#283 Two Sorrowful Feasts - Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

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Father Hugh Barbour joins us to explain why Catholics have feast days that celebrate sadness. This time we cover the twin feasts of Christ’s Cross and Mary’s sorrow. Cy Kellett: Making feasts out of sorrowful things… Father Hugh Barber is next. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Focus, the podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. In a certain sense, the Catholic faith is about turning from sorrow to celebration, but sometimes we quite literally celebrate sorrowful things. This month over two days, we celebrate t…

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0:00.0	Making feasts out of sorrowful things.
0:02.6	Father Hugh Barber is next.
0:04.4	Hello and welcome to Catholic answers focus,
0:11.3	the podcast for living, understanding, and defending the
0:14.4	Catholic faith. I'm Cy Kelle at your host. In a certain sense, the Catholic faith
0:18.3	is about turning from sorrow to celebration, but sometimes we quite literally celebrate sorrowful things.
0:24.9	This month over two days we celebrate the exaltation of the Holy Cross and then the next day
0:30.0	the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
0:32.4	Father Hugh joins us for a conversation about these feasts and about why the hardships
0:36.4	faced by Jesus and Mary are very much worth celebrating.
0:45.0	Okay, for the two important feasts in the middle of September, On the on Monday the September 14th
0:54.1	we have the exultation of the Holy Cross and on Tuesday September 15th
0:57.7	Our Lady of Sorrows. I imagine that's related that the cross being one of her
1:01.9	sorrows. Can I start by asking you some
1:04.8	questions about the exultation of the Holy Cross? Certainly. Okay do are we
1:08.7	celebrating the actual wooden cross or is this do do we mean that symbolically what are we
1:14.8	exalted well we are well the wooden cross is symbolic of course and yes we are
1:20.9	celebrating the historical several things.
1:24.3	I mean, they're all combined,
1:25.6	especially in the current Roman liturgy,
1:27.0	they all combine them one feast day.
1:28.2	But we're celebrating the relic of the cross,
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