Benedictines ‘Fill The Hearts Of The Faithful By Kindling Love For Pentecost Vigil Mass

Call it a coincidence or a happy accident, but it has all the characteristics of the work of the Holy Spirit.

The US bishops urge the use of the Mass more frequently on Pentecost, but this is not the only reason for the Holy Monks. Benedict's Abbey of Atchison (Kansas) celebrated the 21st anniversary of this ancient liturgy on Saturday.

They did it 11 years ago because a little monk had a new background.

"At Pentecost I found an extended version of Eye Month when I asked Abbott for permission to use a gift certificate at a Catholic bookstore to purchase a daily Roman missile. In 2011 after a new translation," Brother Leven Horton said. . I didn't know that praying for my prayers with Misl would be a great blessing in my adult life of faith ”.

The remark first entered the third revised edition of the Missal in Rome in 2000, but only returned from Latin to English in 2011, when it was bought by the Leven brothers.

After initially using Mishal only to express his opinion, he began to focus on antiphons, accusations and other prayers. “The everyday things I bought taught me Mass, and Mass taught me prayer again. It was beautiful, a wonderful gift. "

Then he found the long Pentecost clock. Now, says the director of Vocations for the Abbey: “I immediately saw that it had an echo of the Easter vigil, which I liked very much. Through further research, I concluded that this way of collecting is an opportunity for the community and I wanted to give it a try.

So he consulted with his abbot, who consulted his council of elders, and decided to try and look at the community with various problems, such as the COVID-19 outbreak.

Brother Levin said, “When the liturgy is great, they work hard. To do this, the monks chose a variant of the rite that united fasting, allowing the monks to include a large community in their prayer life.

Dramatic reading

This was also supported by the fact that in 2017 the US Bishops published a further conference, which facilitates the celebration of the liturgy, keeping all the texts of the book used for the Mass in one place. These lessons are a tour of the powers of the Holy Spirit

“On the eve of Pentecost, we are invited to study the involvement of the Holy Spirit in classical history,” said Frère Levin.

The Pentecost Vigil contains, in addition to the Epistle and the Gospel, four readings from the Old Testament, three less than the seven of the Easter Vigil. Together, the lessons lead to the meeting of the Tower of Babel, where people have tried to make a name without God, until the day foretold by the prophet Joel, where "the day will come when the Spirit will be poured out". “Lord, great and terrible day.

Here is a dramatic look at the history of the Holy Spirit on earth. At first, lightning and thunder fill a heavy cloud on Mount Sinai as Moses shouts the mighty sound of a branch. The prophet Ezekiel is shown a large area of ​​dry bone where the Spirit of the Lord is born in the words of his prophecy.

When the Liturgy refers to the New Testament, both the Epistles and the Gospels focus on the desire for the Holy Spirit - the "lost". "The whole creation weeps for the pain of childbirth", said St. Paul of Rome, instead, "we weep in ourselves", and we want to be welcomed into Christ, so that we cannot even pray, but "the Spirit himself does not can call. "

In the short Gospel of John, Jesus repeats the same desire and cries out: "Whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink!"

Together, these texts make a profound impression. "The distribution of the text in this liturgy - the Psalms, the Old Testament, the Epistle and the Gospel - was strong," said Josh Heidenry, who has served the masses. "It was the perfect way to end the Easter season - a side note in the email celebrating the resurrection 50 days ago."

Haydenry attended the Benedictine College of the Abbey. Christopher Shingledecker, a university astronomer, says that increasing observation has increased the measurement of cosmic mass for him. "In this we have respect for the past, where not only heaven and earth, but also past, present and future come together".

Shingledecker, the first explorer of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is used to looking away from Earth. The Mass shows him more, he said: «In the course of history the relationship of God with man has been revealed. গে At a time when we are bombarded with 15-second videos and 140-character messages, this never-ending encounter with God is even more important in a broad liturgy, and it is certainly what I personally desire.

Jane O'Malley, a seven-child home school in Aitchison, also encouraged home education.

"I often come to peace with the power of the church, which gives me what I need when I feel a little tired," and Ezekiel is very close to his mother trying to "pull out her nine legs and sign the door. in time" . , and the shoes are gone - again. "

She was also admired by her children, she said, "Surprisingly, they were enchanted and did very well with the long liturgy."

Retrieve the importance of Pentecost

Excitement - or rather, happiness - is everything.

Abbot James added that the liturgy "allows us to see the attitude of the vigilant Church in the 'highest' celebrations of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost". I understand that the bishops of the United States are promoting the month of Pentecost as the third great celebration of the liturgical year.

"I saw a greater immersion in the Scriptures and the Word of God work more in the Eucharist," he said. "In the incarnation of Christ the Word becomes flesh, the Word given to us in the paschal sacrament of Christ's sacrifice, and with the birth of the Church on the day of Pentecost, the Word descends again in the Spirit".

The monks of Aitchison invite their ordinary flock to the "common table" after the great awakening, with cakes and packages on Christmas Eve and Easter Eve, along with Egnog and Silent Night. Pentecost was a punch and beer lunch on the lawn.

Mark Zia sees the increased supervision of the writer and theologian from Benedictine College as a gift from the church.

“Speaking as a theologian and not as a liturgist, the Church has lost something when it reduced the number of liturgical octaves to two, according to Novas Ordo, which is Christmas and Easter,” he said.

"The three Hebrew octaves of Christmas, Passover and Pentecost can be seen as the culmination and perfection of the great Jewish pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Wick and Tabernacle," he said. They were everyday problems in Judaism. Adding to the perfection of Christ increases their value. “These holidays are so important that one day isn't enough to keep them happy and meaningful, so they're extended to a full octave celebration,” he said.

He quotes Father Jean-Corbin, the principal author of the Catholic Prayer Division of the Catholic Church, and states that "the liturgy is celebrated at certain times, but it is observed at all times".

Zia added: "I would suggest that churches can never achieve anything with liturgical minimalism and that any liturgical celebration will help us recover, nourish and extend our consciousness and better understand the mystery of the mystery of salvation, that the liturgy is alive. "

In fact, he asked for more.

"We can hope to revive Pentecost in the future," he said. "With all the diseases that the Church and society suffer today, we need a greater awareness, not least, of the transformative power that God has given us through the celebration of God and the Holy Liturgy".