sense of the sacred: The TLM in its new home

Friday, January 20, 2012

The TLM in its new home

Thanks to Ron Yu for the picture

Have been busy for the past weeks on account of my transfer to Holy Family Parish. The transfer is nearly done. The first Mass of the Roman Rite in the Extraordinary Form was celebrated in the new parish at 8:30 am on the 19th of January 2012. The Mass in the Extraordinary form has a new home in the Diocese of Cubao, Philippines.

Please visit us at the Holy Family Parish, Madre Silva corner Lilac Streets, Roxas District, Quezon City. Mass on Ferial days at 8:30 am. Mass on Sundays at 2:00 pm

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Josemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von VersterJanuary 22, 2012 at 4:19 AM
Congratulations on Your New Assignment Father!

Will there be a Novus Ordo in Latin at Holy Family Soon?

God Bless!
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AnonymousJanuary 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM
Fr. Zerrudo,

Ave Maria!

I would like to e-mail you about a personal matter. Can you please contact me @ frometad@aol.com
Thank you.

Damian Frometa

P.S. Stick to the Tridentine Mass only. :)
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We ought to get back the dimension of the sacred in the liturgy. The liturgy is not a festivity; it is not a meeting for the purpose of having a good time. It is of no importance that the parish priest has cudgeled his brains to come up with suggestive ideas or imaginative novelties. The liturgy is what makes the Thrice-Holy God present amongst us; it is the burning bush; it is the Alliance of God with man in Jesus Christ, who has died and risen again. The grandeur of the liturgy does not rest upon the fact that it offers an interesting entertainment, but in rendering tangible the Totally Other, whom we are not capable of summoning. He comes because He wills. In other words, the essential in the liturgy is the mystery, which is realized in the common ritual of the Church; all the rest diminishes it. Men experiment with it in lively fashion, and find themselves deceived, when the mystery is transformed into distraction, when the chief actor in the liturgy is not the Living God but the priest or the liturgical director. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Chile, 1988)

Do we still need sacred space, sacred time, mediating symbols? Yes, we do need them, precisely so that, through the "image," through the sign, we learn to see the openness of heaven. We need them to give us the capacity to know the mystery of God in the pierced heart of the Crucified. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Spirit of the Liturgy )