Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea in San Francisco, gave a 13-minute homily on Sunday, March 26.
Father began by noting it was Passion Sunday. The statues are all covered in purple cloth. “Jesus has hidden himself. We have cast Him out of the temple.”
“But] you and all your brothers will rise after death. He will give us Heaven if we accept it.
Then Father retold the Gospel story of Lazarus and compared the faith of this good man with things today
“Most of our friends and neighbors have lost their faith. Most of the people in our fair city do not live as if God even existed. We may say we believe in God, but we practice practical atheism.”
It wasn’t “Passion Sunday”; it was the Fifth Sunday of Lent. “Passion Sunday” is from the obsolete pre-conciliar liturgical calendar. Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is this coming Sunday.
From the Register:
“1. What is this day called?
The day is called both “Palm Sunday” and “Passion Sunday.”
The first name comes from the fact that it commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the crowd had palm branches (John 12:13).
The second name comes from the fact that the narrative of the Passion is read on this Sunday (it otherwise wouldn’t be read on a Sunday, since the next Sunday is about the Resurrection).
According to the main document on the celebration of the feasts connected with Easter, Paschales Solemnitatis:
Holy Week begins on “Passion (or Palm) Sunday” which joins the foretelling of Christ’s regal triumph and the proclamation of the passion. ”
Paschales Solemnitatis, from the CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS came out Jan 16, 1988. Perhaps you will forgive some of us, including the above Congregation, who also call it “Passion Sunday.”
That is the Sunday of Holy Week.
Don’t feed the troll
too many on this site lol
So then why do all the liturgical offices shift their prefaces, their choice of hymns, and their antiphons suddenly at the fifth week of Lent? Why do churches (even Novus Ordo only ones) cover their crosses and religious images beginning at the fifth week of Lent? And, on the other hand, why do Laetare and Gaudete Sundays exist in Lent and Advent even though they’re from the “obsolete pre-conciliar liturgical calendar”?
Such vitriolic hatred for the way that the saints before 1969 worshipped has got to be demonic in nature. If it’s not demonic, it’s uneducated.
They have both forms there.
Its Passion Sunday in the True Church not the Counterfeit one created within the last 60 years
I have to complain about the blasphemy. Schismatics might be sincere but they are also wrong and sinful. Only three types of sinners lose their membership in the Church-schismatics, heretics and apostates.
This is from pre-Vatican II catechism.
San Francisco is about 97% Democrat. No wonder it’s a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah,
The psychotic female mass-killer who shot up a Nashville Christian school is a warning: war has been declared on Christians. Ardent Democrat atheistic gay and trans affirming psychos are going to target and murder more Christians because they can’t stand that true Christians won’t affirm them in their atheistic falsehoods, lies and delusions.
The lines have been drawn. The writing is on the wall. The message is loud and clear. Sides are being chosen. Where will you stand?
How do you know that the Nashville murderer was Democrat? Do you keep track of the political party of every mass murderer? I’d be interested in seeing the statistics. Seems like most would be Republican since the vast majority of people who believe in the supposed right to own assault weapons are Republicans.
I don’t believe that specific claim was made. You are reading things into posts that aren’t there.
It is STILL passion week. Read your Novus Ordo Missal. The Preface for every Mass in the 5th week of Lent is “Preface of the Passion I” and the readings all allude to the passion.
In the Roman Missal, it is the 5th Sunday of Lent. The Sunday of Holy Week is called Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. The Commemoration of the Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem the Procession or Solemn Entrance before the Mass. It can be the Simple Entrance at Masses that are not the principle Mass of the parish.
Wrong is “Passion”. The Novus Ordo Missal, which “Passion” passionately refers us to, states that on the Fifth Sunday of Lent there is a proper preface to be used when the Gospel about Lazarus is read. If another Gospel is read, then either Preface I or II of Lent is used. Not the Preface of the Passion I.
The Novus Ordo liturgy changed a lot of the older ways of doing things and changed the older terminology. You need to catch up with Vatican II.
There is no such thing as a Novus Ordo liturgy.
First the words creep in. Then the errors creep in.
Resist.
