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is fine good evening our technician man was just telling me that
there's just a one conference more a few more conferences something like that
before we have the christmas break as if we've been working so hard already
but to tell you the truth um this is a pleasure to give you the class on friday
evenings because it's uh formative for you i hope and it's also
formative for me to go over all this information so
vacations are great but when you get to be an adult
sometimes you want to keep going on with the material rather than going on
breaks so as we've been doing for since the beginning of these sessions
i'll give you a little more history a little more more of the story on saint
philomena this evening i'm going to be going to

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review with you pope leo the 13th and pope senpai's 10. so as you know
pope leo the 13th was at the end of the 19th century and for about three years
of the 20th century an anti-liberal hero
for writing against freemasonry and also um liberalism which was threatening to
attack attack the church well he pope leo the 13th also had
his contact with saint philomena and remember
they talk about the saint as if she has she had just been
one of their friends or perhaps a friend of their parents but
actually she had lived 1500 years before then and more almost 1600 years
so so before becoming pope when leo the 13th was still an archbishop
archbishop he made two pilgrimages to muniano
that's the place of the remains of saint philomena

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in the year 1883 he was pope by that time he approved the use of the cord the
court of saint philomena which is red and white
and mainly brings us the virtue of purity but it can also bring us the
of course the intercession intercession of the saint
but to obtain any favor it doesn't have to be just purity
usually it's worn around the waist but i've been reading a few stories of men
that have worn it around their arm or something like that or someone in
the hospital is wearing it around their arm
as long as it's on the body and so in the year 1883 he
approved the use of the court pope leo the 13th did
and he gave a plenary indulgence for the person
when he used it the first time uh now uh all things being equal when we use
the court for the first time we're probably not going to die on that
date so it's a good idea if you get that plenary indulgence to

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apply it to some other soul that can use it in purgatory maybe it's not even
anyone that you know six years later in the year 1889
he made the arch uh arch conf fraternity of saint philomena
until that time there had been a group of people called the con fraternity of
saint philomena they send in their information their application to become
members of the conf fraternity and then they get the grace
of all the different people praying to saints st philomena
that's given to their soul also so he elevated it pope leo the 13th did to
the level of archon for eternity meaning that you get all those graces and more
and he gave that indulgences as you remember there are three
principal feasts of saint philomena august the 11th is when we celebrate her
birthday in heaven although it's actually the day after

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because august 10th is another saint and then also um may the 25th
that's the day of the finding of a relic her relics
and also the sunday closest to may the 25th that's the solemnization of her um
of the finding of her relics those are three different free
feasts of saint philomena and uh pope leo the 13th was giving a
plenary indulgence for observing those feasts for going to mass on that day
participating in the processions or any kind of devotions and of course
getting to confession and communion within one week
he also gave the plenary indulgence for the people who used who used the cord
on the very day of their death and i know i've told you that
i've told you about that before but it's good to repeat these things
once in a while now that one is good you get that planet and get that plenary

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indulgence that would be for you you don't have to apply it to anyone else
in the year 1902 pope leo the 13th celebrated the centenary of the finding
of the relics of saint philomena so that's may 25th 1802 100 years later
he um celebrated that centenary he gave a pectoral cross to the
sanctuary in the year 1888 and a wonderful missile in the year
1902. please remember from last week we were studying pope blessed pope pius
ix the pope before leo the 13th and he gave his own pectoral cross to
the saint philomena very close to the day of his death so
you know the pectoral cross of a bishop and especially of a pope
uh stands for the whole person so when he gave that
pope pius ix when he gave that to saint philimina

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that's a way of saying that i dedicate i thank you i honor you
for all the grace that has come to this papacy by giving you this pectoral cross
uh moving on to another pose that's popplio the 13th and now we move on to pope
saint pius the tenth the pope that followed leo the 13th from 1903 to 1914.
he gave her his episcopal ring i think pope pius the tenth had a lot of
these sort of things bishop's rings and pectoral crosses and
all that sort of thing but he at least gave her one of his episcopal rings
you probably all know the story on at least one of the episcopal rings of
um popeye's tenth when he was monsignor sarto
it wasn't venice it was forgetting his cities
or tombolo or something like that when he was made

