For a good part of the world, Sunday will be the only day to celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi using the Ordinary Form of the Roman Calendar. For those using the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Calendar, yesterday was Corpus Christi (Thursday), but its celebration is extended for eight days, an "Octave."
In the video below featuring "Panis Angelicus," please note how this moving video evokes not an "intellectual, cerebral" response to what is celebrated, but a response from the heart. No words are needed for the actions from the altar. One knows what is happening without hearing the Eucharistic Prayer. I believe this to be an Ordinary Form Mass celebrated Ad Orientem and with the chasuble held by the server!
The next video is a concert in a beautiful Catholic Church. Please note the traditional six candlesticks and crucifix on the altar. Actually, you can't see the altar because of the choir and orchestra, but you know where the altar is with this majestic, traditional decoration for the altar, once a "trademark" of all Catholic altars. Pope Benedict is trying to revive this trademark not by mandate yet, but by example. The music is beautiful:
2 comments:
All due respect but regarding "...the video below featuring "Panis Angelicus,..."
It is easy to make "...moving video..." that "...evokes not an "intellectual, cerebral" response to what is celebrated, but a response from the heart." by effective editing of the video and music.
Heck even the heathen Avatar movie did this.
I believe that this is one of the reasons why recorded music/video can't be used in celebration of the Mass.
One person's "beauty" may be another person's point of confusion. Example: The vast majority of the devotees of the Divine Chaplet in our area and country are well aware, comfortable, and profoundly in awe of the Chaplet as it is commonly sung as in the video on EWTN at 3:00 PM. These devotees actually expect that when the Chaplet is publicly celebrated that it is sung this way. When these folks, including myself, go to a celebration of the Chaplet and hear what seems to be a solo aria with the congregation expected to sing in an unfamiliar way there is confusion and less sense of devotion.
ALthough examples are fine in the eyes of the laity they reflect taste rather than the norm. SO when "Father" simply ignores the example, which is widespread, there is no mandate or legislative text to question disobedience. Lay people can better support Rome with mandates than with example alone. The altar arrangement is several years old already and it is time to legislate something about it, or risk the return to a barren Altar during any future Pontificate, if the future Pope is not "into" liturgical affairs and has his focus on other matters. These things go hand in hand if you want the faithful to be supportive and effect change. Otherwise people remained in a confused state as to what is liturgically correct and incorrect.
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