Today is a Holy Day of Obligation, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and has been traditionally, though the U.S. Bishop’s Conference says that if the Assumption falls on a Saturday or Monday, as it does for 2009, then, as noted on their website: “the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.”
Consequently, though our home parish is a Jesuit parish, we like to attend the local parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter for High Mass in the Extraordinary Rite on Holy Days and will so later this morning.
For converts like us, the experience of a High Mass on Holy Days is one not to be missed, as the solemnity, grandeur, ritual, and mystery, punctuated by Gregorian Chant, is connected with the ancient rhythms of the Catholic Church, and it will thrill your heart and soul.
The Fraternity is, as noted on their website:
“A Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right founded with the approval of His Holiness Pope John Paul II in 1988, for the formation and sanctification of priests in the framework of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and their pastoral deployment in the service of the Church.”
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.