Our Lady of Good Counsel Our Lady of Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel CHURCH 3934 WASHINGTON STREET - KANSAS CITY, MO 64111 - (816) 561-0400 - GOODCOUNSELKC.ORG PARISH STAFF
Pastor Emeritus
PastorMonsignor William Blacet
Fr. Adam Johnson [email protected] Vicar
Fr. Andrew Mattingly [email protected] OfLice
Kathy Stockard [email protected] Mark Sappington [email protected]
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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 27, 2019 Our Mass setting is Missa Orbis Factor, #s 122-125 in the Adoremus Hymnal Processional: #629 Jesus, the very thought Of Thee Recessional: #579 I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say
Brothers and Sisters, This upcoming week the Church will celebrate a Triduum of feast days. This isn’t the Triduum most of us would think of — the Easter Triduum — but rather a lesser-known Triduum which has been called in the past “Allhallowtide.” Allhallowtide consists of the following days: Oct 31 (All Hallow’s Eve, shortened to “Halloween”), Nov 1 (All Saints’ Day), and Nov 2 (All Souls’ Day).
Historically speaking, Halloween developed simply as a night vigil to prepare for the great feast of All Saints’ Day. All the greatest feast days in the Church calendar have had, at least at one point or another in their history, a vigil the night before as preparation for the day to come. So in that sense, “Allhallowtide” is really just two feast days (All Saints’ and All Souls), with a vigil (Halloween) attached to the first of those.
So, what is there to say about these two feast days? It is helpful to first zoom out to get a macro-view of who makes up the Catholic Church. There are three main groups. First, the Church Triumphant, which are those who have made it to heaven. We celebrate these people on All Saints’ Day (Nov 1). “All saints” means not only the official canonized saints of the Church, but also anyone else in heaven who hasn’t been officially canonized on earth (i.e. “un-canonized saints”). The word “saint” just means “holy one,” so anyone in heaven is technically a “saint.” The second group that makes up the Church is the Church penitent (often called the “Church suffering”). This group is comprised of all the souls in purgatory. It is these souls that we pray for on All Souls’ Day (Nov 2) to wrap up the “Allhallowtide Triduum.” The final group that makes up the Catholic Church is the Church militant, which is all of us still living on earth.
This week, as a bridge between All Saints’ Day (Friday) and All Souls’ Day (Saturday), we’ll be hosting all-night Exposition of the Holy Eucharist here in the church. This is a particularly powerful opportunity to commit to an hour of prayer for all those in your families and among your friends who have died. It is a very important act for us to pray for all those who have departed from this life. Many saints have received messages from the Lord Himself relating how powerful our prayers are for those who have died, and we ought to take these messages to heart!
Finally, at the end of our all-night Eucharistic Adoration, I will celebrate a sung Mass in the extraordinary form for the Feast of All Souls’ Day. It will be dark and early, at 7:00am, and it will be a beautiful Mass! In the extraordinary form of the Mass (often called, colloquially, the “Latin Mass,” the “Tridentine Mass,” the “Gregorian Mass,” or even just the “Old Mass”), one of the unique things that happens on All Souls’ Day is that a catafalque (an apparatus used to support a casket), is set up just outside the sanctuary of the church, draped in black cloth, surrounded by six tall candlesticks. After Mass is finished, the priest dons a black cope and does what is called the “Rite of Absolution” over the catafalque, which represents all the Faithful Departed. The Rite of Absolution is comprised of prayers which call to mind the day of final judgment, and which petition the Lord to release or “absolve” all the dead of their sins so that they might be united to Him in heaven. This unique ritual, combined with the small gregorian chant schola that we will have for the early morning Mass, should make it a truly unique and powerful experience of the Church’s sacred liturgy, and another great opportunity to pray for all the deceased!
- Fr. Mattingly
Mass Intentions: OLGC Calendar of Events Fri, Nov. 1st Noon and 7pm All Saint’s Day Monday, October 28– Sts. Simon & Jude Sat, Nov. 2nd 7:00am All Soul’s Day—EF Mass Noon: +Brenda Voss Fri, Nov. 8th 7:00pm Men's Opus Dei Tuesday, October 29– Weekday Recollection at OLGC
Noon: Fr. John Dominic Mary (Kreidler) Sat, Nov. 9th 10:00am Women's Opus Dei Wednesday, October 30– Weekday Recollections at OLGC Nov. 28th & 29th Thanksgiving Holiday Noon: +Timothy Gorges Office Closed—Mass time to be announced. Thursday, October 31– Weekday ______Noon: +Jack Salanky Adoration + Special All Souls’ Day Mass
Friday, November 1 – All Saints Day To celebrate the back-to-back feasts of All Saints’ Day (Nov 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov 2), we will be Noon: Our Purgatorial Society having all-night adoration here at Good Counsel. 7:00pm: Our Parishioners & Benefactors Saturday, November 2 – All Souls Day All Saints’ Day falls on a Friday, so after the 7pm 7:00 am Fr. Mattingly Holy Day Mass on that Friday evening, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed overnight until 7am the 9:00 a.m: +Virginia Doyle following morning, which is All Souls’ Day.
4:00 p.m: Our Parishioners & Benefactors Sunday, Nov 3– 31 Sunday in Ordinary Time Priests are allowed to offer extra Masses for the
9:00 a.m: Jenna Stockard dead on the feast of All Souls. With that in mind, Fr. Mattingly will be offering an extra Mass that 11:00 a.m: +William Kemp morning in the Extraordinary Form at 7am. This will be in addition to our normal 9am Mass. Last Week’s Giving to God’s Work $9,121.00 A small schola will assist in singing Gregorian 13-Week Moving Average chant. All are welcome, and more info will be $9,478.74 forthcoming. Thank you for your generosity and continual support of God’s house! Take a look at the Adoration sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the back of church We will publish updates on the ACA and the OLGC FORMED CODE: Wall/Window Restoration Fund weekly We will have men of the parish at the doors to walk beginning in the next two weeks. people to & from their cars in the hours of the night. ______
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