Question about EWTN Cantada Mass of Good Shephard Sunday in the EF

[PacoG]

I watched parts of the Mass of Good Shepherd Sunday in the EF which EWTN televised on Sunday. And it brings up a couple of questions:

1. Is there some disharmony between the OF Calendar and the EF Calendar? According to my OF missal, the Fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday. Is Good Shepherd Sunday on the Third Sunday of Easter in the EF Calendar?
2. I didn’t watch the Mass after the Offertory. The priest prepared two chalices…the large one (which presumably was the main one) and a smaller one, which it put the pall over and set it off to the side of corporal. What was the second chalice for?
3. I have noticed that the priests who celebrate the EF Mass on EWTN (both FSSP and Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest) wear birettas. So do the deacons (or the priests vesting down as deacons). Would this be true also of Franciscans or other orders of priests who wear a habit? Like for example, if Fr. Anthony Mary of EWTN would celebrate an EF mass, would he have the option of wearing a biretta. What if the EWTN clergy celebrated an EF Mass, who would wear a biretta in this configuration:
   Celebrant: Fr. Antony Mary, MFVA: biretta?
   Master of Ceremony: Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ: biretta?
   Deacon: Fr. John Corapi, SOLT: biretta?
   Sub-Deacon: Rev. Deacon Mr. Bill Steltemeir (sp): biretta?

 

[PhilotheaZ]

I can only answer your first question. Yes, the OF and EF calendars do differ from each other. Good Shepherd Sunday is one instance where they diverge.

 

[Walden]

1. I didn’t watch the Mass after the Offertory. The priest prepared two chalices…the large one (which presumably was the main one) and a smaller one, which it put the pall over and set it off to the side of corporal. What was the second chalice for?

Well, I was there (sorry, I’m still excited about it). Maybe I can try to answer this one. The second chalice was offered to two people (maybe more) by the Deacon after everyone else had received. The first thing that came to my mind was Celiac’s. Perhaps they were unable to receive the Host for some reason like that and informed the Celebrant before Mass.

Someone else correct me if I’m wrong.

 

[PacoG]

I can only answer your first question. Yes, the OF and EF calendars do differ from each other. Good Shepherd Sunday is one instance where they diverge.

Is there a reason?

I can understand saint’s days and matters that were either moved or suppressed on the new calendar. However, one would think that Good Shepherd Sunday would be the same regardless. Easter is the same day on both. Low Sunday is the same on both (except that the new calender gives the Mercy Sunday option).

 

[Cluny]

Seems to me that Good Shepherd Sunday is whatever day the Gospel of the Good Shepherd (John 10) is read in whichever rite.

Should a Franciscan or Benedictine or other regular priest with a hooded habit celebrate, the biretta would not be worn, but the hood would be pulled up over the head in approaching and leaving the Altar.

 

[sancte_joseph]

1. I have noticed that the priests who celebrate the EF Mass on EWTN (both FSSP and Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest) wear birettas. So do the deacons (or the priests vesting down as deacons). Would this be true also of Franciscans or other orders of priests who wear a habit? Like for example, if Fr. Anthony Mary of EWTN would celebrate an EF mass, would he have the option of wearing a biretta. What if the EWTN clergy celebrated an EF Mass, who would wear a biretta in this configuration:
   ?

Priest in an order like franciscan and dominican and such would not wear the birreta but of course they could if they wanted to but… as far as i know they don’t wear it… and the dominican priest cover their head with the “hoodie” type thing (sorry lack of a better word)

 

[preV2tradcath]

Here’s an example of another difference. The Third Sunday of Easter in the OF Calendar is the Second Sunday After Easter in the EF. It continues like that. May 17 will be the 5th Sunday after Easter. May 24th will be the Sunday after the Ascension.
Edited to add that May 24th might also be called the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension.

 

[preV2tradcath]

Seems to me that Good Shepherd Sunday is whatever day the Gospel of the Good Shepherd (John 10) is read in whichever rite.
.

That makes sense to me. Remember that even though the OF and EF are in the Easter season, the readings on any given Sunday are not the same. For Good Shepherd Sunday in the EF, the Epistle is 1 Peter 2 : 21-25. The Gospel is John 10: 11-16. The EF has only one cycle of readings -not 3 as in the OF- and 2 not 3 Scripture readings.