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good friday

4/15/2022

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​Beginning at 12 pm, we had Stations of the Cross and the Mass of the Presanctified. At this Mass, only the priest takes communion. The deacon and sub deacon (also priests) and the congregation do not take communion. This symbolizes the fact that God is dead until the Resurrection on Easter Sunday in three days. Our Lord was on the cross from 12 pm until 3 pm, and the date was April 3, 33. I had to leave early for a tutoring session before I could kiss the cross.

The text occupies 23 pages of the Roman Missal (1962). My Latin has improved. Now, I read mostly in Latin and occasionally glance over at the English. Actually, what happened today is that my friend, Q, had the Stations on his phone, and he shared that with me. Roger, one of the ushers, and I chatted. His favorite letter is X, mine, Q, trivia having do with Latin.

An example of Q is “quid pro quo”, which literally means, “this for that”, an even exchange, but can refer to a bribe. Let’s say you are traveling on I-80 at 80 mph. In California, expect to pay a $230 fine. So, you try to bribe the CHP officer and say, “Officer, I’ll pay you $50 to let me go.” Now you are in more trouble and might wind up in a courtroom queue.

For more info, check out wikipedia.com here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday#:~:text=In%20the%20older%20form%20of,19%3A1%2D42).


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Josef Ketzer
4/16/2022 04:33:53 pm

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