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Palm Sunday 2021: Is there a Mass for you?

When Palm Sunday came in 2020, we had no Mass. In our home, we set up an altar with a crucifix and candles and read and sang the Mass and the Passion. We had a blest palm from the day before from a Mass in secret, in a locked church with paper covering the windows. Can you imagine that?

If you are in the Archdiocese of Toronto, your parish may be at thirty percent or fifteen percent capacity. Sheer lunacy when Costco and Walmart are at fifty percent. 

For many of you, there is still

After doing nothing for a year, Thomas Cardinal Collins succeeded in pushing Ontario Premier Doug Ford to change the occupancy restriction from ten persons to fifteen percent in the most extreme diktat control measures. The Cardinal is now quiet. Mass is open for you if you can get a ticket.

Will there be a Triduum for you? Unlikely. In an effort to serve as many people as possible you will probably be registered to attend one of Holy Thursday, Good Friday's Service or Holy Saturday's Easter Vigil. this is understandable given the circumstances. It is hardly acceptable given that the Triduum liturgies are really three parts of one great event. There is no blessing after Holy Thursday, it has been stripped away. There is no Mass on Good Friday and no rejoicing until the Alleluia of Holy Saturday. We are in mourning and this year, we continue to be as we were in 2020. 

The post-Covid Church in Toronto is going to look a lot different. Collins retires in January and the search is already on for his replacement. My sources are clear - the next Archbishop is going to deal with the crisis that has been long avoided but which will be brought to the fore post-Covid. The closing of many parishes. It will be a crisis brought on and accelerated by Thomas Collins. 

That will be his legacy.

The Mass of Palm Sunday pre-1955

pre-1955 Holy Week propers, Tenebrae, Fortescue

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The Mass of Palm Sunday 1955/1962

TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH: PALM SUNDAY (tridentine-mass.blogspot.com)

LIVE NOW! April 5, 2020 - Palm Sunday @ 10.30 AM Latin Mass in the Roman Rite

April 5, 2020 - Palm Sunday @ 10.30 AM

Society of St. Pius X - Church of the Transfiguration 

Toronto, Canada.

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Let us remember our Coptic brothers and sisters who today cried out the same as Our Blessed Lord and who shared in His Blood.