Homily for
the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
“You are Peter, and Upon this Rock I will build my Church”
Fr. Meyer and I were both blessed to witness today the Confirmation of 74 young adults from Dearborn County. Archbishop Thompson gave a tremendously powerful homily, and one of the things that he said was "when you all come to Mass this weekend, you will hear Jesus telling Peter that I built my Church upon you...we all haver our own theological opinions and ideas about what the Catholic Church ought to teach, and what the Catholic Mass should look like...but it is important that we run our own ideas through what the Church ACTUALLY teaches!"
There are 4 pillar documents of the 2nd Vatican Council, and one of them deals exclusively with the Mass. That pillar document said that while permitting translations of the Mass into the vernacular, “care must be taken to ensure that the faithful may also be able to say or sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them”
Pope Francis said just last week that every Council in the history of the Catholic Church has taken about 100 years to be realized...and we are only 60 years after the 2nd Vatican Council, so we still have 40 years left...
And so it is neither Fr. Meyer nor my desire to do this quickly. It will take years of teaching…and so we have started with the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei
Latin Mass Part (Sanctus and Agnus Dei) are Located
St. Lawrence they are in the BACK of the green Gather book
St. Mary on the hymn board.
St Teresa - in front of Gather book
Why chant them?
Because chanting is actually easier than just reciting them, particularly
when it comes to the Creed and the Gloria and so forth.
If you watch Mass on EWTN at all, that is also what we are
trying to build here…the Mass as the 2nd Vatican Council intended…the
Mass on EWTN some days does Latin Mass parts, some days they do the Mass in
English…
There is also a 2sided handout in this weekend’s bulletins
about other questions you might have about the way Mass is celebrated in
Dearborn County. Please grab a bulletin
and let myself or Fr. Meyer know if you have any questions.
There is an old saying that "no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care." I hope you see that Fr. Meyer and I are both striving to lay down our lives to serve and minister to all of our parishioners and all of those living in our parish boundaries.
We are trying to celebrate the Mass in the way that the 2nd Vatican Council intended it so as to remain close to Peter and his successors.
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