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<\/p>\nFrom Fr. Z’s Blog<\/p>\n
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Years ago I told this Pentecost Monday tale and it has made the rounds. \u00c2\u00a0It has made the rounds everywhere, but I am the origin of the anecdote, which I published years ago in the pages of The Wanderer<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and also on the now defunct Catholic Online Forum in its Compuserve days. \u00c2\u00a0(Remember Compuserve? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been at this since 1992.) Lots of people have picked it up.<\/p>\n It bears repetition.<\/p>\n This stands as a lesson for what happens when we lose sight of continuity<\/em>.<\/p>\n Take this for what it may be worth.<\/p>\n Some years ago \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 gosh, it was decades now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I was told this story by a retired Papal Ceremoniere <\/em>(Master of Ceremonies) who, according to him, was present at the event about to be recounted.<\/p>\n You probably know that in the traditional Roman liturgical calendar the mighty feast of Pentecost had its own Octave.\u00c2\u00a0 Pentecost was\/is a grand affair indeed, liturgically speaking. \u00c2\u00a0It has a proper Communicantes<\/em> and Hanc igitur<\/em>, an Octave, a Sequence, etc. In some places in the world such as Germany and Austria Pentecost Monday, Whit Monday as the English call it, was a reason to have a civil holiday, as well as a religious observance.<\/p>\n The Novus Ordo went into force with Advent in 1969.<\/p>\n The Monday after Pentecost in 1970, His Holiness Pope Paul VI went to the chapel for Holy Mass. Instead of the red vestments, for the Octave everyone knows follows Pentecost, there were laid out for him vestments of\u00c2\u00a0green<\/em>.<\/p>\n Paul queried the MC assigned for that day, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What on earth are these for?\u00c2\u00a0 This is the Octave of Pentecost!\u00c2\u00a0 Where are the red vestments?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Santit\u00c3\u00a0<\/em>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d quoth the MC, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this is now Tempus \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcper annum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 It is green, now. The Octave of Pentecost was abolished.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Green? That cannot be!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, said the Pope, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who did that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holiness, you did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n And Paul VI wept.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n For more on that era check these PODCAzTs (perhaps some of the best I ever made):<\/p>\n 093 09-11-16\u00c2\u00a040 years ago\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo 09-11-16 Paul VI’s General Audience on the eve of the Novus Ordo [ 40:11 ] Hide Player<\/a> | Play in Popup<\/a> | Download<\/a> (9631)<\/p>\n 09-11-20 Paul VI’s General Audience close to the Novus Ordo [ 39:49 ] Hide Player<\/a> | Play in Popup<\/a> | Download<\/a> (5617)<\/p>\n 09-11-24 Paul Vi Apostolic Const Missale Romanum [ 41:49 ] Hide Player<\/a> | Play in Popup<\/a> | Download<\/a> (5047)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Fr. Z’s Blog Years ago I told this Pentecost Monday tale and it has made the rounds. \u00c2\u00a0It has made the rounds everywhere, but I am the origin of the anecdote, which I published years ago in the pages of The Wanderer\u00c2\u00a0and also on the now defunct Catholic Online Forum in its Compuserve days. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>094 09-11-20\u00c2\u00a040 years ago\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo (Part II)
\n<\/a>095 09-11-24\u00c2\u00a040 years ago\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo (Part III)<\/a><\/p>\n