Saturday’s conference will take place at 6 p.m. in the conference hall of the church of Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome.
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith will be among those contributing to a Rome conference Saturday aimed at reestablishing the rebirth of Eucharistic devotion.
The archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and former Secretary at the Congregation for Divine Worship has sent his blessing to the conference, entitled “Every Knee Shall Bow — The Majesty and Infinite Love of Holy Communion.”
Other contributors will be Cardinal Raymond Burke, the patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, who will give messages via video.
The event, aimed at raising awareness about the way Jesus in the Eucharist is received, will especially urge greater reverence by receiving the Body of Christ kneeling and on the tongue rather than standing and in the hand.
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The archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and former Secretary at the Congregation for Divine Worship has sent his blessing to the conference, entitled “Every Knee Shall Bow — The Majesty and Infinite Love of Holy Communion.”
Other contributors will be Cardinal Raymond Burke, the patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, who will give messages via video.
The event, aimed at raising awareness about the way Jesus in the Eucharist is received, will especially urge greater reverence by receiving the Body of Christ kneeling and on the tongue rather than standing and in the hand.
Read the rest there.
4 comments:
Father McDonald, either the Pope or his body double said this:
“Together you can better engage in singing as an integral part of the liturgy, inspired by the first model, Gregorian chant. Together you take care of the artistic and liturgical preparation, and you promote the presence of the schola cantorum in every parish community. The choir guides the assembly and – with its specific repertoires – is a qualified voice of spirituality, communion, tradition and liturgical culture.”
I guess you and Father Kavanaugh need to get working on setting up a schola to sing Gregorian Chant!
Would it not be divine if altar rails returned, and catholic churches returned to the Catholic Church.
We've come to expect and patiently tolerate waiting in lines for hours to ride amusement rides that elevate and accelerate our bodies and exhilarate our senses for mere minutes... so why are we in such a rush to get through the line for the gift of eternal life that can elevate us to unimaginable, soaring heights for all eternity?
'Inspired by Gregorian chant' does not mean using Gregorian chant. I seem to remember that the USCCB interpreted the directive that Gregorian chant be given 'first place' as applying only to a Mass celebrated in Latin, and that they tried (unsuccessfully) for permission to insist on the Novus Ordo being celebrated only in the vernacular. Does anyone have chapter and verse on this?
I am not so rigid as to object in principle to a vernacular NO Mass. In fact, the priest's parts and the congregational responses can be sung in the vernacular, but 'sung' is the operative word. The rest of the singing should be in Latin. Why? Because only by doing so can one preserve the Western Church's priceless musical heritage, Gregorian chant in particular. Very little written after 1965 bears comparison with what preceded it, and much of it is in a style which combines bombast with vacuity.
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