As a bit 'of time now, even for the first Sunday of Lent we will try to find points of contact, and especially those who may somehow be a mutual enrichment between the ordinary and extraordinary form of the Roman Rite: a "line" common vocabulary to resume the series begun with San Bernard of Clairvaux ( "line" of Lent , also understood as an abandonment few extra pounds, metaphorical and otherwise) and continued with the "line" strict S. Alfonso M. de 'Liguori.
Let's see, first, a parallel between the two own:
Introit (Ps. 90, 15-16 and 1) I shall call and I will fulfill: deliver him and glorify him: I will fill the long days.. Who lives under the auspices of the Most High will live under the protection of heaven. | Entrance Antiphon (Ps 90.15 to 16) I invoke I-Cher and I will answer; anguish and glory, I will fill it with a long life. |
| Collection God, which cleanses your Church with the annual observance of Lent, and grant your family as it tries to get with abstinence from you, let him do the good work. | Collect O God, our Father, with the celebration of Lent, the sacramental sign of our conversion, grant us thy faithful to grow in knowledge of the mystery of Christ and to bear witness to a dignified life. Through our Lord. |
| Letter from St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians (II, 10-10 6) Siblings: As his employees, there We urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain For he says: When I have heard you and the day of salvation I have helped you. Now is the time, now is the day of salvation! For our part we do not give a cause of scandal to anyone, lest they be blamed our ministry, but in everything we present ourselves as ministers of God, very firmly in tribulations, needs, anxieties, beatings, imprisonment, riots, labors, vigils, in fasting; purity, wisdom, patience, kindness, spirit of holiness, true love, with words of truth, with the power of God with the weapons of justice left and right, in glory and dishonor, the bad and good reputation. We considered impostors, yet are true; unknown, yet are well known, dying, and behold we live; punished but not put to death, sorrowful, but always happy, poor, yet making many rich; people who had nothing and yet possessed all things. | From the Book of Deuteronomy (26.4 to 10) Moses spoke to the people and said: "The priest shall take the basket from your hands and put down before the altar of the Lord thy God, and you pronounce these words before the Lord your God:" My father was a wandering Aramean dismounted Egypt, remained there as an outsider with few people and there became a great nation, powerful and numerous. The Egyptians ill-treated us, humiliated us and we harsh slavery. Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our distress, our affliction and our oppression, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched arm, spreading terror and signs and wonders. Led us into this place and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey. Now, behold, I present the first fruits of the fruits of the soil that you, Lord, you gave me. " The deporrai 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 you keep you in all your steps. They will lead you in the palm of your hand, your foot does not stumble in stone. Section (Ps. 90, 1-7 et 11-16) who lives under the auspices of the Most High, and took refuge under the protection of the Lord God says: You are my defender and my refuge: my God in whom I trust. He freed me from the snare of hunters and a fatal case. With his feathers you will screen and under his wings you will be comfortable. His faithfulness will be your shield will not have to fear the dangers of night. Neither lightning striking by day, nor the plague that meanders in darkness or disease that slaughters at noon. A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but no harm will reach you. As he sent the angels with you, because you keep you in all your ways. Will bring you into palm of hand, so your feet do not stumble in stone. Sull'àspide tread and basilisk, and trample the lion and the dragon. As hoped for me, I will deliver: protect him, why recognize my name. Just call upon me, I grant them: I will be with him in tribulation. Deliver him and glorify him: I will fill the long days and I will share with you my salvation | Responsorial Psalm (from Psalm 90) (NB the Responsorial Psalm may be replaced by the gradual or sudden with the form "extraordinary" shown here, even if not in fact almost never happens) R Stay with us, Lord, the hour of trial. Who lives in the shelter of
The letter S. Paul to the Romans (10.8 to 13) Brethren, what does [Moses]? "The Word is near you, on your lips and in your heart," that is the word of faith which we preach. Because if 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 man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth becomes a profession of faith for salvation. Scripture says: "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed." Since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since he is Lord of all, rich to all who call on him. In fact, "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." |
