Today's readings

[kredmore]

Curious why there are 2 readings and a gospel today for Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome? Not Sunday and not a holy day.

 

[Elf01]

It is a feast, even if not a Holy day of obligation. I only have one reading on my resource though (two options but only one is read).

 

[1ke]

The mass and its parts have to do with the ranking of the feast day, season, etc, on the liturgical calendar following the rubrics established by the GIRM

http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-wor...uction-of-the-roman-missal/girm-chapter-7.cfm

It’s a universal feast of great importance in the church.

 

[kredmore]

Thank you, and helpful to have the USCBB link to read through.

Yes, two readings (and gospel) today:

Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome | USCCB

 

[FrDavid96]

The commemoration of the anniversary of the diocesan cathedral is a solemnity for that diocese. In the U.S. we don’t do a very good job of celebrating it, outside the cathedral itself, but it’s a solemnity nevertheless.

The Archbasilica of St John the Baptist (the Lateran) is the proper cathedral of the See of Rome, and is thereby the cathedral for the entire Catholic Church. In a way, we could say that all Catholics are parishioners of St John cathedral!

That’s why it is a universal solemnity, because it’s the universal cathedral.

 

[LateranBasilica]

Amen to that. This Basilica is Pappa Francis’s own Cathedral if you like. The Cathedral of the Holy See. The Feast is about people more then bricks and mortar. We are members of the Communion of Saints.

 

[Reuben_J]

And what beautiful readings they are. Life flows out of the temple (1st reading) and we are temple of Spirit of God (2nd reading) and Jesus cleaned the temple, and then talked about his own body being a temple (Gospel).

Being God’s temple ourselves we are holy and life giving; strong challenge indeed. Like Jesus, have we cleaned our temple from unholy things that it may have space for God to dwell?