Holy Saturday: Anticipation
All-powerful and ever-living God,your only Son went down among the deadand rose again in glory.In your goodnessraise up your faithful people,buried with him in baptism,to be one with himin the eternal life of heaven,where he lives and reigns with you … Continued
Good Friday: Were You There?
What got me today was the spiritual, "Were You There?" It was sung this afternoon at Veneration of the Cross, of course, and also this evening at the Living Stations of the Cross. The youth acted this out, and sang … Continued
Holy Thursday: Serve and Give
Today's Mass of the Lord's Supper was a great beginning to the Triduum for me. Fr. Frank's homily focused on the Mandatum of "serve and give:" a motto that was pounded home to him in his early seminary days. It … Continued
For you and for all [men]…
The other day in Presiding at the Eucharist class, the instructor corrected one of the guys who was using an older Sacramentary. At the words of institution, he said "for you and for all men" … the word "men," of … Continued
Singing During a Homily
As you may know from my last post, I decided to sing parts of the Exsultet in my homilies last weekend. That was a controversial decision for me; since I was thinking better of it after I had made the … Continued
Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday): Rejoice!
I preached two different homilies this weekend: one for the regular Sunday (Cycle B of the Lectionary) and the other for the Second Scrutiny (which uses Cycle A of the Lectionary). Both are given below. I took special care to … Continued
Goodbye b2evolution, Hello WordPress!
Well, I finally had enough of spending all my time managing the spam on the b2evolution blog, so I switched it all over to WordPress today. Here's hoping this works better! In the meantime, please be patient with any glitches! … Continued
Third Sunday of Lent: Zeal for Your House will consume me…
http://www.usccb.org/nab/031906a.shtml I think today’s Gospel story is very strange to many of us. It presents Jesus in a light that we don’t often see – kind of a violent light, in fact. I’ve often heard this story explained as a … Continued
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Things we ought to give up for Lent
A surface reading of Catholic blogs lately has made me ponder the purpose of these things. Since it’s Lent, I thought maybe all of us, bloggers or readers, could resolve to give up some things: The use of the phrase … Continued
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