Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre :
“We really are in awe before all the wealth of the liturgy. Take the introits and the graduals, as well. How many profound and moving things in those graduals, those calls upon the mercy, upon the goodness of God, in praise of God! In these prayers of the Church we can always find one of the four ends of the sacrifice of the Mass: latreutic, eucharistic, propitiatory, or impetratory. And we realize that we can bring all of the texts of the liturgy to one or another of those ends. Sometimes it is adoration that predominates, sometimes thanksgiving, sometimes the presentation of our miseries, of our sins, a call to the mercy of God, and then finally asking for graces that we need.”
posted Wednesday 29/Nov/2023 ~07:50 #QNNOV2023