We know God wants us to have oil.
Alan Greenspan writes in his memoirs that the Iraq war was really all about oil. Shocking!
“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” - Timesonline
I think other people have said the same thing.
Changes at the St. Paul parish.
I was actually in St. Paul this morning for the first time in several months, and I went to St. Agnes for Mass at 6:30am. I knew I had missed Mass there, but I hadn’t realized how much. The Mass is always ad orientem, with servers in cassock and surplis and a fully vested priest. The readings are well read and the homilies are excellent. We kneel for Communion and at the 6:30am, Mass is quiet - that is, there is no singing. It is the Novus Ordo and in English, but it is always reverent.
Fr. Ubel wrote in the bulletin about the requests he has received for the Extraordinary Roman rite to be celebrated at St. Agnes. (Fr. Ubel is one of the priests who used to celebrate the Tridentine Mass at our local indult church. Because of the Summorum Pontificum the legal term indult no longer applies.) Fr. Ubel takes the requests for the Extraordinary rite very seriously, and has determined to do a study on the issue.
In his “Pastor’s Page” segment of the Sunday bulletin, he noted that St. Agnes has always celebrated the Novus Ordo Mass reverently, which is true. He writes:
“I think the situation here at St. Agnes is unique, precisely because we have maintained a highly reverent Latin Mass since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. My experience has been that in general people are very comfortable with how Mass is celebrated at this parish.”
I agree. Along with many others, I am very happy with the way the Mass has been celebrated at St. Agnes. Although it seems to me St. Agnes would be a wonderful place for the Extraordinary rite to be celebrated as well. However, I rather like the Novus Ordo, when it is celebrated well that is. As Fr. Ubel pointed out, St. Agnes does that.
Please, just don’t take the Sunday 6:30am Mass away. I noticed they have already done away with the 6am weekday Mass. (It is really just Fr. Ubel at St. Agnes now, with two wonderful priests helping out: Fr. Beaudet as the weekend assistant, Fr. McConville as the weekday assistant. All 3 priests are excellent confessors BTW.) The church has 5 Sunday Masses scheduled as it is, which is about two more than the average parish.
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