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Showing posts with label high Mass. Show all posts

Showing posts with label high Mass. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

Feast of St. Joseph

Pictures of the Solemn High Mass on the Feast of St. Joseph at the Holy Family Parish, Roxas District, Quezon City, Philippines

Myself as Celebrant, Fr. Rodel Lopez, OMI as deacon, and Fr. Mark Sese of the Diocese of Pasig as subdeacon

Thanks to Dennis Maturan for the pictures

Prayers at the foot of the altar

Elevation of Our Lord's Body

Elevation of the Chalice

2nd Confiteor

for posterity

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Video of Solemn Mass in the EF at the Holy Family Parish

The Video of the Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the Holy Family Parish is now posted at the New Liturgical Movement .

More From the Philippines: Solemn Mass in the EF

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Solemn High Mass at Holy Family Parish

Last Sunday, February 12, 2012, the High Mass was offered at the Holy Family Church. This is the external Solemnity of the Holy Family. It was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Jean-Marie Moreau of the Institute of Christ the King, with Rev. Fr. Eric Forbes, OFM Cap. serving as Deacon and Rev. Fr. Rodel Lopez, OMI as sub-deacon. It was truly a blessed event - the highlight of our Parish Fiesta.

Thank you Mr. Jay Balza for the pictures and also for bringing Fr. Moreau!

The Common Liturgical Direction (ad orientem)

The elevation of the Body of the Lord

The elevation of the Precious Blood

The second Confiteor

Ite Missa Est.

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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 )