This past Saturday I had my second Nuptial Mass since the new revised English missal came into use. I've had plenty of Nuptial Liturgies outside of Mass, but Saturday's was my second Nuptial Mass using the new missal.
The new missal has a very unusual rubric. The penitential act is to be omitted and now it explicitly says to say or chant the Gloria.
Without the Penitential Act's introduction, it is awkward to get from the Greeting to the Gloria. For example to say or chant "The Lord be with you" and its response, do you then go directly into the Gloria?
On Saturday, I said some spontaneous remarks that in retrospect was simply poor liturgical blather.
I don't think it would have been forbidden to have the Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water, but I don't know.
The Anglican Use Rite for the Nuptial Mass has the Kyrie chanted or said after the chanting of the Introit and the Greeting followed by the Gloria. How does that sound?
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Yessuh, more of the PC liturgistruction. I do not know why they did this, but I have a hunch it was to "keep a happy and jovial atmosphere in such a wonderful and celebratory time." That is, political correctness.
It is exceedingly shallow to do such things as this, of course, but when in Rome... It certainly is rather dramatic to go from the greeting to the Gloria, but it is still artificial and strained and liturgically awkward. Papal Coronations always have the "Penetential Act," and such events are many times more joyous than a wedding. Silliness.
Furthermore, I do not think it could be justified to use the asperges between the greeting and Gloria. However, you certainly could do your signature pre-Mass EF asperges. That, and in Latin, would set a solemn tone quite effectively and quickly.
Father, I wanted to let you know that our priest celebrated the Rite of Betrothal for my boyfriend and I last week. We had our engagement blessed by the church in this beautiful ceremony. You should look into it, it seems like something you might be interested in :-)
Not an immediate solution, but wouldn't this problem be solved by a return to the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar? Still another reason suggested by this morning's EF Mass: On a ferial weekday like this with no proper feast, the worshiper does not ordinarily know in advance how to mark his missal--whether it will be a ferial Sunday Mass, the votive Mass traditional to the day, or some other votive Mass chosen by the priest. Only after placing the veiled chalice on the altar does the priest usually turn to announce the day's Mass before descending for the prayers at the foot of the altar.
For example, at an EF Mass today the priest announced the votive Mass of the Most Holy Trinity that is de facto for ferial Mondays. Then five missal ribbons had to be placed--one at the Canon, one at the votive Mass of the Holy Trinity, one at the Mass of Trinity Sunday where some of the day's propers were located, one at the Gospel located elsewhere, and one at the Preface of the Holy Trinity. The prayers at the foot of the altar then provided time to do this while the priest prepared himself for to approach the altar. Surely appreciated by anyone who feels he must follow attentively all the prayers and propers of the Mass in order to be properly disposed for Holy Communion.
My daughter was married before the New Revised Missal, but had a lot of the more traditional setting where they were married first, then took communion as husband and wife, etc., although we had a lot of EMHC because the crowd we huge. All the speeches etc. we at the reception. I think many of the young people want a more traditional wedding. shallowly, it sets them apart from the beach wedding crowd, but it also speaks to the hunger they feel for spiritual things and lasting relationships. Some of their friends get married in places that are old or historical. I think they really feel special when four families get together for a ceremony that goes back about a thousand years.
My guess is that this has its origin in the 1961 MR effort to suppress the prayers at the foot of the altar (including the modern penitential rite) if there was a procession beforehand. cf Candlemas, Palm Sunday, etc.
Here, the "procession" is likely the bride walking up the aisle. Which is of course not even liturgical.
Horrible.
QUICK CLARIFICATION QUESTION: can Roman Rite priests celebrate ordinariate liturgies ad libitum?
Ryan, to your question, the answer is no.
They may celebrate the ordinariate liturgies only if no ordinariate priest is available in some instance to minister to an ordinariate community, and presumably only if the Roman priest knows their liturgical praxis.
Perhaps the priest or cantor could intone the first few words of the Gloria to tune people in that that is next?
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