inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu! 
Friday, April 6, 2012
GOOD FRIDAY CONFESSIONS AND A TON OF THEM!
Father Dawid, a visiting priest and I heard confessions following our 12 noon Stations of the Cross, all three of us for an hour and a half.
We had the Stations of the Cross again at 3:00 PM. As at 12 Noon, the Church was full. This time only Fr. Dawid and I heard Confessions following the Stations. Both of us heard Confessions for nearly two hours!
We just finished the main Liturgy of Good Friday which began at 7:00 PM and lasted to about 8:30 PM. The Church was almost full again. We followed the new rubrics for the veneration of the Cross. We had a very large Cross and only one. We began at the entrance of the Church and as with the Paschal Candle, Fr. Dawid, the celebrant chanted "Behold the wood..." and our new response, "Come let us adore." At the Sanctuary after the third invocation, Fr. Dawid took off his chasuble, stole and shoes and venerated the Holy Cross and the rest of the ministers did.
Then the entire congregation came forward and venerated the One Holy Cross--it did not take that long and our choir chanted various appropriate chants throughout.
I was freaking out about how long it would take for the veneration of the Cross, but it wasn't bad at all and it was very reverent and prayerful!
I will update this with photos as Dr. Buck Melton was doing his photography thing tonight again.
This is a portion of St. Peter's Good Friday Liturgy, with the Holy Father taking off chasuble and shoes to go and venerate the Holy Cross; Father Dawid did this last night, but his barefootedness wasn't as powerful as the Holy Father's and the Holy Father had some distance to walk to get to the Holy Cross. Please note how St. Peter's altar is stripped for Good Friday:
This is from our Saint Joseph Day OF Mass Ad orientem:
First of all it was purely a "Gregorian Mass" in the Ordinary Form Ad Orientem with Gregorian chant for all the parts. The schola sang splendidly "Vidi Aqaum" Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Gradual, Sequence (and marvelously!) Alleluia with ordinary form English verse) Credo, Universal Prayer, Offertory verse, Sanctus, Mysterium Fidei, Pater Noster and Doxology, Agnus Dei, Communion Antiphon. I botched the Ite Missa Est, Alleluia, Alleluia as I had a senior moment as I faced the people for this and did not have the notes for it.
First of all it was purely a "Gregorian Mass" in the Ordinary Form Ad Orientem with Gregorian chant for all the parts. The schola sang splendidly "Vidi Aqaum" Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Gradual, Sequence (and marvelously!) Alleluia with ordinary form English verse) Credo, Universal Prayer, Offertory verse, Sanctus, Mysterium Fidei, Pater Noster and Doxology, Agnus Dei, Communion Antiphon. I botched the Ite Missa Est, Alleluia, Alleluia as I had a senior moment as I faced the people for this and did not have the notes for it.
ON EASTER SUNDAY AT 1:00 PM AT SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH IN MACON, A REFORM OF THE REFORM, ORDINARY FORM BUT EXTRAORDINARILY CELEBRATED LATIN HIGH MASS
The Asperges will be celebrated as a prelude to Mass,not a part of it, and it will be celebrated in the EF Tradition with the schola singing the Vidi Aquam and Easter Water sprinkled which was consecrated at the Easter Vigil:
