Vanha messu tiistaina

Isä Durham viettää vanhan messun tiistaina 28.7.2009 klo 16 Pyhän Henrikin katedraalin sakramenttikappelissa.

Fr. Durham will say Mass on Tuesday (July 28th, 2009) at 4pm in the Sacrament Chapel of Saint Henry's Cathedral.

Tervetuloa, welcome!

Messu maanantaina

Isä Durham viettää vanhan messun maanantaina klo 16 äiti Teresan sisarilla osoitteessa Vironkatu 6 A 12, puh. 040-9601211.

Fr. Durham is saying Mass on Monday at 4pm at the MC-sisters in Vironkatu 6 A 12, tel. 040-9601211.

Tervetuloa, welcome!

Kööpenhaminan piispa viettää vanhan messun

Tanskasta kuuluu seuraava viesti:

His Excellency Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of Copenhagen has graciously accepted to celebrate Sung Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Copenhagen, on the 2nd of August 2009. This is one of the regularly scheduled twice-monthly TLM's held in Copenhagen. (Rorate Caeli)

Messu Helsingissä sunnuntaina

Isä Durham viettää sunnuntaina messun Pyhän Henrikin katedraalissa klo 13.30. Tervetuloa!

Fr. Durham is going to celebrate Holy Mass on Sunday at Saint Henry's Cathedral at 1.30 pm. Welcome!

Paavin lähipiiri kommuunion vastaanottamisesta

Paavin lähipiiriin on noussut muuan monsignore Nicola Bux. Hänet liitettiin viime vuonna muun muassa paavillisten liturgioiden valmistelutoimikuntaan. Mitä mieltä hän on kommuunion vastaanottamisen tavoista? Kannattaa lukea (Rorate Caeli -blogista):

Monday, July 20th, 2009

From Pontifex Roma

How should one administer communion in a dignified manner? We asked the theologian and esteemed liturgist Monsignor Nicola Bux. It may be a random case but the modernism and the slovenliness of certain post-conciliar interpretations have lead to such a debasement of this Sacrament , that there are all kind of ways in which people approach it…

Don Bux, which is the most correct way to communicate?

“I would say there are two ways. There is the position where one stands up, taking the Host in the mouth, or else on one’s knees. I do not see any third way.”

There is the standing-up position.

“OK, I have nothing against it. The important thing is that the faithful are intimately conscious of what they are about to receive, that is that they do not approach the communion with a lightheartedness that shows immaturity and being at a complete distance from God.”

Communion standing up, but what is the best way to do it?

“Well, look here, even the receiving of the communion standing up may be full of devotion, of compunction…... and a sense of the Sacred is good to have. It would be very good and convenient, no doubt about it, to let a formal sign of reverence precede communion (even if it is received standing up), which means the head is covered for the women, sign of the cross or a slight bow in a sign of one’s love.”

But for what reason do people often approach the communion as if it is a kind of buffet?

“I like this expression and in part it is correct. Many persons rise mechanically (from their seats - CAP) and they do not know and are not even able to imagine what they are about to receive. They think that participation in Mass something that automatically includes communion and that they have to go up and receive it, although the fact is that only those who are really in the grace of God should do so”.

In his latest Masses pope Benedict XVI has administered communion only to those who were kneeling.

"Yes, he was very right to do so. I believe that kneeling when receiving the communion helps one to gather oneself together and to understand the mystery in a more reverential way. To kneel in front of the Body of Christ is an act of gratuitous love and humility before God, and this sense of the sacred is seldom understood. In our days it is mostly adrift and lost or almost muted. “

All in all, communion on one’s knees helps the spirit?

“Yes, certainly so, it favors devotion and spirituality. I believe that the position on one’s knees when receiving the communion is the one which by far responds the most to the Sacred.”

And receiving in one’s hand?

“I am sorry to say, but there is no text of the Tradition which supports it. Not even if everybody takes it and eats it in this way. There is no text concerning this, and if we wish we could say that the Apostles were priests and thus had the right to take it by the hand. The Oriental Church does not permit it.”

In a church in Rome, the so called Caravita, usually very crowded, particularly by the Catholic Mexican community, a Jesuit priest (the Jesuits consent to dancing with women and even to drinking beer in public), personally administers the Host to his faithful in such a way that they dip it in the Chalice, is it not true?

“Yes, this is a most serious and intolerable abuse, which you do well to report to me and which the Bishop must be made aware of, this must come to his knowledge. In paragraphs 88 and 94 (of Redemptionis Sacramentum – CAP) it is firmly said that it is not permitted for the faithful to take the Host themselves, or to pass the Chalice from one person to the other. I think that such a communion is not valid (non sia valida). I will analyze the problem, but we have here to do with an inadmissible abuse which we must repress the sooner the better.”

Bruno Volpe

Isä Durham mukana pyhiinvaelluksella

Isä Durham on saapunut vierailulle Suomeen. Hän osallistuu autuaan Hemmingin pyhiinvaellukselle ja viettää messun pyhiinvaeltajille joka päivä matkan varrella. Pyhiinvaelluksen ohjelma on täällä. Lisätietoja järjestäjiltä.

Mahdollisista muista tapahtumista tiedotetaan erikseen.

Fr. Durham is visiting Finland right now. He is going to participate in the Blessed Hemming pilgrimage from Helsinki to Turku taking place from 18th to 25th of July, and will say Mass each day during the pilgrimage. Pilgrimage programme. Information on other possible events will be given separately.

Lähde: http://fsspfinland.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/isa-durham-suomessa/