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bishop there was a great elevation he was very humiliated about the whole thing
uh but interestingly enough lest he should become proud of these
elevations of the church the same day he saw his mother
her name was margaret and she said to him son congratulations for your
elevation to the episcopacy that's a reward of prayer and much sacrifice and
much faith dedication to our lord and our blessed mother
i said yes mother you know we'll see why
god wants this and what i can do for his church and she uh showed him her ring
the mother of saint pies the tenth and she said just remember
if it hadn't been for this ring you wouldn't have one either

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the point being we've made a lot of sacrifices in having fidelity to the faith
fidelity with each other fidelity to our children that's what's made you into a
catholic and a good catholic hopefully and that's why you are where you are
so um as we've lived faithfully to our vows may you live faithfully also to your
uh elevation that's pope pius x he manifested devotion to saint
philomena in many ways so his prayers and his uh
piety and so forth saint philomena was constantly
in his vocabulary talking about talking about getting closer to god
saint paul's tenth uh beatified saint john viene the cure of ours and we
know that saint john vienne was the biggest promoter
of saint philomena in the 19th century and then uh saint paul's tenth

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named saint john viene the patron of the arch khan fraternity
so it's already at level of arch confraternity
and to give this apostolate to saint john dna made it even more fruitful
because you might remember from one of the other one of the other classes
there came a point where saint john vianney the cure of ours was having up to
14 miracles per week at his church on an average that's not necessarily a
high number but on an average he was having 14 miracles per week at his church
that was i'm sure due to his own holiness and also to his
great dedication to our blessed mother and also to saint philomena
now this sounds a little bit negative but also you and i
as traditional catholics might be encouraged by this
uh saint pius xii was dismayed at the questioning of the authenticity of her

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if those really were her relics if such a person
really did exist uh if the christians and the catholics
were following some myth and just calling it saint philomena now for a
century at that time he was very dismayed about that he said
in the year 19 and 12 in 1912 this spirit of not giving reverence to
saint philomena proceeds from an element that is null and void
and without merit and authority the year 19 and 12.
1912 where does that come from as i've told you before
pope gregory the 16th in the year 1837 uh canonized saint philomena
solely on the basis of her miracles without having any historical record

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and she was that convincing a pope canonized her
now in the beginning of the 20th century a certain professor
marucci in the year 1903 started to do some study on the tomb
of saint philomena but the curious thing is he never even went to rome
he didn't go to the catacomb of saint priscilla uh he never had anything to do
with an eyewitness contact with his claimings so he went back to the same
argument i told you before they're the three tiles
on the tomb of saint philomena that seem to be not not in order
please remember as i've told you before they put the
heart of the greeting right in the center center pakstay
missing the kum pakhstakum but pakistan means peace be with thee
and at the beginning they put lumina which is actually the
name of saint philomena before she was baptized just means light

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of christ and they put comfil with the daughter at the end
the daughter of christ phil lumina that's the name she would take at her baptism
the daughter of light and the pak state is right in the middle
so the tiles are not out of order but they went ahead and claimed this
tiles are out of order which means that uh this tomb probably belonged to
somebody else it was opened up the bone was yeah the bones were removed of the
original philomena put someplace else put somebody else's
bones or relics inside of that tomb and then sealed it up with the same
tiles and because of the haste they put the tiles not in the correct order
but there's no evidence to prove that claim and that error because the tiles

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are only clay the bricks and none of the mortar is chipped on them
when you take brick and move from one place to another
the mortar is going to break and the bricks themselves might break
and also it's only clay it's only brick if you're going to move them from one
place to another you'll replace them you won't just use the same bricks again
in the same order so despite that claim or that um doubt that professor
marucci put upon saint philomena he was never there to examine the situation
and uh saints pius a tenth that was the very years of his papacy 1903-1914
he had no patience for these accusations and it's interesting to talk about that
because you might have heard this story of saint

