Asperges in the OF

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I was taking a look at the Order of the Mass and I found this little footer:
From time to time on Sundays, especially in Easter Time, instead of the customary Penitential Act, the blessing and sprinkling of water may take place (as in Appendix II, pp. 000-000) as a reminder of Baptism.
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Interestingly, it says that the Asperges can be done but interestingly it has to be in place of the Penitential Act. I find this quite interesting. I know that the OF’s rubrics are more liberal than the EF, but could both be done in the same Mass or are priests really restricted to do one or the other? Has anyone ever seen both done?
 
GangGreen said:
I was taking a look at the Order of the Mass and I found this little footer:

Interestingly, it says that the Asperges can be done but interestingly it has to be in place of the Penitential Act. I find this quite interesting. I know that the OF’s rubrics are more liberal than the EF, but could both be done in the same Mass or are priests really restricted to do one or the other? Has anyone ever seen both done?
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It is one or the other.
 
GangGreen said:
I was taking a look at the Order of the Mass and I found this little footer:

Interestingly, it says that the Asperges can be done but interestingly it has to be in place of the Penitential Act. I find this quite interesting. I know that the OF’s rubrics are more liberal than the EF, but could both be done in the same Mass or are priests really restricted to do one or the other? Has anyone ever seen both done?
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I have never seen both.

I wish some chant could be arranged in the vernacular for the complete Asperges as it is sung in the EF. It is so beautiful. :harp:
 
As a side note, I used the word interesting/ly like three times in my post, whoops for redundancy :D.
 
Tomster said:
I have never seen both.

I wish some chant could be arranged in the vernacular for the complete Asperges as it is sung in the EF. It is so beautiful. :harp:
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As it is still sung in the OF in Latin 😉

There are still a few places singing the OF in Latin according to the 1974 Graduale Romanum.
 
GangGreen said:
It’s not bad in English, but it sounds nicer in Latin.
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Yes, there’s something about that singing of “Sprinkle me” that doesn’t sound quite right. In my Anglican youth we said, “Thou shalt purge me,” which sounds much better.
 
TimothyH said:
The Department of Redundancy Department could use someone like you.

-Tim-
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I honestly think, to be quite frank, that this is rather a candid statement of the facts. 😃

(and long live TV Tropes!)

However, I’ve attended (OF) Masses, including this Sunday, where both the Penitential Act and the Asperges were done.
 
Tomster said:
I have never seen both.

I wish some chant could be arranged in the vernacular for the complete Asperges as it is sung in the EF. It is so beautiful. :harp:
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It wouldn’t be the Asperges if it were sung in the vernacular. 😉
 
RPRPsych said:
I honestly think, to be quite frank, that this is rather a candid statement of the facts. 😃

(and long live TV Tropes!)

However, I’ve attended (OF) Masses, including this Sunday, where both the Penitential Act and the Asperges were done.
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Were they done back-to-back? Sometimes I’ve seen priests sprinkle holy water on the laity after the homily.
 
RPRPsych said:
However, I’ve attended (OF) Masses, including this Sunday, where both the Penitential Act and the Asperges were done.
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Actually, during the Easter season, it would be the “Vidi Aquam.” Or “I Saw Water” in the English Mass. Or “Widziałam wodę” in the Polish Mass.
 
ProVobis said:
Actually, during the Easter season, it would be the “Vidi Aquam.” Or “I Saw Water” in the English Mass. Or “Widziałam wodę” in the Polish Mass.
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Yes, in my church the Cantor sings a song called “I saw the Living Water” during Easter Time
 
Of topic, but somewhere years back a frequent assister at the Latin Mass told me about taking his young kids to the grocery store, where in the produce aisle the kids suddenly picked up wet stalks of asparagus and waved them around chanting, “asparagus me! asparagus me!” in “imitation” of their parish priest.

LOL.
 
Rich_C said:
Of topic, but somewhere years back a frequent assister at the Latin Mass told me about taking his young kids to the grocery store, where in the produce aisle the kids suddenly picked up wet stalks of asparagus and waved them around chanting, “asparagus me! asparagus me!” in “imitation” of their parish priest.

LOL.
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I heard this from a Protestant once who thought it was funny too. I reminded her that “Asparagus” is Latin as well, but it’s meaning comes from “springing up” or something like that.
 
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