Wednesday, January 24, 2007

It's Official

According to the SelectSmart.com Belief System Selector, my #1 belief match is ROMAN CATHOLIC.
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Interestingly enough, I also scored a 100% for Eastern Orthodox. Apparently I'm breathing with "both lungs". *smiles at those who caught it*

Friday, January 19, 2007

The Lamb's Supper

The Lamb's Supper: Mass as Heaven on Earth

I received this book as a birthday gift and just recently finished it. I recommend that you go read it! I love Scott Hann's writings.

From the front flap:
"The Lamb's Supper reveals a long lost secret of the Church: The early Christians' key to understanding the mysteries of the Mass was the New Testaments' Book of Revelation. With its bizarre imagery, its' mystic visions of Heaven, and its' end-of-time prophesies, Revelation mirrors the sacrifice and celebration of the Eucharist. Beautifully written in clear, direct language, this new book by best selling Catholic author Scott Hann will help readers see the Mass with new eyes, pray the liturgy with a renewed heart, and enter into the Mass more fully, enthusiastically, intelligently, and more powerfully than ever before."

Sunday, January 14, 2007

NO Latin

Okay, so Aprill and I attended a NO Mass in Latin today. Unfortunately, we both felt that it lacked a particularly spiritual sense. This is not to say that it was not valid, etc., only that we did not find it a home for us.

Instead of critiquing the Mass I only want to offer up our plans of what we're going to do now. =) We are considering finding another parish that is close to us which offers the Mass (Tridentine or Novus Ordo) in Latin.

We will continue to pray about this and will keep you updated!

I would like to say something positive about the parish that we attended today. We both *loved* the Perpetual Adoration chapel they have there. They have a small library of pamphlets/books, plenty of chairs, several rosaries, and was overall very nice. If nothing else, we'll probably be returning to that parish just for Adoration! =)

Tridentine, Novus Ordo, and Latin

Wow! It's been awhile since I've posted here. I actually forgot that I created this page! Well, with the transition of moving and then going to Texas for the holidays, it was quite easy to do. *smile*

As some of you know, since I've been in Arizona, I've been attending a Tridentine Mass along with some friends of mine. For those of you who don't know what that means, I encourage you to check out: This Page In a nutshell, the Tridentine Mass is the liturgy that was followed until the 1960's when Vatican II created the Novus Ordo liturgy (in Latin, for the record).

I have really enjoyed attending Mass in this style. The reverence, chant, and incense. To attend the Tridentine liturgy is to attend in body, mind, and soul.

This week, however, I am doing something different. I am going to attend a Novus Ordo Mass in its original Latin language. I have heard many things (good and bad) about the Novus Ordo, even in its' native language. I am hoping that the good things I have heard will be true and the bad things won't be. ;-)

I have grown up with the NO, so I know how to pray it. Having attended the Tridentine Mass, I found myself the rest of the week trying to better prepare myself for the next time I went. Trying to find deeper ways to invest myself in it and how to pray it more deeply and reverently. But again, since it is new to me, I still find trouble doing such no matter how much I like the Mass.

That is why I am going to attend a NO this weekend. I think that Latin being the universal language of the Universal Church that it is an essential part of the liturgy, but I hope that because it is in a form more to what I am used to that it will be easier to put myself into a state of spiritual contemplation, worship, and reverence.

I'll post later and let you know how it goes! ;-)