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pius x also he did a magnificent job of clearing the vatican and clearing
rome of all modernists and that was due to his encyclical pashandi
dominici gregis any error that a modernist can
possibly think of was um identified in pope pius attendance encyclical and
condemned to the point that modernists themselves will say to each other
you know our theories are so vague and just in the clouds and we
really can't tell each other what a modernist is and what we believe
if you want to find out what our modernist is and what we believe says
one modernist to another just read the encyclical of pope pius x he had us
nailed as pope is the tenth uh so he was congratulated at least on
one occasion for that encyclical and for all his efforts to get the modernists
out of the seminaries throughout the world he said well thank you very much but

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it's not necessary because all the work we've done is going to be undone
within 50 years the modernists will come back
so for me uh him having the modernists pegged and nailed with his um
assessment of what they are and also their condemnation
and also saying they're coming back in 50 years that kind of runs parallel with
this uh much more humble study of who is saint philomena and how uh
doubters um historical people putting historical doubt were
opposing saint philomena and he says i just can't tolerate this stuff
so for me it's kind of it's the same man that insists
on the orthodoxy of doctrine who also insists on the veracity the truthfulness
the true existence of saint philomena so she's a viable saint not just for the

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1800s or the 19th century she's viable from 19th 20th 21st 21st century
and just for your information i didn't give you this detail yet
in the year 1905 so two years after he became pope
he beatified the kyrie of ours and he chose the centenary of the transference
of her remains from rome to muniano for that occasion he's always connecting
the curie virus to saint philomena and vice versa you might remember the
long the long story i told you about how the relics of saint philomena
were in rome the father don francesco guccio lucio luccio
went there with the bishop de cesare they acquired the relics
they went from rome to naples and then from naple to muniano

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and they arrived on august 10th uh 1905. so 100 years later exactly to the date
was a date that uh pope is tenth chose to beatify the cure of ours very well
we'll continue with our study of the altar and the holy sacrifice of the mass
of which saint philomena is such a hero so last week when we closed up with
class i was telling you about the linen on the altar
a few symbolisms besides first of all the practical purpose
is that if the precious blood should spill on the altar it will be absorbed
by linen it won't go into it won't go into the stone good
but then also the linen symbolizes the shroud the holy shroud of our lord
jesus christ how it wrapped around his body at least

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two times and then overlapped making a third fold so to speak and
that's why we have three cloths on the altar also the linen represents ourselves
in what way we surround our lord jesus christ
he is the altar uh he is the sacrifice on the altar
and we the faithful the mystical body surround him in particular we surround
him by the three branches of the mystical body
the church militant that's us here below
the church suffering those are the souls in purgatory
and the church triumphant the victorious saints in heaven these ultra cloths
as you can see are white are very white and very clean and we do

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our do our best to keep them that way one of the biggest threats towards clean
ultra cloths is one of two possibilities is candle wax
that comes from anywhere it comes off that device we use to light the candles
that's that's got a wax taper in it it comes from extinguishing candles
somehow evaporated wax forms in that cup that we extinguish the candles with and
that can drop out in a very dark and black form right on top of the altar cloth
and also a candle wax can come from just um candles dripping and get a faulty
candles and they drip all over the place and that that
it it it doesn't really stain the altar cloth but it makes it dirty
until you're going to change it again that's one possibility of
kind of marring the altar cloth another one is
the use of wine and water at mass which is necessary
it's particularly when the server at the ablutions after holy communion

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comes right up to the center of the altar to put the first evolution of the
chalice and uh that's wine and he puts the wine in the chalice
the priest gives him a little bit of a signal with his chalice to
cut off the flow like that and if they back off immediately
without paying attention to that the the traitor drip as they call it in
spanish the betraying drip if they back off without any paying
anything to that betrayal drip betraying drip that drip will most
likely end up on the altar and thanks be to god we only use wine which is white
or white wine because we used red wine which is recommended by some priests and
even bishops i think bishop sheen used to recommend
red wine because it looks more like the blood of our lord
that's good if you're very very careful because otherwise that drip is going to
end up on the altar and that will stain the altar cloth
and the corporal and everything else so um just a little
home uh homie example for you about how this stuff

