In This Issue:
June, 2009
St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church
100 Oak Dr. South
Lake Jackson, Texas
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD
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PARTS OF THE MASS (continuing feature)
INTRODUCTORY RITES
Entrance Procession
Entrance Song
Veneration of the Altar
Sign of the Cross: Greeting: Introduction
Penitential Rite
Invitation/Silence/Proclamation
Confiteor/Kyrie
(Or Sprinkling Rite may take the place of the
Penitential Rite)
Gloria (Glory to God)
Opening Prayer (Collect)
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading
Responsorial Psalm
Second Reading
Gospel Acclamation
Gospel
Homily
Profession of Faith
General Intercessions
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Preparation of the Altar and the Gifts
Presentation of the Gifts
Offertory Song
Prayers At the Preparation of the Gifts
Mixing of Water and Wine
Lord God, We Ask You…
Incensation
Washing of the Hands
Prayer Over the Gifts and Its Invitation
Eucharistic Prayer
Preface
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
Epiclesis
Institution Narrative
Memorial Acclamation*
Anamnesis*
Offering*
Intercessions*
Final Doxology*
COMMUNION RITE*
Lord’s Prayer*
Rite of Peace*
Breaking of the Bread*
Commingling*
Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)*
(Private Preparation of Priest and People)*
(*featured in this issue)
Invitation to Communion
Distribution of the Eucharist
Communion Song
Purification of the Vessels
Silent Prayer/Song of Praise
Prayer After Communion
CONCLUDING RITE
(Announcements)
Greeting and Blessing
Dismissal
Veneration of the Altar
Recessional
The Memorial Acclamation
An acclamation of the people follows the words of institution; the priest gives an invitation: “Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.” The people sing or say an acclamation using one of the 4 prescribed formulas. Options one and two recall the death, resurrection and second coming of Christ. The third option almost word for word echoes I Corinthians 11: 26. Option four is the only acclamation which does not mention the final coming of Christ.
Anamnesis
The whole Eucharistic action and especially the words of institution are a memorial, an actual making present of God’s saving deeds. Since the Eucharist is also the pledge of future glory, Christ’s coming at the end of time is also anticipated.
Offering
Before the institution narrative there are numerous requests that God accept, bless, and approve the offerings and the gifts. The anamnesis, which petitions that God accept the bread of life and the cup from the many gifts he has given us, continues with the request that the offerings be accepted as were the sacrificial gifts of Abel, Abraham, and Melchizedeck. This is followed by a petition that the sacrifice be taken to the altar in heaven.
Intercession
The intercessions make it clear that the Eucharist is celebrated in communion with the whole Church of heaven and earth, and that the offering is made for the church and all its members, living and dead, who were called to share in the salvation and redemption acquired by the body and the blood of Christ. The faithful also recall the Virgin Mary, the apostles, the martyrs, and all the saints who already share in the heavenly banquet announced and prefigured by the Eucharist.
Final Doxology
The final doxology summarizes the Eucharistic prayer which concludes, as it began, on an explicit note of praise. The priest proclaims the Eucharistic prayer in the name of the assembly which confirms and approves this action by its Great Amen, given in song or a loud voice.
The Communion Rite
The eating and drinking of the Body and Blood of the Lord in a Paschal meal is the climax of our Eucharistic celebration. It is prepared for by several rites: the Lord’s Prayer with embolism and doxology, the rite of peace, breaking of bread (and co-mingling) during the Lamb of God, private preparation of the priest and showing of the Eucharistic bread. The eating and drinking is accompanied by a song expressing the unity of communicants and is followed by a time of prayer after Communion.
(This series will conclude in next month’s issue)
EMBOLISM. (Greek: embolismos, from the verb, emballein, "to throw in") Embolism is an insertion, addition, interpretation.
Although most often thought of as a medical term, it has two meanings in the Church. First, the prayer in the Canon of the Mass which begins, “Deliver us, Lord, from every evil,” inserted between the Our Father and the Fraction of the Bread, and intoned by the priest alone. It is an expansion of the last petition of the Lord’s Prayer asking the Lord to grant perfect peace. It serves as a transition to the acclamation by the people of the doxology, “For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever”.
