St Gerard Relics
We receive a large number of requests for relics of St Gerard but recently some have not been able to be completed as the requester left som...
- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 24, 2011
- 3 comments
Today our venerable old rite of the Mass commemorates,
in a unique "hermeneutic of continuity",
the old fasting and feasts of
Yom Kippur and Sukkoth,
the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.
It is our old rite alone that keeps these commemorations for the entire Church;
as far as I know they are not kept in the East and
in the Latin West
only the old rite keeps the Ember Days.
We must bear in mind that those ancient feasts
kept by Our Lord, Our Lady and St. Joseph until Good Friday
were strictly celebrated by lunar calculations.
The Church commemorates these days only approximately
using the solar calendar where September
(for seven)
represents the seventh month.
Until the modifications made by Blessed Pope John XXIII
the September Ember Days,
began in the week of the 15th September
i.e. the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
following the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,
(14th September).
Thus, before the modifications of Blessed John XXIII
(when the September Ember Days
were brought to the third week in September)
the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles
was commemorated even more closely than we did it today
since the Ember week literally opened on the 15th day of the seventh month
as did the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Second Lesson of the Mass has:
In those days the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
From the fifteenth day of the seventh month ...
you shall celebrate a feast of the Lord for seven days.
In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast;
and you shall dwell in bowers seven days:
everyone that is of the race of Israel shall dwell in tabernacles
that your posterity may know
that I made the children of Israel dwell in tabernacles
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.
I am the Lord your God.
(Lev. 23: 33)
The First Lesson of today's Ember Mass
commemorated the ancient fast of Yom Kippur,
the Day of Atonement,
which was held on the tenth day of the Seventh month.
The Ember Days were considered
by St. Leo the Great
to be of Apostolic origin.
in a unique "hermeneutic of continuity",
the old fasting and feasts of
Yom Kippur and Sukkoth,
the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.
It is our old rite alone that keeps these commemorations for the entire Church;
as far as I know they are not kept in the East and
in the Latin West
only the old rite keeps the Ember Days.
We must bear in mind that those ancient feasts
kept by Our Lord, Our Lady and St. Joseph until Good Friday
were strictly celebrated by lunar calculations.
The Church commemorates these days only approximately
using the solar calendar where September
(for seven)
represents the seventh month.
Until the modifications made by Blessed Pope John XXIII
the September Ember Days,
began in the week of the 15th September
i.e. the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
following the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,
(14th September).
Thus, before the modifications of Blessed John XXIII
(when the September Ember Days
were brought to the third week in September)
the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles
was commemorated even more closely than we did it today
since the Ember week literally opened on the 15th day of the seventh month
as did the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Second Lesson of the Mass has:
In those days the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
From the fifteenth day of the seventh month ...
you shall celebrate a feast of the Lord for seven days.
In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast;
and you shall dwell in bowers seven days:
everyone that is of the race of Israel shall dwell in tabernacles
that your posterity may know
that I made the children of Israel dwell in tabernacles
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.
I am the Lord your God.
(Lev. 23: 33)
The First Lesson of today's Ember Mass
commemorated the ancient fast of Yom Kippur,
the Day of Atonement,
which was held on the tenth day of the Seventh month.
The Ember Days were considered
by St. Leo the Great
to be of Apostolic origin.
September, The Seventh Month
Today our venerable old rite of the Mass commemorates, in a unique "hermeneutic of continuity", the old fasting and feasts of Yom ...
- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 23, 2011
- 15 comments
Dear Fathers
It has been reported that not all members of your community are in full communion with Rome. This saddened me and I will be grateful if you will comment.
David O'Neill
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Dear David
All the members of our community are indeed in full communion with the Holy See and are subject to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
At the time of our reconciliation, 18 June 2008, and for some time afterwards, we lost several members who would not take the step of reconciliation with us, but these, our separated brethren, could not now be numbered amongst the members of this community of The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer.
In this we are reminded of the words of Our Lord: Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father etc. (Mt. 10:35)
It would be a great grace to have had the reconciliation of our entire community as it was at that time. That seldom happens.
Reconciliation is painful for those who make it and for those who, for whatever reason, will not make it.
In conclusion, if it were not for the obligation of being submitted to Peter, humanly speaking, nobody would make a reconciliation since the price is very, very high. But, by God's grace it has been made now; and by that reconciliation, the lines were clearly drawn; the sword of division cut in such a way that it left our community thoroughly united, one, submitted to Peter, in Full Communion with Rome and the Church.
By God's Grace and the Perseverance won for us by Our Lady, we peacefully maintain this inner and ecclesial unity.
The cost was high; the smarting is over with; we have been given new life by Our Lord and we rejoice in it. 'Behold how good and how pleasant where brethren dwell in unity' (Ps. 132).
Fr. Michael Mary
23 September, 2011
Response to Mr. David O'Neill
Dear Fathers It has been reported that not all members of your community are in full communion with Rome. This saddened me and I will be g...
- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 22, 2011
- 4 comments
The old Fisherman is out again.
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 21, 2011
- 12 comments
Official Communiqué
Concerning the visit to Papa Stronsay
of His Lordship Bishop Hugh, OSB
and Very Reverend Stuart Chalmers
Vicar General
20 - 21 September 2011.
Concerning the visit to Papa Stronsay
of His Lordship Bishop Hugh, OSB
and Very Reverend Stuart Chalmers
Vicar General
20 - 21 September 2011.
We have enjoyed the visit of the Bishop of Aberdeen and the Vicar General of the diocese, and have had positive discussions which will be taken further with the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei".
Fr. Michael Mary, F.SS.R.
21 September, 2011.
21 September, 2011.
Official Communiqué
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 16, 2011
- 8 comments
The approach of winter darkness
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 15, 2011
- 4 comments
Stronsay chapel receives its four bells
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 14, 2011
- 2 comments
Vatican Communiqué concerning the SSPX
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 14, 2011
- 25 comments
Alas! waters are murky now, the devil will be fishing
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 12, 2011
- 2 comments
"Cristiada" to be released soon.
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 11, 2011
- 12 comments
Our Brothers in Christ according to the flesh.
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- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 09, 2011
- 20 comments
About our brothers.
We hope that it is clear that the Transalpine Redemptorists want every Jewish person to look upon us as their brothers. We condemn all forms...
- By Transalpine Redemptorists
- On September 08, 2011
- 3 comments
O Holy and Heavenly Infant Mary!
“Compared with thee the greatest Saints of Heaven are little,” wrote St Alphonsus of the Holy Infant Mary, “Maria Bambina”. Why did he and o...
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