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this is realistic you know these things happen
and then we change the altar class about once a month for sure unless they're
especially dirty then we'll claim change them in between that time
you i'm sure know that just once a year uh the altar is stripped in front of the
faithful and that's on holy thursday night uh holy thursday night where we
begin to meditate meditate the passion of our lord
we see the altar stripped that represents several truths
first of all our lord being taken away from us
also it represents the grief of the church at the death of her spouse our lord
jesus christ and it also represents stripping the body
the most pure body of our lord jesus christ
and of his cruel abandonment during the passion

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so you know when you get to the altar you just know you're in the presence of
christ either by representations these symbolisms i'm just telling you with the
linen but also the sacrifice which is offered
uh the the the relics which in the alt are in the altar
everything is screaming the presence of our lord jesus christ so let me um
read to you how the altar cloth and the mentality on the ultra cloth has
evolved with the general instruction of the novus ordo from 1969.
this i'll read a little bit about the traditional and how it's been changed
it is easy to understand why the rubrics prescribe linen
the altar symbolically represents christ and all four gospels
recount that his body was wrapped in linen
the general instruction however of the novus ordo

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required only one cloth made no mention of the use of linen
and did not require that the cloth be blessed
so just more and more you're seeing how what was sacred and supernatural and
separated from the world is no longer sacred and supernatural and
separated from the world it's as common as can be because in the novus ordo
they do not want to lift the soul to heaven they want to make
souls or people just feel comfortable with each other here on earth
and if that doesn't sound like free masonry somehow
introducing the into the church i don't know what does
freemasonry is all about the brotherhood of man
and that's as far as it goes the true catholic religion is all about lifting
souls to god and in their union with our lord jesus christ
they will find harmony with their brethren
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brotherhood with our lord jesus christ which gives us the grace
to have the right friendship with our brother
i think there's one comparison about the altar itself which i missed with you
which was is unfortunate because they were saying that now
uh the altar is no longer even consecrated
it's just blessed it's seven lines long in the name of jesus christ is not even
mentioned uh yeah seven lines long our lord's not mentioned and there's no
there's no not even any signs of the cross well they do it
well that's something i would have missed last week sorry about that but i
have to move on you perhaps know what an anti-pendium is
um this is a very beautiful altar we have here of course
so we'll always be exposed it's it's stone it has a beautiful baroque
that's called baroque that style baroque form to it

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a lot of curves a lot of angels and a lot of flowers and
that's baroque uh but however there are some altars which are not so
ornate and uh they have no decoration on the front they're a little more blocky
there's nothing wrong with that it's just that they're not as decorated
those altars must be or should be decorated with what's called an
anti-pendium meaning uh curtain which hangs before them and
that antipendium can be changed in color just like we're going
to change on sunday to the color of purple for advent the
the front of the altar would be the color purple for the time of advent
and then green for the time of pentecost white for saints etc
it requires requires a lot of maintenance actually to keep changing that
frontal or that antipendium there must be candlesticks on the altar uh
6 candlesticks for the sun mass and 2 candlesticks for the

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low mass let me read to you how that's how that has evolved in the general
instruction they say the number of ultra candlesticks
was left unspecified you can have two you can have four you can have six
whatever you want back to the traditional uh rubrics
there must be a crucifix with an image of the crucified
why because the mast is the living picture of the crucifix the priest makes
constant gestures towards it genuflections bows and raising his eyes
those are all prescribed he must do that if he doesn't do it i guess he's still
offering the holy mass but he's making mistakes
and those are at least venial sins in the traditional mass crucifixes are

