Living Without The Mass. By Cardinal George Pell
Prison is certainly not the best place to celebrate the Easter feast. Being unable to attend the Holy Thursday Mass of the Oils with the priests is hard, just as it is hard to miss the evening Mass of …More
Prison is certainly not the best place to celebrate the Easter feast. Being unable to attend the Holy Thursday Mass of the Oils with the priests is hard, just as it is hard to miss the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper.
While the ceremonies in Sydney are always celebrated with dignity and genuine reverence in that splendid neo-Gothic sandstone cathedral, and the music led by what is now the best choir in Australia, it is not this splendour’s absence that I lament most of all.
It is the inability to celebrate these central mysteries in my community according to the ancient prescribed rites of the Catholic Church. These sacramental celebrations in any setting, provided they are reverent, set out the events commemorated and draw us into their mystery.
Cardinal George Pell, in Prison Journal, Volume 1 (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020): Holy Thursday 18 April 2019 entry, p. 135.
Picture: George Pell, © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsYnotaalahy
While the ceremonies in Sydney are always celebrated with dignity and genuine reverence in that splendid neo-Gothic sandstone cathedral, and the music led by what is now the best choir in Australia, it is not this splendour’s absence that I lament most of all.
It is the inability to celebrate these central mysteries in my community according to the ancient prescribed rites of the Catholic Church. These sacramental celebrations in any setting, provided they are reverent, set out the events commemorated and draw us into their mystery.
Cardinal George Pell, in Prison Journal, Volume 1 (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020): Holy Thursday 18 April 2019 entry, p. 135.
Picture: George Pell, © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsYnotaalahy
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