How to be a little 'time to this part, for the first Sunday of Lent we will try to find points of contact and, above all, those who in some way can be a mutual enrichment between the ordinary and extraordinary form of the Roman Rite: a "line" common lexicon to resume the series begun with S. Bernard of Clairvaux ( "line" of Lent , also understood as the need to leave a few extra pounds, metaphorical or not) and continued with the "line" rigorous S. Alfonso M. de 'Liguori.
Let's see, first of all, its a parallel between the two:
Income (Ps. 90, 15-16 and 1) I will call and I hear: I will deliver him and honor him: I will satisfy him long days.. If you live under the auspices of the Most High shall abide under the protection of heaven. | Entrance Antiphon (Ps. 90.15 to 16) I invoke it will look for and I will answer him; anguish and glory, I will satisfy him with long life. |
| Collection God, which cleanses your Church with the annual observance of Lent, give to your family as it struggles to get by with a Te abstinence, let him do it with good works. | Collect O God, our Father, with the celebration of this Lent, a sacramental sign of our conversion, grant us Thy faithful to grow in knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness to him with a worthy conduct of life. For our Lord. |
| From the Letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians (II, 6: 1-10) Brothers: because we are his colleagues, there We urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain For he saith: In an acceptable time I have heard you on the day of salvation I have helped you. Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation! For our part we do not give a cause of scandal to anyone, because no fault may be found with our ministry, but in everything we as servants of God, very firmly in our sufferings, necessities, distresses, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, in watchings, in fastings; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, with words of truth, with the power of God with the weapons of righteousness on the right and left, in honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report. We are treated as impostors, yet true, unknown, yet well known, as dying, and behold we live; punished but not killed, sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, poor yet making many rich; people who have nothing and yet possessing everything. | From the Book of Deuteronomy (26,4-10) Moses spoke to the people and said: "The priest shall take the basket from your hands and places it before the altar of the Lord, your God, and you utter these words before the Lord your God:" My father was a wandering Aramean, fell in Egypt, lived there as an outsider with little people and there he became a great nation, strong and numerous. The Egyptians ill-treated us, afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage. Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our affliction and our oppression, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. He led us into this place and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey. Now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, you gave me. " And thou shalt set before the Lord, your God, and worship before the Lord your God. "
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| Gradual (Ps. 90: 11-12) God sent angels with you, because they guard you in all your steps. They will lead you in the palm of his hand, that strike your foot against a stone. Tract (Ps. 90, 1-7 et 11-16) who lives under the auspices of the Most High, is hospitalized and under the protection of the Lord God says: Thou art my defender and my refuge: my God in whom I trust. He delivered me from the snare of the hunters and a fatal case. With his feathers will make the screen, and under his wings you will be comfortable. His faithfulness is a shield: the dangers do not have to worry at night. Neither strong lightning by day, nor the plague that is spreading through the darkness, or disease that is killing the afternoon. A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but no harm will reach you. Because he sent angels with you, because you keep you in all your ways. They'll take you in the palm of the hand so that your foot will not stumble in stone. Sull'àspide walk and the basilisk, and trample the lion and the dragon. As hoped for me, I will deliver him: protect him, because he recognized my name. Just call out to me, I will grant him: I will be with him in tribulation. I will deliver him and honor him: I will satisfy him long days, and I will share my salvation | Responsorial Psalm (from Psalm 90) (NB the responsorial psalm can be replaced with gradual or sudden with the form "extraordinary" listed alongside, although not in fact almost never happens) R Stay with us, Lord, the hour of trial. If you live in the shelter of
From the letter S. Paul to the Romans (10.8 to 13) Brethren, what does [Moses]? "The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart," is the word of faith which we preach. For if with your mouth proclaims: "Jesus is Lord, 'and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. With the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. The Scripture says: "Whoever believes in him shall not be disappointed." Since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because he is Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. In fact, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." |
| Gospel according to Matthew (4, 1-11) At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter then came and said: "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." But he said: "It is written: No man shall live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him: "If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, and they will bear you up with the their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. " Jesus answered, "it is written, not groped the Lord your God." Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and said: "All these things will I give thee, if, prostrate yourself and worship me." But Jesus replied: "Go away, Satan! It is written: Worship the Lord your God and him only shalt thou serve. " Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him. | Gospel according to Luke (4:1-13) At that time Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness for forty days, tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, but when they were finished, he was hungry. Then the devil said to him: "If you are the Son of God, 'this stone to become bread." Jesus replied: "It is written:" I do not live by bread alone man. '" The devil led him up, showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the earth and said, "I'll give all this power and their glory, because it was given to me and I give it to whoever I want. So, if you will bow down in worship before me, all will be yours. " Jesus replied: "It is written:" The Lord your God, you'll love: him only shall you serve. '" He took him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said: "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, it is written:" For He will command his angels concerning you to guard you, they, "and also: "They will take you on their hands because your foot against a stone. '" Jesus replied: "It has been said:" Do not test the Lord your God. '" Having exhausted every temptation, the devil departed from him until the appointed time. |
