Thanks Jim, you’re the BEST! Im the mail-getter in our house, mostly because Im the bill-payer. My wife started getting the mail about 8 months ago and I got on her because she didn’t have a set place she would put it, so there would be things I needed to get that were time sensitive and I would find them like three weeks later. With big duties come big responsibility! LoLHi, Exorcist,
Thanks for the link to this thread. I’m issuing a BOLO (Be On the Lookout). Your little package is on its way by snail mail.
I read all the posts, and I’d like to chime in.
The Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. He is wholly and completely present in either or both sacred species. Christ’s Body and His Blood cannot be separated; He is alive. So whether one receives the consecrated Bread or the consecrated Wine, one receives the whole, entire, complete Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ. Since it is the substance of this Reality that we receive, it doesn’t matter which Sign conveys it - the consecrated Bread or the consecrated Wine. Some people have a wheat allergy and receive only the consecrated Wine. We say the Wine is the Blood, but this is only a figure of speech. The consecrated Wine is both the Body and the Blood. We say the consecrated Host (Bread) is Christ’s Body, but it is both the Body and the Blood. Sorry if this is repetitious, but I want to be absolutely clear. The Church acknowledges that the Sign is more complete if both sacred species are offered, but insists that one is not deprived if one receives either species. The EF never offers the consecrated Wine to the Faithful. At the OF, it is optional. It is the decision of the pastor. Both species are offered at my OF parish only on very special occasions. At another OF parish nearby, they are both offered every day at every Mass.
St. Paul explains it: 1 Corinthians 11;27 RSV - Whoever, therefore, eats the bread -OR- drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body -AND- blood of the Lord.
Peace, Jim Dandy
It was strange because I stumbled across our FSSP parish by accident. When I saw it was called a “Roman Catholic Chapel” I was thinking it might be a SSPX chapel. Turns out is was FSSP.
Thanks Benedictgal! I think that your blog is going to be really good. I just skimmed it. I’ll read more when Im alone again. I gotta post on CAF while DW is out of the house.
Im excited to see the changes in the new translation of the missal!
Depends very much on the priest. Some of the EF Masses I attend are celebrated by priests of the Institute of Christ the King. They’re very fast, the only reason I can imagine is familiarity because they say the EF Mass every day and they’re used to the Latin, etc. The other priests, who say a mixture of OF and EF, tend to be slower, perhaps because of unfamiliarity but it may be because they’re trying to allow the congregation to kep up with what’s going on.
Daily mass at my local TLM sometimes has a homily and sometimes not. It is not obligatory for during the week. Some priests always preach a homily and some don’t. I guess it might depend on whether they had time to prepare for one or not.
In the early 90’s, daily Mass used to be handled by an elderly retired priest who had been ordained in the '30’s. I remember his homilies used to take about fifteen seconds before he moved on to the next bit. But when the newer, younger priests took over daily Mass after he passed away, their homilies were shorter than their Sunday homilies, but still way longer than 15 seconds.
Just some clarifications.
When I was an altarboy in the 70’s, our parish had a retired Msgr in residence. He said Mass daily. It was an 8:00am Mass when our parish also had an 8:30am daily Mass.In the early 90’s, daily Mass used to be handled by an elderly retired priest who had been ordained in the '30’s. I remember his homilies used to take about fifteen seconds before he moved on to the next bit. But when the newer, younger priests took over daily Mass after he passed away, their homilies were shorter than their Sunday homilies, but still way longer than 15 seconds.
He would give, as you mentioned, about a 15 sec homily. He would have a single altarboy, one of the senior ones, and you had to be a good reader, as the altarboy was the one who would read the Reading and Psalm. Mass was said and over in 15-20 min.I hear this a lot. It depends on how you translate it.
The infinitive is accipere, which is capere {take, receive, grasp, hold} + the prefix ac- {to, toward, against, or used to intensify the verb}. The English cognate is “accept” but it doesn’t seem to work in both places underscored. As doesn’t “receive.” “Took/Take” is probably something we’re more used to hearing but as you imply, that sounds rather sacrilegious to some, especially if you think of the act of taking from someone as opposed to the bread being placed on your hands or tongue. There just doesn’t seem to be a perfect English word for the action described.