{"id":48362,"date":"2019-07-21T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=48362"},"modified":"2019-07-25T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:14:15","slug":"reflections-on-the-dedication-of-christ-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/21\/reflections-on-the-dedication-of-christ-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the Dedication of Christ Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This post is shared with us by Rev. Msgr. Arthur A. Holquin, S.T.L. from his blog <\/em>Rector Emeritus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christ Cathedral at night<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Within the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, the Dedication of a Church building holds a privileged place as a solemnity that virtually trumps all other celebrations. So important is such a festival that it is anticipated the night before with the celebration of Evening Prayer or \u2018first\u2019 Vespers together with Evening Prayer on the Solemnity itself, as well as the singing of the great anthem of Praise and Thanksgiving, the Te Deum, during the Office of Readings or Vigils.  And so it was for the celebration of not only a new church building in the Diocese of Orange but a new liturgical mother Church, a new Cathedral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the anticipated completion of the long-awaited remodel and repurposing of the former Crystal \u2018Cathedral\u2019 in Garden Grove made famous by the televangelist, Dr. Robert Schuller, planning began almost a year ago for the solemn liturgical rites that would mark and designate this building as an episcopal domus ecclesiae <\/em>for God\u2019s people in Orange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the able leadership of Lesa Truxaw, the Director of the Diocesan Office for Worship, various teams and committees were charged with the planning of various aspects of the dedication liturgies.\u00a0\u00a0With the impeding publication of the second generation ICEL translation of the liturgical text for the\u00a0Rite for the Dedication of a Church,\u00a0<\/em>draft copies of this text were available as an assist in the development and shaping of the dedication liturgies.\u00a0\u00a0Though less than poetic in its slavish and turgid translation of the Latin text, the committees looked to opening up the rich symbols that would bespeak the meaning of these rites over and beyond a written liturgical text.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lesa Truxaw<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The committees were charged with shaping three principal liturgical moments in the rites of Dedication:\u00a0Evening Prayer with the Relics of Martyrs and Extended Vigil; The Solemn Mass of Dedication and finally, an Evening Prayer of Thanksgiving, that would take place the following day.\u00a0\u00a0Because of the sophisticated video capabilities of the new Cathedral, the full Dedication Mass can be found below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n