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The Archbasilica of The Most Holy Savior, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist at the Lateran.
posted by Fr LWG at 12:46 PM
Thursday, November 09, 2006
The Archbasilica of The Most Holy Savior, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist at the Lateran.
About Me
- Name: Fr LWG
- Location: Peoria, Arizona, United States
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
Previous Wisdom (or Folly)
- All Saints in KS Part II
- Alter Christus
- All Saints in KS
- Luke 11:54
- Has the Catholic world gone mad?
- Sacred Liturgy. NOT!
- From my website
- The Stakes
- The Rules
- WWSPXD?
3 Comments:
I was there for Holy Thursday Mass in 2004. I had arrived in Rome that afternoon and I was alone, 18 years old at the time, and I didn't speak a word of Italian. I was a little lost too. To be honest, I didn't even know the name of the Basilica. My only thought was "I need to find somewhere to go to Mass tonight." I was there an hour and a half before Mass started but I didn't want to walk around and get lost in Rome so I decided to stay put. I ended up sitting three rows from the front between a little Italian grandma and an Italian nun. Before Mass started they were trying to talk to me and I had no idea what they were saying. They didn't seem to get the message that I didn't speak a word of Italian. It was the first time I'd been at Mass with more than three priests. More like fifty. (By the end of the Easter Weekend I went to Easter Morning Mass in St. Peter's Square which had many more than fifty priests.) Those are my memories of the Lateran.
Wonderful memories.
I too was there during Holy Week several years ago. I was at the Chrism Mass at St. Peter's in the morning, and waved at Pope John Paul II as he was driven to the Cathedral for the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper. On Good Friday I was blessed by a fragment of the True Cross at St, Peter's.
What a wonderful time of year to be in Rome.
I was in complete awe.
I was there in 2000 and found it to be one of the most uplifting, spiritual experiences of my life. To be there for the Jubilee was unbelievable.
Difficult not to be able to bring baby bottles in to the Vatican, but understandable due to security restraints.
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