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Ms Shirley Sadler Mrs Laura Richards Miss Lyn Russo Mr Richard O’Neil — 0427 484 679 † Mary Immaculate Church 616 Ipswich Road, Annerley † St John Fisher Church 17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi † St Elizabeth’s Chapel 61 Effingham Street, Ekibin † St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Chapel & Centr tre 16 Ferndale Street, Annerley Phone 3848 1635 Open: Wednesday & Thursday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm St Elizabeth’s Primary School Phone 3848 0828 Outside School Hours Care Phone 3255 9468 Mrs Kay Crew (Co-Ordinator) Ma Mary y Immaculate te Pri rimary ry Sc Schoo
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Phone 3848 8965 Mrs Helen Camden (Principal) Outside School Hours Care Phone 3392 6291 Mr Alwyn Wenting (Co-Ordinator) Our Lady’s Secondary College Phone: 3848 7462 Mrs Paula Goodwin (Principal) St St John Fish sher r Hall 17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi Phone 3848 1107 (Office hours) St St Vincent t de Paul Helpline Phone: 3010 1096
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Mass in the Extraordinary Form In last week’s newsletter Fr Adrian explained how the one Roman Rite of the Mass has two forms – the Ordinary (English
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Italian…) and the Extraordinary (Latin). When the Church uses the term ‘extraordinary’ it does not mean superior or better but just ‘not the ordinary’. Some differentiate between the two forms as Novus Ordo or new Order of Mass, which has been operative since 1975 and the Vetus Ordo, which has been around for centuries. Our Pope Emeritus, Benedict, in 2007 in the document, Summorum Pontificum, laid to rest some quite misleading notions that had been circulating in the Church since the 1970’s. Firstly, the Vetus Ordo had never been abrogated or outlawed. Pope Paul VI in proclaiming the Novus Ordo did not restrict by law the use of the previous Missal of
- 1962. It is precisely that Missal that is now
used to celebrate the Latin Mass. It is a false idea that what was sacred for
- ur grandparents, and for all our ancestors
in the faith for centuries, was all of a sudden not sacred and therefore had to be done
- away. This idea is found nowhere in the
documents of the Second Vatican Council. It is a vision of rupture with the past and has proved to be most harmful for the unity and good of the Church. Pope Francis and his two predecessors have, admittedly in different ways, have said that this spirit of rupture with our sacred Tradition is a manifestation of the spirit of the world active in the Church. You may remember that prevailing view in society: if it’s old – throw it out. We must not apply that principle to the Church and certainly not to the Sacred Liturgy. So, in the Liturgy in our Parish so as to provide an experience of continuity not rupture, Mass in the Extraordinary Form will begin to be offered every 1st and 3rd Monday
- f the month at the 7pm Mass. If there
happens to be a 5th Monday in the month that too will be an EF Mass. This is the Mass that the Frassati Australia group attends. They are used to the Latin Mass as we have been celebrating it for two years now. In fact, this is the amazing phenomenon about the Latin Mass; it attracts young people. The demographic who attend Latin Mass is not
- ld as you might expect but overwhelmingly
young. Also, on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month at the 8am Mass the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated. In addition to these regularly occurring Masses, from the First Sunday of Lent, a 9am Mass will be celebrated in Mary Immaculate Church. This too will alternate between Ordinary and Extraordinary Form offered at the High Altar. More information on this Mass will be coming in the weeks ahead. Please see this introduction of the Extraordinary Form not as an effort to take us back to pre-Vatican II days. That is the vision of rupture. Look upon this introduction
- f the Latin Mass as a service to the unity of
the Church whereby those who have a particular love of what is now called the Extraordinary Form of the Mass may both feel and be part of the wider Church. You may not have the desire to attend. It may not be ‘your cup of tea’ but please be open to its use for the sake of those who have fond memories of it, who like it, or who may wish to experience the range of options open to celebrate the one Mass that Christ left to His Church. In the near future too we will have missalettes available so that you may follow the Mass. It may bring back fond memories for some. Sacred Furnishings With these additions to our Mass schedule and the use of the High Altar, it is timely also to consider two key items in the sacred furnishing of our churches, namely, the altar and the tabernacle. They are intricately linked because the tabernacle holds the fruit of the Eucharistic celebration, the Blessed Sacrament. This is
- ne reason why in our tradition the
tabernacle is part of the reredos or decorative part immediately behind, attached to or close to the altar. When the forward, free-standing altars were placed in churches, again with a speed that bewildered many at the time, this link became less obvious but not in any way broken. Under the regulations
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