An embolism is also the difference of days in the calendar between the lunar year of 354 days
and the solar year of 365 ¼ days.
QUIZ
(TRUE/FALSE)
Q. The Vatican has issued guidelines encouraging people to hold
hands during the Our Father.
(Click here for answers, or scroll down)
That the Lord’s Prayer enjoys a unique place in Christian tradition, spirituality, and worship? Two versions are found in the New Testament: Luke 11:24 and Matthew 6:9-13, the latter utilized by the liturgy where the prayer’s first three petitions may be seen in close association with the Eucharistic Prayer and its last four petition (bread and forgiveness) as looking ahead to the Communion.
The prayer entered the liturgy at an early age, but was usually prayed immediately after the breaking of the bread. However, Saint Gregory the Great, influenced by Saint Augustine, wanted to link the prayer more closely to the Eucharistic Prayer and so placed it before the fraction rite.
The Lord’s Prayer is a petition “for daily food, which for Christians means preeminently the Eucharistic bread, and also for purification from sin, so that what is holy may in fact, be given to those who are holy.” (GIRM 81)
"Holy Communion keeps me full of joy. Without the constant presence of our divine Master in my humble chapel, I should never have been able to continue to link my life with the lepers of Moloka’i.”
Blessed Damien Joseph De Veuster of Molika’i
Joseph De Veuster (1840-1889) was born in Belgium and in 1860 joined the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, taking the name Damien. He served as a missionary for 9 years in Hawaii, and at his request was sent to the leper colony at Molokai and spent the rest of his life ministering to the lepers. He contracted the disease himself in 1885 but continued to live and work with his fellow lepers until his death in 1889.
He was declared venerable by Pope Paul VI in1977, and beatified in 1995 by Pope John Paul II. He has been granted a memorial feast day celebrated on May 10th, however, in 2009, that was a Sunday and Mother’s Day.
The Vatican has announced that he will be canonized on Oct. 11, 2009.
ORDINARY
TIME
Pentecost, May 31, ended the Season of Easter, which brings us back to Ordinary Time in the Church Calendar. However, the first two Sundays will be celebrated as Most Holy Trinity and Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, followed by the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time, when we will be back in Mark’s Gospel and we hear of Jesus’ calming of the Storm at Sea. We are reminded that Jesus can calm the storms of our lives, especially when our faith begins to waver.
The theme that pervades the Gospel of Mark is the coming of the kingdom of God, the longed-for
presence of God’s rule among humanity. Jesus makes it clear that the kingdom of God is not a pious
or desperate hope for the distant future. It is a living reality, present to those who receive it.
Feast Days of Saints
JUNE
1 St. Justin
3 St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
5 St. Boniface
7 Most Holy Trinity
11 St. Barnabas
13 St. Anthony of Padua*
14 Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
19 Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
20 Immaculate Heart of Mary
24 Nativity of St. John the Baptist
29 Sts. Peter and Paul This feast day will officially end the “Year of
Paul”
*St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was born Ferdinand de Bulhoes in Lisbon, Portugal, the son of a knight at the court of King Alfonso II. At 15 he joined the Canons Regular of St. Augustine and was ordained in 1219 or 1220, then transferred to the Franciscans in 1221, taking the name Anthony.
He was a gifted preacher and his sermons were noted for their eloquence, fire and persuasiveness, attracting huge crowds everywhere he preached.
He settled in Padua after 1226 and worked at reforming the city, to abolish debtors’ prisons, helped the poor and worked ceaselessly and untiringly with heretics. There are many stories of miracles he wrought and he was known as a wonder worker. He is the patron of the poor and oppressed and is widely invoked for the return of lost articles. He is depicted in art with the Infant Jesus on his arm because of an episode in which a visitor reported this happening.
He died at the age of 36 and was canonized the following year. He was declared a Doctor of the
Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946.
ANSWER:
A. False. The Vatican Document Notitiae (Not 11(1975)226) stated the practice of holding hands during the Our Father should be “repudiated”. That means it should not happen, and should not continue. (also see Documents on the Liturgy I 1502)
Featured this month
A DVD of the Mass celebrated at St. Michael’s church by Daniel Cardinal DiNardo on the Feastday of St. Joseph, March 19, 2009 is available for checking out from our library.
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