FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: I WILL ASCEND UNTO THE ALTAR OF GOD

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I WILL ASCEND UNTO THE ALTAR OF GOD

How beautiful are the feet that brings the good news says St. Paul. This year was dedicated by the Pope as the year of St. Paul. How thankful we should be to St. Paul, the zealous, persevering and humble apostle of the Lord. It is als fitting that we should take this opportunity to show our appreciation for our priests. Are we not move to pray for them and collaborate with them in their effort to spread the good news?

This thought brings my imagination to the typologies in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament about the priestly role of Christ. There is a very interesting portion in the Mass that I would like to meditate on.

After the priests and the ministers recitation of the Confiteor the priests slowly ascend the high altar, and while ascending the altar the priests recites the following:

"Aufer a nobis, quaesumus, Domine, iniquitates nostras: ut ad Sancta sanctorum puris mereamur mentibus introire. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
(Take away from us our inequities, we beseech Thee, Oh Lord, that we may be worthy to enter with pure minds into the Holy of holies. Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.)

A very beautful prayer. Together with the priest we enter into the Holy of holies which the only privilege group can see. The beautiful ceremonies in the Temple of Solomon is worthily portrayed in the new sacrifice of the Mass. In the mass and through the ministry of the priest we partake of that eternal sacrifice that symbolizes and stands for God's pledge of salvation. And who is this pledge? It is Christ Himself the Lord in the appearance of Bread and Wine, Real and truly present in the Eucharist.

Reiting this verse while ascending the altar expresses deep humility and reverence and deep appreciation and quiet joy in being able to see God in the Holy of Holies. How deep should our experience of the mass is. If I were to live a hundred years, I will never get tired of assisting in this one true and eternal sacrifice. For from the East and the West the gentiles shall offer the Lord a clean oblation, propitious and appeases the justice of God and brings salvation to us faithful.

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A 13 years old boy............. in 1983, but now I am a golden boy, gaining weight and wiser, but younger at heart. I consider myself as a “novus ordo baby” because I was born in the late 60s after the 2nd Vatican Council introduced the novus ordo missae and grew up confronted by the confusions as a result. Like my generation I never saw what the church was like prior to Vatican II, but I am a living witness to the gradual disappearance of religious traditions we hold dear. Young as I was then I could not understand what was going on. But I suffered the sense of loss as I saw how the modernizing influence in the church disfigured the liturgy and clouded the way we believe and practice our faith. But then being a child, powerless, not knowing what it was, and why it happened, I simply drifted into the sea of confusion, too young to understand. With a glimmer of faith in my heart, planted by baptism and confirmation, strengthened by the sound teachings of my parents and grandparents, I sailed into the sea of life, day after day, seeing the changes happen, feeling the sense of abandonment, yet God was merciful to me. In 2005 I discovered the Traditional Latin Mass or commonly known in the post-conciliar period as the Tridentine Mass. I began to love the rite of mass that has nourished my ancestors, the saints and the martyrs. I am eternally grateful to His Holiness Pope John Paul II for recognizing the rightful aspirations of Catholics attached to the ancient forms of the Roman Rite through his apostolic letter ECCLESIA DEI DI AFFLICTA. I am also eternally grateful to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for liberating the Traditional Latin Mass through his apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum. I fully agree with the program of his pontificate regarding the Hermeneutics of Continuity and disdain the hermeneutics of rupture. Today I consider myself a Traditional Roman Catholic attached to the liturgical discipline of 1962 as outlined in the Motu Proprio SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM of his Holiness. I believe that there is only one Roman Rite, the Ordinary and the Extraordinary and that the Mass in whatever form should be celebrated with dignity. My voyage is on. Join me in this quest.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I WILL ASCEND UNTO THE ALTAR OF GOD

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