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The Cardiff Oratory Parish Church of St Alban on the Moors ~ Pentecost Customs ~ THE CARDIFF ORATORY PARISH CHURCH OF ST ALBAN ON THE MOORS A Parish of the Archdiocese of Cardiff (a Registered Charity 1177272) Website: www.cardifforatory.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/CardiffOratory Contact: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr. Sebastian M Jones Hospital Chaplain (Fr. Davies) 029 2074 3230; St Alban's Oratory House: 029 2046 3219. Daily Masses / Rosary and Benediction / go to St Alban's Parish Facebook site or to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cardifforatory THE MASS LINE: 029 2267 0924. (Mass Line is the cost of a local call) ~ PENTECOST CUSTOMS ~ The Veni Sancte Spiritus sequence chanted at today's Mass, comes right after the Epistle, includes the words, "Heal our wounds, our strength renew, on our dryness pour thy dew." From this comes the custom, thought to bring blessings, of walking barefoot through the dew on Whitsunday morning. Another custom, though one rarely practiced is "cheese rolling" by which people would race to see who could roll round cheeses downhill the fastest. (Perhaps see before H&S Executive prevent it completely. Pity there are no hills in the Parish, this would be a great Whit-Monday Fete game..!) The Dove the form the Holy Spirit took at Christ's Baptism is the primary symbol of the day. In medieval times, there even used to be "Holy Ghost Holes" in the roofs of some churches from which a dove, real or a model, would be lowered over the congregation as trumpets sounded or the choir mimicked the sounds of rustling winds. When the dove descended, red rose petals or, incredibly, pieces of burning straw symbolizing the "tongues of flame" in Acts would shower down. (Perhaps not one to be re-introduces at St Alban's!) Carrying on the symbolism, doves, the liturgical colour red representing the Holy Spirit, the colour white representing the white robes of the Catechumens, red and/or white flowers, lots of greenery to symbolize life (the colour green represents hope and life and, in Eastern Churches, the Holy Spirit), fire, the number three representing the Theological Virtues given to us by the Holy Spirit, the number seven representing the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, the number 12 representing the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, etc., all of these symbols could be incorporated into the day. ~ THE MEANING OF PENTECOST ~ Pentecost always occurs 50 days after Easter and ten days after the Holy day of Obligation on Ascension Thursday. Because Easter is a moveable Feast without a fixed date, and Pentecost depends on the timing of Easter, Pentecost can fall anywhere between May 10 and June 13. The timing of these feasts is also where Catholics get the concept of the Novena because in Acts 1, Mary and the Apostles prayed together “continuously” for nine days after the Ascension leading up to Pentecost. Each year a Novena is prayed to the Holy Spirit in the days before Pentecost. The name of the day itself is derived from the Greek word pentecoste meaning 50th. There is a parallel Jewish holiday, Shavu`ot, which falls 50 days after Passover. Shavu’ot is sometimes called the festival of weeks, referring to the seven weeks since Passover. Originally a harvest feast, Shavu`ot now commemorates the sealing of the Old Covenant on Mount Sinai, when the Lord revealed the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai. Sat 30th 8.00 Mass: Holy Souls SOLEMNITY 4.00 Rosary & Benediction OF 17.00 Vespers Oratory Vespers PENTECOST 18.00 Mass: JC., Intentions Sun 31st 10:00 Mass: O'Shea & Flannagan Family 11:15 Mass: Holy Souls / Bridget & Cyril George 12.00 Online: Meditation for May 16.00 Vespers & Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament Mon 1 Feast of Our Lady, Mother of 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls the Church 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ~ 9.30am Mass: Senhora Fernando, RIP Octave of Pentecost 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Tues 2nd Ss. Marcellinus & Peter 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls Martyrs 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ~ 9.30 Mass: St Teresa Octave of Pentecost 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Wed 3rd St Charles Lwanga and Holy 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls Companions 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ~ 9.30 Mass: Daniel Young Octave of Pentecost 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Thurs 4th Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls Universal High Priest 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ~ 9.30 Mass: Guarno Octave of Pentecost 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Fri 5th St Boniface 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls Martyr 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ~ 9.30 Mass: Donor's Intention Octave of Pentecost 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Sat 