| Offertory (Ps. 90: 4-5) With his feathers will make the screen, the Lord, and under his wings you will be comfortable: his faithfulness is a shield. | Offertory be renewed, Lord, our life and with your help inspire you, more sacrifice, that Saint-tific the beginning of Lent, a time favorable for our salvation. |
| Communion Antiphon (Ps. 90.4-5) With his feathers will make the screen, the Lord, and under his wings you will quiet: his faithfulness is a shield. | Communion Antiphon (Lk 4.8) only worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. " Or: (Ps 90.4) The Lord will cover you with his protection under his wings you will find refuge. |
| There Postcommùnio refreshments, Lord, the libation of your sacrament, and, after having liberated man old, lead us to the participation of the mystery of salvation. | After Communion the bread of heaven which have given us, O Father, feed our faith, increase hope, strengthen charity, and teach us to have a hunger for Christ, the true and living bread, and feed on every word that comes from your mouth. |
Both the ordinary and extraordinary forms have virtually the same income. For convenience, have been maintained versions respectively missal of Dom Lefebvre (Edward Arnold) to the extraordinary form and the non-updated version of the IEC 2008 as the first is widespread in the bilingual missal and the second (unfortunately) is not yet fully generalized. It is in both cases a strong emphasis on trust of Psalm 90 , which gives the extraordinary form another verse (the first) Introit, the Gradual, Offertory antiphons and the stretch and Communion in the ordinary form , as well all'antifona input, we find in Psalm 90 as Mass responsorial psalm that in the case (very rare, however, possible) to use the gradual or sudden, instead of the first option, is a psalm that introduces well the figure of Jesus Adam: If you personally and in recent weeks we have watched the fall and anguish of sin but also to hope, but balanced in the precarious situation of human beings or certain or desperate, careful and aware of the word have a vocation and a role, people and people with Jesus Christ the hope of consolation, encouragement and trust you: Jesus Christ, true God but true man, who teaches and performs miracles, that sometimes it is easily understood and others not, rejects the temptation ( Matt. . 4, 1-11 and Lk. 4, 1-13 ) and offers an unequivocal sign of grace that can bring the human race to begin the ascent and the path to God
Psalm 90 (numbering in the Jewish and now in use is 91 , but here we are incurably traditionalists!) is actually a psalm in which, with prophetic utterance type, the psalmist the certainty that God can and wants to free and protect those who take him from harm both material and spiritual. And 'explicitly mentioned in the gospel of the extraordinary form, 4.6 Mt , with reference to the verse of Psalm 12: "On hands they [the angels] will take you because your foot will not stumble into the stone," and finds herself in veiled allusions in Mk 16, 18 and Luke 10, 19 (mission of the disciples).
The issue of trust and grace returns also the reading of the extraordinary form ( II Corinthians, 6 1.10 ) in the form of exhortation and experience not only personal but also of the Apostle, as if to say: it is reasonable to have confidence even in the worst even in those who are temptations of easy ground, grace can be received and made to work.
Even in the ordinary form of the Pauline letter ( Romans 10, 8-13 ) return to the themes of faith and salvation, this time expressed in a rather remarkable wisdom and with the combination of nominal and verbal profession of Christian faith: "if with your mouth proclaims: "Jesus is Lord, 'and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." How to say more and better in so few words? And the first reading of the ordinary form, with the remembrance of the deliverance from Egypt, fits perfectly into the general framework outlined above.
Some difference is found in the collections, all things considered more form than substance: that the extraordinary form is expressed in a more symbolic (less accurate but very understandable, almost "Semitic" for concreteness) while that of the ordinary form is explicit and rigorous in terms, but perhaps because of it not "grasp" on the fly. For the rest, both are part of the Lent (purification of the Church through its observance in one conversion and sacramental sign in the other) to ask to know how to live a life consistent with the faith they profess.
The Offertory of the extraordinary form, as written, takes up the Psalm 90 , while that of the ordinary form reminiscent of the extraordinary form Postcommunio individually so that could get together and complement each other (provided that they are still different parts and different liturgical significance): With the Lord's help and inspiration of the Eucharist and the sacrifice which sanctifies the beginning of Lent, get free man old to participate in the mystery of salvation (I know, at this point any player - will have the liturgist straight hair ... or no longer have them, worse for him, so he learns to go to places like this!).
To complete the picture, ordinary or extraordinary is that, here are some suggestions for further reading.
On temptation: I Corinthians 10-13 ; 3 January 1-6 , on fasting: Ex 34, 28 , Deut 9, 18 ;; on the calls of the Gospel of Matthew: Dt 8, 3 , Wis 16, 26 , Ezekiel 8, 1 -3 ; Deut 6, 16 , Deuteronomy 34, 1-4 , Ezekiel 40, 2 , Rev. 21, 10 , John 18, 36 , Mt 16, 26 , Deut 5, 9-10 , and cf. Mt 16, 21-23 ), the individual Christian temptation: I Corinthians 7, 5 ; I Thessalonians 3, 5 , Rev. 2, 10 , Jas I, 13-15 ;
Useful to read the entire Psalm 90 (91) .
And with this I wish you all a first Sunday of Lent really " extraordinary "!