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everywhere throughout christendom and masons love to remove them
the altar sometimes does not have a tabernacle
even in traditional parishes or i should say churches
mass centers because we're not permanently permanently set up there yet
we're not going to be there from one week to the next so we don't leave the
blessed sacrament reserved so there's no tabernacle but even in that situation
we always have a crucifix the priest must look to the crucifix during mass
let's see how that has evolved the 1969 instruction initially
prescribed that a cross be placed on the altar or near it so crucifix no
the difference is cross is just two pieces of wood
without the representation of our lord jesus christ suffering
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there was no specific requirement that the cross be of the standard latin design
or that it have an image of the crucify christ affixed to it
so what happened crosses in strange shapes for example black crosses jerusalem
crosses dagger crosses multiplied everywhere adorned with unusual corpuses like
the resurrection christ or the abstract sorry this sounds irreverent but here it
is or the abstract twisted lizard of paul vi
i always thought that pope john paul ii had the most unusual looking
um i guess that's a processional cross which he used instead of a crosier
and now popes have continued to do it since him they have
that grotesque looking body of jesus hanging there which doesn't even look
like a crucifixion anymore uh that's pope john paul ii but
apparently paul paul six had something pretty
bizarre even before pope john paul ii well that's how things were since 1969

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in the novus ordo but apparently there was a train a change
according to the new regulations the cross could be
the processional cross carried in and out before and after mass
so we just just use a little use a little logic on that
we'll figure out that they're saying that when mass is not happening
there is no crucifix in the church you know the process the cross will be
the processional cross carried in and out before and after mass the cincinnati
archdiocese diocesan regulations forbade or forbade
permanently installing a cross in a church
and prescribed that only that the only cross in the church must be the
processional cross that is carried in and out so not only
did they make it possible that there will never be a cross in the
church except for mass they are they prohibited that there be a cross
in the church outside of mass well you know that's just not catholic

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apparently by the year 2000 they started to backpedal
so in 1969 until 2000 that's 30 years it took until the year 2000 for the
vatican to get around to prescribing a cross with the figure of christ crucified
upon it the vatican backpedaled on the the rules of 1969 and
made it obligatory that all churches have crucifixes
uh there are three altar cards on the altar only the central one is necessary
that has the essential prayers of the canon
the um which includes the consecration and the offertory is also there those
are the essential prayers the other two altered cards on both
sides have been added out of convenience for the priest
because sometimes he can forget those prayers of of

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putting the wine and water in the chat putting the water in the chalice really
and sometimes he can't forget the prayer of the lavabo
it's there for that reason and then the last gospel on the gospel side of the
altar the same way sometimes we leave them up they're all
three just for symmetry you might know that there's a few masses
like palm sunday holy thursday the easter vigil
mass that no last gospel is recited there might be other cases
i think also the uh what do you call it requiem mass when you're going to have
absolution the body after mass there's no last gospel there's no less
gospel for the other three examples i gave either
and you might wonder well then why did they leave that card up there on the
left-hand side if they're not going to use it
i answer it looks nice it's symmetry take it off thing looks like something's

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missing uh and the other two addition uh if you note on that
i thought i had a note on how that's evolved the altar cards on the altar
well i don't think they're any they're there anymore because the priest is
facing the people he probably doesn't want those ultra cards
blocking his vision to the people there must be a dignified and worthy
altar missile on the altar and here this is what i'm pointing out
there can be relics on the altar so here at our altar we have
not just all relics in the altar in the sepulcher but also displayed on the
two different gradients and those are exposed usually for our masses on sunday
especially for sun mass if we ever get back to sun mass
despite the present government and government regulations there can be relics

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let's see what how that has evolved for major feasts the traditional rubrics
presumed that relics of the saints will be
exposed for veneration on the high altar
and incensed at high mass and at vespers that's what we do
however the general instruction of 1969 is silent on the matter
but in 1977 the traditional practice was actually
forbidden they said you may not have relics on the altar
so again just always taking away that supernatural
always taking away the testimony of the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
and martyrs shedding their blood in union with our lord jesus christ
it's true that relics on the altar are not necessarily martyrs
of blood but their lives are martyrdoms of constant constant renunciation of
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and well now they're taken off the altar since 1977.
pope pius vi so that's going back to the 18th century condemned
a certain heretical uh trend in the church
of people that wanted to take the relics off the altar popeye
vi condemned that he condemned it as rash and injurious to a pious and
approved custom of the church a phrase which could easily describe
what pope paul vi eventually did he made an abolition he abolished
the practice of having relics on the altar
all these traditional requirements for the catholic altar
every altar has a titular saint a saint a title every altar has a title

