Be there or be square! It fulfills the obligation to attend the Immaculate Conception Feast transferred to Monday for poor NO parish people.
I have to go to Savannah’s Sacred Heart Church this Friday afternoon, December 6, the Feast of Saint Nicholas, to rehearse for Sunday’s TLM Solemn Sung Mass with deacon, subdeacon and MC. I am the celebrant.
This type of TLM is quite complicated. Its complexity, I humbly believe, is what historically attracted men to the priesthood as it is somewhat militaristic and highly choreographed. You have to know and understand what you are doing.
While some call it a military march or exercise, others rightly point out that the TLM Mass is a dance, THE DANCE, highly choreographed.
We need to recover all the things that the TLM gets right and the NO gets wrong. The NO forgets that the Mass is the music of the Liturgy not added hymns or junky music. The NO forgets that the Mass is the Dance not added so-called “liturgical Dance.”
Here’s a great video to help in learning the choreography of the Solemn Sung TLM:
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Divine Liturgy and other liturigies comprising the Divine Office are complicated similar to the TLM. However, once one starts getting past the learning curve it obviously becomes markedly easier until one day, Epiphany! All clicks and you just "get it". After that, it becomes a labor of love greatly assisted by muscle memory. It's not simply "going through the motions"; rather, it's a "dance" that pulls you into an ethereal spirituality - you and the liturgy become one!
I wish I could be there. I know you will acquit yourself beautifully!
Watching that video I thought I was watching an ecclesiastical TETRIS game...
That comment was supposed to be posted under the video of the movements during the mass.
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