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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER MASS THIS SUNDAY (February 16,
2020) Sexagesima Sunday 12:00 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville St. Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal page numbers: Sprinkling Rite: Asperges me
(567) Order of Mass: Missalette or Campion Missal (569) Proper Prayers and Readings (85) – online here, leaflet here Ordinary: Kyrie, (no Gloria) Credo III, Sanctus, Agnus Dei - XI Orbis factor
(740) Preface of the Holy Trinity (Leaflet; Campion 598, Angelus 874, Baronius 884) Anthem to the Virgin Mary: Ave Regina Caelorum – from February 2 through Lent (online here, Campion Missal 951, Angelus Missal 115, Baronius Missal
120 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 2 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City MASS NEXT SUNDAY (February 23,
2020) 12 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 2 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City 5 pm, Basilica of Sts. Peter &
Paul, Chattanooga THE PROPER PRAYERS FOR SEXAGESIMA
SUNDAY The collect, secret, and
postcommunion prayers for the three Sundays of the season of Septuagesima, as
they are found today in the traditional Roman missal, are word-for-Latin-word
identical with those in the Gregorian sacramentary used in the time of
Charlemagne twelve hundred years ago. Indeed, these ancient prayers are
thought to have already been several centuries old at the time of
Charlemagne, dating back at least to the time of Pope Gregory the Great
(circa 600 AD). So those of us who attend the Latin Mass of Sexagesima this
Sunday will hear words hallowed by some 15 centuries of continuous use in the
liturgy of the Church (though they are absent from the missal for the newer
ordinary form of the Mass). In
preparation for this Sunday’s Mass, compare the translations below with those
in your own personal hand missal (e.g., Angelus 269, Baronius 279, Campion 85). Collect
Secret
Postcommunion
THE GOSPEL FOR SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY Year after year for many centuries, Roman
Catholics attending the older form of Mass on Sexagesima Sunday have heard at
the Gospel the parable of the “sower who went out to sow his seed” (Luke
8:4-15)—of which some fell by the wayside, some fell upon a rock, and some
fell among thorns. But an “other some fell upon good ground, and being sprung
up, yielded fruit a hundred fold.”
The Season of Septuagesima – “Little
Lent” From the February 2019 issue of the FSSP
newsletter Meménto: Unless
Lent comes early, the season of Septuagesima tends to fall sometime within
the month of February. From the Latin meaning "seventy," Septuagesima
Sunday occurs [roughly] seventy days before Easter and recalls bygone days
when the Latin Church began its Lenten fasts from that point. Although the Latin
Church over time would condense the Lenten fasts to forty days, still the
liturgical vestiges of the longer penitential season remain on our venerable
calendar, and Septuagesima is sometimes referred to as "Little
Lent." The vestments on Sundays are violet and the Gloria in excelsis is absent; the joyful Alleluia is entirely
suppressed and will not be heard again until the Easter Vigil.
These
seemingly small things demonstrate that the season of Septuagesima is
principally one of transition. Especially after the joys and festivities
associated with Christmas and Epiphany, the Church wishes to prepare us for
the austerities of Lent by this time of transition, without which the change
would seem jarring. So as the Church begins to withdraw the joyful trappings
of her worship and dress the liturgy more with the garments of penance, as
she prepares to walk the Via Dolorosa with her Divine
Spouse, we, too, are encouraged to begin withdrawing things from our lives in
order to ready ourselves for the hard penitential work that Lent involves. It is during Septuagesima that we
should discern what suitable penances we should undertake during Lent, and we
can begin perhaps on a positive note by adding something to our daily practices, such as an additional
Mass during the week if possible, or a Rosary said on the drive to work in
place of listening to the radio, or sectioning off ten minutes each day for
thoughtful spiritual reading. In oth-er words, such efforts can be helpful in
determining what negative penances we undertake once Ash Wednesday comes,
along with the prescribed fasting and abstinence, all of which, when done
with the proper spirit of desiring to love our Lord better, will' serve to make the Alleluia of Easter more glorious. MISSA CANTATA IN ATHENS Sung high Mass at St. Mary’s every 3rd Sunday henceforth; low Mass the other Sundays of the month. ONLINE WEEKLY LATIN MASS NEWSLETTER |
