Happy Michaelmas and the great joy of Holy Matrimony

Posted by Patricia Cecilia in Catholicism, love, marriage, sacrament, sacrifice, wonder

Happy Feast of St. Michael the Archangel (in the old calendar)! Today we three Ws were honored to attend the very reverent and beautiful private Nuptial Mass of my dear friend Mari (M of the hats in the previous post) and another dear friend Michael--hence their chosen matrimonial day. We were deeply honored to be counted as 'family'. I had the joy of singing and playing the flute, accompanied by one of Michael's colleagues at the organ, a new friend. Father read the Exhortation to a Holy Marriage from the EF Missal (in English :-) which is the most beautiful description of what the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony is meant to be:

Pictures will come eventually, including a family one for my beloved MIL, who has been asking for a family picture of us for many years. (In the last family picture, One-and-Only-Son was in preschool; he is now a junior in high school. Pictures are simply not on our family radar. :-)

Michael and Mari--from the Byzantine Rite: God grant you many years, God grant you many years,
God grant you many happy years in health and happiness--God grant you many blessed years.

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The Successor of St. Peter speaks

As for the use of the 1962 Missal as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgy of the Mass, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this Missal was never juridically abrogated and, consequently, in principle, was always permitted.

… it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them.

What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.

— Benedict XVI,
Letter to Bishops
concerning his Motu Proprio
«Summorum Pontificum» (7/7/2007)

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