Ordained men and women
A reader sent me a link to the announcement is on the front page of this week's Sacred Heart Cathedral bulletin in Rochester.
College students from the Catholic Newman Community of the Eastman School of Music will present the
fourth annual "Concert at the Cathedral," today, May 4th,
at 2:00 PM. Come enjoy an afternoon of beautiful classi-
cal and sacred music performed by some of the most talented young musicians in the church today. This year the
event will honor all the ordained men and women who are
celebrating special anniversaries this year. A reception
will follow
the dedication and blessing of our new Cathedral Community
and its liturgical ministers
Another part of the bulletin requests:
During all Masses on the Feast of Pentecost next weekend, May 10th and 11th. Red clothing is requested.
Cool, I was thinking of wearing my tongues of fire hat to Mass Sunday. Though wearing color coded clothing to Mass seems rather odd to me unless it is vestments, but not out of the question. But please don't ask me to do this on Laetare and Gaudete Sunday.
I also found this interesting.
To help you enter into our blessing ritual next weekend, I will now describe the six stations at which we will
pray:
1. We will begin at the doors of the Cathedral where a
member of our Community will knock, symbolically seeking admission. The presider will then turn to the congregation in church and ask "why are you assembled in this
church today?" We will all answer “we have come at
God’s invitation to form a new community and worship our
maker as the Body of Christ.” Then the presider will welcome the community, acknowledging all involved in ministries of welcome, and we will all ask the Lord to bless the
doors of our church and keep them open always.
...
*
Please note that at each of the six stations the priest
will not only bless the sacred space but bless the members
of our community whose ministry helps to make the
space sacred for all of us.
I do wonder if I get my keyboard blessed if I can make a sacred space using the sacred spacebar.
Known as 
Hee hee. Hence in ASCII, 0x20 is sacred? (I use the key of "C" if you know what I mean.)
Odd. I always thought the sacred key was ASCII 0x2b - which looks like this "+" when it prints.
--Dr. Thursday
PS Don't forget the sacred "any" key which no one can find. Perhaps you might do something like a liturgical tech manual, with rubrics in red, and so forth... er ... do the red, type the black. Hee hee.
I know this stuff is laughable, but it also makes my blood boil, and not just because of the total lack of orthodoxy or writing ability. THIS IS A WASTE OF PEOPLE'S TIME AND MONEY. There is at least one (likely more than one) womyn liturgist being paid to come up with this drivel. Meanwhile, there isn't enough money to keep churches and schools open. Yet there's enough money to pay for global warming conferences... Stewardship is such a buzzword among the liberals, yet they so clearly don't have a clue what it means.
Jeff, are you missing a tremendous opportunity to develop a vocations ad campaign? Imagine, you could put up stories like these, each one ending with a plea to "Pray for Vocations". I s'pose that would be negative campaigning...
"There is at least one (likely more than one) womyn liturgist being paid to come up with this drivel."
This leaves me wondering if the events are in fact revenge for ridiculously low salaries!
Well, well, well. Once again Rochester wends its way into liturgical abuse at the cathedral. Notice that the rest of those 'stations' require additions to the Mass. Last I saw, adding to the Mass is forbidden. Oh, wait. It's Rochester where Canon Law, Liturgical Law and Magisterial Teachings are optional.
BTW, for those who haven't had the 'pleasure' of seeing the 'baptismal font', it's more like a concrete swimming pool.
How long, O Lord?
I'd chalk the ordination gaffe up to poor grammar. The writer probably intended: ((ordained men) and (women)) or was simply ignorant that the Sacrament of Holy Orders is solely for the priesthood (and bishops) -- as though that's some kind of excuse.
I propose a corollary to Occam's Razor: when it fits the facts, 'simple incompetence' is the preferred (and most often correct) explanation.
Yep. In most places, this would be recognized for what it almost certainly is: a typo or gaffe; Rochester 'ain't like most places.
This is making Liturgical Purgatory sound nice.
Sometimes for important feasts I'll wear a tie whose color is significant to the day. I don't advertise it or do it to imitate the Priest, but it just helps make the feast day more important to me. I don't see a problem with people choosing to do that on their own, but I don't like the idea of the whole parish being told to do something that's not in the rubrics.
It's like if a family holds hands saying the Our Father at home and does it at Mass out of habit, that's one thing. If the whole parish does it and raises their hands like prize fighters at the end (which as far as I know is not how anyone normally holds hands in prayer outside of Mass), that's a whole other thing.
St. John Fisher of Rochester (England), pray for us.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Bishop of Rochester, pray for us.
And more importantly, pray for the weak bishop in Rochester.