SUA SANTIDADE BENTO XVI APOSTOLO DA DIFUSÃO DA MISSA GREGORIANA NO MUNDO: DIFUSÃO DA MISSA GREGORIANA NO MUNDO

Domingo de Laetare en Toledo

Monseñor don Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche cantó la Santa Misa con la forma extraordinaria del Rito Romano, el pasado Domingo de Laetare, en la Iglesia del Salvador, en Toledo, España.

Iglesia del Salvador

El pasado Domingo de Laetare Monseñor Mons. James D. Conley, Obispo de Lincoln, en Nebraska, ofició Santa Misa con el Misal de San Juan XXIII, en la iglesia de Santa Inés de la ciudad de Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Previamente el obispo pronunció la conferencia "Belleza, cultura y nueva evangelización".

Asiste en coro, según nos informa un amable lector, Monseñor John O'hara, uno de los obispos auxiliares de la Archidiócesis de Nueva York, lo que eleva a 389 el número de obispos que han participado en la forma extraordinaria desde el motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Fotografías de Arrys Ortanez.

The Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny

Misa de San José en Francia

Santa Misa cantada con el Misal de San Juan XXIII en la Capilla de la Fraternidad Sacerdotal de San Pedro en Versalles, el pasado 19 de marzo, en la fiesta de San José. Celebra el Padre Renard, FSSP.

Agradecimiento a nuestros amigos en Francia.

Boda tradicional en México

Boda recientemente celebrada con la forma extraordinaria del Rito Romano entre don Arturo Navarro y doña Daniela Rubio, en el Santuario de Guadalupe, en Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Celebró el Padre Romo, FSSP, quen utilizo los ornamentos pontificales de Fray Antonio Alcade, Siervo de Dios, en el 314 aniversario de nacimiento.

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Boda en Segovia con el Rito Hispano-Mozárabe

Recientemente se ha inaugurado el blog del Instituto de Cristo Rey Sumo Sacerdote en España, donde pueden seguir las noticias de su apostolado en España:

Instituto de Cristo Rey Sumo Sacerdote

De dicho blog proceden estas fotografías de la reciente celebración del sacramento del Matrimonio en la Catedral de Segovia, según el rito del Manual Toledano en la Catedral de Segovia. Se celebró también la Misa Solemne de Esponsales con el tradicional rito de las relaciones. El celebrante es el reverendo don Raúl Olazábal, superior en España del ICRSS.

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Liturgical Colours for Lent in the Ambrosian Tradition

Gregory DiPippo

This article by our Ambrosian expert Nicola de’ Grandi was originally published on NLM on March 23, 2010. From time to time, we will be reposting earlier articles which may be of interest to our newer readers.

According to the Ambrosian liturgical tradition, this present week is the last week of the ordinary Lenten season, before the beginning of the season “in Authentica”, known as Holy Week in the Roman Rite. In fact, there is no Passiontide in the Ambrosian Rite, and Crucifixes in Ambrosian churches are never veiled.

This shift gives an occasion to give our readership some information about the use of liturgical colours during Lent in the Ambrosian Rite.

First of all, it should be noted that in the Ambrosian Tradition, the whole of Lenten time is “aeortological”, that is no Saint’s feast - apart from St. Joseph and the Annunciation, the former only since 1902 - is ever celebrated during Lent. Thus, almost on every Lenten weekday, the Mass is de feria, with the only exception of the above mentioned feasts. Fridays are always aliturgical, and the celebration of the Mass in Ambrosian churches is strictly, as is the celebration of Mass by Ambrosian priests in the Roman Rite churches of the diocese.

The liturgical colour for Lenten feriae is that of strict penance: black.

In fact, according to the Ambrosian tradition, black is not only the colour of mourning (and, as such, used for requiem Masses), but also the true color of penance and fast. In this sense it is used at least since the 12th century not only for Lenten ferial days, but also for the Minor Litanies, which in the Ambrosian Rite occur after the Ascension, not before.

It is also worth noting that the use of black for Lenten feriae has been recently restored as an option in the Ordinary Form of the Ambrosian Rite.

On Sundays, on the contrary, when penance is partially mitigated and the fast is suspended, the colour used for liturgy is -or rather should be- a dark sort of violet called “morello”, which is very different form the Roman “violaceo”.

You see an example of this difference in the photo below, taken during a Pontifical Mass in the Cathedral; the Archbishop of Milan is wearing morello vestments, while the deacon is wearing a roman violet dalmatic. (The imposition of the ashes takes place at the beginning of Lent only in the Ordinary Form.)

Rose-colored vestments are never used in the Ambrosian tradition.

The use of black and morello ends with the Thursday after the Fifth Sunday of Lent; the following Friday is, of course, aliturgical.

The Saturday after the Fifth Sunday of Lent is called “in Traditione Symboli - at the handing down of the Creed”, the day on which the Creed was imparted to the catechumen. From this day forward, the Ambrosian Church drops black and wears only red during the whole week “in Authentica”, even on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, until Easter Eve.

During the Easter Vigil, which has structure very different from the Roman one, the celebrant and major ministers will drop red and wear white, which is used only the Saturday “in albis”.

On the Sunday immediately afterwards, called “Dominica in Albis depositis”, as the neophytes put aside the white dress they received during the Paschal Vigil, so also for liturgical cermonies, white is replaced with green, which will be used for the rest of Eastertide.

Laetare Sunday, St Joseph, and St. Patrick Photopost

Ben Yanke

As always, our thanks to all those who sent in photos for Laetare Sunday and the feast of St Joseph. We also received from Northern Ireland some photos of a Mass for St Patrick’s Day, and a nice image of a Cross decorated for the Third Sunday of Lent in the Byzantine Rite, the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross. (Please do keep in mind that NLM is always very happy to receive and publish photographs of liturgies not covered by specific photopost requests.)

Holy Name of Jesus - Providence, Rhode Island (Laetare Sunday)