Vesting Prayers • Part 3 of 9
The Amice
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
Fr. Robert W. Hovda argues that “Little Green Apples” can be sung during Mass.
The removal of carpeting is the most effective way to improve many aspects of the liturgy. Externally, what benefits most is congregational singing.
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
Printing copies of the propers is very handy for singers not yet confident with the Liber and other books.
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?
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