Does Your Parish Have This?
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How Podcasts Can Help You Have a Better Sunday
A lot of people go to Mass on Sunday to nourish their faith. True, a lot of people don’t, but they are missing an opportunity to start their Sunday with the greatest gift of all, the Eucharist.
However, how often did you get distracted during Mass? Hearing the readings without really listening, your mind somewhere in the clouds during the homily? Well, there is help.
The better prepared you are for Mass, the more you will enjoy it, and the more it can potentially nourish you. A couple of podcast can be very helpful in that preparation.
First of all, you can listen to the Sunday readings (and to all the Mass readings every day) via the SQPN podcast ‘Verbum Domini’. You can listen and subscribe here:
You can also listen to very short biblical reflections by Scott Hahn. These are great to help you reflect upon the readings yourself. Listen and subscribe here:
http://www.salvationhistory.com/homily_helps/
And LifeTeen has an equally great series of Sunday podcasts called ‘Sunday, Sunday, Sunday’. The Bible Geek, Mark Hart, prepares you for the upcoming Sunday Catholic Mass readings by exploring their meaning for your day-to-day life. Listen and subscribe here:
http://www.lifeteen.com/category/podcasts/sunday-podcast
Got any other tips about podcasts or blogs that can help make your Sunday a better one? Share them in the comments!
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Jeannette André
“My take on the Sunday Readings” allows you to prepare for Mass one week ahead of time
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stefan
Catholic Weekend is also a very good Sunday-podcast!
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Jan - Stfrancisgirl 12:11 am on December 23, 2011 Permalink |
I appreciate when the Celebrant does not make a big deal out of wearing Pink or Rose. I find it distracting when the Celebrant jokes about it at the beginning of Mass or in the homily. It is fine to address why the color is used but not to make fun of it in such a way that it causes laughter. That is just my opinion. It is a tiresome joke to bring up twice a year – every year.
Marteen 7:29 pm on December 18, 2011 Permalink |
Yep, and the exact same style as well! The priest also insists on calling it rose and not pink haha
Charlie 12:13 am on December 15, 2011 Permalink |
Yes, and quite a colorful contrast over his brown Franciscan habit.
Alyce 11:22 pm on December 14, 2011 Permalink |
Yes….at St. Catherine’s in Wichita Kansas! Fr. R we are a 3 yr. old parish with a brand new Church. Others are closing parishes….we have a NEW one!
Cynthia H 12:51 pm on December 14, 2011 Permalink |
Not only does my pastor wear a rose-colored chasuble (reluctantly!), my Missouri Synod Lutheran husband’s pastor does too — and Pastor B’s is fancier than Fr. S’s! *grin* Actually, it could be worse; Pastor B asked his whole congregation to wear something pink — I mean rose — on Gaudete Sunday.
Dan 1:25 am on December 14, 2011 Permalink |
Yes, our pastor donned the “rose”(aka, NOT “pink”!) last Sunday. I made a comment to him on my way out of Mass, asking if it was a coincidence that the 2nd communion song for reflection was “Lo How A ROSE Ere Blooming”!?! He got a laugh out of that one!
David Macnak 10:06 pm on December 13, 2011 Permalink |
Both priest and deacon wore rose.
Janet 3:28 pm on December 13, 2011 Permalink |
Nope, because my parish is Ukrainian-Greek Catholic. The UGCC has its own liturgical calendar and does not celebrate Advent; this past Sunday was the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (ie prophets and patriarchs of the Old Testament.) We also still use blue as a liturgical color for feasts of the Blessed Virgin.
Vivienne 2:06 pm on December 13, 2011 Permalink |
No, we don’t. Our pastor always insists rose is optional. It’s actually become a bit of a running gag between the women of the parish and our pastor. A previous pastor said that he looked like a big Pepto-bismal tablet when he wore the rose chasuble.
Carlos Torres 1:49 pm on December 12, 2011 Permalink |
Yep. Both priest and deacon decked the rose yesterday.
Sean McCarney 6:21 am on December 12, 2011 Permalink |
Our priest had his rose chasuble on on Sunday. Not quite as rose as the one in the picture, mind you.
Dan 1:27 am on December 14, 2011 Permalink |
Yeah Sean, our priest had a lighter shade of pin. . . . I mean “ROSE” as well!
Fr. Jay Finelli 9:24 pm on December 11, 2011 Permalink |
The parish has one of those hot pink vestments, but I have a nice deeper shade of rose.
Shomes 5:46 pm on December 11, 2011 Permalink |
A rose chasuble in Texas? No, we stick with purple here. Rose does not match the boots.
Kevin 4:40 pm on December 11, 2011 Permalink |
Yes, my former (now suppressed) parish has one. My former pastor, a Marist priest, always made a remark that he wasn’t wearing pink but rose. The pastor of my current parish conveniently forgot to wear it today even though I’ve seen others.
John Clem 8:54 am on December 11, 2011 Permalink |
Rejoice! Joy! Here is a good blog entry about Gaudete Sunday: http://blog.adw.org/2011/12/sweet-beautiful-soul-saving-joy-a-reflection-on-the-epistle-for-the-third-sunday-of-advent/
Patrick 1:14 pm on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Not only our priest wears rose on sunday Gaudete, also our parish website!
(In Dutch there is no difference between pink and rose, their both called “roze”. )
Mary Camarillo 11:21 am on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Yes, we do. I love to see our priests wearing this color. Thanks to Father Roderick’s podcast several years ago I know why it’s worn.
Lyn F. 11:04 am on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Yes, we have one at my parish. In fact, I even took a picture of my pastor wearing it. (If only he would smile more in pictures…)
steve 10:45 am on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
My pastor resists wearing the one my parish has. I think it was made by a parishioner and makes him look like a big pink eraser. He was planning to replace it so I’ll check it out this weekend.
Fr. Jay Finelli 9:25 pm on December 11, 2011 Permalink |
A big pink erasor. Now that is one I never heard! LOL
Patrick 10:37 am on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Yes, twice a year, with sunday Gaudete and with sunday Laetare.
Adrianne 10:16 am on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Yep! I love when my priest(s) wear that color because they always explain it : ) The 1st time I saw my priest in it he said, “This is not pink. It’s rose. There’s a different. We wear this on the 3rd Sunday of Advent.”
Adrianne
John Clem 10:16 am on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Many mistake is for a pink chasuble, but priest insist on naming it a ROSE-colored chasuble. Happy Gaudete Sunday to All in SQPN-land!