![]() The Confiteor (which simply means “I confess” in Latin) has wisely been placed by the Church early in the Mass. Within the liturgy we find the same need to confess and to ask for God’s mercy in the Confiteor. ![]() In such shame and regret for his sinful ways, the publican “would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven, but struck his breast”. The profound humility expressed in this simple aspiration of the publican can serve as an entire treatise on prayer for those like myself who are afflicted with pride. My fallen human nature has often manifested itself in that most foundational of sins: Pride.Īt times I am too comfortable with my own sense of piety, much like the pharisee. Truth be told, I am far more often the pharisee. I thought about how much I wished I was the publican and not the pharisee in this parable. Saint Alphonsus Ligouri once wrote that “spiritual consolations are gifts which are much more precious than all the riches and honors of the world.” It was a brief moment, gone in an instant.įor some reason the absolute humility and heartfelt contrition of this despised publican touched me. When we read about the humility of the publican and his prayer “O God, be merciful to me a sinner”, I found myself choking up moved by the scripture. The reading was the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican.Īs Father read the Gospel in Latin I followed along in my Missal. This past Sunday was the 10th Sunday after Pentecost on the old Liturgical Calendar. Most weekends we choose to attend the Extraordinary Form, or Traditional Latin Mass. To preface, my family and I attend a parish which offers the Mass in both the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms. I was blessed this weekend during Mass with a very brief, but beautiful, moment. ![]() I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess.Īnd the publican standing afar off would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven, but struck his breast saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner. The pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give Thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers as also is this publican. Two men went up into the temple to pray the one was a pharisee, and the other a publican.
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