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i'm not sure what the name of the title of our altar is here
that's called the titular saint i imagine it's saint pius the tenth
because that's the name of our priory as well but sometimes the titular saint
of the altar is not the same as the titular saint of the church however
if there is a picture of a saint above the altar
it must be this saint and i have seen that before and perhaps you all have too
you have a church our later guadalupe you might wonder why there's a big image
of our lady of guadalupe over the altar i see that more than i see the crucifix
yes you're right but she is the titular saint of the altar
and same with uh saint paul's attempt i've seen a church in his honor
large painting of saint pies attend above the altar the place where father
um summers comes from in redford mix michigan that was the church of saint
ann but the altar was called senpai's tenth

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so there's a huge picture saying pies a tenth above the altar
uh this is beautiful which is said about something which is said about flowers
so uh thank you so much to mary for all your work on flowers
i have never been at a church where so much attention was given to flowers
and it's really beautiful and worthwhile first of all flowers are for the glory
of god and the on the altar and then they are for the edification
of the faithful to lift the faithful's mind up to god
uh this from a tradition this from a classic author that i'm using
for the notes he says that flowers are for the earth what stars are
for the heavens that's a great comparison we look at the sky we wonder the stars
rightfully so and that's millions of miles away from us on our

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earth nevertheless we have those kind of wonders
and those are flowers and i'm not just speaking sentimentally it's it's obvious
this author says that flowers are a leftover
a remnant from nature before the fall that in the garden of paradise adam and
eve have flowers like that everywhere now we still see flowers with all their
beauty but not as numerous as adam and eve had
and not in such a concentrated place we still have them and that's how we put
them on the altar they symbolize the purity of creation before the fall
they symbolize the beauty of god not just in the heavens but also here on
this earth and something very interesting about
flowers to display them on the altar they are they're cut usually
there are exceptions like the points said at christmas time in the easterly
easter time depending on what country you're from uh but

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cut flowers usually within a week they'll be dead
and despite watering them and taking care of them and everything else
that's a symbolic thing that um even the flowers give their life
for christ on the altar and that's why so they are beautiful they're like stars
they're left over from the fall and they give their life on the altar
the rose is a sign of spiritual joy i'm not sure in what sunday what century
it started but it's several centuries old where the holy father himself
has to bless a golden rose only sunday of advent matari sunday is the
third sunday of advent where the priest uses rose-colored vestments
litari means rejoice and the pope uses the pope blesses a golden

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rose in honor of all that on that sunday
flowers are the emblems of innocence the innocence which we derive from our lord
jesus christ and finally we catholic souls are meant
to accumulate the flowers of virtue so that nothing gives christ more joy
than to be around us i like how that point keems coming
keeps coming out in our consideration of the altar we surround christ the
altar cloths surround our lord jesus christ like the shroud surrounded his body
we surround him the church militant suffering and triumphant
the consecration of the church was usually united to the consecration of
the altar when it's possible uh showing that the faithful are consecrated to god
at the same time the altar which represents christ is consecrated to god
meaning that the faithful are connected intimately connected to our lord jesus

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christ because his glory is to be with the sons of men and here's here it
is again we accumulate the flowers of virtue so
that nothing gives christ more joy than to be around us now i'm not a big
humanist that just likes to preach man and man and dignity of man
and how lucky for jesus christ that he got to be one of us
not quite that way but there is a very healthy understanding of the
dignity of a christian pope um leo the great gave us that line
um the dignity of a christian because he has saint of
sanctifying grace in him and he is the temple that our lord jesus christ
presents to his father in heaven you know um i have a hard time coming up
with an analogy or a comparison but if our lord jesus christ has gone
through so much suffering in order to sanctify man in order to put his life
inside of that soul well then we become kind of like

