tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post1012040069629575005..comments2024-02-08T17:05:51.909+00:00Comments on Solomon, I Have Surpassed Thee: A Clearing of the ThroatMark Langhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05040760021187483441noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-25184061097239202602007-02-13T09:25:00.000+00:002007-02-13T09:25:00.000+00:00I'll gladly do a posting on the sanctuary, and the...I'll gladly do a posting on the sanctuary, and the issues it raises. Watch this space!Mark Langhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05040760021187483441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-64577305834377869792007-02-12T22:32:00.000+00:002007-02-12T22:32:00.000+00:00Thank you for your great blog. I've been an admire...Thank you for your great blog. I've been an admirer of Westminster Cathedral for years.<BR/><BR/>Please could you post some information about any plans to permanently remove the front altar on the sanctuary? Were these just rumours a year or so ago? Is this altar "portable" and if so is Tridentine Mass only said at the old high altar? <BR/><BR/>Would be very happy to read some information about this topic as I have researched it to no avail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-79969046453581671942007-02-04T23:30:00.000+00:002007-02-04T23:30:00.000+00:00Thank you so much for this reply; I have copied an...Thank you so much for this reply; I have copied and pasted it. <br /><br /> I am living through a health difficulty at the moment and I felt so guilty asking that the cup pass from me and at the same time saying 'not my will but Thine be done' but really meaning please God heal me.<br /><br />Please keep me in your prayers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-29244589776592697272007-02-04T09:27:00.000+00:002007-02-04T09:27:00.000+00:00Sharon
You raise a good question that relates to a...Sharon<br />You raise a good question that relates to all our prayers of intercession. In a blessing such as this we ask God to protect our throats, aware that all things are held in his hands and that - in his divine love - he may have other plans. That can be very difficult for us, and a great test of faith. However, Our Lord tells us repeatedly in the Gospels to ask for what we need; so our prayer of petition follows our heart's desire, and reminds us how dependent we are upon God's mercy, and how we are not self-sufficient. <br /><br />In this case, St Blaise, standing by the Throne of God, adds his prayer to ours, asking God to bless our throats, but also expressing confidence in the loving plan of God (however difficult it may be for us, with our limited vision, to grasp this.<br /><br />On a lighter note, I remember as a young child asking the Nuns who taught us why we still got sore throats after the blessing of St Blaise. "Ah now," they replied, "your sore throat would have been much worse if you hadn't had it done!"Mark Langhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05040760021187483441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-57690884828541072212007-02-04T03:39:00.000+00:002007-02-04T03:39:00.000+00:00We don't have this custom in Australia. I love tr...We don't have this custom in Australia. I love tradition and would think of asking my priest (not a chance!) to introduce it but <br />what happens though when, inevetably, someone who had their throat blessed contracts throat cancer or something like that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-39369096073179039492007-02-03T22:07:00.000+00:002007-02-03T22:07:00.000+00:00I never failed to be moved by the 8am Mass... esp...I never failed to be moved by the 8am Mass... especially on Feasts such as this, when something very special happens at what is the beginnig of an ordinary day. Attending the Cathedral is a blessing that will remain with us long after regular participation ceases to be an option. Padre Pio said that the world could more easily survive without the sun than it could the Mass, and the witness of daily Eucharist, in all its different forms, at the Cathedral, is a living witness to that Truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com