Category: People’s Missal
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The Egyptians are mine too.
The Propers for the Twenty First Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa In voluntate tua Domine THE HOLY PROPHET, JOB the Longsuffering, appears very unexpectedly in this Mass. I turned the page and my eyes nearly popped out. But I think he provides the fullest context for these texts but, as…
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ENOUGH Already!
The Propers for the Twentieth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Omnia quae fecisti nobis AS WE KEEP SAYING, GOD IS IN CONTROL, but you know what, sometimes that sucks. The 20th Sunday may remind us (if we’re honest) that it’s 2020. This may not be the worst of times, but…
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Heart and Soul, I Fell in Love
The Propers for the Seventeenth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Iustus es, Domine MIND, SOUL, & HEART, yes, and still Judaism and Christianity are also about the body. We forget the body, spiritualize the whole thing and walk by the wounded man on the way to Jericho. The Collect today…
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Go before me.
The Propers for the Sixteenth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Miserere Mihi, Domine DROPSY. IT’S PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU THINK. I’ve heard folks preach about this as Epilepsy, but it’s actually edema – swelling. The word, dropsy, does not come from “dropping” but rather from the Greek word that is…
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Not trickle-down
The Propers for the Fourteenth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Protector noster GOD IS IN CONTROL. This is the message of this Mass. Yet this idea can quickly become one of victim-blaming. If God is in control then he made some poor and he made me rich, so all is…
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The Promise and the Promised.
The Propers for the Thirteenth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Respice Domine in testamentum tuum ABRAHAM IS THE FATHER, in faith, of all God’s people. God’s covenant with Abraham was to bless all people through his line. This promise is fulfilled in Christ. Traditional Dispensationalist theology sees a series of…
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How to Love like God
The Propers for the Twelfth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Deus in adjutorium meum intende POPE BENEDICT XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth (Vol 1) has an amazing commentary on today’s Gospel. I’m fully indebted to His Holiness for the roots of the ideas. If anything is amiss here, it is my…
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I am what I am
The Propers for the Eleventh Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Deus in loco FOR TODAY’S MASS the Church has given us a reather powerful Collect, asking for what we dare not ask, begging forgiveness for what we dare not name. The recognition of our sinful failings manifested in our weakness…
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Mercy and Grace
The Propers for the Tenth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Cum clamarem ad Dominum TODAY’S OPENING COLLECT is quite clear that God’s power is most evident in his Mercy. And then we ask for his mercy. What is God’s mercy? A note in my missal says that originally this prayer…
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Of idols and whips.
The Propers for the Ninth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Ecce Deus, adjuvat me TODAY’S COLLECT BEGS GOD to help us in our asking: let us only ask for the things we should. Let us only ask of the things that please then. The rest of the minor propers, though,…
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Unrighteous Mammon
The Propers for the Eighth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Suscepimus, Deus, misericodiam tuam THE COLLECT TODAY REMINDS us that we do not exist without God. God is the ground and source of our being, our very essence is tied to his continual will for our being. We are not…
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God is in Control
The Propers for the Seventh Sunday After PentecostPlease note: an entry in the People’s Missal Project Missa Omnes Gentes, Plaudite Manibus THE TIMES ARE CERTAINLY STRANGE. Between the Plague, the Denial of the Plague, political doctors, riots by white people with guns complaining about their right to endanger others, protests by people of color complaining about their…
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Increase Religion
The Propers for the Sixth Sunday After PentecostPlease note: this is the first entry of my People’s Missal Project IT IS TRADITIONAL when reading the propers for a Sunday to think of the scripture readings, the Epistle and the Gospel, as one thing and then prayers and other verses and some other thing. However, the…
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