The "Last Catholic on Earth, Only One at Mass" Experience

[rondirect]

’m not in the US, so that may explain why. Perhaps the rules are different for the Francophone countries. The liturgical authority for the French language itself says to choose between the two readings unless the feast falls on a Sunday.

Interesting. I was able to use translate so I was able to read it. The first reading, Psalm, and Gospel are the same. If you google USCCB readings, you can see the difference. Also, you call today the Feast of the Glorious Cross, we call it the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

 

[Rob2]

The priest and the server alone at Mass used to be a regular thing before the Liturgy was reformed .

There were often three Masses being celebrated at the same time , the public Mass at the High Altar and two Masses at side altars . At the side altars there would just be priest and server .

I recall in the college chapel as many as seven Masses at the same time , six of them being only priest and altar server .

One Christmas I served all the three Masses of one of the priests in a chapel upstairs in the presbytery .Just me and him .

I have also gone into church when the priest has been celebrating Mass just by himself .