Thursday, June 28, 2012
June 29th...
...is the feast of Saints Peter and Paul and one of the few remaining Holy Days left to us. DEAR BISHOPS:Please may we have all our Holy Days back? Today, chatting to a couple of Catholic ladies, one noted that "somehow it makes the saints look more important than Our Lord, as they get a special day and his feast-days don't". Quite. The idea in moving the special "feasts of the Lord" to Sundays was apparently to make them seem more important, but of course it did nothing of the kind: in the minds of many, feasts like the Ascension instead just "got abolished", because marking them on the nearest Sunday merely seemed to downplay them. Anyway, it will be a pleasure to honour the great martyr-saints Peter and Paul and to give thanks for the Church...and Auntie will probably do so at Westminster Cathedral or possibly at St Patrick's Soho Square...
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How can we get the Bishops to listen and take notice? Perhaps wait until all the new ones we now need have been appointed and hope they will have a better idea of waht the church needs!
And please can we have the Hail Mary after the prayers of the faithful back too? She was the most faithful of all.
SS Peter and Paul and Assumption are sometimes transferred to the nearest Sunday if they fall on a Saturday or a Monday. As there is no consistent approach, perhaps the decision should be left to the Parish level whether to transfer or not?
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