For many years, Fr. Z at his blog, emphasized the need to “do the red and read the black” as it concerns the Modern Roman Missal. Various parishes and religious houses who celebrate the MRM well were highlighted and praised and used as a model for priests to emulate.
There are many fine examples of the Modern Mass being celebrated either in Latin or the vernacular, ad orientem or toward the nave.
I think the focus now should be this, which was the focus prior to Summorum Pontificum:
1. Excellence in hymnody and chant with a penchant for enabling the laity to participate in the sung part of the Mass which pertain to them
2. Training priests to chant the priestly parts of the Mass for Sunday’s principal Mass and on more solemn or festive feast days.
3. Training lectors, acolyte and others involved in the liturgy to take their role seriously and to carry them out solemnly with a strict dress code for lay clothing or allowance of liturgical garb.
Here is a “low Mass” celebrated by the Dominicans. This gives you an idea of how the celebrate the simple form of the Modern Roman Missal with dignity and reverence:
3 comments:
Father McDonald said..."There are many fine examples of the Modern Mass being celebrated either in Latin or the vernacular, ad orientem or toward the nave. I think the focus now should be this, which was the focus prior to Summorum Pontificum:"
Father McDonald, I appreciate the above. Your way is the positive, uplifting, way. I hope that we focus upon traveling that path.
I love the TLM. That is the Mass of my early years.
I also love, and respect, holy Pope Francis.
God has raised Jorge Bergoglio to serve as Pope. God has raised, as well as empowered, Jorge Bergoglio to teach, govern, and sanctify us.
Therefore, I will adhere to Pope Francis' Magisterium. I will obey Pope Francis' TLM-related teachings.
In regard to holy Pope Francis, I will adhere to the Catholic Way...as Pope Benedict XVI demonstrated on February 28, 2013 A.D.
Pope Benedict XVI, during a farewell ceremony that had included Cardinals:
"Among you, between the College of Cardinals, there is also the future Pope, to whom I already pledge my unconditional respect and obedience."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Fr. McDonald,
Much is made of the liturgical abuses and I get that. But it reminds me of the gas prices though. If we start out at $2, then go up to $4, I am not going to sing hallelujah when the gas prices go down to $3. I'm not falling for the synthesis game.
If we start with the perfected TLM ($2) and end up with an already outdated and abused modernist liturgy ($4), the solution of a Novus Ordo Mass with "smells and bells" ($3) is not getting my socks rolling up and down.
There is no need whatsoever to suppress the 1962 and the obsession with it is clear. As noted, the asymmetrical attacks on "traditionalist" has been clear from the beginning. The same conversation we are having now about the Fr. Martins of the world has been going on for decades. The Church demands strict fidelity from the "tradisphere" but has no problem with schismatic and heretical concepts from the liberal wing disguised as "nuance." It's tiresome and we've just about had enough.
I know that you find the Modern Mass with forma antiquior trappings to be the middle path forward, and it may be, but to do so without a reckoning of sorts is not ok. It must be acknowledged that this is an unholy suppression and not the work of the Holy Spirit. The bible tells us what the Spirit is and how He moves. Sneaky, despotic, cruel and vindictive are not fruits of the Spirit.
Speaking only as a lay person, a lowly sinner, in the Savannah Diocese, if the TLM is cruelly and despotically taken away from us and we are forced to accept the Modern Mass in the manner in which you advocate, I don't want any one telling me "See? you still have your little smells and bells! Doesn't this glitter make you happy?" The Modern Mass will never and can never be the EF and I don't want to be mocked. Let's just have a low Mass, ad orientem, and let me fulfill my Sunday obligation without a constant reminder of the modernist perversion which has stolen the Church's skin and is wearing it like a trophy.
“holy” Pope Francis? Yes it is a mark of “holiness” to destroy the hopes of the most faithful Catholics - the TLM communities.
Were the Borgias and Medicis holy too?
Post a Comment