6th Our Lady's Saturday 8.00 Mass: Holy Souls ~ 4.00 Rosary & Benediction Octave of Pentecost 17.00 Vespers Oratory Vespers 18.00 Mass: Terry O'Brien Sun 7th SOLEMNITY OF 10:00 Mass: Tony Maunder, RIP THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, 11:15 Mass: Catherine Nevin, RIP FATHER, SON AND 16.00 Vespers & Benediction of the Most Blessed HOLY SPIRIT Sacrament Fr Sebastian writes.... Thank God for the weather of the past week, even the night time rain fall that refreshes the garden and brings with it a morning sweetness has been a welcome element. The language we use as a Catholic people is peculiar to us, and we have a vocabulary that combines the natural and the supernatural worlds that we are so conscious of. One of the real impoverishments of the modern age is how media outlets and those powerful undemocratic pressure groups have sought to "package" the world about us, to commodify and even quantify what to our forefathers would have be immediate experience, whether through local activism, the extended family, sodalities, trade unions, book clubs, public debates etc. Our opinions about the natural world, politics, public affairs, statesmen, the Church, sport, arts, the exercise of Justice should be our own. We should hone our critical thinking skills, not like some "annoying drunk at the end of the bar always waiting to oppose every opinion, except the offer of a drink to appease him." We have an opportunity in the present moment to examine what influences our opinion and question it. What forms our own reflection, should be our Faith, our experience, our critical Judgement. We must resist the temptation to be compliant, to have the answers "handed to us" rather like the samples in a department store when accosted by someone peddling a new brand. Disagreements even opposing opinions are good in a democracy: there is no right not to be offended by someone else's opinion. That is a right asserted by a petulant child in the nursery, not adults. Pentecost contains all these elements of nature, the presence of fire, winds, earthquake, the drama of sharing the Gospel and the accusation that it was still morning and the disciples had "had one too many"! Let us as a Catholic people recognise that we as the largest minority in the country have given much and still have much to contribute in public discourse. Pentecost was not "a members' only event" but the first faltering steps of the Catholic Church into the world after Our Lord's Ascension. We must break out of the strangle hold of apathy and control by think tanks, pressure groups and advertisers, whether its beans or whose career to bring down... Know your opinion and the rationale that supports it. Rosettes should probably only be worn now for First Holy Communion Day and on winning a competition: the other kind are rarely worthy of the Catholic vote. Next time you come to St Alban's ask yourself, why did my grandparents, great grandparents make such a commitment humanly and even financially in their day. The very stones of St Alban's are a proclamation of the Creed. Today is our turn: "Every Generation is a New Continent Waiting to be Converted to Jesus Christ. This is our Pentecost!" (NB: On account of the curtailment of public Worship the date for the Celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation has been postponed. I shall ask His Grace for a date in the Autumn. What a great day that will be!) THIS WEEK'S SAINT. ~ + ~ Monday after Pentecost. Mary, Mother of the Church. In 2018, Pope Francis decreed that Our Lady’s title, “Mother of the Church,” much celebrated by the Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican and widely promoted by St. John Paul II, would be commemorated on the Monday after Pentecost. Our Lord entrusted all of His disciples to Our Lady as one of His Last Seven Words from the Cross. June 1. St. Justin, Martyr. In the Calendar of St. Paul VI, today celebrates the martyrdom of St. Justin. He was trained as a philosopher. As a disciple of Jesus, he wholly pursued the true wisdom that he recognized in the truth of Christ, bore witness to it with his deeds, taught it by what he professed, defended it with his writings, and finally brought it to completion with his death at Rome under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus in A.D. 165. Since he had presented to the emperor his “Apology for the Christian Religion” and, when brought before the Prefect Rusticus, had professed himself to be a Christian, he was condemned to death. He is commemorated on April 14 in the Calendar of St. John XXIII. 1st June. St. Angela Merici, Virgin. In the Calendar of St. John XXIII, today celebrates St. Angela. She first took the habit of the Third Order of Saint Francis and gathered together girls, whom she instructed in the works of charity, and then founded an Order of women under the name of Saint Ursula, which combines the duty of the life of perfection with the care of young girls in the world and their instruction in the ways of the Lord.
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