Each Tuesday at 6:00 pm, I celebrate a Low EF Mass. last night I exercised the option of a Mass for the Dead, a Requiem Mass.
I love the differences in The Requiem Mass and I hope the OF will recover these differences.
1. Psalm 42 is omitted as is the Gloria Patri
2. The Tract is added to the Gradual and the option of the Dies Irae
3. The Agnus Dei end grant them rest twice, grant them eternal rest
4. Instead of the Mass is ended, Grant them Eternal rest.
5. Black vestments
I love the differences in The Requiem Mass and I hope the OF will recover these differences.
1. Psalm 42 is omitted as is the Gloria Patri
2. The Tract is added to the Gradual and the option of the Dies Irae
3. The Agnus Dei end grant them rest twice, grant them eternal rest
4. Instead of the Mass is ended, Grant them Eternal rest.
5. Black vestments
10 comments:
How wonderful! I particularly miss the Agnus Dei of the Requiem. I really don't understand why this was changed in the OF
It is true that the Novus Ordo has virtually eliminated the differences between the Requiem Mass and that which now usually describes itself as a 'funeral Mass'. However, the options in the OF allow for the traditional Propers, the Dies Irae sequence, the setting of the Agnus Dei in its traditional form, and the withholding of incense until the Offertory.
In fact, if you look at the 1974 Graduale, there are far more options for a 'Missa pro Defunctis' than there are for any other Mass.
A Mass is designated by the opening word(s) of its Introit. A Requiem Mass by definition must include the Introit 'Requiem Aeternam'. All funeral Masses began in this way until the 1960s, so can properly be called Requiem Masses.
On a personal note, the worst 'liturgies' I have attended were funeral Masses; one cannot easily avoid them, as one can avoid the usual sloppy English Mass punctuated by (usually dismal) hymns, which I would not attend in any case and have no intention of ever doing so.
A quaint chapel---but why are you at the right side of the altar in some of the pictures instead of the center?
Yesterday we had a concelebrated 40 day liturgy for our deceased deacon. Please say a prayer for his soul. The priests and deacon wear red.
Vichnaya Pamyat.
I would recommend looking up the norms for the EF Mass and how the Epistle side and Gospel side of the altar is used. The EF Mass, especially the Solemn High with deacon and subdeacon is a liturgical dance with no dance added to it. The Mass is the dance!
If you are in the neighborhood you are welcome to come by:
BLAKE, J.D., John F. Age 82, of Wilmington, Ohio, died Sunday, October 20, 2019 at home after a brief illness. John was born March 9, 1937 in Dayton to William Anthony and Mary (Kennedy) Blake. A 1955 graduate of Chaminade High School, John served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1956-58 as an air traffic controller, with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1960-63, and then retired as Commander, US Naval Reserve in 1995 after 27 years' service. During his undergraduate years at the University of Dayton, John was a founding member and president of the UD Veterans' Club. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1970 from Ohio Northern University and began his law career with the firm of Turner & Badger in Mount Vernon, OH, also serving as Assistant County Prosecutor for Knox County. From July 1972 until retirement in 2000, he was Prosecuting Attorney for the City of Kettering and a member of the Traffic Law Committee for the Ohio Bar Association. John married Kathleen Higgins in March 1968, sharing 51 years together. She survives as do six children. A Traditional Latin Requiem Mass will be offered at Holy Family Catholic Church, Fifth & Findley Streets, Dayton on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 10:30am. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. The family will greet friends Wednesday, October 23 from 4 until 6 pm at Westbrock Funeral Home, 1712 Wayne Avenue. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, PO Box 147, 7880 W. Denton Road, Denton, NE 68339-0147 or Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey 5804 W. Monastery Road, Hulbert OK 74441.
John Nolan,
When my mother-in-law died 11 years ago, although her funeral was an OF, a schola sang all of the Latin propers. I had no idea that the old form of Agnus Dei could be used in the OF. Thanks.
Anonymous
Given that the missal is left of centre, the priest has moved to the epistle side at the Offertory to receive the wine and water and pour it into the chalice. This is what is happening in picture 2. In picture 3 the chalice is central, suggesting that the priest, having washed his fingers, is reading the Lavabo psalm from the altar card on the epistle side.
Anonymous thanks to Father M and John for the explanations of the positions at the altar. Guess I should do some reading too on other differences from the OF, like lack of a "Last Gospel" in the latter, lack of an Old Testament reading in the former and differences in vestments.
It is usually possible to look at a still photograph of a Low Mass and from the positions of the priest and server, the placement of the missal and whether the chalice is veiled or not, work out precisely where we are in the Mass.
When the priest is reading the Introit and Collect everything appears to be the same as when he is reading the Communion and post-Communion, but there can be a further clue - if there is a ciborium on the altar it must be the start of Mass; after the people's Communion it is returned to the tabernacle.
The best way to understand what happens in a Low Mass is to serve it.
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