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Trust the Good Shepherd

Andrea Leal · April 26, 2020

If a business does something you don’t like, you leave and go to their competitor. If a CEO does something customers disapprove of, the people can boycott. Companies are expected to bow to customer demands. The customer, after all, is always right. But what happens when the the faithful begin treating Holy Mother Church as though she were a corporation with a commodity to be demanded?

As Catholics in an age of Coronavirus, how are we responding to the extended shutting down of the sacraments? Hopefully, instead to taking to social media to complain about how much our Bishops have failed us, we have quietly redoubled our prayer and fasting. If every negative comment posted on social media was replaced with a prayer for an end to the virus and the reopening of the sacraments, we would probably be in much better shape.

This is the Divine Economy – not the American economy. We do not have the right to demand the Eucharist. It would be wrong to “shop around” for the Holy Eucharist as though the very Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ was a bag of rice on a grocery shelf. We didn’t find it at this store, so we go and find it at another store that under normal circumstances we would never frequent. Are we guilty of treating the Sanctissimum like a commodity?

These times call for an extra measure of humility. The faithful are filled with deep and abiding love of the Lord and His sacraments. But if we aren’t given what we so deeply desire, we should not grab at it like a child demanding candy from his parents. Yes, we are children. We are God’s children. We must trust Him, and we must wait for Him to feed us at a time of His own choosing. He will not let his sheep starve. Trust, be patient, and hope.

Communion Antiphon for 2nd Sunday after Easter
I am the good Shepherd, alleluia: and I know My sheep, and mine know Me, alleluia, alleluia.
John 10:14

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About Andrea Leal

Andrea Leal is a wife and homeschooling mother of 6 children. She serves as choir director for the Traditional Latin Mass in Las Vegas.—(Read full biography).

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    Hymn by Cardinal Newman
    During the season of Septuagesima, we will be using this hymn by Cardinal Newman, which employs both Latin and English. (Readers probably know that Cardinal Newman was one of the world's experts when it comes to Lingua Latina.) The final verse contains a beautiful soprano descant. Father Louis Bouyer—famous theologian, close friend of Pope Paul VI, and architect of post-conciliar reforms—wrote thus vis-à-vis the elimination of Septuagesima: “I prefer to say nothing, or very little, about the new calendar, the handiwork of a trio of maniacs who suppressed (with no good reason) Septuagesima and the Octave of Pentecost and who scattered three quarters of the Saints higgledy-piddledy, all based on notions of their own devising!”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Introit • Candlemas (2 February)
    “Candlemas” • Our choir sang on February 2nd, and here's a live recording of the beautiful INTROIT: Suscépimus Deus. We had very little time to rehearse, but I think it has some very nice moments. I promise that by the 8th Sunday after Pentecost it will be perfect! (That Introit is repeated on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost.) We still need to improve, but we're definitely on the right track!
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Simplified Antiphons • “Candlemas”
    Anyone who desires simplified antiphons (“psalm tone versions”) for 2 February, the Feast of the Purification—which is also known as “Candlemas” or the Feast of the Presentation—may freely download them. The texts of the antiphons are quite beautiful. From “Lumen Ad Revelatiónem Géntium” you can hear a live excerpt (Mp3). I'm not a fan of chant in octaves, but we had such limited time to rehearse, it seemed the best choice. After all, everyone should have an opportunity to learn “Lumen Ad Revelatiónem Géntium,” which summarizes Candlemas.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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