him. But I figured that since we only use the EF for extraordinary occasions, he was probably a little rusty or something like that. I later found out that he was disconcerted, because he did not know why I was blessing him in Italian. :christmastree1:
Now to get ready for Christmas Eve dinner and then Midnight Mass.
Remember folks . . . the Seraphic Father St. Francis said that on Christmas Eve the walls were to be splattered with meat, wine and all kinds of foods.
NOOOOOOOO . . . he was not calling for a food fight. :tsktsk:
