You had me up to "Ordinary Time". This is also a modern corruption. There are no gaps in the real Catholic liturgical cycle, no empty spaces where nothing important happens. Candlemas closes the Christmas cycle and Septuagesima begins the Lent-Easter cycle.
When re-reading I guess I left a bit of a gap there. 'Time after Pentecost' would be better, adjusted it. (English is not my 1st language)
I have a 1930s Missal with a half page of catechism for every Sunday. And not one is 'ordinary'. It follows a logical cycle in both Scripture and life.
Hopefully this year I can finally convince my priest to do a Rogation Day procession through the fields, instead of around our church (which is located in the city centre of Utrecht).
"Hopefully this year I can finally convince my priest to do a Rogation Day procession through the fields" - this would be awesome. How old is he? If he's under 50 he might go for it.
No, you were just mixing up the New Rite calendar they made up in the 1960s and the Gregorian Catholic calendar. Easy mistake to make, since everythign is so muddled now. They have this thing they call "Ordinary Time" because they abolished a bunch of the liturgical year, and so created these gaps, spaces where nothing is really happening, so they call it "Ordinary Time". But in the Catholic calendar there aren't any gaps, the liturgical seasons lead seamlessly into each other in a vast coherent story of salvation. The Bugnini-ites didn't care about this.
No matter how you slice the time, having a real Church Calendar was one big asset towards my adult conversion. As an unchurched kid, I instinctively knew there had to be more to life than these few holy day crumbs we’d been given. And likewise it saddened me to see many in our newly adopted parish so ambivalent about all this beauty.
You had me up to "Ordinary Time". This is also a modern corruption. There are no gaps in the real Catholic liturgical cycle, no empty spaces where nothing important happens. Candlemas closes the Christmas cycle and Septuagesima begins the Lent-Easter cycle.
When re-reading I guess I left a bit of a gap there. 'Time after Pentecost' would be better, adjusted it. (English is not my 1st language)
I have a 1930s Missal with a half page of catechism for every Sunday. And not one is 'ordinary'. It follows a logical cycle in both Scripture and life.
Hopefully this year I can finally convince my priest to do a Rogation Day procession through the fields, instead of around our church (which is located in the city centre of Utrecht).
"Hopefully this year I can finally convince my priest to do a Rogation Day procession through the fields" - this would be awesome. How old is he? If he's under 50 he might go for it.
He is 60ish, but very healthy and fit. And we also have farmers among the parishioners.
The Ordinary Time thing follows the logic of the Eucharistic Prayers: “whatever you fancy, darling”
The Ordinary Time thing follows the logic of the Eucharistic Prayers: “whatever you fancy, darling” - LOL
Same thing with the liturgy. Always improvising things.
Well, he's just on the cusp of being Gen-X and Boomer then. The older they are the more hostile to tradition. But I hope you'll win.
No, you were just mixing up the New Rite calendar they made up in the 1960s and the Gregorian Catholic calendar. Easy mistake to make, since everythign is so muddled now. They have this thing they call "Ordinary Time" because they abolished a bunch of the liturgical year, and so created these gaps, spaces where nothing is really happening, so they call it "Ordinary Time". But in the Catholic calendar there aren't any gaps, the liturgical seasons lead seamlessly into each other in a vast coherent story of salvation. The Bugnini-ites didn't care about this.
Where do they have street garbage cans like that?
No matter how you slice the time, having a real Church Calendar was one big asset towards my adult conversion. As an unchurched kid, I instinctively knew there had to be more to life than these few holy day crumbs we’d been given. And likewise it saddened me to see many in our newly adopted parish so ambivalent about all this beauty.