Just got back from Maundy Thursday Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite (AKA Tridentine).
What with the incense, the ringing of the bells during the Gloria, the wooden rattle replacing the bells during the Consecration, and the procession and stripping o f the altar after Mass, it was a liturgy the children found really interesting. No need to send them off to Childrens' Liturgies when they can be nourished - and intrigued - by the richness of traditional liturgy.
Anna and the teenage girls all wore mantillas - the traditional black lacy veils with which women without hats always used to cover their heads in Church. The girls like them - Anna wears it more as a gesture of modesty and submission.
1 August: Blessed M. Stella and her Ten Companions, the Martyrs of
Nowogrodek
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Trying to get this under the wire. 1 August is the Feast of Blessed M.
Stella and her Ten Companions, the The Martyrs of Nowogrodek, in Nazi
occupied Polan...
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