The Beauty of Our Catholic Heritage - Preparing for Lent

Fr. Jacob Hsieh is a Norbertine priest of St. Michael’s Abbey teaching religion and Latin at Mary Star of the Sea High School in San Pedro and chant at Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Wilmington. He is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and was ordained a priest in 2015.  His topic today is Septuagesima Sunday.

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Welcome to the beauty of our Catholic heritage. Our host is father Jacob Shea, a Norbertine father of St. Michael's Abbey in Orange County, California. Father Shea has a great love for our church's heritage, the beauty of our Catholic heritage with father Jacob Shea

Fr. Jacob Hsieh: 0:54

Welcome back to the beauty of our Catholic heritage here with father Jacob Shea. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Today, we will begin speaking about Septuagesima Sunday sexagesimal. Sunday, Queen corsages, he must Sunday, and then we will have let so Septuagesima Sunday is 70 days before Easter, can hide you can kind of here in the word Septuagesima 70. So Septuagesima is 70 days before Easter, then you have sex such as he must Sunday, which is 60 days before Easter, Queen quadras, Mr. 50 days before Easter. And then of course, Quadragesima , that's 40 days before Easter. And that's what we usually call lent Quadra Gesima is,Lent. So, already on Septuagesima, Sunday, the priest will wear purple. And so the color green is not used there. And the purple reminds us that lent is coming, then you also will have no glory. And this is another preparation for the fasting and the abstinence of lead. This also happens on sexagesimal Sunday. And so here in the old maths, you will have only purple worn on the Sundays. And then you will have then during Lent purple all the time. So we see that we must prepare for Lent. And way before Lent. So we're actually practicing preparation three weeks before lat. And that's really the way that it should be done. Here we see that in the modern culture when you have Fat Tuesday, mardi gras, you have a lot of crazy customs that start. And so of course, we know how should we spend our Fat Tuesday, it really should be already in preparation for Lent. And so a lot of people are going to go drinking, they're going to go partying, etc. And they're going to stay up late in the night. And then what happens they wake up for Ash Wednesday and Boo. Right, that's not a good way to start your Lent. And so we have to keep the ancient practice of what's called Shrove Tuesday. And so here of course, you can have a little party, that's fine. But the main thing that you're doing is going to confession. Shrove Tuesday, is named because this is when people usually want to go to confession. So you're preparing to have a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful land, a time where you're growing even closer to God in deep prayer, and also making sure that your emotions, your passions. And this I use the word passion in the philosophical sense that his your emotions are under control, that they always exist for Jesus. In this time. In this age, we have people who get angry so easily, they get sad so easily. They are not in control of their emotions, their emotions control them. And so when we do fasting and when we do abstinence, right, we are trying to subject our body to