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Walking Through The Mass: The Comfy Words

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The Comfy Words, or Comfortable Words, at first sound like they might be syrupy new age maxims aimed at helping people avoid the need to face reality, and to amend their lives. Far from it! The Comfortable Words are a beautiful part of the Anglican Patrimony now preserved in the Personal Ordinariates. Below is an essay from an Anglican source that well summarizes this beautiful part of the legacy we have inherited and preserved in Divine Worship. To quote the author of the essay below: The next time we hear those Comfortable Words may we thank God in our hearts for his lovingkindness in forgiving our sins and putting away his wrath. The Comfortable Words   by William J. Martin God-Almighty At every celebration of the sacred liturgy just after the absolution we hear the famous Comfortable Words (BCP, p. 76). This portion of the liturgy, which is unique to the Anglican tradition, reads, Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all who truly...
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TRUE PARTICIPATION IN THE MASS

"I was gathered into the offering of the Son to the Father. I participated in the self-offering of God today."

FEATURED SCRIPTURE | Revelation 7:9-12

AFTER this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

THE GOLDEN ARROW

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

FEATURED QUOTE

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. ― Thomas Sowell