What was celebrated at your parish today?

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We did the Conversion of St. Paul and also had a Cathoic Schools week celebration.
 
I went to Mass twice today…neither time at my own parish. I am a sign language interpreter and interpreted at two different churches today. At the first church, the readings for the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time were used. At the 2nd church (our Cathedral), the readings were for the Conversion of St. Paul.
 
I work rotating shifts.Some weekends my schedule and my Parishes Mass schedule do not coenside, so I must go to a neighaboring Parish. With money a little tight and my wife taking a well needed break from the kitchen Gods providence shows itself again. We attend St. Bernadetts in League City. Not only did they celebrate The Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, but it coencided with their anual Culture Diversity Day. Meny people dressed in their cultural atire, participated in the Mass.The Deacon’s homily tied the feast in with their anual event explaining that St. Paul and those who came after him layed their lives down so that we Gentiles have the opertunity to accept Christ. The fruits of their toil was revealed this day in St. Bernidetts Catholic Church with this diverse group of people.

Oh yes about Gods providence. After Mass the priest invited the parishiners to go to the parish hall and partake in a wide range of cultural foods, view artifacts and enjoy music from this diverse group of CATHOLICS
We ate food From Athens to Amsterdam, From Ballpark franks to Brazillian delicacies. Personally Peru was my favorite
 
We celebrated the Conversion of St Paul
…and were aware it was "Australia Day
 
We had an unusual mass today. We did celebrate the feast of St. Paul’s conversion, but we also celebrated the start of Catholic Schools week in the diocese of Toledo, OH(don’t know if it is nation wide). We had the children from our Catholic Elementary to participate in mass, besides having alter servers. Plus today was the first time that I led the Rosary before the Mass.
 
Phemie said:
In this exceptional case it appears it was left up to the priests. It certainly was in our diocese where the bishop sent a letter saying that the priests had his permission to celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul if they wished and indicating which readings to use in each case.

The implication in the letter is that this was permitted because of Pope Benedict’s proclamation of the Year of St. Paul.
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Actually, it wasn’t the bishop’s permissin to give, as Pope Benedict XVI had made this declaration:
CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS
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granting a special faculty for the celebration of the Conversion of St Paul,
Apostle in the Jubilee Year bimillennium of his birth
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The Apostle St Paul, who proclaimed the truth of Christ to the entire world and, after having been his persecutor, employed all means to announce the Good News to the peoples, committing himself with zeal for the unity and harmony of all Christians, has always been and is still now venerated by the faithful, especially in this particular Year, bimillennium of his birth, that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI has willed to institute it as a special Jubilee Year.
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Therefore, in force of the faculties attributed to this Congregation by the Supreme Pontiff, Benedict XVI, grants, in an extraordinary way, that next 25 January 2009, the Third Sunday “per annum”, the singular churches can celebrate a Mass according to the formula Conversion of St Paul, Apostle, as found in the Roman Missal. In this case, the Second Reading of the Mass is taken from the Roman Lectionary for the Third Sunday “per annum”, and the Creed is recited.
This concession, by special mandate of the Supreme Pontiff, is valid only for the Year 2009.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary.
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From the Congregation for Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 25 January 2008, on the feast of the Conversion of St Paul, Apostle.
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OCP didn’t print the option for the readings for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. I was greatly disappointed with my parish (and a few others down here) who went ahead with the 3rd Sunday in Ordinal time. It is very rare that the Holy See grants permission to substitute something that is not a solemnity and allows it to be celebrated on a Sunday.

Instead, my parochial vicar mentioned it in passing and told us a rather insipid story about going to watch a bullfight and being spared inspection because of Maria Felix. :mad:
 
Feast of St. Paul. Father wore a beautiful white chasuble. The altar covering was also white as was the veil in front of the Tabernacle. Even before Mass began, before the Processional, Father spoke from the back of the nave and told us that it was a very special celebration of the Mass, the purpose of which was to celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul in this, the year of St. Paul, which had been generously given to us by Pope Benedict.
At the beginning of the homily he spoke of all the whys and wherefores of the feast being celebrated on January 25th. As usual the homily was excellent; very focused on the readings and challenging us to really think about what we had just heard. Especially about how a conversion of heart and thought was so often necessary even if we believe that we are righteous.Paul truly believed in his righteousness when he was persecuting the Christians but it wasn’t until he truly opened himself up to Jesus that the scales fell from his heart. not just his eyes .Father neatly tied this week’s homily about conversion to last week’s where he talked about Samuel believing at first that it was Eli calling him. It isn’t enough to simply say, “here I am, Lord” but rather as Samuel finally realized, “Speak, for your servant is listening”.
It was a very powerful homily and afterwards, Father sat for a good 5 minutes letting us digest his words. You could have heard a pin drop in the church. Seriously! There wasn’t even any throat clearing, coughing, or shuffling of feet. Just absolute silence. It was lovely.
 
We celebrated the Conversion of St Paul. Our regular lector was not there so Deacon asked if I would do the readings. I readily accepted, although I have only done the readings a few times.

The readings had been photocopied and were not in the regular lectionary.

The first one was a long one, too…!
 
3rd Sunday In Ordinary Times…Sermon was about how to give up being a sinner…kind of like a smoker trying to kick the habit.It can be done…Warmly, LynneMarie
 
benedictgal said:
Actually, it wasn’t the bishop’s permissin to give, as Pope Benedict XVI had made this declaration:
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Ok, perhaps he was relaying that information and I misread or perhaps the message in the fax wasn’t clear but, in any case, until the fax came 2 weeks ago we hadn’t heard this. I’m surprised though because I’m usually on the CCCB website at least once a week and hadn’t seen anything there.
 
Another_Mary said:
We celebrated the Conversion of St Paul. Our regular lector was not there so Deacon asked if I would do the readings. I readily accepted, although I have only done the readings a few times.

The readings had been photocopied and were not in the regular lectionary.

The first one was a long one, too…!
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I am happy that you got to read, as the reading is a beautiful one.

Unfortunately, reaidng off a piece of paper is not a good practice. We should have respect for the Word of God. What probably should have been done was to use the Lectionary for Daily Mass (either II or III) because they have the readings for the Feasts by date and then subsitute that book for the Sunday lectionary when proclaiming the second reading.

The Gospel came from the one used for Ascension Thursday, Cycle B, with some deletions here and there.
 
We’re at St. Paul’s Catholic Church, so we celebrated our patron. There are only two St. Paul churches in this diocese, so Bishop Conlon came in and did vespers with us last night(well, “vespers,” since it was very different from traditional evening prayer, I’m told). It was an interesting experience.
 
Our parish also celebrated the Feast of St Paul, and our Deacon gave the homily on everyone’s need for conversion and praying for our new president. He especially focused on praying for his conversion in light of signing the FOCA.

I was confused at first when I tried to follow the readings in the Missalette, until I realized what we were celebrating.
 
Well, for the week my “parish” was the National Basilica 🙂 and they did the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

It was awe-inspiring 🙂 What I remember of the homily was the fact that even after the initial conversion, Paul had a nasty disposition, but God used that zeal for the benefit of the Church.
 
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