If I may copy from my earlier post:
According to the main document on the celebration of the feasts connected with Easter, Paschales Solemnitatis:
Holy Week begins on “Passion (or Palm) Sunday” which joins the foretelling of Christ’s regal triumph and the proclamation of the passion. ”
Paschales Solemnitatis, from the CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS came out Jan 16, 1988. Perhaps you will forgive some of us, including the above Congregation, who also call it “Passion Sunday.”
Please note, jon, your argument is not with me, but with the above document coming from the Vatican. I refer this note also to original correct March 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm. I take it Rome is a better judge of things then Wikipedia.
Yes, Holy Week begins on Palm/Passion Sunday, but it’s not Holy Week yet. This past Sunday wasn’t Passion Sunday. It was the Fifth Sunday of Lent. That’s the whole point. Some posters here can’t read. There is a Passion/Palm Sunday, but the Sunday referred to by the pastor wasn’t that Sunday.
In the Diocese of the US, the practice of covering crosses and images throughout the Church may begin on the 5th Sunday of Lent. Crosses remain covered until the end of the celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday. Images remain covered until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.
According to the Daily Roman Missal.
The original poster is correct. It’s not Passion Sunday anymore. It changed in 1969. Passiontide no longer exists in the Church’s liturgical calendar.
Passion Sunday is the fifth Sunday of Lent, marking the beginning of Passiontide. In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church removed Passiontide from the liturgical year of the Novus Ordo, but it is still observed in the Extraordinary Form, the Personal Ordinariates, and by some Anglicans and Lutherans.
That’s from Wikipedia.
Nobody listens to the homily, do they?
“passion” “palm”
still plenty of reasons to be pessimistic.
about the formerly great City of Saint Francis
by the Golden Gate.
Mr. and Mrs. Pelosi would be two reasons
Star of the Sea church has both forms of the Mass, the Novus Ordo and old Latin Tridentine Mass. Here is an easy suggestion: on Google, type in “Passion Sunday” and read the information on “Wikipedia.” Next, type in “Passiontide,” and read the information provided. You will get all the infirmation you need. Before the Novus Ordo Mass of 1969, the 5th Sunday of Lent was called “Passion Sunday,” and all the statues, crucifixes and religious artworks were covered in purple cloth. The new “Anglican Use,” or “Anglican Ordinariate” branch of our Church, as well as some Anglicans and some Lutherans, retain this tradition. What many have forgotten– or perhaps didn’t know– is that we used to have a definite, very holy liturgical season at the end of Lent, called “Passiontide”– the holiest time in the Church calendar. It started with the 5th Sunday of Lent and ended on Holy Saturday. It was very somber, and heightened the meaning of Our Lord’s suffering and death for our Salvation. Passion plays were performed during Passiontide, and there were religious processions, and other customs, in different cultures. Observances of Lent, Passiontide and Easter are very ancient.
The pastor should follow Traditionis Custodes and not celebrate the TLM in his territorial parish church anymore.
I attended a Traditional Latin Mass (Vetus Ordo), approved by our bishop, last Sunday (Passion Sunday) and all the statues were covered with purple cloth. I also attended one Post Vatican II Mass (Novus Ordo) and prayed at a Catholic Shrine (Novus Ordo) this week and all the statues were covered. Evidently some Novus Ordo parishes do not wait to their Psalm Sunday to cover the statues,
There is no such thing aa a Novus Ordo Mass. There is Mass.
Or a Novus Ordo Shrine or a Novus Ordo parish.
Stop using the jargon of the schismatics.
You can nit pick all you want, but Vetus Ordo only means the Older Mass (Extraordinary) and Novus Ordo only means the Newer Mass (Ordinary) as far as I am concerned. It is not meant to trash either one of them.
I just read that to veil the statues, crucifixes, and religious artworks in purple cloths, in our churches, on the 5th Sunday of Lent, in the Novus Ordo Mass, is still an optional tradition.
It is a good sermon. The short part shown here is not the good part. It is actually just a prelude to telling his parishioners to hold on to their faith.
https://www.ncregister.com/features/the-astonishing-power-of-one-hail-mary
Pray a Hail Mary for the conversion of sinners.
Exodus 17:11-12
As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had the better of the fight.
Moses’ hands, however, grew tired; so they took a rock and put it under him and he sat on it. Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady until sunset.