I wasn't able to get to mass on Tuesday afternoon because my mother had to go to the doctor at the last minute. She's fine, but didn't get home until 4.15pm, and that is not enough time to get to the Abbey from here.
Today's Gospel was the wise man who built his house on a rock. Today is also the memorial of St. Ambrose, whom St. Stephen Harding admired so much that he wished to limit all Cistercian hymnody to Ambrosian hymns. How unspeakably dull that would have become! Thankfully, he didn't get his wish. The development of Cistercian hymnody is rather interesting, and Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO, has written a great deal about it.
Tomorrow is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, so mass will be at 10:30 instead of 6:15. In a way that's very nice because it is full daylight by then, and the mass is performed with double solemnity. In another way, it puts the mass right in the middle of the day when it's harder to get away from occupation. Still, I will go.
Peace
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