Chanted Greeting and Introduction to the Penitential Act:
Thursday, March 22, 2012
AH! AD ORIENTEM, AD DEUM! TOWARD THE EAST WHERE THE "SON" RISES AND TOWARD GOD AT THE SAME TIME!
These are the first batch of pictures from our Reform of the Reform, Ordinary Form Solemn Sung Mass for the "Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary," more will be sent to me on Friday or Saturday for posting. The video has to be sent to our good friend Mr.Lovel Miguel in Houston who will format it for my blog and the internet. That will take a while. Many, many thanks to Dr. Buck Melton, our parish photographer who took these splendid shots!
Chanted Greeting and Introduction to the Penitential Act:
Penitential Act at the Foot of the Altar (English Confiteor):
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Now, if only more priests, and bishops, would try ad orientem offering of the OF Mass as you have. I believe it would eventually, over time, lead to this becoming the ordinary (normative) way of offering the Ordinary Form Mass (then, finally, the "norm" would be consistent with what the rubrics have always seemed to suggest).
In your earlier post on this Mass you gave some very true and excellent observations, from a priestly perspective, as to why ad orientem, as opposed to versus populum, is the most natural and desirable posture for a priest to use in praying the Mass. I think it is only through actual experience that more priests can reach these same, inevitable, conclusions!
Thank you for your example of true liturgical renewal, Father. I hope it will be duly noticed and provide much food for thought and reflection, especially in our Diocese!
I neglected to comment on Chasuble Father, it was beautiful. Is this a recent aquisition, or did you dip into Father Kwiatkowski's ever growing collection of beautiful vestments?
As I've mentioned previously, I usually spend the majority of the time in an OF Mass with my gaze fixed upon the Crucifixation Scene on the High Altar. My neck was pleased to be able to lower my gaze and fix it upon the Crucifix adorned upon your vestments.
Yes, the chasuble is Fr. Dawid's.
Sorry to double post, but an interesting thing happened today in our parish. The RE 'minister' was in a meeting with some of the 'Liturgical Working Group'. We do not yet know what happened, but she emerged mad as a wet hen complaining that "all the progress made since Vatican II was about to go up in smoke."
Alleluia, Alleluia.
rcg
Beautiful pics so far, Father. Perhaps this is how you should do the Easter Vigil and Christmas mass at midnight from now on. I think that would be a good start in bringing some of these elements to those parishioners who prefer the OF.
The chasuble is also very good. It's always so exciting to see a priest wear a chasuble with a figure of Christ or some saints on it, but it is rarely done anymore. Good luck with the upcoming EF.
It's a shame so few people went -- and they all look so *old*! Where are the young people, the big families? An ad orientem celebration with Latin in the true continuity of Vat II ought to be drawing them in droves.
They were home watching "Twilight" or playing video games...
I think many people might be hesitant to come to a Mass on Monday night starting at 7 p.m. I know many people were asking prior to the Mass how long it would last. Perhaps the possibility of being at Church until 9 p.m. drove people away...?
Anyway, there were some young people there, including myself (age 28). Personally, I think most Sunday Masses are too short lasting only about an hour. When the Mass does go longer than an hour it is usually because some particular group(s) of people is being honored and that is not a good thing to do during Mass. I like the Solemn High Mass because it tends to last about 2 hours, which is an adequate amount of time to pray...
For the record, this "experimental" OF Mass lasted about 1.5 hours. Distribution of Holy Communion did not seem to unnecessarily prolong the Mass despite everyone kneeling individually to receive (the time added by that process would be easily shortened with the reintroduction of the altar rail). This Mass was mostly prolonged by the singing to Schubert's Mass - the setting was created for the EF wherein the priest continues to "do things" while the singing is happening, so by the time the Sanctus ends, you're mostly done with the Canon prior to the Consecration. In this case, being in the vernacular with an out loud Canon, Fr. McDonald spent a lot of time standing at the altar not "doing" something.
If this Mass were said as a regular Sunday Mass, without the Schubert, it would probably last about an hour even with everyone kneeling individually for Holy Communion.
Speaking for my own family, which usually arrives with 5 children in tow, Monday Masses are usually difficult at best because it's the heaviest Homework Day, and they're all smart enough now to look at the calendar and figure out what is an Obligated Day and what is not LOL.
I agree Monday night is a terrible night for a non-obligatory Mass that many knew would be longer than usual. Last year, we celebrated St. Joseph with an EF Mass for its Vigil on March 18 which was a Friday and we had many more people and we had it at 7:30 PM because of Stations of the Cross at 7:00 PM.
Father, have you gotten a feel for the reaction of those parishioners who weren't predisposed to look favorably on this Mass? I mean, have any of us that aren't on the blog commenting said anything to you about their first experience with ad orientem?
You don't have to name names obviously... just curious what the reaction might have been from the non-Trad leaning parishioners.
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