Posted on 10/28/2009 12:12:40 PM PDT by GonzoII
Ping!
I try to go to adoration daily. I discovered it during a difficult period, and it was a blessing.
I also read the bible in adoration. I either open up the bible and decide that that page has a message for me from God, or read the daily Gospel from the Magnificat.
Love it!
Scripture during Mass is a Good Thing, since of course the same lectionary and the same basic pattern of readings went on in my former denomination, nothing has changed as far as the quantity (but of course, Everything has changed, on a different level.)
But, given the variable audibility or intelligibility on the part of the readers (although our deacons have good strong voices so nobody misses the Gospel), not to mention screaming babies and the inevitable distractions (especially if you sing in the choir and you're not quite sure what the offertory anthem is going to be) I think reading/study at home is a very good idea.
My Greek is pretty rusty too, with the additional disadvantage of having learned it as Classical and then Homeric Greek -- I will say that koine is very straightforward (mostly - St. Paul gins up some pretty complicated clauses sometimes, even in English).
But I'm going to get a GOOD dose of Greek this evening. The Patriarch of Constantinople is in town, and our choir is participating in the Ecumenical Service, representing the Latins. There will also be the Greek Cathedral choir as well as a brave buncha Bible Baptists (who will no doubt sing rings around the rest of us). We're going to sing the Litany of the Saints, as a species of compliment to our hosts and the guest of honor with all the Greek Church Fathers inserted, then the chant Ave Maria and the Victoria Ave Maria.
I will carry along a Bible the next time I go to Adoration. That’s a really good idea.
Yeah - I caught that when that word came up in Hebrew Vocab mumble mumble years ago.
I got my wife a subscription to Magnificat which she brings to Sunday Mass so I can always follow along. This helps with the varying quality of the lectors.
I wish I could be at this service you describe. Wow! IT sounds beautiful.
Do you know about Lectio Divina? It’s da Bomb!
His full title is "His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch".
Me too MD. A new Church was just built about 200 yards from my place of work and its always open when I punch out!! And I usually go in with Bible (big Douay Rheims) in hand or pocket (little King James Version New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs) to read.
When I think about going in without my Bible I hear Bp. Sheen's voice ringing in my ears "Always, always the Scriptures!", words he spoke when he talked about how to make a Holy Hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament. He left room for just about anything during it, but the Scriptures should always be included.
Freegards.
Thanks GonzoII for the post!
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You’re welcome!
OH, my! Please blast this to all the people on FR who continually try to throw the old “Catholics don’t read the Bible” in our faces.
We read the Bible as a community ever Sunday at Mass (4 passages) and the list of scriptures to read for the week is printed in our weekly bulletins. Then add in what we should be doing on our own, parish Bible studies, etc.
Will any of them have the courage to let go of that old stereotype and look at these facts?
Victoria's Ave Maria, like many works of sacred music of the Renaissance, begins with a chant intonation and then continues with a chant influence. Victoria's Ave Maria is one of my favorite versions.
Fortunately for our choirmaster that's not a problem. He can sight read and transpose at the same time, and also create musically- and historically- appropriate transitional filler between two works on the fly.
We were torn between the Victoria "Ave Maria" and the Hassler "Dixit Maria" for this venture, decided the Victoria was more appropriate since we're not quite into Advent yet.
There are epistle readings and Old Testament* readings at Sunday Mass as well.
*Except during the Easter season, when we read from Acts.
The readings for each month are posted on the USCCB site.
The "Revised Common Lectionary" used by a number of Protestant denominations is based on ours.
I encourage you to read all of Scripture not just the heavily abridged and edited copy you possess.
Have you considered an iPhone? I have the entire Bible (complete with a boolian search feature), Catholic calendar with daily readings, a compendium of prayers, the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, etc. in an app called iPieta. It’s fabulous. I still use a missal at Mass though because when I’m using the phone people might think I’m just checking my messages or something!
Does it have the Little Office of the Virgin Mary?
My dear, the iPhone app iPieta has so much I can’t even begin to write it:
For Mary alone, it has Basic prayers- Hail Mary, Hail Holy Queen, Memorare, Angeles, Regina Caeli, Litany of Loretto, Sub Tuum, Magnificat, Ave Maris Stella and Jesus Living In Mary.
For Devotions, it has- The Rosary, Little Office of BVM I, Fatima Prayers, Our Lady of Victory, Chaplet of Mount Carmel, the Tessera, Mt. Carmel Novena, and the Fatima Novena.
iPieta also has a nice examination of conscience, many prayers and novenas to different saints (St. Philomena!), a simple exorcism blessing and other blessings, the Chaplet of Padre Pio, the Complete Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Summa Theologica, the Baltimore Catechism, the Imitation of Christ, and the Lives of the Saints. There’s more than this, but you get the idea! Keep in mind that you are carrying all this wealth around in your pocket, along with your music, your calendar, your address book etc. It all weighs a few ounces. You can also download free audio files from iPieta.
It is priceless. If you want to see a bit more about it, you can go to iTunes and look it up in the Apps section. I’ve been very happy with it. Like the Faith, it is bottomless!
I forgot to mention you get all that in the iPieta app for $2.99!
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