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trophies for him something he would like he likes to show off to his father
something of consolation for him so i know we're full of sin
and we can't exaggerate uh how good we are that's not correct
we're full of sin but our lord jesus christ honestly
enjoys our company and honestly enjoys what a um a glory he has made out of us
by a sacrifice and that that thought keeps coming up in this study
so that was the altar itself and the linen what's on the altar and now i'll
consider with you some items used during the holy sacrifice of the mass
starting first of all with the item par excellence which is the chalice
uh chalice comes from the latin word kalix which means the exact same thing

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a cup a precious cup on a stem the cup must be gilded on the inside with gold
uh the rest of the cup or the chalice must be made of a precious metal
silver or pewter but not just brass or copper or lead certainly not lead
it has to be a noble and precious metal but the cup must be gold on the inside
it even seems that the chalice ranks higher than the patent which goes with it
uh however the two go the two go together there's a chalice
that the priest uses and there's the patent on top of the chalice
that he uses the patent will hold the host which becomes the body of our
lord jesus christ and the chalice folds the wine which

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becomes his precious blood the chalice is emblematic of the mass
because as soon as we see it we think blood and blood that was shed
for our redemption and blood that is continually made present on the altar in
the sacrifice of the mass for the continuation of grace to come to souls
the chalice is emblematic of that when you watch a solemn high mass
where there's three ministers at the altar the celebrant a deacon and a
subdeacon they can all three be priests but
they'll fulfill the functions of those three different ranks of the holy orders
at the offering of the chalice the deacon assists the celebrant to say the
words of offering the chalice but he only does that for the chalice
and not for the patent which is what leads me to believe that
even the chalice even has a certain superiority

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over the patent because it is the shedding of christ's blood
a chalice cannot be made out of glass my first reaction to that would be that
it's irreverent you'll be showing the precious blood of our lord jesus christ
as if there's no mystery involved but the reason given here is that glass
is brittle and it's unsafe to have the precious blood
inside of such such a uh you know brittle um delicate um
material wood is not allowed for a chalice and i think we see plenty of
those in the novus ordo mass why not wood is not as noble as a precious metal
and wood is porous you put a liquid inside of it that liquid is going to
stay inside of the wood for a certain amount of time evaporating
or getting absorbed into the wood and if it's the precious blood of our
lord jesus christ that is not a reverent way to treat it

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the patent which holds the host must be guilt of gold
also at least have a gold covering the word paten is properly applied just
to the disc the plate which the priest uses with the chalice
i know we say patent of the item that the altar boy
holds under your chin when we go for when you receive holy communion
that's where i was taught the word patent but strictly that should be
called a communion plate and what the priest uses at the altar is the patent
however understand if we still confuse it
uh the patent which the priests used on the altar
cannot have an inner recessed cavity so i'm talking to you about all the
nitty-gritty details some of these uh patents are pretty uh it's a disk
and there's a secondary disk on the inside of it it's all connected
and that secondary disk is very close to the exact size of a large host
that the priests used at mass so it looks pretty on a chalice you have a chalice

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a patent on top of it host on top of that right in that nice little
cave there the cavity however those are not supposed to be somehow they got put
into use they should not be used because it makes purification of the patent
difficult um i told you last week but i'll repeat it
the chalice when it's not being used was first of all the chalice must always be
clean and bright so it should be the preoccupation of a
priest to keep his chalice clean i would say with at least once a week
buffing it out a little bit because we have oils
and the fingers uh naturally and uh that stays on the chalice as much as you try
to clean it up when you're finished and the oil attracts elements from the
atmosphere which is which contains dust and i don't know what
and that makes tarnish on the chalice so that once a week so once a week that
should be buffed out at least once a week uh the chalice
should always be covered when not in use uh even in the sacristy it normally
should be in the cupboard or if it's laid out it should be in a

