In the sanctuaries of Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Salud and Nuestra Señora de las Angustias Coronada (the old church of the Valle School, come on) it’s cold. In fact, it was cold Thursday morning all over Seville because the sun didn’t shine … They showed up and the previous day’s wet weather added to the icy feel. It is not surprising that here and there, attached to the side naves, there are four or five fireplaces for those who are very cold.
The other cold is spiritual in nature. In the presbytery of the sanctuary the titular images of the gypsies are worshipped, but the tabernacle is in a chapel in the mission nave. On that day, it was closed with red curtains and a sign apologizing for the maintenance work. In other words, one cannot pray before the real presence of the mystical Jesus is on the horizon. We already know the cold that enters a person’s bones when he lacks the breath of the Spirit within him…
Speaking of signs, the most surprising of all Seville churches is on the gate that forbids access to the interior by scooters. It is certainly extraordinary, as it reveals how the uses and customs of those who frequent the devotional temples of our brotherhood have changed.
While the mass lasted (less than half an hour), of course, no one tried it. The thirty or so faithful who made up the assembly were a mixture in varying proportions of regular soldiers and paratroopers who had fallen in the area at the time of the Angelus. The fact that in the small group this historian became acquainted with a friend, former neighbor and former BUP professor can only be classified under the category of “diosidences”.
Don Diego, a regular Salesian of the religious service of the temple, was in charge of the divine service, a member of a large army of elderly monks responsible for attending the daily services of the brotherhoods and to whom the Sevillians must be extremely grateful for their devotion. So we’ll excuse the fact that he was going about his duties without a chase, wearing only a stole, perhaps a legacy from other times.
It was a daily mass during the week. That is, there was no sermon, but there was the main thing: consecration and communion. To do this, one of the fraternity assistants (the shield on the uniform) brought the spare from the sacrament chapel when he was playing, although the celebrant must have missed him because he stopped before the gesture of peace and looked in the direction in which he was occupied. He also rang the bells at the beginning of the Mass and during the Mass. What the church had been doing all his life.
Conclusively, the council lost the Oremus, but not because it suddenly went mad as the popular discourse claims, but because the official repeated the “prayer” before pronouncing the collection and conclusion. The reader also said the “response psalm” should be deleted before the antiphon is pronounced. But these nuances cannot overshadow a celebration that warms hearts inside given the cold we feel outside.