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Exaltation of the Holy Cross - Mass in Église de St Nicolas on 14 Sept 2014 (Monday, September 15, 2014)
My parents and I went for Sunday mass today at St Nicolas that's near to the Grand Place and a 10 min walk from our hotel!
Didn't realise that it was the feast day already and felt a little unprepared with the readings.
Something interesting that we first realised was that the altar server, who looks like a guy from afar, was actually a woman. She was basically the only one assisting the priest with the incense and all mass procedures!
The priest, Fr Phillipe was also in a particularly interesting vestment, a red hoodie-like coat with many red crosses. He briefly mentioned the name of this in his homily but I can't seem to find it online! Maybe it isn't something that is meant to be worn for celebrating mass hmm. But he seemed to have said that the vestment (with the many crosses) is somehow linked to this Feast Day.
Well well, his accent was a little heavy but I still listened intensely! St Nicolas basically holds English masses for the English community in Brussels and really PTL for us being able to attend this mass so conveniently! Something I remembered from Fr's homily is that, the cross is something more than a punishment, it reminds us of who we are.
He also gave an analogy of somewhere else where we see a cross - in the opening of a soda drink! The plastic cups. Like such a soda cup, the cross is the way to sweetness (the soda), and the fulfilment in our lives.
With regards to the first reading, Fr also explained a little about the bronze serpent, Sr Theresa mentioned briefly during SSVP before - that the bronze serpent that was raised up on a stick by Moses, is an allusion to Christ on the cross - and that it is the salvific power of both the people during Moses' time and for us now. Fr also mentioned that the Egyptian then had a Healing God with the serpent and the stick as the symbol - reference to the Medicine symbol. Pretty cool :D
Managed to visit 6 churches in these 2 days, and all are really intricate, detailed and majestic. Praise be to God :D
Didn't realise that it was the feast day already and felt a little unprepared with the readings.
Something interesting that we first realised was that the altar server, who looks like a guy from afar, was actually a woman. She was basically the only one assisting the priest with the incense and all mass procedures!
The priest, Fr Phillipe was also in a particularly interesting vestment, a red hoodie-like coat with many red crosses. He briefly mentioned the name of this in his homily but I can't seem to find it online! Maybe it isn't something that is meant to be worn for celebrating mass hmm. But he seemed to have said that the vestment (with the many crosses) is somehow linked to this Feast Day.
Well well, his accent was a little heavy but I still listened intensely! St Nicolas basically holds English masses for the English community in Brussels and really PTL for us being able to attend this mass so conveniently! Something I remembered from Fr's homily is that, the cross is something more than a punishment, it reminds us of who we are.
He also gave an analogy of somewhere else where we see a cross - in the opening of a soda drink! The plastic cups. Like such a soda cup, the cross is the way to sweetness (the soda), and the fulfilment in our lives.
With regards to the first reading, Fr also explained a little about the bronze serpent, Sr Theresa mentioned briefly during SSVP before - that the bronze serpent that was raised up on a stick by Moses, is an allusion to Christ on the cross - and that it is the salvific power of both the people during Moses' time and for us now. Fr also mentioned that the Egyptian then had a Healing God with the serpent and the stick as the symbol - reference to the Medicine symbol. Pretty cool :D
Managed to visit 6 churches in these 2 days, and all are really intricate, detailed and majestic. Praise be to God :D
| "First reading | Numbers 21:4-9 © |
|---|
On the way through the wilderness the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water here; we are sick of this unsatisfying food.’
At this God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, ‘We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede for us with the Lord to save us from these serpents.’ Moses interceded for the people, and the Lord answered him, ‘Make a fiery serpent and put it on a standard. If anyone is bitten and looks at it, he shall live.’ So Moses fashioned a bronze serpent which he put on a standard, and if anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked at the bronze serpent and lived."
"Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost
but may have eternal life." John 3
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