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covering because what happens there is a huge
mystery we cannot leave a chalice out like it's some sort of decoration
and just say yeah this is a cup like all others wrong
and she must be treated with great great respect um i'll make a um
not digression but illusion here uh it might not even seem proper but hopefully
you receive it in the right sense you've probably noticed in our bookstore
a book called dressing with dignity by a very nice lady named colleen hamlin or
hamilton or something like that colleen someone or other i think hamilton
and she's a very nice woman i had the honor of meeting her a few times
and in her book there she talks about how a woman should dress
and she goes on for quite a while about how
the sacred vessels we use at the altar because of them being so sacred

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they're covered you usually don't see the chalice until you see the priest
elevating it outside of that his body is blocking the vision of it
because there's a mystery going on there uh
and she uses that to talk about how a woman should dress that
the woman has within her the great mystery of
the transmission of life and for that reason her body should
receive a lot of respect especially in dressing
so instead of dressing you know tight to the skin and all that and showing the
whole form and everything no no no no there's a great mystery in a woman which
needs to be preserved that's procreation god is sending a soul
directly inside of that woman at the moment of conception
and that deserves respect so i know the two things are
quite a long stretch between them but um colleen made the uh
connection and i didn't mind repeating it both the chalice and patent must be

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consecrated by a bishop and only by a bishop because their purpose is so sublime
i know i told you that last week this consecration of a chalice and
patent can be lost if the chalice is broken or fractured
or if the inside of the cup is re-gilt it loses its consecration
has to be consecrated again consecration is done with
holy chrism as you know there are three holy oils the oil of catechumens
holy chrism and the oil of the infirm holy chrism which is also used to
come what we call it give the sacrament of confirmation
and also give the sacrament of holy orders and also bells
are consecrated holy chrism is used for that to show the
coming of the holy ghost inside of these items because of their high purpose the

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chalice the patent and even the ceborium normally
because of their high purpose the sacred vessels cannot be touched by laity
so i know we have a couple of young men here who help us with the in the
sacristy and they they will take the chalice out
to put the to dress it for the mass you might see them put the chalice take
the chalice from the creedence table to the altar
in the sun mass and you might think oh that's a layman touching the
chalice but please also know they have gloves on
they're using gloves so that their actual body is not touching
the chalice the other option is to use the veil of the chalice as a type of
glove and not touch the chalice however that's
not recommendable because you'll just make a mess out of the chalice veil

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the mystical meaning of the chalice is the sanctified chalice of melchizedek
which the lord once filled with grace you know that melchizedek in the old
testament who had an encounter with abraham the father of all christians and the
father of our lord jesus christ he came back from the battle of the kings and
he met abraham abraham offered him tithes and melchizedek offered a sacrifice of
bread and wine his wine was in a chalice and the chalice we used
is prefigured by the chalice of melchizedek in the old testament
the pattern represents the tree of the cross
upon which christ suffered for us and why is that

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the pattern doesn't look like a cross the answer is
because our lord was dead on the cross on the paten our lord jesus christ is
offered up in sacrifice it's not correct to say that our lord is dead
in the patent or dead in the chalice our lord is offered in sacrifice but
he's still our lord who is reigning victoriously in heaven
with his father for all eternity who's present with us
he's present with us because of his sacrifice
but it's never quite correct to say that he's dead i've told you before that we
can we can say that there is a mystical death made present on the altar by first
making the body present and then the blood present there's a separation
of body and blood we have the death but it's still not quite correct to look
at the pattern on the host sorry the post on the patent even after
it's been consecrated and say that's our lord jesus christ dead you

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can say that's our lord jesus christ sacrificed but not dead
together the chalice and the patent patent represent the sepulcher
and it is said so in their consecration prayer
uh why do they represent the sepulcher because
our lord jesus christ is kept there but again do not focus too much on dead
the represent represents the sepulcher and some even say the patent
patent represents the stone which cover the sepulcher
so that we have in our mind the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
so next week i'll tell you about the corporal in nepal the purificator the
burst in the chalice veil uh some other items used on the altar
and my may god bless you we'll say our prayer now

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name the father the son of the ghost coming
hail mary and full of praise to the lord fine