¿Por qué no perecí en el seno materno, o no encontré la muerte al salir de las entrañas? [...] Ahora dormiría en silencio y descansaría en el sueño final [...]
–– Iob III, 11.
WHAT WE'VE LOST
If we were still on the old (pre-55) calendar, we would have just ended yesterday a series of four successive octaves lasting more than a month.
First is the Octave of the Ascension, in which we contemplate for eight days the great mystery of Christ's departure to heaven and his promise to send the Holy Spirit.
Then a few days after that Octave ends we begin the great Octave of Pentecost, which remembers the sending of the Holy Spirit and His indwelling in us.
Just four days after the end of the Pentecost Octave is the start of the Octave of Corpus Christi, celebrating the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
And the day following that Octave is the beginning of the Octave of the Sacred Heart, focused on God's great love for us.
For some reason the liturgical reformers (of both the 1950's and 1960's) in their wisdom believed that a more "simplified" calendar would help us to focus more on Christ and His work. So they dropped all these octaves.
Yet to me, the overabundance of octaves over the past month focuses the mind and the soul on God's great love for us and His work in saving us. I don't see how replacing these octaves (mostly with "ordinary time") accomplishes the stated goal; in fact, I would argue it does the opposite.
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Kiko "el buen goy" Arguello: «¿Sabéis lo que dicen los rabinos? ¿Por qué los dos ojos? Uno para ver el amor de Dios y el otro para ver el amor de los hombres».
@sowlaaa Un calvinista opinando. Y “católicos” apoyándole la “idea” sobre la Misa. Se disfrazan de odiar la SSPX, pero en sí odian la misa tridentina .