This is really cool and I love Claude Reins as an actor. He plays a priest and this episode filmed in 1955 captures the Mass of that period. Whoever coached the production on the Latin Mass and actions, certainly had it right:
This is really cool and I love Claude Reins as an actor. He plays a priest and this episode filmed in 1955 captures the Mass of that period. Whoever coached the production on the Latin Mass and actions, certainly had it right:
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Hitchcock was a British Catholic. Reins, also British and a very fine actor, muffed the Latin. Instead of saying Orate Fratres, he said Orate Frates (a non word). Otherwise, well done
Also, Reins has to use his hands to push himself up after the Leonine Prayers, which I suspect he had to do at his age. He has a half genuflection and both reminded me of me!!!!
"True Confessions" came our when we were in seminary. One of our professors said that it shoud be required viewing for all seminarians to show the dangers of becoming a worldly priest...
I would agree. But poor De Niro gets shunted to a small town parish, not unlike Richmond Hill when the chapel was all that was needed.
Since McCarrick was already ordained he got his tips on how to be a worldly priest elsewhere!
The Arcadelt Ave Maria was lovely. I actually sang it for a few weddings instead of the usual ones
Like Claude Rains, I often have to push down to get up from kneeling now when I serve at the monthly EF Latin Mass. I still thank God for the privilege of having the Mass in this form in our Deanery. The priest’s black Homburg hat (which he wears with his black suit on the street) is the same kind that our own Monsignor Daniel Bourke used to wear in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. He wore that hat when he marched as Grand Marshall.
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