| Matthew (4, 1-11) At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasted for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter then approached and said: "If you are 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 took him to the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said: "If you are the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: For He will command His angels concerning you, and they will support you with their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. " Jesus replied: "He also wrote: It groped the Lord your God." Then the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world with their glory and said: "All these I will give thee, if, prostrate, worship me." But Jesus replied: "Begone, Satan! It is written: Worship the Lord your God and him only shall you worship. " Then the devil left him and behold, angels came and served him. | Gospel of Luke (4:1-13) At that time Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left 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, "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 glory, because I was given and I give to those who want it. So, if you bow in worship before me, all will be yours. " Jesus replied: "It is written:" The Lord your God, worship: worship him alone "." Led him to Jerusalem, put him on the highest point of the temple and said: "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, is written:" For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you they "and also: "They take you on their hands because your feet do not stumble into a stone." Jesus replied: "It has been said," Do not test the Lord thy God "." After exhausting every temptation, the devil departed from him until the appointed time. |
| Offertory (Ps. 90, 4-5) with his feathers you will screen, the Lord, and under his wings you will be comfortable: his faithfulness will be your shield. | Offertory is renewed, Lord, our life and with your help inspire you, more sacrifice, that Saint-fying the beginning of Lent, a time favorable for our salvation. |
| Communion Antiphon (Ps. 90.4-5) With his feathers you will screen, the Lord, and under his wings you will quietly, his loyalty will be a shield. | Communion Antiphon (Lk 4:8) Only the Lord your God you bow down, worship him alone. " 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 freed man old, lead us to participation in the mystery of salvation. | After Communion, the bread of heaven that you gave us, Father, food in our faith, increase hope, strengthen charity, and teach us to be hungry for Christ, the true and living bread, and feed on every word that comes from your mouth. |
Both the ordinary and extraordinary form in fact have the same income. For convenience were maintained versions respectively missal Dom Lefebvre (Marietti) for the extraordinary form and the non-updated version of the CEI in 2008 as the first is widespread in bilingual and second Messalina (unfortunately) is still not completely generalized. It is in both cases a strong emphasis on trusted Psalm 90 , that the extraordinary form gives another verse (the first) of input, the gradual, tract and Offertory and Communion antiphons, in the ordinary form well all'antifona input, we find much in the Psalm 90 Psalm Responsorial Mass with that in the (very rare anyway possible) to use the gradual or sudden rise in the first option, it is a psalm that introduces the figure of Jesus well Adam: If the last few weeks personally and we watched the fall of sin and anguish but also to hope, but balanced in that precarious situation of humans is neither certain nor desperate, word-conscious and conscious of having a vocation and a role, people and people with Jesus Christ the hope of consolation, encouragement and confidence you: Jesus Christ, true God but also true man, who teaches and performs miracles, it is sometimes easy to understand and some do not, it rejects the temptation ( Mt . 4, 1-11 and Luke. 4, 1-13 ) and offers an unequivocal sign of grace that can bring mankind to the path and begin the ascent 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 pronouncements like the psalmist the certainty that God can and wants to leave and He who resorts to preserve from all danger both material and spiritual. And 'explicitly mentioned in the Gospel of the extraordinary form, 4.6 Mt , with reference to the verse from Psalm 12: "On the hands they [the angels] will take you because your foot does not stumble in stone," and finds himself 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, 10-10 ) in the form of exhortation and experience not only staff but also of the Apostle, as if to say it is reasonable to have confidence even in the worst moments , even those that are a land of easy temptation, grace can be accepted and made to work.
Even in ordinary form of the Pauline letter ( Romans 10: 8-13 ) back issues of faith and salvation, this time cast in a rather remarkable wisdom and with the combination of nominal and verbal profession of Christian faith: "If 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 memory of the liberation from Egypt, fits perfectly within the general framework sketched so far.
Some difference is noted in the collections, all things considered more formal than substantive: that the extraordinary form is expressed in a more symbolic (less accurate but very understandable, as "Semitic" for concreteness), while that of the ordinary form is explicit and rigorous in terms, but perhaps because of less "grab" on the fly. For the rest, both are part of Lent (purification of the Church through its compliance in one conversion and sacramental sign in the other) they should be able to live a life consistent with the faith we profess.
The Offertory of the extraordinary form, as already written, incorporates the Psalm 90 , while the ordinary form of individually Postcommunio recalls the extraordinary form so that could get together and complete (although they are still different parts and different liturgical meaning): with the Lord's help and with the sacrament of the Eucharist and inspired by the sacrifice that sanctifies the beginning of Lent, get rid of the old man to participate in the mystery of salvation (I know, at this point any reader - liturgist will have 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.
The temptation: I Corinthians 10-13 , January 3 1-6 ; on fasting: Ex 34, 28 , Deut 9, 18 ;; calls on the Gospel of Matthew: Deuteronomy 8, 3 , Wis 16, 26 , Ez 8, 1 -3 ; Deut 6, 16 , Deut 34, 1-4 , Ezekiel 40, 2 , Rev 21, 10 , Jn 18, 36 , Mt 16, 26 , Deuteronomy 5, 9-10 , and cf. Matt. 16: 21-23 ) on the temptation of individual Christian Corinthians 7, 5 ; I Thess 3, 5 , Rev 2, 10 ; Giac I, 13-15 ;
Useful reading the entire Psalm 90 (91) .
And with this I wish you all a really first Sunday of Lent " extraordinary "!
